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Recently downloaded off iTunes:

Daughters – John Mayer
I Don’t Wanna Be – Gavin DeGraw
Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters
Reach For The Sun – Polyphonic Spree
Breathe – Michelle Branch
Somebody Told Me – The Killers

When M. and I went on that tour of the historic district on segways, we meandered thru an arts festival. There was this sitar player who played the most beautiful music. I could not stop to get info because I would have cause a segway-pileup, and I might have upset the tour gide if I had gotten off the segway. So all I could do was glance. I forgot his name, but after much googling, figured out it’s Stephen Mikes. But, for the life of me, I can’t find any info on him other than press releases saying that he will be playing at this or that art festival. I am sure he sells cds, but I can’t find them anywhere online. If he has a website, the search engines sure don’t know about it. I hope I can find some info, I’d love to have a CD of his.

Yeah, just as I thought. Rocy Horror music has been stuck in my head since Saturday night. Now I am listening to it on mp3 as I sit here surfing. The music just gets under my skin! “His lust is so sincere…”

One of my fav things to do:
Listen to The Mix 99.9 Toronto via the internet.

Does anyone know the name of the band and/or song that characters Neela and Michael Gallant were playing and dancing to at the beginning of tonight’s ER episode? It’s a very upbeat “punjabi” style song. They referred to it as “Sikh Rap”, but from searching Google, I’m sure that’s the style, not the band. I checked the credits but didn’t see anything. I know I’ve heard the song before but could never catch the name of it. If you have any info, leave a comment. Thanks.

UPDATE: From what I can tell, they played some version of “Punjabi MC Feat – Jay Z – Beware of the Boys (Mundian To Bach Ke)“. The lyrics are different from the sample I heard online but it is essentially the same song.

It blows me away. I have been into Indian music and Indian movies for YEARS now, and now everyone else is jumping on the bandwagon. Even Aishwarya Rai is finally going to make a HOLLYWOOD movie (as opposed to a Bollywood one). Saw it in an article somewhere, now I wish I could figure out which computer I bookmarked it on. Now all of the US will fall in love w/ her, as I did years ago. I’m always one step ahead of everyone else.

UPDATE: This is my personal journal, NOT a message board for ER or Sikh Rap. Comments are closed.

I just remembered something else new:
I got THIRD ROW tickets to see Yanni! (Yeah, bet you never thought ol’ Laserone was a Yanni fan!) Tix don’t go on sale until 12-15 but since I joined the online fan club I got a password and was able to buy tix today and got third row floor! Whoo hoo!

Bought today:
Trans-Siberian Orchestra, 2 xmas CD’s:
Christmas Eve & Other Stories
and
The Christmas Attic
My fav is the heavy-metal sounding “carol of the bells”. The song is called ” Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24″ but it essentially “carol of the bells” and REALLY rockin’!

I was talking earlier about my new UK Love Actually soundtrack… I’ve seen LoveActually.com before, but on the back of THIS cd there’s this url: www.LoveActuallyTheMovie.com and if you skip the intro and go directly to http://www.loveactuallythemovie.com/index_02.html, you can play some of the songs off the UK soundtrack via their flash interface. There’s a little player in the lower right-hand corner, you can pick any song, play it, (it takes a few seconds to buffer). It doesn’t play the whole song, but most of it. It’s kinda neat.

EEEEEEE! Me so happy! The british soundtrack to Love Actually came in the mail today! I ordered it from Streets Online, who I can now say are quite reliable: http://www.streetsonline.co.uk/common/product.jhtml?pid=30052220

It has some different songs on it than the US version. It has a different version of “Jump for my love” (a really rockin’ version!) that is by Girls Aloud, it has the whole song of “sweetest goodbye” (for some stupid reason the US version cuts it off halfway thru to go into some other song), it has some other song I don’t remember from the flick called “sometimes”, plus two orchestral themes that are not on the US soundtrack. What kills me is that neither soundtrack has the opening theme, the one that branches off from the “christmas is all around” recording scene. But then, I’m a music freak and most people probably don’t even care or notice.

Oh, and in case you didn’t hear me before, GO SEE LOVE ACTUALLY! It’s no chick-flick, it’s funny as hell!