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Really sweet eclectic mix from Paul White, a man I have found myself listening to a lot recently. From the very special Allez Allez. Here's the tracklist:

richard prior intro
human league - wxjl tonnight
gong - the isle of everywhere
george duke - rashid
white noise - ?
irmin schmidt - the seven-game
wolfgang riechmann - dream
airto - mae cambina
the tamlins - baltimore
george gruntz - east st. louis toodle-oo
kool & the gang - summer madness
blacksheep - la menage
paul white - snakesfear
paul white - the futures bright
paul white - the headache
paul white - all because of greed
flight procedure
can - mushroom
bo hansson - excursion with complications
the mystic moods - cosmic sea
cheech & chong - mr chitlen
leon thomas - the creator has a master plan - peace
tin tin - astral taxi
gary wright - love is alive
yellow magic orchestra - 1000 knives
richard prior outro

"Our goal was to create mechanical creatures which would respond to observers by flapping their wings. Their motion is achieved using a combination of stepper motors, rare earth magnets, some custom circuitry and a Mac Mini driving the whole thing using input from a video camera. The Butterflies’ wings are created using designs which were laser cut into paper."

I love the fact that they move too. wish they'd done made a video of them

White noise is a book about death, or more importantly, a book about fear of dying. It permeates the life of Jack Gladney, his wife Babette and their four children of differing parentage. Jack is head of Hitler studies in a Midwestern college known only as The College On The Hill. He spends his time knocking around with his peculiar colleagues, shopping with his wife at supermarket and placing his kids on flights to far-flung parents – some spies, some hippies.

People talk in a stylised disjointed way. Children have vocabularies far beyond their years and clear thoughts come to everyone, albeit marshalled and reduced by the constant thrum of television. It doesn’t sound a great life, but there’s some amazing writing. I particularly liked when the whole family go to a drive-in and eat in their car, so desperate to feed they don’t want to engage in conversation or even face each other round a table.
Then, an ‘airborne toxic event’ rolls over their town and Jack discovers his wife is on a medication that purports to cure the patient of a fear of death.

Not an easy book to read, this is worth the occasional re-read of a chapter or two. Apparently, DeLillo writes each paragraph on a separate piece of paper and then tinkers with it to get the rhythm just right.

Very evocative and reminds me a bit of Stanley Donwood. More here http://monamarshall.com/skindeep-domicile.php

love.

Very cool idea. Essence of it very simple.

Motorola wants to take the fight to iPhone for its new Droid, Android based phone. Google will be quite happy. HTC would be too. Some telco without the iPhone license will have its fair share too. Read the comments as well. Quite interesting. Being an iPhone user and a convinced one at that, I can appreciate the effort for a balanced consumerism.