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Astronomy Blog

This blog is dedicated to Bianca. The Search for Life in the Universe is pointless because even if life were there, I'm sure it could outsmart our slow technology and hence never be discovered. Nice try Southam, nice try. Also the girl in front of me keeps turning around and watching me, it's creepy. Fingers crossed me and B get casted for If You Seek Amy's sexy bodied party people, and natives in New Moon. Today's song of the day is... the "best remix ever" of Womanizer. Injected with a Poison, Over.

why thank ye, kind sir.

Awesome tunes from commercials. The advertising powers that be, wrapped up in their tomfoolery and gimmicks and have struck a musical goldmine to win over the young public/ hit home with their target audience. I have found quite a few perfect songs from commercials and here they are:

-Coffee Shop by Landon Pig in A Diamond is Forever commercial
-You're a Wolf by Sea Wolf in a Chevy Malibu commercial
-Creator by Santogold in a budlight lime commercial
-Daydreamin by Lupe Fiasco ft. Jill Scott in and AT&T cell phone commercial
-Rollercoaster by Major Maker in a Maynards commercial (I remember being obsessed with this commercial song and I wanted it so I was really sad when I found out they made the song just for the commercial but due to the excitement about the song they hastily made it into a full-length song that is nowhere near as awesome, at least i'll always have the commercial)
-Remind Me by Royksopp in a geico commercial
-The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car by Troopers in a Tim Horton's Timbit commercial
-Around the Bend by Asteroid Galaxy Tour in a recent itouch commercial/ I love the video for this song! (+ all the other awesome songs that itunes has popularized, CSS' Music is my hot hot sex, Viva la vida, Jerk it out, Flathead, Vertigo, 1 2 3 4, Shut up and let me go -another awesome video, Mis Swing Es Tropical, Passion Pit's Sleepyhead - absolutely awesome)
-Sweet Pea by Amos Lee from an AT&T commercial
-Song 2 by Blur in a really old Budweiser commercial on an airplane (I can't remember the other details)
-That theme song for People's Diamonds where the shadows give each other diamonds
-Breathe by Telepopmusik from a Visa commercial
-Handlebars by Flobots (I saw some commercial in the states, possibly an MTV commercial, but a commercial nonetheless)

Well kids, that's all the commercial tunes I can remember but I must also mention the song White Lies by E.S.T. (Thank you gg, despite how boring your show is when Nate's not on).

happy new year!

2009 is going to be sizzling hot if for no other reason than the release of some bodacious movies and psychedelic cds. OOOOOOmg I can't wait.. I'm going to start posting movies I'm going to watch each month too because with great movies often come smexcellent songs. Like Shipping Up to Boston (thank you Departed), Are you that Somebody (domo arigato Dr. Doolittle), Dance Like This (merci Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights), Bad Things (ok.. this is from True Blood the t.v. series but still an excellent song), and many many more (like all those dance movies - I personally think Step Up had an excellent soundtrack since I liked every song from it).

Anywhoo this new year is ripe with disgustingly exciting CD releases. Ok so 2008 kinda raised our standards in music releases (what with B.Spears' new cd, lil Wayne, Kanye and GNR's friggin long awaited Chinese Democracy and all).

What I'm excited for:
-Billy Talent (WOOT)-Dave Matthews Band (horraah)
-K-os (sooo excited)
-Dr. Dre (so excited I might vomit)
-Eminem (I think I'm going to cry)
What I'm curious to hear but don't expect to like more than three tracks on it:

-U2 in their 12th studio album release after more than 4 years (I'm not that excited)
-Coldplay (meh: but I do love Violet Hill and Lost! from their last album)
-Jay Z - The Blueprint 3 (waaay overrated - I mean who fakes a retirement?; however I do like his pre-retirement music and one post: Heart of the City - but only because my sister keeps singing the chorus which made me realize how catchy it was)

What I don't care about but will probably give a quick listen-through:
-Greenday (boo - although I do like Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams)

-Fiddy (50-cent/eww except I like ayo technology and a couple of songs featuring him like Can't Leave him alone, etc.)
-Postal Service
-Built to Spill

Who I'm angry at (this has nothing to do with 2009 releases):
-Leona Lewis (for wasting my time and hurting my ears)
-Rihanna (for being the laziest musician in the history of time - she's not the only one with more than one good track on her CD but releasing a 9th single from the same cd? seriously? you make me mad rihanna you and your creepy neck tatoo; if the video for disturbia wasn't so awesome i would probably dislike you as much as I do leona (that's saying something). Stop being lazy and make some new music or go away. Thank you.

Can't you see I'm losing my marbles it's marvelous..

..losing another, losing another. Lyrics are the most intimate component of a song. Sia's CSS remix of Buttons* is an amazing composition of sound and lyrical relationships. A lot of us can't help it but before we hear the beat, synthesis, and catchy tune, those words process in our brains much faster. Unfortunately, it is also what makes it so hard to listen to a song that is extremely catchy but tarnished with the presence of a bad lyric. Sometimes we can look past it and still be able to appreciate a song for its entertainment value like in Eminem's Superman (slap anthrax to your.. i'm going to stop quoting here but the song remains excused in my books). Other times, it's not so easy to forgive. As much as I love the catchy song Don't Trust Me by 3oh!3, I'm finding it very difficult to hear past "shush girl, shut your lips, do the Helen Keller, and talk with your hips". It's just disturbing. Anyways, today I felt like dedicating this post to some of the most incredible lyricists on my playlist.

A few of my personal favourite lyrics:

*Make it Mine by Jason Mraz: Wake up everyone how can you sleep at a time like this unless the dreamer is the real you. Listen to your voice, the one that tells you to taste past the tip of your tongue. Leap in, the net will appear.

*Glass to the Arson - Anberlin: If gravity prevails this time it's over.

*37mm - AFI: Silence can you hear me? Press me to your lips and I'll suck the poison out.

*Talons - Bloc Party: And in the dark it comes for me, malevolent and without thought. Uprooting trees, destroying cars, cold and relentless, with arms outstretched.

*Love at the End of the World - Sam Roberts: This is love at the end of the world, there's still love, at the end of the world. Two wars and a revolution, got me praying for absolution, there's blood on these hands, baby.

Hold on, Hold on - Neko Case: The most tender part of my heart is for strangers.

Not too young, not too old - Aaron Carter ft. Nick Carter: I'll wipe the floor with you, where's your concentration? Don't even talk about that Sony Playstation....

..eek! this post might have just turned into a confessional of guilty pleasures.. I'm sorry... but these words, they define a song, create its personality, and provide the depth that is the basis of a friendship. When we walk in solitude with our headphones on, suddenly what music has to say is the most important thing, and we listen.

*These songs are perfect.

The Collected Works of a Music Lover/Music's Lover

Urgent Message to Humanity: We must not define ourselves by the genre of music we listen to, for that in itself has too many restrictions. As if there are no emos who secretly lipsync to Britney Spears, no country lovers who airguitar to Metallica no gangster rappers who cry to Celine? Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.. point is: free yourself from music moulds and be happy to own an eclectic collection of songs that you can take pride in. I am on a never-ending conquest for music that frees my soul and liberates my mind from the shackles of reality.. well either that or the soundtrack to my life. On this conquest I am searching for that artist who can fulfill my every musical need. All I want is to be able to put up a poster of an artist because I enjoy every song ever made by them. Like back in grade 4 when my poster of the Backstreet Boys was a statement of my love for all of their music (and Nick Carter).. Until then, almost every artist I listen to will forever remain a one-hit wonder, *sigh.. is it unfair to call The Killers a one-hit-wonder? I have yet to hear a song from them anywhere near as good as Somebody Told Me....

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