Just what is it that makes a beautiful woman in nothing but a dress shirt so damn sexy?
And how do we decide that certain things just “go” with certain other things? Where do these ideas come from? Are they imprinted early on, or hard wired? Do they come from the media or from some cellular level memory?
No answers today, just questions.
See what happens when I don’t pay attention? The other little trouble makers at Amphetameme go and write something that a ‘legitimate’ media outlet cites.
I took a walk today. Nothing exciting, just around a block or two near my office but since it’s a residential neighborhood the sights are a little different than they would be if I still worked downtown.
My short little walk – less than 15 minutes – was filled with flowers and the smell of honeysuckle. I was closely examined by a brown and white butterfly, got the priviledge of patting a gray and white kitty, and challenged a squirrel for dominance of the sidewalk (I got the concrete; she got the tree). There were flowers and birds and there was sunshine.
I highly recommend a walk for what ails. It’s free and it’s good for you anyway.
Spike Lee’s recent film Inside Man included some very nice incidental music and one song that absolutely blew me away. Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint (featuring Panjabi MC) is a remix of a song from the Bollywood film Dil Se which, if the cover of the CD is any indication, has a very Romeo and Juliet sort of flavor to it.
I admit, I didn’t see Dil Se but I was intrigued enough by the remix to buy the soundtrack used. It’s good but it points out the very reason why many people share files and have no qualms about it. The remix is only available on iTunes as a full album, and while Terence Blanchard’s classical score is beautiful incidental music and only adds to the film in context out of context is it just that: incidental.
Sure, when you divide the price of the album ($9.99) by the number of cuts (27) you only pay $.37 per song, but given that most of those tracks probably will never be listened to more than once, and that 12 of them are under 1:30, that $9 over what you’d be willing to for the one song you want is enough to make anyone think about illegally downloading.
So, are the producers of this movie shooting themselves in the collective foot by trying to artificially boost album sales by refusing to sell this one single? Only time, and Kaaza, will tell.
So in Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) did Rod Stewart use “pretty French gown” because he needed four syllables or because he didn’t think anyone would know what a pegnoir is?
Also, when the TV show has a “graphic content” warning in front of it why is it never a cute, half-naked woman? Why is it always someone barfing?
I know, it was a weird day.