Category: Music

Reviving the Top Five (11/12/2010)

Back at the University of Vermont (UVM.edu) I posted my top 5 songs every week on what is probably the closest precursor to this site that there ever was (something like http://bsad.uvm.edu/jthibaul which was created with Microsoft Frontpage; thank goodness UVM taught me something useful in technology…NOT).

Anyway, a friend suggested I revive it.  So here goes (thanks, Tyler).

Top 5 songs (that I’m currently digging):

  1. Kings of Leon – Radioactive (from my current favorite album)
  2. The Roots – Right On feat. Joanna Newsome, STS
  3. Post Human Era – Building the Machine (found this one yesterday)
  4. Atomic Tom – Take Me Out
  5. Phantogram – Mouth Full of Diamonds

“I’m here” by Spike Jonze

Sponsored by Absolut Vodka, “I’m here” is a short movie about…uh…robot hipster love.

Great soundtrack (to be expected from Spike) and a few good laughs and touching parts. I thought the film was a pretty endearing retelling of the classic robot-boy meets robot-girl (plus a bit of tragedy).

Give it a watch (it’s about 25 minutes) if you can at the official site (note that only 5000 ‘seats’ to watch are opened a day).  The official site: http://www.imheremovie.com

Here’s the trailer:

“it was the best dream in the history of dreams” – Sheldon