Sarah Slean - "When Another Midnight"

Curious mix of alt-folk and Shivaree swavy singing

Her rendition of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" is wrong though, very wrong.

semicompatibilism

Semicompatibilism is the doctrine that causal determinism is compatible with moral responsibility, even if casual determinism rules out freedom to do otherwise.

humans an accidental victim of bacteria

Amazing read about how bacteria often don't target us, just accidently might infect us. We are young bystanders in a war of a million years old.

http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/bacteria-kill-us-by-accident/

David Gilbert - "Here's the story"

A short in the New Yorker and pretty amazing at that. Man and woman, each for their own reasons in a bad relationship, meet, twice, and a spark flies. 85% of the story is a side by side of their lives, almost never touching. Simple and beautiful. Elegant story telling.

Alex Banks - "Illuminate"

Deep house + glitch-hop, poppy... says 3voor12. okay.
Not bad. "Phosporus" sounds a bit like the cut-up of Disney's Alice in Wonderland by that P-... guy (one word)

Throwing Snow - "Mosaic"

Electronica, dubstep (?), it doesn't feel like techno. Haunting female voices, but no careful music.

Rival Sons - "Great Western Valkyrie"

Classic rock, 60's and 70's influences, with the screaming guitars and twisted voices.

Melancholy: "Rich and the Poor"

Muse - "The 2nd Law Isolated System"

Haven't heard this in ages. Nice.

John Murphy - "1-2-3-4" (single)

Very film score.

Beaty Heart - "Seafood"

3voor12 describes them as light psychedelic, poppy.

"Seafood" could go straight into a Pixar short.

playlist 8tracks, electronic

http://8tracks.com/allenwalker/4067373

Quite good.

recapping older posts

Simon & Garfunkel - "Dangling Conversation", beautiful lyrics, so sad.

Nits - "Adieu Sweet Bahnhof", amazingly sad and beautiful dance.

Nine Inch Nails @ HMH

Pretty awesome, both the music and the show.

word: salmon

UK-specific?

To be a salmon: to commute against the major direction.

Tom Waits - "Ol' 55"

Alain de Botton - "De architectuur van het geluk"

"Wellicht moeten we een onuitwisbare smet op ons leven hebbben geworpen, met de verkeerde persoon zijn getrouwd, een dierbare hebben verloren of tot op middelbare leeftijd hebben volhard in een onbevredigende carrière voordat architectuur merkbaar vat op ons kan krijgen; want als we zeggen dat we worden 'geraakt' door een gebouw, zinspleen we op een bitterzoet besef van het contrast tussen de hoogstaande kwaliteiten die in dat bouwwerk besloten liggen en de triestere, grotere werkelijkheid waarin het zich onmiskenbaar bevindt. We krijgen bij de aanblik van schoonheid een brok in de keel door het impliciete inzicht dat het geluk waarop die schoonheid zinspeelt de uitzondering is."

Volstrekt nog niet uitgelezen. Was niet al te makkelijk / aantrekkelijk om er doorheen te komen. Wordt vervolgd.

Mark Lanegan - "Autumn Leaves"

He has a good voice for this song, but it is a bit too stringy filmish. Should be a bit more introvert, in my opinion.

Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Emmylou Harris - "So You'll Aim Towards the Sky" (Lawless OST)

It says "the bootleggers featuring Emmylou Harris", but isn't it Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.

Oh hell, label them all, slap a sticker on the disk and send it off.

Erin Morgenstern - "The Night Circus"

A style like "Mechanique", hints of Daniel Mason. Presetn time writing, where often in a paragraph time flows fast and people are described by their actions, or actions put upon them. The end of chapters or half chapters are often one or two-liners, not exactly twisting the story line, but emphasizing an unexpected element, negating something one might have assumed.

Now finished... I liked it a lot. There's some comments on story, but hardly anything that matters. Cool book. Go read.

Room 237

"I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter."

Amazing documentary about people seeing the craziest of things in "The Shining." From the native American Indians to WW II, to subliminal sensual imagery.

"The elevator is spewing forth the blood of indians"

I'm not quoting correctly, but still. Amazing watch. Don't forget your tin foil hat.