[music] BOOKS ON TAPE - Sings The Blues (Grey Day)

Interesting in places, but as contemporary mostly-instrumental sound-collage very-very-slightly-hip-hop acts with "Books" in their name go, The Books have Books On Tape beat in a second.

[finder] which

A few months ago I started noticing that in speech and sometimes print interviews, though not written prose, people were starting to occasionally join two complete sentences with the word "which", like so:

"Me and Spike have worked really hard together on this movie, which I'm really excited about getting it into theaters."

Every case I can remember would have been totally grammatical with the deletion of an "it" (or "him", etc.) from the second half of the sentence.

Now, here's the refrain from the first song on They Might Be Giants' upcoming album:

It's for this experimental film
Which nobody knows about and which
I'm still figuring out what's going to go
In my experimental film

And on first listen, the phrasing suggests Linnell really is doing the which-insertion thing, as opposed to there being a period after "figuring out" and a question mark at the end or whatever.

That said, the song also has the line "I already know how great it's" several times, in violation of a grammar rule I can't imagine anyone violating accidentally. So maybe it's a subtle joke.

[music] KING CRIMSON - Starless And Bible Black

Something made me think it was time to reconsider King Crimson, so I went for the record "on the outer fringes" (allmusic.com) and found it a little too distended on side 2, but definitely appealling enough to pique my curiosity about other Crimson.

Oh, I remember what made me reconsider; it was DOKAKA. Gotta love it when a herd of a cappella Muppets make you rethink your position on dead-serious British neo-classicists.

Or whatever these guys are.