Friday, May 31, 2024
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Books
https://www.reddit.com/r/davidfosterwallace/comments/ct3gt8/david_foster_wallace_related_reading_list/
Infinite Jest v. Ulysses
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/gjkfv5/a_confederacy_of_dunces/
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1yton8/david_foster_wallaces_surprising_list_of_his_10/
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-ultimate-horror-fiction-reading
https://biblioklept.org/2020/12/31/annotations-on-a-list-of-books-i-read-in-full-in-2020/
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/ Foreign
Infinite Jest v. Ulysses
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/gjkfv5/a_confederacy_of_dunces/
https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1yton8/david_foster_wallaces_surprising_list_of_his_10/
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-ultimate-horror-fiction-reading
https://biblioklept.org/2020/12/31/annotations-on-a-list-of-books-i-read-in-full-in-2020/
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/ Foreign
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
Misc. Music 2
https://thequietus.com/articles/01343-from-the-archives-1996-radiohead-interviewed-between-the-bends-and-ok-computer
https://linenoise.substack.com/p/better-than-no-protection-massive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop
https://www.reddit.com/r/katebush/comments/lt0fvf/where_to_start_a_beginners_guide_to_kate_bush/#lightbox
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-30-best-dream-pop-albums/?page=3
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-electronic-albums odd list
https://linenoise.substack.com/p/better-than-no-protection-massive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop
https://www.reddit.com/r/katebush/comments/lt0fvf/where_to_start_a_beginners_guide_to_kate_bush/#lightbox
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-30-best-dream-pop-albums/?page=3
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-electronic-albums odd list
Heaven or Las Vegas * Laughing Stock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Stock Never knew Talk Talk had another album after Colour of Spring.
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1960s/
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-7-6?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=B5CF208A1D7843F3BE4B3968268D44A8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-7-6?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=B5CF208A1D7843F3BE4B3968268D44A8&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://soundcloud.com/rebirth-xanax/airfix-remastered-testosterone?ref=thirdParty&p=i&c=0&si=88E9348E38004EDE9F9FF767516D2099&utm_source=thirdParty&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://arcane-delights.com/2023/03/09/peter-ulrich-dead-can-dance-interview/
https://arcane-delights.com/2023/08/09/piano-magic-diaries-artists-rifles/
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-tragedy-of-eva-cassidy
https://banbantonton.com/2024/09/22/orboretum-the-orb-collection-cooking-vinyl/
https://arcane-delights.com/2023/03/09/peter-ulrich-dead-can-dance-interview/
https://arcane-delights.com/2023/08/09/piano-magic-diaries-artists-rifles/
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-tragedy-of-eva-cassidy
https://banbantonton.com/2024/09/22/orboretum-the-orb-collection-cooking-vinyl/
https://banbantonton.com/2024/06/27/matthew-collin-dream-machines-omnibus-press/ History of UK electronic
https://banbantonton.com/2024/03/22/coil-the-snow-transmigration/
https://banbantonton.com/2024/03/22/coil-the-snow-transmigration/
https://banbantonton.com/2024/08/16/looking-for-the-balearic-beat-august-2024/
https://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/Mojotop50eccentricalbums.htm
https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/6151-boards-of-canada/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21368-t-r-i-s-h-ep/ by Odd Nosdam
https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-bowie-170-1191462 Blackstar influenced by BOC & Death Grips.
https://thepeelingblog.com/2021/11/12/here-is-one-elizabeth-fraser-jeff-buckley/
https://thepeelingblog.com/2021/11/12/here-is-one-elizabeth-fraser-jeff-buckley/
https://altrockchick.com/2022/09/24/the-sundays-reading-writing-and-arithmetic-classic-music-review/
https://originalfuzz.com/blogs/magazine/84621252-how-robert-fripp-recorded-the-guitar-line-on-david-bowies-heroes?
https://thequietus.com/culture/books/leah-kardos-kate-bush-hounds-of-love-extract/
https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/tori-amos-bakers-dozen-interview/3/ Cocteau
https://thequietus.com/culture/books/leah-kardos-kate-bush-hounds-of-love-extract/
https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/tori-amos-bakers-dozen-interview/3/ Cocteau
Broadcast
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/broadcast-maida-vale-sessions-microtonics-mother-is-the-milky-way/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/948-tender-buttons/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9344-the-future-crayon/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/947-haha-sound/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17492-berberian-sound-studio-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/
https://pitchfork.com/features/afterword/7917-appreciation-broadcasts-trish-keenan/
https://pitchfork.com/features/article/6213-broadcast/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv8vqx/warp-25-broadcast-the-noises-made-by-people
https://thequietus.com/articles/34114-broadcast-spell-blanket-review
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/948-tender-buttons/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9344-the-future-crayon/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/947-haha-sound/
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17492-berberian-sound-studio-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/
https://pitchfork.com/features/afterword/7917-appreciation-broadcasts-trish-keenan/
https://pitchfork.com/features/article/6213-broadcast/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv8vqx/warp-25-broadcast-the-noises-made-by-people
https://thequietus.com/articles/34114-broadcast-spell-blanket-review
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/unedited-broadcast
https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast
https://www.mixcloud.com/broadcastmixes/
https://soundcloud.com/abandapart/sets/trishs-mind-bending-motorway-mix
https://www.reddit.com/r/warpsbroadcast/comments/1bk8760/spell_blanket_36_tracks_coming_out_may_3th_2024/
An influence:
White Noise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Electric_Storm
United States of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_of_America_(album)
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8385-united-states-of-america/
Also influenced Portishead
https://soundcloud.com/james-broadcast
https://www.mixcloud.com/broadcastmixes/
https://soundcloud.com/abandapart/sets/trishs-mind-bending-motorway-mix
https://www.reddit.com/r/warpsbroadcast/comments/1bk8760/spell_blanket_36_tracks_coming_out_may_3th_2024/
An influence:
White Noise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Electric_Storm
United States of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_of_America_(album)
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8385-united-states-of-america/
Also influenced Portishead
Sunday, May 5, 2024
C.S. Lewis on Science Fiction
Every good writer knows that the more unusual the scenes and events of his story are, the slighter, the more ordinary, the more typical his persons should be. Hence Gulliver is a commonplace little man and Alice a commonplace little girl. If they had been more remarkable they would have wrecked their books. The Ancient Mariner himself is a very ordinary man. To tell how odd things struck odd people is to have an oddity too much: he who is to see strange sights must not himself be strange. He ought to be as nearly as possible Everyman or Anyman.
If good novels are comments on life, good stories of this sort (which are very much rarer) are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience. Hence the difficulty of discussing them at all with those who refuse to be taken out of what they call `real life'—which means, perhaps, the groove through some far wider area of possible experience to which our senses and our biological, social, or economic interests usually confine us—or, if taken, can see nothing outside it but aching boredom or sickening monstrosity. They shudder and ask to go home.Specimens of this kind, at its best, will never be common. I would include parts of the Odyssey, the Hymn to Aphrodite, much of the Kalevala and The Faerie Queene, some of Malory (but none of Malory's best work) and more of Huon, parts of Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, The Ancient Mariner and Christabel, Beckford's Vathek, Morris's Jason and the Prologue (little else) of the Earthly Paradise, MacDonald's Phantastes, Lilith, and The Golden Key, Eddison's Worm Ouroboros, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and that shattering, intolerable, and irresistible work, David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus. Also Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Some of Ray Bradbury's stories perhaps make the grade.
If good novels are comments on life, good stories of this sort (which are very much rarer) are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience. Hence the difficulty of discussing them at all with those who refuse to be taken out of what they call `real life'—which means, perhaps, the groove through some far wider area of possible experience to which our senses and our biological, social, or economic interests usually confine us—or, if taken, can see nothing outside it but aching boredom or sickening monstrosity. They shudder and ask to go home.Specimens of this kind, at its best, will never be common. I would include parts of the Odyssey, the Hymn to Aphrodite, much of the Kalevala and The Faerie Queene, some of Malory (but none of Malory's best work) and more of Huon, parts of Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, The Ancient Mariner and Christabel, Beckford's Vathek, Morris's Jason and the Prologue (little else) of the Earthly Paradise, MacDonald's Phantastes, Lilith, and The Golden Key, Eddison's Worm Ouroboros, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and that shattering, intolerable, and irresistible work, David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus. Also Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Some of Ray Bradbury's stories perhaps make the grade.
It would seem from the reactions it produces, that the mythopoeic is rather, for good or ill, a mode of imagination which does something to us at a deep level. If some seem to go to it in almost compulsive need, others seem to be in terror of what they may meet there. But that is of course only suspicion.
LeGuin - Introduction to Hainish stories
https://reactormag.com/introduction-from-ursula-k-le-guin-the-hainish-novels-stories-volume-one/
"My poetry and my fiction are full of trees. My mental landscape includes a great deal of forest. I am haunted by the great, silent, patient presences we live among, plant, chop down, build with, burn, take for granted in every way until they are gone and do not return. Ancient China had our four elements, earth, air, fire, water, plus a fifth, wood. That makes sense to me. But China’s great forests are long gone to smoke. When we pass a log truck on the roads of Oregon, I can’t help but see what they carry as corpses, bodies that were living and are dead. I think of how we owe the air we breathe to the trees, the ferns, the grasses—the quiet people who eat sunlight."
"My poetry and my fiction are full of trees. My mental landscape includes a great deal of forest. I am haunted by the great, silent, patient presences we live among, plant, chop down, build with, burn, take for granted in every way until they are gone and do not return. Ancient China had our four elements, earth, air, fire, water, plus a fifth, wood. That makes sense to me. But China’s great forests are long gone to smoke. When we pass a log truck on the roads of Oregon, I can’t help but see what they carry as corpses, bodies that were living and are dead. I think of how we owe the air we breathe to the trees, the ferns, the grasses—the quiet people who eat sunlight."
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Death of Man in Middle Earth
"Finrod was the son of Finarfin, great Elven King of the Noldor, brother to Galadriel and Aegnor, and a friend of the race of Men. Andreth was a Man, a wisdom speaker of the House of Bëor, a woman who fell in love with Finrod’s brother–a love that was requited, but forbidden as Elves are forbidden to wed during times of war. Nearly half a century after the “Athrabeth,” Andreth died alone and childless."
"The Athrabeth is a gorgeous and troubling piece of work. Its beauty lies in its ability to capture a lore-rooted theological debate that still evokes the relational depth of two friends. The text combines the great and bitter longing of Andreth for her lost lover Aegnor and a delicate blend of fear and daring hope as Elves and Men consider their fates.
"The Athrabeth is a gorgeous and troubling piece of work. Its beauty lies in its ability to capture a lore-rooted theological debate that still evokes the relational depth of two friends. The text combines the great and bitter longing of Andreth for her lost lover Aegnor and a delicate blend of fear and daring hope as Elves and Men consider their fates.
It is troubling because the Athrabeth challenges one of the critical concepts of Middle-earth, that the gift of Men is mortality (Tolkien letter #131, to Milton Waldman; see the Quenta Silmarillion). According to Andreth, though, wisdom says that death for Men is a wrong–an unnatural breaking of body (hröa) and soul (fëa):
“dying we die, and we go out to no return. Death is an uttermost end, a loss irremediable. And it is abominable; for it is also a wrong that is done to us” (Morgoth’s Ring, 311).
Some authorial words on the growth of stories
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2019/07/18/o-foolish-writer/
I have never exactly ‘made’ a story. With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some of these pictures have a common flavour, almost a common smell, which groups them together. Keep quiet and watch and they will begin joining themselves up. If you were very lucky (I have never been as lucky as all that’) a whole set might join themselves so consistently that there you had a complete story; without doing anything yourself. But more often (in my experience always) there are gaps. Then at last you have to do some deliberate inventing, have to contrive reasons why these characters should be in these various places doing these various things. I have no idea whether this is the usual way of writing stories, still less whether it is the best. It is the only one I know: images always come first (C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” 32-3).
I have never exactly ‘made’ a story. With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some of these pictures have a common flavour, almost a common smell, which groups them together. Keep quiet and watch and they will begin joining themselves up. If you were very lucky (I have never been as lucky as all that’) a whole set might join themselves so consistently that there you had a complete story; without doing anything yourself. But more often (in my experience always) there are gaps. Then at last you have to do some deliberate inventing, have to contrive reasons why these characters should be in these various places doing these various things. I have no idea whether this is the usual way of writing stories, still less whether it is the best. It is the only one I know: images always come first (C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” 32-3).
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