Summing up my musical taste, 30 songs

Today i was peeved to discover that my phone's default media player would support only 30 songs per playlist.

So, I had to search through my expansive library (20 gigs, still growing, and i DO listen to ALL of it) to create the ultimate Franz playlist.

I went about it by trying to limit myself to one song per artist, and only picking the artists I truly enjoyed.

The result was this:

1. Within Temptation - What Have You Done Now
2. Prodigy - Breathe
3. Muse - Knights of Cydonia
4. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
5. Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
6. Korn - Freak on a Leash (Rammstein Remix) (counted as neither Rammstein or Korn)
   
7. Gorillaz - Fell Good Inc.
8. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
9. System of a Down - Hypnotize
10. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
11. Rob Zombie - Dragula
12. Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
13. Korn - Twisted Transistor
14. Guns 'n Roses - Sweet Child of Mine
15. Rammstein - Ich Will
16. The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing called love
17. Gorrilaz - DARE (needed to balance the hard rock somehow, don't judge me.)
18. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
19. Journey - Separate Ways
20. Sum 41 - Fat Lip
21. Genesis - Land of Confusion
22. Slipknot - Duality
23. The Offspring - Self Esteem
24. ZZ Top - La Grange
25. The Tragically Hip - Poets
26. Tool - Parabola
27. U2 - Beautiful Day
28. Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
29. Rush - Limelight
30. Black Label Society - Stillborn

Honorable Mentions:
Every song on Rush's "Moving Pictures"(I know Limelight made the list, but it gets an honorable mention too), on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", and Bloc Party's "Silent Alarm" (I only realized this didn't make the list after I made the list, my phone ignored the presence of this album because of its file format).

Also, too many songs too count by Pearl Jam, The Doors, Deep Purple, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and Electric Light Orchestra. I like these bands' music, just couldn't pin down what I liked about them with any one song.

Frosh leader training weekend

Yet another glorious weekend courtesy of RESS.

Got to meet a bunch of ppl,
escape Mississauga,
chill with the leaders,
and watch many of them make asses of themselves, yet still come out as champions.

Predictions for next week: Indescribable madness, hilarity, glee and purple.

Predictions for next post: District 9.

Inglourious Basterds

Alright, its been a week, and i think I've decided to shift to focus of this blog from... nothing to movies.

Inglourious Basterds

For those of you who have been living in a hole, Quentin Tarantino has released yet another film for our viewing pleasure. This time, the world's biggest movie geek has abandoned his usual modern American setting for nineteen forties Nazi-occupied Germany. The story depicted in all of the trailers is accurate, and sums up the overall plot of the movie, but ignores a very important secondary subplot, which can be forgiven, because the point of it is not made completely apparant until about halfway in. Anyways, Brad Pitt takes on the role of an American soldier who has a real name, but is better known as "Apache". Now, Apache is the leader of a small squad of Jewish-Americans who are deployed behind enemy lines to spread terror by killing, torturing and even scalping german soldiers. For what must be obvious reasons, this group becomes known as "The Basterds". The Basterds become aware of a premier of a new German movie, where all of the German high command will be in attendance. Obviously, this is an opportunity they cannot pass up, so they team up with a British soldier and film expert and a German actress in order to gain access to the premier and kill everyone inside.

Tarantino's usual approach to movies usually goes something like this: lots of character development, some first-rate (though over-the-top) action and gore, with a petty or ridiculous story (see From Dawn 'til Dusk, Kill Bill, etc.) However, Basterds actually has an interesting and coherent story, though still has moments that make it hard to take seriously. This may seem to be a bad thing if you have never seen a Tarantino film, but it actually works to make the movie more interesting and enjoyable, as only Tarantino can do with such skill.

All in all, this was one of the better and most enjoyable movies of '09 that I've seen so far, and I would recommend it to any Tarantino fans, or anyone who has liked at least one of his films, or anyone who likes to laugh at Nazis and Hitler, or to anyone who is not my father.


EDIT:
This makes me seem redundant, but i can't do a better job than this:

Movie in the quarry

Good fun, i recommend it to all of you in the Newport, RI area

we watched the Raiders of the Lost Ark,

first time i'd seen it in YEARS

probably the first time i realized how truly badass Indy was in the good ole days, and first time i realized the irony of Nazis using a Jewish artifact to try and win the war.

Home from Rhode Island

back home, good times.

i need to put some finishing touches on my frosh week gear, so headed downtown today.
staying overnight cuz im hittin up the TASTE OF THE DANFORTH tomorrow!

Rhode Island so far...

Gotta keep this brief, its too nice outside...

What I've done:

• Attended an international Polo Game (USA vs India), which was announced by my uncle
• Boating and Swimming in the ocean
• Family Barbeque
• Mastered the front flip on a trampoline
• Hurt my neck trying to do a front flip on a trampoline
• Gone to Flo's CLAM Shack
• Beach at night
• Bike Ride to a rope swing over a river
• Went to the Newport creamery and drank an Awful Awful ("It's a Drink")

Still to come:

• Visit the beach club
• Sailing on an 85-footer
• Movie night in the quarry
• Cliff walk
• and much more...