playing catch up with media and stuff

[cali]

First off some music:

Artist: MIA Album: Arular Genre: Hip/Hop, with heavy electro, and international leanings Recommended Song: Hombre Download: full album

Some things you might want to know about M.I.A.: She was born in Sri Lanka and raised in London. Her dad was a Tamil Freedom fighter and her songs are heavily influenced by both her political background and ethnic identity. She's innovative and her sound is really hard to compare to anyone else's. Um. Lots of hipsters love her. But since I'd probably call myself a hipster if pressed, I don't think that's a bad thing.

Now: some other media:

[ Lance talking about a charity auction for hurrcane relief ] -- mpg, 30mb from pacific_gravity

[ The Brokeback Mountain trailer as aired on CNN ] -- wmv, 6.5mb from hackthis? I think?

Enjoy!

Comments

[crownzeal.livejournal.com]

Getting an error on #1.

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

it should be working now.

btw I am so awful I got the QAF dvd you sent like, weeks ago and I never thanked you for it. Thank You!

[aftertherain.livejournal.com]

Downloading the album. Cooool...
Thank you!

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

You're welcome, I hope you enjoy it.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

THANK you for pointing me in the direction of the Brokeback Mountain trailer! Holy shit. I make it a point to not see movies I suspect will make me cry, and yet I am so looking forward to this movie. The reviews coming out of Venice and Telluride are fantastic, too. And the trailer, omfg. Gyah. Cannot wait to see this!

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

just in case the trailer link wasn't working before, it is now. And if it was working before, well, hopefully it's still working now and I'm just crazy.

I just know I'm going to be bawling in the theater but I can't wait.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

I am going to take a BOX of kleenex. But oh man, it looks so good.

*music squee*

[fashes.livejournal.com]

OMG MIA SQUEE!!!! I have been hunting the internet to no avail for this album! They play her every week on a local electronica radio show. LOVE HER!!!

You might also like Lady Sovereign.

Re: *music squee*

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I listen to live 105 too (I'm over in San Francisco) Thank you for the music rec, I'll have to check her out, I like it so far.

Re: *music squee*

[fashes.livejournal.com]

*jaw drops*

*eyes blink all slow*

Dude... WHERE? That's my Home town. And because I've had some tequila tonight and read lots of horrible hurricane stories it's making me misty eyed that you are so close. *drifts* Did you post pictures of your apt and view of the hills outside your window a little while back?

Can we get together for coffee/food? Where in the City are you? I grew up in the outer Sunset and lived in the upper Haight for a stretch...

Re: *music squee*

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

I'd totally be down for that. I'm living in the Sunset disctrict right by SF State, over in park merced. those pictures are here. I had no idea you were in the bay area too, how funny.

Re: *music squee*

[fashes.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Typically I'm off Thursdays and Fridays, but have a 12-5 class on Fridays. We could also get together when I'm in Colma for training - supposedly in the next couple of weeks. Call me and we'll figure something out.

Do you have plans for Serenty, yet?

[justabi.livejournal.com]

*pouts* It says I don't have permission and it sounds so cool!

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that you tried to just click on the llink and go that message, try right clicking on the link and choosing save as or save link target as. That should work. Or I could be doing that thing with assumptions and asses, so let me know if it still doesn't work.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that didn't work. But don't worry about it.

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

Are you using firefox? Because a couple other people have mentioned issues with firefox in particular. You could try internet explorer if you aren't already using it.

[fashes.livejournal.com]

I rezipped the album and got it to justabi, but I just noticed that I couldn't extract track 1 from your zip due to "corruption." Perhaps it's just because I have windows and you have OSX. *g* *kicks windoze in the shins* If you upload track one somewhere I can upload the whole zip from a windows platform tomorrow.

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

Here's the first song hopefully this one won't be corrupted?

[fashes.livejournal.com]

Yay! That totally works! I'm uploading a windows friendly zip to yousendit. I'll post it tomorrow or you can post it since I made you the recipient.

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

fashes uploaded a zip file of MIA's album to yousend it. Here's the link if you're still interested.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Thanks!