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Listening Weekend post
Feb. 22nd, 2020 06:42 pmMusic: My newest purchase, King Princess' Cheap Queen, is still getting a lot of traction. Last week, though, I saw Art On Ice in Lausanne, and discovered some new local and int'l artists I liked.
Exhibit 1: Aloe Blacc
Exhibit 2: Bastian Baker, a sort of cut-price Swiss Hozier
Exhibit 3: Bligg, a rapper who raps in swiss German dialect.
Podcasts:
Fiction: Further progress in the Magnus Archives - I listened to the Wilfred Owen episode and am just. Astonished that this show has been going for this long and no one grabbed me and said "this, Amy, this is YOUR JAM". It is very much my jam.
In an attempt to un-spook myself after a few too many Magnus episodes I listened to and enjoyed the Lightspeed Magazine recording of Theodora Goss' A Statement in the Case.
Literary: Finished - in two disparate chunks - The Spouter Inn's episode on Plato's Symposium. Continue to really enjoy their style.
Some further progress on Paradise Lost.
Other non-fiction: I've been making futher headway with Carbonne 14, and pushed my vocab comfort zone back into the pre-imperial period. I enjoyed the episode on Hannibal and the Celts, and The Gallo-Romans with Mattieu Poux was fascinating, especially the diversion into discussing how textbook accounts of 'the romans civilised the celts' explicitly and implicity justified French colonialism during the 3rd Republic.
Exhibit 1: Aloe Blacc
Exhibit 2: Bastian Baker, a sort of cut-price Swiss Hozier
Exhibit 3: Bligg, a rapper who raps in swiss German dialect.
Podcasts:
Fiction: Further progress in the Magnus Archives - I listened to the Wilfred Owen episode and am just. Astonished that this show has been going for this long and no one grabbed me and said "this, Amy, this is YOUR JAM". It is very much my jam.
In an attempt to un-spook myself after a few too many Magnus episodes I listened to and enjoyed the Lightspeed Magazine recording of Theodora Goss' A Statement in the Case.
Literary: Finished - in two disparate chunks - The Spouter Inn's episode on Plato's Symposium. Continue to really enjoy their style.
Some further progress on Paradise Lost.
Other non-fiction: I've been making futher headway with Carbonne 14, and pushed my vocab comfort zone back into the pre-imperial period. I enjoyed the episode on Hannibal and the Celts, and The Gallo-Romans with Mattieu Poux was fascinating, especially the diversion into discussing how textbook accounts of 'the romans civilised the celts' explicitly and implicity justified French colonialism during the 3rd Republic.