Monthly Archive for July, 2005
It's odd how a song grows on you. I can go months or even years with a song on my playlist and treat it with little more than indifference, and then, one day, it plays and I have to go back and play it again. Not long thereafter, it takes on some sort of special significance, and I find myself singing parts of it to myself. I wake up with the words on my lips. That's the way it's been for the past week or so with a cover of The Waterboys' song "The Whole of the Moon".
I've heard the original song, and it doesn't excite me. But this bootleg version I found online from a gig that Glen Hansard (of The Frames) and Mic Christopher did in Vienna in 2001 has me captivated. With them, it's a rougher song, but there's incredible depth to it. Hearing it reminds me of my own tendency to reach "too high, too far, too soon". Two weeks ago, I wouldn't have been able to tell you a thing about this song. It plays a couple times a day now, and that doesn't count the number of times I catch myself repeating it under my breath.
The Whole of the Moon (Live in Vienna) -- Glen Hansard and Mic Christopher (3.86 MB)
What songs have captured you?
I added 8 icons and 5 wallpapers to Gnomicons tonight. Here they are:
A wallpaper based around a photograph from Pymatuning State Park.
An addition to my popular photography wallpapers, this one focuses on the Cleveland Waterfront.
Like the one before, this is meant to match with the others in the series. It features another photo from Pymatuning State Park.
After "Colorblind", I was having a lot of fun with this photo in black and white, and it transformed itself into a wallpaper celebrating The Frames' song "Locusts".
In my exploration of NASA's site today, I found a gorgeous picture of Discovery in orbit and I couldn't resist the urge to make a wallpaper with it.
Man, my fingers are tired.... I had some problems with the PHP running the site because some of my new changes got overwritten when I backed things up earlier today. If anyone happens to have errors turning up, or things behaving very oddly, please let me know.
A wallpaper based around a photograph from Pymatuning State Park.
An addition to my popular photography wallpapers, this one focuses on the Cleveland Waterfront.
Like the one before, this is meant to match with the others in the series. It features another photo from Pymatuning State Park.
After "Colorblind", I was having a lot of fun with this photo in black and white, and it transformed itself into a wallpaper celebrating The Frames' song "Locusts".
In my exploration of NASA's site today, I found a gorgeous picture of Discovery in orbit and I couldn't resist the urge to make a wallpaper with it.
Man, my fingers are tired.... I had some problems with the PHP running the site because some of my new changes got overwritten when I backed things up earlier today. If anyone happens to have errors turning up, or things behaving very oddly, please let me know.
What is it with Dracula movies and romance? Coppola's Dracula (called Bram Stoker's Dracula in a fit of I-don't-know-what) is almost entirely focused on a twisted romance between Dracula and Mina Murray, and Shadow of the Vampire, which I just finished watching, also implants a bizarre sort of love story into the plot. I can't speak at the moment for Murnau's original Nosferatu because I haven't seen it yet. I can, however, say with certainty that Bram Stoker's book has no Dracula romance in it. Not a drop.
Does Hollywood have some idea that Dracula just isn't interesting enough without romance? Do directors have some kind of need to humanize Dracula by having him idolize some female, or is that just to keep the audience watching (in horror)?
Speaking of horror: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Words do not even begin to convey that horror.
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