Ska Vengers

From India, with radically political lyrics. To which I'm in all honesty not listening too much, but ska wise, it sounds amazing.

Haruki Murakami - "1Q84" (book 1, 2, 3)

Book one is too long. Took me ages and I lost interest. In book two, things speed up. Tengo and Aomame finally start to do something. The Little People, the air chrysalis, "real life" maza and its "mirror" dohta, the strange Eri-Fuka... finally things started to happen.

I'm definitely no fan anymore of Murakami's main characters. Always the same introvert guys. The same silent girls. Cooking. Jazz and classical musical. Merf.

What struck me: in book 2 or 3 he for once suddenly switches to omniscient storyteller, instead of the usual limited third person. He does it once, for a few paragraphs, a page at most. Curious.

All in all enjoyable, but way too long.

Michael Haag - "The Durrells of Corfu"

A biography of the fantastical family of the Durrells. Famous writer(s)??
Fun enough since the trip to Corfu, but nothing special.

Twin Peaks: the Return

Crazy so far. But I still enjoy it. Even the really slow sequences. Great music!

• Au Revoir Simone - "Lark" (the Bird of Music (Bonus Track))
  typical David Lynch music, electronic, softly sung
• Trouble - "Snake Eyes" (Snake Eyes)
  Great southern rock with saxophone!! must look into this.
• Cigarettes After Sex - "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby" (I.)
  again, very David Lynch-y
• Johnny Jewel - "Windswept" (Windswept)
  Saxophone, instrumental, nice, look into?

Session 9

Run-off-the-mill 90's horror film about a asbestos cleaning crew suffering from weird illusions in an abandoned madhouse. It was probably my own state of mind why this film actually got to me. It wasn't that good but there was a shift in my perception for a little while.

Logan (2016)

Amazing film that kept me in its grip from beginning to end. Not in the least because of its amazing soundtrack.

Maceo Plex - "Polygon Pulse"

slow, electronic, female vocals, good stuff

The Keys - "From Tense To Loose To Slack"

Great surfy-twangy music, very melodic.

Swans - "Lunacy" (The Seer)

Lunacy! Lunacy! Lunacy!

Aine Cahill - "Black Dahlia"

Very Florence & the Machine ish. Hints of Marina and the Diamon. No full album yet, it seems.

Love in the Circus - "Trust me"

female vocals, lost saxophone, 3am stuff, Vaya Con Dios but less swing.

Robert Gitelman - "As You Wish"

Good for coding?

The Beat - "Mirror in the bathroom"

Nice ska.

Capsula - "I know that I know"

Very Shpongle like. With weird lyrics.

Hooded Fang - Den Of Love (6 Music Session, 13 Feb 2012)

Nice twangy, then rock song.

Nice as well, though completely different: Nick Nicely - Ghostdream. Electronic.

Postrock! Phoenician Drive - "Two Coins"

Slade - Get Down and Get With It - Live in Paris 1972

Bad Parents - "You Can't Date A model"

Female vocals, rock in a light way.

Fader - "Laundrette" (First Let)

Very soft spoken, near-parlando, like Japan's "Nightporter"

Unavailable everywhere, heard on bbc6. Awesome stuff.

Moderat - "Sick With It' (Moderat) ft Dellé Aka Eased

catchy

The Lobster

Absurd and poignant film in a near future where people have to find a mate within 45 days or they will be turned into an animal. They hunt "loners", people who don't subscribe to that lifestyle and live in the woods, but who create just as strict and harsh rules for themselves. The need to find a common defect as a must for relationships is beautiful and painful.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Nice and at times quite funny story of a young orphan who treks through the bush after his guardian mom died and his gruffy guardian father has to put up with him. A bit over the top at the very end, the car chase, but thinking back to it, it basically showed the boy's point of view - he admitted getting carried away living the stux life, yo - of everything.