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So I said I was going to blog today so even though it is late in the day I guess it still counts. Right? I only have one good reason for not blogging more often and that is James freakin’ Joyce. Taking multiple upper level English courses in a single term was really rough, but I passed and I don’t have to worry about those anymore, now I only have to worry about the other new classes. But it’s summer now…WOOOHOO!!!! amirite? New things are happening everyday and it’s generally just a great world. Don’t yell at me for not talking about “real” news. I know about the bad things that are happening in the world, but why not look at the great things that we have instead of what we have lost. Remembrance will only remind us of the things that we will never have again. Today was interesting because of Michael Jackson’s giant funeral, which deserved, was a little over the top. The music world is constantly changing, and although we have lost a great artist, (I never knew him in person so I can’t say anything about who he really was) there are many new musicians that are very talented. That reminds me, we are launching a new blog at music.nadnerb.net and it will focus only on music. We need contributors to help write reviews of songs, albums, shows, and other music news. If you can help out just send me an email at brendan@nadnerb.net

A techie tangent: Google annouced their new Chrome OS today, and it’s all based on cloud computing, I have been waiting for this day for a long time mostly because I’m a google nerd. It will be another great addition to the OS world to fight with Microsoft and Apple. I hope to see great things from this light and easy to use operating system.

That’s all I have to say for today, I hope to begin blogging on an everyday basis after today. Stay pretty Y’all.

In a good way though. Music is really what I love in life. On average I’m listening to some form of music for a good 9 hours a day. Constantly on music blogs I love finding new music and showing people good music. It’s why I got a radio show, KBVR 88.7 Corvallis Mondays from 5-6 or Here. We each need some form of music in our lives, and whatever you have is great just for you. I will almost never criticize people’s musical choices or favorites. I suggest artists that I like, but since music is such a subjective thing it is wrong to expect that people are going to have the same taste as you. I let people listen to what they want to and if I don’t like it, that’s what FSM created headphones for. Finding new music is often difficult for the analog folks though. Going to a record store every day is unfeasible for most people and might even turn some people away from finding new music. Sites like hypem.com and a few others aggregate millions of music blogs a day to find the best new music that people are talking about. No, I’m not being paid by them, I just really like the site.

I’m not really sure what I would do with out music, probably be more proactive and get my work done faster instead of dancing in my room by myself to daft punk. You all do it, Don’t judge me! Music can follow our moods and really plays into how we behave each day. There is upbeat music for when we are happy, sad music for when we are sad, and daft punk for everything else. If we attempt to live our lives to their upmost potential, we first have to realize that music helps us. But sometimes it is good to take off the headphones or turn the stereo down and just listen to the music around us we just need to pump up the jams, have a good time and rock out. Enjoy your music, and stay classy.

While this review may be a bit late, I’m very glad that I made time to watch it. As you may have heard this film is a biopic about Bob Dylan and he is played by six very different actors. I’m not a big Dylan fan so I can really only grade this movie from what it is since I have no preconceived notions about how it should portray his life. That being said it was a wonderful movie and if it really shows what his life was like, then his life was made to be turned into a movie. The acting by everyone is superb and it is hard to call out one person and say that they did a better job. The director obviously wanted people to look at this movie without making them analyze it. He just wanted to show what one man’s life was like.

Being that I have a background with photography and movie making, I look at every movie thinking about how I could have done it better. This is one movie where I think I could not, and would not, change anything. Some of the editing in this movie is fantastic and makes you think, crap, I wish I had done that. One problem that I have with many movies is that they light there whole movie either very bright or very dark and the lighting will almost never pertain to the emotion of the scene. But not in this one, When something bad happens it’s dark, happy =light. It makes me happy that there are still good filmmakers alive. Now if only we can get some original stories…

Something I feel is necessary to talk about is the music. It’s all Dylan’s work, except for one by The Monkees, but not always performed by him. All types of people did covers throughout this movies, men, women,bands, well known and indie. This is not a music review so I will save my comments on the individual songs for later. It is a very good movie with some brilliant actors and good music. This is one you should at least try to see in theaters soon. If your too busy at least rent it, you know what, as long as you see, I’m good. Have a good weekend