Shadowlessness

Here’s a new idea: listen to Opeth’s “Watershed” album while walking in heavy, dry and driving snow.
You should give it a try sometime.

I’ve recently discovered this site. I’ve watched several of the talks there (all impressive, I must say) but this one has moved me the most. Ben Zander talks about passion of classical music, in a way that will change even the most musically challenged of us (namely yours truly, who can’t distinguish two notes even if they are as much as two octaves apart )
Of course, music is the biggest missing part from my life (trailed by mathematics) and I can’t say I understand music now, but… but I certainly felt something inside me. It was great.
Also, don’t forget to see the other great talks and presentations at TED.com.

Donnie Darko is a very good movie. If nothing else, it’s moving and personal for me.
Some of those impressions is summed up in the ending soundtrack, just before the titles, called Mad World. It’s a cover, but the original does not even compare to this.
The music is slow, just a solo piano, and the lyrics don’t tell a story. The song just paints a picture, different aspects of the same picture from different viewpoints.
By the way, this same version of the song (by Gary Jules) was used in a Gears of War teaser (called “Mad World”. Do’h!)

If you happen to watch this movie, you’ll know why rabbits are the most terrifying animals! They are basically white (or gray) fluffy alligators! (Of course, no one needs any more proof after Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but that’s a whole other story.)

“I Stand Alone” by Godsmack is here. Used on the ending credits of the “Scorpion King”, and most importantly, in “Prince of Persia: Warrior Within“. This latter would have been the best game I’ve ever played, if I hadn’t been hit with the hammer of Kratos, the God of War!

And that’s it. No, wait. This is it.
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