Mark’s blog Vox 2008-10-12T18:31:39Z Mark http://xanadistic.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cdf7e37f6d094f/tags/japanese/ How random can you get? San Antonio Botanical Gardens tag:vox.com,2008-10-12:asset-6a00cdf7e37f6d094f00fa96a234e00003 2008-10-12T14:44:37Z 2008-10-12T18:31:39Z Mark http://xanadistic.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

My parents and I went to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens this past Friday (October 10, 2008), and they were really cool. They are much larger than the Zilker Botanical Gardens in Austin. We almost went to the Japanese Tea Gardens, which are also known as the Japanese Sunken Gardens (I think a scene from the 1984 movie, "Cloak and Dagger" was filmed there), but we didn't have that much time, and I thought the Botanical Gardens would offer more.

My expectations at the Botanical Gardens were far exceeded. My parents got a new Canon camera that is like my Canon SD750 camera, but theirs is a newer version.

Here are some of the photos we took ...

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For some reason, VOX is giving me a real hard time uploading these photos so I will try to get the rest up later.







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]]> My M.I.A. Kala(Japanese version) arrived today ... 100 tag:vox.com,2007-08-09:asset-6a00cdf7e37f6d094f00e3989bf5560004 2007-08-09T04:27:28Z 2008-01-23T19:39:49Z Mark http://xanadistic.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

I ordered the Japanese version a long, long time ago from Amazon.co.jp so that I could have the bonus tracks on the CD(which I have actually already posted on this blog, but it's the principle that counts, I guess). Anyway, here are a bunch of scans of the CD ...

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Also, here is a little video that shows the holographic aspect of the front and back of the CD booklet ...

M.I.A.'s Kala CD booklet (Japanese import version)




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]]> M.I.A. Extravanganza! tag:vox.com,2007-08-08:asset-6a00cdf7e37f6d094f00e3989b9e9f0003 2007-08-08T03:09:43Z 2007-08-08T03:27:28Z Mark http://xanadistic.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Here is the complete video for Jimmy that I uploaded to YouTube ...

However, someone else beat me to it so here is their YouTube video(which came from the same Quicktime movie source) ...

Here is the Quicktime movie (Download it), which was the source file for the two videos above ...

M.I.A. - Jimmy
M.I.A. - Jimmy

And here are the three bonus tracks of Kala that are available on the Japanese version of the album ...

Big Branch, Far Far, and What I Got ...

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14 Big Branch
M.I.A.
13 Far Far
13 Far Far
M.I.A.
15 What I Got
15 What I Got
M.I.A.

You can download these songs here ...

M.I.A. - Big Branch

M.I.A. - Far Far

M.I.A. - What I Got

More to come! ;)





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]]> The most awesome M.I.A. pictures ever ... tag:vox.com,2007-07-18:asset-6a00cdf7e37f6d094f00d09e838856be2b 2007-07-18T21:42:34Z 2007-07-18T22:03:38Z Mark http://xanadistic.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Well, they are in the top 50 at least. innovativeguy at the M.I.A. Fans message board posted a link to these great pictures of Mathangi Maya "M.I.A." Arulpragasam in a Japanese magazine, whose name I can't decipher from the first picture. The person who originally posted them here goes by the name, "Yuko", so thanks to everyone for these 7 very large images.

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And here is a good quality version of M.I.A.'s "Boyz" single that I actually paid for on iTunes ...

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01 Boyz
M.I.A.

However, the above file did not come from the one I purchased because you can't upload protected AAC files to VOX and still have them play. They just won't work or show a graphic, which is annoying.









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