Visionist & Fatima - "The Call" (Al Qadiri)

Instrumental and it reminded me of the beast, the unheimisch synths, the slow progression.

James Joyce - "Dubliners"

Lauded by John Gardner, started reading the shorts in Dubliner.

Didn't care much for the first about the old priest. The second one was much better, the trepidation of the boy meeting the old queer man almost tactile in the words.

"The Dead": "The men that is now is only all palavar and what they can get out of you."
It's an amazing story. The ending is beautiful and.. not chilling, sad and gripping. Listen to "The American OST" by Herbert Grönemeyer while reading it, and lock everybody out. These are words that consume everything.

God Is An Astronaut - "Origins"

Irish, istrumental, post-rock. Good enough. Nothing amazing (yet).

Herbert Grönemeyer - "The American (OST)"

Still have to listen to the full album, but the "Main Title" track is amazing. Suspenseful, musical... Reminds me of "24 hours" somehow.

Jabberwocky / Wildstars - "Photomaton"

Electronic and of a very specific kind of voice... She sounds a bit like the girl who did the soundtrack of "Drive".... (Cliff Martinez, but it's not him I mean,... "Night Call" by Kavinsky)

Bettens - "Waving at the Sun"

Brother and sister from K's Choice, yes indeed. Some songs... rather, those with lyrics, are so-so.

• We Are Glaciers - an almost Morphinish, GY!BE buildup of sound! Unexpected...
• Away, more increased flooding of instruments
• Daydream - a little diamond, instrumental, piano.
• Whiteout - another instrumental diamond.
• Hell Like Heaven - ugh! skip! skip! skip!

Mark Lanegan - "Imitations"

Covers by the silk 'n silly voice (silly := good, remember that, peoples)

• You Only Live Twice - strange, because it is so recognizable yet has lost a bit of the shazzle of typical James Bond songs (the girly voice, the strings). Interesting. In a good way, not British, sorry Ian.
• Pretty Colors - who did the original? Nice. (Oh, mr Sinatra ey...ugh! it - the original - has horrible backing vocals)
• Autumn Leaves - oh... no no no no! I love this song! Remember the Coldcut version?! Mark, oh Mark, why did you have to make it into some silly waltz??

Trentemöller - "Lost"

A very soft, low-key album. Might be good for writing...

• The Dream - smokey
• Come Undone (feat Kazu Makino) - repetitive and dreamlike 
• Constantinople - (Istanbuuuuul!) energetic 
• Haze - piano false, very film score

Star Trek - Into Darkness

Enjoyable, though plotholable and ... well, it was good for a tired Saturday night.

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))