I Want The Love Marriage

The next greatest hit, I hope.

Amazing Musical Experiment from Bobby McFerrin

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Bedouin Man on a London Tube

A bedouin man on a London tube singing nonchalantly without care, just chilling on the london bus. I love how the stiff upper lipped british passengers are ignoring him as if nothing was going on.

Have a Rockin' Day

Boys Just want to Have Fun

Pretty good rhythm too.

Faith of the Heart

I have been watching a lot of Star Trek:Enterprise recently. What can I say, I love sci-fi.

The Enterprise series is set before Star Trek, just like The Next Generation is set way after the original Star Trek. Usually I fast forward over the title, intros and opening theme song but with Enterprise I watch it every time. The theme song Faith of the Heart sung by Russell Watson (no, it is not by Rod Stewart as a lot of people believed) is amazing. The clip is also excellent showing the beginnings of man's yearning to explore with a Kon Tiki like boat all the way to space exploration.

Watch it, you will see what I mean.

I can ride my bike with no handlebars

Here is a song that starts sounding very trivial but quickly develops into a very deep serious song, it is called Handlebars by the Flobots.



This new version of the video reminds of the the epic Pink Floyd animation in the The Wall movie.

What is that Tune?

Ever had a tune running around in your head and you where dying to know what it was?

If only you could hum it to google and it would come up with an answer. Well we are not there yet, but getting there. This flash piano allows you to play the tune and searches for the notes you just composed. Try it here.

iPod Touch Upgrade - Success and Amazement

I signed up to the iTunes store after it accepted my Kuwait credit card. Only apps are available for Kuwait currently. I managed to download 2 applications; Twitterific that allows you to tweet from your iPhone or iPod Touch, and Apple Remote which I felt was cool but did not really know how good it was.

I synced my iPod touch and then fingered around my iPod and could not find those apps installed there. I read up and found out that I needed to upgrade my iPod touch to version 2.0 of the firmware. I hit the "check for update" a million times and every time it told me the iTunes store was not available. It appears that after Apple introduced the iPhone 3G yesterday, iTunes could not handle all this traffic hitting its web servers, so I just gave up.

This morning I woke up and before anything, I turned on my comp and hit the upgrade button again. Success! This time I downloaded the new 2.0 firmware via iTunes and installed it. The whole process took just a little short of 1 hour on a 1 Mbps connection.

Twitterific was installed, and Apple Remote. I tweeted in twitter, and started Apple remote.

The Apple Remote app is mindblowingly amazing. What it does is it lists out all your iTunes library on your iPod Touch (and iPhone) and you select the song that you want. That song is played on your PC's speakers and you get to hear it. What is amazing is that as long as both your PC and iPod are both connected you can control the music played anywhere you are.

I got a nice set of speakers for my PC, but with this new capability I am going to buy a monster pair of speakers with trunk sized subwoofers so I can listen to my music anywhere in the house.

iTunes Accepts Kuwaiti Visa Cards

I just read Loco's post about iTunes Speaking Arabic so I started my iTunes and entered my info including my Kuwait Gulf Bank Visa card. It refused it, saying my secuirty code was wrong, I tried again and got refused again. I reviewed my info and it turns out I entered a few numbers wrong. After fixing it, I tried again and I got an iTunes acount now.

Now I am going to max out my account with all the iTunes goodies.

PS

I tried downloading a game for my iPod Touch and it said I need iTunes 7.7, it sent me to the Apple site but the download thingie would not appear, probably because all these iPhone 3G need it and there are too many people downloading. No Worries, I googled "iTunes 7.7" and found a link on download.com here.

Flight of the Bumble Bee

Performed in an amazing way, watch you will understand:

Convert Youtube Videos to MP3

Ever seen a great video on youtube and wish you could have it on your MP3 player to listen to that song forever or until you get sick of it?

Well I found a Video to MP3 site that does just that, it is called VidtoMP3.com

You take the videos link from youtube (or myspace, even though I never go there) and put it on vidtomp3.com and after a few seconds, you download the MP3.

I just tried it with this really cool interpretation of Billy Jean sung on American Idol by David Cook.



and I got:

Impressive.

Shorty I could take you there

This song is stuck in my head. I can't get rid if it. Presenting Sean Kingston with Take you there:

Happy Valentines Day

Because of all the fuss about Valentine's Day, I want to wish you all a Happy Valentine's day. In support of this day of love, my blog will be red.

Here is a nice romantic song to set the mood.



Here is another classic:

Sweet Child O mine - Indian Version

I thought that was very well performed.

If you want to see the original by Guns N' Roses you can find it here.

The Best Songs of 2007

Eid Mubarak to all.

I hope you all visited family and friends and collected enough eediyah to open a little trust fund.

The year is almost over also and we have a long holiday. To help you pass the time, here is the Best 50 Songs of 2007 taken from the Rolling Stones article found here, placed in a convenient YouTube widget thingy.

Bono and Africa

Bono, lead singer of the rock band U2, is famous throughout the entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous.

At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, he asked the audience for total quiet.

Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, 'Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.'

From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet ...

'Well, f -- ckin stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!'

Stolen Borrowed from here.

Guitara Music

Remember the Kuwaiti Band Guitara, who had a hit a while back with "ya Ghali", and who where also copied by Bollywood with the Movie Song Ya Ali?

Well, if you like Guitara's music, you can download it all from their website Guitara.net

Joseph the Human Beatbox

Who said you need instruments to make music. Presenting Joseph:

Acoustic Guitars

It has bee a busy few days and I have not blogged for a while, now with the weekend starting, here are a few acoustic guitar performances that I particularly like:



Antonio Banderas


Mason Williams - Classical Gas