Author Topic: So I listened to Wuthering Heights on the way home (Read 1247 times)

TVC15 · « **on:** August 12, 2008, 05:50:32 PM »

[youtube=425,350]Hv0azq9GF_g[/youtube]

It was the first pleasing song that came on shuffle during my drive home. A couple of things surprised me:

1) I know all the words to the song, which implies that I've listened to it a lot more than I thought I have.
2) I can understand Kate Bush's voice.
3) The song is basically all that's worth knowing about that book. If any of you ever have to read the book by that whore lesbian Bronte woman, I suggest you put the bitch to the curb and go for Kate Bush instead.

Eric P · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2008, 05:58:18 PM »

oh

so not the book on tape

TVC15 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:00:21 PM »

oh jesus fuck no. I did DL a Project Gutenberg audiobook of The King in Yellow, though. I was just distracted and full of drugs so I wanted music.

Eric P · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:01:07 PM »

beware of those, sometimes they're just fed through a text to speech program

TVC15 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:02:48 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on August 12, 2008, 06:01:07 PM

beware of those, sometimes they're just fed through a text to speech program

Who the FUCK would want to listen to that? Why even waste the PC cycles? Although it might be entertaining to listen to Robo Alexander Pope or something.

Eric P · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:05:07 PM »

my guess is the blind with no other options

TVC15 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:12:18 PM »

Oooo, this is read by an old dude with a badass british accent. Totally fitting!

Eric P · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:18:24 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on August 12, 2008, 06:12:18 PM

Oooo, this is read by an old dude with a badass british accent. Totally fitting!

link plz

Eric P · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:18:49 PM »

i'll dig up my readings of Arthur Machen's The Willows for you.

TVC15 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2008, 06:22:17 PM »

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21523

I only listened to a few minutes of the first part. I am just assuming it is the same reader throughout.

Bocsius · « **Reply #10 on:** August 12, 2008, 07:48:20 PM »

Wuthering Heights was the one novel I actually read in high school. I pretty much had to if I wanted to graduate. Bad case of senioritis, you see. The first half of my senior year was slack city. Missed class, missed homeworks, missed tests, you name it.

Anyway, I actually liked the book. I even bought it and reread it a few years ago when I discovered the concept of "reading for pleasure," which was of course unheard of.

Rman · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2008, 10:35:36 PM »

I love Wuthering Heights.

Tundra · « **Reply #12 on:** August 13, 2008, 04:59:37 AM »

I like the "Wuthering heights"-video where Kate dances around barefoot and in a red dress in front of a tree like a nutjob..

Much better than the official video...

The Sceneman · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2008, 05:17:47 AM »

Kate Bush

real music thread

Tundra · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2008, 07:26:19 AM »

The age of real musicianship... At least i was around then and can remember how it was...

TVC15 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 13, 2008, 12:58:00 PM »

Quote from: Tundra on August 13, 2008, 04:59:37 AM

I like the "Wuthering heights"-video where Kate dances around barefoot and in a red dress in front of a tree like a nutjob..

Much better than the official video...

[youtube=425,350]BW3gKKiTvjs[/youtube]

I can watch her interpretive dance all day!

And she was only like 18 when these were made. I think she looks older than that.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #16 on:** August 13, 2008, 01:03:39 PM »

Quote from: Tundra on August 13, 2008, 07:26:19 AM

The age of real musicianship... At least i was around then and can remember how it was...

Heidegger's a bitch.

Tundra · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2008, 07:04:53 PM »

Quote from: Chipopo on August 13, 2008, 01:03:39 PM

Quote from: Tundra on August 13, 2008, 07:26:19 AM
The age of real musicianship... At least i was around then and can remember how it was...

Heidegger's a bitch.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #18 on:** August 13, 2008, 09:00:55 PM »

I thought Jane Eyre was pretty great up until the screwy ending. I guess that's not necessarily predictive of my reaction to books by different Brontes as yet unread by me.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #19 on:** August 27, 2008, 10:52:38 PM »

How did I miss this thread?

TVC

Its amazing how Kate Bush looks more mature than she actually was there and it also translated in her lyrics. Her first record contained shit she wrote from when she was like 15-16 or something.

Kate Bush

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Author Topic: So I listened to Wuthering Heights on the way home (Read 1247 times)