Got my order from Chaos:
- An erratic compilation of old Ennio Morricone music scores.
- Jarvis Cocker's new album, imaginatively titled Jarvis. It's quite weird, somewhat like an Elvis Costello second-CD where he tries out all the kinds of music that didn't make him famous. Very endearing.
- Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs, with the
sublime A Thousand Kisses Deep (thanks to Dave for the pointer). Now I have to scare up I'm Your
Man. I note that both he (a big man of words) and Raymond Smullyan (a big man of logic) were drawn to Zen.
Even so, I can't get past the full version of the incomparable Waiting for the Miracle from The Future:
Ah I don't believe you'd like it,
You wouldn't like it here.
There ain't no entertainment
and the judgements are severe.
The Maestro says it's Mozart
but it sounds like bubble gum
...
I haven't been this happy
since the end of World War II.
and so forth.