At its best, a Wong Kar-Wai film reproduces the fever pitch of a music-induced daydream. A love song patters out a simple vision that plays out on a rain-soaked windowpane, story fragments form in the emotional ether that each rise of sound elicits, lyrics dipped in nostalgia drip off the song. Nothing is [...]
update New muxtape version of this playlist can be listened to here
Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums is a grinning fool of a book, partially autobiographical, spewing forth like a wine-induced poetry reading, all mirth and chaos, and yet, fighting through the adolescence and restless spontaneity of the piece is the aspiration for a mature spiritual enlightenment [...]
“We weren’t lovers like that but even then it would still be okay” – Sisters of Mercy
Strange how I have been writing for so long about my acute aesthetic experiences and yet only now have I set aside a post to one of my true heroes of the verse, the palatable Mr. Leonard Cohen. [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Repurpose. A shiny new word used with abandon in this post. Maybe my vocabulary is lacking but it seems to me there has never been an adequate (and by that I mean laymen) term for what is meant by pastiche or homage, and then steathily repurpose enters the popular conscience and all is well [...]
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Behold I give unto you a playlist two millennia in the making…
In this latest bout of the literary playlist challenge, Perc and I employ our mad skills towards an inevitable act of hubris: the mixtaping of the Holy Bible. Here you shall find no hymns, nor celestial choirs, but rather the artful repurposing [...]
Welcome to my annual send-off wherein I spot a tenner of songs, those which captured my imagination during this ever-deficiting state of academiotosis. Despite some laxity in my cultivation of aural accompaniment this year, I have at least took the dignified route this time, no longer scouring the net and vulturing about end-of-the-year best-of [...]
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Occassionaly a lyricist is able to pen in a sparse collection of words something so profoundly moving that it rivals the narrative punch of drawn-out novels and scripts. Something immediately compelling is parcelled into a few choice words and a sudden clarity of understanding overwhelms. The universe for that moment is resting [...]
Now becoming an annual event, Madpercolator and I have been swapping playlists confined to literary themes. Last year we did Don Quixote, and this year Wuthering Heights. Below is my contribution. Anyone wanting to share their own playlists or songs of interest please feel free.
Listen as one continuous playlist here: [...]
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
It feels like ages since last we heard Karl moan. I understood the reasoning behind the hiatus as Ricky is right that too much of a good thing can wear down the welcome of anything, but there was still a part of me eagerly awaiting the next great parcel of wisdom to dribble forth [...]
This is long overdue. I have been praising Regina for years now, and yet somehow I neglected to make a playlist to celebrate her talents. There is a lot to choose from and aside from the youtube clip and the bonus track ‘Dusseldorf’, I have all but avoided her most recent album, ‘Begin [...]
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