I n t e r s t e l l a r

140 minutes of ambient electronica and downtempo tracks for your interstellar journeys. ∞ Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against...
Iain M. Banks

Descendant

I've been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I've decided it's wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it. All our statistics and assumptions mean...
Foreward

Brave New World

Excerpt from the Foreward of Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley - (1966) The people who govern the Brave New World may not be sane (in what may be called the absolute sense of the word); but they are not...

The Fairy Reel

The Fairy Reel  - Neil Gaiman ---- If I were young as once I was, and dreams and death more distant then, I wouldn't split my soul in two, and keep half in the world of men, So half of me...

American Gods

Excerpts from American Gods, by Neil Gaiman ----- "Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the...
Evening Lounging

Music & Architecture

Both music and architecture make a surrounding, and also they make an ambiance; both music and architecture allow you to do something else - something else while listening to music, something else while in...

Words and Music | Paul Morley

I can hear the music develop in my mind as I think about it, I can feel its weight, and understand its magic. It has a magic that is to do with time, and how you find time, and how time finds you, and...

Irony

Irony is unsettling: it is a self-conscious mode that senses the failure of all sophisticated conceptualizations; stylistically, it employs rhetorical devices that signal real or feigned disbelief on...