Seal

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:33:11 -0500

I am going to this charity event for Seton Hospital in downtown Austin tonight, and Seal is going to perform. I thought that would be really cool, but I have noticed that people don't seem to know much about Seal whenever I bring his name up. I was getting my hair cut today, and I asked the woman cutting my hair if she remembered Seal's song, "Kiss From a Rose", but she totally drew a blank. She did know who his wife, Heidi Klum, was because she had watched Project Runway a couple of times. She described Heidi as "mean", which I totally disagree with. I asked the cashier guy if he knew who Seal was, and I told him that Seal had some hits in the 90s (I think), and the guy told me he was born in '91 so he wouldn't know. I was born in 1977, but I can still tell you popular singers from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. That is not a good excuse. Anyway, for anyone out there who doesn't know who Seal is, here are three of my favorite songs of his ...

Seal - Crazy

Seal- Killer

Seal - Kiss from a Rose (Batman Forever Version)

edit ... here are my poor-quality videos of Seal performing at the event last night ...

Seal performing "Killer"

Seal

Seal performing Kiss From a Rose

Seal performing Crazy

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Watch the high-quality trailer of "The Dark Knight" (new Batman movie)

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:39:42 -0500

Recent trailer for "The Dark Knight"

I downloaded a high-quality version of a new trailer for "The Dark Knight". I uploaded it to YouTube just to make sure everyone had access to it. I love the Batman franchise, except for the Joel Schumacher movies ("Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin"), which were awful. The first two Batman movies were great because Tim Burton directed them, and he always has a quirky, whimsical vision when he makes movies. They were also very dark, unlike the Joel Schumacher movies which had the color setting turned way too high.

When Christopher Nolan took over the Batman franchise with "Batman Begins", he restored Batman's dark personality. "Batman Begins" was everything a Batman movie should be, and it was even better in some ways than the Tim Burton versions. Christopher Nolan (who also wrote and directed the amazing movie, "Memento") now brings us "The Dark Knight", which promises an amazing performance from Heath Ledger, which I have actually seen 6 minutes of (when the beginning of the movie was leaked onto YouTube).

You can watch the normal YouTube video of the trailer, or you can go to the YouTube page of the video and click on "watch in high quality" to see a better version of the video.

Watch in high quality on YouTube

The movie stars Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and Aaron Eckhart, and it comes out on July 18th.

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Seal

Watch the high-quality trailer of "The Dark Knight" (new Batman movie)