Dear Yann…Love, Barack
02Mar10
One way to tell that you’ve made it as a writer? The President sends you fan mail. Take a look at the sweet letter that Barack Obama sent to Yann Martell, author of Life of Pi. Click here! The novel is a Booker Prize-winning meditation on religion, philosophy and zoo animals. Oh, and it’s also a lot of fun to read and listen to. Take it from the First Family.
Our POTUS has pretty awesome handwriting. I heard there was going to be a movie adaption…or maybe I just read that someone like Liev Schrieber bought the rights.
happy to inform, Ang Lee is set to direct at the moment…
this book had a huge impact on me, so i had to put together a soundtrack to keep the fire alive:
Kids Cats – Breathe Owl Breathe
grab the kids and the cats and lets go…
The Salty Sea – Aaron Hale & the Boy Detectives
the salty sea is black like the sky, it’s tossing me between its waves…
God Damn the Sun – Swans
they are mine, my only true friends, and i keep them with me to the very end…
Shelter – the xx
and i’ll cross oceans, like never before, so you can feel the way i feel it too, i’ll mirror images back at you…
The Sea and the Rhythm – Iron & Wine
the waves and the wind, the night is black…
Aquarium – Robyn Hitchcock
i headed in a dream toward you, i wonder if i ever saw you…
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes – Swans
the thirst that from the soul doth rise, doth ask a drink divine…
Motherless Child – Crime and the City Solution
sometimes i feel like a motherless child, a long way from my home…
Sharkish Sea – Scary Mansion
the throws of you will make them stronger still…
Serious Tree – Bronze Float
dear fool, don’t you know the shade that’s upon you comes from the tree above you…
The Stomach – Ben Vesper
this doesn’t bode well for humans…
I Sing I Swim – Seabear
shake the tree, catch the leaves…human skin can be hard to live in…
Hollow Tree – Cruel, Cruel Moon
i whisper my secrets into a hollow tree…
Sea of Teeth – Sparklehorse
seas forever boil, trees will turn to soil…
The Final Resting of the Ark – Felt
i know i told you, i know what i said, i painted such a picture that golden fires burned in your head…
A Boy and a Tiger – Yonlu
and then the animal don’t let the girl leave…
Seashell – Seabear
humming softly to yourself, you watch the words change for someone else…
@wndrswy I love this playlist. You have inspired me to try to put together a little soundtrack for a few of my favorite books. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, which is also going to be adapted for film, seems to cry out for Zola Jesus or the new White Hinterland. Utterly human with more than a touch of other-ness.