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October 29, 2003
.10:43 PM
It's very rare of me to actually like soundtracks in general. I mean, most of them are just a compilation of songs that have very little in common with the movie. Soundtracks are generally after thoughts and are almost always the brainchild of the brilliant marketing machine. Hey, if they loved that new Rock flick they've gotta like the soundtrack, right?

With that said, I knew that after watching Lost in Translation, I had to get the soundtrack. By get, I mean download from soulseek. Overall the album is pretty good. It features new tracks from Kevin shields (My Blood Valentine) and older tracks from other artists. They work really well together because the tracks create a very dreamy and ethereal sound that goes amazingly well with the movie.

When I first heard squarepusher's tommib in the movie, I didn't recognize it instantly as a pusher track even though I knew I had heard it before. Now when I listen to it, I can immediately picture Charlotte, young, innocent, and confused sitting by her window looking at the city below. The feelings of helplessness, loneliness and uncertainty captured. Sure it isn't pretty but real life isn't always about exploding cars and running away from SWAT, right?



October 26, 2003
.6:46 PM
I have a friendster account that I haven't logged into for over 3 months now. You could say that I was an early adopter of this so called technology. I signed up when nobody had heard of it and I invited some of my friends to join. Many of them simply ignored my request fearing that this was some sort of spam operation or some napster rip off program where you search and swap for friends instead of mp3s.

The idea was good at the beginning, but I lost interest after logging in about 3 times. Sure, my friends were adding their friends and their friends were adding their friends etc, but the whole utopian community that was supposed to be built wasn't exactly blooming. You see, I had no idea who most of these people were. Leaving only the name portion of the profile filled in certainly doesn't help. Heck, they could even lie in their profile. I didn't care. At least it would make it interesting. Oh my friend knows this guy who works at blockbuster. Oh yah fo real? Hook me up with some free movies'n'shit!

so lately I've been getting requests from people to be their friend on friendster. I've even been asked by strangers. how they got my email address to add me is beyond me. i logged in just now and found out that I'm connected to 18,465 people. Intense! It looks like there's been some serious friendster whoring going on and it ain't coming from me. Last time I logged in I was connected to maybe 20 people tops.


October 14, 2003
.9:35 PM
You may have noticed that it's been nearly a month since I last wrote an entry in this blog. I didn't intentionally neglect it. The never ending cycle of work and weekend seems to have created this dry spell. I mean, ya things are happening at work and in my personal life, but for the last month, my life been coasting along pretty steadily. There were no euphoric moments nor were there any moments of despair that would have me punching holes in walls. No drama.. yet.

So here it is: A post for everyone that has been asking me why I'm not updating this thing.






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