we are living our lives, abound with so much information
Come on, let go of the remote
Don't you know you are letting all the junk flood in?
I try to stop the flows, double clicking on the 'go'
But it's no use, hey, i'm being consumed

Loading, loading, loading
Quickly reach my maximum capacity
Warning, warning, warning
Gonna short circuit my identity

Get up pn your feet, tear down the wallks, cathc a glimps of the hollow world
Snooping around will get you nowhere, you are locked up in your mind

we are all trapped in maze of relationships that goes on with or without you
i swim in the sea of unconscious, i'll search for your heart,
Pursuing my true--- Self...

---

I LOVE THIS SONG VERY MUCH!!!! Unlike Burn My Dread that i have to squint very hard listening to it, barely knowing what Kawamura-san said, this is so much easier!
O, i love Meguro's style!! I can't quite define the genres but if you are familiar with Shoji Meguro's style of Persona 3 songs, you'll definitely like this!!

Here, watch the video!!
Link for this awesomely wodneful song!!

For less than ten bucks, you can relive the unadulterated awesome of Joss Whedon's epic, web-musical.  If you'd like, you can even mosey over to the Dr. Horrible website and take a gander at the liner notes and lyrics.

Personally, I can not get enough of "Bad Horse Chorus"; in fact, I think I'm going to find three guys and hire them to dress up as cowboys and deliver all of my missives in verse.  But, let's be honest, each song pretty much hits the ball out of the park, from Neil Patrick Harris' lovelorn stalker anthem "My Freeze Ray" to Nathan Fillion's narcissistic "A Man's Gotta Do" or "Everyone's a Hero" (you can almost hear him swagger, I swear).  And, although Felicia Day breaks your heart with "Caring Hands" and "Penny's Song", I think "My Eyes" (her duet with NPH) is her real shining moment.

This should keep me happy until the DVD--with singing commentary!--is released.

Hello There, I'm back again with another piece of work to add to my collection.

This time its an original composition that i've christened 'Action Theme'.

Enjoy (hopefully you will anyways)

(Original Broadway Cast - Gee Officer Krupke)

second slice from the Original Broadway production of West Side Story and what else could it be other than this one. themusicologist only knows this song from watching the film as a youngblood growing up in the 70's and 80's but this cut is the only one that I can still see in my minds eye. an excellent piece of social commentary about what was a growing concern for America in the second half of the 50's, Juvenile Delinquents.

The dilemma seems to have been a question of how to make money out of teenagers without too much cost to society. As first America, (and then the world), was manouvered away from a 'needs' and into into a 'desires' culture this proved impossible.

Emotions are a dangerous playground and a 'got to have it at any cost' mentality was never going to be conducive to a harmonious society. Some of the problems we now face are related to this move into desires in part because emotional responses are not rational so if one desires something they are more likely to be irrational in the pursuit of it. leading, in a ever increasing number of cases, to a 'by any means necessary' approach to the aquisition of such things.

Other than a big problem with time management, all is well here.  Have a wonderful Thursday everybody!!

My favorite, by far, has to be Rachel Portman's work. It's very light and airy; feminine and pretty. The Chocolat soundtrack has always been one of my favorites, and today I just uploaded the soundtrack for Emma. It's just so astoundingly beautiful!

I guess I'm excited because I love fallins asleep to music like this. It allows the imagination to wander.

That's all :)

-M

"MINOR SWING" - RACHEL PORTMAN (CHOCOLAT OST)
[audio http://lfa.atu.edu/music/barber/intro/MinorSwing.mp3]

7 am, lago Michigan, a lot of people do jogging in here. Rifletto sul fatto che forse mi piacciono le citta' flat e con l'acqua, mi piaceva vivere a via del vignola vicino al Tevere. Qui corrono persone obese ed anoressiche, professionisti e operai, meravigliosi palestrati a torso nudo e nerd, oggi ho visto correre un ragazzo con le protesi alle gambe, come se nulla fosse, come se la vita gli avesse fatto un brutto scherzo, ma lui fosse comunque riuscito a trovare una via di fuga. Qualcuno quando corre ti saluta, e ti fa sentire a casa, in compagnia.

Il lago Michigan e' la cosa piu' simile al mare che abbia mai visto, non sono ancora riuscita a trovare le coste dell'Indiana e correndo verso downtown si arriva ad un punto in cui ci sono degli scogli con gabbiani, quello e' luogo che ho eletto come punto streching e meditazione.

Mentre correvo riflettevo anche sulla mia capacita' di integrazione e su quanto da uno a dieci potrei vivere a Chicago, pensavo 6 e mezzo. Mentre stavo sullo scoglio pentendomi degli hamburger mangiati e sognando cascate di te' verde e montagne di frutta ed insalata ho capito anche perche' windy city, non aveva mai tirato vento fino a stamattina. Stamattina il tempo e' cambiato, l'estate e' finita e l'autunno ha messo un piede nella porta. Ed una brezza soffiava da nordest leggera, sollevando sabbia e fili d'erba. Ovviamente solo qui riesco a capire dove siano i punti cardinali.

Senza i-pod tutto questo non avrebbe avuto senso. Vi regalo la mia soundtrack.

To Run: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

To Think and strech: 1, 2, 3, 4

La mia cena invece e' stata in solitaria al bancone di un pub per vedere il discordo di Rudy Giuliani, con una birra blue moon e una crab cake assai migliore di quella di Dean & Deluca. Nella mia testa la colonna sonora di questo mese. Nite.

il Buono, il Brutto, il Creeepy...

Featuring: Radiohead vs Hugo Montenegro & his Orchestra

The Short Cigar belongs to the man with no name.
The Long Gun belongs to the man with no name.
The Poncho belongs to his mother...

Sounds like: " The man with no name" wishes he was special.
File under: More Django than Tango

[audio http://philretrospector.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/good-bad-creepy.mp3]

Get: THE GOOD/THE BAD & THE CREEPY

En números podría decir que más de 6500 visitas, de 100 comentarios y de 159 visitas en un solo día como récord. Y si no me he equivocado, en los 99 post anteriores han aparecido 99 artistas (alguno más, si consideramos las colaboraciones). Pero este blog no va de números. Va de música. Y va de vosotros.

Por eso, muchas gracias.  A todos los que os pasais por aquí todos los días, a los que venís de visita de vez en cuando y a los que os encontrais esto por casualidad y luego seguís, o no. Gracias. Y sí, gracias especialmente a todos los que además de pasaros por aquí me dejais vuestra huella en forma de comentario. Muchas gracias, de verdad

Y como este es un post especial... aquí van 10 canciones. Canciones que son especiales para mí. Por una cosa u otra. Y quiero regalaroslas.

10 - Eminem - Lose yourself

9 - Green Day - Wake me up when September ends

(no te pierdas la versión en directo)

8 - Tiziano Ferro- Non me lo so spiegare

(y en directo)

7 - Alejandro Sanz - ¿lo ves?

(y si prefieres echar un vistazo al pasado, aquí tienes el videoclip)

6 - Pereza (y Quique González) - Si quieres bailamos

5 - Los Piratas - Mi coco

4 - David Ford - I'm Alright Now

3 - Iván Ferreiro - Extrema pobreza

(y aquí la tienes en directo)

2 - Quique González - De haberlo sabido

1 - Damien Rice - I remember

Bad day – Daniel Powter (sometimes I switch it to this one- Bad Shabbes)

Apologise – one republic

Cry Just a little bit – Shakin Stevens

The man with a child in his eyes – Kate Bush

I wanna know what love is – Foreigner

Hard to say I’m sorry – Chicago

We built this city – Starship

The Final Countdown – Europe

Living on a Prayer – Bon Jovi

Have you ever really loved a woman – Bryan Adams

Ok so I like 80s music – so sue me LOL…(runs away to dance in her legwarmers and leotards!!)

We'll save ourselves a bottle
of California red
we'll drink it on a tuesday
let it go straight to our heads

and we'll eat from good china
and make love on linen sheets
just like there's no tomorrow
no surrender, no retreat

i can feel it in my bones
and i know it in my heart
tomorrow may be rainin' but tonight we have the stars
we may always be together
or miles and miles apart
tomorrow may be rainin' but tonight we have the stars

we were young and we were foolish
we were easy to deceive
said we'd be in love forever
and it was easy to believe

well you and i we had our moments
our devils and our doubts
but the time we spend together
we gotta make it count

so let's hold on to this moment
cause it's all we've really got

“I had to do this myself”. David Holmes, DJ, composer and soundtrack arranger extraordinaire, is contemplating the introspective process of putting together his long awaited fourth album proper, “The Holy Pictures”. The new album is a monumental roller-coaster of emotion that sucks the marrow of Holmes’ life in Belfast city and commits it to tape in all its expansive technicolor. It deals with love, birth, heartbreaking loss and the ever present spectre of death and mortality, tracing it’s conceptual genesis back to his mother’s passing in the mid nineties. It’s a departure from the ostentatious fantasy soundtracks that you may expect from Holmes, an album of constant juxtaposition encapsulating the stark collision of tragedy and joy seeking that the world has watched unfurl through Belfasts streets on news reports over the last thirty years. At once uplifting yet haunting, it has certainly been the most difficult album he’s put together but it may very well be the best thing he’s ever done.

Having spent the summer reacquainting himself with live audiences across the festival circuit with appearances at events such as The Big Chill and Green Man, David is currently back in Belfast preparing for the release of “The Holy Pictures” and battling against the floods currently sweeping Northern Ireland. “It’s not so bad, I’ve been getting used to this for the last 30 odd years, so you know, but it’s been the wettest summer on record. The worst thing about that is that it just goes straight into winter which is so depressing.” The prospect of eternal winter may explain his unmusician like enjoyment of current promotional duties. “ Well I’ve been doing a lot of press for the new record, and, well interviews are fine if you actually have something to say, you get approached all the time for interviews when you’ve nothing to say, but now I do, so it’s been fun.”

Between his mothers death in 1996 and the release of ‘The Holy Pictures’ Holmes has recorded countless soundtracks, most notably working with Steven Soderbergh on the Oceans franchise, other solo albums and worked with the Free Association before finally getting down to in earnest to the process of soundtracking the experiences and themes that he had been building and storing over the last decade. Given the themes of the ‘The Holy Pictures” it is a surprisingly joyous album with tracks such as first single “I Heard Wonders” and “Holy Pictures” conjuring Kevin Shieldsesque tinged, techno-soulled wall of sound binges. “When you have a record that’s this personal, it’s roots firmly planted in Belfast and family, through major loss in your life, losing your parents, losing your friends it’s a hard process”, notes Holmes looking back, “but it’s not just about that, I think there’s a very positive air about the record too, like a celebration. I don’t think it’s a depressing record. So what I was trying to say is that it’s the process that began back then, and the whole process of this record was very organic, I just never felt ready before.”

The organic approach left Holmes with an unprecedented period of creativity producing vast swathes of material as he searched for the perfect tracks to complete his vision. “It got to the stage where I had 30 or 40 tracks so it was definitely a case of editing down for this album, and there were some cases where I was writing 4 or 5 tracks just to get one that I really liked.” Initially Holmes concept was a loose ideal, he just knew that he wanted to make an album with solidity and cohesion that captured his experiences growing up and becoming a man within his family and his home city. Pinpointing as he has the death of his mother as the beginnings of this desire it was a second death that focused his mind onto the concept of “The Holy Pictures”. “It was when my father died thats when all the lyrics started coming”, he recalls. “There were some tracks that were inspired by other people in my life, my best friend, people still alive and people lost in tragic circumstances, but it was when my father died, that’s when I went into the studio and tried to encapsulate how I felt, not just about losing my dad but being parent-less. When you lose the second parent it’s a very different hit to the first because suddenly you’ve got no one. So thats what I was really aiming to capture when I went into the studio, to encapsulate how I felt in the music and words.”  Holmes has more than succeeded in conveying the duplicity and complications of loss, nowhere more viscerally than on the albums ethereal closer “The Ballad of Sarah and Jack”, that lilts into view on a minimalist piano line and grows to flood the surroundings, sweeping the listener into its world.

But for all the loss surrounding “The Holy Pictures” perhaps one of the defining moments comes in the last 20 seconds of “Hey Maggy” where we hear Holmes’ daughter on tape for the first time. “Well I had a daughter along the way so that changed a lot of things. That was actually her first realisation she liked somebody. I was up in my control room and she walked into my live room when the microphone was still on and I could just hear her so I hit record.” The resulting recording is the sound of a child lighting up with an innocent joy so penetrating that it serves as a fulcrum around which the entire album twists. It’s a powerful reminder amongst an album inspired by such loss that life and family will always be a continuos saga. “It was just amazing to hear her expressing that she liked someone and to understand what that mean so it was a really special moment.” The album also features slightly more conventional appearances form Martin Rev of Suicide who feature on the track “I Heard Wonders”. “Martin was just someone I really wanted to have singing on the record. Most people know him as a keyboard player, but if you’ve ever checked any of his solo stuff... I just love his voice, it’s really sweet but menacing at the same time.”

The productivity of ‘“The Holy Pictures” has left Holmes with a wealth of excess material, including what he mutes as some of his best work but tracks that just did not fit the purpose of the album, “there were some tracks that people close to me really questioned leaving off, “ he recalls. But when hearing the album as a whole it is hard to imagine how it could be reworked or edited in any way. Fans shouldn’t despair though as the tracks are all intended to be released in various formats whether through downloads or bonus tracks or with magazines. Some may well even find there way into the projects that Holmes is already working on. Indeed as a man who, including soundtracks, has averaged nearly 2 albums a year for the last 11 years it is no surprise to find that the future has Holmes working on several soundtracks as well as renewing his relationship with director Soderbergh on an upcoming project . So there will be no shortage of David Holmes activity in the coming months or years, but right now “The Holy Pictures” allows us to take a look behind the curtain of an incredible musical mind to discover his roots and his soul. This is not just a soundtrack to an unshot film, this is David Holmes giving his actual self to you on  record, and an astonishing ride.

So, the knitting? I have waffled and dallied and screwed around the past two weeks.  Nothing solid to show, but also nothing bad.  I had to rip 4" of the "little pink scarf" because it fell off the needle and got all messed up.  Still, it came back just fine and I'm very happy with it.  I cannot wait to finish it.  It's pink and purdy and lacy and soft.  What else can you want?

The Cosmo Cardigan is on a tiny time-out.  It wasn't bad.  It was in the way.  I wanted to finish the "little pink scarf" and the cardigan was being knit while the temps rose.  As soon as the "little pink scarf" is completed, I will return once more to Thing II (sleeve 2 of the Cosmo Cardi).

Have you seen the new hoodie from Bonne Marie at Chic Knits????  I am also madly in love with Cassidy. Bonne should take a vacation so that I could get back and finish the Ribby Cardi.  Yes.  I am the only knit blogger that has not knit the Ribby Cardi.  Give me a break.  I told you I was slow!  I have the Eyelet Cardi pattern, too.  That, and CeCe.  I started CeCe and set her aside for the "little pink scarf".  I am such a magpie.  Sheesh.

So, today, my soundtrack has worked its way back to the 60's.  Playboy after Dark?  OMG.  If it weren't for the Grateful Dead and "St. Stephen", I would have laughed until I was sick.

É.
A beleza é o anteparo da Morte e da Loucura. Ela nos poupa a entrada num mundo onde ou desconhecemos a fala – onde a comunicação não é possível, ou é muito difícil o entendimento.

Anônimo Veneziano – baseado no romance homônimo do escritor Giuseppe Beto, tem roteiro magistralmente desenvolvido pelo diretor Enrico Salerno.
A beleza feminina de Veneza nos dá a mão para atravessarmos esta história de perda. Morte da vida, morte do amor.
A decadência de Veneza – hoje em dia já bem mais restaurada – nos ensina que o tempo destrói porém a memória se mantém intacta - lembranças, sítios arqueológicos e sem data definida que incomodam o presente de forma invasiva e surpreendente.
Um casal nunca é desfeito quando as lembranças ainda se apresentam despudoradamente.
Sempre formamos par com alguém para rodopiarmos na dança da Vida.
Um casal se desfaz. Não importa de quem foi o corte – nesse caso não gosto de usar o termo ‘culpa’. Têm um filho dessa união da juventude, vivida com amor e desejo. Agora, separados, vivem em cidades quase vizinhas; ela em outra união e ele ainda só.
O reencontro ocorre por um chamado desse ex-marido para (pressupomos) um derradeiro encontro. Ele está com pouco tempo de vida e esse pouco que lhe resta será extremamente penoso – um tumor inoperável no cérebro. Tragédia na medida certa!

A paisagem da Veneza decadente é a metáfora...ora bolas, mas que metáfora... é o belo, sedutor e apaixonado amor vivido num passado da gloriosa juventude – como todas as juventudes...
E o filme é um excelente parcour por Veneza enquanto rememoram a paixão que, numa noite, volta insistente e atrevida a unir o casal. A cama - leito de carícias ou arena de indiferenças - naquele último e lamentoso encontro, passou a ser um leito de morte: da vida e do amor. Nada mais resta a fazer senão um doloroso adeus.

Mas, Ó vós, homens de fé apoucada, o filme é lindo e ao final temos vontade de sair amando não importa quem. Porque si l’important c’est la rose, o importante é amar!

A música é enlouquecedoramente romântica. Do Concerto para oboé de Marcello, compositor italiano do século XVIII, peça belíssima e rara de ser encontrada em CD, o maestro Stelvio Cipriani recriou terna melodia para a música incidental do filme.

Florinda Bolkan, pasmem, trabalha direitinho e até ganhou um Donatello! Superior desempenho vai para seu parceiro Tony Musante, ítalo-americano que sumiu no tempo e no espaço mas jamais da minha memória. Dizem que trabalha em seriados. Pecatto!

Enrico Maria Salerno  é o personagem Zenone do “Exército de Brancaleone”; sua voz tão insinuante e carismática é a dublagem de Jesus Cristo no “Evangelho Segundo São Mateus”, de Pasolini. Que eu me lembre, o outro filme que ele dirigiu e que veio para o Brasil é “O pássaro de plumas de cristal”, também com Tony Musante.

Anônimo Veneziano. Non dimenticare mai!
Vale a pena uma ida à locadora de sua preferência. E se apaixonem, caso tenham tempo.

Por: Edith Sarmento Dutra. Blog: Bloguices-ect.

Anônimo Veneziano (Anonimo Veneziano). 1970. Itália. Direção e Roteiro: Enrico Maria Salermo. Elenco: Tony Musante, Florinda Bolkan, Toti Dal Monte, Sandro Grinfan, Brizio Montinaro, Giuseppe Bella. Gênero: Drama, Romance. Duração: 91 minutos. Classificação etária: 16 anos.

Artist: K
Soundtrack of: Japanese Drama - 1 Litre no Namida
Lyrics: Osanai Mai
Music: Matsuo Kiyoshi and Tanaka Choku

Kanashimi no mukou kishi ni
Hohoemi ga aru toiu yo

Kanashimi no mukou kishi ni
Hohoemi ga aru to iu yo
Tadori tsuku sono saki ni wa
Nani ga bokura wo matteru?

Nigeru tame ja naku yume ou tame ni
Tabi ni deta hazusa tooi natsu no ano hi

Ashita sae mieta nara tame iki mo nai kedo
Nagare ni sakarau fune no you ni
Ima wa mae he susume

Kurushimi no tsukita basho ni
Shiawase ga matsu toiu yo
Boku wa mada sagashite iru
Kisetsu hazure no himawari

Kobushi nigirishime asahi wo mateba
Akai tsume ato ni namida kirari ochiru

Kodoku ni mo nareta nara
Tsuki akari tayori ni
Hane naki tsubasa de tobi tatou
Motto mae he susume

Amagumo ga kireta nara
Nureta michi kagayaku
Yami dake ga oshiete kureru
Tsuyoi tsuyoi hikari
Tsuyoku mae he susume

*****************************************************************************************

+ ENGLISH TRANSLATION +

On the opposite coast of sadness
is something called a smile

On the opposite coast of sadness
is something called a smile
But before we go there
is there something we're waiting for

Chase our dreams, we can't run away
We go for that faraway summer day

If we find it tomorrow
we cannot sigh
Cos like a boat opposing the stream
we have to walk straight ahead

In a place worn down by sadness
something called miracle awaits
Yet we still search for the sunflower
that blooms at the end of spring

The warrior who awaits daylight
before his tear glitters and falls

Even if we're used to loneliness
only relying on the moonlight
We fly away with featherless wings
moving forward, just a little further

As the rainy clouds break
wet streets sparkle
Although it brings only darkness
A powerful, powerful light
helps push us walking ahead

Now, back on to the album. Anyone who has seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and loved it should buy the soundtrack. These songs are infinitely catchy and sing-alongable. I know. I sang them twice all the way to work and at least 4 times through all the way back from work (I got stuck in some traffic, and then got myself a little lost). Anyone who hasn't seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, that's okay -as long as you rectify that immediately by going to Hulu.com and watching it, and then of course buying the soundtrack. It is an on-line musical by Joss Whedon about a wanna-be supervillain. What more could anyone possibly want out of life? On my end, only heading to a better job could possibly improve an already wonderful CD full of witticisms and harmonic angst done well.

http://www.pandora.tv/my.worcester/32988428

A los que os sentís modernos poniendoos este tono en el móvil, algunos sin haber visto la película, os recuerdo que esa cancioncilla estaba de moda en 1966. Por suerte para todos, detrás de esa melodía hay más de 40 años de trabajo incansable, con verdaderas joyas no solo de la música de cine, sino en mi opinión, muchas de ellas de la música en general.

Es verdad que tiene una parte de obras a las que dificilmente podremos acceder al ser películas western italianas cutres de las que lo único que se salva es la banda sonora. Por suerte el youtube rescata algunas de sus obras mas o menos conocidas. Entre ellas está "La Misión", "Cinema Paradiso", "Conan el bárbaro" o hasta "Kill Bill" (aunque esta coge sobre todo composiciones de los 60)

Preo no os voy a dejar en las palabras, como siempre, deleitaros, corretead entre los videos que os ofrezco gratis hasta que alguien con el corazón negro los retire del youtube

sacada de kill bill volumen 2

La siguiente es una maravillita que descubri hace poco, la película es "Agáchate Maldito!"

Deja inundar tu habitación con este temazo de "La Misión"

Incluso en muchas bandas sonoras explora mas allá de lo convencional, como en esta, sacada de "Il Giardino Delle Delizie", esta no sé ni si existe en España. Personalmente la veo muy relacionada con el tríptico. Aunque puede no gustar a todo el mundo

Y para acabar con algo menos radical, uno de los mejores temas de amor que haya escuchado, de "Cinema Paradiso"

Este sábado, si Dios quiere, todo esto y mucho más en el auditorio de Juan Carlos I de Madrid, Morricone dirigiendo al Orfeón Donostiarra. Conducid con cuidado.

Di hatiku ada dandi (?) berwarna hijau

Saat jumpa pertama kita tertawa

Inikah tanda cinta

Ku tak tahu mengapa

Namun jantungku berdebar semakin kencang

Namun malam itu tak terduga

Kata-kata yang telah dirangkai nasib serasa tak sampai

Buka kamus hidupku

Di halaman yang paling terdepan

Dan temukan sebuah kata

Aku pun gelisah mengartikan perasaan itu

Aku cinta…

Ending

Pabila kesedihan selalu menutupi

Kata hati tak akan dapat terlihat

Perasaan yang lemah tak mudah dimengerti

Bila kita memandang ke muka

Asal air matamu akan kuberi tahu

Aku tak kan mencoba menggodamu

Ku slalu bersamamu

Janganlah kau lupakan

Bila nanti kau merasa sepi.

Dua lagu di atas adalah soundtrack sebuah anime jaman kelas 3 SD. Judulnya Yoko Soyoko atau Yokyun. Sebuah anime tidak terkenal, yang sampai kucari di Mbah Google pun tak ketemu. Tapi aku suka, karena Yokyun adalah seorang gadis yang selalu ceria dan optimis memandang hidup. (Lirik berdasarkan ingatan, kalau salah mohon dimaafkan) ^_^

Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky

Sunshine - Danny Boyle

Babylon A.D. - Mathieu Kassovitz

Pues si ya los vieron y ya se dieron cuenta, todas tienen la misma música, que por cierto es muy buena, pero me sorprende verla tantas veces repetida en varios trailers, lógicamente es el OST de Requiem for a Dream, y es donde mas se adecua a las imágenes, al menos es mi punto de vista.

PD: Max Steiner fue el primer compositor en realizar música incidental, bueno ya en este caso banda sonora para la película King Kong de 1933.

"El arte de la música es el que más cercano se halla de las lágrimas y los recuerdos" - Oscar Wilde.