Yeah. Sorry China. It’s on youtube. Thankfully the great firewall is protecting you from this.
Edit: damn. maybe Witopia is protecting you from this too. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Link is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
It’s taken me only 2 weeks to get to 99.4% on the flac’s. I’ll be damned if it’s been another week or so, and it’s still at 99.4%. It doesn’t really matter much though. After 20 years, I do indeed have that music that I’ve been after for so long!
I can edit the 0.6% at this point if I need to. Thank you , Tangerine Dream & Edgar Froese and company! You’ve done SO WELL with music! To me personally, much more than you probably realize.
Edit: How’s this for timing? The last 0.6% finished 5 minutes ago! 2 Hours after I posted this! I have the ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK to a movie my father and I have been hunting for for over 23 YEARS! I’m looking forward to when we kick back for a beer and blast it on his stereo in the Lunatic Fringe bar!
I deleted the original post referencing this piece, but now I figure, if Edgar or the movie studio is going to sue me for copyright infringement, so be it.
I’m still trying to get that elusive Tangerine Dream soundtrack for “The Keep”. It’s been at 99.4% for over a week. Granted, it is enough to make my own tracks if needed.
Edgar Froese’s (or maybe not his) forums seemed to have banned me before I even got a chance to ask a question about it.
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The email itself basically said that they’d let me on the forum once an admin gave the okay. And that’s how long it’s been, including an email to the @gmx.com email address asking when if ever they actually check their email. Seriously guys, I’m not a spammer. Just a fan is all.
I reference this track:
The idea behind this particular piece, soundtrack and movie (really, it’s all three) is due to my father way back in the ’80’s. My parents divorced when I was like 3 or so. When I was young, my father had custody for the occasional weekend, and one of the things we did together was watch movies. Generally it was movies that my mother would never want to watch.
My mother and I thought “Flight of the Navigator”, “Escape from Witch Mountain” and “The Cat from Outer Space” as well as any James Bond movie were great movies. But then there were things like “Creature”, “Dune”, “The Beastmaster”, “The Keep” and “Firestarter” as well as any other Stephen King movie, which I watched with the old man.
The last two titles there just happened to share the same soundtrack. Tangerine Dream. Brian Eno is in there somewhere for “The Keep” as he and David Byrne also did “Mea Culpa” together back in 1983 as well as Eno’s music for “Dune”.
I was always good at getting music, but the one thing that eluded me was the soundtrack for “The Keep”. My father had lots of Tangerine Dream vinyls and tapes. I got my own eventually as well as I got older. But that “Keep” soundtrack was always elusive. No shop ever had that soundtrack.
Fast Forward about 23 years.
I found it! And I GOT IT! Almost. As I said, 99.4%. Only 0.6% more to go before I can burn myself a CD & send it back to my father.
It’s been at 99.4% for about 3 weeks now, so most likely I’ll edit the last 0.6% myself and send it back as is, but just once, while I still can, I’d like to watch that movie again with him for old times sake, then play that music in his downstairs bar in full Dolby Surround Sound at full blast. This time, the neighbors can call the cops on ME for the noise. I fear time is running short.
After reading this link on Huffington Post, I decided to see what Google thinks of other people & places. Interesting to find what Google Suggest has to say about China.
Sinopenn is no ChinaSmack by far, but I do still have my resources into what the Chinese are posting on the various bbs’s (hint: it starts with “Google” and ends in “Translate”).
When short skirts are too short…
What do you get when you cross a short SHORT skirt with the digital age? You get morons with mobiles snapping pictures for their own personal “pleasure” later on.
Short Skirt, Long Camera Lens
You know those little Hello Kitty Charms people like to hang off their mobile phones? This girl did away with her “Hello Kitty” and added a little “Hey Baby” bling to her phone.
Always Be Prepared
You think Shanghai girls are rough?
This girl has her man wrapped around her little finger… or rather wrapped around her chain leash. The next time your Chinese wife tells you to carry her purse, just do it. Things could be worse.
Curb your Pets
Don't forget the Scooper
What’s worse than traffic in Shanghai?
Traffic on Mt. Bumfuck. Imagine traversing this little gem everyday to get to work, school, home, KTV, wherever. No thanks.
Long & Winding Road
Oh Shi-
Mickey Mouse huffing a bottle of Chivas
Mickey mouse does indeed have poor taste in booze. Seen here hoisting a bottle of Chivas Regal on his back, he almost looks like he’s begging Minnie (off in the distance somewhere) to try some.
This was seen over at Hom-Mart, a renovation & interior decoration supermarket over by Beixinjing Station. Grace & I have been spending some time (hours and hours and hours and…) looking at tiles & such for the kitchen and bathrooms for our new apartment. This particular one caught my attention, first because I didn’t even know Mickey drinks, and second, well, it’s Mickey with a drink! A rather bad one at that.
Mickey mouse, with all that cash, has to have better taste than this.
Other tiles included (alcohol-free) piano-playing oranges, that big green walking balloon thing from the Shanghai Metro television & his pink blog girlfriend, Japanese Geishas, toilets (wait.. for the kitchen? nahhh) and various other happy smiling… things.
But thanks to Disney (okay, fine… Hom-mart. Doubt Disney would sanction this), I now know what to put in the baby bottle when we have kids!
