10 posts tagged “time”

M.I.A. posted some photos on her MySpace blog of her and Oprah at the TIME 100 celebration. Her boyfriend, Benjamin Bronfman (aka Ben Brewer), was at the party with her.

 

M.I.A. was nominated for a BET Best New Artist award. M.I.A. has been around since 2004-2005 so it's kind of weird to have her nominated as a best new artist, but it's still nice.

Here is the link to the nominees.

I read an article on CNET about great ways to track traffic to your website, and my new favorite traffic-tracking site is Histats.com. It's totally free, and it's very easy to navigate. Today the website's Geolocation feature told me that people from the U.S., UK, Colombia, Mexico, Australia, and Slovenia are visiting this VOX blog. I think that is awesome. I've always loved the idea of somehow communicating with people around the world, even though I don't exactly have the money to travel around the world right now. It makes me feel a little bit more international. You can place the counter in the lower right part of the page that has the options "Edit" and "Hide".

Xmarks (formerly "Foxmarks) is a tool that you can add on to Mozilla's Firefox browser that stores all of your bookmarks. It will prompt you to "sync" everytime you add a new bookmark. I love this tool because I can go to any computer, download the Xmarks tool and have access to all of my bookmarks.

Allyson on America's Next Top Model did not win tonight. She was beaten by Teyona. Both of them were very good, but I thought Allyson had such a unique look that would look great for high fashion photos. I hope she gets a good modeling contract anyway so she can travel the world and hone her craft.

 

M.I.A. is one of TIME Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People (an upcoming issue). Here is a link about it ...

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1894780_1894784,00.html

I decided to make a torrent file that would include tons of M.I.A. remixes and songs that have never been officially released. You can download the file here, or you can go the page at Mininova that describes the torrent file. A good torrent program is Bit Torrent, if you need something to open the torrent with.

In other news, here is a funny scene from Gregg Araki's strange 1992 movie, The Living End. A friend of mine and I still make fun of this scene because it is so random ...

I was reading an article on CNET about some underwater photos that were submitted for a University of Miami photo contest, and I thought this one from Vickie Coker of Austin, TX, was the coolest one ...

 

M.I.A. is briefly mentioned in the February 23, 2009 issue of TIME magazine ...

The scanned image on the right is an Oscar ballot filled out by TIME's film critic, Richard Corliss. I wanted to include it because Slumdog Millionaire is checked off several times on the ballot. However, Peter Gabriel's song from WALL-E is beating out M.I.A. and A R Rahman's song, "O ... Saya", from Slumdog Millionaire. I hope his prediction is incorrect, even though I do like the Peter Gabriel song, and I loved the movie, WALL-E.

Lily Allen has a new album, new single, and new look. I don't know a ton about her, but the lyrics of her new song, "The Fear", are pretty good. The album is called "It's Not Me, It's You", which is a very clever title.

Here is the video for the song on YouTube ...

You can also watch the video here ...

Here is a YouTube video of the Stonebridge remix of The Fear ...

Here are some different versions of the song ...

In other news, I work at a credit union so I get to keep up with all of the political stuff that goes on with credit unions. There is a house bill and a senate bill that will help credit unions if they get passed. The bills discuss how retailers do not do enough to prevent customers' information from being stolen. Once there is a data security breach, financial institutions have to spend tons of money and time to cancel their members' cards and issue them new ones. These bills will help put that responsibility on the shoulders of retailers, thus causing them to take the security of their customers' information more seriously. You can find out more information on Senate Bill 345 and House Bill 327 here ...

http://capwiz.com/tcul/issues/alert/?alertid=12561131&type=ST&show_alert=1

The above link will take you to TCUL, Texas Credit Union League, which will help you send an email to your local congressman about your support for the bill. If you don't live in Texas, I am sure there are sites for credit union leagues in other states out there. Google it!

Here is a decent article from a recent issue of TIME magazine ...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1874832,00.html

This is such a mainstream, overplayed, everyone's-heard-of-it kind of song, but I thought about it again tonight after seeing an article in the latest issue of TIME about Coldplay's new album. I love this video because it is really happy and tragic at the end since the two people are alive and back together, but you know the girl will die soon. It's weird how all the bad news and death in the world mean nothing to me, yet I can watch a simple video like this and it totally gets to me on some weird emotional level. There are a million movies that have done the same thing to me, but I don't have time to list them right now. I need to go to bed.

The more I think about the movie, "Speed Racer", the more I realize that I actually thought it was pretty cool. In an IMAX theater, or on a home theater with a large flat-screen and cool surround sound (which I don't have), it would be really awesome.

I hated reading all the bad reviews of it so I thought I would post a good review of that seems to get it right ...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1738497,00.html

That review is from TIME magazine.

It's sad when movies are not appreciated in their time. A good example is "Blade Runner", which is one of the best movies ever to me, but it's lifetime gross is only about $32 million (and it was re-released recently).

I'm not saying "Speed Racer" is as good as "Blade Runner", but the visuals of "Speed Racer" blow most movies away.

OK, there are three songs on Portishead's new album, Third, that make me think of others songs.

The first song is "Hunter", which makes me think of a song from the 1992 horror movie, Candyman, by Philip Glass called "Face to Razor".

Here are the two songs ...

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 ...

I have been wanting to listen to my Benny Benassi(Hypnotica) CD lately. My favorite song on the album is "Love Is Gonna Save Us". The song is romantic and sad at the same time, and it has this part that I call the "wind" part that is just perfect. For some reason, I thought the song would fit with the movie, "Edward Scissorhands".

My second favorite song on the album is probably "Time", and I thought a scene from the 1980 Christopher Reeve movie, " Somewhere in Time", could best sum up the concept of time(his best movie besides the first Superman).

While I was searching for my Benny Benassi CD, I came across one of my Tarkan CDs, and I thought, "Oh, I need to revisit Tarkan". Therefore, to be completely random, here are my three favorite songs from Turkey's own Tarkan(from his self-titled album) ...

Tarkan - Simarik

Tarkan - Ölürüm Sana

and Tarkan - Sikidim (Hepsi Senin Mi?)

Finally, here is a short clip of what XR2 is supposed to sound like on M.I.A.'s next album, Kala. I don't know how correct this is, but the quality sounds better than all the other versions that I have of XR2 ...

That is the fake cover of Kala that some fan made, and I got it from http://miafans.co.uk, of course.

Here is an image of M.I.A. on the cover of URB that I also got from that message board ...

Oh wait, I thought of one more thing ...

I really hope Rob Zombie's version of Halloween(probably my favorite movie ... ever ... ok, one of many I guess) turns out to be good.