Books and music...
Oct. 30th, 2004 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusYou know, there's been some very scary cover versions in recent times. If you thought Marilyn Manson's predilection for bad reworkings of well-known songs was puzzling enough, then you ought to hear some of these. My personal favourites, for various and bizarre reasons, some good and some very very bad:
1. Nick Cave does 'Disco 2000' (original by Pulp)
2. eels do 'Get Ur Freak On' (original by Missy Elliot)
3. Ben Folds and Lowdon Wainwright III do 'Careless Whisper' (original by George Michael)
4. William Shatner and Joe Jackson do 'Common People' (original by Pulp)
5. Frente do 'Bizarre Love Triangle' (original by New Order)
6. Johnny Cash does 'Hurt' (original by Nine Inch Nails) and 'Personal Jesus' (original by Depeche Mode)
Also, I have discovered that the people I work with do not know who The Pixies are. This is Not Good.
Meanwhile, in the land of books, I'm currently really enjoying 'The Curse of Chalion' by Lois McMaster Bujold. Frankly, I'd avoided her previous space opera books like the plague but was intrigued enough by the blurb to try this one out and have been pleasantly surprised. Her protagonist is scarred in more ways than one, having lived through horrendous experiences through no fault of his own, and is now discovering more things about himself than he cares to think about. I understand there's a sequel as well, which is good news!
Before that, I recently finished 'A Question of Blood' by Ian Rankin. I always look forward to new stuff by Rankin, because I rarely figure out what's going on until Rebus does. This time round it looks as though he's stepped outside the law to deal with a scumbag who's been threatening one of his colleagues and I really wasn't sure whether he had or not - the possibility that he could have done it is what makes the character so interesting, I think. I can also highly recommend one of the previous books (though they're all great, imo), 'Dead Souls', which manages to have a paedophile as one of the major characters and write him as a semi-sympathetic character rather than two-dimensionally as a monster.
Now, when's the new James Lee Burke novel due out? Oh, it's already in print, excellent! *does her best Mr Burns impression* ;)
1. Nick Cave does 'Disco 2000' (original by Pulp)
2. eels do 'Get Ur Freak On' (original by Missy Elliot)
3. Ben Folds and Lowdon Wainwright III do 'Careless Whisper' (original by George Michael)
4. William Shatner and Joe Jackson do 'Common People' (original by Pulp)
5. Frente do 'Bizarre Love Triangle' (original by New Order)
6. Johnny Cash does 'Hurt' (original by Nine Inch Nails) and 'Personal Jesus' (original by Depeche Mode)
Also, I have discovered that the people I work with do not know who The Pixies are. This is Not Good.
Meanwhile, in the land of books, I'm currently really enjoying 'The Curse of Chalion' by Lois McMaster Bujold. Frankly, I'd avoided her previous space opera books like the plague but was intrigued enough by the blurb to try this one out and have been pleasantly surprised. Her protagonist is scarred in more ways than one, having lived through horrendous experiences through no fault of his own, and is now discovering more things about himself than he cares to think about. I understand there's a sequel as well, which is good news!
Before that, I recently finished 'A Question of Blood' by Ian Rankin. I always look forward to new stuff by Rankin, because I rarely figure out what's going on until Rebus does. This time round it looks as though he's stepped outside the law to deal with a scumbag who's been threatening one of his colleagues and I really wasn't sure whether he had or not - the possibility that he could have done it is what makes the character so interesting, I think. I can also highly recommend one of the previous books (though they're all great, imo), 'Dead Souls', which manages to have a paedophile as one of the major characters and write him as a semi-sympathetic character rather than two-dimensionally as a monster.
Now, when's the new James Lee Burke novel due out? Oh, it's already in print, excellent! *does her best Mr Burns impression* ;)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-10-30 04:16 pm (UTC)Its good crack.
no subject
Date: 2004-10-30 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-30 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-30 04:29 pm (UTC)At least then they're taking the song and trying to make it their own...
no subject
Date: 2004-11-01 01:54 pm (UTC)Manson is incredibly fun to watch in a creepy way though. His Like a Virgin is funnier than hell.
no subject
Date: 2004-10-31 09:41 am (UTC)I've read the sequel to the Curse of Chalion, not knowing there was a first book - the second book is really good; when I got halfway through, to the point *most* writers would have finished the story, Bujold kept on going, and yea, it was goode. Very good. I may have done a short review of it in my LJ, I'm not sure. Now I'm out to find the Curse of Chalion to get a different view of the main character of the sequel.
Re: Curse of Chalion
Date: 2004-10-31 02:18 pm (UTC)I just stumbled upon this, reading
Re: Curse of Chalion
Date: 2004-10-31 02:21 pm (UTC)Re: Curse of Chalion
Date: 2004-10-31 03:27 pm (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380979020/qid=1099265153/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/103-7764908-6810269
Re: Curse of Chalion
Date: 2004-11-01 06:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-02 12:16 pm (UTC)Both of which I prefer over the originals, oddly enough. Don't know what that says about my taste...
no subject
Date: 2004-11-02 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-02 01:23 pm (UTC)