From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V5 #24 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Tuesday, May 15 2001 Volume 05 : Number 024 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: peculiar value ["Eric Simons" ] Re: While I'm waiting for the new one... [skuffer ] Re: peculiar value [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 01:10:41 -0700 From: "Eric Simons" Subject: Re: peculiar value > i downloaded the song -peculiar value- a few days ago. it doesn't > seem to appear on any of the albums listed at vedahille.com and i > wondered if anyone knows anything about it. It's actually on her latest album, "you do not live in this world alone" and listed as "A Peculiar Value". I'm pretty sure she plays this one live sometimes and almost certain that she did at least during her stag part at the Railway Club. Hope that helps, eric ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:11:35 +0100 From: skuffer Subject: Re: While I'm waiting for the new one... hello, thanks adam for the information : >I thought I'd take this pause to mention that Harukai Murakami, >the >Japanese author who inadvertantly gave "You Do Not Live in This World >Alone" its name... i had no idea about that link; actually i do count murakami also to my fav. authors... and he4s definitely worth checking out!! the thing about murakami and his literatur is for me...that his stories are definitely obscure, filled with symbols, mystic moments and beautiful strangeness between the lines ... his books are a bit like life itself i guess - like the mystery of life.. - "things are more beautiful when they4re obscure" ... ;o) and: i also highly recommend "South of the the Border, West of the Sun" aswell as "norwegian wood"... :o) greetings sabrina (at least, here in the UK) on >May 17, >"Sputnik Sweetheart". For those unfamiliar with his work, he is >well worth >checking out. I first stumbled upon him by chance, picking up his >"Wild >Sheep Chase" from a second-hand bookshop after reading a review that >described it as a cross between Kafka and Woody Allen. Well, I'm >not sure >about that -- more of a cross between Kafka and Raymond Chandler, >but it IS >a great, inventive and haunting book, playing the mystery format but >to its >own, skewed rules. His follow up to that, "The Hard Boiled >Wonderland and >the End of the World" is an even more bizarre creation, being two >books in >one -- one a detective story, the other a fantasy -- running in >alternative >chapters and finally colliding at the end to devastating effect. It >is >>from a line of dialogue in this book that Veda took her title. >Subsequent >books haven't quite had the same impact on me, although his >sprawling epic >"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" comes frustratingly close, although >"South of >the the Border, West of the Sun" has a melancholic beauty in its >somewhat >standard love story. They only recently published his first book in >England, "Norwegian Wood", which I found not just bad but >objectionally >bad, being the memoirs of a student in 60's Japan and his affair >with two >very different women. It's one of those first-person narratives >where >everyone, especially all the beautiful women in it, keep telling the >narrator what a great and special person he is, and he solemnly >informs you >of every detail of his sexual acts, as if we're supposed to accept >that >it's deep, soulful art, simply because we are supposed to accept >that he >himself is deep and soulful, simply because everyone keeps telling >us that >he is. > >Still, I eagerly await his next book, and highly recommend "Wild >Sheep >Chase and "The Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", who >confirmed him as one of my favourite authors. > >In the meantime, I can only wait. > >Adam K. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:41:02 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: peculiar value Hi, eric clarified: >It's actually on her latest album, "you do not live in this world alone" and >listed as "A Peculiar Value". I'm pretty sure she plays this one live >sometimes and almost certain that she did at least during her stag part at >the Railway Club. She does indeed perform it live ... in fact, she performed it for the very first time in my living room, in November of 1999. One of the more special moments of my life so far, that was. :) ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V5 #24 *******************************