a dream come true, i can finally really really promote!

thanks rash, thanks all!

and now... music!


Sly & the Family Stone - Underdog


Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk


Gun Club - Sex Beat


Statler Brothers - Flowers on the wall


The Saints - Stranded


Yann Tiersen/Cantat - A ton étoile


Noir Desir - Le vent nous portera

and finally, if i may, a shameless plug for 3 of my fave vids from my pqueue:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Anna-Ternheim-Black-Sunday-Afternoon-Live
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sonny-Terry-Brownie-McGhee-Hootin-the-Blues
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hammerfall-Renegade-heavy-metal-time

Not really a dupe since it's just the trailer, but HOME itself was sifted a few times.

http://www.videosift.com/video/HOME-a-film-by-Yann-Arthus-Bertrand
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-making-of-documentary-Home
http://nature.videosift.com/talk/HOME-2

I've read so many great books that it's really hard for me to whittle it down to five that I think are the best, so I'm going to go with the first five that come into my head. I'm guessing that the first five must have made the greatest impression on me, so it's a reasonable place to start a favorites list.

1. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut is probably the single most influential author to me. His protagonists and story lines always clicked with me. It was like he was writing them just for me.

2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. Everyone's heard of this one, and it's considered by many to be one of the best novels of the 20th century. If you haven't read it yet, put it next on your to-read list. Notice my first two novels are both set in World War II. I don't know if that means anything or not.

3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon. Considered by many to be Chabon's greatest work. I noticed you read one of his book's, dag. I think you owe it to yourself to read this one. I plan on reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union soon, because I've heard good things about it too.

4. The Trial - Franz Kafka. A dark novel, to say the least. To me it's about the absurdity of life and accepting fate. I don't believe in fate, but I sometimes wonder about the futility of existence. Can't help it.

5. The Foundation series - Isaac Asimov. Read the series when I was a teenager. The idea of being able to use science to not only predict but also control future events fascinated me, and that it was set in the future, complete with space travel, made it even more interesting. I liked how Asimov later was able to merge the Foundation series with the Robot series.

Other novels worthy of mention:

- Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller - Almost made the Top 5
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
- God Knows - Joseph Heller
- Something Happened - Joseph Heller
- Ringworld - Larry Niven
- The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Difficult question, that's like asking for favourite songs or movies... 5 of my favourites:

* "Waiting for the Barbarians" by J.M. Coetzee

* "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

* "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene

* "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

* "1984" by George Orwell

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Piano-Yann-Tiersen

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by kronosposeidon.

oh wow, first heard this on Yann Tiersen's Black Sessions, unlike other great songs performed there like 'a ton etoile' (by noir desir) i didn't search for the original. great to suddenly encounter it here. lovely!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'charming, music, typewriter, toy piano, toy, piano, melodica, french' to 'charming, music, typewriter, toy piano, toy, piano, melodica, french, yann tiersen' - edited by kronosposeidon

Thanks for letting me know it was a dupe. I'd hate to have seen it get sifted, only to have to discard it then. That's happened to me a few times already. Not fun.

In reply to this comment by Thylan:
Sorry, Kronos, but your post inspired me to finaly make a playlist for Yann and I immediately found this was a dupe

Sorry, Kronos, but your post inspired me to finaly make a playlist for Yann and I immediately found this was a dupe

This is why I love my Amelie sound track.

The music is "Comptine d'un autre été: L'aprés midi" by Yann Tiersen (Track 4 on the CD)

That's a very good point. Tan Dun and Yann Tiersen would have been great additions, just to name a few.

Music is by Yann Tiersen.

A short film by Yann Couderc, Xavier Henry, Bruno Hajnal about a micro journey. Made at Supinfocom in 2002.

http://www.wikicg.com/wiki/index.php/Akryls

High resolution download available at http://akryls.free.fr/download.htm

Technically not classical music. Still good stuff though.

The music is Yann Tiersen. Song name is Comptine d'un autre été. It's fairly new.