Archive for August, 2008
Fast and the Furious 4…JLB Motorsports?
Well, I play the game MGO and our leader has some of his customer’s cars being used within the new movie, Fast and the Furious 4.
He gave out banners for the windshield of the cars in one of those scenes with cars in the background, so look out during those parts for JLB Motorsports.
If you haven’t seen it then here is the HD trailer.
Told ya this would be random
Where is that song?
I am very picky as to what music I listen too. Everyone picks music based on what mood we are in. Sometimes you might want to the fast heavy songs, other times you want a easy listening slow song, and then there are just some in-between.
I always want to hear new music, yet going through 50-100 songs by different groups and I cannot find a song I want to listen too. Sometimes it is because of the lyrics or it is because of the song, or maybe just the way it was produced made it sound horrible.
The best place to find independent/non-radio songs that you probably have not heard of is elbo.ws. I can be on that till the wee hours of the night getting songs because you can never manage to understand just how many songs there are out there.
After going over the list of songs and picking around 25 of them, I’ve decided to post a couple and point out what it is about them that make them it.
The first one would just be for the people that can listen to a song without any lyrics. I didn’t find this off the elbo.ws, as it is the main theme for a movie I just recently watched “Sunshine”. I’ll post about that a little later. This song has something about it that makes you want to keep listening. The begining a little desolate without much sound but random noises…as the time ticks on though the violins kick in and start the build up. Then the piano, drums, cymbals come in not stopping the violins and keeps going and going and going. As with most music that doesn’t have lyrics you need to envision a senerio and just keep with how the song makes you feel. Sounds kind of dumb, but this type of music has been around longer than any of the music today. (Think classical music with Mozart, Bach, Chopin, etc…)
john-murphy - sunshine - sunshine
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also there is this version with a guitar replacing most of the violins from the first one.
john-murphy - sunshine - escaping-the-icarus-2
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This one actually was catchy when I heard it today. It has a little bit of synthy music in the background but it works. There are lyrics in this one so that is good, I guess. But I guess walking on a dream has to have that upbeat feeling.
empire-of-the-sun - walking-on-a-dream
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I was going to post a couple more but realized I just ran out of cigarettes and need to run and get some more. Don’t worry as I said there are always new songs being made and posted on the internet for everyone to have, and not put into a queue for some record executive to decide when it will be given out.
Do not drink and drive
Pics or it didn’t happen is what this will turn into, but oh well it did.
I needed to get some food. Best place to go for that is Meijer. Since I haven’t been on Hall road that much since I’ve moved to Royal Oak. I thought “Hey, why not go to that one? Get some food, go for a nice drive.” It was a nice drive until I finished the roundabout on 18 Mile and Van Dyke to get onto M-53. Starting to head north on M-53, I see some blue/red lights on smoke in the sky. “Now that is strange,” I thought. Getting over the hill I see now that there are 2 police cars, one on each side of M-53, and a TREE is on fire in the median. I am not talking about a little flame, this tree was fully on fire. This tree had a shadow on it, which as I pull closer and find out that a truck (Dodge Ram 1500 or F-150, couldn’t tell) facing north on the south side of M-53 is on top of the tree, the cab and engine burning out of control. First thought I had was take a picture, if the cops weren’t there then yes I would have tried to help instead of thinking of a picture. I didn’t get my phone out in time before I passed the cop car so the next best thing was to go to Jaycee Park, which was just off to the side of M-53. What I believe happened was someone was drunk, got on the south side of M-53, saw a car headed right at them, freaked out and swerved into the tree. They had some ambulances when I got there later so I believe whoever was in the car survived.
Now on to the next part where I try to get a good picture from the side of the road.
Well as I headed to the park, it took 5 minutes, and another 5 minutes to navigate to the other side of the baseball fields in the dark with just the cell phone as a light. With the police lights and firetrucks in the distance I trucked on. By the time I got there they already had a tow truck pulling the extingushed truck onto the bed. I was too late and my phone storage was full.
Lessons Learned:
- Always have your phone handy, especially in the car.
- Always keep your storage on your phone empty.
- Drunk driver, if you survived, don’t drink and drive.
Start off with a song
I was doing my normal browsing of elbo.ws. I came across a song called “Bruce Willis is Dead” now knowing he was not dead, but having to make sure. I went searching for Bruce Willis. Nope, Bruce Willis is not dead. So what does this song mean? No idea, it’s just catchy.
Mr Oizo - Bruce Willis is Dead
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