I’m In Love With Pandora

I believe I have discovered my second love (or at the very least, my newest addiction): Pandora Radio.

Stephanie directed me to the site the other day and I finally decided to give it a try this afternoon. The concept is very simple, and nearly perfect. Just enter one of your favorite bands and the website will create a radio station for you based off that band’s music style. If you’re like me and are into discovering new bands, this is a great way of doing so. I entered Rogue Wave and have listened to about six songs so far. I knew three of the bands, the other were new to me, and good.

Another tool is the ability to mix all or selected radio stations as a “Quick Mix”. I’m into latin stuff so I created a station of Bachata, Salsa, Reggaeton, etc and mixed them to create a pretty sweet mix. I don’t know a lot of latin artists, so this is good for me to discover more.

You can also rename your stations. The default name is (bands name) Radio. You can change it to a certain genre, etc. And for Mac users you can download a Dashboard widget here, which allows you have to have it open in the background instead of relying on an open browser window. They also have it for the Iphone, which I don’t have.

Anyways. All this to say: Make sure you check the site out, if you haven’t already…

Heath is My Hero

Last night I stood in a line for an hour or so and ended up sitting in a perfect seat to watch the new Batman movie. I’m not really a big fan of comic books, or even comic book movies, but the last Batman took me by surprise and after seeing the previews I kind of had to see this one…

Where the Hell is Matt…Now?

A few years ago I stumbled upon this video of a guy dancing - if you can call it that - at different places around the world. I was, of course, immediately jealous. Come to find out, Stride Gum paid the guy to travel around the world and dance like a fool. Where can I get a deal like that? The video was called Where the Hell is Matt and you can see it here.

5 Albums You Should Own

The other day in the gym, my Ipod happened upon an MxPx song that took me back to the high school/college years. Back then I listened to a lot of Christian “Punk” and “Ska” music. I’ve been reminiscing ever since, playing a lot of the old jams, so I thought I’d share some albums that I listened to religiously (no pun intended) when I was younger.

Here they are…

Moby / Last Night

This is just a quick note to say one thing: I love the new Moby CD.

Once

I’m not sure if I have written about the movie Once before. To be honest, I’m not too worried about it. If I have it doesn’t bother me, the movie is so good it’s worth writing about again. So, whether I have said it before or not, I’ll say it now: You have to see the movie Once.

Magic Numbers, Patrick Park and Rogue Wave

A couple new CDs came out recently which I thought I’d would point out.

Clark and Michael

The internet is becoming a more powerful tool everyday. I imagine this site I found could be the future of sitcoms. Not in its entirety, but a future way to pitch a show, etc. It’s pretty hilarious. Michael Cera is from Arrested Development and I guess he does the show with his best friend. Anybody could do this…post their show on the web…which makes it so much better.

Check out the site, you won’t be disappointed: Clark and Michael

Idol Nonsense

I can’t believe it, but I’m about to blog about American Idol. This actually makes me feel a little less manly than I did last night when the employee at blockbuster questioned my rental choices. Who says “The Nativity Story” and “What Women Want” are not manly movies?? To be fair, Stephanie was with me, but umm…I guess the movies were my ideas. But just so you know…I did mention Rocky.

300

So, I went and saw the movie 300 last night. Holy Cow. It was easily the coolest thing I have seen in a very long time. If you haven’t heard of the movie 300 then you’ve probably lived under a rock for the last month or two. I somehow convinced Stephanie to come with me and we bought tickets online to see it opening night at the IMAX theater here. I have to admit, I was a little worried. I had been waiting to see this movie for a long time, and all this week I watched the same trailer over and over again.