20 posts tagged “video”
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.
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.
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 ...
Aqui esta musica latina para las orejas. Ha, I am not going to try to type en espanol. I will just butcher it. Anyway, here are three songs by Jorge Moreno from his self-titled album way back in 2001. I decided to take the CD with me on my way to work this morning. I am not very good at discovering music (although, there is a lot of new music I like), but I am great at drudging up music from the past. I bought this CD way back when I would go into music stores and listen to entire albums on the headphones provided to you at one of those listening stations. We used to have a Tower Records in Austin, where you could do just that. The only place you can do it now is probably Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Waterloo Records. However, Tower was definitely my favorite record store to go to.
It is funny how parts of a song can be so strong, but the rest of the song is kind of weak. For example, my favorite song from Jorge Moreno's album is "Si Yo Fuera" because it starts off like an old James Bond song (I am probably thinking of "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey), and it stays strong for a while, but then it gets repetitive. I still really like it, though.
Jorge Moreno - Si Yo Fuera
The first song on the album, "Reloj", is pretty good, but I think my favorite part is the ending that provides the segue into "Despertare". I wish artists would realize that the subtle parts of their songs are sometimes the best part, and they should incorporate more of that element into their music.
Jorge Moreno - Reloj
Jorge Moreno - Despertare
In other news, "Lost Odyssey", the game I am completely addicted to right now, got a good review from CNN here. The game is everything I have been waiting for since it is like the Final Fantasy series and has wonderful graphics and music. It makes buying an XBOX 360 totally worth it.
I have been listening to The Cranberries' album, "Bury The Hatchet", a lot lately. I first heard the song, "Promises", while staying at a Hampton or La Quinta in Costa Rica (Santa Ana or San Jose, I can't remember which, but they are right next to each other). I had gone to Costa Rica to learn more Spanish, and I was supposed to be there for four weeks, but I only lasted one week since I got so homesick. I had never traveled to another country before, and I also never traveled by myself before so the experience was really new for me. I was also dating a really cool guy back in Austin so it was weird to just up and leave everything behind. Costa Rica was really cool, and I got to go horseback riding, which I love more than anything so I really regret that I left so quickly. The night I was staying in the hotel was my last night before I went back to Texas, and I just felt like a complete failure for leaving early. I also kind of knew that the relationship with the guy in Austin was not going to last for many reasons. The song, "Promises", came on the MTV channel that they show in Costa Rica. The song seemed to sum up everything I was feeling, and I can still listen to the song today and think of every regret I felt at that time. Ugh! Anyway, here is the song ...
The Cranberries - Promises
The Cranberries - Animal Instinct
My final piece of blogging is a question I have asked other places on the internet, but I never get an answer ... Who is this woman in the "Yes, we can" music video? ,,,
She kind of sings the "Ohhh" part of the song. You can watch the video here if you need to.
I just saw this video on the Austin music channel (ME), and I thought it was really cool and trippy. The song reminded me of Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". I saw that the song was by Of Montreal, who did a cover of M.I.A.'s "Jimmy", and that made it all the cooler.
Here is Of Montreal's "Gronlandic Edit" video on YouTube ...
Here's a battle scene from the English version of Lost Odyssey that will be available to purchase in one week, I think. This scene makes it look even more like a Final Fantasy game, and it looks like you can really do a lot of different stuff during battles so that will be cool. I got this video form Gametrailers.com.
Lost Odyssey Battle Scene
Tom Cruise destroys his career even more in the video at the link below ...
You can also download the video on the Pirate Bay.
People have tried to put the video on YouTube, but it keeps getting taken down.
You can view it here, too ...
Here is the video for Goldfrapp's song, "A & E". I wanted to post it because it gets taken down a lot, and I wanted to see if this one gets taken down, too, from YouTube.
Here it is again for posterity ...
I am usually very apolitical, but I really liked Obama's win in Iowa tonight (well, I guess it is early Friday morning as I type this, but you know what I mean). I thought his speech was really good. I watched it on CNN and actually got chills watching it. I hope he does well in the other states, too.
I read about this little series in TIME's Top 10 issue. This show was one of the top 10 viral videos or something like that.
http://www.clarkandmichael.com/index.php
It's kind of funny. I haven't gotten a chance to watch all of the episodes because I have to go do some Christmas shopping now. Ugh!
Michael Cera has been in a ton of stuff, though. He's in that movie, "Juno", that is out right now, and it's getting a lot of good buzz. He also played Jason Bateman's son on "Arrested Development", which was a pretty cool show. He starred in "Superbad", too, but I have yet to watch that on DVD (I will Netflix it).
For some reason, I was associating him with the "Freaks and Geeks" actors (a bunch of actors who starred on the show, "Freaks and Geeks", and have since appeared in tons of others stuff).
The other guy in it is Clark Duke, but I don't know that much about him.
Here is an example of the series on YouTube (but it's much better to watch it on the official website because YouTube doesn't have all of the episodes) ...
Here is M.I.A.'s video for Paper Planes ...
Edit ... OK, I had another version of the video above before that did not sound like the album version of the song, Paper Planes. However, I found the official version of the video on YouTube, and that is what you see above now. It's good.
Here is just the song, Paper Planes ...
In other news Tori Amos got royally pissed off at two "fans" that were sitting in the front row at her concert. The two annoying people were leaving their seats to wander off and come back as they please, talking on their cell phones, taking pictures of themselves, etc. I don't know if all of that is correct, but they were doing something to annoy Tori and the people around them. When Tori kicked them out, everyone around them started applauding. It's a great scene, and it happens around 2:28 in this video ...
This post was severely edited by me. Ha! ;)
