• • Esben and the Witch’s Rachel Davies is one witchy woman 
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The Fountainhead  | Davies started out as a dedicated teenage diarist, filling her journals with thoughts, then poetry and eventually lyrics as she learned guitar. At the same time, she devoured literary classics like Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita,” J.G. Ballard’s “High Rise,” and Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead.” “Rand’s whole idea of pure artistic integrity was very influential for me,” she says. “As was Ballard’s concept of how social conditions, architecture and arnarchy meet.”      View blog reactions

• • Meg & Dia are smart singing sisters 
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Atlas Shrugged  |Egoism  | “I don’t enjoy reading modern books at all,” [Meg Frampton] says. “For education, I’ve relied on classics by Fitzgerald, Salinger, because I’m really interested in the way they saw things.” That’s how the exotic Korean-American beauty [...] stumbled across her most crucial text: Ayn Rand’s 1957 classic “Atlas Shrugged,” which details Objectivism, the author’s controversial philosophy of pursuing one’s own self-interest. “That’s the book that really got me going,” she says. “When I read it, it was the absolute truth, and that was how I was going to live my life. There’s a bad connotation to the word ‘selfish,’ but there shouldn’t be — it means that you look out for yourself, not walk all over people to get what you want. And if you’re doing it the way Rand says, you actually help others along the way.”      View blog reactions

•Bookish girl in ???A Fine Frenzy??? 
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Profile of Alison Sudol of the band A Fine Frenzy.
[Sudol] dove into her grade school’s creative writing program, and had moved on to George Orwell and Ayn Rand by the time she graduated her gifted-students high school, at 16.      View blog reactions