MUSIC:
- I'm. stuck in the letter "B" in classical composers. Bartók has become a permanent favorite, Bach is a given by now, likewise Beethoven. Samuel Barber I seem to enjoy a lot, too, for the most part. My 10-year old son reacted to the Medea Suite with "what's this weird music?" and I can't blame him - it must sound pretty freakish to him.
- The American prog band Glass Hammer surprised me in a pleasant way with their mostly non-prog album Three Cheers For The Broken Hearted, from 2008, if I remember correctly. I wasn't impressed with their early efforts and lost sight of them for a time, but this is good stuff: impossible to label, very organic and humane. There are outright jewels on the album, too. A Rose for Emily, Mid-Life Weird and the stunning closing track, Falling, are simply the best popular music to come from the USA in a long while. Such a pity only a handful of people will ever hear it :(
- Watching both Nurse Jackie and Hung, now that they're on Finnish channels. They're fine, but I can't get too excited over either, at least not for now. I like Hung a wee bit more because it shows signs of developing a stronger dramatic arc; N.J. relies a bit too much on its offbeat factors.
- Having finished Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, I started on John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy, but 900+ pages on political history was just a touch too heavy for the moment. I settled on something lighter but decided to read Keane a portion, or historical period, at a time in between other books.
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