My favourite band.....

Ok, I know Bon Iver has just one album out.... but what an album...... This is a video over at Pitch fork... with them performing live a few samples...... Listen to them... you'll know why I love them to bits

More good stuff

Here is more good stuff I found online

1. Six Organs of Admission- this is supposed to be american psychedilc folk..... Supposedly inspired by Cormac MacCarthy's road.... All Good.... All Good...

2. Deerhunter- Nothing Ever Happened

3. Jesus and Mary Chain- The Velvet underground of the eighties, or so their website claims. Not for everybody.....If you like distortion heavy, alt rock... this band may be your cuppa tea

I'm still reading Dust of dreams... I am taking the book in small doses.... I don't know when I am going to get around to re-reading it. I think, I will stop reading Fantasy after dust of dreams. I put a lot of Non-Fantasy books on hold. The last non-genre fiction that I read was Special Topics in Calamity Physics. That was in August. Before that... well I dont even remember. So, I will start out with 2666. Maybe something else after that.... Maybe some Nietschze after that..... I don't know... I find his ideas on Nihilism extremely interesting

I watched "A serious Man", yesterday.... Strangely enough, thinking back, except for a few clever scenes, it did nothing for me..... Maybe its just me..... Things are getting hectic at work as well.....

You should listen to this

Wail to God- Ape School
The video is simply awesome!(From The Walrus)

Krimson- Warpaint
They sound like a mixture of Clannad, Yeah yeah yeahs and Corrs to me..... Bille Holiday is a haunting, lilting, magical song. Krimson has the greatest start ever. Their My Space page is here (From ISO50)

Tender- Blur
They are apparently not an entirely unknown band. In fact far from it. But, I'd not heard them before in my neck of woods. VVD would frown and probably scoff..... But, the songs are brilliant, if you ask me.....

Bonfire on the Heath The clientele
These Guys have a great rating over at metacritic. Nope, I'm not complaining! Bonfires... is particularly awesome.

Bay of Pigs- Destroyer

This is an EP with a 13 minute song... and what a song it is! A Disco based song with a Stairway to Heaven-like epic length and a postmodern narrative that talks about, as the name suggests- The Bay of Pigs- need I say more?

When the Devil's Due- A A Bondy

Definitely worth a listen. I caught bits and pieces of this album during an offshore call(Yup, another exercise so hopelessly boring that, I had to listen to something to keep myself from breaking the phone on my desk on sheer frustration)

Miranda Lambert- Revolution
I love the sheer zest on the single- white Liar.... and then there is Gunpowder and Lead. 'nuff said!

1372 Overton Park- Lucero
Lucero's got an awesome voice.... Macho and scratchy........ worth a dekko

It is back to work after a three day weekend. It was a very quiet weekend. I didn't do much

1. I worked on two of the three days. I had to walk to and from office. You know what? Working in an empty office is actually fun.
2. I watched "Capitalism- Love story" on Sunday. It was ok. But, Michael Moore is a bit of a Drama Queen.
3. I had dinner in Olive Garden. The food was as usual drowning in cheese. Just the way I like it. I am definitely gonna go back to India a few tonnes heavier
4. It snowed all yesterday morning. So, I stayed home, watching reruns of NCIS.

What I read last week

The Grave Thief by Tom Lloyd



Not spectacular. But what a brilliant finish! Maybe it was the medium or perhaps it is all the stuff going on with me personally, but, I found it very difficult to stay invested in this book. But, the finish made it all worthwhile

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It's Quarter to 3.....

.... and I am sitting on my desk and enjoying what would hopefully be my last Drink of the day.....

No... this is not the beginning of an amateurish attempt at a pastiche of Raymond Chandler. I am filling in my Appraisal while being overdosed on Diet Coke and a few Random thoughts Creep in to my head.... I take this as the best excuse to get out of the stupid appraisal form..... Anywat
1. I should not... I repeat should not ever drink Diet coke after 10
2. I hate my Job! I hate it so much that most of the time, during meetings I fantasize about the different ways I could frame an expression on how bored I am during these meetings. That was the best one. The consolation prizes went to, ' I was so bored with my job that I actually started doing it' and 'I am so bored by my job that I started thinking stuff I could fill on my appraisal form'. yeah, the last one was not so hot. Hey, Gimme a break it is 3 o clock here....
3. The Gummi Bear is Man's greatest invention
4.I wonder what
" She's so high
She's so high
I want to crawl all over her"
actually means
5. I got my Dust of dreams. Only, I am so frickin busy that I havent made any headway.....
6. I really should stop saying "Frickin".
7. I really like Cheesecake
8. For the first time after 5 years, I do not own a cellphone.... and frankly my dear I couldnt give a damn
9 My favourite scene from My fair Lady. But, I truly wish Lizzie Dolittle married Henry Ainsford Hill..... Higgins feelings for Lizzie were meant to be unrequited.... he's only going to drive her crazy anyway.
10. Oh... I am gonna be in trouble tomorrow...