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12 years ago, my mother-in-law died of lung cancer. The last time she was hospitalized, she started reading The Road. I guess she was bored and had read some of the great reviews. Also, she just had this brief positive "spike" that made us believe she would live for some time. At the hospital, she caught pneumonia and died after a week or so. My wife took the book home, and I was kinda puzzeled. I knew No Country For Old Men and had the impression that The Road was kinda bleak.
A few years ago, I started reading the book on a nice summer weekend. About 2/3rd out in the book I noticed that my wife had left a small piece of paper with the words "this is how far mum read before she died". No spoilers, but I found the vibe at that point so bleak and dark and disturbing, that I had to put the book away for a while. My mother-in-law was a happy and positive spirit, and I really wish she had chosen another book to read at her own deathbed.
I just checked the book in the shelf. The piece of paper is gone. I don't know it fell out or if I removed it. Probably for the best. Perhaps some day my wife will read it. And you don't need to add personal grief to that book.
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Porn was better in the 90s.
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I've tried it, but decided to go for a normal bike, since commuting is a nice everyday workout for me. A lot of my colleagues have electric bikes and as far as I know, they are all very happy with it. The only downside (apart from lack of workout) is that electric bikes are extremely popular among the bike thieves where I live.
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Disc 1 and 2 AFOT1+2
Disc 3 Maxima
Disc 4 Remixes, Japanese Tracks, Outtakes whatever.
The music is already out there. Please take my money!
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18 hours ago, oscillik said:
I'm gonna have to hard disagree here — The Barbican set (first one, didn't have tickets for second one) was the clearest I've ever heard them. I was sat in the balcony, directly in the middle though so maybe where you sat affected the sound that much.
Same. Second show. Stalls row G.
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Look at the footage from the "attack". Laughable.
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What an absolute wonderful concert. So the Youtube vid is for Hamburg, and there is a concert in London Barbican? Any other venues?
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I like this a lot. So happy that I have some favourite artists that "regularly" release albums that hits the sweet spot.
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Did anyone see him in London last night? I’m gonna see him in a few weeks, and I’m curious what he’s playing these days.
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Bump. This is really good. More mellow than Agora, and with some nice Endless Summer-like guitar-moments.
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49 minutes ago, cern said:
I have only heard "Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again" that everyone is liking so much. I didn't connect with it!
Should I give this one a go? Or some other album you prefer?Try Ravedeath or Harmony In Ultraviolet. I enjoy all his stuff, but these are slightly more accessible? Haunt Me was my first TH, and I think it’s an amazing album.
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Yep. Digitals out now.
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Cocteau Twins-Treasure.
Echo And The Bunnymen-Ocean Rain
The Smiths- s/t AND Hateful of Hollow
The Replacements-Let it be.
Steve Roach-Structures From Silence
Budd/Eno-The Pearl
LLoyd Cole-Rattlesnakes
REM-Reckoning
Bruce Springsteen-Born in teh USA.
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https://fenneszreleases.bandcamp.com/album/senzatempo
Out April 14th. Limited edition vinyl. 300 copies.
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New album called "The Beggar" out June 23th. The first track is already available for streaming.
https://younggodrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-beggar
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On 3/16/2023 at 3:05 PM, cichlisuite said:
I enjoyed it too. It ended ambiguous which is ok, but it bothered me that Joel turned out quite a self-centered asshole even after all that shit he went through with Ellie. One would think he could overcome himself and find personal / moral courage, but I guess the character was supposed to be a bad man with no redeeming quality and personal growth potential. I haven't played the game, so idk how that plays into the lore.
The Last of Us follows the story of the game I think. Same ending.
After Lance Reddick died, I decided to watch OZ. Two episodes in, and the whole thing seems so dated. The acting, the production, the music. Everything. Can't believe this has a 8,7 IMDB rating. Does it get better?
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The Dandy Warhols "Welcome to the Monkey House".
Sometimes I do this thing where I listen to several albums of artists/bands that I used to enjoy but have later had massive quality nosedive. The plan is to find the best tracks from several albums and make a sort of imaginary "comeback album"-playlist. I've tried to do this with Tricky, Interpol, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam and more, but normally lose interest before I'm done. Welcome to the Monkey House is rather bleak compared to the two previous albums, but has some cathy tunes. "We Used to Be Friends" and "The Last High" are quite good, and I think "Plan A" will get a spot on the playlist. Now over to the even weaker "Odditoriium",
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Discovering Burial in 2023...what a gift.
IMO: stop after you've listened to Kindered.
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Album out on friday.
Boomkat propaganda:
A previously unreleased 42-minute piece recorded by Basinski in San Francisco made from tape loops of broken 1950s TV sets and recordings of night shifts at the factory. Hazed and subtly transcendent, it's one of the best things we've heard from the 'Disintegration Loops' legend in ages.
Way back in 1979 William Basinski was stationed on the notorious Haight Street in San Francisco - it was affordable for artists back then. His partner, the artist James Elaine, would rescue old televisions from the street as families upgraded to more modern color models, and Basinski set about recording their peculiar fuzzy transmissions to reel-to-reel tape. His Norelco Continental deck had four speeds, so Basinski could use the pitch variance to create long, sprawling drone pieces. The final piece of the puzzle was a series of field recordings he made at his night job at a factory, which he combined with the TV static to develop "The Clocktower at the Beach", a mystifying long-form composition that's among the most stunning in Basinski's canon.
For those of you who have only come across 'Disintegration Loops' and its successors, it might come as a surprise to learn that "The Clocktower..." is markedly different. The piece is still durational experiment, but at this point in his development, Basinski was more driven by the material his partner was bringing home from the record store he worked at day-to-day. So it was Eliane Radigue's feedback works and Jean-Claude Eloy's contemplative "Gaku-No-Michi" that provided the inspiration he needed. If you've heard 1997's "Shortwavemusic" (which Basinski recorded not long after this one in 1982) that's possibly the closest stylistically, but even that doesn't quite reach the same level of horizontal, blunted fuzz.
'The Clocktower...' is deceptively simple; Basinski doesn't use many elements but he manages to captivate us completely, conducting a mood that's between David Lynch's industrial "Eraserhead" wheeze and Brian Eno's shimmering "On Land". The gorgeous, heartbreaking melodies are there if you're willing to do the searching, buried beneath layer upon layer of tape hiss, pipe noise and mechanical grumbling. It's hard to believe this one's over forty years old.
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This was a pleasant surprise. Better than expected
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Copenhagen Cowboy by NW Refn (Drive, Bronson). A bit disappointed. Too slow and stale. I like the neon-aestethics, but the visuals ends up as almost parodic. Some funny and absurd moments, but all in all, it's to much focus on style and to little on content.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Yeah. I finished it after a while. It's a great book and not like anything else I've read. I should check out his other books, but I have so little time for reading these days.