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While exploring Jamendo for some more good music, I landed upon this gem: The 4 Elements.

I don't know how to describe it. Just have a listen to it yourself, and decide whether or not to download a copy.

(Sidenote: I think OBE here refers to Out of Body Experience.)

The weather's been fairly unsteady during these months... starting in March, though, it seemed to steadily warm up until this weekend, at which point the forecast suddenly announced possible snow this weekend. There even was some yesterday, though it's completely gone now.

I saw an interestingly colored bird today. I think it was grey, with a blue head and bright yellow eyes, but I'm not so sure anymore. I can't find any information about it... ...but I can say that Glossy starlings are beautiful birds.

Y'know, it's not often that I do this, but I'm actually listening to my classical music right now. Yes, I like classical music at times... Probably because of the way it's been used in the past, I find that it makes a nice background when I don't want silence, and don't want something powerful.

I'm feeling a little lost and confused. I want to move out, but I don't want to do so alone, and I don't want to do the work of finding an apartment on my own. It just doesn't feel right. More on that later...

Recently, a friend of mine told me about a game named Okami, which I've gotten a copy of and so far has been a fairly interesting and very beautifully made game. While I've been able to find a few glitches (mostly related to invisible walls), it's been a fairly solid experience and I've been trying not to play it too much - I've limited myself to only an hour or two per day so that I don't finish it too fast. I also appear not to be the only one who thinks there are similarities to Zelda in this game - I think my sister may enjoy playing this game as well, so perhaps next time she's around I'll introduce her to it :)
I've found the music score to be so beautiful that I've written and highlighted the OST on my wishlist (Which, by the way, has lost most of it's items due to the database loss previously described.). I've already found a download for the whole OST and gotten it, but I'd much rather actually have those five CDs... as well as the game itself. Normally, I'd also back this up with And hey, I'd be supporting the company!, but it turns out that Clover Studio, the creator of Okami, will be dissolved by it's parent company, CAPCOM.
I've got a digit up at 'em.

Speaking of music, though, I've been finishing some uploads at Jamendo, and the music is pretty sweet. I'd recommend having a listen to Simon Slator and/or Saelynh, depending on your music tastes, or perhaps just browing by tags. It's too bad there aren't people as interested as I am in choruses*. Hard to find, that.

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This goes back a little... to when exactly, I'm not sure. Honestly, her beliefs aren't exactly unfounded: It's the way things used to be, I suppose. Lemmings was a game that used classical music, for example, for many titles - until Lemmings 2: The Tribes, if I recall correctly. Old movies probably did, too. But nowadays, game makers and movie writers often hire composers to create new music, especially for that particular game or movie.

We were watching (Well, she was watching - I was just looking at snippets every now and then.) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and at the end, she commented that the music sounded like it was taken from a known piece, a finale. I tried to explain to her the brain-numbing concept of originality, but she didn't believe me. Finally, I had to look up the soundtrack to HP-SC to prove to her that it was originally composed for the movie, and nothing had been taken from elsewhere (though only the composer knows what inspired him, really). Then I had to do another search, adding words such as finale, just to further prove it. Yeesh.

I wonder sometimes just how much she's been left behind... ...or is lagging behind, whichever.