Since reading Albert Camus' L'Étranger on holiday, it seems that George Bush is taking a more open attitude towards the arts. A recent collaboration shows a video of George Bush jamming with the Pope, Tony Blair, Condy and Bono...
August 16, 2006
July 14, 2006
It's like having new ears
My listening experience has been greatly enhanced by the purchase of a new amp. I have two stereo systems - one attached to the computer for playing mp3s and for when I make my own music, and the other in the living room for playing CDs and LPs. For some reason both amps were worn out in a similar way so that one channel kept cutting out. I've been putting up with this for a very long time but finally decided to splash out on a new amp. A friend and I popped down to Richer Sounds to buy this beast - a Cambridge Audio A5 for the princely sum of £119.50.
Suddenly music is worth listening to again. Since I got an ipod I've pretty much stopped listening to CDs, so the new amp is attached to my PC, which I seem to sit in front of a lot of the time, playing mp3s on iTunes.
So my first played tracklist is as follows:
Steve Winwood: Why Can't We Live Together
An accurate but better-recorded version of the Timmy Thomas number (and just as soulful).
Fairport Convention: Meet On The Ledge
This doesn't sound quite the same without the scratch on my original LP version (on the sampler "You Can All Join In").
Current listening
Blogs to savour
Blogging Links
Movies
- A History of Violence (2005)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
- Adaptation. (2002)
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Broken Flowers (2005)
- Diaboliques, Les (1955)
- I Heart Huckabees (2004)
- Irreversible
- La Balance (1982)
- Read My Lips - Sur Mes Levres (2001)
- Reprise (2006)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Spoorloos/The Vanishing (1988)
- The Consequences of Love - Conseguenze dell'amore, Le (2004)
- The Edukators (2005)
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
