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Nick Drake has never made me cry, and this is obviously a point against him. Maybe it's because his voice feels more like medicine than cells. More likely it's because I discovered him late, what a shame.

The samples are indeed interesting. Too bad about the ambient keyboards ;)

How you make me feel ignorant, you, nobody :D

Beautiful... Music brings forth tears, and this is almost a salvific thing. How many fewer tears, and how much less beauty without the surreal whispers of Linkous, without the frictions of Cale, without the whiny anger of Oberst, without the smooth melodies of Gibbard, without the pop struktuur of Barman, without the little stories of Everett, without the dreaming wounds of Broder, without the clouds of Lytle, without the suspended hints of Kurt Wagner, without the fairy-tale sounds of Donahue, without the enchantments of Gambacorta, without the poetic neurosis of Reznor, without the schizoide lament of Yorke, without the fragrant dissonances of Moore, without the spatial velvet of Pierce, without the comic madness of Coyne, without the sublime raw material of Waits, without the Art of Carlens. The more these people, and others, make me cry, the more I thank them.

Residents of China's most cosmopolitan city have been told to brush up their Mandarin—the national language—before the World Expo in 2010. Many Shanghainese prefer to speak their own dialect, “Wu,” which is unintelligible to other Chinese people. The Shanghai government will organize public Mandarin classes and impose testing on all service-industry workers before 2010, so that they can at least welcome visitors in Mandarin.
The government has been promoting Mandarin for decades to ensure national cohesion in a country with countless dialects, some of them as different as English and Swedish. Just over half of China's 1.3 billion people can speak Mandarin, which is based on the pronunciation of residents in Beijing.
The language program is part of the municipal government’s “Be a Loveable Shanghainese” campaign. This is part of a nationwide charm offensive to improve the manners of the Chinese people in order to present a more positive image to the world during the Olympics in 2008. Problem areas, such as spitting, queue-jumping, shouting, noisy mobile phones, and older men who wear only their boxer shorts in public, are all being targeted.

Damn, they are interesting!!! This dischello is going straight on the buylist, priority 1. Thanks lukin. Recommended.

Damn. But when did this come out? I missed it. Gorgeous, even more than usual (and that's saying something). Now I'm going to listen to the sempols.

Hi Giubbo, in the end I got the Wolf Eyes. Total chaos. Perhaps the most violent music I've ever heard. Very very good. They're amazing, really. Village Oblivia is terrifying, Urine Burn is insane. But who’s better, them, Black Dice, or these Sightings?

Thank goodness I’m no longer your friend in here!!! ;P (Girls In Hawaii : dEUS = Rondò Veneziano : Mozart)

ajeje-barzott!!! :D now I'm really running away