One of my favorite songs ... ever! (The Cure)

The Cure, "Just Like Heaven"


Great imagery, beautiful chord changes...

Reminds me of Twisted Toucan (tiki bar), West End, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras - 2001

Fascinating books (how the brain works)

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/socialsciences/fr/blink.htm
Incognito by David Eagleman
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/06/david_eaglemans.html
New Yorker profile of Eagleman
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/25/110425fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all

People ... who need, uh, who ARE... people?

Does that include corporations?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/06/occupy-corporations/

Latest, greatest - reading, watching

Reading:

On Intelligence (Jeff Hawkins - neuroscience)
The Fountainhead (again, Ayn Rand)

Watching:

Ghost Whisperer - reruns
Military Channel - skydiving, outdoors physical training
Love and Other Drugs - RomCom - Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway
Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen
Addams Family Values - twisted Valentine's Day

Question:
Speaking of Gyllenhaal, how on Earth did Jake's sister Maggie EVER get cast as a romantic lead alongside Christian Bale in "Dark Knight"? Not credible.
Nice gal, but no, I'm not getting it. Sorry, but Christian Bale would never date her. On a very, very good day, she's "cute", at best. Nor does she have a particularly charismatic or attractive energy about her.
What were they thinking?

Answer:
It's not "what you know" but "who you know". She's an "insider"
from IMDB:
"Her mother is a Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated scriptwriter. Her father is an Emmy-nominated director."

On the list (to read, watch):
Dark Knight Rises (new Batman)
Lorax - Dr Seuss (March 2nd)
Memento - watch again

Bad weather prediction - thus, naked skydive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RubpjwhQbyk

Gotta love the Kiwis.

REM - YouTube videos

Covering "Love Is All Around" by the Troggs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBI20YkvkOQ&list=LLu3lNMvBfLbS-3HAUPpYMLQ&index=18&feature=plpp_video

"Fall On Me" from MTV "Unplugged" 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRUKoS4scU4&list=LLu3lNMvBfLbS-3HAUPpYMLQ&index=20&feature=plpp_video

1983 - "Carnival of Sorts" (live from a Nickelodeon show!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmWW8pZS7ys

"I Believe" - from 1989 Green tour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyGW6jUGtrM