The Book Of Coincidences

Sintra, Portugal. Songs and views.

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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Belle And Sebastian - everything is now part one, 2018

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"The song begins with a brief instrumental opening, but it transitions quickly into vocals within the first 10-15 seconds, featuring ...

Slowdive - forty days, 1993

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"In the past I always skipped that song. I did not like this slightly out-of-tune intro and therefore only very rarely listened furth...

James - i know what i'm here for live, 1999

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"It's about the meaning of life. It's also about the nature of being in a band: the fulfilment of adolescent fantasies of end...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Ford Chastain - only you, 2025

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"Romance lingers from start to finish in Ford Chastain’s new single, “Only You.” This calming slice of dream-pop is an ode to lovers ...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Belle And Sebastian - the same star, 2018

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"Sarah gets to front one song per EP, though in the latter two examples she gets a pretty heavy assist from Stuart, and that’s fine, ...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Fait-divers by Einstein

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"Wondering appears to occur when an experience comes into conflict with a world of concepts already sufficiently fixed within us" ...

Fait-divers by Nancy Andreasen

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"All human beings (and their brains) have to cope with the fact that their five senses gather more information than even the magnificen...

Fait-divers on ambiguity

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“If there’s any takeaway, it’s that we’re programmed to get rid of ambiguity, and yet if we engage with it we can make better decisions, we ...

Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan - cool water, 2010

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"With Belle and Sebastian’s Isobel Campbell, he cut three albums that brilliantly inverted the paradigm set by Lee Hazlewood and Nanc...

Fait-divers by Niels Bohr

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“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” (Niels Bohr)

Fait-divers by Jung

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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." (C. G. Jung)

Gorillaz - andromeda, 2017

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"It was the only place in the whole of the town that played soul music, so there's a connection between the music I used to hear ...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

The Coral - undercover of the night, 2018

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"Now with a whimsical sense of melancholy and romantic melodies, The Coral return with their ninth studio album, ‘Move Through The Da...

Fait-divers by John Steinbeck on books

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"It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing." John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven

Fait-divers by Paul Kalanithi

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"I woke up in pain, facing another day — no project beyond breakfast seemed tenable. I can’t go on, I thought, and immediately, its ant...

Slowdive - when the sun hits, 1993

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"When the Sun Hits" is a complex and evocative song that captures the essence of the shoegaze sound. It's a song that reward...

Belle And Sebastian - everything is now part two, 2018

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"Two months after the December 2017 release of EP 1, we finally got the payoff promised by its (mostly) instrumental closing track. T...

Fait-divers by Annie Dillard

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"The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less." (Annie Dil...

Fait-divers by Niels Bohr

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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” (Niels Bohr)
Monday, August 4, 2025

My Morning Jacket - it beats for you, 2005

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"In 2004, a dreamy cover of "Rocket Man" concluded My Morning Jacket's first volume of rarities. Which was prescient, b...
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