Coldplay Viva La Vida

Shadow In Shadow by Alex Mukensnable

This is an awesome view of the lunar eclipse as seen from Hawai'i within the shadow cast by Mauna Kea on the distant atmosphere. I found it on Astronomy Picture of the Day.

And the full movie from Alex's site. Very nice.

Shadow In Shadow from Alex Mukensnable on Vimeo.

The Last Song

How embarrassing is this?

So I'm sitting here in my office working away in a good mood. I got to the gym even though it was questionable that I would make it, it’s sunny out, and I’m just happy that I have a long weekend coming up.

Since I didn’t bring my iPod to work today (I didn’t think I’d be in the office), I pulled out a copy of a CD I have here and started listening to that. The album is Run Away by JTL (제이티엘), a hip hop group out of Korea. So I'm half listening to the album rocking away when the forth song starts to play. Now, I have not heard this album in almost a year so I didn’t really pay that much attention to the song… until the refrain.

Out of the blue, the refrain starts and without warning, I start to cry. I’m like, “What the fuck!” Then I recognized it. This was the song that I played in my car every time I took Reggie to the vet. The reason I used this song was that it has a soothing quality to it and I also can sing the words (I don’t speak Korean but I can sing some of it). Anyway, the combination of my voice (in a lower octave than the song) and the ballad of the song always calmed Reggie down since he despised riding in the car.

My god, this was the last song Reggie heard. The morning before he died, I took him to the vet with this on the car radio. OK, now I’m depressed.

Isn’t it interesting how we associate memories with music. I had forgotten all about this song and the meaning behind it but my subconscious remembered.

If interested, here is the song (in low flv quality).

Enrique Iglesias

This link was forwarded to me by a friend. How nice is this? Enrique is so comfortable in his own skin that he has no problem singing to a gay fan. If everyone was like this, we'd have no war.

Across the Universe (Pleasantville)

Now this is a trippy version... pretty cool actually.

Per YouTube, "Uncut music video for the song, "Across The Universe," by Fiona Apple (written by John Lennon), from the motion picture soundtrack, Pleasantville."

'Across the Universe

Going To A Town

Faithless. "Bombs"

Apparently banned by MTV USA.


www.faithless.co.uk

Ari Gold "Wave of You"

A friend tipped me off to this video... makes me want to go out and dance!


In homage to the work of Herb Ritts (1952-2002)

"Enhance" this! @#%&!

I think I’ve almost had it with music companies and their "enhanced" CDs.

A couple of weeks ago I Netflix’d the Music Video DVD 98 Degrees: The Collection (hey, the boys are cute). Some of the music aint that bad and some have decent beats so I thought I’d do the correct thing and buy the CD to play on my iPod.

The album arrived last night in the mail so I fired up the old computer to upload it to said iPod. Well, guess what? The damn thing hijacks the computer and runs a full-screen program that gives me the option of viewing music videos (crappy resolution), going to their web site, and who knows what else. Needless to say, I’m pissed. All I want is to put the damn music on the iPod and be done with it.

That god damned music company Motown has their little copy protection crap on it so I cannot transfer it to iPod. Talk about feeding the illegal industry. All those law abiding citizens who pay for the music but find that they cannot use it turn to (thus support) the illegal web music downloads. When will these companies learn that you cannot bite the hand that feeds you?

Guess it’s time to hit the internet and see if I can find a work-around. I’ll have that music on my iPod somehow. Grumble grumble…

This is now the second CD in my collection that is worthless. Stupid $%&*#, idiotic, good-for-nothing %*$#%&...!

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2006-10-24 Update: here

Pirates of the Caribbean

OK, so for once I think I'll rave about something instead of ranting all the time. I recently purchased the soundtrack to the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I've got to say that there are some good tracks on it.

As with most movie soundtracks, there are about three main melodies that are repeated throughout the score. However, Klaus Badelt (the composer) arranged some with pretty unique counter beats. On top of that, he's all over the place with the meter. Of course, my music career ended when I finished college so my ear is not as trained as it used to be (in other words, I’m easily impressed).

Anyway, if you are so inclined, watch the movie (great movie by the way) and pay attention to the music; if you like, get the CD.