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[Antonella]

This is nice for a quiet Sunday afternoon:

Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You

[Antonella]

Johanna wrote: "And he makes fun videos.

Here's one with Ian McKellen. :-D

Listen to the Man by George Ezra"

LOL! Thank you!

[Jordan]

All of these songs are great!

I do like songs in other languages. I find they're less distracting with lyrics I can't understand but full of the emotions of a singer. They're great for writing music!

Thanks for sharing, all of you! :-)

[Valerie]

Antonella wrote: "This is nice for a quiet Sunday afternoon:

Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You"

I really like him, too.

I've been making my way through the live sets on NPR from Newport Folk Festival. I could have sworn Sufjan's set was on there but now I can't find it. It may be on YouTube. There are some photos and a short article about him if you scroll down the page here:

Newport Folk live sets:
http://www.npr.org/series/newport-fol...

I listened to Jason Isbell's set this morning on the All Songs Considered podcast. I've been listening to Something More than Free a lot lately. I'm so happy to see the new album doing well. His last album, Southeastern, is one of my all time favorites.

Also enjoying the new album from Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses.
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/11/4218065...

"The General Specific" - an older song I love from Band of Horses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRpA...

[Antonella]

Thank you for the links, dear Valerie. The Newport Folk live sets are especially interesting.

[Alison]

Thanks for sharing all this music, Valerie and Johanna and Antonella. I have been enjoying listening to it. :)

[Antonella]

I love ''Talking Heads'', but this cover is better than the original:

The Lumineers: This Must Be The Place

ETA: And if you keep listening there is a live studio concert of them, more good music.

[Johanna]

Thank you for the links, Valerie. After listening to The General Specific by Band of Horses (I liked it!) I sort of drifted following the YouTube links and ended up listening to this fun song. I especially love how the cup-rhythm-part is done. Our 3rd graders performed a song with a similar cup thingy for parents when the school ended in May. They also had some buckets and brooms in their performance, but the cup trick was the main thing. I find it fascinating. Can anyone of you do this?

Cups (Pitch Perfect's "When I'm Gone") by Anna Kendrick

(The song starts at about 1:15 minutes into the video.)

[Valerie]

Johanna wrote: "Thank you for the links, Valerie. After listening to The General Specific by Band of Horses (I liked it!) I sort of drifted following the YouTube links and ended up listening to this fun song. I e..."

My daughter got into the cups thing for a while when that video came out, and she could do the whole song. I've never tried it. :-)

[Valerie]

I can't stop listening to Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell's cover of "Bullet Proof Soul". I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH8Wh...

HELP, the new song by The Front Bottoms is catchy.
(warning: nsfw lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1TA...

The Front Bottoms are a band I like in small doses. ;-)

[Valerie]

Antonella wrote: "I love ''Talking Heads'', but this cover is better than the original:

The Lumineers: This Must Be The Place

ETA: And if you keep listening there is a live studio concert of them, more good music."

Thanks. :)

[Johanna]

Valerie wrote: "HELP, the new song by The Front Bottoms is catchy.
(warning: nsfw lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1TA...

The Front Bottoms are a band I like in small doses. ;-)"

Thank you for The Front Bottoms link, Valerie. I really liked HELP. Now I'm off to listen to more of them!

[Johanna]

Valerie wrote: "Johanna wrote: "Thank you for the links, Valerie. After listening to The General Specific by Band of Horses (I liked it!) I sort of drifted following the YouTube links and ended up listening to th..."

I never knew such Cups video existed. I have to have one of our smaller pupils to teach me how it goes. Kudos to your daughter for managing to do it! :-)

[Valerie]

Johanna wrote: "Valerie wrote: "HELP, the new song by The Front Bottoms is catchy.
(warning: nsfw lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU1TA...

The Front Bottoms are a band I like in small doses. ;-)"

Thank..."

If you like TFBs maybe try Twenty One Pilots. My daughter plays them all the time. Very catchy tunes. I'm probably too old for them, but oh well. :D

[Ame]

Well the Coda series on audio has gotten me hooked. I've been listening to them and greedily buying them one's I'm at the last chapter. Right now I'm listening to Strawberries for Dessert and I'm somewhat disappointed in the quality of the editing of the audio. There's repeating and wrong words corrected, which I'm sure will happen in all audiobooks but I thought things like that would be edited out? Because this has not happened in the former Coda books... so I'm surprised to hear it in this one.

Bit disappointed because I love this series. It's one of my favorites series/books to read.

[Josh]

Ame wrote: "Well the Coda series on audio has gotten me hooked. I've been listening to them and greedily buying them one's I'm at the last chapter. Right now I'm listening to [book:Strawberries for Dessert|857..."

What??? That's all supposed to be edited out!

[Mtsnow13]

Ame wrote: "Well the Coda series on audio has gotten me hooked. I've been listening to them and greedily buying them one's I'm at the last chapter. Right now I'm listening to [book:Strawberries for Dessert|857..."

That has frustrated me a few times, to hear the narrator either repeat a sentence, or fumble then correct a word. It's almost easier to forgive the mispronunciation and just move on rather than be interrupted in flow. I always tend to correct mispronounced words in my head anyway ;-)

[Judy]

Listening to THE ESSENTIAL DYLAN THOMAS. Dylan Thomas is my favorite poet, so I thought, "goody a recording of his greatest hits!" Yeah, it was jammed packed, but I almost threw in the towel with "Under Milk Wood." Highlights were "And death shall have no dominion", "Poem on his Birthday" and "Do not go gentle into that good night."

[Josh]

Judy wrote: "Listening to THE ESSENTIAL DYLAN THOMAS. Dylan Thomas is my favorite poet, so I thought, "goody a recording of his greatest hits!" Yeah, it was jammed packed, but I almost threw in the towel with "..."

Oh dear. :-(

[Antonella]

Craig David - Rise & Fall (Studio Version with Sting)

[Idamus]

No Good Deed

I'm not sure I can finish, it's pretty much one long torture scene.

[Susinok]

I read Dylan Thomas' wife's autobiography. It was fascinating. Can't remember the title. It was years ago. They were a mess, both of them!

[Josephine]

awesome kid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79o7...

[Judy]

Susinok wrote: "I read Dylan Thomas' wife's autobiography. It was fascinating. Can't remember the title. It was years ago. They were a mess, both of them!"

Yep, in the handy-dandy booklet for THE ESSENTIAL DYLAN THOMAS recording, it touched lightly on Thomas's "more public life--as a drinker and a carouser..." But who cares, he was bloody brilliant.

[Judy]

Started listening to the unabridged recording of Arthur Ransome's SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS. Needed something completely different. Hard to beat a children's book published in 1930 for completely different. Not a whack-job in sight!

[Susinok]

I am re-listening to Ethan, Who Loved Carter by Ryan Loveless.

[Mtsnow13]

I just finished both Murder and Mayhem , Black Dog Blues *I love Rhys*, Nowhere Ranch, Godsend *tearjerker*, Mine and Desert Tryst. All great companions for berry picking and long drives in the woods :)

[Valerie]

I have been enjoying listening to Ben Howard this weekend:

Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were
Ben Howard - Only Love

Also, this song by Brandy Clark gets to me every time:
Brandy Clark - Just Like Him

[Antonella]

Jordan Castillo Price pointed out recently this very inspirational Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012 by Neil Gaiman.

Josh, there is a bit for you about answering e-mails ;-), although in fact you already changed a bit, I think.

ETA: A functioning link to the speech: http://vimeo.com/42372767

[Susinok]

I started Black Dog Blues audiobook by Rhys Ford this morning. Urban fantasy.

[Sabine]

I have listened to Dance in the Dark. It is a good one! The narrator is Paul Morey.

[Calathea]

Antonella wrote: "Jordan Castillo Price pointed out recently this very inspirational Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012 by Neil Gaiman.

Josh, there is a bit for you about answeri..."

Is that the one with "Make good art."?

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: "Jordan Castillo Price pointed out recently this very inspirational Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012 by Neil Gaiman.

Josh, there is a bit for you about answeri..."

This sounds intriguing, but your link doesn't work, dear.

[Antonella]

Calathea wrote: "Is that the one with "Make good art."? "

Yes, it is.

[Antonella]

Johanna wrote: "This sounds intriguing, but your link doesn't work, dear."

Thank you for telling me, I put there a functioning link now, this one:
http://vimeo.com/42372767

[Ame]

Susinok wrote: "I started Black Dog Blues audiobook by Rhys Ford this morning. Urban fantasy."

I bought it last night :)

[Steve]

How is Black Dog Blues?

[Idamus]

Steve wrote: "How is Black Dog Blues?"

It was a miss for me, DNF'ed it :-/

[Alison]

Antonella wrote: "I love ''Talking Heads'', but this cover is better than the original:

The Lumineers: This Must Be The Place

ETA: And if you keep listening there is a live studio concert of them, more good music."

Neat. Still sounds like Talking Heads, but less frantic. I like it. Here's a cover of Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man that I like better than the original. I can't find the album version online (how is this possible nowadays?), but this version is good too.

I'm Your Man by Lucas Silveira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jf5F...

[Alison]

Antonella wrote: "Jordan Castillo Price pointed out recently this very inspirational Commencement Speech at the University of the Arts 2012 by Neil Gaiman.

Josh, there is a bit for you about answeri..."

I listened to that the other day and it was a nice speech. I remember mostly nothing about my graduation speaker, except that we almost got Madeleine Albright to come, but didn't. Bummer.

[Alison]

Johanna wrote: "Thank you for the links, Valerie. After listening to The General Specific by Band of Horses (I liked it!) I sort of drifted following the YouTube links and ended up listening to this fun song. I e..."

The cup thing is pretty cool. You're right, it's kind of fascinating. :)

[Kirsten]

Idamus wrote: "Steve wrote: "How is Black Dog Blues?"

It was a miss for me, DNF'ed it :-/"

For me, it had a lot of problems (Gary Stu!) but it was kind of addicting. I finished it and liked it, but hated myself afterward. :D

[Steve]

Idamus wrote: "Steve wrote: "How is Black Dog Blues?"

It was a miss for me, DNF'ed it :-/"

Yeah, Urban Fantasy isn't really my thing. I have friends who really liked it, but I've not an the urge to read it yet.

[Steve]

Kirsten wrote: "Idamus wrote: "Steve wrote: "How is Black Dog Blues?"

It was a miss for me, DNF'ed it :-/"

For me, it had a lot of problems (Gary Stu!) but it was kind of addicting. I finished it and liked it, b..."

I know exactly how you feel!!

[Valerie]

Stereophonics - C'Est La Vie (T in the Park 2015)

The Revivalists | "Keep Going" | Live Session

I think Dawes is my music happy place right now. :-)

Dawes - Things Happen
Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands - Live
Dawes - A Little Bit of Everything

[Karen]

Steve wrote: "How is Black Dog Blues?"

Both the book and audio were 4 stars for me. I've read and enjoyed a lot of urban fantasy so it's kind of my thing. I listened to it on a road trip, and I was hoping for a sequel.

Several of Rhys's books tip the yuck factor for me, and it's hard to listen to some passages. I've skipped her Sinners audiobooks for that reason.

[Valerie]

Alison wrote: "I'm Your Man by Lucas Silveira"

I like that a lot, too. Thanks for sharing. :-)

[Steve]

Karen wrote: "Steve wrote: "How is Black Dog Blues?"

Both the book and audio were 4 stars for me. I've read and enjoyed a lot of urban fantasy so it's kind of my thing. I listened to it on a road trip, and I wa..."

Several of Rhys's books tip the yuck factor for me, and it's hard to listen to some passages. I've skipped her Sinners audiobooks for that reason.

Karen - I understand that about the yuck factor. I enjoyed the Parker gruesomeness in Whiskey & Wry. What I have a hard time with is her sex scenes. I tap my iPhone screen furiously to fast-forward through them.

[Ame]

Really? I love Sinner's Gin and have listened to them multiple times, I only own the audio. I haven't gone far into Black Dog but I like it so far.

The only Rhys Ford books I haven't loved are Fish and Ghosts series and I'm probably more heartbroken over that than the author ;)

[Johanna]

Antonella wrote: "Johanna wrote: "This sounds intriguing, but your link doesn't work, dear."

Thank you for telling me, I put there a functioning link now, this one:
http://vimeo.com/42372767"

What a great speech! Very inspirational. Something that everyone who does any kind of art should listen to. Makes you want to take that scary leap, doesn't it? Because making art IS scary. But that's one of the things that make the whole process worthwhile, I think. :-)

Thank you for posting this, dear Antonella!