Monday, September 15, 2008

Heart and Soul

I'm currently listening to T'Pau's "Heart and Soul" from their 1987 album Bridge of Spies. I find that that Carol Decker's soulful vocal delivery combined with the progressive synthesized backing provides a sense of hope and ease in an an often unfriendly world.
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I've been trying out the new "Genius" feature released in iTunes 8. It works pretty well. It catalogs my music so that you can select a song and the Genius will create a playlist that it "thinks" will match the taste, if you will, of that song. In order to do this, all of your songs titles are sent to Apple because the algorithm involved uses information from other users' playlists.

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Watched Entourage last night. The breakup of Drama and his French girlfriend was a great payoff for enduring the corniness of their long distance videophone experience. It was almost like Drama was dating a hot female version of Max Headroom.

I love that Turtle is getting consistently getting laid and had one of the best verbal exchanges of the episode. It also looks like Vince is going to shed his annoyingly principled career attitude and finally go "Hollywood."

The show gave a nod to one of its standard conventions of having Drama and Turtle break off from the foursome leaving them and Vince and Eric to have separate story arcs. Turtle is looking to go out, but Drama is involved with his girl and Vince is reading scripts. Turtle asks Eric to go out and he says "what... just me and you?" Turtle replies "yeah, you're right." Classic. Almost as good as the "Vegas, Baby, Vegas" episode where Eric and Seth Green (playing himself) are talking about Seth's failed sitcom. Seth Green says "Yeah, I guess nobody believed that four thirty-somethings would be living in the same house together" (the premise of Entourage).

Mark Wahlberg made a cameo appearance in last night's episode. There's some really good direction this season. It's like the producers have addressed any issues from the previous seasons and made season 5 extremely watchable.

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Listening to Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind." Does it get any better than this song? Hint: It doesn't.

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