6 posts tagged “2007”
I am usually very apolitical, but I really liked Obama's win in Iowa tonight (well, I guess it is early Friday morning as I type this, but you know what I mean). I thought his speech was really good. I watched it on CNN and actually got chills watching it. I hope he does well in the other states, too.
Well, I have posted these pictures and videos in various ways on the internet already, but I might as well organize it all here. I went to Borders in Austin, TX on my 30th birthday (11/3/2007) to see M.I.A. signing CDs. I actually got there way before she did. She was supposed to be there at 4pm, but she got there closer to 4:40pm. Here are the pictures from that event ...
Here are some pictures of the concert ...
Here is a link to the YouTube Playlist I made of all of my M.I.A. concert videos ...
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6B05B2A2FB6447CF
I can also embed it ...
There are 23 videos of the concert on YouTube that I uploaded. The coolest one is the Sunshowers video, I think.
M.I.A.'s opening act was The Cool Kids who did not impress me that much, but maybe they sound better on their album. Rye Rye also performed with M.I.A. She is a young girl from Baltimore who raps very quickly.
OK, that's all I got for now.
Here are some of the photos I have taken of Austin in the last two weeks ...
The above photos were taken at Town Lake Park (or maybe it will be called Ladybird Lake Park one of these days) on October 7, 2007. The park is very new. There were water sprinklers going, which you can see in a couple of the pictures.
The above photos were taken on October 20-21 at Mt. Bonnell Park, Town Lake Park/Pedestrian Bridge, Mansfield Dam, and Lake Travis (near Volente kind of). My sister was wondering what the red plant was at Mt. Bonnell Park. I have no idea.
Here is the video of M.I.A.'s less than great performance of "Paper Planes" on David Letterman (9-13-2007). She had to take out the loud gunshots from her song, and I think her heart wasn't in the performance because of this censorship. Thanks a lot, Late Show producers!
The quality of this video is very bad because I used my digital camera (Canon PowerShot SD750) to record the segment this morning off of TV. I know some people know how to hook their TV up to the computer to capture flawless video quality, but I have no idea how to do that. Anyway, here is the video on YouTube and I also uploaded it to VOX ...
My friend and I went to Little City, a nice coffee place in downtown Austin, last Sunday. I really liked the music they were playing. Here are the songs ...
The more I listened to this song, the more it reminded me of another song. I finally figured out what song it was. See if you hear the similarity ...
A cover of "And I Love Her" by The Beatles was also played ...
The last song that was played is one of my dad's favorites(but I like it, too) ...
We also went on top of a parking garage and took some cool photos of Austin ...
It was pretty cloudy that day.
