keith

Have any of you ever listened to John Cale's solo work after the Velvet Underground? I hadn't until a few days ago, shockingly. It's incredible, and the not the sort of screeching art-noise you'd expect from what we know of his contributions to the Velvets.

I recommend you check out (I.E. download):

Paris 1919
and

Vintage Violence

Also, been catching up on some TV lately -- on the menu: Doctor Who (10th Doctor series), Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica, and Rome. I'm really into Rome and Battlestar Galactica. Rebecca likes Doctor Who more. She also likes Galactica and Rome, but, in her words, "they make [her] sad", so she has to be in the mood for them. Dramas with great characters, excellent writing, and fine acting make you really care about the characters, and that *is* sort of draining if you sit down and watch five episodes of it at once. It's like when you leave the theater after watching a really suspenseful, nail-biting movie, you're exhausted -- Children of Men comes to mind recently.