It's like rule 34, but for music.

[hirez]

I'm still struggling with the notion that since there is no Peel and my disposable income is generally disposed on tiresome things, discovering that this sort of thing is going on well after all the cool kids have moved on to bus-stop house, trouser metal or spastikk-lawnmoWer is sadly normal.

Marvellous racket(s), mind. It's also well worth digging out the strangely-tagged material on that there youtubes.

I am also about halfway through 'The girl with the dragon tattoo' and it is being utterly excellent. A bit too info-dumpy to begin with, but it is splendidly Swedish and spending great wedges of a weekend reading the thing while The Chemicals and early Sevs & Kraftwerk burble away in the background is something I should do more of. Yes. There are certain books where you get an adrenaline rush when the plot decides to kick off. Selected Banksies are the ones that spring most immediately to mind. This one's not like that (yet?), but one can certainly feel that the narrative has lumpy cams and a furtled wastegate.

Rule 34? It made sense at the time.

Comments

Speaking of Swedish

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Have you read any of the Wallander books? Also very Swedish

I've only read two so far, but they're quite fine.

I really must look out "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" when this lot of library books is finished with as I've heard so many good things about it.

There seems to be a vogue for translating Scandinavian detective novels at the moment - there was a Norwegian one on the featured books shelves on a recent visit to the library and I think I read a review for an Icelandic one recently.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

I've just read "The Icelandic Book" du jour: Arnaldur Indridason's "Hypothermia". Not his first one, but it's the one that's getting the ravings.

It's a lot like Rebus, only Icelandic. Morose older cop has seemingly no boss and no work to do, so he gets to swan around morosely, making the recently bereaved feel even more morose. It's a case no-one cares about, no-one else even thinks it's a case. Then of course there does turn out to be Something Nasty In The Sauna...

[quercus.livejournal.com]

In other book news, I've had the dragon tattoo for long enough to gather dust on it (still not read it) and I'm currently reading the freshly reprinted history of the Severn Bridge Railway.

An excursion is called for to Newnham some time, to find the remains of the 1810 Severn Tunnel...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. Newnham's rather pleasant to potter around.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

An Expedition, you say ?

That does sound like a good idea.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I think that's the one I read about!

[quercus.livejournal.com]

It's waiting here for whichever of you black-clad gofficks next manages to raid the bookcase.

[nemesis-to-go.livejournal.com]

There is no Peel, but there is Marc Riley (http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/marc_riley/).

Any DJ whose jingles are made by Wild Billy Childish gets my vote!

[quercus.livejournal.com]

What's that blankworkshop on about then? The homepage looks like Steampunk Goldfrapp

[hirez.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/user/WotanAlthorpe

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

Fuckn wow - moon wiring club -- swiping link ---- TA!!

Rule 34's rubbish...

[augeas.livejournal.com]

...you want rule 30 (http://media.shozu.com/cache/full/24c7ad/67108884/YXVnZWFz).

Re: Rule 34's rubbish...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh, very good.