Normaalien maihinnousu by YUP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ7q6gqV-Wc

Now out of the blue this, Discoinferno off Discopolis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNW7Whl1uLM

Still at the Vaya cond dios collection, now I don't want to know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9OkZ9umlIE

<- Dammit they didn't even recognise the ice hockey championships. (sorry, I am spamming)

Johnny by Vaya con dios:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQOxvaRxWV8&feature=related

Morgenstern by Rammstein, Reise Reise.

Lintu by Timo Rautiainen etc from Itku pitkästä ilosta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Beuc86hX4lw

Still at the same collection by CMX, Ei yksikään now, single from Vainajala:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXQTAW7bFE

And väkivallan moottorit (engines of violence) same album. (b-side disc on a triple cd collection):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HRuhVh2CE

Ei tästä maailmasta (Not of this world) By CMX off Cloaca Maxima II:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-pOoXJpnn8

Soldiers and soon to I let the Music Speak by ABBA off The Visitors.

And Evergreen by Faithless, Outrospective

Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through by Meatloaf, Bat out of Hell II

Lihan syvyyksiin by CMX from Isohaara.

Jealousy by Pet Shop Boys of Behaviour.

Let Go Crazy extended, on Prince's Ultimate collection.

Running up that hill (make a deal with God) by Kate Bush. Oh, this is on her Hounds of Love.

Remembrance day by Mark Knopfler off his Get Lucky

Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris from Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris's Real Live Roadrunning.

Going through my albums, at the moment that means 1. Outside by Bowie, at the moment Hallo Spaceboy (album version though the remix is also on the album :)).

New Spring is completely stand alone, that is you don't need to have read the others books to understand it. I think it is better to read most of the main books before New Spring, that way New Spring will also give more to the reader as you already understand what is to come. I think it can be read after PoD without too much fear of things being revealed before time, but it is a simple matter of preference at that point, NS is like a break from the main series.

Also, tennis shoes are certainly not for running. They are for tennis, or indoor sports. What is important in tennis is that you can spurt both forward and sideways immensely fast without risking a sprain.

I have not read SoT since it's pretty much obvious there's no point. I have read some of the interviews/summaries etc, and I have to say in my opinion the whole existence of the series is annoying. First Goodkind borrows half of everything from RJ, and then he makes a mockery of WoT by turning everything on its head. Where RJ puts his characters into difficult situations where they must choose between right and wrong etc, Goodkind has everything resolve itself by the main character's flawlessness. Where RJ puts out discussion without any clear answers, Goodkind forcefeeds his own philosophy as a law of the universe. It just seems like SoT is WoT turned to the Shadow, where there was substance there is naive and superficial drivel. Obviously I'm not planning to read it  ;).

I like Berelain. And, while I'm not really against Faile, it might not have been bad had she been more successful with Perrin. She might have saved him from his current lack of status shall we say.

It probably is from the crossing of the balefires, but do you think this could play a part? I was looking at tEotW, and at Flight Down the Arinelle there's:

He found himself staring at the reflection of his own face, pale and shivering in the knife-edge cold. Ba'alzamon's image grew behind his, staring at him; not seeing, but staring still. In every mirror, the flames of Ba'alzamon's face raged behind him, enveloping, consuming, merging. He wanted to scream, but his throat was frozen. There was only one face in those endless mirrors. His own face. Ba'alzamon's face. One face.

Moghedien said some things are actually stronger when done in Tel'aran'rhiod.