Music that sticks when reading

Given the right circumstances, I love listening to music while I read. Not any kind of music, though. Mostly I prefer music without vocals, so called instrumental music.

There are exceptions, of course. I can listen to music with Norwegian lyrics if I read and English lyrics when reading Norwegian books. Perhaps I should start listening to French music?

Most of the music I listen to when reading, however, goes under the wide term of ambient music. Ambient music is moody musical pieces with no particular tones or notes. Just sound and atmospherical waves of music. Very nice and very passive listening.

My favourites are: Biosphere, Steve Roach, Boards of Canada and Dzihan & Kamien. Classical music is also ok, but it's not everything that fits. I just got hold of.. uhh..ok, I just copied "Classical Chillout Box" which is 5 cd's with very nice reading music. Check it out!

If you like to explore strange music, I highly recommend Kolar Goi's debut album, fittingly called "Kolar Goi".

Newspaper format: Going tabloid!

The regional newspaper at home recently went from travel-hostile to travel-friendly. They resized the entire paper to the so-called tabloid format to be more available and keep up with the competition.

I think that was a great move! I have always considered this newspaper heavy and unavailable just f rom the sheer apperance of it. Now I get an urge to read it when I see it, as it still is the more serious of the two available contenders for local news material.

Someone had to whine about the paper getting too cheapy and commercial, but I strongly doubt these people has actually read the new paper. Does the paper have to be tabloid in content just because they have resized the format to what we in computers refer to as HRO? (Human Readable Output)

I don't think so. I think this paricular paper, and all Norwegian papers that have recently succumbed to availability have lost noen of their journalistic potency! They still have in depth articles on stuff that I care about. The only difference is that now I actually want to read it.