I must be dreaming…

If the day has 24 hours and I get to sleep 6 hours, one hour for getting ready&breakfast and 2 hours and a half wasted in the bus (I sleep in that half hour) and 1 hour for lunch, we have 9 that I’m not online. Of course that at work of the 8 hours of work, I’m online an avergae of 5-6 hours because I have to do research.

OK. Enough about counting wasted hours of my life and back to what I was about to write today and didn’t because I was reminded that I had to work. Don’t you just love when a favorite actor has a role in a movie that looks that can do good for his/her career? I heard of Public Enemies, movie directed by Michael Mann, on the day the Academy Awards were held and while reading the cast attached to it, Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Giovanni Ribisi and Marion Cotillard, without knowing the plot, I immediately thought that Billy Crudup should’ve been there. And last night before bedtime, I checked some movie news and oh surprise, he just joined the cast.

Now, if anything I wish could come true just like that…

To something completely unrelated yeat something I love. I listen to Swedish musicians of different genres since the later days of ABBA and I know many share this fascination, not exactly since ABBA but probably later, no doubt CNN once said that Sweden was the 3rd largest exporter of music in the world.

One genre that is left for me to discover (as I’m not familiar with it and maybe I wasn’t made to like it) is jazz. Yet, I know that the Scandinavians in general do it well and that’s the only bit of jazz that I (unfortunately) listen to.  While doing my music research homework (searching for some albums to download) I came across Fredrika Stahl’s A Fraction of You, I was listening to it on the way to work and it was a lovely mix of pop-jazz which reminded me of Silje Nergaard.  If you like female singers and pop jazz, you can start checking out these two or also last.fm and the compilations Jazzflora:Scandinavian Aspects of Jazz and Nordic Lounge.

Oh, it’s getting late anyway.

Inverted King Midas

I really don’t know what to think of Timbaland anymore. He has produced the albums and songs of many musicians. To his credit, I can say he is capable of interesting and creative works but sooner or later you can get tired of the same beats that have captured some of his recent collaborations, sort of an inverted king Midas, he may turn melodies hits into shit by duplicating the best of one to another.

And now everybody is talking about 4 Minutes, Madonna’s new single produced by Timbaland and featuring Justin Timberlake in vocals. Some people are wondering where is Madonna’s creative input. I think it’s in the lyrics and her way of singing them. To me it sounds like Music meets Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado, both catchy songs, especially the former.

I think we all have to wait until her new album is leaked released to jugde Timbaland’s work, probably Madonna can count on him for further albums, who knows.

outdated

In the transition from unemployed to employed and from home to work, I have missed many things and gained others. I am always worried about surviving the traffic and that the office’s toilet paper can survive the day too. I come back home at nearly 10pm and I may have some minutes to talk to my parents before go to bed.

I rely on Internet to stay up-to-date with the latest news nowadays. 3 events got me surfing for a while. One of them is The Australian Open, don’t think that I’m obsessed or anything like that, is just that some games happened while I was sleeping or on the way to work so I had to check the results at its official site. The men single’s finals are at 4:30am so either me or dad will be watching in case we can wake up at that time.

Also, the Oscar nominations, I’m really surprised since I haven’t heard of most of the nominated movies, or probably I did while they were in production but I’m not even going to elaborate how horrible is that, considering that I’ve always been an enthusiast, but I guess now it’s all about the quality of the movies and the talented people involved not about who is the big box-office name or fandom hearthrob attached to them….with the exception of Johnny Depp who is very good and has many fans. And I check out Sundance Film Festival reports, reviews, blog entries, etc, especially if there’s a new movie that I’ve been following since it’s production, such as Pretty Bird and Downloading Nancy, I guess they got mixed reviews but many indepedent movies are hard to understand and watch.

Oh I forgot, now I’m looking for a good on-line music station, since I’m bored of the local ones that play the same 80’s hits over and over. I listen to npr.org to discover new stuff and Nova for its dance music selections and it loads fast.  last.fm, is my favorite tool to listen to new and favs but I’m not allowed to load it at work.

So…any advice?