When I first started studying the history of music, I did not realize what I was getting into. I had thought that music history was somewhat of a trivial pursuit. In fact, I only took my history of cla$$ical music cla$$ because I needed the credits. I did not realize how completely fascinating music history is. You see, in our culture many of us do not really learn to understand music. For much of the world, music is a language, but for us it is something that we consumed passively. When I began to learn about the history of Western music, however, it changed all that for me. I have had some experience playing musical instruments, but I have never mastered one enough to really understand what music is all about. This cla$$ showed me.

When most of us think about the history of music, we think of the history of rock music. We assume that the history is simple because the music is simple. In fact, neither is the case. The history of music, whether you're talking about clas$cal music, rock music, jazz music, or any other kind, is always complicated. New chord structures are introduced bringing with them new ways of understanding the world. New rhythmic patterns are introduced, bringing with them new ways of understanding time. And music reflects all of it.

Even when the cla$$ was over, I could not stop learning about the history of music. It had whetted my appetite, and I wanted more. I got all the music history books that I could find. I even began to research forms of music that had not interested me before in the hopes of enhancing my musical knowledge further. Although I was in school studying toward something very different - a degree in engineering - I had thought about giving it up and going back to get a degree in musicology. That is how much I am fascinated by the subject.

If you have never taken a course in the history of music, you don't know what you are missing out on. The radio will never sound the same to you again. Everything will seem much more rich, much more luminous, and much more important. A new song can reflect a new way of being, and a new way of imagining life in the world. This is what learning about the history of music means to many of us.

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Trivia

Note : in the following are my new enhancement to my blog , first, I will start with a picture and you guys gonna guess what is that picture or a synopsis about that or anything that define it somehow. Second, "a history of a movie" i will state in every blog a movie (that i watched) and a synopsis and my history with it. Third, i will state a game and also my history with it.Finally, i will state an " admirable song " with some info about it. To be considered that every synopsis and genre guessing is from my personal perspective , i don't copy any synopsis from any site.

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A story of a picture

can you guess what is that picture ? (i will answer it in my next blog)

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A history of a movie

The others :

-release date : 2001

-genre : horror

-Rated : PG-13

-Synopsis : it's about a woman and her two children facing an demonic influence in their house.

-Watching source : T.V.

-Number of times i've watched it : approximately 5 times.

-Awards :

· Goya Awards:

• Best Cinematography (Javier Aguirresarobe)
• Best Director (Alejandro Amenábar)
• Best Editing (Nacho Ruiz Capillas)
• Best Film
• Best Production Design
• Best Production Supervision
• Best Screenplay - Original (Alejandro Amenábar)
• Best Sound

· Kansas City Film Critics:

• Best Actress (Nicole Kidman)

· London Film Critics:

• Best Actress of the Year (Nicole Kidman)

· Online Film Critics:

• Best Screenplay - Original (Alejandro Amenábar)

-Rate : 8.510.

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A history of a game

Terracon :

-Platform : PS1

-release date : 2000

-Genre : Sci-fi Adventure Action

-Synopsis : you play as a spatial creature whose sent in a mission to the solar system to fulfill some objectives.

-Gameplay : the game engine is 3D (open-world) wich you can explore the widely area around you freely , and lots of puzzle , You must destroy enemy vehicles and structures in order to accomplish your tasks , also you can travel with your spaceship from planet ot planet (missions).

-Fun time I had with it : I spend a lot of time enjoying this game with it's unique gameplay , I actually loved this game very much but sadly I didn't complete it.

-Timeline : I played this game between maybe 2000-2001.

-possession source : I had it from my cousin.

-Similar games : Destroy all humans 1 & 2 (series).

-comment : 1 one of my favorite 20 games on ps1.

-Rating :

Sound: 1.5/2

Graphics: 1/2

Gameplay: 2.5/3

my special score : 3/3

Overall : 8/10

-Rated for : T

EDIT : Sorry for the picture, but it's gone.

(CBS) Who is the most beautiful woman in the world? Half a century ago, Hollywood would have presented her to us. Grace Kelly, Ingrid Bergman or perhaps Elizabeth Taylor.

But today? Correspondent Bob Simon reports the woman who currently holds the title, at least according to thousands of Web sites, Internet polls and even Julia Roberts, is someone you've probably never heard of.

Her name is Aishwarya Rai, and she is an actress living and working in Bombay, India. The reigning queen of Indian cinema, and also a ****ally trained dancer, Rai has starred in 24 films over the last seven years.

That may seem like a lot of movies, but Bollywood, India's film capital, is famous for churning out more movies a year than Hollywood. Three new films are produced and distributed worldwide every day, attracting a global audience of 5 billion people. That's twice the reach of Hollywood.

The reason Bollywood films have such universal appeal is because they're squeaky-clean. There are no sex scenes, not even kissing. Every time you think someone's going to do it, they'll burst into song instead.

"I'd assume that's really a reflection of our society," Rai says, when asked to explain the films' modesty. "Of course people kiss and of course people have a very healthy love life. This is the land of the Kama Sutra. But nevertheless, in our society you don't really see people around the street corner kissing or being extremely, overtly, physically demonstrative publicly. They do it privately but not publicly."

Unlike some of her Hollywood counterparts, Rai's very much like the women she portrays: wholesome, dutiful and deeply religious. So much so, she insisted we visit her favorite temple for this interview. It's more than 200 years old and every week more than 100,000 people come from all over India to make offerings and pray to Lord Ganesh, the half-elephant/half-man Hindu god of happiness.

At the temple, Rai started attracting more worshippers than Lord Ganesh.

She says being treated as sort of a goddess in this way, "makes me feel guilty. I'll be very honest. When there's a distraction at the place of worship I kinda get a bit guilty. And I kind of say, 'Lord, forgive me. This isn't intended.'"

Despite the attention, Rai says she doesn't think much about the way she looks.

"I am really OK with the way I look, It's fine," she says. "All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external."

- so, folks, who do you think the most beautiful woman in the world ?

One of the most successful movies based on game, it's Resident Evil, if not the best. What saves it...and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks, is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense, such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist Alice.

On it's own terms, Resident Evil updates the zombie genre with an ant- corporate message while still scaring it's audience and providing heart-pounding action. Some people thought RE games are more involving than the movies,well, it does, but this movie capture some thrills and action to great a movie for it's own, even if not this film partialy related to the game, and at least, the movie show some places and towns that been stated in the game such as : Raccoon city and Umbrella corporation.

I admit that movies based on video games are shallow, obvious and one-dimensional, but this one has a twist and engaging story, that's keep you hooked up till' the end of it.Eventually, Resident Evil may be brain dead but it's great popcorn entertainment nonetheless.

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Some sites rating :

imdb.com : 6.2 / 10

Rottentomatoes.com : 4.4 / 10

ign.com : 7.0 / 10

First of all, we got to confess that some movies based on games are totally sucks !! i mean what are the producers been thinking before they cast the movie ? i think they only want to highlight the game through the theaters or just let us say the TV as some of these movies never been shown on theaters due to the awful presentation of course. Let's give an example for today's blog :silent hill, unfortunately that movie didn't give the "silent hill" famed series what it's supposed to be.

actually the bad perfomance ,the rareness of the thrilling moments and music that we've used to it in the game, the too many unnecessary scenes, the film is overlong due to the shoddy dialogue, the incoherent stroy ,all that helped the movie to fall quickly down.

However, the movie at least possess some "silent hill" atmosphere such as the creepy creatures and it does feature some of silent hill creatures such as : the pyramid head , grey children and the lying figure.Also, the nicely ambiguous conclusion and some scary moments.

the only people who will enjoy this movie are the die hard-fans of the game.

some sites rating :

rottentomatoes.com : 3/10

imdb.com : 6.5/10

ign.com : 5/10

Headaches for the most part, are one of life's minor annoyances, unless of course, you suffer from the impossibly tortuous migraine. But for the ordinary headache, there is a world full of weird and wacky cures, and causes.

Because most headaches involve a restriction of blood vessels in the head or scalp, a good cup of coffee or two, can work wonders. The caffeine will help to expand the vessels, and will also speed the absorption of any pills you may have taken.

Unfortunately, the only cure for "brain freeze", is to let your system warm up again, which should happen in a few minutes. That's the kind of headache you get from eating ice cream. When extremely cold foods and drink touch the palate in the roof of your mouth, it stimulates nerves that then turn on blood vessels in your head and they swell, causing pounding in the middle of your forehead.

Cluster headaches can be as excruciating as migraines, if only for their persistent presence. The pounding, throbbing pain that tends to stay on one side of the head, can come and go several times over the course of a day, and repeat that cycle every day for weeks or months. Oddly enough, researchers estimate that 93% of cluster headache victims are men.

In the "old days", headaches were often cured by making a poultice of house leeks, that fleshy member of the sedum family that often grew between the slates of cottage roofs. No doubt, that worked better than the lavender that was dabbed on a lady's temples in Victorian times.

You have to hand it to the Chinese for simplicity, though. They used to simply swing their arms back and forth, or around and around. Odd as that may seem, the improved blood flow may very well have cured headaches caused by sluggish circulation.

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I promise in the last blog i will write about "fact articles" but i changed my mind..sorry for that.

A New Zealand man was hit by a runaway car, driven by a 3 year-
old, while he was mowing his front lawn. Terry Mattsen was
pinned underneath the car driven by his next door neighbour's
son, Angus who had climbed into the car and knocked it out of
gear. Police are not going to press any charges.

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that's will be the last "strange news" blogs , it end up in number #6.

next time "fact articles" make sure to see it ;)

For Sale: Human Head

South African police have arrested a 23-year-old murderer and
the human head he was trying to sell for use in traditional
medicine. Police said the head belonged to a 52-year-old man
whose headless corpse was found Monday in Krugersdorp. The head
had been hacked off with a knife. Police have in the past
uncovered several so-called muti murders of people killed for
body parts that some traditional healers believe are essential
ingredients for certain kinds of medicine.

Over 3000 Snakes Found In Home

A woman in Bangladesh was surprised when she found two cobras on
her property. The woman then called a snake charmer, Dudu Miah,
to capture the snakes. He discovered 3000 snakes and hundreds
of eggs in the house. Local newspapers reported that altogether
the snake charmer found 3500 snakes at two houses in
Narayanganj, which is located near Dhaka. Many neighbours left
their homes in fear of the cobras. The snakes were found after
digging underneath the floor of the house. Miah will try to see
if their are more snakes in the neigbourhood, but is unsure what
he will do with them all.

Man Makes Soup Out Of Body Parts

A man from Nigeria confessed to killing his boss and making a
soup out of her body parts. Salifu Ojo, 23, was arrested last
Wednesday. Ojo killed his 40 year old boss, Christiana Elijah,
because of a argument over his pay. The man chopped of her
head, hands, and legs, and then took out her internal organs and
put them in his soup. He then drank the soup, and ended up
vomitting. He eventually confessed to his fellow workers what
he had done.

Woman Lives In Car For 26 Years

A London woman, Ann Naysmith, lived in her car for 26 years.
The woman, who was a former music teacher, decided to reside
in her car after she had been evicted from her flat in London.
She has been living in her Ford Consul since 1976. Her car was
however removed by the local council as it was said it could be
a possible health hazard. The neighbours, who became used to
the 60 year old lady, decided to buy her a red Mercedes in
replacement of the Ford Consul." "It seemed a straightforward
and sensible solutions," said the owner of the Mercedes, Sian
Lines. The owner of the Mercedes also added that it was
sensible since the lady had threatened to set herself on fire in
protest.