Happy Blue Monday! Here are some links to cheer you up.

Music: The Puppini Sisters are fantastic. Anyone who adapts "Panic" by the Smiths to '40s acapella has to be, right?

Music and film: Hitchcock movies used music in all sorts of ways.

Literature: get ready, bookstores and libraries - Oprah's book club has returned.

Art: if you like dada, you will probably love The Société Anonyme.

More art plus folklore: Endicott Studio has a lovely blog with all sorts of great stuff, plus galleries and articles like this one on women's illustrations of fairy tales (and all the underlying symbolism of many of the stories).