Somewhere over Saskatchewan.

One assignment down! Woo!

And to make this post have something like content...

Well, I recently got my digital hands on this album by this person called Charlotte Gainsbourg, on the grounds that I'd kept hearing about her father (makes sense, really) and... I'm thinking... It's pretty darned good! Like, not mindblowing, but, by and large, it's really quite lovely.

But here's what surprised me: I soon found out that the music for it is mostly (or, like, all, or something) composed by Air. Which is fair enough, it doesn't sound too dissimilar... But here's the thing: I really don't much like Air. I mean, I like a few of their songs a bit, but a couple of these Charlotte Gainsbourg songs are really quite monstrously fabulous, and not just because of the notable advantage of Gainsbourg's vocals!

Also: I found out that Charlotte Gainsbourg was in the movie Love, Etc, which, by all indications, was extremely mediocre. But, it was based on the book Talking It Over by Julian Barnes, which is easily one of my favourite books of all time. Really, extraordinarily fabulous book. Shame they made a mediocre film out of it.

My ears are ringing with the promise!

I just did a google search for "Madness!!! Madness!!! Madness!!!" and it asked:

Did you mean: "Madness!!! Midness!!! Madness!!!"

I found that pretty funny.


In unrelated news, today I spent 8 hours furthering the cause of Democracy by opening mail and stamping forms. It wasn't too bad! But now I have 5003 assignments to do.

I'm gonna waste the rest of my days.

Woo!

All my books lay on the table.

Stuff has happened, none of it outrageously exciting from a not-me perspective. Essays, games, gatherings, etc. Now I'm feeling kinda tired and dull. And have more assignments I need to get started with, unfortunately; less exciting ones than the one I just finished, too.

A luscious mix of words and tricks.

Ohmygod Jeff Buckley!

Ohmygod Shins!

Ohmygod Joanna Newsom!

Ohmygod Sparks!

I love music.

Also, I saw Waking Life yesterday, and it was fabulous.

More fabulous yet was the 6 hour conversation in which I and two other excellent dudes were afterwards engaged until 4:30 am.


Actually, I think I need to expand on that Joanna Newsom comment. When I first heard some stuff by her, I had the not-unusual reaction of not much liking it. Strange voice, and all that. It took a cover of Peach Plum Pear by Final Fantasy to make me realise that she's a freakin' genius, with some insanely good music, brilliant lyrics, and, perhaps now that I'm used to it, a really beautiful singing voice. (The Decemberists made a brilliant cover of Bridges And Balloons too, though I only heard that once I was already absolutely converted.)

Her next album, Ys, was just leaked a few days ago, so naturally I downloaded one of the songs, Emily. Now, personally I am a huge fan of excessively long songs, but I was really surprised when I saw that this next album was only 5 songs, but 55 minutes long. After all The Milk Eyed Mender had nothing over 6 minutes long. Still, I never doubted that it would also be insanely fabulous. And... And it is! Well, that one song I've heard is anyway!

Anyway, the moral of this story is, if you haven't heard any Joanna Newsom, do so. And if you have, but didn't like it... Do so again, damnit! (Hear Some, that is, not Hear Some And Not Like It.)