Indiecater: The Return

Unlike Cocoon: The Return, which was a flaccid snorefest about aliens and the lubed up sex-lives of sprightly American pensioners, Indiecater: The Return (AKA Indiecater: Volume 2) is a fantastic new MP3 album available from the mighty MP3Hugger. He's a man who is as fond of quality new indie music as he is of corny puns. The concept is the same as the first Indiecater. It is a super affordable album of gleaming musical treasures picked out by the 'Hugger's magpie eye. Best of all, the artists see the money from this, so you're effectively buying them a fraction of their next pint/bag of sweets/wrap of ketamine/present for their lover. The album cover artwork is illustrated by Laura DeBurca, who does a mean line in drawing runners.

In a weird confluence of people in my life, the guy who provides track one of this compilation (Montag) is going out with an old friend of mine from when I lived in Canada nine years ago. Out of millions eh? Either the world is getting smaller or us indie-heads live in a tiny cloistered global community. I suspect the latter.

Instead of a music MP3, here are chapters 1 and 2 of Moby Dick. There's a new book out now called 'Leviathan' by a writer called Philip Hoare. He is obsessed with whales, and by extension, with Moby Dick. Apart from being a parable about man's doomed thirst for revenge and domination (which I appreciate but can't understand 'cos I don't thirst for revenge and domination) Moby Dick is also about unfathomable mysteries. The whale itself is a shadowy enchanted thing that could be anywhere in all the seven seas at any one time; from the frozen Arctic to the sunny Azores. Now that is something I can both appreciate and understand because I have a thirst for unfathomable mysteries (this time last year, the header above was inspired by me thinking drunkenly about icebergs and whales). So, instead of listening to a tune today, try out the first coupla chapters of a book that is as deep as our own minds.

MP3: Moby Dick-Chapter 1 and 2.