Gizmo New Hobby

More to Read, More to Listen to…

After having read Coraline my next book from Neil Gaiman is The Graveyard Book, which is an adaption of the famous The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Having finished the book I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan and liking it a lot I began also to read his novel Death of an Ordinary Man. From a review on Amazon:

“Man dies, gets to hover around and check out what the family is up to. In the latest example of our recent obsession with a nonsectarian afterlife, Duncan (I, Lucifer, 2003, etc.) takes your ordinary recently dead schmoe, Nathan Clark, and puts him in the ectoplasmic ether, floating through the lives and thoughts of his family and friends. In a well-rendered but confusing start, Nathan requires considerable time to get his bearings and figure out why all those people are staring at his grave. It takes some time for the reader, too, to get acclimated inside Nathan’s head, which is, not surprisingly, buzzing with questions but also seems to be meshing with the thoughts of the people he’s watching.”

What else? A new LP from Miles Davis: Saturday Night In Person at the Blackhawk, Volume 2. And the vinyl Live! at the Village Vanguard (1961) by John Coltrane.

Terminology

(seen on xkcd.com)

And another nice one from the same site: Romantic Drama Equation

More Vinyls…

My newly found addiction has caused new purchases on eBay:

• Dire Straits (1978) by Dire Straits
• Communique (1979) by Dire Straits
• Making Movies (1980) by Dire Straits
• Love Over Gold (1982) by Dire Straits
• Alchemy (1984) by Dire Straits
• Brother in Arms (1985) by Dire Straits
• Miles in the Sky (1968) by Miles Davis
• Down to Earth (1959) by Ramsey Lewis
• Mwandishi (1970) by Herbie Hancock
• I, Lucifer (2004) by The Real Tuesday Weld
• John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963) by John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
• Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) by Oliver Nelson
• Sun Goddess (1974) by Ramsey Lewis

More Books…

In lose order:

• I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
• Slob by Rex Miller
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

The Beginning of a New Addiction

Long time I have already had a dream of an own turntable. For more than a decade by now. Last week I finally made the decision to get one. My choice, a plain Debut SE II from Pro-Ject Audio Systems. It has been ordered and should come during the next two weeks.

The first few vinyls which I bought on eBay and Amazon are:

• A Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
• Street Fighting Years by Simple Minds
• The Beautifull Americans by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
• Tokyo Tapes by Scorpions
• In a Silent Way by Miles Davis

And I am very sure that many more vinyls will follow…