Check This OUt: Fully Flared
Came across this video yesterday. I won’t say too much except that it’s one of the cooler, more perfect merging of music and video that I’ve seen in awhile. Really striking.
The music is “Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun” by M83 in case you’re interested.
Check This Out: Tecmo Super Bowl 06-07
Holy shit. Holy fucking shit. My mind has just been blown.
It seems that the internet, computer geekery, and old school NES nostalgia have just collided with spectacular results (again). It is now possible to download a custom version of Tecmo Super Bowl with the current NFL teams and rosters. The implications of this are so profound, I think my head is going to explode.
Okay, maybe I’m getting carried away, but one thing that I do know is that I’m one step closer to hosting my high concept Super Bowl party where the pre-game entertainment includes watching Tecmo Super Bowl simulate the upcoming matchup. Or at the very least playing TSB with my beloved Bears without having to use Mike Tomczak as my QB. Outstanding.
<>Gotta run for now — am playing this weekend’s Bears/Vikings matchup. The Beloved are up by 7 in the 1st, but Rex just tossed an INT. This is so fucking rad.
Check This Out: The Postal Service – “Nothing Better”
I’ve become a huge fan of The Postal Service lately. I heard them for the first time on my XM and picked up their CD the next day. My favorite song by far is “Nothing Better”. It’s a pretty catchy song that’s about a couple breaking up.
Breakup songs and songs about how much love bites (Def Leppard), love hurts (Nazareth), or love stinks (J. Geils Band) as a whole are a genre that’s been beaten to death over the years, but what makes this song different is that’s it’s about the breakup itself. It plays out like a fight between two lovers – one that’s in love and desperately wants to stay together and the other that wants to end things and move on.
As I said earlier, it’s incredibly catchy and really well written, but what really pushes it over the top for me is how it totally nails the “fight” dialogue – like the way the dude will do anything to keep the girl and just refuses to accept that it’s over. In his head, he’s already thought out their whole life and can imagine them being happy growing old together, but he’s being unrealistic. The girl for her part is trying to get his head out of the clouds and get him to see that it’s not working, but he won’t hear it, leading to my favorite line in the song:
Don’t you feed me lines about some idealistic future
Your heart won’t heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures
We’ve all been there — I was there just a few months ago. Maybe that’s why this song strikes such a chord with me. Anyway, check this out:
