I’m heading to Italy today!
By tomorrow afternoon, I should be sitting in a flat in Florence with my sister, brother-in-law, and friends. We will be there for a week, and will head to Venice for a weekend. I’ll be coming back to Indianapolis on January 7, in time for my 31st birthday.
I’ll try to do a blog post or two.
See you later!
Google has deemed us worthy. Indianapolis is now on the Google Maps Street View, and they even included many of the other smaller cities in the metropolitan area.
It looks like they were here back in October.
I was sad to hear that Julia Carson passed away this morning. She represented me in the Congress for the last seven years, and has been one of my neighbors for nearly the last four.
She was a force in Indiana politics, voting against the war in Iraq in 2003 and vehemently supporting GLBT rights. She’ll definitely be missed.
The Governor has to call a special session of the General Assembly in order to appoint someone to replace her. I hope it isn’t some douchebag that ends up getting the job.
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
This isn’t the official video of Enjoy the Silence walking around the countryside dressed up like a king, but instead an alternate version filmed on top of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Here’s the official video, too, for the hell of it.
I Am The World Trace Center - No Expectations
Continuing with the WTC theme, here is a band actually called I Am The World Trade Center. I have had this album for a few years now and really enjoy this song and the track after it called Great Escape.
Etienne Daho - Au Commencement
For my 27th birthday, a friend bought me a martini mixing set which included a compilation CD that had this song on it. I’ve liked it ever since.
Halcali - Giri Giri Surfirder
Taking us to the other side of the planet, we have Halcali.
I haven’t really found anyone else who likes this video. None-the-less, I think the music is catchy and the video to be comical, in that quirky way that the Japanese embrace aspects of American pop culture.
Cut Copy - Saturdays
In my previous music video article, I included one of my favorite tracks by Cut Copy. Well, here is the first song I discovered by the band, which is on the same album as Futures and still one of my favorites.
Gary Jules - Mad World
Lastly, I give you Gary Jules’ cover of Mad World, originally by Tears for Fears. You’ll recall hearing this song at the end of the movie Donnie Darko, which I’m sure you’re cool enough to have seen.
That’s all for now.
I was totally stoked tonight to see the new graphics update for EVE Online, but the Macintosh premium graphical content isn’t going to be available until the first quarter of 2008.
That’s a bummer.
