Weekend reading and listening

I've finally started Un Lun Dun by China Miéville which is another in the I suppose fashionable genre of fantasy for children that adults like to read.

And after the weighty length of Anathem I skipped through Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book which I guess really is a kind of Jungle Book, though I must admit it didn't really strike me that way. But it did remind me of Pratchett's Johnny and the Dead if only for showing how accepting children are of whatever their environment gives them.

Which precipitates the nasty thought that Baby 'P' probably loved his tormentors and only wanted to please them, which I guess he did in the end.

First of my downloads for the month from emusic.com is Skeletal Lamping by Of Montreal, which is gloriously anarchic, Zappaish and weirdly Todd Rundgren in the liking for Beach Boys harmonies.

It just so happens that after Skeletal Lamping on my iTunes Library is Modern Dance, Pere Ubu. Which fits very nicely...