New video from Foo Fighters. In case you are wondering why I am posting music videos in my blog, it's so that I can click on the little 'music' label and listen to whatever music I like, wherever I am. So if you want to see all music posted by me, use the labels!

Now this is a Russian band with a male+female vocal. This is by far the best of their songs and they have a nice video clip on it. Enjoy!


Official Slot site (Russian): http://slot.ru
MySpace Slot site (English): http://myspace.com/theslot

Can you imagine 1922? It was 85 years ago. That means that almost certainly all the people that worked on this movie are now dead! But it is still a masterpiece of cinema. They did that with no previous inspiration. After you watch this, you can only ask yourself how come people have 85 years of example and they still screw movies up. So here it is: Nosferatu

Am I turning metal? I used to hate songs played by long haired guys barking aimlessly on a heavy and repeating guitar riff. But I really enjoy listening to Sonata Arctica. Maybe because they're Finnish? :) I am developing a taste for Finnish music, apparently.

Anyway, here is a live performance of the song Broken, which I like best so far. I did look for an official video on this song, but drowned in home made crap videos. I did find official videos for other songs, but the band seemed even less charismatic in those, trying to seem really upset and managing to look like a shampoo commercial.



Another song of theirs I like is Replica.

Here is a song that I found most interesting and I am referring here to the high pitched piano with the distort guitar in the background. The video isn't that exceptional, but watchable. I am trying to imagine a scene of emotional destruction in a movie that would have the particular instrumental part as a soundtrack.



If you want to see the live performance, click here.

No comments, just watch.

A Perfect Circle has the same lead man as Tool, James Maynard. As far as I see they do really nice lyrics and music. Personally I preferred the cover of John Lennon's song Imagine, but I couldn't find the video for it in all the anime+9/11+Iraq war home made video crap that clogs YouTube.

Check out Judith, which was inspired by the illness of the singer's mother, paralysed in bed, but still praying and thanking Christ. Although if you want to see anything and witness Maynard's weirdness, check out this video of a live TV appearance.

I've first noticed her while she was playing with Sneaker Pimps, making the soundtrack for The Saint (Val Kilmer version). She looked so interesting with her vibrato voice, weird teeth and Asian features. I've even downloaded the whole Sneaker Pimps discografy before I found out that she was with Sneaker Pimps only briefly.

Now I was listening to the remix version of Linkin Park's My December featuring Kelli Ali and I recognized the voice immediately, even if she was singing faintly in the background. So I thought I would share her with you. Below is the video I think makes her look best, even if you can find a lot of videos with her playing live either as herself , either with TigerMouth or with Japanese bands Buck-Tick or Dropz. Also some links to her site and the Wikipedia entry.

SNEAKER PIMPS - 6 UNDERGROUND

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Official web site with texts written by Kelli herself
Main Myspace site
Another MySpace site
Wikipedia entry

This video is hilarious just because it is so true. B movie legend Bruce Campbell is telling them as he sees them. Don't miss his upcoming movie "My Name is Bruce" in which he stars as himself battling demons! I can't find it anywhere for now, but I will keep searching.

Update: I found it, having been delayed for a year for redoing some scenes with extra budget, but it failed. :( I almost did not find it funny. Better luck next time.

Also, you might find useful the information that he played in all three Spiderman movies. And, as he says himself in another youtube clip, if he didn't name the hero in the first film, the entire franchise would have now been named "The Human Spider", while in the second, as the doorman of a cinema in which Spiderman did not enter, Bruce Campbell is the only person that ever defeated Spidey! :)

This man is just hilarious, watch this clip and all the Bruce Campbell Movies you can get your hands on.


Update: trust lawyers to screw with my blog. I had to replace the youtube video above with one from a live performance. Pretty much the same idea, only the interview was funnier and more complete.

I've accidentally stumbled upon Star Wreck, a Finnish film that parodies Star Trek and Babylon 5. The special effects are as good if not better than the original shows, the parody is cool and very funny and the fact that the film was made by some unknown guys in a makeshift studio gives it a lot of extra points. Not to mention that this is one film Danezia is very unlikely to comment on :D

What's even better is that the movie is freely downloadable from the net, so the major drive for the film was fun! When did you last see a movie made for fun, not money?

Update: Spoken too soon, apparently. After a while the film was released on DVD and removed as a download. But still, while it lasted it was cool.

All fans of Star Trek and B5 will love this.

You can also watch it here, but it's lower quality and maybe it will disappear after a while. Enjoy!

This is a video I've found randomly browsing the net. Previously I did search for it, but only on vague references.

What is it about? Steve Jobs gives a very cool speech at Stanford University, cool because it advocates following your heart and not settling on someone else's ideas of how your life should be. He basically goes in front of so many Stanford graduates and tells them that the things they learned there and stood by were nothing compared with the things they felt needed doing.

I really think that there must have been a lot of angry teachers after listening to Steve Jobs telling their students that he dropped out of college and that it was one of his best life decisions and that they should ignore all the brainwashing they had to go through to get to their graduation

Watch it. It is worth it.

I just had to blog about this, Night of the Living Dead, the original movie from 1968 and the only one worth anything, is now in the public domain! You can watch it for free! Online! Where? On Siderite's blog!!

This is a documentary about Daniel Tammet, a guy that is a savant, but without the loss of social skills. He can make incredible complex calculations in his mind, has a fantastic memory, learned Icelandic in seven days then conversed in it on live TV.

The most incredible stuff is when he does math, though. He "sees" numbers as colored shapes and the operations he does in his brain are plastic, rather than numeric. He just sees some shapes that then reveal digits. As a guy in the film said "he does math without even knowing".

As a film it is not terribly elaborated, but you don't need it to be. It just shows the facts and lets you be amazed. I am getting annoyed with IMdb for not having a lot of the documentary films I am watching these days, so I had to blog about them. Bottom line, this doesn't really help anyone do anything, but it does display a normal looking person seeing the world in a completely different way than most of us and being capable of "superhuman" feats. These guys are the real superheroes, even if in comic books they would have probably been the bad guys. You know, no muscles, not really handsome, lots of brain.

The best part of it is that you can watch it all, right here, on my blog, thanks to google videoYouTube. Isn't the Internet fab?

I usually comment on films on the IMdb site, but there was no mention of this program episode there. Watching it was much like reading "I am a Mathematician", immersed in a fascinating, yet inaccessible world, the one of professional mathematicians.

I often wonder where do they get the money to sit years on end at their desk to prove a theorem, without telling anyone they intend to. Anyway, the story is about this guy, Andrew Wiles, who had the dream of solving Fermat's last unsolved puzzle and one that Fermat himself wrote he had a beautiful solution to. You see, Fermat wrote some conjectures, some ideas he had, and did not write the solutions, thus failing to turn them into theorems.

A lot of mathematicians struggled to prove them and they succeeded, all but one, a problem so simple to define and yet very difficult to solve: show that there are no natural non zero values that satisfy the following equation for any N larger than 2 : x^N+y^N=z^N.

It is amazing the math that this guy has to explore to solve it. Of course, I understand nothing of it, and the show doesn't try to make anyone understand the math, but the feeling and effort are truly remarkable. A must see for anyone needing motivation to better himself.

You want to watch the film, here it is:

Without further ado, The Sounds! with their song "Seven Days a Week". Of course I chose this one because the blond looks cute :)



Links: Official site, MySpace site, Wikipedia entry, YouTube search.