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Rain songs

Aug 16, 2008
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It is way too hot in Austin so I thought I would post some songs that either mention "rain" in their lyrics or sound like water/rain. I may have posted some of these before. Here is the current forecast for Austin, TX ...

Will it rain?

Here is a song that I could play over and over again if I had to. It has a sort of submarine sound to it ...

Storm

Bjork

This next song actually mentions "rain" ...

02 Paranoid Android

Radiohead

"It's raining all over the world" (yeah, right) ...

05 Showdown

Electric Light Orchestra

This song has always sounded kind of underwater to me ...

10 A Warm Place

Nine Inch Nails

This last song takes place when a storm is coming in Bram Stoker's Dracula ...

06 The Storm

Wojciech Kilar

Also, here is a video from last summer in Austin, when it rained so much that they had to open up the floodgates at Mansfield Dam.

Mansfield Dam - Austin, TX

When I'm tired, I turn to Tori ...

Feb 9, 2008
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Tori Amos will always be my favorite singer/musician/songwriter/artist (or whatever you want to call her). Her music has carried me through less-than-pleasant times in my life. Today I was really tired because I stayed up too late last night working on a short presentation for my job, and I got up really early this morning to finish it. Therefore, I am totally drained right now. It's funny how I will wake up tomorrow and be rejuvenated just because of 8 measly hours of sleep. I love the process of sleep and its effects.

Anyway, I had a few Tori songs in my head that I have not posted here before, and here they are ...

Tori Amos - Hurt/Caught A Lite Sneeze (in concert)

02 Hurt-Caught A Lite Sneeze

Tori Amos

The "Hurt" part that Tori sings right before "Caught A Lite Sneeze" is based on the song, "Hurt", by Nine Inch Nails.

Tori Amos - Famous Blue Raincoat (cover)

06 Famous Blue Raincoat

Tori Amos

"Famous Blue Raincoat" is a Leonard Cohen song.

Tori Amos - Ain't No Sunshine (cover)

01 Ain't No Sunshine

Tori Amos

"Ain't No Sunshine" was originally done by Bill Withers in 1971.

They keep calling me ... keep on calling me ...

Dec 17, 2007
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I was listening to The Crow soundtrack tonight while playing Kingdom of Loathing (an extremely nerdy, yet addictive online game), and it made me realize how much I have always loved the Nine Inch Nails song, Dead Souls, from the soundtrack.

Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Nine Inch Nails

This song was originally done by Joy Division, but the Nine Inch Nails version is more dear to my heart since I (and most people my age) was obsessed with "The Crow" and the soundtrack when it came out. Well, I wasn't as obsessed as some, but I think a lot of the soundtrack is very good. The soundtrack to the sequel starts off with three awesome songs, too, but I will post them some other time.

Joy Division - Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Joy Division

Lost Highway revisited

Mar 23, 2007
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Lost highway poster

I love David Lynch's weird movie, Lost Highway, which came out in 1997, I think. I remember going to watch it twice, once on a date at a normal movie theater, and then at a small arthouse-type theater near UT campus. I still can't really tell you what the movie is about, but it has some of the best scenes that make it all OK. You can draw your own conclusions about what it all means. I like to think that Bill Pullman will forever be punished for killing Patricia Arquette, even if he psychologically throws himself into a parallel universe where he has someone else's identity(Balthazar Getty's identity to be exact). Robert Blake plays a character I like to call "Death" in the movie. 5 years after the movie came out, he was arrested for murdering his wife. However, I don't think they ever proved it.

Here is the trailer on Youtube ...

Lost Highway Trailer

The movie is still not available in a widescreen DVD(it's only available in a Pan and Scan format, which I hate), but it is easy to get the soundtrack, which is the best part of the movie. Trent Reznor did the soundtrack, with help from Marilyn Manson, Billy Corgan, and the amazing Angelo Badalamenti(who appears on all of David Lynch's movies' soundtracks). My favorite parts of the soundtrack are the instrumental/strings parts and hard to notice gems like Patricia Arquette saying "You'll never have me" at the beginning of Marilyn Manson's Apple of Sodom.