Swans - "Mona Lisa, Mother Earth"

Voice-heavy 80s sounding song. Intriguing. Second in playlist
http://8tracks.com/silent-alarmm/indie-classics

Marbert Rocel - "With Your Love" (In The Beginning, 2015)

Sounds very familiar but isn't. Nice enough.

Aesthetic Perfection - "Under Your Skin" (All Beauty Destroyed, 2011)

A slow Marilyn Manson, in the way he sings. Hints of industrial, but very slow.

via http://8tracks.com/themarauderbandit/wanna-play

random songs from random playlists (was: crazy songs)

• Scissor Sisters - "I Can't Decide"
  whether to let you live or die. Very 80s and plonkywonkers.
  via http://8tracks.com/witchboy/that-joke-isn-t-funny-anymore
• Plain White T's - "Killer"
  via http://8tracks.com/babydollspice/sweetie-go-get-mommy-s-bazooka
• Harley Quinn - "Say That We're Sweethearts Again"
  put down that acid and say that we're sweethearts again
• the Dresden Dolls - "Missed Me"
  MISSED ME... KISSED ME.... SIMPLE. AS. CAN. BE.
• Ida Maria - "I Eat Boys Like You For Breakfast"
  trumpets!
• various songs by Emilie Autumn
  very gothic, bit tiresome after a while

DATAStream - "Found In The Attic"

http://8tracks.com/volpestarks/blade-runner-a-future-noir-mixtape-1

Very clunky off-key piano ditty of 30 sec or so, of the scary old film variety.

Metric - "Pagans in Vegas" (2015)

Happy girly electropop

• Lie Lie Lie - starts with something about lobotomy

Samuel Johnson on marriage

"a second marriage represents the triumph of hope over experience."

We think it's a sort of cynical wisecrack - you couldn't get along with A but you're sure you'll get along great with B. We think it's about divorce. In Johnson' time there was hardly any diverce. But there was a lot of early death. The way you parted from your spouse was, she died. Johnson's did. So that was the experience, love somebody and she dies. The hope was the new one wouldn't die.

[from John Crowley, "Dæmonomania"]

Les Amours Imaginaires

Slow love-triangle drama. At some point, three quarter into the film, it was becoming quite slow, even for such a film. Though the end looped everything nicely.

Melou - "Bound"

Noir, indie, female voice. Not Vaya Con Dios, and yet. The way of singing, yes. Not the style of the songs.

• Ribbon and a Crown

post rock playlist

http://8tracks.com/vatsan/the-ultimate-post-rock-study-playlist

• Tunturia - "Sinking"
  cannot find anything on spotify (which is a good thing), but fairly interesting sound scapes

Beans & Fatback - "Heroine Lovestruck"

Surfy.

• "Gilda" : catchy
• "Heroine Lovestruck" : ghostlike

Richard Brautigan - "Your Catfish Friend"

If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
   one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
   of my affection
and think "It's beautiful
here by this pond.    I wish
    somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be
   at peace,
and ask yourself, "I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond?   It seems like
a perfect place for them."

Diane Coffee - "Everybody's a Good Dog"

Very seventies sound to it. Can't describe it otherwise. Pleasant to have in the background. Very ... melodic.

Low - "Ones and Sixes" (2015)

Songs are ok.

• The Innocents: quite intrigued by the low flarfy "beat"

Loin des Hommes (Far From Men) (2014)

Beautiful quiet film with Viggo Mortensen and Reda Kateb about a schoolteacher and a man in Algeria 1954, who, against the backdrop of rebellion, are thrown together for a lonely journey.

Based on the short story "The Guest" (le visiteur?) by Albert Camus.

Amazing emptiness.

Music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

Written and directed by David Oelhoffen, somebody to keep looking for.

Nick Cave in ... Russian?? Hungarian?? who cares!

"W moich ramionach" by Przyjaciele

Cave's most famous songs, totally incomprehensible, from a textual point of view. Awesome.

Mark Lanegan - "Houston: Publishing Demos 2002" (2015) and "A Thousand Miles of Midnight - Phantom Radio Remixes" (2015)

• from the demo's: Blind
• from the remixes: The Killing Season (UNKLE remix)

FilosofischeStilte - "I Forgot About it, When I Thought About It" (2015)

Instrumental, electronics. Good sound & beat (not fast). The Hague.

Actually, some songs have voices, but the words are hardly recognizable and do not intrude.

Very nice.

Predestination (2015)

Right up there with Looper in the the ultimate time-travel she/he is his own father/mother loop. Wonderful film. What I loved is how she tells her story in the beginning, taking quite some time to do so. No constant scifi time travel magic. Just true story.

Ane Brun - "My Lover Will Go"

I'm grabbing a bottle of wine over you

I'm craddling a bottle of wine over you


either way... although it's not one of her best songs.