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Lou Reed talks to Rolling Stone critic Anthony deCurtis about adapting literary works to music. Background, transcript, and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/11/lou-reed-anthony-decurtis-interview/

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Lou Reed on Edgar Allan Poe and setting literary texts to music

As blogged about on Clash!

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-lykke-li-no-rest-for-the-wicked-joris-voorn-remix

Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked (Joris Voorn Remix)

London based singer songwriter Ofei's voice bellows with passion and soul. Having supported Kendrick Lamar and Shuggie Otis after dropping only two video releases Ofei is about to drop an EP on his own label O Records alongside handful of secret London shows. Today, he dropped the video for his upcoming take on The Korgis' classic Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime and now he jumpsinto the mix exclusively for i-D with his music to procrastinate to. Pass the time, do something, do nothing, but whatever you do press play.
https://soundcloud.com/official-o

Tracklist:
1. Kanye West - Say You Will
2. Imogen Heep - Hide and Seek
3. Chic Corea - El Bozo Part 2
4. Jai Paul - BTSTU
5. Thom Yorke plays The Clock, live on Later with Jools Holland
6. Alicia Keys - Interlude_ Feeling u, Feeling me
7. Chris Cornell - Black Hole Sun (Acoustic Version)
8. OFEI - TOMORROW
9. 10cc - I'm not in love
10. Daughter - Youth - with Grandmaster Flash - The Message(Acapella)
11. Purple Ferdinand - Beautiful Anomaly 
12. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home (feat. Patrick Watson)
13. James Blake - Retrograde
14. Amy Winehouse - What It Is (Original Live Demo)
15. OFEI Adore on Piano (Live Demo)
16. The Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
17. OFEI cover - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime 
18. Paul Simon - Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes
19. Devendra Banhart - Sight to Behold (Jools Holland)
20. Michael jackson - She's Out Of My Life
21. Rick Ross - Rich Forever (Featuring John Legend)

See the video for Ofei's cover of Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkcjaR1C0uA


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Ofei: Music To... Procrastinate To

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/24/mary-oliver-reads-wild-geese/

Recorded by the Lannan Foundation in 2001.

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Mary Oliver reads "Wild Geese"

An unrehearsed, dramatic read-through of the text we'll be discussing on ep. 117, a Greek tragedy written around 441 BCE, telling the myth of the cursed line of Oedipus, mother-f*#king king of Thebes. Featuring Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan, plus special guest stars Lucy Lawless as Antigone, Paul Provenza as Creon, Alice Sinclair as Ismene, and John Castro as Haimon.

After the performance, the cast discusses the conventions of Greek tragedy, our selected translation, and a little about why philosophers should be interested in this.

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End song: "Antigone (Choragos Speaks)" by Mark Lint.

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Antigone Reading with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza

Recorded for Brain Pickings. Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/02/amanda-palmer-reads-wislawa-szymborska

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Amanda Palmer reads "Life While-You-Wait" by Wislawa Szymborska

Poem text, context, and Robert Graves on love: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/24/robert-graves-love/

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"The Kiss" by Robert Graves (read by Maria Popova)

Background and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/15/j-r-r-tolkien-reads-from-lotr/

J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Lord of the Rings

Poem text and an interview with Sarah about our fear of missing out, being a working artist in today's world, and how we measure creative success: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/07/sarah-kay-interview/

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Sarah Kay reads "The Paradox"

Discussion and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/22/billy-collins-reads-aristotle/

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Billy Collins reads "Aristotle"

Background and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/27/sylvia-plath-reads-spinster/

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Sylvia Plath reads "Spinster"

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A cover of the Simon and Garfunkel classic, "The Only Living Boy in New York." All rights belong to the original songwriter.

Engineered and Mixed by Jeff Piper
Mastered by Jared Stachowitz

The Only Living Boy in New York

Read more: www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/10/massimo-vignelli-debbie-millman/

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's Design Matters interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli defines "junk"

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on creative nobility

Graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on intellectual refinement

From a BBC radio segment broadcast on April 29th, 1937. Background and transcript:http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/29/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf-speaks-1937/ 

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On Craftsmanship: The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice

Background and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/21/ernest-hemingway-1954-nobel-speech/

Portrait of Hemingway by Yousuf Karsh

Sylvia Plath reads "Spinster"

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