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New Grass (Talk Talk) 8-Ball (Underworld) Shine a light (Paolo Nutini)

oohh i haven't listened to paolo nutini in forever !!! thank you for these :)

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misterchu replied to your photo:Two bow-tied peas in a pod, indeed.

That damn dog had better live forever.

You have no idea, Chu-- No idea how much this dog had better live forever.

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finismisterchu replied to your post: Short of participating in a genocide,...

To read or not? Have you? MC

I finished it yesterday and absolutely loved it. It is huge (over 1,300 pages in French) but it's very intense and disturbing at times. It literally takes you to the depths of nazi cruelty and sadism. The most disturbing about this book isn't necessarily the events described in horrific details, but how the narrator (member of the Waffen-SS) makes you think deeply about how we would have reacted in similar circumstances, how intellectuals ended up killing so many people, guilt/blame/justice, and so on. So if you like that period, are interested in perpetrator psychology, or are just looking for a thought-provoking book, I highly recommend it. I personally loved this mix of philosophy, historical details, psychology, and fiction.

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misterchu replied to your quote: I still hope to be able to make something of...

I have listened (and own I suppose) quite a bit of Schubert, but am very ignorant of him -as with so much….what springs to your own mind as a good thing to amuse my bouche with? I appreciate any direction you might consider… MC

Alfred Brendel's 1975 recording, "The Last Three Piano Sonatas", is in my opinion excellent; his performance of Schubert's Piano Sonata no. 21 in Bb (D.960) is one of my favorites (I Molto moderato, II Andante sostenuto, III Scherzo and Trio and IV Allegro—Presto). The driving, darker undercurrents running throughout that otherwise chipper piece always move me and make me wish I'd been able to write something of the sort. The change at about two minutes into the molto moderato first movement particularly comes to mind. Though I will confess I am not always a fan of lieder with the actual vocal style, Schubert's musicality in them is nonetheless excellent many times. Possibly my favorite way to experience them, however, is via Liszt's transcriptions, incorporating the original piano accompaniment and the vocal melodies in a single work for solo piano. The fabulous modern pianist Valentina Lisitsa, some of whose performances I have posted here in the past, does an excellent job with several of these on her YouTube channel, where she's done the Liszt transcriptions of Schubert's Schwanengesang cycle; see perhaps especially "Die Stadt", "Der Doppelgänger", "Ihr Bild", "Ständchen", "In der Ferne", "Aufenthalt", etc. There is also her more recent upload of a recording of the Liszt transcription of Schubert's "Der Erlkönig". I would love to hear her do similar arrangements of some of the pieces from Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, especially "Einsamkeit" and "Der Leiermann." For chamber works, I am partial to his string quartet version of "Der Tod und das Mädchen" (parts I Allegro, II Andante con moto, part 1 and part 2, III Scherzo: Allegro molto and IV Presto, performed by the Takacs Quartet). There are many others, but these are perhaps a lovely start. And of course, he has many, many much "happier" sounding, upbeat and major key pieces; but as my tastes lead me to minor modes and "darker" musical textures, these pieces are what stand out more to me.

misterchu replied to your audio post: Always love this. In that sort of mood. It still...

It is very lovely. I am presuming you have read IM’s ‘In Between The Sheets’ also. It has been long enough for me to find it again. Thank you for reminding me.

Yes!

I was also thinking of pulling them out for some midnight short storys but I don't think I brought them to this flat. My books here are mostly recently bought.

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In response to the earlier post, misterchu submitted the text:

"A bag is packed. The man being left tries to save himself by allowing his life to tumble across his lips. All of his stories fall out, irrelevancies, laundry lists & places to park on the Southside of Chicago. This is everything he thinks, so little."

The melody in this piece is note for note a representation of that text (with the single exception of replacing the ampersand with the word 'and'), derived via the methods discussed in earlier posts. Enjoy.