E-BOOK: My Favourite "Classic"
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is the first "classic" that I read and enjoyed. I had been turned off of the classics as a kid and did not return to them until forced to read this one in university. I loved it. Heathcliff is such an original character in literature, and while I wanted to smack Catherine more than once, I found their relationship compelling enough to keep reading. This is one classic that has not lost its touch.
Labels: ebook, Gutenberg
MUSIC: Steadman
Found the group
Steadman through
CC365. Very pop-ish acoustic stuff. I am still exploring their massive site (over 100 songs for download!) but have started with the album "Revive" and am enjoying it so far.
Labels: artist, music
MUSIC: Secret Dakota Ring
Another find from 15 Megs. These guys are sort of indie pop/rock type of stuff. Enjoy!
AUDIO BOOK: Genesis (in Hebrew)
I have only just found a small index on
Librivox of recordings in other languages. Sadly, no Petit Prince! But I did find a recording of the book of
Genesis from the Bible, in its original Hebrew! How fun!
Labels: audio, audiobook, Hebrew, Librivox
MUSIC: Three more from Garage Band
I was back at
Garage Band again and found a few more goodies :) Enjoy!
Labels: Garage Band, music
MUSIC: Songs by Mercy Machine
Mercy Machine is one of my
Magnatune finds. I have already blogged one of their songs, but I thought it was time to do a spotlight on them. Some of their stuff is on the acoustic side (the already blogged
Last Vision on Dahlia Street and
Adam Undivided being examples) but some is more pop-ish (
Plain,
Bastard). All of them are wonderful, chart-quality songs with catchy tunes, clever lyrics and excellent vocals---sort of a mixed-gender Indigo Girls or Blue Rodeo type of vibe. They have two albums worth of music available at Magnatune.
Labels: Magnatune, music, netlabel
MUSIC: Songs by Heath Whitelock
Found this one at
Opsound via
Uwe Hermann. Sort of pop-ish acoustic-type stuff.
Fall is my favourite of the tracks, but the others weren't bad either.
Labels: music, Opsound
E-BOOK: Five of Shakespeare's best
My recent viewing of the fabulous Paul Gross series "Slings and Arrows" has me looking fondly upon my stash of Shakespeare. It's too bad his stuff has kind of nerdy high school connotations. Much of it is quite good. I admit, I am not big on the history plays, but I quite like many of the other ones and I think they are reasonably accessible if one is so inclined. Here are my pics for the best of Shakespeare---not necessarily from a 'most important in the scholarly canon' point of view (or else I suppose I would have to replace Twlefth Night with Julius Ceasar), but from the point of view of a regular reader who just likes to be entertained. As with all e-books I post about here, I am linking to the
Many Books page instead of the
Project Gutenberg one, so you can download the books in the format of your choosing.
Labels: ebook, Gutenberg
MUSIC: Three by Red Orkestra
Fading Ways is a netlabel offering music in a variety of genres. They have a sampler series on-line where you can download several mix-tape albums worth of material for free. My favourite artist in the series is Red Orkestra. Three songs:
Labels: artist, music, netlabel
MUSIC: Three from other blogs
Time to give props to some other cc-focused blogs out there :) Here are three recent finds that were brought to my attention by other bloggers.
Labels: blog, music
AUDIO BOOK: Metamorphosis by Kafka
Another production from
Thought Audio. This is one of those books I had always meant to read and never quite got around to. MP3 player to the rescue! I spent a week's commute on this one.
Metamorphosis is the tragi-comic story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find he has turned into a bug. As with other Thought Audio productions, this one has top-notch production values. The narrator is clear, smooth and non-instrusive. It was an excellent listen. If you do prefer to read, there is an
e-text version from
Project Gutenberg too.
Labels: audio, audiobook, Thought Audio
MUSIC: Five great instrumental songs
I know I have made it my quest to focus my CC search on pop/indie type stuff, but I do enjoy a change of pace sometimes. Here are my pics for some great instrumental/non-vocal cc songs: some rockin' fiddle tunes, neato ambient-type stuff and other cool stuff. Try it!
Labels: instrumental, music
UPDATE: Email and other news
I am delighted to have so many new visitors! I hope you will stick around, and I hope that if you have any suggestions for new stuff I can feature, you will let me know. I am sure you understand that the quest for mp3 player content can be a never-ending one :) I welcome all suggestions for great ebooks, audio and music (especially pop-ish indie or folk-rock type stuff; that was one of my initial difficulties with CC---so much of it is techno, punk or electronica which do not terribly interest me).
Anyway, to facilitate comments and suggestions from other people, I dug around the Blogger help area and found out how to add my email address to the sidebar. Oh, and if you check back on my website tomorrow, I'll have the free fitness workouts page up. I checked my Geocities stats just now and the page isn't showing up. It'll be fixed tomorrow. Welcome! I hope you will stay and enjoy the free downloads.
ROUND-UP: Posts from July
I got
boinged! Welcome to the new readers who found me that way. You are just in time for my round-up of all the posts from July.
E-Books:
Audio:
Music:
MUSIC: Five folk rock songs from 15 Megs
15 Megs of Fame is another of those community-type sites like
Opsound or
Garage Band, but it has a slick interface and some nice features: streaming is totally within the browser, you can bookmark your favs with one click, and you can download every song. The whole site is cc licensed, and you can listen for free, but you need to create a free acount to download. Anyway, here are some finds from the Folk Rock category:
Oh, and today is my birthday. I feel gifted with all the great free music and audio ebooks the wonderful sites I link to make possible for me, and I would love it even more if I could spread it even further and bring new people onto the CC love train. So, share the wealth, would you, and for my birthday gift, pass along the link to this blog to others?
MUSIC: Three great artist websites
I am all for spreading the indie love :) Today, I thought I would share some more artist websites---great performers going it alone with just a website and some demo songs with a cc license, trying to build a fanbase. So, I have already blogged about
Josh Woodward,
Jonathan Coulton and
Shannon Campbell. Here are three more:
Labels: artist, music
