Technology & MSG

Inspired by a fellow blogger’s weekly Thursday post, here’s a few things that rock.

Pre-heating the bed with the electric blanket.
House, M.D.: Season 5, minus one episode in particular. Particularly Locked In, for camerawork and perspective (and a nice performance by Mos Def).
Amusing late-night emails that close out the day just right, with a smile on [...]

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The song itself dropped out of favor after repeated airplay, despite being upbeat and good. But the video still stands; a clever mix of illustrated Akira-like animation atop Photoshopesqe backdrops.

I really like this video. The means are different, but it reminds me of Take on Me.

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There’s this song called All Things, by The Cinematic Orchestra. It’s driving me nuts.
A sample is available from Pandora. The full track on Last.fm, and according to a comment there, “at the beginning: samples from John Barry’s work on the soundtrack of Petulia (1968).”
I haven’t seen the movie. This song (and every other track on [...]

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A few years ago a good friend’s younger brother was included on a biking video. Lots of sweet riders on there, but there was a guy doing flatland tricks in sync to DJ Shadow’s Building Steam with a Grain of Salt. Other than the fact that the rider’s actions was sync’d to the tune (which [...]

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