Mark Twain - "Baker's Bluejay Yarn"

(the bluejay)

"It looks like a hole, it's located like a hole - blamed if I don't believe it is a hole!"

Nicholas Delbanco

"... by the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs as a writer of fiction: love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt, fear of death."

[John Gardner - "The Art of Fiction"]

Pulp Music's Tales of the Bizarre - "Surf's Up, Death Island"

Crazy surf radio play. Listen to the whole thing! What the hell...?!

[update, years later]
The "voice actor" must be Matt Berry , the crazy business man from the IT crowd.

Goldfrapp - "Tales of Us"

Much quieter than the glam-electro albums of yore, maudlin violins, soft voices...

• "Annabel" - dreamy
• "Stranger" - truly channels Ennio Morricone, as the Quietus wrote.

gnostic and hermetic texts

• The Cloud of Unknowing
• The Book of Breathings

Michel Foucault - "Death as the destruction..."

"Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.”

Tarantella

Found through searches of swamp blues and gothic americana.

• "Bonus Track #1" - cabaretesque
• "Elder Tree" - Ennio Morricone guitars
• "Esqueletos" - slow swinging guitars with East European accents.

Cees Nooteboom (excerpt)

De wezel in het veld die niet weet
dat hij een wezel is
maar een wezel is
tot hij geen wezel meer is.

(uit: Vuurtijd, ijstijd)

gothic americana

Based on this description of 16 horsepower, some searching ensued.

• Jay Munly (definitely more consistent in playing darker songs than many others)
• Circle Round My Bedside - cabaretesque, with long stretched violins
• Dar He Drone - chanting with swamp blues guitars
• Jim White
• A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes - borderline melancholic and non-interesting.
• Phillious Williams
• Oh My Old Love - dark, for sure, though borderline again, screaming
• Sweet Debris - maudlin, longing, sad

Tasseomancy - "Ulalume"

melodious near-medieval close harmony singing by twins. Canadian?

Found through Timber Timbre who produced their album

Timber Timbre - "Magic Arrow"

strange. found through 3rd season (ep 2) of Breaking Bad, so a soundtrack, nonetheless.

(I heard about them before! Craziness in a glass, what's happening here... And it's an interesting post! Tagging this as "must-look-into" (fucked up the search right then and there))

Luther Allison - "Cherry Red Wine"

Screaming melodic blues. I think the version I just heard was by Luther Allison, but it could have been Jonny Lang as well. Better check them both out.

Two Star Symphony - "Junkyard Jig" (Danse Macabre PartII: The Consummate Host"

the title says it all, maudlin mewing violins and a rhythm which forces you to dance around the campfire. On Pandora's DAAU channel.

Hurray for the Riff Raff - "Dance with Death"

(yes, Pandora, I'm BACK!)

Gypsy slow-punk waltz. Accordeon. I probably listened to this band via the very same way, but it's a cool song. Should look into them.

Kavinsky - "Nightcall"

Title song of "Drive" and it immediatly took me back to the mood of the film.

Welcome to Night Vale

The weirdness of Twin Peaks brought in a matter-of-fact newsreader voice.

It's fun, and original, but I wonder whether it'll won't get boring after a while. The items are very small, and at some point you'd like some longerlasting narratives? Perhaps I'm misinterpretating the podcast and I shouldn't listen to them in a row.

Also, perhaps my attention span is simply too long. Only at ep 2 right now, so stay tuned.

Primer

Scifi of the loop-time kind. Low budget and lots of talking and I think it's really good but need to watch it again when my mind is actually working.

Tin Cup Prophette - "Liar and the Thief"

Sometimes near triphoppy, and her voice sounds so familiar... or is it the way she sings?

• 80 Days - "Too much of you and I waste away"...
• Until the Dust Settles - triphop
• All Is Lost - instrumental, and softslow 

Flaming Lips - "The Terror"

The beginning is very Flaming Lips, and nice, but it becomes a bit unhinged towards the end. "You Are Alone," for example, keeps on droning.

9-eyes

http://9-eyes.com/