Comments on: I Hear a New World

By: Day

Day — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:55:56 +0000

Hey Collin. Finally got to sit down and listen to and read this post. I love how this site has a personal journal-like feel on top of the great mixes you offer. That story about the old lady who fell down, is that for real?! Great story… I dig these no-name artists that nobody ever hears about, yet groove just as well as any of the mainstreamers. The Beatles stole all the thunder from people like this. My favorite is the Joe Meek tune itself. Interesting history there, too bad it had to end like that, for Buddy, and Joe. One more observation before I go: Almost, if not all of these tunes - no, I take that back - almost every song ever written is about wussing out over lost love, or putting some woman on a pedestal. I’m making it a point to try to find some tunes that buck-up and retain some masculine dignity, ie. Dion’s the Wanderer or better yet, Hank Williams’ You’re Gonna Change or I’m Gonna Leave. It’s few and far between, but let me know if you dig any up. Keep it up brother. -Day

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:34:00 +0000

My father is a big Henning Mankell fan and has recommended his books to me for quite awhile, but I have yet to actually read one….let me know how it is

By: Thiersel

Thiersel — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:24:05 +0000

It was Henning Mankell: Vor dem Frost (literal translation: (”Before The Frost”), a detective story encompassing the 1978 Jonestown massaker, 9-11 of 2001 and religious madness. It was chosen by my girl friend out of a list of recommendations given in a popular TV literature magazine. I haven´t read a word yet, so cannot comment on it further. It is intended for reading it together – I read it to her, and she to me. (There seems to be no English word for the German “vorlesen” – to read something to someone!. On the other hand “borrow” and “loan” is the same word in German, both “leihen”.)
I haven´t read anything by Mankell before. His figure “Wallander” is very popular over here, providing the basis for several TV movies or a TV series – I don´t know. It´s not the kind of stuff I watch on TV.

By: Thiersel

Thiersel — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:37 +0000

P.S.: In the previous comment I erroneously wrote “loan” where I meant “borrow”.

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:59:52 +0000

Thanks for all the comments! There are people out there on the inter-webs looking at ink math! Who knew? Thiersel, what was the book you saved? And you are from The Netherlands, is that right? I did a semester of University in Utrecht.

By: Thiersel

Thiersel — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:34:21 +0000

Today I heard the world twice:
At noon I offered to donate some 600 CDs (Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Rolling Stones, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Animals, Kinks, Simon & Garfunkel, EL&P, King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, ELO, Eric Clapton, Leo Kottke, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Miriam Makeba, Mahotella Queens, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, doowop, gospel, …) to the local public library. They didn´t wanted them: “There´s only space for really popular music”.
Some hours later I tried to loan a book in another agency of the same public library, because the computer catalog said, that it would be available there. After not finding it I turned to the desk, where after some head scratching it was fumbled out of the garbage can: Books that are not asked for over a period of 6 months are thrown away. My request now has prolonged the library life of this particular book for another half year.
Hey, ink-mathematicians, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ??
Thanks for your notifications.

By: Larry Here

Larry Here — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:04:13 +0000

downloading now. Listening later. Ink 53 came up on my shuffle this morning, and was awesome. Thanks for all you do, Bobby. LH

PS – Need a book recommendation, to keep you offline? Try “A Soldier of the Great War,” by Mark Helprin. A great, long novel that will last much longer than the few weeks it’ll take you to get through it. Profound.

By: don dave

don dave — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:59:10 +0000

good to hear the site is staying alive because its a good day when a new posting appears. hats off to you mister