I mean, it's a good novel, but it's no Warren Peace.

The stuff with the black rabbit in the original film was just insanely effective. And incredible design work on the animation of it, too, with the drawing style so different on the mythical character.

Best solution - New stuff, but played acoustic, live! Was lucky enough to catch his annual Midwives' Benefit concert in Austin last year, and it was just him, and stool, a rug, and a guitar. And it was GREAT.

Yeah, WK is pretty great. I especially like the moment in Lilith's Song where the electric guitars kick in, making a great statement of intent for the next album!

Glad to hear Mr Beam is heading back a bit in the direction of the folk elements. Fun though bits of the last couple of albums were, I wasn't super in to the smooooove 70s jazz bits.

<britishinus>Just seeing you type out that expression made me involuntarily twitch a bit. Ugh.</britishinus>

The first album was far more enjoyable than it really had any right to be. Someone at the AV Club also agreed: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Appropes.

There was that phase a couple of years ago when accordions started showing up in overmanufactured indie-dance music (y'know - the kind of stuff you can't avoid on IHeartMusic stations). It was… strange.

However, if we are going all Highland pipes, although not strictly a song, Shaun Davey's Relief of Derry Symphony deserves a mention. The first movements are both structured around the unexpected appearance of a massed pipe band, representing the arrival of Scottish regiments mid-siege. It's pretty hair-raising. Some…

WAIT WAIT WAIT. This article is sorely sorely missing mentions of anything that isn't the Highland pipes, AKA, the nastiest sounding pipes. The ones basically devised to announce as loudly and clearly as possible "Hey, enemy combatants. There are Scots regiments on this battlefield. You guys are. So. Screwed." They're…

Yeah, you're right, the characters are just …off in most live action stuff. Which really doesn't help. But again, suspect it might be a function of Pratchett putting us inside their heads so convincingly on the page, so a lot of the heart of the character gets ripped out in translation. i.e., a lot of the fun comes…

Plate or platter?

Totally counts

I'd nominate any of the many attempted audiovisual adaptations of Terry Pratchett. For me, basically any play/TV/movie adaptation has been almost unwatchably tedious. Which is bizarre, because I love every single on of those books.

Yeah. The plot line was definitely cleaned up and more economical, in a satisfying way, compared to the books. But the tone was just kind of all over the place.

Just compress the top end, and it will be perfect.

Shures are really great headphones - as long as you can deal with earbuds. The sound isolation is so good if you don't want to be disturbed.

Personal fave: "clustercuss"

ETA: Rhymenoceros. Nightmare to spell; worse nightmare to read.