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World Cup fever is upon is. How can you tell? The sound of Vuvuzela horns coming from South Africa, that’s how. The USA slipped past England, quite literally with a tie. Here’s a quick video to commemorate the event. Robert Green just let one slip right by him into the goal which gave the USA a tie against England (England was highly favored to win the match).

Enjoy.

]]> http://samuelfebres.com/blog/mmm-usa/feed/ 0 http://samuelfebres.com/blog/its-their-fault-for-bringing-their-kids-into-a-battle/ http://samuelfebres.com/blog/its-their-fault-for-bringing-their-kids-into-a-battle/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:10:14 +0000 Samuel Febres http://samuelfebres.com/blog/?p=2271 With the advance in technology, these soldiors could not tell the man was carrying a camera?

“It’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle.”

Despicable. I cannot think of anything else to say not only for the actions, but for the attitudes and contempt for life. I did not see a battle in this video. I saw a massacre.

Last night’s dream was definitely one of the more memorable and exciting ones I have had in a long time.

Here are the details I remember.

In the dream, something happened or something I did (I can’t remember or didn’t know) caused me to start getting chased by these guys (I think there were 3 of them) with swingable (bat-like) objects.

I was able to get away safely from them, and arrived at Peter Boulware’s house where he let me in and I met with a couple of other guys. Once I got there I discovered that the guys who were chasing me, had decided to go to my house and take Natalie hostage. They held her and a small party of people hostage in my house because they could not find me.

I was briefly able to speak with Natalie and I told her not to worry and that we would get them soon and to not tell the guys anything.

We then began plotting on how to rescue the hostages inside Peter’s house. Then I woke up.

So that was my dream.

The last movie I saw was Shutter Island(youtube trailer), because I’m sure a few of you might be thinking to ask me what I last saw. I watched it on Thursday night, 3 nights ago.

So, have you had any strange dreams lately?

MUTEMATH is definitely a live band. Their albums are great and I have loved them all, but if you haven’t seen them perform live, you’re really missing out on a great show, teamwork and musicianship.

Check out the video below of Armistice from their Japan tour.

If you don’t know anything about Five Iron Frenzy, please educate yourself here and here… or below.

Baby It’s Cold Outside – Selma Blair & Rainn Wilson

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2 More free ones…

Winter Wonderland – Jon Heder & Janelle Monae

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and…

Jingle Bells – Featuring: Trey Songz & Flo Rida

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THE FINAL PRODUCT!

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If you haven’t picked up MUTEMATH’s Armistice album, pick it up now on itunes or amazon.com.

Check out:
Their website
Their Myspace page

I’m neither an ATT or Verizon subscriber (Sprint), but this is going to be fun to watch. Apparently, ATT has sued Verizon, not because what they’re saying isn’t true (because it is actually), but because they claim that it makes them look like they have no service in the white areas of the map. Seems to me like they’re grasping for straws. It’s pretty obviously that Verizon is talking about 3G coverage only here.

Check out the ads below.

Because we got our tickets a few months back as part of an album pre-order/VIP promotion, we received a ‘First in Line’ pass which allowed us to get in a little early to the show before other folks and have some pizza and drinks, and buy stuff without the crowds if we wanted to.

This worked out great because Nat and I were able to get a great spot near the front of the stage. You couldn’t ask for a better spot to enjoy the show.

I didn’t bring my camera like I usually do, and only took a few photos with the cell phone, so I don’t really have anything to share, but I couldn’t resist filming something, so near the end of the show, I pulled out a little portable camera that my dad let me borrow and filmed a song called Reset and another part of the show where Darren King (the drummer) stands on top of a floor tom that is being held up by the crowd, and then jumps back into the crowd and crowd surfs. All that happened within 3 feet of me. Pretty cool.

Check out the videos below and let me know what you think. If you haven’t heard of MUTEMATH, check out their new album, Armistice on itunes or Amazon.com. It’s a great album, and definitely, if they’re coming anywhere near you, make sure you get tickets to enjoy the show… or do like me, and drive 5 hours to another city to do so.

Oh, also, we found out that they were filming the show for a DVD, if it all works out. I was in front of the camera man quite a few times, as was my better half, so there’s quite the possibility that we might make it on the DVD. Very cool stuff.

Darren King jumps into the crowd video…

“Oh my god! I’m never gonna wash these hands again! I’m never gonna wash these hands again.”

Reset by MUTEMATH performed live at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia on November 6th, 2009

I find Jay Z to feel/look a little awkward, but it’s an interesting collaboration, and an interesting song to do it on. Thoughts?

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

From the creator:

“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.”

I was able to participate in two ways.

The first way was as a trio with a couple of friends. We did 4 songs that I wrote and a good time was had by all. I was very pleased with how things turned out with just one rehearsal. I’m looking forward to performing more with these guys as opportunities arise.

Unfortunately, I’ve only got a 30 second clip of a song we performed because the memory card ran out of memory, but it gives you a good idea of how we looked and sounded. Check it out below.

The 2nd way I was able to participate was through the Late Night Cafe which was part of a songwriting competition. To enter to competition, I had to submit an mp3 my song and my song was judged based on the mp3.

What was great about the competition this year was that we received the judging score cards to see how we were judged and it included comments from the judges. I didn’t win the competition, and the scoring wasn’t so great, but I am quite ok with that. My purpose for entering is more to get comfortable singing my songs out in public and to get a feel for how people like the songs.

Based on that, my songs are doing really good. When the band finished playing the set, I got quite a few compliments on a great set from folks, many whom I didn’t know (maybe they were just trying to be nice). In addition to that, once I finished performing at the Late Night Cafe, I got quite a few compliments as well from folks I didn’t know, in addition to a “you should have won”, and a request for a website or place to get a CD. I was very encouraged to hear that.

I would actually like to share the judge’s comments later, because I found a couple of them to be quite interesting. I’d like to get your opinion, dear reader, and thoughts the decisions the judges made, as well as your thoughts based on hearing the song.

Here’s the video of the song I entered for the Late Night Cafe. It’s called Humbly, I’ll Fall.

Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments.
(Also, this wasn’t the most ‘respectful’ crowd with regards to performers and you can hear quite a bit of talking all throughout the songs. Sorry about that.)