Nova Cruisin’ Around Vice City
Nova is checking out the new wave neon streets in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Nova’s personal goal: don’t punch anyone and avoid the cops… and chase the roller skating guy in pink shorts.
Month: October 2010
The Exciting Sounds of Model Road Racing by Phantom Surfers, The - CD
This is probably only the second record ever made of instrumental surf music devoted to the hobby of slot car racing. The first was the 1965 classic, The Go Sound of the Slots by the Revells. As usual, the production quality is absolute crap but the schtick quality is top-notch. For the most part these are surf standards with slot car noises and the occasional slot car terminology vocal line. A handy glossary is provided in liner notes in case you don’t know what a turn marshall or flutter finger is.
Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian by Petty Booka - CD
Cutesy ukulele pop from Japan. Half the songs are just the two girls, their ukes and some sweet vocal harmonies. The rest of the songs are more fleshed-out with a full honky-tonk backing band.
Futuremuzik by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - CD
Peter Thomas’ arrangements live somewhere between the wacky space-age pop of Esquivel and the brassy action movie scores of John Barry. Here is a collection of his soundtrack music from various German television show from the 60s. I love the crazy sound effects and vocal instrumentation. This is some swinging stuff. A really great CD!
A Feast for Crows
After the first three rousing volumes of the Song of Fire and Ice series, this book is a huge disappointment. I get that it’s really only half of book four in the series, but even if you set aside the fact that it focuses on way too much on new characters and points of view (as a reader, I really only want to hear about the Stark kids and maybe Tyrion), the character arcs really don’t seem to go anywhere. I am assuming the book is more of a set up for future events and I may grow to care about the Martells and Ironmen. I may like this volume better when I’ve read the follow-up.