Facebook news feed for Pride and Prejudice

From Austenbook, part of a new trend converting literary texts to Facebook feeds.

Charles Bingley is renting a house in Hertfordshire!

Mrs. Bennet became a fan of Charles Bingley.

Kitty Bennet can't stop coughing!!!

Charles Bingley is now friends with Mr. Bennet and Sir William Lucas.

11 of your friends are attending Assembly at Meryton.

Fitzwilliam Darcy is dreading this evening.

Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet are now friends.

Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine

Faithfull wrote these lyrics in 1969, when the English pop world still thought of her as an angelic waif. She's also the great niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose Venus and Furs gave the world the name for "masochism."

The Lounge Lizards - Voice of Chunk

The Clash - English Civil War

Cool Calm Pete - Fuck You

Dig these old school samples and hilariously foul rhymes.

RJD2

"Who knows what tomorrow will bring."

Kyuss - Phototropic

I think the first slide here shows the band on Salvation Mountain, which marks the entrance to Slab City (Niland, CA). I wasn't far off in my earlier Kyuss' post. Somehow this music captures the hot dusty light of the desert, where the visual environment doesn't intrude much on someone's increasingly unhinged personal visions.

Hot to Death

Another Scout Niblett. Minimalist girl punk goodness.

Mime meme

Twittering silently.

Scout Niblett

Wow! An amazing song. Niblett is working in the vein of Cat Power or PJ Harvey. The stage name "Scout" comes from "To Kill a Mockingbird."