Antkind

Book Playlist

Antkind Playlist

by Charlie Kaufman

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 13, 2026

3 mixes for this book

A soundtrack for B. Rosenberger Rosenberg’s feverish pursuit of an impossible masterpiece: the instrumentals move between cinematic unease, obsessive repetition, and off-kilter play, while the songs trace vanity, longing, and the absurdity of trying to make a life into a story. The sequence keeps one foot in film history and the other in the book’s unstable, darkly comic inner world.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Scene D'Amour

Bernard Herrmann · Vertigo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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2

The Pink Room

Angelo Badalamenti · Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - Soundtrack

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3

In a Landscape

John Cage · Der Bote

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4

Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses

Steve Reich · Music for 18 Musicians

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5

Manipulated Living

Michael Andrews · Donnie Darko (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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6

Take Five

The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out

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7

Blue Rondo à la Turk

The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out

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8

Freddie Freeloader

Miles Davis · The Complete Miles Davis Featuring John Coltrane

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9

Moanin'

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers · Moanin' (Expanded Edition)

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10

Main Title

Jerry Goldsmith · Alien

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11

Celluloid Heroes

The Kinks · Everybody's in Show-Biz (Super Deluxe)

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12

Once in a Lifetime

Talking Heads · Remain in Light

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13

Screenwriter's Blues

Soul Coughing · Ruby Vroom (30th Anniversary Edition)

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14

Movies

Weyes Blood · Titanic Rising

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15

Sound and Vision

David Bowie · Sound and Vision 2013

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16

Common People

Pulp · The Gambler (Music From The Motion Picture)

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17

I'm Waiting For The Man

The Velvet Underground · The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary

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18

This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us

Sparks · Kimono My House

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19

The Book of Love

The Magnetic Fields · 69 Love Songs

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20

Birdhouse in Your Soul

They Might Be Giants · Flood

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