Occasionally frequent postings on music, films, news; Warning: includes drivel.

04 October 2005

This week I have mostly been listening to....

Sigur Rós - Takk... The new one from those Icelandic post pixies. Good.
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Surprised it took me so long to find this album, Americana is the flavour of the month. Looking forward to hearing the other albums when I find them at good prices.
Calexico/Iron & Wine - In the Reigns. Almost country with slide guitars, but some nice tunes from Sam Beam and cohorts. Pity it's only 7 tracks.
Otherwise, a little bit of this and a little bit of that, some Johnny Cash, some Neil Young and a bit o' the Shins. Need to get a bit Indie again soon or who knows what I'll be listening to.

Aside from music my life is still travelling and GP-ing and frisbee...including new found organisational nightmares relating to things being overly popular (a first for the club). Enjoying it overall though.

" Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..."

Helen and I watched 'The Princess Bride' movie based on the William Golding Novel of the same name last week. I read the book on the plane on the way to India way back in July and was pleasantly surprised; it reads like a good old fashioned fairly tale. The film seems to make it slightly more childish than I imagined from the book and some of the epic scale of the journey was lost but enjoyable nevertheless (includes a cameo appearance from Columbo). Worth a watch if you're in a light-hearted and forgiving of the 80s mood.

Goodnight.

[Listening to: Horses in the Sky - The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses in the Sky]

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