The Rescues - Can't Stand The Rain
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Jul 29
Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up
via youtube.com
I can't stop watching this!
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Jul 21
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On Repeat: Gomez - "A New Tide"
I've been following the band Gomez since they "arrived" in the late 90's and I remember a concert of theirs at Slim's in San Francisco. I saw them perform songs from their first album and they ended the show with an amazing cover of the Talking Heads "Road to Nowhere". Yeah, that pretty much sealed the deal for me. I even had a chance to meet them, since I was working at SF station KFOG at the time. Nice guys, from what I remember.
It's been over 10 years since that first concert and they still pump out really worthy music. Their latest album, A New Tide doesn't disappoint. I have always loved the earthy tone of lead singer Ian Ball. The single gaining much attention is "Airstream Driver" and in a recent article out of SXSW, the drummer Olly Peacock talks about the writing process for that song.'The lyrics for 'Airstream Driver' were actually pieced together,' Peacock says. "I'd written the song at home and I took it to the studio when we were working late at night. I needed some words, so we Googled 'Red Red Meat,' because we were working (producer) Brian Deck, who used to be in Red Red Meat. We thought just for a joke we'd take some lyrics and use them just for the time being, and in the end they were just so befitting we kept them. That was an interesting way to do a collaboration – without someone actually wanting to collaborate. The lyrics are totally obscure to others, but they fit. It was an interesting lyrical excursion.'
Check out "Airstream Driver" and another one of my favorites, "Little Pieces" and let me know what you think!
Gomez official site
Gomez on MySpace
Airstream Driver by Gomez
Little Pieces by Gomez
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Jul 10
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Funk song of the day: "Are you for real?", Nino Moschella
Funkified for your listening pleasure :)
Are You For Real by Nino Moschella
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Jul 7
John Mayer Performs "Human Nature" at Jackson Memorial
My favorite Michael Jackson song performed by one of my current favorite musicians.Comments [0]
Jul 6
FM BELFAST - Synthia
via thesixtyone.com
Synthesizer heavy, but I really like song. The band says, this song is "about a poorly treated keyboard". Enjoy!
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Jun 9
Beatles 'Rock Band' Ad
via adweek.blogs.com
I don't care about the iPhone anymore. I want Rock Band: Beatles! (For my birthday, on July 12th, thanks).
UPDATE - oops, not available till 9/9/09.
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May 23
I think this is why he won
I watch American Idol, and I think first -- this is the best performance of any contestant this season, and second, it really gave Kris Allen the momentum he needed to win the competition. I wasn't a believer until he preformed this. Great re-working of Kanye's song "Heartless".
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Apr 25
Review: The Soloist, B-
via latimes.com
This evening I saw The Soloist starring Jamie Fox and Robert Downy Jr. I rarely write movie reviews, but something about this film pulled me towards creating this quick post.
I had not heard of Nathanial Anthony Ayers till this movie and I knew nothing of the LA Times articles from Steve Lopez. So, this was a clean slate for me.
I'm also a sucker for autobiographical films/books and tend to like many, if not all of them (Ray, Cinderella Man, Beautiful Mind, Gerogiana, etc). But oddly enough, halfway through this film I felt a disconnect.
The acting was superb, but how could it be anything less than spectacular? I was beginning to feel the gravity of this true story was minimized.
Why did I not feel the emotion? Why didn't I connect with the characters? The only thing I could pinpoint was the screenplay. But then again, was the script "hollywood-ized"? The answer is yes, and as I would soon find out, the liberties taken by the Director were clearly the wrong ones.
After the movie I read the review from the Los Angeles Times, and suddenly I understood why I had trouble with the film. As the article mentions, the psychedelic light show was not necessary (in the scene where Nathanial visits the symphony for the first time) -- and that's just one of the many little items I that bothered me.
The final nail in the coffin was the 60 Minutes piece above. It fills in the missing gaps! There's the emotion I wanted to feel for Nathanial. There's the understanding I was looking for in his plight. For me, this 14 minute piece from Morley Safer was much more touching and thorough than the movie. I'm fine with dramatization, but why didn't we see Nathanial visiting Steve's home and family? Why didn't we see the shock therapy, as mentioned in 60 Minutes?
For all it's faults, this is a movie that is worth seeing purely to support Mr. Ayers and Mr. Lopez -- and to that extent Mr. Downey Jr. and Mr. Foxx. But I can't help but think how much greater impact this film could have had on the plight of the homeless in LA, and schizophrenia.
I'm left aching to read the original LA Times articles by Steve Lopez and his book.
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