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Dragostea din tei
2004: Gary Brolsma releases his “Numa Numa Dance” video on Newgrounds.com, starting an internet phenomenon and introducing millions of people to the band O-Zone. 2008: Pop-rapper T.I. releases yet another “hit single” featuring Rihanna, titled Live Your Life. The song samples the opening sequence from O-Zone’s song, Dragostea din tei. The funny thing for me…
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Flyleaf Music Video: “Sorrow”
Flyleaf released a music video for their song, “Sorrow.” I think it’s really good, and not just because it has Lacey Mosley in it. Vote for it on TRL here.
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The Last Diamond?
In the United States, an album must sell ten million copies (10x Platinum) to be certified Diamond. Given my interest in today’s music industry, I did a bit of research. The most recent Diamond certified album that I could find was Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, a double album by OutKast that shipped 5 million copies after…
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Unplayed Music
Over the years I have amassed a collection of music that is probably larger than what is contained in the libraries of some small countries. During the past year, I’ve made a habit of adding new music to a special playlist to ensure I hear it at least once before it gets lost in the…
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Vindication
Wonderful article from Ars Technica that supports what I (and countless others) have been contending for ages. A brave new world: the music biz at the dawn of 2008
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Guitar Hero 3
Kyle recently purchased Guitar Hero 3 for the PS3 and it’s been keeping us occupied for the past few weeks. The final song that you play over the credits is “Through the Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce, and is by far the most difficult song in the game. I was finally able to beat it…
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Web Grievances
Whenever a title contains “grievance” one prepares for the worst, so I’ll try to keep the whining to a minimum. It seems I was over-hasty to laud the virtues of Imeem, as Kyle and more recently, I, have discovered its frustrating limitation. It appears that user-uploaded content only plays as a 30-second clip when embedded…
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In other news…
It appears that Facebook has gotten the blog import feature working again. Perhaps now I should go back and tag some of these. Rachel and I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End on DVD last night. I tried to get a better quality picture by hooking the player up via the component video…
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.