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Archive for January, 2009

Review: Hancock  

I was expecting a comedy from beginning to end but Hancock is really two movies mashed together: a comedy in the first half (Superman is an asshole) and an action drama in the second half. It starts out as pretty funny superhero satire. But it’s like they ran out of steam and after Hancock is [...]

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Review: Wii Music  

Every December my family likes to put a tree inside the house, hang glittery stuff on it, and exchange gifts. I know, weird, right? So I put two things on my list my kids would have no trouble getting for me: Wii Music and Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip.
Road Trip is a lot of fun, [...]

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Such Great Heights  

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Listen to the lyrics—it’s a beautiful song. No wonder there are so many covers.
First, the original from The Postal Service:

Iron & Wine’s cover from the Garden State soundtrack:

Another cover by Ben Folds:

The Ben Gibbard (singer for The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie) [...]

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Coat pockets, contents of  

1 bottle of meclizine hydrochloride motion sickness pills
1 receipt for Ruby’s in Redondo Beach
1 work order for flat tire repair from Sears, directions to same
1 resume
1 pair of destroyed Rayban sunglasses

Every Winter, for the past five or six years, we’ve gone on a whale watching cruise with family and friends on New Year’s day. I [...]

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Sitting on the porch, practicing as the sun goes down on a beautiful Winter day  

This is the basic riff for the Iron & Wine version of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. Except I’m playing it too fast, he’s playing F differently, and I need a lot more practice. Here’s the real thing. C G F C G sure is pretty.

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