- "Graceful Ghost" by William Bolcom
- "Gangsta's Paradise" in '20s ragtime style - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rve03u7oEvI
by Robyn Adele Anderson. She also did a similar cover of Wham!s "Careless Whisper" - "Creep" by Haley Reinhart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3lF2qEA2cw
TIL postmodern jukebox (PMJ)
Sunday, 29 December 2019
ragtime stuff
Random ragtime stuff
Saturday, 28 December 2019
Keith Houston - "Shady Characters"
Amazing book about the history of the octothorpe, interrobang, quotation marks, pilcrow and a few others. Must reread. And reread.
Simon Griffin - "Fucking Apostrophies"
Fun little booklet about proper apostrophe usage. The only thing that irritates me is that it's *always* "fucking apostrophy". After a few pages or a chapter I get it.
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
random music
- Mariah Careh ft Marilyn Manson - "All I want for Christmas is the beautiful people"
amazing mashup. made my morning. - Funker vogt - "Fallen Hero"
Industrial? Good stuff! - Covenant - "Call the ships to port"
Watchmen (series)
Amazing series retelling the Watchmen alternative universe. Still don't know what Ozymandias is doing on a moon of Jupiter, but amazing.
Also, great soundtrack. Both songs and score as done by Trent Reznor.
Also, great soundtrack. Both songs and score as done by Trent Reznor.
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
"Living with yourself" series + music
Great series (one season) of a man "cleaning his DNA" which turned out creating a clone of himself, who (un)fortunately survives. Smart, fast paced. Funny and sad.
Music: Nancy McCallion / The Mollies - "On We Go"
Music: Nancy McCallion / The Mollies - "On We Go"
Saturday, 30 November 2019
nederlandse nummers... of piano nummers
Claudia de Brey - "Wilhelmus"
wow, never heard. In de "Annie MG Schmidt" prijs
Natuurlijk - zo kwam ik hier - Yentl & De Boer - "Ik heb een man gekend"
Karin Bloemen - "Geen Kind Meer"
auw. ouch. the fuck.
wow, never heard. In de "Annie MG Schmidt" prijs
Natuurlijk - zo kwam ik hier - Yentl & De Boer - "Ik heb een man gekend"
Karin Bloemen - "Geen Kind Meer"
auw. ouch. the fuck.
Terminator: Dark Fate
Enjoyable film. They do a good job with leaving the earlier Terminator timelines behind them, but there's serious plotholes. Still, okay.
The Irishman
Amazing - and long! 3h30m - film from Martin Scorsese which makes you want all of Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and all the rest.
Robert de Niro as a hitman.
Also, now I know how Jimmy Hoffa is. For real.
Robert de Niro as a hitman.
Also, now I know how Jimmy Hoffa is. For real.
Prisoners
Intense gripping drama/who-dunnit with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. Two girls kidnapped.
Also the guy from "There Will be Blood", the fanatic one...
Also the guy from "There Will be Blood", the fanatic one...
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Le Mans 66
Terrible feel-good racing film about Ford and Le Mans, with Christian Bale and Matt Daemon. Don't recommend.
Friday, 22 November 2019
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Sunday, 3 November 2019
John Waters - "Mr. Know-It-All"
Enjoyable though sometimes a bit of a boring, 'and then this film happened, and then this happened.' But great quotes.
The chapter about music is amazing. Music about mutilations! Current discoveries:
The chapter about music is amazing. Music about mutilations! Current discoveries:
- Eileen Rodgers - "Treasure of your Love" : amazing old 50s (?) style ballad
- Jimmy Cross - "I want my baby back"... over there was my baby... and over there was my baby!... and over there was my baby!!!
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Samantha Hunt - "The dark dark"
These stories are beautiful. They are from everyday life, and confusing and wonderful. They make you wonder.
"A Love Story" is amazing, in its verocity and confusion.
Norma eats lunch here every day since she lost her job. She and the waitress often talk. Theya re used to each other the way people are used to their TV sets, a hum that keeps them warm even if they aren't listening to the broadcast.
Ada hadn't even known Henry was married until they'd been together for months, and then it was too late because up north falling in love is like animal husbandry. It's necessary. It's so cold in the winter.
I had great hopes the threat of Lyme disease would revitalize our sex life. "Will you check me for ticks?" You know, and things would go from there. Grooming each other as monkeys do. In that way, at least for a while, I got him to touch me again and that felt good, but then Lyme disease never really took off in California like it did on the East Coast.
Who are you?
The answer is easy in daylight. But the night's untethering almost always turns me into someone I'm not. i sift through the different women I become in the dark, my own private Greek chorus whispers, shrieks. Where do I keep al these women when the sun is up? Where do they hide, the doman who have breached the sanctity of my home, who know things about me so secret even I don't know these things? Maybe they are in the closet. Maybe they are hiding inside me. Maybe they are me trapped somewhere I can't get to, like in the DNA markers of my hormones, those mysterious proteins that make me a woman instead of of something else, those mysterious proteins no one seems to understand.
You may ask, Are these women who bombard me at night real or do I imagine them? You may eventually realize that is a stupid question.
I think about fidelity. To Sam, to myself. The light is still gray. The night is still so quiet. I let the women in, an entire parade of them, the whole catalog, spread out on the bed before me. Sam is gone and these women keep me company. These women are women I need to reckon with, even if some of them terrify me. The light is gray and the night is quiet.
I let the other women in.
"A Love Story" is amazing, in its verocity and confusion.
Norma eats lunch here every day since she lost her job. She and the waitress often talk. Theya re used to each other the way people are used to their TV sets, a hum that keeps them warm even if they aren't listening to the broadcast.
Ada hadn't even known Henry was married until they'd been together for months, and then it was too late because up north falling in love is like animal husbandry. It's necessary. It's so cold in the winter.
I had great hopes the threat of Lyme disease would revitalize our sex life. "Will you check me for ticks?" You know, and things would go from there. Grooming each other as monkeys do. In that way, at least for a while, I got him to touch me again and that felt good, but then Lyme disease never really took off in California like it did on the East Coast.
Who are you?
The answer is easy in daylight. But the night's untethering almost always turns me into someone I'm not. i sift through the different women I become in the dark, my own private Greek chorus whispers, shrieks. Where do I keep al these women when the sun is up? Where do they hide, the doman who have breached the sanctity of my home, who know things about me so secret even I don't know these things? Maybe they are in the closet. Maybe they are hiding inside me. Maybe they are me trapped somewhere I can't get to, like in the DNA markers of my hormones, those mysterious proteins that make me a woman instead of of something else, those mysterious proteins no one seems to understand.
You may ask, Are these women who bombard me at night real or do I imagine them? You may eventually realize that is a stupid question.
I think about fidelity. To Sam, to myself. The light is still gray. The night is still so quiet. I let the women in, an entire parade of them, the whole catalog, spread out on the bed before me. Sam is gone and these women keep me company. These women are women I need to reckon with, even if some of them terrify me. The light is gray and the night is quiet.
I let the other women in.
Wim Mertens - "The Fosse"
Probably not always a good choice, but the voices and piano can ring quite true when the mood is sad.
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