To be honest, I wasn't planning on kicking in for this theme. And the result of my lit-scavenging has been a sprawling post, much less cohesive than the type of set I prefer to post, and do, over at my own folk-focused coverblog Cover Lay Down.

But you gotta hear these.
( From Hardboiled Brooklyn to Kiddie Lit, via Shakespeare and The Bible: Deb Talan (of The Weepies) pays tribute to Jonathan Lethem, plus a handful of folk-tinged coversongs based in literature. )

And now for something completely different: As promised in my earlier post (Death Cab For Cutie's I Will Follow You Into The Dark, now with a working audiolink), here's two They Might Be Giants songs on today's theme ( Read more... )

Over-perusal of the old iTunes playlist reveals that every song title looks quirky if you look at it long enough ( Read more... )

(note: written for mock_the_stupid, but saved here until the MTS moderation queue isn't full ( Read more... )

...because I don't post in here much. So here's a post.

For my REAL blogging, try Not All Who Wander Are Lost.

Well, I've started a livejournal.

But I only did it so I could have access to some of the communities without having to comment anonymously, I swear.

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