Thinking about a girl...

So I'm thinking about a girl. No, different girl. Not the one I just wrote a blog thing about. Anyway, I don't know if it's just that its spring or what, but most of the time all I can think of is girls. As some of you may have noticed. They are all around and sort of hard to miss. However my focus is usually on one. She's like a song that is stuck in my head.. But my most favorite song so I never get sick of it. And then my dreams are to the same tune..

It's a shame we're so far apart. *Sigh...* All I can do is text her. But that's okay. I'm on it.

Goin' on a Safari

Check this out.
Am I on a Mac or am I on a Windows PC?

Closer up:

Nope! I'm in the new(ish) Safari for Windows!

Isn't this cool? I like it. Apple went to great lengths to make it look just like the Mac version. They even use Mac scroll-bars, Mac font smoothing (instead of the built-in Windows Cleartype) and Windows Live Search isn't even an option in the search bar. 

The only giveaway is that the menubar isn't at the top of the screen and doesn't have the Mighty Blue Apple in the corner. Anyway, it is a little questionable that it installs automatically when you update iTunes, but it's still cool anyway. It's like my home away from home in Windows. 

That being said, I usually use Firefox when I'm on my Mac anyway. I just like AdBlock, Greasemonkey and Foxmarks too much to convert to Safari for good. However I have found pretty good Safari alternates today, I'm going to try them out when I get home.

But Safari is very pretty, and very snappy when going from page to page. Much faster than IE or Firefox. And when I'm on my Mac, it launches leaps and bounds faster than Firefox; almost immediately when I click the icon. Firefox has to wait almost 20 seconds sometimes. On this specific PC, Safari launches in about 6 seconds, compared to IE7's about 3. Firefox took about 11 seconds. But this is a slow computer.

All in all, Safari is pretty cool for Mac or Windows. What can I say, Apple makes a pretty good product.

Do Louis XIV wish they were Radiohead?

So I have recently been digging this song called Karma Police by Radiohead. For the most part I don't listen to Radiohead, (I know, I know, blasphemy, blah blah blah) but I do really like this song. I absolutely love the piano and guitar chords in the beginning, the dark bass-line, and the piano throughout. I also love "This is what you get when you mess with us." from the lyrics of the song. So after listening to it quite a few times, the chords and instrumentation are seered into my brain.
So when I heard this new song called Air Traffic Control by Louis XIV, my first impression was that it was some sort or remix or mashup with Karma Police, but it turns out the intro is just a blatant rip-off.

Listen.

Karma Police:


Air Traffic Control:


And here they are mixed together: (I had to change the speed a little bit but it's still the same song)



They sound just the same to me. The Air Traffic Control is a little slower and has strings and some sort of banjo or something in there, but the chord progression is the same. Notice where the bass hits in Karma Police at about 26 seconds and where the bass hits in Air Traffic Control at about 14 seconds. Also notice the fade into the verses, Karma Police at 21 seconds and Air Traffic Control at 27 seconds. Maybe it's just me, but these Louis XIV guys should come up with their own music. And the voice is just plain annoying.

And then to unravel more conspiracy, or rather just to point out, Karma Police has been compared to the piano in Sexy Sadie by The Beatles. Thom Yorke himself (Radiohead's lead guy) has said that they had been listening to The Beatles when they made OK Computer.



Well I guess it could be worse. At least they're copying a good song.

And at least it's not as bad as Vanilla Ice.