2005, Dec 01
Artist Reco: Utah Saints And Movie Reco: Flight Plan
The prep leave brings, among many things, time!
Undoubtedly, not all of it is spent studying. In fact, a lot of it is spent sampling new songs, playing new games, and watching new movies! So, here are some recommendations for you:
Artist / Song Recommendations:
Utah Saints: They are fairly obscure as such, and if wouldn’t have been for Chill O2, the lounge album that featured their Lost Vagueness from Two, I wouldn’t have found them. Two albums till date, the first called Utah Saints released in 1992, followed by Two in 2000. Dance / Electronica / Techno. But uber. The vocals are simply amazing at times, and they way they blend in with the beats is simply incredible. Favourite Songs: Something Good, Soulution, My Mind Must Be Free, Love Song, B777 and the Three Simple Words. Apparently they do a lot more DJing than full albums.
Pandora: This is not a band, or a song. It’s a website, based on the Music Genome Research, and attempts to suggest songs that are similar to the first one you ask it to play. Every new song that it plays can be rated as Yes or No, and further songs are then customised to suite your particular listening needs. And it works pretty good, for the time it did, cause it got posted to /., and it has been crippled every since. 128 kbps connection needed to stream audio.
Movie Recommendations:
Flight Plan: Jodie Foster plays the role of an propulsion engineer in Berlin. Her husband has recently fallen and died, and she is flying to New York with her 6-year-old daughter and the husband’s casket. Only, no one apparently sees her daughter on the plane, and she gets lost. I am not going to put in spoilers here, in case you want to watch it yourself, so… Just so that you know, there is a big big twist, and in general a nicely done movie. Has it’s edgy moments. Worth a watch, DVD should be fine.
Deuce Bigalow – European Gigolo: This sequel is again, only just watchable. Has it’s share of jokes, but is quite explicit (maybe the version that I had). Worth a dekho if you got nothing better to do, but otherwise passable.
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Maybe I’ll make this a regular feature on the blog, every once in a while, I’ll put up recommendations like the one above.
My MSN Messenger won’t sign in for some obscure reason, cause everything else is working. Troubleshooting agent says: Gateway is offline. But that can’t be… So, I am without IM connectivity! Gaaah!