Tag: Justice

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Car makers still extending lifestyle with electronic music samples

America is the last major country on earth where the populous doesn’t appreciate the nuances of both electronic music and soccer. Despite flare ups of popularity of both (womans US World cup and olympic performance, Moby’s incredibly popular “Play” album years ago or today: Lady GaGa’s “The Fame” album) both still struggle with mainstream attention.

In the realm of electronic music, the only on going success has been in soundtracks, ESPN and shopping mall background music and in advertising. When I was ahead of the curve, buying white labels, in record pools and hanging out at record shops hours on end to get the latest music, if I heard anything I purchased, later turn up on a commercial that track would instantly go into my dead pool. Dirty Vegas’s “Days Go By” was a key example, made famous by the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial.

I’m not so much on the forefront of music these days so a good background track on a commercial catches my ear and I will want to hear it again, maybe even buy it. This happened earlier this year when I caught a Scion tc commercial entitled “Samples”. Here’s the commercial:


Scion Samples TC

I did plenty of research on this one and found the track isn’t even a full track but was created by Face the Music (Executive Producer: Adam Joseph Composer/Sound Designer: Tony Shimkin Mixer: Tom Burbank) specifically for the commercial, rather than the marketer picking up an already produced track to match the commercial message.

FTM has done some quality work for commercials and I’m sure they claim to have a successful business out of their work, however, I’m putting a public request out for them to remix the Samples track into a full 12″ and I’m sure they can extend their music talents with a private record label.

Justice went the other way with a sample from their “Genesis” track at the end of the Cadillac Escalade commercial. The sample didn’t kill the track use in the club scene however, still drove home the point of the commercial.

As long as the style continues to permeate in American culture, I’ll continue to accept it, hoping one day electronic music becomes even half as popular as European football.

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Stirring the Pot

No this is not a reference to a Tyler Florence cook book, but I wanted to revive some discussion I’ve had prior to the inauguration with a thread of emails with friends (“Interesting…” string)

Superbowl thread? Naw, AZ is going to “upset” the Steelers…

I just watched A Few Good Men and wanted to comment on Obama’s quick signing order to close Gitmo… Did he just “weaken a country” this week as Col. Nathan R. Jessep (known in this plot line as the GOP) claims, or is this just a symbolic statement to right the “America’s Human Rights & Justice” ship which has been tipped sideways in the last 8 years. This is very telling article in the Washington Post of how BushCo administration treated the situation down there.

Reading the first three paragraphs, my take (sourced from DKos) is that detention and interrogation (“torture”) were a higher priority to the former Administration than figuring out which cases actually merited prosecution. In other words, locking up some Arabs and torturing them was more important than determining if they were actually guilty and prosecuting them for their crimes.

While no such agency is doing a great job in monitoring, collecting and merging all kinds of data on all Americans especially the press (whistleblower video and shouldn’t really be a surprise given all the stories on this over the years in this area), this administration wasn’t interested in keep comprehensive files on their detainees to build a case against detainees.

Even with the closing of Gitmo, the new administration has such a cluster to deal with, it will be a miracle of governmental process to get this resolved within his first term. The Right meanwhile, is prepared to continually call Obama a terrorist sympathizer or a failure through out his administration regardless of actual Justice he’s looking to restore to not just Americans but all people.

Galloway: Tell your friend not to get cute down there, the Marines at Gitmo are fanatical.
Lt. Weinberg: Fanatical about what?
Galloway: About being Marines.

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Gone-zo

“I can handle things, I’m smart, not like everybody says. Not dumb, I’m smart, and I want respect!”

That quote from Fredo to Michael in Godfather II can sum up not only the start but the entire bunch of cronies in the current administration. So we have the news that another one lays down. I know nothing of the man that is Alberto Gonzales except what I read and hear in the news, and what I do know is that the perception of competency in the current Justice department has just about eroded away in my and many fellow American minds. Our country is based on freedom, liberty and the right of man to choose. If our own government decides they are above the people’s rights and choose to selectively enforcer laws when only it’s convenient for them, their friends and their political or lobbying affiliations, then we are no longer a land of law but a land lead by men of power.

Alberto Gonzales

      Enabled the firing of 9 US attorneys with out cause or justification, but for political retribution. (1)
      He mislead congress about the extent and conduct for which domestic spying on native and foreign US citizens, in the name of fighting terrorism. (2,3)
      He drafted the torture memo that lead to the physical abuses in Abu Ghraib and the constitutional ones in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (4)
      Lastly Gonzo was weak. Weak in standing up for himself, his actions as AG, and most of all weak for standing up for justice for the people of the US. He and his fellow attorneys may server at the pleasure of the president, but the president server at the pleasure of ALL the people of the USA and he is no longer welcome at his post.

“Fredo, you’re nothing to me now; not a brother, not a friend. I don’t want to know you, or what you do.”