tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101196942540785252024-03-14T06:55:03.092-07:00Dillon WheelerA Shining Light in a Sea of Darkness.Dillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-25455087143396495882011-10-01T02:00:00.001-07:002011-10-01T02:00:52.663-07:00OuchNothing is worse than a dead blog. So sad.Dillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-38998284746298660132011-06-24T14:29:00.001-07:002011-06-24T14:29:57.119-07:00ForeverI can't believe how long it has been since I last posted, I'm not sure what happened, I guess I kind of lost motivation.Dillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-30085330944572260812011-03-24T00:45:00.000-07:002011-03-24T00:46:54.701-07:00VacationWell I am now back from my vacation. It was definitely something special. The experience was beyond words. Honestly. If any of you ever have the opportunity to visit an island in the west indies I would take it right away. Anyways, when I came back from my trip a few days ago I went out and bought an iPad. I am currently using it to write this blog post. The keyboard takes a bit to get used to but all in all it is not bad, especially when the device is propped up at about a 60 degree angle. At that angle I can type almost as quickly as on a real keyboard. But enough about that, back to the vacation: I went to Antigua and I will upload some photos I took while there. There is also I must re ok end that you do if you are ever close to the ocean, and that is to go snorkeling. It is truly a different world down there, so full of life, it was unreal and snorkeling in the north atlantic ocean was probably the high point of my trip. Any how, I hope this blog post worked out well, expect pictures soon.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-55899566622086806622011-03-11T08:27:00.000-08:002011-03-11T08:27:09.383-08:00TripI havent been updating this much so it may not come as much of a surprise for you to hear that I am going on a vacation to the caribbean. My plane leaves tonight and chances are I will be unable to update anything while there. Good luck and Godspeed.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-48576033004988569702011-03-08T12:45:00.000-08:002011-03-08T12:45:28.495-08:00BloggaWell, I am not at home. In fact, I am no where near a stable wifi connection, I am out and about using 3G on my iPhone. I just thought I'd drop by and write something on my phone and post it here. I have to say, it is actually really easy. I quite enjoy using my iPhone to write this post, of course it is somewhat difficult to type with the tiny keyboard but other than that the whole interface is great.<br />
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Anyways, to see what this baby is capable of I want to try and upload a few pics and or voice memo. Wish me luck. <br />
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***Hmm. Turns out you can not do either of those things from the website on a phone, but I believe there is an app for that. I am going to check and then upload in a new post.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-2187217342378868372011-03-06T03:01:00.001-08:002011-03-06T03:01:54.438-08:00QuestionWhen the party is over what will you have left to show for it?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-36242053675485990902011-02-26T02:40:00.000-08:002011-02-26T02:40:23.825-08:00ChangesWell I could have just went back to the post I literally just wrote, but I decided this was important enough to be its own "entity". So there will be a few changes with the blog.<br />
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Now that I am back, things will be run a bit different around here.<br />
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1. There will be no more blog, music or videos of the week!<br />
- That does not mean that these types of posts will no longer be posted, it just means that<br />
they will no longer be called such and the frequency of which they appear will be<br />
changed.<br />
2. Posting.<br />
- I can no longer guarantee how often I will be posting due to other commitments, it will<br />
probably end up being erratic (couple posts same day then nothing for a while), but I can<br />
promise that I will post as often as I can, whether that is every day or every month.<br />
3. Topics.<br />
- There will be new topics! Music and Videos will generally be the same, can't really<br />
change that, but the written posts will be much more diverse. Hopefully something for <br />
everyone.<br />
4. Pictures.<br />
- I plan on changing the revolving pictures to something more elegant as they are crap.<br />
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Well, that is pretty much all I can think of right now. If I think of anything else I will either create an entire new post, or edit this one and point out the new changes.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-80888789595320231982011-02-26T02:31:00.000-08:002011-02-26T02:31:18.032-08:00TestsSometimes you are tested, the thing you need most is taken away and how you react is critical. Most of the traffic here was diverted to another site for some inane reason. This caused me to all but give up on the blog. I lost motivation. I was broken. Traffic dropped by 600%. Now though that may have been a blessing in disguise. A higher power testing me. Why? Because I decided to check the traffic again, and it seems that all hope is definitely not lost, traffic has increased again. We are now back up to our previous levels. What this has done has now given me the motivation the write on the blog again. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I am back baby.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-32651998169058016522011-02-20T23:42:00.001-08:002011-02-20T23:42:51.812-08:00Fifteen minutesLooks like our fifteen minutes are over. For everyone who still reads this blog, thank you, and there will be new content occasionally. To everyone who came for the pictures, fuck you!!!!!!<br />
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We have had a good run here.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-43448191991758603392011-02-19T12:58:00.000-08:002011-02-19T12:58:58.944-08:00A QuestionAs the title says, here is a question for you:<br />
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Would you rather have <i>shelter</i>, all the <i>food and water</i> you <i>need</i>, and guaranteed <i>safety</i> but are caged in a small house, on the other side of that would you rather be released into the world, as much <i>freedom</i> as you can fathom, but no guarantee that you will not be killed in the wild and you will have to survive on your own, scavenging for food + water etc, none of that will be provided for you, no food, water, shelter, or safety. Nothing but freedom. What do you think? Basic needs but no freedom, or freedom but no basic needs?<br />
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Personally, I don't know which I would choose, probably the freedom though.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-64073211007750531032011-02-19T01:09:00.001-08:002011-02-19T13:07:59.724-08:00Song of the Week #9: "Lotus Flower" and "If I lose You"B<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">y: Matt Gallagher<br />
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Hello friends. It’s been a while, I know. But I have returned with a song of the week! So fear not! This week I’d like to feature two brand new songs from two of my favorite artists. The first being a brand new single from Radiohead!!! This comes from their new album “The King of Limbs” which was just released today. You can download it from www.radiohead.com . The video itself is very odd. It features Thom Yorke dancing abstractly to the music. Enjoy it!<br />
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The second video comes from the band Shiny Toy Guns. This is the first track in a few years that features the reunion of the band and their former lead singer, Carah Faye Charnow. We all wait with baited breathe for the new album, hopefully due out later this year.<br />
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Thanks for listening,<br />
Matt</span></span>Matt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09366280054847019379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-11520535509338940312011-02-04T19:08:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:07:59.725-08:00Song of the Week #8: The BecomingBy: Matt Gallagher<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This week I'd like to feature a great live studio recording of "The Becoming" as performed by Nine Inch Nails. I've always enjoyed the energy Reznor puts into this specific performance.<br /><br /></span></span><object width="425" height="360"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=11515919,t=1,mt=video"><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=11515919,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />ok ok, one more. This ones for you love.</span></span><br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qmzzu3HqL4c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Matt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09366280054847019379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-44176772498625902472011-02-04T08:23:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:07:59.726-08:00Video of the Week 6: Stanley Kubrick<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By: Matt Gallagher</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>This weeks video is a wonderful piece that looks at the films of of the great Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick was one of the 20th centuries greatest visionary directors, with extremely high accolades such as </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A Clockwork Orange, 2001: a Spacey Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining, Full metal jacket, Dr. Strangelove: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, Paths of Glory,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Spartacus. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Looking back at his body of work, I can easily say he is responsible for many of the brilliant and notable films in the last 50 years. If you enjoy cinema than I guaranty you have seen one of his films. So without further ado, an homage to Stanley kubrick. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Warning: the film clips featured in this video do contain scenes of graphic violence and nudity</span></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UaVDM4a4nL0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">uploaded by user: vezina2001</span></span></div>Matt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09366280054847019379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-67255425038803567072011-02-01T17:53:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.076-08:00Blog Post of the Week #7: Message to the Future!Okay, to start things off, I would like to say that I did not forget about the blog. It was just a combination of work & laziness that prevented me from uploading anything in the past little while. Now I realized this last Wednesday so I decided that I would wait until Monday and get back on track, starting with a written post. Now as you will know, that failed, I was swamped with writing for other projects and classes so I did not have the time to upload a post. So here we are today! <br />
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Now a little info:<br />
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While I was doing a bit of research for a future (hahaha) blog post, I stumbled upon a website called KEO, named after something like the most commonly used sounds in the english, or perhaps even all languages. Anyways, a link to their website can be found <a href="http://www.keo.org">Click here to send your message to the future!</a><br />
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I've also included a link at the bottom of this post in case you would rather read this first and don't want to scroll back up lol.<br />
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So, what is this website about? Well, they plan on launching a satellite into space, about 1500 kilometres away from the Earth I believe, which will fall back to the Earth in 50,000 years! What this satellite will contain, is messages from everyone who contributed encoded on special DVD's which will of course not degrade. There will also be a diamond with the blood of a human on it or in it and human DNA engraved on the face of one of the sides, something like that. You can find all the information in at their website, that's not the point. Anyways, there is a deadline for the message and anyone can contribute, so do it!<br />
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The point of this blog post today is to share with you the message that I had written. Now, I wrote this message extremely quickly, and didn't have much of a chance to edit it, so I sent it to the future exactly how it is shown here well without some words missing of course (private information, I won't exactly care about it 50,000 years from now, but today, I do!)<br />
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Anyways, here is the message that whatever inhabits this Earth 50,000 years from now will be reading.<br />
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"Hello to the future, or in your case, the present. My name is Dillon (private) Wheeler, an inhabitant of Earth. I was born in the year (private). <br />
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I do not know who will be reading this, nor if you are human or not. What I can tell you is that I am human, the language I speak is English and I am from Canada. It is doubtful the English language or even the country of Canada will exist by the time you read this.<br />
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My message, that I wanted to say was I envy you. I envy you without knowing you. The time that you are reading this, your civilization will be so much more advanced than mine, you should have things like virtual realities, space-travel on a wide scale and possibly even aliens. Maybe you even are aliens, I don't know?<br />
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What would be scary is if whoever gets this message is a direct, well not direct, but a descendant of mine. I have a 6000 character limit for this message and I have wrote only close to 1000 characters. Im sure I will be able to come up with more. Well you are from the future, so I guess I should tell you something like a day in the life and also a little more about me, Dillon (private) Wheeler?<br />
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Well here goes, I am a caucasian/white male, I go to (private) university in Canada, I am interested in writing, and would like to be a successful novelist. That's enough about who I am, for a day in the life, I guess, it would go something like, I wake up from my bed, take the Light Rail Transit, that is an electric train, to my university campus, go to those classes, use my laptop computer to type my notes on, and when that is over talk to friends, finish homework, etc, probably things that you would all do.<br />
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Now, another few things I am really interested in are philosophy and science. My greatest dream is to visit outer space, preferably a planet, such a Mars, the fourth planet from our sun. Another thing I have been wondering about is time.<br />
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What is time? In your past, my present, time is virtually unknown to us, we know it is not linear but we don't understand it. We don't know if time travel is truly possible or not. Hopefully you have the answers, and you can travel back in time to visit me, that would be awesome. Back to time though, since we know that time is not linear then, correct me if I am mistaken here, oh wait, you can't! hahaha.... or can you?<br />
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Anyways, if time is not linear, then does that not mean that as soon as I send this message, you will be able to and have read it? Because time not being linear, that means that SOMEDAY you WILL read this message, and if time does not follow a linear path, then that also means that you have ALREADY read this message, so could you not be influencing what I am saying here? Trippy stuff. <br />
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Well, I am halfway through the length of the message that I am allowed to write and send to you, I don't know what else to say, I guess cherish life and all it's beauty, for someday it may be gone. Hopefully that day is not a day in which you currently live, but far into the future. <br />
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Oh yeah, I live in (private), Canada, the coordinates are (private) and (Private) is located near the (private) of the province, at an elevation of (private) metres or (private) feet. The sole reason for telling you this information is that I plan to have my body, and at the very least my head or brain frozen. <br />
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Therefore, If I am frozen and forgotten about, then one day perhaps (if you have the technology) you could find my storage container, unfreeze me and bring me back to life, sure it's unlikely, but a man can dream! It would be a nice gesture if you could! Also, if you can't then leave me be until even farther into the future. I want to come back! <br />
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Anyways, I had one question for you, do you ever die? more specifically, do you die of old age or is age no longer a problem for you? In my time, we live for only a very short amount of time, the global average is roughly 66 years, my countries average is around 80 years. That is hardly enough time to see the world and more importantly the universe. <br />
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So to conclude this message, I will borrow a quote from one of the greats, and that is, "Live long and Prosper." But in truth, I hope this message was semi-informative or at the very least entertaining and one you could hold on to forever, for it is from somebody you will never see, hear, feel, know, anything. I will be long, long, long gone before this every arrives on your doorstep. So cherish it! :)<br />
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Thank you,<br />
Dillon (Private) Wheeler<br />
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P.S Read my books, if thats possible. They will be great. Hopefully you also understand english, if not then this message was completely useless. Farewell my future people!"<br />
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Well there you have it, my message to the future, out there for everyone! <br />
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Now as I said earlier, there is a deadline on submissions, so if you want your letter to be sent to the future, it is best to do it sooner rather than later.<br />
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Again, here is the website where you can find more information and submit your message to the future! <a href="http://www.keo.org">www.keo.org</a><br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-20334123404206715702011-01-23T22:14:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.077-08:00Video of the Week #5: Seinfeld!Well I had planned to upload a video of my all time favourite scene, but the author has disabled embedding, so instead I have a link to the video on youtube.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbM2Kr3RdI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbM2Kr3RdI</a><br />
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Be sure to check it out, you won't forget it. Particularly at the 1:25 mark. <br />
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Anyways, this wouldn't be a video of the week if there was no video, so I have found some various clips of the very best of Seinfeld all compiled into one video, as well as a little supplement of my second favourite scene, here you go!<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-85882909413224802702011-01-17T21:39:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:07:59.727-08:00Song of the Week: honourable mention<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">by: Matt Gallagher<br /><br />During my travels with the internet peoples, I stumbled upon this little gem. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We all know and love the iconic and memorable Jurassic park main score. Well a user by the name of birdfeeder has taken it upon himself to drastically reduce the rpm down to about 1000% of the original. It's an hour long track that sounds like a complete departure from the original. It's very atmospheric and dense. Give it a listen!</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span></span><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F9186252"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F9186252" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder/jurassic-park-theme-1000-slower"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower)</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> by </span></span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/birdfeeder"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">birdfeeder</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />And here is the download link if you enjoy it enough!<br />http://www.mediafire.com/?51fhcm5lejdwfhh<br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br />thanks for listening,<br />Matt Gallagher</span></span></div>Matt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09366280054847019379noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-80302681681442890632011-01-16T23:24:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.077-08:00Video of the Week #4: Georges St. Pierre!Well for the video(s) this week, I've decided to upload two videos featuring my all-time favourite athlete and UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre.<br />
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Here is proof that GSP can be both a devastating fighter and a hilarious man.<br />
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Here is the second video, showing us that Georges St. Pierre (if you have seen him before) isn't afraid to laugh at himself from time to time.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-19084835115842647462011-01-15T01:18:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:07:59.728-08:00Song of the Week 8: And All That Could Have Been<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝";mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SAfont-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">by: Matt Gallagher</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I’ve loved this song ever since I first heard it many a year ago. It is so damn haunting. I would describe it as building minimalism. Everything about it is shy and downplayed yet so much emotion and story is behind it. The vocals are so far off what one can usually expect from Trent. Truly great work. Hope you guys enjoy it!</span></span></span></span><!--EndFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-GvpKaLi7wk" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">uploaded by: orangepeelpro</span><br /><br />Another great tune that fits within the same general mood is The great Below. Another personal favourite. Ive always felt these two go nicely hand in hand. This particular track comes from the album The Fragile. This particular video is taken from a live performance from the Fragility 2.0 tour in 2000. it opens with La Mer then concludes with The Great Below.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pX3tZeimQUA" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">uploaded by: nemesiswontdie</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Thanks for listening,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Matt Gallagher</span></span></div>Matt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09366280054847019379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-26861586023972166492011-01-09T03:50:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.078-08:00Quote of the Day #3: Oscar Wilde<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;">"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;"> - Oscar Wilde</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></span>Dillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-29471805767042271612011-01-07T23:54:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.079-08:00Blog Post of the Week #6: Humans in Space and Hierarchy<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Hierarchy - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The hierarchy exists everywhere. From animate to inanimate objects. Mental and Physical. It's everywhere. The point of this though, is that there is a hierarchy in the biosphere. There are levels for everything, like the food chain. At the top of all of these levels though, are us. Humans. We are the apex predators. The ultimate inhabitants. We top and trump every other animal before us. We are number one.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, I love this picture.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We are number one today. Tomorrow? I don't know, that's another discussion. What about before today though? What about (as far as we can tell) before 10,000 years when we "discovered" agriculture and became farmers? What topped those lists then?</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Velociraptor</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">There can't be nothing. There has to be a species at the top, there is no other way to put it. Us modern human beings have only been on this Earth for a few million years, give or take. Pre-Human Hominids have been around much longer, but were not at the top. Sure they could use tools, but they were not as widespread or dominant as the Homo Sapiens. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Before us? Well if we go back to the time of the dinosaurs, the velociraptor had one, if not the highest brain mass to body ratios but was it the most dominant dinosaur?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">As far as we can tell? No.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">So what was? The answer is unknown, some would say the obvious Tyrannosaurus Rex, Others would say any one of the numerous species of Sauropods (The long neck giraffe looking dinosaurs). Whatever the answer is, being the most dominant was not due to intelligence. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">What that was? Probably the dinosaurs with the most sheer strength and aggression mixed with high birth rates and survivability of their young. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Does that make sense though? How can some "dumb" dinosaur rule the Earth? </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">It seems to me that the only way to truly dominate the Earth is through intelligence.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">always been one in the same</td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">So because <i><u>something</u></i> had to top the list, then there <b><u>must</u></b><u> </u><b><u>be</u></b> the possibility that Humans have always existed on the Earth, since the Earth could support life at least.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Here is my theory now.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Humans have always dominated and controlled the Earth. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Why? Here are a couple points that I have been thinking and though out.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">1. We are constantly discovering new human remains that are shattering previous records with age and tool use. E.g - The 700,000 year old remains of humans using boats to get to Crete.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">2. Can evolution really explain how a 5 foot 9 inch 170 pound hairless monkey evolved from a rodent smaller than my hand? No.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">3. Although we have tried and may have succeeded in reproduced "<b>imagined</b>" scenarios in which life started on Earth, we can not be sure that it did infect originate here. Meaning my theory doesn't seem so off now does it? Okay, it might.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAJBNBxnc0aXxShV0kB8PazRlNc-TA66dCrCIp5v_mEUlMtvVe7PWWzqR5iKZ_JPMvDUycRj2CmgYvQO1_0hTRnFxojhA9VyXXUQTxVVQenMW1URWKWCo0_JdDIHZJ7AZbv-HMOFCsK4/s1600/nuke.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjAJBNBxnc0aXxShV0kB8PazRlNc-TA66dCrCIp5v_mEUlMtvVe7PWWzqR5iKZ_JPMvDUycRj2CmgYvQO1_0hTRnFxojhA9VyXXUQTxVVQenMW1URWKWCo0_JdDIHZJ7AZbv-HMOFCsK4/s200/nuke.jpg" width="160" /></a>Okay, so we have established the possibility that we have always controlled the Earth, so you now ask why aren't we more advanced? </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Well, in the billions and billions of years that we may have dominated the Earth, there have been many drastic changes to it. Land moving, Volcanoes erupting, Ice Ages plaguing the land. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">If you think about any new age doomsday scenario, they are all the same. Nuclear bombs go off, block out the sun, cause a nuclear winter, humanity is in ruins but has survivors and those survivors attempt to rebuild.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYE97CKovwfSbZ0Yb58pxUn3Ful76X8lhP0ti5zGi8NSGlOHhzSJByTwHp2H3r6FN-YUZ_CbG-ETTaDedpbnHlN6GBqmYGPlHbF5_RXRJ6vf5LSsMynJzs6w7AjtQcpPTrx364pWgi_LU/s1600/volcano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYE97CKovwfSbZ0Yb58pxUn3Ful76X8lhP0ti5zGi8NSGlOHhzSJByTwHp2H3r6FN-YUZ_CbG-ETTaDedpbnHlN6GBqmYGPlHbF5_RXRJ6vf5LSsMynJzs6w7AjtQcpPTrx364pWgi_LU/s200/volcano.jpg" width="151" /></a>So, a massive volcano erupts, sending the Earth into a one hundred year ice age. Most humans die off, small pockets remain, we rebuild and recover. Boom, another global event, rinse and repeat. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuV6nVQQEQ20iGIXcLkJUZdftDEeHgL6zf464RiiDoyU15z-pYSCoDCn4HZHilWYc6oDq4TPvxfOxtj2sehYBCLWetHjMhXq6BCseJSGVMSdxWmJeQ2QfL9x2fqIxfrJhBqE8H7aV16L0/s1600/space-shuttle-challenger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br />
</a>You might be asking now, if we were sent to the Earth, where is the "mothership"? Well, take a look as NASA's plans with the 100 year spaceship. They propose sending a small colony on a <b>one-way</b> trip to Mars. Perhaps what the space humans did was send out a group of a few thousand humans to Earth, to colonize, populate, dominate and then eventually do the same to another planet? (e.g Mars?).<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">When you put all these things together, and combine them with our current plans, situations, and scenarios then it seems all too likely that we were in fact placed on this planet, alone, naked, and primitive.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It must be a coincidence that<br />
all these boat remains showed up<br />
in Crete 700,000 years<br />
before they were invented.<br />
Yeah, that is all it is.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> What we must do now is prepare for our ancestors return. Haha, just kidding. Or am I?</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Thanks,</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Dillon Wheeler.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div>Dillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-29968083603998804552011-01-07T22:52:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.080-08:00Quote of the Day #2: Albert EinsteinWell, it's 10 minutes to a new day, might as well get an early start.<br />
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<u>"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein.</u><br />
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Wait, I didn't know Einstein was a philosopher?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon Wheeler.Dillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-74533217358294577112011-01-07T05:07:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.081-08:00CodeDon't mind this, just need to verify that I own the blog<br />
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Dillon WheelerDillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-75089196048867497662011-01-07T03:20:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:06:15.082-08:00Quote of the Day #1: Dillon WheelerWell in order to overload myself and possibly Matt with even more work, I decided to create a quote of the day.<br />
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Why you may ask? Well, really, I do not know! I thought just a moment ago, hey, we have a written post, a music post and a random video post of the week, why the hell not have a quote of the day, (day because it's a quote! How much work can one quote a day be?) and thus the quote of the day was created.<br />
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So to kick things off, I thought I might as well go with a quote from none other than myself!<br />
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Here it is:<br />
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<u>"I am a puppet of fate, the master of free will." - Dillon Wheeler</u><br />
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Really think about that one, what do I really mean here?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Dillon Wheeler<br />
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P.S - Did I mention myself enough?Dillon Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692596868186475194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-16590315712934867392011-01-07T01:37:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:07:59.729-08:00Song of the Week #7: Packt like Sardines in a Crushd tin Box<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">by: Matt Gallagher</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">This week I want to feature one of my favorite Radiohead tunes. This one comes off the album </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Amnesiac</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">. I quite enjoy it for its very industrial everyday beats that make up the bulk of it and the and the heavy droning base that picks up a little bit in. The lyrics are another aspect that draws me to the song. They are untypical of the standard lyrical tropes in the majority of pop songs; very off putting and confrontational. Feels like built up anger being spilt out from a shy narrator.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">There is no official video for the song, but I was able to find a very interesting fan made one by a youtube user known as RojamNairassoy. Very cool stuff.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">And just because I can, here is another Radiohead tune that I quite enjoy. This one has an amazing video to accompany it. It was part of a contest the band had where fans submitted videos to accompany songs off their latest album </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">In Rainbows</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Thanks for listening,</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Matt Gallagher</span></div></span></span>Matt Gallagherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09366280054847019379noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-910119694254078525.post-1461804341222203692011-01-06T18:01:00.000-08:002011-02-19T13:07:59.730-08:00Video of the Week #3: Batman and the Joker<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by: Matt Gallagher</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This week the video is a Hilarious spoof of the Joker interrogation scene from "The Dark Knight". It's from a group called MonkeyAndApple. They feature some very funny sketches that are definitely worth a view. This is one of the funniest. Enjoy!</span><br />
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