Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Favourites of 2010: Part One
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I thought I should do a little look back at some of my favourite things in 2010. There was a lot of other things I liked last year but I thought I would limit the list to things that came out in 2010 (or in the case of my favourite game of the year had its New Zealand release in 2010). This is part one of two. The second part will cover favourite book, game and music performance of 2010.
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life (album)
I got into Motion City Soundtrack around 2003/2004 when I had a friend who made awesome mixtapes. He'd have a range of stuff on there including Motion City Soundtrack songs .
Their debut album I Am The Movie was always my favourite of their albums but with the release of My Dinosaur Life it will have to share.
What is it that I love about this album? Well it has all the things I love about the band.. fun, catchy lyrics that I can't help but sing along to, rocking music and I love the album artwork of the dinosaurs and bees.
Song picks: Worker Bee, Her Words Destroyed My Planet, Delirium, Pulp Fiction & @!#?@!
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (movie)
There were quite a lot of movies I enjoyed in 2010 so it was a little hard picking my favourite for the year. But I am going with this one.. even saw it twice at the movie theater.
I loved the film's combination of two things I geek out over - music and video games. I loved the soundtrack for this movie (both the rock stuff and all the gaming inspired stuff) and the video game references made me smile. I read the first graphic novel a couple of years ago and am now in the process of collecting and reading the rest.
This is a movie that I can see myself re-watching many times over.
Glee (TV Show)
I was fairly late to the whole Glee bandwagon. I remember some of my facebook friends going total Gleek over the show when it first started but since moving up to Auckland I don't watch as much TV as I used to, preferring to buy season sets on DVD.
After buying the DVD of the pilot episode earlier this year I got the entire first season with my birthday money. Then went on a Glee watching binge with my BBFF Jay over two nights where we got little sleep and watched the entire first season.
I love the music, the characters and have even made some new friends through the Glee fandom.
Part two coming tomorrow!
Miscellaneous 2010 Cool Things:
Making new friends (both online and in real life.. and there have been crossovers between the two) * Another year being with Erik * Graduation from International Travel College * Spending time with my adorable niece * Visiting family in Greymouth * Turning 25 * Being at work for a year * Writing more * Family visiting me in Auckland * My rooftop garden * Hosting write ins and NaNoWriMo events *
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life (album)
I got into Motion City Soundtrack around 2003/2004 when I had a friend who made awesome mixtapes. He'd have a range of stuff on there including Motion City Soundtrack songs .Their debut album I Am The Movie was always my favourite of their albums but with the release of My Dinosaur Life it will have to share.
What is it that I love about this album? Well it has all the things I love about the band.. fun, catchy lyrics that I can't help but sing along to, rocking music and I love the album artwork of the dinosaurs and bees.
Song picks: Worker Bee, Her Words Destroyed My Planet, Delirium, Pulp Fiction & @!#?@!
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (movie)
There were quite a lot of movies I enjoyed in 2010 so it was a little hard picking my favourite for the year. But I am going with this one.. even saw it twice at the movie theater.I loved the film's combination of two things I geek out over - music and video games. I loved the soundtrack for this movie (both the rock stuff and all the gaming inspired stuff) and the video game references made me smile. I read the first graphic novel a couple of years ago and am now in the process of collecting and reading the rest.
This is a movie that I can see myself re-watching many times over.
Glee (TV Show)
I was fairly late to the whole Glee bandwagon. I remember some of my facebook friends going total Gleek over the show when it first started but since moving up to Auckland I don't watch as much TV as I used to, preferring to buy season sets on DVD.After buying the DVD of the pilot episode earlier this year I got the entire first season with my birthday money. Then went on a Glee watching binge with my BBFF Jay over two nights where we got little sleep and watched the entire first season.
I love the music, the characters and have even made some new friends through the Glee fandom.
Part two coming tomorrow!
Miscellaneous 2010 Cool Things:
Making new friends (both online and in real life.. and there have been crossovers between the two) * Another year being with Erik * Graduation from International Travel College * Spending time with my adorable niece * Visiting family in Greymouth * Turning 25 * Being at work for a year * Writing more * Family visiting me in Auckland * My rooftop garden * Hosting write ins and NaNoWriMo events *
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
30 Days Of Me - Day Fifteen
Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play
Ooh I do enjoy music ones. OK here goes
Ooh I do enjoy music ones. OK here goes
- This Year's Love by David Gray
This is from Erik's CD collection, I do enjoy some David Gray.. nice mellowing music (which I like to sing along to. My fave of his is probably Sail Away, which I know Erik loves too) - Goodbye Tonight by Lost Prophets
Don't think I listened to this song much before, was one of the ones that a friend gave me. I should probably give this album a listen.. I like some of their other songs that another friend put on mixtapes for me. - Misunderstood by Better Than Ezra
Love this song.. sent to be by my Canadian writer/BookCrossing buddy Jamie. The reason she sent it to me was after a rather strange chat conversation that we had with Jay and possibly someone else about a misunderstood demon.. yeah my memory of that chat is a little fuzzy. Anyway I used to listen to this song a lot and think it will be going on my playlist for NaNoWriMo this year. - We Want More by The Living End
Ah The Living End.. seeing them live at The Civic in Christchurch still rates as one of the best gigs I have ever been to. I do like this song but it isn't one of my favourites. I used to have a copy of their first album on a dubbed tape and would bounce around the hallway at the flat we were living in at the time listening to it on my Walkman.. I remember telling Chris (Cheney, the lead singer) this when I met them after the show at The Civic... embarrassing. - Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart? by The Simpsons
I downloaded a heap of the songs from The Simpsons a few years ago.. I think it was from this site and enjoy listening to them when they pop up on shuffle. Still one of my favourite TV shows. "Let's hurl a brick-e-mart" - Dead and Broken by Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio are another one of my favourite bands... who I hope to see at No Sleep Til later this year. They're the band that I took the Alkaline from in my username. What else can I say? I haven't listened to them much lately. - Silver and Cold by AFI
Was really really into this song when I first got this album and now listening to it (and yes I am singing along.. Erik just looked up at me with a strange expression) I have the urge to dance too.. ok next song - Penguins & Polarbears by Millencolin
I was listening to this album (Pennybridge Pioneers) just recently while lugging groceries home from the supermarket.. I think I bought this album when I was in high school (and heavily into pop-punk music evidently). I used to have a penpal called Dan who used to make me these amazing mixtapes (which I still have somewhere) and he got me into a lot of bands, Millencolin being one of them. - Foux du Fafa by Flight of the Conchords
The first NZ band that has come up on my shuffle, it took a couple of listens for this album to grow on me and now I love it. This is not one of my favourites on the album but still enjoy it. And yes I have sung along to it in the past. - Are You Waiting by Stellar*
And another Kiwi band, Stellar* being one of the first NZ bands I got into. Final show in Auckland next week which I should get a ticket to for nostalgia's sake (that and I still do enjoy their music)
Saturday, October 9, 2010
30 Days Of Me - Day Ten
Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad
Even though I am a bit of a music nut mood rarely depicts what songs I listen to and it is normally bands that I can name that I listen to, not specific songs.
Though some of the stuff I am really into at the moment as far as songs go are:
Pulp Fiction by Motion City Soundtrack
Brand New Day from Dr Horrible's Sing A Long Blog
Second Season by Five Iron Frenzy
Stutter from A Very Potter Sequel
All For You by Sister Hazel
Thomas by mumsdollar
Popularity by Jonezetta
Plus a heap of other stuff.
Even though I am a bit of a music nut mood rarely depicts what songs I listen to and it is normally bands that I can name that I listen to, not specific songs.
Though some of the stuff I am really into at the moment as far as songs go are:
Pulp Fiction by Motion City Soundtrack
Brand New Day from Dr Horrible's Sing A Long Blog
Second Season by Five Iron Frenzy
Stutter from A Very Potter Sequel
All For You by Sister Hazel
Thomas by mumsdollar
Popularity by Jonezetta
Plus a heap of other stuff.
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