Saturday, 2 April 2016
Saga
Comic - yeah yeah graphic novel - were a child is born from two species that fight each other all over the galaxy. Read the first book and enjoyed it. Strange, but intriguing enough.
Femke Halsema - "Pluche"
Erg leuk om te lezen, over een tijd die ik me herinner. Ik heb er geen quote van opgeschreven, geen anekdote raakte me diep. Leuk, makkelijk boek. Waarschijnlijk ontbeer ik politieke inslag.
the Rat Queens
Four girls, all sex and fights with trolls, assassins and whatnot. Got the first book, won't be buying the rest.
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
lehkat chel hayam - להקת חיל הים "חסקה"
https://youtu.be/c3sgHDIBCU0?t=21s
"about a guy asking a girl to join him on a Hasake (large surfboard)"
"about a guy asking a girl to join him on a Hasake (large surfboard)"
Monday, 28 March 2016
Cigarettes After Sex
Very much the smokey low key jazzy nightclub-on-a-dark-night variety. Perhaps repetitive after a while, but worthwhile.
Sunday, 27 March 2016
Boku dake ga Inai Machi ("Erased")
Cool one season (?) anime about a guy who unintentionally time travels to fix bad situations. Usually it is just a few minutes into the past, but this time he travels fifteen years into his past to save three children from being murdered.
Nice, fast moving series.
Nice, fast moving series.
Monday, 21 March 2016
Thursday, 17 March 2016
the Sore Losers - "Skydogs"
Very nice rock!
- White Whale - that one slow part, just a few seconds, is wonderful
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
ContraContra - "Wrakjuweel"
Een beetje zoals De Kift, qua teksten, qua muziek.
"Een hart vol gaten is een luchtig hart."
"Een hart vol gaten is een luchtig hart."
Monday, 14 March 2016
Haty Haty - "Tell Me Something" ("High As The Sun", 2016)
3voor12 mentions Blaudzun, not sure why. Should look into that. This song stands out. Haunting electonic strings, parlando female voice, electronic.
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - "Strange Fruit"
Found while searching for the Siouxie and the Banshees song with the same title. Typical Joe & Beth song. Slow and melodic. Sometimes almost James Bondish. Cover of Nina Simone? Of Billie Holiday? Of all of them!?
Monday, 29 February 2016
Sunday, 28 February 2016
Mark Lanegan - "Prayer Ground"
Low, Americana, slow guitarish song.
Via 8track, first hit when searching for "george orwell"
Via 8track, first hit when searching for "george orwell"
William Gibson - "Distrust That Particular Flavor"
Compilation of essays. Not amazing, but a nice enough read.
If you wish to know an era, study its most lucid nightmares. In the mirrors of our darkest fears, much will be revealed. But don't mistake those mirrors for road maps to the future, or even to the present.
We've missed the train to Oceania, and live today with stranger problems.
In [H.G. Well's] preface to the 1941 edition, he could only add: 'Again I ask the reader to note the warnings I gave in that year, twenty years ago. Is there anything to add to that preface now? Nothing except my epitaph. That, when the time comes, will manifestly have to be: "I told you so. You damned fools." (The italics are mine.)'
The italics are indeed his: the terminally exasperated visionary, the technologically fluent Victorian who has watched the twentieth century arrive, with all of its astonishing baggage of change, and who has come to trust in the minds of the sort of men who ran British Rail. They are the italics of the perpetually impatient and somehow perpetually unworldly futurist, seeing his model going terminally wrong in the hands of the less clever, the less evolved. And they are with us today, those italics, though I've long since learned to run shy of science fiction that employs them.
And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today [1996], in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time, to wander aimlessly, to daydream about the countless other lives, the other people, on the far sides of however many monitors in that post geographical meta-country we increasingly call home. it will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun - we seem to have a knack for that - but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working.
If you wish to know an era, study its most lucid nightmares. In the mirrors of our darkest fears, much will be revealed. But don't mistake those mirrors for road maps to the future, or even to the present.
We've missed the train to Oceania, and live today with stranger problems.
In [H.G. Well's] preface to the 1941 edition, he could only add: 'Again I ask the reader to note the warnings I gave in that year, twenty years ago. Is there anything to add to that preface now? Nothing except my epitaph. That, when the time comes, will manifestly have to be: "I told you so. You damned fools." (The italics are mine.)'
The italics are indeed his: the terminally exasperated visionary, the technologically fluent Victorian who has watched the twentieth century arrive, with all of its astonishing baggage of change, and who has come to trust in the minds of the sort of men who ran British Rail. They are the italics of the perpetually impatient and somehow perpetually unworldly futurist, seeing his model going terminally wrong in the hands of the less clever, the less evolved. And they are with us today, those italics, though I've long since learned to run shy of science fiction that employs them.
And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today [1996], in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time, to wander aimlessly, to daydream about the countless other lives, the other people, on the far sides of however many monitors in that post geographical meta-country we increasingly call home. it will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun - we seem to have a knack for that - but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working.
John Milton - "Paradise Lost"
analysis
- http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/paradiselost
- http://www.enotes.com/topics/paradise-lost/critical-essays/paradise-lost-john-milton
- http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/paradise-lost.html
Milton emphasizes the importance of reason. Man is noble by nature, but he has free will, and hence free to choose and capable of action, morally good or bad for which he alone is responsible. Milton does not believe in Calvinism according to which God has decided everything, and a man’s destiny has been fixed before his birth. Milton is a great humanist pinning his faith in the liberty and adventure of man.
Men gain spiritual rebirth by controlling their passions. Is this akin to Sisyphus' acceptance of his fate, not succumbing to passions like rage and anger, he is spiritually reborn?
Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Monomyth
The Hague (?) based band. Found because Imagine mentions them as live performers of a new soundtrack to the restored "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari"
Long soundscapes. (I assume, the first one is still playing.) Nice.
(I've heard of them already?)
Long soundscapes. (I assume, the first one is still playing.) Nice.
(I've heard of them already?)
Tindersticks
The Waiting Room (2016)
- We Are Dreamers!
Ypres (2014)
- Whispering Guns Part 1, 2 and 3 - very filmish.
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
He Thought of Cars
Nice playlists!
http://8tracks.com/bynar/he-thought-of-cars-part-1
http://8tracks.com/bynar/he-thought-of-cars-part-2
http://8tracks.com/bynar/he-thought-of-cars-part-1
http://8tracks.com/bynar/he-thought-of-cars-part-2
- Comsat Angels - "I Come from the Sun" - good guitar twangs
Same user, different playlist: http://8tracks.com/bynar/until-the-darkness-is-desolate
- IAMX - I Come with Knives - German and English lyrics, power
http://8tracks.com/gojyochan/a-tribute-to-the-tenth-doctor-doctor-who-mix
- Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old - very 90s rock feeling to it
Who knew that a search for "americana"+"electronic" would yield results?!
http://8tracks.com/the-gallery/the-gallery-presents-luis-royo
- Doctor Flake - "Fightclubbing" - nice, look into!
- LAKE R▲DIO - "Martin Hannett's Ghost" - very strange
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - "A Rancid Romance" - fun swing dance song. Good for Halloween?
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