Recent content by smegger_em

I also like the soundtrack to 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou' - a whole lot of Bowie covers, accoustic and in Portugese!

I dunno, for some reason I feel that Franz would like it, they seem like they would appreicate the silly-coolness of it.

Where did you get them all? A friend burnt the album that I have for me. I haven't seen him in record shops before, but I suppose i haven't been looking. Would I be able to find him at JB Hifi do you think?

Hey, I followed you here from the Ben Folds thread, so you better watch all the Ben-bashing! ;) I think (and I said this on the Ben Folds thread too) that the best covers are often the really fun unexpected ones - the ones where it sounds like the musician is not just being post-modern or...

I'll have to do that! I was just complaining the other day that I have not discovered anyone new or exciting in a while, and then the universe offers me 'Oh You're So Silent Jens.' Cheers, universe!

I only recently accidently discovered this guy - how come no one had ever told me about him before! He is so gorgeous!

Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter Given some of the characters (a circus performer who was born with wings growing out of her back, a psychic pig), at first glance, this book might seem to be a strange, but ultimatly light fantasy. However, it is actually rich in musings on history...

Tomstone Blues is all about this guy loosing track of everythign he understands and believes in, or thats how I see it, so the whole 'the suns not yellow, its chicken!' links to that, its not complete nonsence, but it kind of still is... Love it. Oh, and also, from the same song - 'and he...

'the sun's not yellow, its chicken!' - from 'Tombstone Blues' I just love that song, the lyrics are so bizarre, yet also so perfect and poetic... I also love 'Queen Jane,' it reminds me so perfectly of a guy I used to know

I don't really get why people hate analysing films, saying they 'just want to watch them.' Analysing a film is just watching it intellignetly, and what is wrong with that? No one says they wish they could just walk around rather than having to walk around intelligently. Someone used the...

Just finished 'We have to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. It's written from the persepective of the mother of a guy who killed 10 of his classmates and his teacher at school. It was inspired by the Colombine massacre and those other school killings. Really interesting, though a bit on the...

I absolutley love Douglas Adams. I made the mistake of reading HHGG for the first time while siting in a coffee shop - I started laughing out loud and spilled my coffee on my white shirt at the same time about 3 pages in. I soon realised that these books are best enjoyed somewhere you do not...

I actually liked it a lot, though it did take me a while to get into the war bits, and I didn't enjoy them as much as the multiple narratives bit in the first half. And it probably could have been a bit shorter. But as someone else said, the multiple narratives bot wokred well, its didn't feel...

I love trainspotting! I had to read it last year for a course i did 'Modern Novel into Film' and i was just blown away by it. I was amazed that it was even more confronting than the film - I didn't think that was possible! I loved the different voices in the novel, the way that the Scots and...

See, for me that is exactly what it's not about! It's not about him choosing between me and the other girl - it's about not being asked to make that choice becasue there is no need. The fact that the gf is so self-absorbed that she would ask (or order) him to do something that she knows will be...