The Story of Lucy Gault
by William Trevor

The Iron Grail, by Robert Holdstock—
....where Holdstock scores best is in stressing not Merlin's Disneyesque humanity but his very otherness. This Merlin stands apart from the brief, furious lives of those around him: a shabby figure of power as old as the local gods and undoubtedly more terrifying, if only he'd stop hoarding his magic like a miser. This is fantasy at its most intelligent and most demanding.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood's review in UKGuardian

http://www.tigerstylerecords.com/news.html
http://www.tigerstylerecords.com/sounds.html
http://www.insound.com/annex/search.cfm?from=38485&query=those%20girls

supernova remnant (apod)

insound.com{trying to find out who did the cover for Ida's 'Braille Night'}

{well it's Ida. yes it is. perfect light color and tone. Ida.}

Inkblot mag

Splendid mag's boombox(has reals of zuco 103, .....trail of dead, the Knitters, the muffs, John Doe...and more)
Tom Daily:The Hitler of Crickets

The South:By The Time You Catch Your Heart

The Softies:Together Forever

The Revelers:Always Lit

The Real McKenzies:Will Ye Be Proud

The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra:Pet Sounds

The Peechees:Cheap Fun

The Olivia Tremor Control:Love Athena

The Nectarine No. 9:Bongo Kong{!!}

The Muffs:Dear Liar Love Me!!!

The Mountain Goats:Saigon Shrunken Panorama
The Microphones:Antlers

The Mercury Program:Tequesta

The Mekons:City of London

The Lonesome Organist:Vibe Sequencer

The Lofty Pillars:Mother's Arms

The Lassie Foundation:She's the Coming Sun - She's Long Gone

The Ladybug Transistor:Oceans in the Hall

The Kid Brother Collective:Too Many Tomorrows (Fair Warning)

The High Violets:44 Down

this chick is there. she got on an Alejandro Escovedo disc too. Trailer Bride/Melissa Swingle

Jim Harrison's links:{Not his pantheonic list, but culled from a book of interviews, the male group would be longer and deeper surely, and both more widely drawn.}

women writing:
Levertov, Didion, Oates, Wakoski, Renata Adler, Alison Lurie, Toni Morrisson, Silko, Ellen Gilchrist, Anne Tyler, Adrienne Rich, Rebecca Newth, Rosellen Brown, Gretel Erlich, Annie Dillard, Susan Sontag, Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Mary Douglas, Isaak Dinesen,

men:
Dan Gerber, Fred Turner, James Crumley, Doug Peacock, Rene Char, Philip Caputo, Matthiessen, McGuane, Guy De La Valene, Rimbaud, Dosteyevsky, Yeats, Lorca, Lorca, Lorca, Lorca, Lorca, Lorca, Lorca

breakmyface sort of punk archive thing

Splendid mag's boombox(has reals of zuco 103, .....trail of dead, the Knitters, the muffs, John Doe...and more)
Tom Daily:The Hitler of Crickets
The South:By The Time You Catch Your Heart
The Softies:Together Forever
The Revelers:Always Lit
The Real McKenzies:Will Ye Be Proud
The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra:Pet Sounds
The Peechees:Cheap Fun

Julie Doucet at Drawn and Quarterly

Aimee Mann may be Lost in Space but her album 'Bachelor #2' is available for downloading(sort of). and from a link on her web site comes Drawn and Quarterly. perfect edge pictures.

and from thence to Debbie Drechsler

scratchy daguerrotype of surprising depth
as also this
and a child
and a girl
and a mother and child
and a resolute seamstress
and some wealthy children
and two rather preoccupied children
and some carnies
and Daisy Hilton typing while her inseparable sister Viola sews, and playing their clarinets
and a man in blackface
and a place that was once, but then was not

Miltos Manetas purchased his first laptop computer not because he wanted to send e-mails, edit images, or build spreadsheets, but because he thought it was cool that this object produced light from inside; like an expensive, luminous clam.

via boing-boing

The Topp Twins Tijuana Rose!!

I like Neil Young. I like David Bowie. I like Ella Fitzgerald. I like the Mamas and the Papas. I like Yoko Ono. I like Oliver Sacks. I like Milan Kundera. I like Billie Holiday. I like the Marianne Faithful autobiography. I like Comme des Garcon. I like Martin Margiela. I like Costume Nationale shoes. I like Picasso. I like J.D. Sallinger. I like toast. I like Mojitos. I like Irving Penn. Chanel make good eyeshadow. Yves Saint Laurent make good underwear. I like Cuban cigars but they're no good for my voice.

Most of the musicians who really blow me away are either dead or over 50. The first time music really spoke to me was when I first heard The Smiths when I was 12. I get my kicks from other things. Inspiration comes from weather, the sky, clouds, a beautiful piece of fabric, a texture, the way light will catch someone's face and make them look different for a second.

bic runga

bic runga's Drive and Ordinary Girl and All Fall Down

Beth Nielsen Chapman's World of Hurt

Peter Wolf's Sleepless

Warren Zevon's Basket Case

SUSSAN DEYHIM 'MADMAN OF GOD'

circadian rhymes

crammed is happening right here

Nicola Hitchcock All or Nothing

Zuco 103 Zabumba No Mar

Bebel Gilberto August Day Sing etherealisma

oldie(s)

Liu Fang pipa and guzheng

bic runga

Teresa Teng au files midi files

Wiley's Honor

2 hours-no, make that 3 hours-of work on a no-integer Pentium, with 64 megs and a 28K phone connection...well I don't have the push to put all this in a narrative paragraph. so here's all these links.
it began with a cold call at Rootster
http://www.crammed.be/zir/13/index.htm
http://www.rootsworld.com/wmce/wmce.html/font>
http://www.rootsworld.com/wmce/wmce0207.html
http://www.crammed.be/zir/02/zir02.htm
http://www.crammed.be/zir/artists/virginia.htm
http://www.crammed.be/zir/04/index.htm

greenman magazine world music reviews

Nankuru Naisa BobBrozman and Takahashi Matsuoyura
sandy bull main mind opener
world music in deutsch
brozman 12bar
Ana Carolina:
Ana Rita Joana Iracema e Carolina
Andrea Marquee

and the exciting Virginia Rodriguesagain.
names that should/would be here are in the lists at allbrazilian and other places I'll probably get around to linking here eventually

North Carolina Museum of Art: Sinners and Saints Darkness and Light

Honthorst has these hands? all the time these hands in the same gesture, and it's at odds a little with the narrative of the picture, an action w/out precedent or antecedent, w/out flow, it's semiotic, this one picture is so close to the playing card tradition it's not even subtle, and then you start to notice, over and over, these hands