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What I've read since my last post about books, a month ago:

Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison (bored now!)
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (okay but not great)
Pelagia and the Black Monk by Boris Akunin (not as good as the previous one in the series)
Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer (why are publishers apparently so obsessed with finding 'the next JKR'?)
The Ninth Stone by Kylie Fitzpatrick (a real curate's egg)
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke (so good! highly recommended!)
The Ascendancy Veil by Chris Wooding (final book of trilogy, highly recommended!)
The Akhenaten Adventure by PB Kerr (Jonathan Stroud sets a tough act to follow)
Country of the Blind by Christopher Brookmyre (needs a good editor?)

And I'm currently reading Lirael by Garth Nix. As usual, more commentary on the above can be found here.


( Click for music meme )

Time to tidy up the music meme, as well - guess the ones that are left over from here *adds more lyrics* :

2. Ain’t thinking ‘bout love today / Lost in the sunlight / Walking down memory lane / Ain’t thinking ‘bout you today / People from the past that I knew / Are slowly slipping away

3. I could be just like the calm before the storm boy / Waiting for all hell yeah to break loose / I could be innocent or I could be guilty / Doesn't mean that I won't believe in the news

4. Well the bottom fell out / On our summer / But we knew / What we got ourselves into / (Theyre sayin) / Let's go to San Diego / where all the crazy kids go

5. Staring at a maple leaf / Leaning on the mother tree / I said to myself we all lost touch / Your favorite fruit is chocolate covered cherries / And seedless watermelon / Nothing from the ground is good enough

10. Feelin' better / Since I surrendered / You can't climb / 'Till you're ready to fall / You're not a land mine / You're not a gold mine / No you're not mine at all

11. And it's true we named our children / after towns that we've never been to / And it's true that the clouds just hung around / like black Cadillacs outside a funeral

12. I wish you'd stop ignoring me, because it's sending me to despair / Without a sound, yeah, you're calling me, and I don't think it's very fair / Oh, but you're an explosion (you're dynamite) / Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand / Lighting the fuse might result in a bang, b-b-bang, go!

17. I am here watching your form / slowly pacing in the dawn, as all the stars die / Yeah you're like a hit you are tailored just to fit the changing season / Baby what is this we are two star crossed bits of an equation

Guesses, anyone? ;) One of them is a track I got from someone on my friendslist, so I'm a bit surprised it's still up for guessing...

Gakked from rach74, and these are all on my computer playlist... ;)

1. A song by a Beatle/the Beatles: Help (as covered by Ben Lee)
2. A song featuring piano as the main instrument: Landed - Ben Folds
3. A song with a woman's name in the title: Penelope - Great Big Sea
4. A song with a man's name in the title: Michael - Franz Ferdinand
4a. With both: Romeo and Juliet - Indigo Girls
5. A song about money: If I Had a Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies
6. A song with weather in the title: Dry the Rain - Beta Band
7. A song with parentheses in the title: (If You Were) In My Movie - Suzanne Vega
8. A song made by a punk band: Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
9. A song with the word "song" in the title: Pulp Song - Bloc Party
10. A song you love so much you stop and listen whenever you hear it: Sinner - Neil Finn

Meanwhile, what's the point of cover songs that sound exactly like the original? If I wanted a song that sounds like the original, I'd... well, I'd play the original, wouldn't I?

I always thought the idea of a cover was to take the original and make it your own, not force yourself into the exact same working of it as when it turned up the first time around.

Yes, Oingo Boingo, I am looking at you and your so-called cover of 'Turning Japanese' which is apparently about masturbation though I have no idea where people got that idea from since it's a theory I'd never heard until last week and it seems a bit far-fetched to me... not convinced.