crosses the lines

Like Listening to Edie Brickell

2010-08-24T14:38:00.002+07:00

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As featured in The Greatest. @masgede, this is delicious, I think.

"Want some attention, I give without thinking. That's the way it is now"

artist: Inara George.
song: Bottlecaps.
album: Accidental Experimental.
source: YouTube.
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Lifeline

2010-08-06T20:11:00.001+07:00

People should say this more often, I think.

We all make mistakes, here's your lifeline. If you wish it, wish it loud. If you want it, say it now, say it loud.

artist: Angels and Airwaves.
song: Lifeline.
source: YouTube.
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Hardest Best Fastest Strongest

2010-07-16T18:49:00.004+07:00

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Been following Daft Punk YouTube renditions. These are the best I've seen so far.

Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger tune. Original tune.

Original video (link is here. Embed code is not available).

Some nuts do this. Spooky! In every good way possible :-)

This is something Glee might want to try.

See this. Try not to give this guy any finger.

For finale, All hands for these guys.

artist: (originally) Daft Punk.
song: Harder Better Faster Stronger
source: Too Many!
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Three Lessons of Money

2010-07-13T13:10:00.001+07:00

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Behavioral economist Dan Ariely explains spending behavior: (1) automatic deduction, (2) thinking of money in concrete terms, and (3) pain of paying.

It's not always that we want to save more and spend les. I think the question is are we allocating our money correctly across categories."

speaker: Dan Ariely.
profession: Behavioral Economist.
source: YouTube.
channel: bigthink.
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John Lennon's Beautiful Boy

2010-07-08T21:07:00.003+07:00

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Scene from Mr.Holland's Opus (1995). Mr.Holland, a teaching musician, finds the irony that his son, Cole, is deaf. This is a scene where he apologizes to Cole for neglecting his own's son musicality, featuring John Lennon's Beautiful Boy.

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This is John Lennon's acoustic version of the song.

This is a class' video dedication to their sign language teacher,
performing the same song.

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This is an Erie Community College video project
by Eric Winton and Christine Kowal,
performing Lennon's Beautiful Boy cover.

Message From The Deafs

2010-07-08T19:36:00.000+07:00

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John Mayer's Waiting On The World To Change represented in sign language. Too bad no credit is available.

One day our generation is gonna rule the population

original artist: John Mayer.
title: Waiting on the World to Change.
album: Continuum.
source: YouTbe.
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Good Rendition

2010-07-08T19:14:00.002+07:00

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Good piano rendition of Dave Matthews Band's #41. @bobycozy check this out!

cover artist: James Michael Day.
original artist: Dave Matthews Band.
title: #41.
album: Crash.
source: YouTube.
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No Lid

2010-07-08T18:32:00.000+07:00

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Love the sound of the guitar.

I have no lid upon my head, but if I did, you can look inside and see what's on my mind. It's y**.

artist: Dave Matthews (feat. Tim Reynolds).
song: Let You Down.
album: Crash Into Me (originally).
source: YouTube.
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Signe, Nice-e.

2010-07-02T13:58:00.001+07:00

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@alexkuple and @bobycozy 's tweet conversation on Eric Clapton's Signe is contagious :-) This is tune you want to sing all day long.

artist: Eric Clapton.
song: Signe.
album: Eric Clapton MTV Unplugged.
source: YouTube.
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Blue Man Group feat. Dave Matthews - Sing Along

2010-06-25T22:33:00.003+07:00

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I just notice that it has only three lines. Why is it good, again?

"If I tell you I'm strong, will you play along? If I follow along, does it mean I belong? If I sing along, will you sing along, or should I just keep singing right here by my self?"

artist: Blue Man Group feat. Dave Matthews Band.
song: Sing Along.
album: The Complex.
source: YouTube.
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I'm Speechless :,-)

2010-06-25T20:06:00.002+07:00

Pixar just don't let any story goes wasted, ya?

source: YouTube.
channel: DisneyPixar.
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Crazy ToyStory3 Mosaic

2010-06-25T19:41:00.000+07:00

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I've seen mosaic before, but this is just crazy, ridiculously, inhumanely AMAAAZIINGGG!!! Those freaks at Pixar!! (I said it with best intention)

source: YouTube.
channel: DisneyPixar.
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Buzz Sings Techno

2010-06-25T19:35:00.001+07:00

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Some super dude made Buzz Lightyear goes techno! Amazing! I want to know how to mix like this! (I can 'tmake sense what Buzz was saying, though)

source: YouTube.
channel: DisneyPixar.
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Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

2010-06-25T12:52:00.001+07:00

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Already considered classic as it deserves, I suppose. Around the era of Dave Matthews' Shakespearean feel.

"You've got your ball and chain tied to me tight. Tie me up again. Into your heart I'll beat again. Sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock and sweet you roll. Lost for you, I'm so lost for you."

artist: Dave Matthews Band.
song: Crash Into Me.
album: Crash.
source: YouTube.
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Where is Frente Now?

2010-06-24T21:41:00.002+07:00

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Too bad this acoustic bunch did not last long.

Ordinary people, it's okay, you don't have to wear those wings. They're stupid things. Don't stop your life at the lights. Don't be smart, be a beginner. Don't be wrong, even when it's right.

artist: Frente!
song: Ordinary Angels.
album: Marvin The Album.
source: YouTube.
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Toy Story 3 Google Ad

2010-06-21T20:11:00.000+07:00

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Someone gave me a link to this Toy Story Google Ad. Funny as can be.

source: YouTube.
channel: SearchStories.
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Tread Softly On Children's Dream

2010-06-18T20:21:00.003+07:00

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Sir Ken Robinson argues that current education system merely maintains an old, broken model, and inhibits younger generation to pursue their full capacity.

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven"
from the Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Robinson adds:
Everyday, everywhere, our children spread their dreams beneath our feet. And we should tread softly.

speaker: Sir Ken Robinson
event: TED, February 2010
source: YouTube
channel: TedTalksDirector
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The Very Model

2010-06-14T00:42:00.005+07:00

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Scene from Studio 60 pilot. The free speech. Amazing.

We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show each time that we walk into this aghast and famous studio. We're starting out from scratch after a run of twenty years and so. We hope that you don't mind that our producer was caught doing blow

Yes, it's hard to be a player when at heart you've always had a hunch to bite the hand that feeds you is a scary way of doing lunch. But still when we walk into this aghast and famous studio we'll be the very model of a modern network TV show.

I am a christian tried and true, baptized at age eleven so unlike the liberals, gays and jews I'm going straight to heaven. But if you feel you've been cheated and our sordid content lets you down we'll happily do the favor of an intellectual reach-around

We know the evangelicals are lining up to tag our toes. And then the corporations will not hesitate to pull their dough. But still when we walk into this august and famous studio we'll be the very model of a modern network TV show.

clip: The Very Model of Modern Network TV Show.
series title: Studio 60.
source: YouTube.
distributor: Warner Bros.
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Fields of Gold in Studio 60

2010-06-13T23:48:00.002+07:00

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Sting performs one of the best of version of Fields of Gold, featured in Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60.

I'll never make promise lightly. There have been some that I've broken. I swear in the days still left we'll walk in fields of gold.

artist: Sting.
song: Fields of Gold.
album: Ten Summoners Tales.
clip: Studio 60.
source: YouTube.
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Missed Out

2010-06-12T00:30:00.003+07:00

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We are what we don't see. Missed everything daydreaming

artist: Nelly Furtado.
song: All Good Things.
album: Loose.
source: YouTube.
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A Word Or Two

2010-06-11T23:59:00.002+07:00

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It's long and easy to think it rubbish, but it's good to hear.

I know it doesn't seem that way, but maybe it's the perfect day. Even though the bills are piling, and Lady Luck ain't smiling. But if we'd only open our eyes maybe we'd see the blessings in disguise; that all the rain clouds are fountains, though our troubles seem like mountains.

Every now and then life says "where do you think you're going so fast?" We're apt to think it cruel, but sometimes it's a case of cruel to be kind. And if we'd get up off our knees, then we'd see the forest for the trees. And we'd see the new sun rising over the hills on the horizon. A word or two, my friend. Don't lose heart. Give the day a chance to start.

artist: Ron Sexsmith feat. Chris Martin.
title: Gold In Them Hills.
source: YouTube.
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Hold

2010-06-11T20:59:00.004+07:00

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Boy, the tongue.

And when we meet, which I'm sure we will, all that was there will be there still. But I'll let it pass, and hold my tongue, and you will think that I've moved on.

artist: Dido.
song: White Flag.
album: Life For Rent.
occasion: AOL acoustic session.
source: YouTube.
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TQ

2010-06-11T20:46:00.000+07:00

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Ought to be the most-said words.

Pushed the door, I'm home at last. I'm soaking through and through. Then I'm handed a towel. Thank you.

artist: Dido.
song: Thank You.
album: No Angel.
occasion: AOL acoustic session.
source: YouTube.
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Scream. Louder.

2010-06-10T19:16:00.000+07:00

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As I said, some songs are good to scream with.

These are the days it never rains but it pours.It's the terror of knowing What this world is about. Watching some good friends screaming 'Let me out.'

artist: My Chemical Romance feat. The Used.
song: Under Pressure (Queen cover).
souce: YouTube.
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Scream

2010-06-10T18:35:00.001+07:00

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Some songs are good to scream with.

These are the days it never rains but it pours.It's the terror of knowing What this world is about. Watching some good friends screaming 'Let me out.'

artist: Keane.
song: Under Pressure (Queen cover).
occasion: War Child Concert.
souce: YouTube.
channel: kitsonpaintbird.
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Pale Is The New Beautiful

2010-06-06T23:46:00.005+07:00

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CERN scientist Brian Cox pleads the necessity for explorers be available to both seek new, possible space to live and venture the limitless wonders of the universe (arguably, despite the down-spiraling current economy). Below is his quote from the late Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot about our home. The 'dot' mentioned is available at the end of this post.

(from 14:00 to 15:34)
"Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

speaker: Brian Cox.
title: Why We Need Explorers.
event: TED Salon, London 2010
source: YouTube.
channel: TEDTalksDirectors.
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Wrong Take on Persona

2010-06-06T12:18:00.005+07:00

If my err (pembantu --bukan housemaid-- bahasa inggrisnya apa sih?) were this hilarious, I won't ever need to leave my house.

from (01:10 to 01:21)

Alfred:
I assume, as you're taking on the underworld, this symbol is persona to protect those you care about from reprisals?

Bruce:
You thinking about Rachel?

Alfred:
Actually, sir, I was thinking of myself.

title: Batman Begins.
scene: Bruce Wayne decides to become a symbol.
director: Christopher Nolan.
source: YouTube
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Note Full of Hope

2010-06-06T10:08:00.001+07:00

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Bones played this for the back song. Haven't listened this a while.

"I can't conceal what feel, what I know is real. No mistaking the faking, I care. With a prayer in the air I will leave it there on a note full of hope, not despair."

artist: Depeche Mode.
song: The Pain That I'm Used To.
album: Playing The Angel.
source: YouTube.
channel: taghcrazy
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Shouldn't Be Second-Classed

2010-06-02T23:12:00.003+07:00

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During lunch I had a free-association discussion with expert researcher on psycholinguistic. We were set to exchange knowledge randomly on the study of language. Nearing the end of our discussion, I made a mention my dormant, long-time interest on sign language, deaf culture and their cognitive profiles. He then made a point on how deaf our local populations are treated as second-class intellects while the truth is they are intelligent being of quite different kind with equal, if not more, beauty. The issue is more than scientific, but cultural and political also, at the very least. His point stuck in me. This video reminded me of his words.

"All citizens can register and vote by mail, and countries are required to ensure that voting is accessible to voters with disabilities. The information in this guide describes some of the rights of voters with disabilities. Please share it with your family and friends. Working together, we can move toward a barrier-free election."

channel: CaliforniaSOS.
source: YouTube.
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Name Sign (From Logo)

2010-06-02T16:29:00.001+07:00

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This is a video letter for Obama telling how the Deaf Community assigned a name sign for him. Now he can introduce himself to deaf people with it. The name sign, it's very witty.

channel: gnarlydork.
source: YouTube.
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Skanky Divas Should Just Go Bite Some Dust

2010-05-30T00:11:00.008+07:00

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I used to think this is no more than an adulterous tune. With novel ears (advice from a friend) it's then the most beautiful kink of sound. Skanky divas with the skankiest dances got no shit on this.

"So here we are tonight you and me together. The storm outside and the fire's bright. In your eyes you see what's on my mind. You've got me wild and turned around inside. And this desire, see, it's creeping up heavy inside here. And I know you feel the same way as I do now. Let's make this some evening. Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight. Hear me call soft-spoken whispering out a thing or two I have to say here. Tonight let's go all the way. Just for this evening, let's strip down,and trip out at this. One evening's hour starts with a kiss and away."

artist: Dave Matthews Band.
song: Say Goodbye.
album: (originally) Crash.
source: YouTube.
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I'm Between Giants

2010-05-29T18:54:00.003+07:00

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Dear Steve Jobs, I awe that you're a techno and culture genius, but this guy can't be more right.

Google President of Engineering Vic Gundotra, once skeptic on Andoid mobile operating system project, recalling his then boss Andy Rubin answer. This is Gundotra recalling Rubin's converting answer (01:00 to 03:06):

"One, it is critically important to provide a free mobile operating system, an open source operating system that would enable innovation at every level of the stack. In other OEMs should be free to build all kinds of devices --devices with keyboards, without keyboards, with front-facing cameras, two inches, three inches, four inches-- that operators should be able to compete on the strength and coverage of their network --2G, 3G, 4G, LTP, CDMA-- and that in the end, with innovation coming at every layer, it would the consumer who would be able to benefit by getting t best device and best network for them.

I remember Andy's second point. He argued that if Google did not act, we faced a Draconian future, a future where one man, on company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice. That is a future we don't want."

clip: Keynote Day 2 Android Demo.
event: Google I/O 2010.
source: YouTube.
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Beginning of Beautiful Friendship

2010-05-27T02:51:00.004+07:00

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Kevin Smith narrates how he and Mewes' kick-started their 13 years of friendship. Funny beyond words.!Envy (both the friendship and the wit).

clip: An Evening With Kevin Smith.
source: YouTube.
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Mewes' Pickup Line Experiment

2010-05-27T02:08:00.002+07:00

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Mewes and Smith crack me up. I can't imagine they live in a cuss-free world.

clip: Kevin Smith 2 - Even Harder.
source: YouTube
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2010-05-27T01:37:00.002+07:00

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From the golden years of Damon and Affleck, in collaboration with genius producer, writer, director Kevin Smith.

My eyes are open. For the first time I get it. See, in the beginnings it was just us and Him. Then he created humans. Ours was designed to be the lives of servitude, bowing, worshiping, bowing, scraping, and adoration. He gave them more than he ever gave us. He gave them a choice. They choose to acknowledge God, or the choose to ignore Him. All this time we've been down here I've felt the absence of the divine presence; and it's pained me, as I'm sure it must have pained you. Why? Because of the way He made us. Had we been given freewill we can choose to ignore the pain, like they, do; but no, we're servants. These humans have besmirched everything He bestowed upon them. They were given paradise, they threw it away. They were given this planet, they destroyed it. They were favored best among His endeavors, but some of them don't even believe He exists. And in spite of it all, He has shown them infinite fucking patience at every turn. What about us? I asked once you to lay down the sword because I feel sorry for them. What was the result? Our expulsion from paradise. Where was His infinite patience then? It's not right! It's not fair! We've paid our debts. Don't you think it's time we went home?

title: Dogma.
director: Kevin Smith.
release year: 1999.
source: YouTube.
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Keeping The Combination Lethal

2010-05-27T01:10:00.002+07:00

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Story man Edward Norton + Comedy man Ben Stiller. Lethal! (Occasion: Visiting the works of Edward Norton).

May those who love, love us. And those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He can't turn their hearts, may He turned their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping.

title: Keeping The Faith.
director: Edward Norton (debut).
release year: 2000.
source: YouTube.
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They Don't Make Oath Like This Anymore These Days

2010-05-27T00:59:00.003+07:00

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Possibly Ridley Scott's best epic.
(Occasion: Visiting the works of Edward Norton).

Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.

title: Kingdom of Heavens.
director: Ridley Scott.
release year: 2005
source: YouTube
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Clerks, Animated Series.

2010-05-27T00:24:00.000+07:00

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I didn't know they turned this into animated series. Kevin Smith is genius. No DVDs, yet?

series: Clerks Animated Series.
created by: Kevin Smith.
source: YouTube.
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Melts

2010-05-27T00:18:00.002+07:00

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title: Le Fabuleux destin d''Amélie Poulain
source: YouTube
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Long Timer Pioneer of Free Culture

2010-05-26T10:10:00.001+07:00

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I never thought that fashion industry would be the pioneer of free culture (this must be the first time I make good comment about them).

Below is cuts of the argument:
In the fashion industry there is very little intellectual property protection. They have trademark protection, but no copyright protection, and no patent protection to speak of. It means that anybody can copy any garment on any person in this room and sell it as their own design. The only thing that they can't copy is the actual trademark label within that piece of apparel. The reason that the fashion industry doesn't have copyright protection is because the court has decided long ago that apparel is too utilitarian to qualify for copyright protection. Because there is no copyright protection there is a very open ecology of creativity. Unlike their creative brothers and sisters --sculptors, photographers, filmmakers-- fashion designers can sample from their peers' designs, they can take any element from any garment in the industry of fashion and incorporate them in their own design.

speaker: Johanna Blakely.
event: TEDxUSC.
source: YouTube.
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Over The High Notes

2010-05-25T16:30:00.002+07:00

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Jeff Beck's rendition of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. It was so high-pitched I think I sprain my neck just listening.

artist: Jeff Beck.
song: Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
event: Udo Music Festival, Fuji, Japan (2006).
source: YouTube.
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Now Playing in Repeat Mode

2010-05-25T10:52:00.004+07:00

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Best copywriting piece I've known (not that I know a lot). I got goosebumps from start to end.

If you are, you breathe. If you breathe. If you breather, you talk. If you talk, you ask. If you ask, you think. If you think, you search. If you search, you experience. If you experience, you learn. If you learn, you grow. If you grow, you wish. If you wish, you find. If you find, you doubt. If you doubt, you question. If you question, you understand, If you understand, you know. If you know, you want to know more. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, YOU ARE ALIVE.

clip: Live Curious campaign ad.
company: National Geographic.
source: YouTube.
the rest of credit title is HERE!
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"In The Grand Scheme of Things"

2010-05-24T21:16:00.003+07:00

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Haven't heard that phrase for a quite a while.

It was always simple, not hidden hard. You've been pulling at the strings, playing puppeteer for kings and you've had enough. But the search ends here, where the night is totally clear and your heart is fierce. So now you finally know that you control where you go. You can steer. So bring on the wind, fire, and rain.

artist: Missy Higgins.
song: Steer.
album: On A Clear Night.
source: YouTube.
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Before Satellite, After Her

2010-05-24T20:23:00.002+07:00

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From Matthew's Shakespearean early years (best time!).

Winter's cold spring erases. And the calm, away by stom is chasen. Everything good needs replacing. I hope all these changes happen with you. And while I spend these hours (all my) five senses reeling. With the biggest steps I'm running after.

artsist: Dave Matthews Band.
song: After Her (early version of Satellite).
album: -
source: YouTube.
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March On

2010-05-23T23:01:00.001+07:00

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The march still gives me goosebumps.

sequence: Opening.
movie title: Superman Returns.
director: Bryan Singer.
year: 2006.
source: YouTube
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Beating Man of Steel

2010-05-23T22:20:00.002+07:00

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I knew from the start that they're crackpot heads, but I can't help loving the songs. Even love the ear-splitting guitar. I think this one is better that Two Princes.

"Lois Lane please put me in your plan. You don't need Superman. Come on downtown and stay with me tonight. I got a pocketful of Kryptonite."

artist: Spin Doctors
song: Jimmy Olsen's Blues.
album: Pocketful of Kryptonite.
source: YouTube.
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Dear YouTube

2010-05-17T20:43:00.003+07:00

Happy Birthday! This place is full of you :-)
http://www.youtube.com/FiveYear

Sincerely,
adihrespati
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No Accidental Design

2010-05-17T11:10:00.000+07:00

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Accidentally On Purpose's opening title screams 'knocked up.' Genius! (good kick-start tune, too).

clip: Accidentally On Purpose (opening)
source: YouTube
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Real Love by Funny People

2010-05-17T10:01:00.001+07:00

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Lennon's Real Love sang fault-free by Adam Sandler --the video is, though (it's left-side-right from the original scene). Why one would flip it is beyond me.

"From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go."

movie: Funny People
song title: Real Love (John Lennon cover)
source: YouTube
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The Universal

2010-05-02T12:59:00.002+07:00

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I don't really get what it's about, but it's good in many ways.

artist: Blur.
song: The Universal.
album:The Great Escape.
source: YouTube.
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Connect Them Together

2010-05-01T18:56:00.004+07:00

(when Dillon teaches Kane reading --from 5:21 to 5:35):
"Every word is part of a picture. Every sentence is a picture. All you do, is let your imagination connect them together."

title: (Freak) The Mighty
casts: Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone.
year: 1998
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Might Be Mighty

2010-05-01T18:46:00.004+07:00

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You get no better song of honor than this one.

"Brothers are we, marching on the roads of time from this broken land and the days that defined us. All men are free, justice is a sword we hold, trusting in the knight’s noble vow in the brotherhood that binds us.

When the broken are strong... When the beaten are proud... When the twisted can stand... When the silenced can laugh... When the hunted have turned... When the tortured are sane... When the blinded still stare... When the poison remain... When the voiceless can sing... And the shackled can run; And the downtrodden man holds his face to the sun....

We’ll be walking high above the world."

artist: Sting
song: Freak The Mighty
album: OST The Mighty
source: YouTube
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Red

2010-04-29T18:29:00.001+07:00

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Mental Tatoo

2010-04-29T18:06:00.002+07:00

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"Tatoo them in your memories." That's new.

"Time grabs you by the wrist (and) directs you where to go. So make the best of this test and don't ask why. Take photographs and still-frame (them) in your mind. Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time. Tattoo (them in your) memories and dead skin on trial. For what it's worth, it was worth all the while."

artist: Greenday.
song: Time of Your Life (Good Riddance).
album: Nimrod.
source: YouTube
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A Procrastinator's Fantasy

2010-04-29T17:18:00.002+07:00

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Indeed.

"Because tomorrow we may die, don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling; don't rob yourself of all that you could be. Roll hard till it's midnight and roll till its light. Stay up and make memories here with us now, to roll out with friends. Ours is so right I won't waste a minute here tonight."

artist: Dave Matthews Band
song: So Right
album: Everyday
source: YouTube
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2010-04-24T19:47:00.000+07:00

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Legendary Bob Marley wrote this. I like it better when Lennox performs it. But when these two sing it, it gives perfect ordinary feel.

artist: King of Convinience.
song: Waiting In Vain (Marley cover).
album: -
source: YouTube.
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With a Little Help From Some Friends

2010-04-18T10:13:00.001+07:00

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* Still the best words.
* Great things are best when seen this way.

"My friend, it seems your eyes are troubled. Care to share your time with me? Would you say you're feeling low? (If) so (then) then a good idea would be to get it off your mind.

See, you and me have a better time than most can dream. (We will) have it better than the best, so (we) can pull on through whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down. And if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around."

artist: Dave Matthews Band.
song: Best of What's Around.
album: Under The Table And Dreaming
source: YouTube.
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Father Song

2010-04-14T00:03:00.003+07:00

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Mine is out of town for the week.

"Always tell the truth; say your prayers; hold doors; pull out chairs; easy on the swears.

Throughout life people will make you mad; disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

You're living proof that dreams do come true."

artist: Will Smith.
song: Just The Two Of Us.
album: Big Willie Style.
source: YouTube.
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I Find Nothing Funny

2010-04-13T23:17:00.002+07:00

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Always the funny man Jerry Seinfeld.

"... I'll tell you what I do. Nothing. I know what you're thinking, 'that sounds pretty good'. You're thinking 'I might like to do nothing myself.' Let me tell you, doing nothing is not as easy as it looks. You have to be careful because the idea of doing anything which could easily lead to doing something that would cut in to your nothing and that would force me to have to drop everything." (00:59 - 01:40)

artist: Jerry Seinfeld
bit: on nothing
event: Letterman Show
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Missing LeRoi Moore

2010-04-12T02:24:00.005+07:00

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Here's Dave Matthews Band, with (no) little helps from some friends. Appropriately introduced by friend Adam Sandler, too. TIME named this one of Top Ten best 2010 Grammy performance.

"Take what you need and we disappear without a trace ,we'll be gone. Moon and the stars they will follow the car. And then when we get to the ocean we are going to take a boat all the way to the end of the, world (but) when the kids are old enough, we are going to teach them to fly.

You and me together, we could do anything. You and I were not tied to the ground; not falling but rising like rolling around. We can always look back on what we did. You know we could do better than anything that we did. We could do anything."

artist: Dave Matthews Band
song: You and Me
album: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
source: YouTube
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Tonight Tonight

2010-04-12T01:35:00.001+07:00

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Ugly voice. Great lyrics. Vibrating music. Artistic videos. The ugly voice isn't a flaw.

"We’ll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight. We’ll find a way to offer up the night the indescribable moments of your life. The impossible is possible tonight. Believe in me as I believe in you."

artist: Smashing Pumpkins.
song: Tonight Tonight
album: Melon Collie And The Infinite Sadness.
source: YouTube.
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Introduction of Social Network Science

2010-04-11T14:25:00.005+07:00

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` The following is the note I took on Roby Muhamad’s studium generale (Fakultas Psikologi, Universitas Indonesia; Friday, April 9, 2010)
` Topic is introduction on social network science
` Journal/book references are not available in this note, sadly
` I have asked Mas Roby the permission to post this note publicly --permission granted.
` This note serves as writing exercise, too.

Network theories started its population from Stanley Milgram’s experiment. In this experiment Milgram sent 300 random participants each one package which they were asked to send directly to a targeted recipient --a particular broker in New York-- or forward it to other people whom they know on a first name basis whom they think have the probability in knowing the broker. Sixty-four of those 300 packages made it to the broker, with the average of six-degrees of separation, smaller that previously thought. Finding of this research, later known as small-world phenomenon, caught popularity in US, made it into Broadway performances, and made mentions in several movies, among others.

Roby Muhamad* and colleagues replicated this experiment on a global setting --using emails, instead of air mails-- involving 18 target recipients, 13,000 participants from 168 countries and found similar median (6-7) --though with different mean (4.5-6.8) degrees of separation-- to Milgram’s studies. This paradox, that similar degrees of separation applied on global setting, raises the question of how this is possible. Tackling this question is imporant for several reasons. First, abundance of social process in need of explanation. Second, the need to come up with centrality structure. Third, the expectation to solve individual and social problem.

Social network researches contribute dimensions of interesting and important findings, like discovering norms otherwise wouldn’t have been found through conventional self-report methods. In one study of romantic relationship, through a network analysis, it is found that although subjects claimed that it is acceptable for them to have a relationship with an ex of his/her ex of his/her ex of his/ her ex, the data showed such probability do not occur.

Another interesting finding is the role of social influence. In Harry Potter phenomenon, researches have been conducted to determine whether its worldwide popularity is due to its high quality narration or merely the result of invisible hands of social influence. In Ascham line experiment in 1962, it was found that subjects tended to change their decisions to conform with opinion of others (Subjects were displayed three vertical lines and asked to identify one of which the longest. When majority of people --whom were actually research confederates-- chose diferrently, subjects eventually conformed to popular answers, even when it was obvious that their answers were correct in the first place. Questions of quality vs. popularity is so significant to investigate in both offline and online world that an online experiment were setup innovatively to investigate it. In this experiment a fake music online website is published --MusicLab-- and listed songs along with its numbers of frequencies of the songs have been downloaded. These numbers are randomly assigned by researchers. It was found that the popular songs --ones with high-number downloads-- were getting popular and the opposite happened to the unpopular ones.

The science of social network are applicable in various contexts: distribution of information, ideas, computer virus, plagues, etc. Some specific principles may work on some context but not on others. The spread of plagues, for example, is different the that of opinions. One would catch a disease via one-time exposure, where spread opinions may probably be not, requiring --at times--several exposures via different agents. Application of this framework includes, among others, social campaign, organizational interventions.
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Old Habit Dies Never

2010-04-10T00:26:00.002+07:00

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I played my angry teenage part well, if I may say. This bunch were the heroes of my like-minded of the time. As old habit dies hard, the song is still in the 'kick-ass' list. Lyrics are still as strong as i remember them.

"First off, let's take it form the start. Straight out, (you) can't change what's in my heart. No one can tearmy beliefts apart. You never see anyone like me. (I) prevail regardless what the cost might be because power flows inside of me. (I) never fall as long as I try.

Time out. Let's get something clear. I speak more truth than you want to hear. (So I am now a) scapegoat, to cover up your fear. You never see so much might. (I) fight for what I think is right.

You got yourself a fight. Stand up, (we) all sing along (against you). Together, nothing is as strong. (We) won't quit. We aren't in the wrong.

You can't bring me down."

artist: Suicidal Tendencies.
song: You Can't Bring Me Down.
album: Lights, Camera, Revolution.
source: YouTube.
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Electric Dyslexic

2010-04-09T21:48:00.001+07:00

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Difficult to grasp that Noel is dyslexic.
*Not very good video resolution, though.

"If she's electric, can I be electric, too?"

artist: Oasis
song: She's Electric
album: What's The Story Morning Glory
source: YouTube
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Heathen Chemistry

2010-04-09T12:37:00.002+07:00

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Their attitudes is never on my favorable term, but some of their tunes and words are just spot on.

"All of the stars have faded away. Just try not to worry, you'll see them someday. Just take what you need and be on your way."

artist: Oasis
song: Stop Crying Your Heart Out
album: Heathen Chemistry
source: YouTube
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Good Times.

2010-04-09T03:22:00.002+07:00

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A song of 1994, but of ageless celebration.

"I spent a little time with you, I want a little more."

artist: Edie Brickell.
song: Good Times.
album: Picture Perfect Morning.
source: YouTube (Vevo Channel).
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Smash!

2010-04-09T02:07:00.002+07:00

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I'm never one of the party people. No fan, thus, to the lyrics. But the music is irresistible.

artist: Smashmouth.
song: Pacific Coast Party.
album: Smashmouth.
source: YouTube.
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The Other Version

2010-04-06T00:57:00.000+07:00

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Came across this version of Cardigans' Carnival on @OjaOja's iPod yesterday.

"..."

artist: The Cardigans
song: Carnival (Puck version)
album: (originally) Life
source: YouTube
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But Why Chase Cars (The Title)

2010-04-04T19:13:00.000+07:00

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This is why we have role models.

"I need your grace to remind me to find my own."

artist: Snow Patrol.
song: Chasing Cars.
album: Eyes Open.
source: YouTube.
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Just One World, But We Live In Different Ones

2010-03-28T14:12:00.001+07:00

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Mark Knopfler's words on how every next generation thinks of wars.

"There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones. Now the sun's gone to hell and the moon's riding high. Let me bid you farewell. Every man has to die, but it's written in the starlight and every line on your palm. We're fools to make war on our brothers in arms."

artist: Mark Knopfler
song: Brother in Arms.
source: YouTube
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Do Something Else

2010-03-28T13:12:00.004+07:00

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(From West Wing) : White House staff Josh Lyman is to write referral to a proposal of mission to Mars. His initial reaction to the assignment was 'it was dud.' This is the turn of his opinion.

Josh Lyman: "Everyone hates us. We are the most dominant nation on Earth. But too often the face of our economic superiority is corporate imperialism; our technological dominance shown by smart bombs and predator drones. We could do something else. Something generous and uplifting for all humankind. We can send the first representatives from Earth to walk on another planet. We can land people to Mars...

...Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extraterrestrials is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages, and collection of music from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry. Including "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)" by 20s' bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose mother blinded him at seven by throwing lye in his eyes after his father beat her for being with another man. He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system."

Note:
* more about Blind Willie Johnson (trust me. this is moving)

series: West Wing.
episode: The Warfare of Genghis Kahn.
source: YouTube.
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On Privacy

2010-03-28T12:49:00.005+07:00

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(From West Wing) : President Bartlet and White House staff Sam Seaborn and Toby Ziegler interviewed two Supreme Justice nominees on the prospective issue of --insightfully-- privacy. President is to nominate only one. Conversations worth mulling over :-)

(on 4:13 to 4:40)
Sam Seaborn: "...it's about the next 20 years. The 20s and the 30s it was the role of government; 50s and 60s it was civil rights; the next two decades is going to be about 'privacy.' I'm talking about the internet. I'm talking about cellphones. I'm talking about health records, and who's gay is who's not. Moreover, on a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this."

Note: Sam you missed a bit. It's not two decades. It's much less than that You were right about what you said, though. Very spot on.

(on 6:10 to 6:45)
President Bartlet: "Judge Mendoza, would it surprise you to learn that for the past few months your name has been on the short list for the bench*? (Judge Mendoza answers: Yes, Mr. President). Well, then this is going to knock your socks off. Tomorrow evening at 5 o'clock I am naming you as my nominee to be the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. You are not the first choice, but you are the last one, and the right one. Will you accept the nomination? (Judge Mendoza answers: With honor)."

Note: Not the first, but the last, and the right. Coolest thing to say to someone who you make waiting.

series: West Wing
episode Short List
source: YouTube
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What To Do With Heat

2010-03-27T18:26:00.002+07:00

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I'm never a fan of anything theatrical , but on this one I make an exception.

"I want to touch the light, the heat, I see..."

artist: Peter Gabriel.
song: In Your Eyes.
album: Secret World Live (1994).
source: YouTube.
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For This Upcoming Earth Hour

2010-03-24T23:48:00.000+07:00

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This is the sort of intro I'd dance into (not that I dance).

"(Out of the) nine planets around the sun, only one does the sun embrace. (And) upon this watered one, so much do we take for granted."

artist: Dave Matthews and Big Voice Jack.
song: One Sweet World.
album: (originally) Remember Two Things.
source: YouTube
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Wish You'd Lived To See All You Gave To Me

2010-03-23T00:04:00.002+07:00

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The song has lyrics, it turns out. Graceful, too.

"One day you'll see we can live together, when all the world is free. I wish you'd lived to see all you gave to me, your shining dream of hope and love, life and liberty."

artist: (I wish I knew)
song: Requiem For Soldier
source: YouTube
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Easy Company At Their Best

2010-03-22T23:40:00.002+07:00

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*One is only worth this scene if one also sees the preceding nine episodes.
*Not easy life for Easy company.

series title: Band of Brothers, episode 10 (finale).
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Still Good Words

2010-03-20T11:03:00.000+07:00

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Whether he's a megalomaniac or a genuine article, these are good words.

"One love. We get to share it (and) it leaves you if you don't care for it. (It's not) too late tonight to drag the past out into the light. We're one, but we're not the same (and) we get to carry each other."

artist: U2.
song: One.
album: Achtung Baby.
source: YouTube.
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I Agree. Hihi.

2010-03-20T02:40:00.000+07:00

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Seinfeld doesn't use Blackberry nor iPhone. He was right about the slow head down and on slamming the iPhone down. LOL.

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Deserving

2010-03-16T10:33:00.001+07:00

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I don't know whether to call this video crazy cool or crazy sick.

"I have to celebrate you, and praise you like I should."

artist: Fat Boy Slim.
song: Praise You.
album: Better Living Through Chemistry.
source: YouTube.
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This Reason Above All

2010-03-14T14:35:00.001+07:00

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I'm a sucker for this kind of speech. Cheesy bastard.

"They can be great people, Kal-El. They wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all --their capacity for good-- I've sent them you, my only son."

movie: Superman Returns (trailer)
source: YouTube
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Ligthening Up, Enlightened

2010-03-14T13:49:00.004+07:00

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I can make thousands of words on why this tune is great to my ears, but a friend reminded me to just lighten up and listen. So I do.

"(I'm) admiring your senses, infected by your tongue. Defenseless I believed that we'd face anything to come. You innocently told me (that) you'd catch me when I fall. And solemnly we'd knock on wood. Please don't stop coming home. I'm not the only one."

artist: Liquido.
song: Play Some Rock.
album: At The Rocks
source: YouTube
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Army of Billion Strong

2010-03-13T10:19:00.002+07:00

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"Many among us wage peace, and one day with our help war MAY BE a thing of the past."

source: YouTube
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Help Me Make The Most Of...

2010-03-09T10:42:00.001+07:00

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For every lousy 80s song listed, this one annuls them all.

It's my own design, my own remorse. Help me to decide and make the most of freedom and of pleasure. I'm So glad we've almost made it, so sad they had to fade it. Nothing ever lasts forever

artist: Tears For Fears.
song: Everybody Wants To Rule The World.
album: Song From The Big Chair.
source: YouTube.
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There Is Always The First Time

2010-03-09T01:10:00.000+07:00

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MIB dance is possibly the only bodywork I can stand to look at :-)

"We see things that you need not see and go places that you need not be. Believe me, it's for your own protection."

artist: Will Smith.
song: Men In Black.
album: OST of Men In Black
source: YouTube
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Best Advice Known So Far

2010-03-07T02:25:00.004+07:00

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(pretext note: you want to see the video on this one)

Wear Sunscreen or the Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay titled "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.

The essay was used in its entirety by Australian film director Baz Luhrmann on his 1998 album Something for Everybody, as "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)." The song sampled Luhrmann's remixed version of the song "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)" by Rozalla. The song was subsequently released as a single (with the opening words changed to "Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99").

When the column was later turned into a song, the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing started to play the song Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) at every graduation ceremony.

(source: Wikipedia)

"Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if yousucceed in doing this, tell me how."

artist: Baz Luhrmann.
song: Sunscreen (Everybody's Free).
album: Something For Everybody
source: YouTube.
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Please Change

2010-03-07T01:19:00.002+07:00

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When you're in high school, angry band is probably to whom you fit the most.

I seem to recognize your face haunting, familiar yet, I can't seem to place it. (I) cannot find the candle of thought to light your name. I swear I recognize your breath. Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.

My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return. But now here you are, and here I am. Lifetimes are catching up with me. Hearts and thoughts, they fade away.

artist: Pearl Jam.
song: Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town.
album: Vs.
source: YouTube.
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Please Change

2010-03-07T01:19:00.000+07:00

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When you're in high school, angry band is probably fits you most.

I seem to recognize your face haunting, familiar yet, I can't seem to place it. (I) cannot find the candle of thought to light your name. I swear I recognize your breath. Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.

My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return. But now here you are, and here I am. Lifetimes are catching up with me. Hearts and thoughts, they fade away.

artist: Pearl Jam.
song: Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town.
album: Vs.
source: YouTube.
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Reexperimenting With Flickr

2010-03-07T00:18:00.003+07:00

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@tedibudiwan introduced me to this song.

artist: Harry Connick, Jr.
song: Recipe for Love
album: ?
source: Flickr
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Nana Nana

2010-03-05T01:29:00.003+07:00

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Lousy lyrics, good music. At least you can nana nana through it.

nana nana nana
nana nana naaaa naa

artist: Cake
song: Girl With The Long Jacket
album: Comfort Eagle Song
source: YouTube
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Reciprocity

2010-03-02T00:38:00.001+07:00

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* Very hard not to love those fingers.
* Wow (on the date on which the song was played).

I was just wondering if you'd come along to hold up my head when my head won't hold on. I'll do the same if the same is what you want. If not, I'll go alone.

artist: Dave Matthews feat. Tim Reynolds.
song: The Stone.
album: (originally) Before These Crowded Streets.
source: YouTube.
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Getting Around

2010-02-26T15:15:00.001+07:00

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Beach Boy's I Get Around couldn't be any more fun than this!

artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
song: I Get Around (The Beach Boys cover)
album: -
source: YouTube
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Back to the Habit

2010-02-26T14:49:00.002+07:00

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(Turns out I can only be without good lyrics so long). While Phil Collins 'Another Day in Paradise' is more about compassions toward the homeless, AD's Mr.Wendal is more about respect (I think the AD's is a winner).

Here, have a dollar, in fact no brotherman here, have two. Two dollars means a snack for me, but it means a big deal to you. Be strong, serve God only, know that if you do, beautiful heaven awaits. (I) never thought twice about spending on a ol' bum (before) until I had the chance to really get to know one. Now that I know him, to give him money isn't charity. He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some shoes

Mr.Wendal, a man, a human in flesh, but not by law. I feed you dignity to stand with pride, realize that all in all you stand tall.

artist: Arrested Development.
song: Mr.Wendal.
album: 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of...
source: YouTube.
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Breaking The Habit

2010-02-26T13:10:00.000+07:00

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With tune this upbeat, who needs good lyrics (hihihi).

artist: Arrested Development.
song: Honeymoon Day
album: Among the Trees.
source: YouTube.
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He Almost Said F***

2010-02-21T13:02:00.002+07:00

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The part where John erred --and almost said F***-- makes it even more solemn. Hihihi.

artist: John Frusciante.
song: How Deep Is Your Love.
album: (none: Bee Gees cover).
source: YouTube
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Prime, Indeed

2010-02-21T12:21:00.000+07:00

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"ring ling dong ding dong ring ding dooooown ding dang!" to you, too! :-D

All around the world we could make time --rompin' and a-stompin'-- ccause I'm in my prime! I know, I know for sure that life is beautiful around the world. I know I know it's you. You say, "Hello" and then I say, "I do"

artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
song: Around The World
album: Californacation
source: YouTube
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Seize Everything

2010-02-21T11:43:00.003+07:00

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(1) You mean life of addicts can be this contemplative?
(2) That is some self-control by Frusciante.

(I'm) a rebel and a liberator. Take a look (at life), it’s on display for me. Coming down, no not today. In the water where I center my emotion all the world can pass me by. In this perfect weather we’ll find a place together.

Note: All the you's have been conveniently converted into I's and me's

artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
song: The Zephyr Song
album: By The Way
source: YouTube
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that's just what you are

2010-02-21T10:52:00.001+07:00

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Acoustic versions are always better than the full-band one.

In our endeavor we are never seeing eye to eye.

I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book. So don't sit there and think you're off of the hook by saying there is no use changing --cause that's just what you are.

(You're always) acting steady, always ready to defend your fears. What's the matter with the truth. Did I offend your ears by suggesting that a change might be a thing to try. It would kill you just to try and be a nicer guy. Its not like you would lose some critical piece if somehow you moved point A to point B.

artist: Aimee Mann
song: That's Just What You Are
album: I'm With Stupid
source: YouTube
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Remind Me When Enough Is At Place

2010-02-21T01:21:00.001+07:00

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Won't agree completely, but to be reminded of this is nice.

I've seen the dark; brightness in one little spark. I've seen what I chose and I've seen what I need. I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be. And that is enough, to want more would be greed.

artist: Bjork and Thom Yorke.
song: I've Seen It All.
album: OST of Dancer in the Dark.
source: YouTube
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That 'Yellow' Never Crossed My Mind

2010-02-21T00:38:00.001+07:00

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While composing the song's lyrics, however, Martin could not find the right words. He was thinking of a specific word, which he deemed a missing key word in the lyrics, to fit the song's concept. He looked around the studio and found the telephone directory Yellow Pages, which happened to be situated nearest to him. Martin later titled the song "Yellow" as a reference to the directory. (source: Wikipedia)

artist: Jem.
song: Yellow (coldplay cover).
album: -
source: YouTube
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Unfortunate

2010-02-19T18:45:00.000+07:00

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I am certain now that I am vindicated: selfish, and wrong. But I am right. I swear. And I knew it all along.

artist: Dashboard Confressional.
song: Vindicated.
album: A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar.
source: Youtube
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