we are what we love.

listening to : third eye blind - good man

reading : philosophy - nigel warburton

watching : adaptation



adaptation is a fantastic movie. i have never had anything bad to say about a movie written by charlie kaufman. that list includes, being john malkovich and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. spike jonze (who did the beastie boys' excellent music video for their single 'sabotage' and is charlie kaufman's director-of-choice) did an excellent job directing the movie. kaufman, as always, is clever, subtle and convincing.

i've been addicted to launchcast lately. give it a try, it's good stuff. basically, it's an streaming audio radio station where you get to influence what you hear. i say influence because you can't pick what they play next. you can only rate artistes/groups, their songs and their albums (never play again, ok, i like it, i love it, can't get enough) and your customised station will pick songs from your favourite artistes/groups as well as recommendations and relevant genres/popular music. this way, you'll quickly discover new groups and sounds. if you listen through the website, you'll have to endure the occasional advertisement, which takes less than a minute. but if you get yahoo! messenger, you can listen to song after song without any advertisments.

give my station a listen if you're interested - my username is jabrahul. the genres are mainly adult alternative, mainstream rock and modern rock, represented by groups such as dave matthews, third eye blind, coldplay, smashing pumpkins, our lady peace, oasis, the postal service, switchfoot, jars of clay, rage against the machine, keane, incubus, robbie williams, the white stripes, the red hot chilli peppers, franz ferdinand, maroon 5 and audioslave.

i spent the night ripping the audio track from a dvd i rented. the movie's called drumline, and it's about mainly-african-american american football marching bands. it's a terrible movie, but the band music makes up for all of it, so i extracted all the marching band tunes. skipped only one though, because they covered a j lo song.

i managed to get donnie darko, the director's cut too, so i'll finally see this movie tomorrow.

and i'm not getting lazy! i'm still writing. it's just that i'm not posting everything here because it's good stuff and i want to keep it offline to retain first rights to my work. i'm very involved in working on a story right now, so i don't leave myself with much time to write other stuff.

speaking of which, my time's up for tonight.