Pedestrian Tactics - Nerds Trying to Dance

 Not a completely hidden gem, but the Youtube link has a surprisingly few number of views: Pedestrian Tactics - Nerds Trying to Dance

Desired Pandora feature

I made a Pandora music station on an account that multiple people log in to and manage. I wish you could share/manage a station from separate accounts, so we wouldn't have to log out of one account and into the other to manage the station. Does anyone know a workaround, or is this a feature I don't know about in Pandora?

Thanks ahead of time internet.

Pieces Form the Whole

I love the use of col legno in Pieces Form the Whole recorded by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It is a feature instead of just being a background effect.

On Happiness

"If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad; if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?" - Sheryl Crow

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, which is the good he seeks." - Mary Wollstonecraft

Warning: Dubstep and Gore

However, a beautiful piece of artwork: Kill The Noise - Kill the Noise Part 1 (Official Music Video)

It's in my system

Nu:Tone - Balaclava In My System
Loving the subtle bass-driven melody that starts @ ~1:28.

Protip: Boosting your bass (50-100 Hz) by about 20 dB can seriously enhance this experience for you audiophiles out there.

Wild Bee - On Ice (Lyrics)

Couldn't find this anywhere else on the internet, so here it is, internet.
Oh, and I would be remiss not to provide a place you can hear it. As much as I hate advertising, Spotify is the only place you can hear it on demand for free: Listen to Wild Bee - On Ice (via Spotify).

Wild Bee - On Ice (Lyrics)
From their Distant Mountains EP
[Incorrectly attributed to 'Honey Rivers' artist on Pandora]

Oh help me, baby
I've put myself on ice
and I don't know why.

A painted parade of ice floats by
catching up all the lacework in my mind.

{Chorus}
And it's cruel times that keeps you so far from me.
I have to paint myself a mirage of what we are
just to keep myself all together,
you know I always fall apart
and I don't want to fall apart.

It's like winter in my soul.
Everything's all frozen over.
Perfectly crystallized in time.
Beauty's sleeping in the cold.
{/Chorus}

Oh heat me, baby
I need your resurrecting fire.
This death-like dream is a sickness in my mind.

All I have are visions of lust,
they rape my eyes and burn my heart to dust.

{Chorus}

Everything's all frozen over {x3}

We Want Your Soul

Because food can be scary.

The Brief Stay in Hawaii (Pt. 1)

So after the Philly experience, I took off for home (Hawaii!). Well, sort of home. The place where my parents live. Countless times have I told the story of where I am and where I'm from. On a side note, since my sandals were DESTROYED at the Muse concert (very, very sad) I had to wear shoes on the plane all the way there! Believe me, not a happy Shigeki.

One of the things I like most about home is the food. Not just the fact that the food was from Hawaii, just in general. The fact that the food is one step closer to Japanese is a huge added bonus.

If you know who I am, there's a pretty good chance you know what the stuff on the right is (mochi!).

Having been my second time in Hawaii, I didn't take quite as many pictures. One day we went on a hike. At the base of the trailhead, there was a sacred Hawaiian healing site.

Much of the trail was still left to nature minus the narrow path, so it was a good feeling: envelopment by nature. Sadly, as everywhere, the presence of man has introduced unintended species that are just starting to wreak havoc on the native ones. In some years who knows what will be left of the once paradise. Ignoring this depressing fact, I will now proceed to barrage pictures.

I love how this slaughters my eyes with depth tricks.


This is so appropriate, the wood splitting into the kanji for tree. I recognize this one well.

Not all of Hawaii is wooded, as you may guess, so that will be next post's topic. The... not so wooded part...

Great song: Josh Jones - Can't Breathe. The vocals are done incredibly well. "No one told me it was going to be this way. I have such a lot to learn... I believe in wasting time, a part of me. Everything I say is not what it appears to be. Have you heard the sound that's riding out the door? The music's playing once again, but you've gone once more."

Been a long October

...and there's reason to believe, maybe this month will be better than the last. (Listen to Counting Crows - Long December.)