reading/listening

[Craig Clark]

Reading: A rather entertaining if predictable thriller about 
cryogenics called _Host_, by Peter James (well, hey, the brain needs 
a holiday too). Just finished _The Tailor of Panama_ by John le 
Carre, one of his best. My girlfriend's plying me with Terry 
Pratchett novels and with works by Thorne Smith.

Listening: Last thing I listened to (in the car stereo on the way to 
work) was _A Collector's Sondheim_. I'm looking after a house for 
some friends while they're  away - they have recordings of Philip 
Glass's _Satyagraha_ and _Akhenaten_ in their CD collection, so 
I've listened to those a lot too. Apart from that, Brian Eno, Tom 
Waits, Kate Bush and Leonard Cohen (as always).

Hired any good videos recently, foax? I've just sat through my 
fourth viewing of Tim Burton's _The Nightmare Before Christmas_... 

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"