Thursday, 6 November 2014

The Flaming Lips - "With A Litlte Help From My Fwends"

Beatles covers with other artist. Quite amusing. Not something you'd listen often to, though.

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Röyksopp - "The Inevitable End"

Last and forever last album. Still as good and enjoyable as their previous work.

  • "Rong" - what the fuck is wrong with you... what the fuck is wrong with you...

Ayn Rand - "Anthem"

Aym Ramd
Anthem

I am. I Think. I Will.

My Hand... My spirit... My sky... My forest... This earth of mine...

What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.

I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wisehd to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wisehd to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and th eharing of my ears gives its song to wthe world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. it is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

many words have been gratned me, and some are wise, and some are fasle, but only three are holy: "I will it!"

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

I know not if this eart on which  I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the menas to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel beofre!

I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my though, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brother, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wwish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

I shall choose my friends among men, but neither slaves not masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but niether command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire. For in the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. Let each man keep his temple untouched and undefiled. Then let him join hands with others if he wishes, but only beyond his holy threshold.

For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.

The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to sstone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is tyhe word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by whcih the fools steal the wisdom of the sages. What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, ifI am but to bow, to agree and to obey?

But I am done with this creed of corruption.

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride.

This god, this one word:

"I."

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Nils Frahm - "Spaces"

Minimalistic and quite amazing build ups at some point.

Check "Says" : amazing.


Other albums: "Felt", acoustic piano. A bit too minimal / boring for my current (coding) taste

7Fingers: better, more electronic again. Some quiet songs, but good stuff. For good cut-up strings droply beats and effects, check "Duktus".

Stromae

Yes, I had heard his music before, but I either rediscovered it just now, or am more aware of the intensity of his music and lyrics (perhaps thanks to College Tour)


  • Formidable
    also check the video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_xH7noaqTA
  • Papaoutai
    again, check the sad clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc

Games - old arcade games in your browser

Beyond awesome:
https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

Monday, 3 November 2014

Harold van Lennep - "Liberation"

Beats, piano, parlando, a hippety sax (base-sax?)

Nice. Not for too long, but nice.

Sunday, 2 November 2014

Fun Boy Three - "The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum"

Brilliant Halloween song.

and "Tunnel Of Love" from "Waiting" is also pretty amazing.

Thursday, 30 October 2014

the Wolf of Wall Street

Amusing enough film with Leonardo DiCaprio, but focusing way too much and long on the bacchanals. Yes, we got it. He parties with drugs and whores...okay, move on!

Story wise, too long, but still a good enough watch.

The Smoke Eaters

old riffs, surf, and old television fragments. Sounds pretty gnarly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVjtIRkEc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5FDBNn5-nU

sometimes a lot more electronic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoT0xOHq_ac

montaigne

"Ik wil dat de dood me vindt als ik kool aan het planten ben... en dat ik me niets van haar aantrek."

sauve qui peut

Sauve qui peut is defined as French for a rush to escape. The phrase is French and literally means "save himself who can" and has come to mean "every man for himself."

Cees Nooteboom - "'s Nachts komen de vossen"

De eerste paar verhalen waren aardig, niet veel meer dan dat. Heinz is mooi en zwaar.

Uiteindelijk: niet elk verhaal heeft me evenveel gedaan, en sommigen zijn bijna depressief in hun leegheid (die ze te goed omschrijven), maar mooi.


Heinz

"Lunch, daarvoor waren we uitgenodigd, mijn vorige en ik."

"... een groep van intieme vrienden? Heb ik eigenlijk niet. Ik heb hier en daar in de wereld mensen, man/vrouw, die het zout van mijn bestaan uitmaken, laat ik het zo maar noemen. ... Mensen om wie je rouwt als ze doodgaan, maar ook, en daar gaat het om, voor dat fatale afscheid, wezens om wie je al kunt rouwen terwijl je nog om ze lacht."

"De whisky was duur, de wijn plonk uit de supermarkt, troep die na verloop van tijd de stoel onder je hersens uit trekt."

"Ooit heb ik gedacht dat ik een dichter was, maar dat ben ik alleen maar als ik lees. het duurt even eer je daarachter bent. Mijn eerste bundel verdronk in de vloedgolf van de vijftigers, pas daarna heb ik mijn roeping gevonden: ik werd de noodzakelijke aanvulling voor elke dichter, een lezer. Daar zijn er niet veel van, niet van poëzie. Lezer is een beroep, maar daar zullen we het nu niet over hebben. Van schrijven leef ik. Hout maakt geen bed, zegt Aristoteles, en bedoelt daarmee dat je de dingen uit elkaar moet houden. Hij heeft gelijk, zoals altijd."

"Hij wist iets over zichzelf, en het kon hem niets schelen, of lieer, hij kon zichzelf niets schelen. Dat is grammaticaal onjuist, maar het klopt wel."

"Zij was, zei hij, zo ontzettend verdwenen, zoals alleen maar iemand verdwijnen kan van wie je eigenlijk nooit iets geweten hebt. Heinz was met haar aangekomen maar had haar niet gecirculeerd, zo'n soort woord gebruikte hij. Het viel me op omdat het zo'n raar woord was - circuleren heeft tenslotte geen lijdend voorwerp - maar vooral ook omdat er een postuum verwijt mee uitgedrukt werd."


Paula

We kwamen uit een film, ik geloof dat ik er vol van was, en toen zei jij ineens volminachting: net echt. Alles is altijd een kopie van iets anders, het is nauwelijks de moeite om te leven als een ander er een film van twee uur van kan maken, of een boek dat je in twee dagen uit hebt. Iedereen zijn eigen roman, en dan ook nog veel te lang. Allemaal imitatie. ... Je zei nog iets over ingedukte tijd en dat voelde ik bijna lijfelijk.. We gingen van het Leidseplein in de richting Vondelpark, en toen we daar over dat gruispad liepen werd dat beeld letterlijk, die stappen die in het echte leven gewoon net zo lang duren als een stap nu eenmaal duurt kregen door die opmerking iets hatelijks, alsof ze in elkaar geschoven moesten worden tot een filmbeeld of de bladzij van een boek dat zou lijken op anderen boeken of andere films.

Monday, 27 October 2014

2562 - "The New Today"

Strange clic-n-plop album. Quite minimal and echoing.

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

No Man's Valley - "The Wolves Are Coming"

The eponymous first song is bluesy, jumpy and fun. Woohooh.


  • Moon: madness, screaching

Sunday, 19 October 2014

Brunettes Shoot Blondes - "knock knock"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_0NzJ2mWA

The second decade version of "Wolf and Pig"...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4

The Typewriter, Rifle, and Movie Camera

A documentary on Sam Fuller, by Tim Robbins, Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino, including Martin Scorcese.

Intense man with the gift and wish for story telling.

Should watch "Pickup on South Street" perhaps... it was used a lot as footage. Also "Steel Helmet", and 'Shockproof'

Charles Bukowski - "90 minutes of hell"

Readings of some of his stuff.

"Coffee hot enough to know your tongue is still there"

"Now I am up and, as the novelist would say, drunk."


Thursday, 16 October 2014

Morcheeba - "Fragments Of Freedom"

Mostly instrumental, few vocals and voice samples. A flute reminiscing about stairways to heaven.

Thursday, 9 October 2014

Paul White - "Honey Cats" (2014)

Strange but very musical music. Lots of long drawn out vocals and semi-close harmony, but also dark jazz rhythms and echoing voices.