Annie & Danny's Blog
If you haven’t heard, the online music service Spotify is the latest iteration of an unpopular idea: Paying for music. Whereas other buffet style paid music services such as Napster and Rhapsody were basically debunked as frivolous spending in an era when purchasing music is considered as invaluable as a wisdom tooth, Spotify benefited from [...]
Finally, after 23 years, I finally got my chance to see Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark live! As soon as I heard that they were planning to tour the States after hitting the reunion circuit in Europe the last five years, there was no way I was going to miss this opportunity. After initially underestimating [...]
As polarizing Weezer fans can get, the absurdly titled Raditude isn’t as bad an album as most of the Blue/Pinkerton acolytes insist. If I recall, the currently revered Pinkerton was slagged heavily by critics in ’96 and even made it to one of the “worst” lists in that year end’s Rolling Stone. Who still wants [...]
My 4G 2oG iPod’s hard drive began freezing up and making clicking sounds recently. Being that it was almost 4 years old and the amount of times I’ve skipped over tracks in shuffle mode, you would figure it would die eventually. These are great iPods if you are strictly into listening to music. Though it [...]
The Lovers are Losing/Everybody’s Changing/Bend and Break/ Nothing in My Way/Again and Again/This is the Last Time/Spiralling/Your Eyes Open/Try Again/Sunshine/You Haven’t Told Me Anything/Leaving So Soon/You Don’t See Me/Perfect Symmetry/Somewhere Only We Know/Crystall Ball Encore: Playing Along/Is It Any Wonder?/Bedshaped Keane has always been considered Coldplay’s less successful contempories. Besides the connection with the piano, [...]
Human / This Is Your Life / Somebody Told Me / For Reasons Unknown / I Can’t Stay / Joy Ride / Bling / Shadowplay / Smile Like You Mean It / Spaceman / The World We Live In / A Dustland Fairytale / Sam’s Town / Can You Read My Mind / Mr. Brightside [...]
Sadly, today was our last day in Tokyo. It was a blast being here and was totally what I had expected. They had the weird Engrish signs, fantastic architecture, and cool cars and toys. It was also overcrowded at times and expensive as well but not to debilitating heights. The food pricing is adequate if [...]
This being our last full day here before our travel day, we finally hit Ginza. Not if there weren’t enough snooty stores such as Takashimaya or Lumine, there are plenty more in this upscale district of Tokyo. They’ve got Prada, Hermes, etc. as well as other not-so-exclusive establishments such as Uni-Qlo, which is like Japan’s [...]
I’m getting better on that jet lag…now I’m waking up at 4 AM. It turns out that I’m not getting sunburned. The air is so dry and cold, any of my exposed skin is either getting wind burned or is getting excessively dry. Despite all that, I am dreading the day we leave. I regret [...]
Again, I didn’t get a good night’s rest. I probably only slept for three hours before waking up at 2 AM which explains why I have these blogs up as they are helping me kill time until sunlight dawns. As we are here for only 4 days, I wanted to hit most of the prime [...]