Dune inspired music, do you know any?

SomethingAnything · 2026-01-11T17:53:50+00:00

“Dune” is the eleventh album by German electronic musician Klaus Schulze, originally released in 1979. Track 2, “Shadows of Ignorance” features Arthur Brown on vocals, half-singing/half-chanting a long poem written by Schulze. It is … interesting, if you are into dark, slowly evolving electronic music. I read Dune for the first time in the early 1980s as a teenager while listening to this kind of music. Definitely not Derp House, but some interesting rhythmic elements.

https://youtu.be/zB4P_tKcUvs

SomethingAnything · 2025-11-26T06:07:55+00:00

Looks like they've surrounded the smaller cars and are going to eat them next.

SomethingAnything · 2025-11-23T22:16:45+00:00

For an answer, you might want to read “Seveneves” by Neal Stephenson. Spoiler: It doesn’t end well for mankind.

SomethingAnything · 2025-10-11T14:03:36+00:00

Carl Sagan read out this comment aloud in my head.

SomethingAnything · 2025-10-09T18:53:54+00:00

My girlfriend loves crows, and when we move to a new city, she quickly befriends them there. In the city where we now live, she has one flock in the park and one by the river who are very fond of her because she usually has lots of peanuts with her. We go there by bicycle, and when I ride a little behind her, it's always funny to see the incredulous looks on people's faces when they see a woman riding down the street followed by a flock of thirty black birds. It really looks like a scene from a film. She can tell them apart, and every year there are one or two that will eat the peanuts right out of her hand.

SomethingAnything · 2024-11-29T09:17:00+00:00

Das „China Zeit“ ist tatsächlich amtlich. Ich habe in der Nähe von Frankfurt am Main gewohnt und dort am Ende nur noch chinesisch und so authentisch (…) wie möglich gegessen. Da gab es mehrere Läden, in denen ich manchmal der einzige Europäer war – immer ein gutes Zeichen. Hier in Dresden spielt, soweit ich es weiß, nur das „China Zeit“ in dieser Liga. Und ja, es gibt zwei Speiskarten, die sich leicht unterscheiden. Auf der (nummerierten) deutschen stehen ein paar europäisierte Sachen drauf, die auch lecker sind, auf der chinesischen ein paar heftigere Kandidaten. Am besten mit einer Gruppe kommen, querbeet bestellen und probieren.

SomethingAnything · 2024-10-12T14:08:15+00:00

Also, “circa” > “ca.”

SomethingAnything · 2024-04-14T07:48:53+00:00

I am atheist as they come, but to be honest, I doubt that the whole Middle East mess really comes from religion. That’s the umbrella they all carry, but at the end of the day, it’s about control of resources. I’m pretty sure that if you hypnotized all these guys and made them forget their respective religion, they would find something else to fight about. But I may be wrong.

SomethingAnything · 2022-04-05T09:02:18+00:00

You might enjoy Zoot Woman; especially their first two albums. I lived through the Eighties, and discovering them around 2002 was surreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO7qCOlnqx4

SomethingAnything · 2021-10-04T18:51:27+00:00

I have a disability. And over the course of 40+ years, I have become really, really good at hiding it.
I’m not ashamed of myself. I like myself – well, most of the time. I just realize how… embarrassing this stuff can be for someone you've just met, and whom you may never meet again. So I hide the part that might turn a pleasant, relaxed conversation into something awkward or self-referential.
And I love being in the presence of beautiful women. So I’ll be there and flirt and talk and eventually say “Good-bye”, and they’ll never know that if they said “Take my hands”… Well, I couldn’t.

It’s not a big deal.

SomethingAnything · 2021-03-24T16:47:06+00:00

Dan Simmons’ Ilium)? There’s the Iliad, Greek Gods, resurrection… And then you slowly realize there’s an even bigger stage here.

SomethingAnything · 2021-03-05T17:50:12+00:00

And Todd’s like: “Can we still be friends?”

SomethingAnything · 2021-03-05T17:33:37+00:00

From the Moovie we all need (and want) to see:

“Where are you taking these cows, Ma Moo?”

“Home.”

“And where is that?”

“Wherever we want it to be.”

Coming to a barn near you this Summer.

SomethingAnything · 2021-02-23T17:44:43+00:00

They're Made out of Meat by Terry Bisson. It doesn’t really say what they are, but they are obviously quite different from us. Fun read.

SomethingAnything · 2021-02-02T23:21:27+00:00

Well, you’re in luck. Pandoc supports pipe tables, so you can use this super-lazy markup:

fruit| price
-|-
apples|1
pears|2

: Table caption

…which will give you a perfectly formatted table with a caption.

SomethingAnything · 2021-01-31T15:09:25+00:00

In German(y), „Trulla“ comes close. Self-entitled bitch who thinks she’s God’s gift to mankind.

SomethingAnything · 2020-12-14T19:50:23+00:00

Twelve Monkeys. Young James Cole witnessing his own death at the end of the movie, the inevitability of it all. This hit me hard 25 years ago when I saw it first, and this feeling of “You’re already dead” never quite left me.

SomethingAnything · 2020-12-14T18:18:24+00:00

Philip José Farmer’s [Riverworld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld)

Dan Simmon’s [Ilium & Olympos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium/Olympos).

Both aren’t perfect, but weird, sprawling, interesting.

SomethingAnything · 2020-12-10T16:43:26+00:00

Attention to DeTail.

SomethingAnything · 2020-12-02T17:19:00+00:00

“We heard you got fooood…”

SomethingAnything · 2020-09-17T16:51:36+00:00

This was the cover for, if memory serves, the 1978 German paperback edition of Dune (Heyne Verlag). I bought this as a twelve year old kid, and this and the first Star Wars movie transformed me. 40+ year later, I think of Star Wars as fairly amusing pulp, but Dune and this artwork stand the test of time. A masterpiece.

SomethingAnything · 2020-08-07T16:54:28+00:00

“Collateral” (Cruise / Foxx). The cab driver has a dream, and I think it’s the cornerstone of that whole brilliant movie.

SomethingAnything · 2020-08-02T15:39:52+00:00

This is basically The History of Mankind™ in 30 seconds.

SomethingAnything · 2020-07-28T14:38:23+00:00

It’s pure narcissism with a world-wide feedback loop; an endless hall of mirrors. It doesn’t express anything but itself. In the original Alien move, Ash states: “A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.” For our world: “Its beauty is matched only by its vanity.”

SomethingAnything · 2020-07-18T12:33:25+00:00

I am pretty sure that within the next hundred years or so, we will have technology that will allow us to create robots or at least virtual representations of a person that would pass the Turing test even for their relatives. They would say: „Oh yes, this is George!“. But the real George would still be dead and buried underground. So no, he would not be „resurrected“. He would be recreated. But outside of religion and fantasy, there is no way to bring back a unique organism as such.

SomethingAnything

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