The Germans must have a term for it. Doppelgedanken, perhaps: the sensation, when reading, that your own mind is giving birth to the words as they appear on the page. Such is the ego that in these rare instances you wonder, “How could the author have known what I was thinking?” Of course, what has happened isn’t this at all, though it’s no less astonishing. Rather, you’ve been drawn so deftly into another world that you’re breathing with someone else’s rhythms, seeing someone else’s visions as your own.
Alice Munro’s Object Lessons
30/11/2009
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Stone cuff by Douglas Hannant Expressly by Sequin.
Eva Jeanbart Lorenzotti, founder of Vivre.com, and womenswear designer Douglas Hannant have collaborated on a jewelry collection for resort 2010. Buy it at Vivre.com.
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Airport (Twentieth Century in Pictures) is an unusual 300-page book with photos from the archives of PA Photos to show the comings and goings of the great and the good during the 20th century. That includes Charlie Chaplin leaving Croydon in the 1930s, The Beatles in America and Thunderbirds puppets on the steps of a plane, bound for Japan. And many others. (via Retro to go)
Buy on Ammonite Press or Amazon.
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Noisettes - “Never Forget You”
Last on Noisettes bandwagon, but I really dig them! Beautiful voice, beautiful singer, beautiful tunes.
Why nobody forced me to listen to them months ago? From their name, I assumed they were skinny white boys mumbling away nonsense in a thick accent. So wrong :-)
12:40
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Nneka - “The Uncomfortable Truth” (new video for the US release)
Nneka is fab!
12:18
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Wave rings and bracelets (silver and nylon, respectively) by N-e-r-v-o-u-s. Buy them here.
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29/11/2009
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O’Spada - “Time”
A new electrofunk group from Sweden. Check the Arjanwrites music post, where you can download a few songs.
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Mary J. Blige - I Can Do Bad All By Myself (promo video with scenes from the movie)
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McIntosh Ross - "The Great Lakes"
I got their record yesterday in the mail, and it’s gorgeous. Although their duets are a bit JohnnyCash&JuneCarter-ish country (fine, but not usually my cup of tea), the bluesy, sparse arrangements captured me and the lyrics are so truthful and intimate, basically beautiful love songs to one another. After more than two decades of marriage AND being in a band together, that’s very moving to me.
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“all my worries, all my cares
all the pitfalls, all the snares
all the times I wasn’t there
all the gifts I never sharedone day we’ll know
one day we’ll see
till then we’ll hope and believeall my words and worldly goods
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all my flaws still shining through
all the things I didn’t do
all my trust I place in you
— “All My Trust I Place in You” by MacIntoshRoss
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Teaser for the new single We Shall Burn Bright by Husky Rescue, shot on 8mm. Free song download of the song available on the 30th of November from the official website
28/11/2009
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“HOW POETRY COMES TO ME
It comes blundering over the Boulders at night,
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it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire
I go to meet it at the Edge of the light
—
Gary Snyder
(via This Recording)
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