Rojak: Debacle.

Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog.

Assorted

Details for the St. Vincent and David Byrne collaborative album, Love This Giant. [via Consequence of Sound]

On the Volkswagen and Beach House “Take Care” debacle. [via Pitchfork]

A new cover for Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. [via New Directions]

NYRB to launch ebook line. [via Publishers Weekly]

Cat Power on her new album, Sun, due out in September. [via Consequence of Sound]

Notes on Notes from Underground. [via The Book Bench]

I’m not sure about this. [via Pigeonsandplanes.com]

Book carvings by Guy Laramee. [via Colossal]

A new Radiohead song appears. [via Consequence of Sound]

Bulletin

This week was a Good Music Week. Here’s who appeared:

• Radiohead.
• Georges Delerue.
• The Walkmen.
• St. Vincent (on a Brian Eno song).
• Gil Shaham.

Other things:

• Enrique Vila-Matas’s Dublinesque.
• Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
• Witold Gombrowicz’s Diary.

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Omnivore: Conspiracy theory.

Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts).

As you know, it’s been Good Music Week over here, so lots of music this week, plus I got started on The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara, and some psychoanalysis revision.

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