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Kylie, M.I.A., and the Green Tower

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:34:04 -0700

MUXTAPE.com is fun site where you can upload songs to make a "mixtape". I decided to make a Kylie Minogue mixtape since I have been listening to her a lot lately. Here is the link ...

http://xanadistic.muxtape.com

Humyo.com is a place where you can upload 30 GB of media and share it with others. I decided to upload the majority of my M.I.A. songs to it ...

http://www.humyo.com/3451015-151695021 (there is a media player that lets you listen to the songs in each folder)

I stumbled upon an article about an architect named Norman Foster who has designed the "Green Tower", a building to be built in Siberia. It looks really cool. Here is the link to what it is supposed to look like ...

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/18/norman-fosters-green-tower-in-siberia

Annie has a new song out called "I Know Ur Girlfried Hates Me". It's not as catchy as "Chewing Gum" and "Heartbeat", but it's not bad. I really love how Annie isn't afraid to put out a very electronic sound with her music.

Annie - I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me

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Firefox 3 and IE and M.I.A. looking foxy ...

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:42:21 -0700

If you are wanting to watch a movie with the Netflix movie viewer, and you are using the Firefox 3 browser, the movie viewer will not work in the browser since it only works with Internet Explorer. However, you can install the IE tab add-on into Firefox 3, right-click on the movie's link, and choose the option, "open with IE tab", or something like that. Then, it will work perfectly and you will still be using Firefox 3 instead of Internet Explorer (the worst browser ever!).

Here is a link to the IE tab add-on for Firefox 3 ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Here are two funny YouTube videos that feature Joan Rivers . . .

Joan Rivers and Olivia Newton-John walking the Great Wall of China

Cliff Richard is also in the above video.

Here is a video of Joan Rivers on the British version of "The View". She talks some smack about Russell Crowe, and she doesn't realize that they don't have a 5-second delay for the purpose of censorship on the show ...

Joan Rivers sends a fuck-you to Russell Crowe on "Loose Women"

I hate censorship and love the Freedom of Speech so I think it is great that Joan Rivers did this. Russell Crowe probably is an asshole. I hate his movies.

Here are two new (to me) M.I.A. remixes by Instinct (MySpace for Instinct) ...

U.R.A.Q.T. (Remix)

M.I.A. vs. Instinct

Boyz (Remix)

M.I.A. vs. Instinct

The two photos of M.I.A. were taken by Mike Schreiber (and altered by me, of course).

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Download Firefox 3 now!

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:23:42 -0700

You can now download the official version of Firefox 3 by going here ...

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Mozilla was having some trouble earlier today, but now it seems like everything is running smoothly.

Google has updated its toolbar for Firefox 3. I love the Google Toolbar because you can add little buttons to it that will take you to sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, Gmail, and IMDB.com ...

Download the latest version of Google Toolbar (it will update itself when you restart Firefox 3 or maybe before then)

Here is some music I listened to today ...

Another song from the Amores Perros soundtrack, this song is called "De Perros Amores" by Control Machete ...

De Perros Amores

Control Machete

I read about an artist/band called Ladyhawke on the music blog, Arjan Writes, today. Ladyhawke's song, "Paris Is Burning", is pretty catchy and it slightly reminds me of Gary Numan's song, "Cars".

Paris Is Burning

Ladyhawke

Here is a remix of the song, and it is labeled "Peaches Remix", but I don't know how accurate that is ...

Paris Is Burning (Peaches Remix)

Ladyhawke

Here is the video for Ladyhawke's "Paris is Burning" ...

Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning

I love how she wears a Snoopy shirt in the video!

"Ladyhawke" is also the name of a movie from 1985 with Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rutger Hauer. I have never seen it all the way through. I think there is a Canadian rock band called "Ladyhawk", but don't get them confused with the above singer!

Here is the trailer for the movie, "Ladyhawke" ...

Ladyhawke trailer

Here is "Cars" by Gary Numan ...

Cars

Gary Numan

Here is the video for Gary Numan's "Cars" ...

Gary Numan - Cars

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Cooling down (what I need to do)

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:44:03 -0700

Austin is way too hot right now. I went out Saturday, and even at night it was too hot. Instead of getting alcohol to drink at a bar, I was drinking bottled water. I hate the cold, but this heat is becoming very irritating. Last year, Austin had tons and tons and tons of rain. I think all kinds of records were broken, and the heat was never this bad. Anyway, I thought I would post this Olivia Newton-John song to describe what I wish the weather in Austin would do ...

04 Coolin' Down

Olivia Newton-John

The above photo is from Only Olivia.

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M.I.A., Mozilla and Millions

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:05:58 -0700

There is a remix of M.I.A.'s "XR2" by Blaqstarr that I was able to download from the M.I.A. Fans message board. The picture that I put with the song is from a party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called the "Party in the Garden", I think. There is a better picture of M.I.A. at the same party at People's website. I got the picture for the song from Bonafide-Hustler.com.

XR2 (Blaqstarr Remix)

M.I.A.

Here is the photo from People's website that I like, but I wish it was really large ...

M.I.A. at the Museum of Modern Art's Party in the Garden

You can download the song here if you like.

Mozilla wants 1 million downloads or more on June 17th when the official version of Firefox 3 will be released. I have been using the "release candidate" of Firefox 3 (I don't know what "release candidate" means, but I think that is the right phrase ... kind of like "beta" or "testing version"), and I really love it. It is definitely the fastest browser I have ever used. I hate, hate, hate Internet Explorer, but I have always loved the Firefox browsers. I try to tell all of my friends, co-workers, relatives, and even members at my credit union to use Firefox because it is safer (especially when combined with Google Toolbar), and it is faster and more customizable (I don't think that's a word).

Here is a video about the release of Mozilla's Firefox 3 on Tuesday, June 17th ...

Be part of the millions of people who download Firefox 3 on 6-17-08 (Tuesday)

In case you don't know where to go to download Firefox, the website is right here!
You can also download the latest "release candidate" of Firefox 3 before the real, official version comes out on Tuesday.

Download Firefox 3 on 6-17-2008!

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Nobody said it was easy

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:56:16 -0700

This is such a mainstream, overplayed, everyone's-heard-of-it kind of song, but I thought about it again tonight after seeing an article in the latest issue of TIME about Coldplay's new album. I love this video because it is really happy and tragic at the end since the two people are alive and back together, but you know the girl will die soon. It's weird how all the bad news and death in the world mean nothing to me, yet I can watch a simple video like this and it totally gets to me on some weird emotional level. There are a million movies that have done the same thing to me, but I don't have time to list them right now. I need to go to bed.

Coldplay - The Scientist

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Fragile Amnesia

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:33:15 -0700

My friend, Cristen, is fluent in Portuguese and plays the guitar. She loves the song, "Fragile", by Sting. Sting did a Portuguese version ("Fragil") of the song, too, and that is the one that Cristen is singing here ...

Fragile (cover of Sting song)

Cristen

I have had the song, Amnesia, by Control Machete in my head a lot lately. It's a very relaxing, hypnotic song. It is a cover of a Jose Jose song by the same name, and it is featured on a tribute album to Jose Jose called "Un Tributo".

Here is the song ...

08 Amnesia (Control Machete)

José José

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Random music for Sunday, June 8th, 2008

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:54:52 -0700

Oh, by the way, yesterday was 6-7-8 (and you know 6 is afraid of 7 because 7 8 (ate) 9. I know, that is corny. Anyway, I thought I would post some more random songs like I always do. None of these are new songs. I am really bad about living in the past sometimes.

Before the songs, though, here is a good article on some good Firefox extensions/add-ons to download. The author of the questions asks why businesses still use Internet Explorer when Firefox is clearly a better, safer browser, and I wonder the same thing. I hate, hate, hate Internet Explorer.

Here is the article ...

http://www.benparr.com/2008/06/18-firefox-add-ons-that-improve-online-productivity

I usually try to find an image of the person singing the song, attach that image to the song in iTunes, and then upload the song here so that the image will be displayed. I am lazy today, though, so I am just going to attach random paintings of artists I like to the songs.

Me Van A Matar

Julieta Venegas

Aviéntame

Cafe Tacuba

Dime Cuándo Comenzó El Dolor

Ely Guerra

Perro Amor Explota

Bersuit Vergarabat

The above song, "Perro Amor Explota", is a lot of fun to sing along with when the "muere, muere, muere" part comes in and the singer rolls his Rs in an exaggerated way.

All of the above songs are from the soundtrack to "Amores Perros", a pretty cool movie that came out in 2000 and was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who has done a lot of cool movies. I haven't seen his movie, "Babel", but I think it has some of the same themes in it as Amores Perros, such as how everyone is connected in some way.

The most sexual song on the Amores Perros soundtrack is probably "Si Senor" by Control Machete (whose cover of the Jose Jose song, Amnesia, is hypnotic) ...

Si Señor

Control Machete

OK, enough with that soundtrack. Here are some other songs ...

L'Arena

Ennio Morricone

That song is played when Uma Thurman aka Beatrix Kiddo is punching her way out of the coffin in Kill Bill, vol. 2. I love that movie. The soundtracks for Kill Bill, volumes 1 and 2, were done by RZA from the Wu-Tang Klan. He's pretty talented.

Here's an old song that I always thought sounded pretty cool ...

Genius

Pitchshifter

These next two songs are from the soundtrack of Supercop with Jackie Chan ...

Stayin' Alive

Siobhan Lynch

Open The Gate

No Doubt

Here is another song from Julieta Venegas who also sings the first song in this post ...

Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas

Here are two songs from the album, "Delusions of Grandeur", by Hardkiss/Rabbit In The Moon. The songs sample Tori Amos' yell/scream and piano playing from her song, "Precious Things" ...

Out of body experience (original)

Rabbit In The Moon

Out of body experience (burning spear)

Rabbit In The Moon

Here is another Tori Amos song that I get in my head a lot. It is a cover of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" ...

Do It Again

Tori Amos

A long time ago I bought this album called "Libres y Locos" by El Gran Silencio, a band I knew about solely because they appeard on a tribute album to a singer named Jose Jose. Anyway, this is my favorite song from "Libres y Locos", especially the part when they shout "Cumbia" (I think that's what they shout) ...

No Sabemos Amar

El Gran Silencio

Disguise

Math And Science

Math and Science is a band and album that came out in 2001, and I can't find anything about the band on Google (actually, I think it was just one guy). I have a lot of obscure CDs/songs like this one that most people have never heard of. Anyway, the album is actually not that bad. It's very pop-ish with lots of cool sound effects.

OK, that's all the random songs I wanted to post today. I wanted to post a video, mp3, etc., of the song, "Galaxy Glue", that is used in the movie, "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (with Lily Tomlin). It's used in a commercial in the movie, and I think it is used as the theme song of the movie. I can't find the song online anywhere, but I will try to make a video of it for YouTube soon. It's always stuck in my head. How sad!

Edit ... here is the video of the end of the movie, where they play the song ...

"Galaxy Glue" song from the end of the Lily Tomlin movie, "The Incredible Shrinking Woman"

Here is a different version of M.I.A.'s "Hussel" (or "Hussell", however you want to spell it since it always seems to be spelled different ways) ...

Hussell

M.I.A.

That photo came from here.

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M.I.A., Barack Obama, and John McCain ...

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:30:00 -0700

M.I.A. posted a little mix she did (I think) of all her Kala songs. The mix is fun to listen to. Here it is ...

M.I.A. - Kala Mini Mix (from M.I.A.'s MySpace)

Kala Mini Mix

M.I.A.

The guy in the photo with M.I.A. is Benjamin Brewer who is in a band called The Exit. His dad is Chairman and CEO of Warner Music, Edgar Brofman Jr. M.I.A. is supposedly engaged to him. The photo came from Bonafide-Hustler.com.

Barack Obama will definitely be the Democrat nominee for the general election so that is very nice. Here is his speech from Tuesday night ...

Barack Obama's speech in St. Paul, MN

Here is a video of a very awkward speech John McCain gave on the same day. The video shows reactions from lots of news pundits that agree he was not at his best when it came to the delivery.

John McCain's awkward speech in Kenner, LA

Here's my link again for anyone who wants to donate to Barack Obama's (general election) campaign ...

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/markinaustin

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Pleasure Principle

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:28:36 -0700

I downloaded this new age type of album a long time ago called "Deep Breakfast". It's by Ray Lynch, and it sounds like something you would do yoga to. However, there is one song called "The Oh of Pleasure" that is really relaxing to listen to. Here is the song ...

Ray Lynch - The Oh of Pleasure

The Oh of Pleasure

Ray Lynch

I think it is really cool to watch the iTunes visualization that plays along to this song. I tried to film it, but the quality of the video came out really bad. You can get the gist of what it looks like I guess.

Ray Lynch - The Oh of Pleasure vs. iTunes' Visualizer

I got a new Blackberry Pearl 8110. It seems pretty cool so far. I like that the alarm clock can be programmed to play an actual song on the microSD storage card (that you can insert into the side of the phone). Anyway, I am going to use the phone to wake me up in the morning to the sound of "The Oh of Pleasure". That will be a relaxing way to wake up.

Blackberry Peal 8110

I have a song in my head, but I don't know if it exists or not. In my head, it sounds like Joe Cocker is singing it. However, it also sounds like that song, "Natural Woman", that Carole King and Aretha Franklin both sang. It kind of sounds like Joe Cocker's version of "With a Little Help From My Friends" that was used for the theme song of "The Wonder Years". The song was originally by The Beatles, of course.

Anyway, the lyrics in my head are something like "What would you do if I told you ..." or "What would you say if I ...". I know those lyrics sound like the theme song to "The Wonder Years", but I swear that is not the song. The song I am thinking of is slower and more melancholy in a way. Oh well, maybe I am just taking bits and pieces from other songs and combining them into a song that does not exist.

Here is a cool song from the "Kids" soundtrack by Folk Implosion (aka Sebadoah) ...

Folk Implosion - Nothing Gonna Stop (the Flow) ...

03 Nothing Gonna Stop

The Folk Implosion

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