I'm a big fan of John Adams's post-minimalist music (if you aren't particularly into this stuff, but have seen The Truman Show, he wrote the soundtrack and is the beardy guy playing keyboards in the control room).
However - he can also write, rather brilliantly, as this short story on his blog shows. There's something quite haunting about it.
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It's a semi music post so I'm going to jump on it. I'm assuming you being friends with the Nightingales (formerly the Prefects, I believe) you'd be familiar with a Joe Crow song called Compulsion. I've just discovered how good it is thanks to this:
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3732&Itemid=52&limit=1&limitstart=0
It's all rather good Birmingham-centric stuff.
I do like Joe Crow, and have even heard him play, which is pretty rare. Thanks for the link - I'll definitely be getting this compilations. Birmingham may not have been cool in the 80s, but interesting stuff was going on, everybody. Follow that link!
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