ONCE In A While You'll Watch A Great Movie (Mediation 2)

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"How often to do you meet the right person?"

Last weekend I had the privilege of watching the movie Once. Once is a modern-day musical about a struggling guitarist, who works at his fathers Hoover Vacuum repair shop, and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, record and rehearse songs that tell their story.

Now, this may make Once seem like a sappy love story, but it is not. It is much more than that.Once has this strange, but beautiful raw quality; the camera shots are off center, busses pass through speaking scenes, and the dialogue is short and to the point. This is the essential make-up of a Sundance Film Festival film.

The beautiful quality of Once isn't in the acting or directing per-say, even though the acting and directing were superb. The beautiful quality is within the music.

I have here a song from the movie:

"Falling Slowly" is the essential "love" song in the movie, but you don't even truly mind because it is such a beautiful song. Granted, I am not one that goes head over heals for romantic-comedies, but the difference is this isn't a romantic comedy. It's more of a romantic-drama. I cannot express how wonderful this movie was and what the music did to my limbic brain. The soundtrack is just amazing, and I recommend watching this movie if you haven't, and then I recommend buying the soundtrack because the music is worth listening too on a daily basis.

Once was written and directed by John Carney and stared Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.Once won an Oscar in 2008 for "Best Original Song: Falling Slowly " and also won many other awards in various independent film festivals, including The Sundance Film Festival.

Pandora's Charm On The Soul (Meditation 1)

Earlier this week after discussing Pandora in class I decided it would be a cool idea to check it out. Well it was cool indeed.

Having never been on any type of internet radio before it was quite the experience. It all began while I sat in my dorm and typed Pandora.com into the search bar. As the page loaded and I waited in anticipation, I started to hear a faint noise coming from the speakers. It was no other than Pandora playing my favorite music from my Facebook page. Immediately I was taken back. I wasn't sure if I should have been frighten by this or incredibly impressed. I mean, this was the exact definition of a Cultural Shift. Nothing is private anymore and this is now apparent to me.

For those of you who do not know what Pandora is, I will gladly tell you. Pandora is an online radio website where you can personalize the music you listen too.

I have here the song that played when I went to Pandora.com

Jason Robert Brown is a composer, artist, and is well known for writing Musicals.

So, as you could almost imagine I had a very limbic and reptilian reaction to all of this. Limbic because the music is just to my liking, and reptilian because I wanted either run or make sweet love to this web site!

On a slight negative side I do have to say that the ads do tend to eventually get on your nerves, and also it is a bit confusing to understand how to even use it. I found that it was difficult to make a playlist of only songs I wanted to listen too, not the songs Pandora thinks I want to listen too.

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This image is the essential basis of Pandora it is where you search for the artists you wish to listen too.

Overall, Pandora is a great experience. The big question is, is it better than Grooveshark?

The C.T Project

1. My name is Cameron Torres. I am from Fall River, Massachusetts.



2.The funnest media experience I had this year was going to see Toy Story 3, it was just such a great movie and it made me wish i were still a kid.



3. One thing I like about media is how accessible music and TV are, but recently I haven't like the whole 3D thing. It just seems a little forced to me. I mean, why make everything in 3D just because you can? If it doesn't make sense for the film, then don't bother. Check out this article about 3D

4. By the time I graduate I would like to have some of my work published already. My main goal is to write and be published. That's all. I know I want to write fiction novels, but I'm it seems like a fantasy in itself. So, by the time I graduate I would hope that I have discovered something I would love to do for a realistic job, and be able to explore my imagination on the side.