This Scissor Sisters song and remix is so old, but I have listened to it again recently. I love it when it says "I don't feel like dancing without you" over and over again. I think the song is actually kind of sad. I always imagine the song is being sung by someone whose love has recently died. I try to make the lyrics of songs darker than they really are.

Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Linus Loves Dub)

I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Linus Loves Dub)

Scissor Sisters

The mp3 I have of the above song sounds a little messed up. Sorry about that.

The remix of the song was done by Linus Loves, and he has another song on his MySpace that sounds just like Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Israel". He must have sampled it. His song is called "Rock Chk", and you can listen to it on his music player on his MySpace.

Listen to "Israel" here ...

Israel

Siouxsie And The Banshees

and here is Linus Love's "Rock Chk" for comparison ...

Rock Chk

Linus Loves

In other news, the new Harry Potter movie has a trailer out, and it looks great! I love the idea of Voldemort as a child ...

My friend, Cristen, and I are supposed to go to the Dallas World Aquarium this Saturday. I am really excited because as far as I know we do not have anything like this in Austin, and it will be nice to be somewhere you can walk around indoors. There is also a rain forest that is connected to the aquarium, maybe ... I am not sure, but it sounds like it will be great. I love nature ... as long as I don't have to sweat to appreciate it.

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The Smashing Pumpkins wrote a song for the awful, horrible movie, "Batman and Robin", called "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning". Well, it was on the movie's soundtrack. I don't know if they actually wrote it for that movie. The song is now featured in the latest trailer for "Watchmen". The trailer was shown before "The Dark Knight", and it looked really cool. The song and the visuals went really well together.

Here is the trailer ...

Here is the song ...

The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning

Smashing Pumpkins

I really liked "The Dark Knight", and I am glad it is breaking all kinds of records. The performances were all very good, and it was nice to see a grown-up action movie. Besides seeing cool movies this weekend, I also went to a conservatory with my parents in Shreveport, Louisiana. I need to be able to go to a conservatory everyday. It was very cool.

Conservatory at the Barnwell Center

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I felt this was blog-worthy. When I bought my XBOX 360, the one doubt that persisted in my head about the purchase was that Final Fantasy XIII would come out one day, and that it would only be available for the PS3. Well, all my doubts are gone now. I am so happy that I bought an XBOX 360 now because not only will I get to play FFXIII on it when the game is released, but I also got to play Lost Odyssey on it. Lost Odyssey has turned out to be just as good or better than any Final Fantasy game I have ever played.

I was able to purchase additional content for Lost Odyssey recently (it's called the DLC, and it is on XBOX's marketplace), and it made the game even better. I love the idea of solving a game, leveling up your characters as far as they will go, finding every weapon, spell, and treasure that you can find, and thinking that there is nothing else to do. Then, you are able to purchase a whole new world for the game. It's pretty cool. I hope XBOX gets more of these. It would be nice if games could continually be updated with new content.

Here is the article about this ...

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/07/14/final-fantasy-xiii-coming-to-xbox-360-in-simultaneous-launch

Here is the latest trailer for Final Fantasy XIII (which is not exclusive to Sony anymore) ...

This news, along with the fact that Resident Evil 5 will be released in the next year, is great for people who own the XBOX 360.

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I read about this movie on a message board, and I realized that I have seen some of it before (I think). There is a famous swimming pool scene where the water's surface turns to glass and traps Katharine Ross (star of the original The Stepford Wives) underneath. Sam Elliott is also in the movie, and he and Ross are married and have a child together in real life. The Who's Roger Daltrey is also in the movie.

Here is the trailer ...

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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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I was watching videos about video games on GameTrailers.com today, and I realized that there is already a Final Fantasy XIII (13), and that it is only going to be available on Playstation 3 (PS3). That is really, really sad since I bought an XBOX 360 (however, deep down I knew this would happen).

Well, GameTrailers.com had many videos that are part of a Final Fantasy retrospective. I watched some of them, especially the one about Final Fantasy II (which was part 4 in Japan), and I now know that the the genius creator of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, has made a game for the XBOX 360 called "Lost Odyssey". The composer behind the best game soundtrack ever, Nobuo Uematsu (who composed the Final Fantasy II score) composed the music for Lost Odyssey, too. Another person who helped create Lost Odyssey is Hideo Minaba, who has worked a lot on the Final Fantasy games, too. Sakaguchi, Uematsu, and Minaba are all part of the company, Mistwalker, which works with Microsoft. They were part of the company, SQUARE (which is now Square Enix), which put out all of the Final Fantasy games.

I've watched a trailer for Lost Odyssey, and it looks really good. It definitely has aspects of Final Fantasy in it. I wonder if it will be better than Final Fantasy XIII. It's kind of weird how PS3 has FFXIII and XBOX 360 has Lost Odyssey. It seems like the two games are symbolic of the competition between the two consoles.

It's very stupid for games to be exclusive to one console. I am sure FFXIII will be on XBOX 360 one day, and I bet Lost Odyssey will be on PS3 one day. For the meantime I will buy Lost Odyssey, though, which comes out on 2-12-08. I don't know when FFXIII will come out, but I am sure it will be in 2008.

Here is a preview of Lost Odyssey on YouTube, but you should go to video websites like GamerTrailers.com or IGN if you want to see good quality trailers of games. The official page for the video game usually has good videos, too.

Lost Odyssey

Trailer for Final Fantasy XIII

In other news there is a Highlander game for the XBOX 360. I was worried about not really liking the XBOX 360, but I just haven't found the right game, yet. If there is going to be a Highlander game and this "Lost Odyssey" game, then I am going to be doing pretty well. There will be a Resident Evil 5 game for the XBOX 360 one day, too. However, I think there is going to be some controversy around the release of that game.

Here is an article about Resident Evil 5 and racism. The point that you were killing Spanish people in Resident Evil 4 and no one cared is a valid point; but I can understand why people are worried about Resident Evil 5, too. It's a white man who runs around killing Africans (of course, they have become the "undead" so they are not really human anymore). The graphics look amazing, but the game may never be released if it is deemed too controversial, and I can understand the controversy. It will be interesting to see what happens with this game.

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Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" ...

Trailer for movie, "Sunshine"

Danny Boyle also did Trainspotting and 28 Days Later. Underworld is doing the soundtrack for Sunshine, just like they did for Trainspotting.

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I am really excited about this movie. I hope it doesn't let me down. I saw a movie poster for "Death Proof", which I think is the second movie in the Grindhouse double feature. It has Burnet Rd. Austin, TX on it, which is great because I work on Burnet Rd. in Austin, TX. I am sure Robert Rodriguez wanted to do that since he lives in or near Austin. The poster says that there is a drive-in theater there, but there's not. In fact, I think they changed the poster so people coming to SXSW wouldn't spend too much time looking for a make-believe theater on Burnet Rd. in Austin. OK, I hope that all made sense. Anyway, here is the old poster that I really like ...

Grindhouse burnet rd

And here is the poster that shows both movies ...

Grindhouse

Here is the trailer, but I am sure this is easy to find for most people ...

Grind House Teaser Trailer

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