The Etched City FST

[petronia]

I changed the tracklisting, of course. :P At first I was going to go through and put excerpts from the novel - very short ones, more like pointers - but then figured I'd leave it as is, and if people wanted to talk to me about it they could. Is one book I'm always open to discussing. *g*

It's something like a cargo cult: an attempt to conjure the essence of one universe by cobbling together fragments and artifacts from another.

The Etched City
(novel by K.J. Bishop)

01. Arve Henriksen - Opening Image
02. Luna feat. Laetitia Sadier - Bonnie & Clyde
03. Philippe Eidel - Me ti dinami
04. Nils Okland - Avminnast
05. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
06. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.1 in D flat major, Op.10 2nd Movement
07. Amon Tobin - Nightlife
08. Fiona Apple - O'Sailor
09. Nils Petter Molvaer - On Stream
10. Sade - Jezebel
11. Susheela Raman - Blue Lily Red Lotus
12. Lansing-Dreiden - The Advancing Flags
13. Björk - Cocoon
14. Natacha Atlas & Marc Eagleton Project - Zitherbell
15. Yann Tiersen - Roma Amor (The Married Monk) [Black Sessions Live]
16. Holly Golightly - There's An End

Total - 1:19:35

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Currently I'm reading City of Diamond because a full week after I get back to Canada, my mother asks Hey do you want that book your friend sent that arrived two days after you left for China? Yes, yes I do in fact want that book, thank you.

Comments

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to laborious download. :D p.s. do you have this? (http://canis.dragons-wing.net/share/I%20Wear%20My%20Sexyback%20at%20Night%20(cheekyboy%20edit).mp3) I posted while you were gone but it counts as essential listening IMO a ha ha.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

:D I believe I must download that, thank you!

[emblem.livejournal.com]

Downloaded, and also will read the book. *G*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Hope you like both/either. *g*

[dipping_sauce]

Huhn. Doris Egan is/was a writer on House. Can I borrow the book when you're done?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You're confusing me, it's by someone named Jane Emerson. But of course you can. *g*

[dipping_sauce]

Egan is her real name, Emerson is her pen name. Sorry.

I will try to remember to bring Nova next time I see you. (Now I have to remember where I put it... )

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Haha, so it really is true you'll read things if people send them to you in the mail? XD

[petronia.livejournal.com]

The canard thus far has proven itself true. It's not so much guilt or even desire to repay my friends' dedication as the fact that the chances I'll read something go up dramatically if it's a physical tome lying within arm's reach. XD;

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Well, remind me to get your address sometime then. XD

Hmm, I find I don't really care too much whether it's physical or not, except for the ease of portability issue, and if I had an ebook reader, even that would disappear.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

!!!

*downloads*

You may wish to know that KJ is immensely fond of City of Lost Children and it's OST, and that I always found it to remind me of TEC. Also, Yuki Kajiura - Moonflower reminds me immensely of TEC.

:D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ha well, you must tell me what you think - I do consider some of the music to be aggressively odd/complex/dense, though it's not Aphex Twin or anything. XD All the orchestration and dissonance and music-hall stylings evoke the book for me, I guess.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

OMG okay I'm still in the middle of this but I just listened to Suzanne and IT WAS SCARY.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

And Jezebel sounds like Tareda Forever singing her own theme song. xD

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Okay those two win from sheer appropriateness. :D My personal favorites though were 3,4, 11, and 12.

Seriously though, do you mind if I link her to the songs? I bet she'd get a kick out of 'em.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

The book wins by me from actually making "Suzanne" appropriate for something. (It's one of my favorite songs ever but no one ever claimed Ole Lennie was easy. *g*)

Sure, link away. *^_^* I don't want to unlock the post because mp3s but the directory (http://www.kekkai.org/sabina/etchedcity/) itself is open.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay, thanks :D

Did you have the battle on the bridge in mind for "The Advancing Flags"?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yes, although if you take the lyrics it might be more appropriate for Gwynn and Raule's fight in the ruins. It tends to work like that, with doubled meanings. *g*

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

*adds book to Someday I Will Have Time list* :D;

Downloaded - I always love your FSTs (cases in point: MoB and Yukikaze) even if supposedly not knowing the object of fannish admiration in question foils the point of listening to the FST. Though since I also am the kind of person who listens to OSTs before watching shows/series, that isn't any big dilemma for me. XD

BTW you were in Singapore and I missed you DD: Hope you had fun regardless (did you get to see Squit?) and didn't die of heatstroke.

[ayatsujik.livejournal.com]

(D'oh.) And uh before I forget THANK YOU for the music. ♥

[petronia.livejournal.com]

This one works as well mixtape-wise, I think. You might ask yourself what sort of book would derive to such a thing but that's sort of the point. XD

You were in Singapore? D: I thought you weren't or I'd've emailed! Didn't get to see Squit either as she was down with the flu alas. But had a lot of fun and took pictures I may eventually get around to posting.