a first mix on the first day of February

Here's my first attempt at a mix on 8tracks.

I like this website and will be doing more.

http://8tracks.com/manonadune/a-first-mix-on-the-first-day-of-february

Dirk Hamilton - You can sing on the left or bark on the right

I've been listening to this on LastFM tonight. I haved loved this album since I first heard it more than 25 years ago. Among the thousands and thousands albums I have heard from the 60s and the 70s, this rates very very very high. It touches me as much, every time I listen. I hadn't heard it for too long because my copy is on vinyl and it's been a time since my turntable has spun. If you are reading this, please make sure you hear Dirk Hamilton's 'You can sing on the left or bark on the right'

http://www.last.fm/music/Dirk+Hamilton/You+Can+Sing+On+the+Left+or+Bark+On+the+Right

Grin - My favourite tracks

I've been a huge fan of Grin, since first hearing their music 30 years ago. Today I made a tracklist for my ideal compilation from their four albums.

Take you to the movies tonight
White Lies
Just to have you
Sad letter
Ain't love nice
Direction
Everybody's Missin' the Sun
Heart on fire
Hi, Hello, Home
If I were a song
Lost a number
Love again
Love or else
Moon Tears
Open wide
Rusty gun
Pioneer Mary
See what love can do
True thrill
Sometimes
We all sung together
Like rain
What about me
End unkind

Tom Tykwer and Bernd Eichinger

I watched 'Perfume:the story of a murderer' again tonight.This is an exceptional film of one of my favourite books. It's a truly flawless masterpiece. It's the third film by Tom Tykwer I've seen and each one so far ('Run Lola Run' and the 'Princess and the Warrior' are the others) has been exceptional.
It's also the third excpetional film I've seen recently produced by Bernd Eichinger (the others being the 'the Bader Meinhof Complex' and 'Atomised'.

Pavlov's Dog - Gold Nuggets

I heard this on Last FM tonight for the first time in quite a while. I had forgotten how much I loved it:

http://www.last.fm/music/Pavlov's+Dog/_/Gold+Nuggets?autostart

The Lodger

This is very clever piece of filmaking. I was impressed and it really kept me guessing. Based on the London based novel of the same name by Marie Belloc Lowndes, this is transposed to present day Los Angeles. Hitchcock made a film of the same novel in 1927, 13 years after its original publication. The 21st century version has some resonant echose of his work, but this is a different film altogether. Apart from working very well as an extremley dark thriller, it has some interesting and powerful things to say about madness and isolation(The strongest echo of Hitchcock from a much later film of his than the 1927 'Lodger' )It's a very well made film in every department. One you should see if you like excellent suspense films and don't mind them a little dark. Hope Davis one of the best actors working in the cinema at the moment gives an extraordinary performance in this film(which I think is oscar worthy) and the acting is uniformly very good. Daniel Ondaatje is a formidable filmaking talent.

Thinking of Hope Davis, I would recommend two of her other films if your like this. 'The Nines' and 'Arlington Road' are my next two suggestions, both of which are great and startling films.

manonadune's disc for a journey - on the way

She's not there – Neil McArthur
wandering Aengus-Richie Havens
fresh air-Quicksilver messenger service
Pollution-the Chambers Brothers
Take me to baltimore-Ruth Copeland
New York City Serenade-Bruce Springsteen
elis coming-3 dog night
keep it together (so I can fall apart)-Ben Harper
yes virgina- The Dresden Dolls
lift you burdens up-The Walkabouts
mr bojangles-Nina Simone
my one desire(Vampires Lullaby)-Willy Deville
funkier than a moqsuito's tweeter-Nina Simone
looking out my back door-John Fogerty
strange tongues -Vivian Stanshall
Empty heart-Willy Deville