43 posts tagged “kala”

MUXTAPE.com is fun site where you can upload songs to make a "mixtape". I decided to make a Kylie Minogue mixtape since I have been listening to her a lot lately. Here is the link ...

http://xanadistic.muxtape.com

Humyo.com is a place where you can upload 30 GB of media and share it with others. I decided to upload the majority of my M.I.A. songs to it ...

http://www.humyo.com/3451015-151695021 (there is a media player that lets you listen to the songs in each folder)

I stumbled upon an article about an architect named Norman Foster who has designed the "Green Tower", a building to be built in Siberia. It looks really cool. Here is the link to what it is supposed to look like ...

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/18/norman-fosters-green-tower-in-siberia

Annie has a new song out called "I Know Ur Girlfried Hates Me". It's not as catchy as "Chewing Gum" and "Heartbeat", but it's not bad. I really love how Annie isn't afraid to put out a very electronic sound with her music.

If you are wanting to watch a movie with the Netflix movie viewer, and you are using the Firefox 3 browser, the movie viewer will not work in the browser since it only works with Internet Explorer. However, you can install the IE tab add-on into Firefox 3, right-click on the movie's link, and choose the option, "open with IE tab", or something like that. Then, it will work perfectly and you will still be using Firefox 3 instead of Internet Explorer (the worst browser ever!).

Here is a link to the IE tab add-on for Firefox 3 ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419  

Here are two funny YouTube videos that feature Joan Rivers . . .

  Cliff Richard is also in the above video.

Here is a video of Joan Rivers on the British version of "The View". She talks some smack about Russell Crowe, and she doesn't realize that they don't have a 5-second delay for the purpose of censorship on the show ...

I hate censorship and love the Freedom of Speech so I think it is great that Joan Rivers did this. Russell Crowe probably is an asshole. I hate his movies.

Here are two new (to me) M.I.A. remixes by Instinct (MySpace for Instinct) ...

The two photos of M.I.A. were taken by Mike Schreiber (and altered by me, of course).

There is a remix of M.I.A.'s "XR2" by Blaqstarr that I was able to download from the M.I.A. Fans message board. The picture that I put with the song is from a party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called the "Party in the Garden", I think. There is a better picture of M.I.A. at the same party at People's website. I got the picture for the song from Bonafide-Hustler.com.

Here is the photo from People's website that I like, but I wish it was really large ...

You can download the song here if you like.

Mozilla wants 1 million downloads or more on June 17th when the official version of Firefox 3 will be released. I have been using the "release candidate" of Firefox 3 (I don't know what "release candidate" means, but I think that is the right phrase ... kind of like "beta" or "testing version"), and I really love it. It is definitely the fastest browser I have ever used. I hate, hate, hate Internet Explorer, but I have always loved the Firefox browsers. I try to tell all of my friends, co-workers, relatives, and even members at my credit union to use Firefox because it is safer (especially when combined with Google Toolbar), and it is faster and more customizable (I don't think that's a word).

Here is a video about the release of Mozilla's Firefox 3 on Tuesday, June 17th ...

In case you don't know where to go to download Firefox, the website is right here!
You can also download the latest "release candidate" of Firefox 3 before the real, official version comes out on Tuesday.

 

Oh, by the way, yesterday was 6-7-8 (and you know 6 is afraid of 7 because 7 8 (ate) 9. I know, that is corny. Anyway, I thought I would post some more random songs like I always do. None of these are new songs. I am really bad about living in the past sometimes.

Before the songs, though, here is a good article on some good Firefox extensions/add-ons to download. The author of the questions asks why businesses still use Internet Explorer when Firefox is clearly a better, safer browser, and I wonder the same thing. I hate, hate, hate Internet Explorer.

Here is the article ...

http://www.benparr.com/2008/06/18-firefox-add-ons-that-improve-online-productivity

I usually try to find an image of the person singing the song, attach that image to the song in iTunes, and then upload the song here so that the image will be displayed. I am lazy today, though, so I am just going to attach random paintings of artists I like to the songs.

The above song, "Perro Amor Explota", is a lot of fun to sing along with when the "muere, muere, muere" part comes in and the singer rolls his Rs in an exaggerated way.

All of the above songs are from the soundtrack to "Amores Perros", a pretty cool movie that came out in 2000 and was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who has done a lot of cool movies. I haven't seen his movie, "Babel", but I think it has some of the same themes in it as Amores Perros, such as how everyone is connected in some way.

The most sexual song on the Amores Perros soundtrack is probably "Si Senor" by Control Machete (whose cover of the Jose Jose song, Amnesia, is hypnotic) ...

OK, enough with that soundtrack. Here are some other songs ...

That song is played when Uma Thurman aka Beatrix Kiddo is punching her way out of the coffin in Kill Bill, vol. 2. I love that movie. The soundtracks for Kill Bill, volumes 1 and 2, were done by RZA from the Wu-Tang Klan. He's pretty talented.

Here's an old song that I always thought sounded pretty cool ...

These next two songs are from the soundtrack of Supercop with Jackie Chan ...

 

Here is another song from Julieta Venegas who also sings the first song in this post ...

Here are two songs from the album, "Delusions of Grandeur", by Hardkiss/Rabbit In The Moon. The songs sample Tori Amos' yell/scream and piano playing from her song, "Precious Things" ...

Here is another Tori Amos song that I get in my head a lot. It is a cover of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" ...

A long time ago I bought this album called "Libres y Locos" by El Gran Silencio, a band I knew about solely because they appeard on a tribute album to a singer named Jose Jose. Anyway, this is my favorite song from "Libres y Locos", especially the part when they shout "Cumbia" (I think that's what they shout) ...

Math and Science is a band and album that came out in 2001, and I can't find anything about the band on Google (actually, I think it was just one guy). I have a lot of obscure CDs/songs like this one that most people have never heard of. Anyway, the album is actually not that bad. It's very pop-ish with lots of cool sound effects.

OK, that's all the random songs I wanted to post today. I wanted to post a video, mp3, etc., of the song, "Galaxy Glue", that is used in the movie, "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (with Lily Tomlin). It's used in a commercial in the movie, and I think it is used as the theme song of the movie. I can't find the song online anywhere, but I will try to make a video of it for YouTube soon. It's always stuck in my head. How sad!

Edit ... here is the video of the end of the movie, where they play the song ...

 

Here is a different version of M.I.A.'s "Hussel" (or "Hussell", however you want to spell it since it always seems to be spelled different ways) ...

That photo came from here.

M.I.A. posted a little mix she did (I think) of all her Kala songs. The mix is fun to listen to. Here it is ...

M.I.A. - Kala Mini Mix (from M.I.A.'s MySpace)

The guy in the photo with M.I.A. is Benjamin Brewer who is in a band called The Exit. His dad is Chairman and CEO of Warner Music, Edgar Brofman Jr. M.I.A. is supposedly engaged to him. The photo came from Bonafide-Hustler.com.  

Barack Obama will definitely be the Democrat nominee for the general election so that is very nice. Here is his speech from Tuesday night ...

Here is a video of a very awkward speech John McCain gave on the same day. The video shows reactions from lots of news pundits that agree he was not at his best when it came to the delivery.

Here's my link again for anyone who wants to donate to Barack Obama's (general election) campaign ...

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/markinaustin

You can vote for M.I.A. to be one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people, and I definitely think she deserves it.

You can go to this link, change M.I.A.'s rating to 100, and click on SUBMIT. Do it now!

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725112_1723512_1724687,00.html

Here are some related images ...

Also, this "4 Minutes To Save The World" song has invaded my mind, and I am liking it. The video is pretty cool, too.

or you can just listen here ...

We have Muzak at work (the instrumental music that beams into our branch through a satellite connection or something like that), except we started having words a matter of months ago so now we can hear the songs in all of their glory. Anyway, there is a song that plays at least once a day, and I call it the "ghost trapped in a box" song. It is not the best song, but it has made its way deeply into my head so I am blogging about it today.

We could never hear enough lyrics or remember enough lyrics to do a Google search on it, in order to find out the name of the song and the artist who sang it. However, I heard the lyrics "again and again ... do it again" today, and a search later led me to the correct song ...

The Bird and the Bee - Again and Again

There is a remix by Peaches of their song "Fucking Boyfriend". It sounds pretty cool ...

The Bird and the Bee - Fucking Boyfriend (Peaches Remix)

A remix of M.I.A.'s "20 Dollar" was posted on the M.I.A. Fans message board today. It sounds kinf of amateurish, but it is not awful. I wish more people would remix that song. It is my favorite song on Kala.

M.I.A. - 20 Dollar (Ignacious' Mindless Warp Mix)

Thanks to the M.I.A. Fans message board for these. One is by DJ Eli, and one is by DFA.

M.I.A. - Bamboo Babger (DJ Eli Remix) ... meh!

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix) ... yay!

Set to a looping video of a running octopus ...