From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #34 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 11 2011 Volume 19 : Number 034 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Books and Records [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Books and Records [lep ] Re: Books and Records [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Books and Records [Miles Goosens ] Re: Books and Records [2fs ] Tromso, Kaptein CD Pre-order [ART ROCK POSTER ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:59:21 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Books and Records Two great tastes that taste great together. Here are some pairings: http://flavorwire.com/166699/for-your-pleasure-10-inspired-book-and-album-pairings And here are some more: http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/13330 (including a couple of my own Thomas-Pynchon-centric contributions) J ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:30:37 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Books and Records Jeremy Osner says: > Two great tastes that taste great together. Here are some pairings: > http://flavorwire.com/166699/for-your-pleasure-10-inspired-book-and-album-pairings > And here are some more: http://www.greatwhatsit.com/archives/13330 > (including a couple of my own Thomas-Pynchon-centric contributions) oh, i love this stuff. it's even better if you've read the book and heard the album. i actually can't listen to anything except classical music or ambient brian eno when i read -- i get too distracted by the voice(s) and lyrics. the first time i heard radiohead was when someone posted to the wallace-l listserv that "infinite jest" and "ok computer" were the perfect pairing. i, sheep that i am, immediately ran out for a copy of "ok computer." it turns out, IMO, that it's not a very interesting pairing. i mean, there's themes of alienation going on in both, but, hell, that's generally what happens when you get to postmodernism. at some point, i couldn't think of an activity that "ok computer" doesn't go with -- i find it particularly good for airplanes, lonely beaches, and insomnia. probably the one activity it doesn't go wonderfully with is reading, at any rate, i still love the album to death and am glad i was motivated to pick it up at the time i did. xo lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:56:05 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Books and Records 2011/4/7 lep : > i actually can't listen to anything except classical music or ambient > brian eno when i read -- i get too distracted by the voice(s) and > lyrics. Don't be so quick to dismiss Jazz, which frequently does not have lyrics. Specifically Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra + Part I of Gravity's Rainbow works fantastically well, even better with the addition of reefer. J ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:50:10 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Books and Records On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > 2011/4/7 lep : >> i actually can't listen to anything except classical music or ambient >> brian eno when i read -- i get too distracted by the voice(s) and >> lyrics. > > Don't be so quick to dismiss Jazz, which frequently does not have > lyrics. Admittedly jazz is better without lyrics, or, indeed, singing altogether, but even without those, it's still jazz. later, Miles, who couldn't handle modern jazz 'cos they play it in difficult keys ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:02:36 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Books and Records On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > 2011/4/7 lep : > >> i actually can't listen to anything except classical music or ambient > >> brian eno when i read -- i get too distracted by the voice(s) and > >> lyrics. > > > > Don't be so quick to dismiss Jazz, which frequently does not have > > lyrics. > > Admittedly jazz is better without lyrics, or, indeed, singing > altogether, but even without those, it's still jazz. > > later, > > Miles, > who couldn't handle modern jazz 'cos they play it in difficult keys > Whereas I've got no kick against it - unless they try to play it too darn fast, and lose the beauty of the melody, until it sounds just like a stripper's pee. (I think that's how Chuck originally wrote it, in fact.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:40:10 -0400 From: ART ROCK POSTER Subject: Tromso, Kaptein CD Pre-order _Tromso, Kaptein_ has been added to the robynhitchcock.com store: http://robynhitchcock.11spot.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=6084 $17.99 each MP3 Album $8.99 each FLAC DA $10.99 each 1. Light Blue Afternoon 3:14 2. Raining Twilight Coast 4:21 3. Savannah 5:31 4. Dismal City 3:32 5. Old Man Weather 4:31 6. Erasing Your Life 4:12 7. August In Hammersmith 4:54 8. Everything About You 5:39 9. The Abyss 4:01 10. Godnatt Oslo 6:31 Exclusively at the Robyn Hitchcock Webshop, pre-order the CD now and get the full digital album instantly for FREE. "In the late summer of 1982 I first visited Norway. A yellow van containing the London band Motor Boys Motor, my own rock trio, a sound engineer and our tour guide set off from Oslo up to the Sognefjord, down through Lillehammer, back to Bergen and through the Sognefjord again, and returning again to Oslo. We played in fallout shelters to AC/DC fans, in small town festivals in the rain, in beautiful wooden hotels by the water's edge, and sometimes in actual clubs. Our yellow van drove through endless tunnels that finally emerged onto fjord-side roads with 1000-meter drops to the water on one side, and cliffs that vanished in the clouds on the other. Ferries took us across stretches of water where the rain seemed to be falling up into the sky. Mist and alcohol were everywhere. One morning I was wakened by a man who was wearing nothing but an air pilot's cap and clutching a glass of moonshine. It was 7.42 by his watch. Since 2005 I've visited regularly, making new friends in Bergen and beyond. In Egersund, I met Frode Stromstrad whose band I Was A King were playing there. He very kindly offered to release a record of mine in Norway on his Hype City label. So I went home and disappeared into myself, as if I was roaming the fjords; I let one side of myself argue with the other, as if I was roaming the fjords with a therapist. I let the songs come out of me, and here is the result - sung in English for Norwegian ears." Robyn Hitchcock London, 2011 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #34 *******************************