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01-London Symphony Orchestra-James Bond Theme.mp3
02-Mya-Everything or Nothing.mp3
03-Shirley Bassey & Mantronik-Diamonds Are Forever.mp3
04-Garbage-The World Is Not Enough.mp3
05-Fear Factory-Resurrection.mp3
06-Sigur Ros-Good Weather For Airstrikes.mp3
07-Andy Hunter-Come On.mp3
08-The Sims 2-Pop.mp3
09-Diablo II-Tristram.mp3
10-Final Fantasy VII-Liberi Fatali.mp3
11-Cowboy Bebop-Call Me Call Me.mp3
12-Shirley Bassey & Propellerheads-Goldfinger.mp3
13-Moby-James Bond Theme.mp3
Woohoo! I love waking up to such a nice present. I feel bad that I take all these mixes and never give back but all of the cool music on my computer is music I got from the mixes so I'd just be repackaging your stuff and giving it back to you. :(
It does - thank you! I'm looking forward to the Final Fantasy piece.
So why couldn't you sleep, wolfdaddy? You need a relaxing backrub and a cup of chamomile tea. Not now though. Right now you need an invigorating shower and some coffee.
Not-sleeping seems to be going around lately. I've been talking to so many people who aren't sleeping... I'm a good sleeper, but I'm also kind of wack these days. Yesterday I slept from seven to midnight, and then again from 4 a.m. 'til around 9 a.m. Not only is that a bit weird, it's also a lot more hours than I normally sleep - nearly twice as much.
My sleeping has been terrible. More so than usual. (Usual = stochastic, random sleeping patterns, but actually getting sleep.)
The last week or so I haven't even been able to manage that. Totally tired, exhausted to the point of entoptic near-hallucinations. Trying to lay down and sleep. Not sleeping. Getting up. Laying down again. Not sleeping. Repeat. I actually slept last night, though, so for once I'm not just up at dawn after being up all night.
About a week ago I had an absolutely terrible end-of-the-world OMFG-the-sky-is-boiling type dream. Easily in my top 3 of end of the world nightmares.
I've also talked to people that haven't been sleeping as usual recently. WTF?
Hey, knock it off with that high energy ELF shit already, you freaky US-DOD shitholes!
This is weird, I've been having the same thing with sleep. Try to sleep, check MeFi, try to sleep etc. And then finally crash and see strange dreams. What's going on? The end of the world?
Bummer, taz! :-( What's the error message you receive? Maybe you can repair the archive? The file's ~170 MB iirc, so if it's close to that size when you downloaded it perhaps it can be repaired.
Alternatively, I could send you a couple of the songs off the list if you like :-)
As for me not sleeping, we went from an unusual heat wave the past couple of days to a cold front blowing through here last night with lots of rain and wind. After the front came through the temp dropped fast and that always makes my back sing in protest. Did manage to sleep for a few and a half hours after putting up this post though.
As to dreams, I dreamed that naked bull dyke UPS ladies were doing all my heavy lifting for me.
Yeah, I'm only getting 154 Mb for some reason, and the WinZip error message is "Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive", which is the same, I think, as I got with the other ones I couldn't open.
If you want to upload a single, upload your favorite!
Don't give up hope yet taz! Keep the zip file, and go grab (I hope you're on windows) QuickPar. Install it, and put this file in the same directory as the zip file, then double click on it (the new file, not the zip file). Then let me know how many blocks it says you need! We're going to fix this!
Also, I never include playlists for the mp3's when I do mixes. I assume you'll be making a CD out of them (thus the 320K bitrate so you can get the cleanest wav files possible out of the mp3-to-wav conversion) but if you want to make a m3u playlist for the mp3's themselves, it's easy enough to make a playlist that's sorted in play order and then usable no matter where you save the playlist itself. Here's how (for Windows users, at least):
Open up a command prompt and use the cd command to change to the directory that has the relevant mp3 files in it. If you want this to work and sort in the order you want, rename each file to put a two digit track number in the front of each file's name.
Execute the following command: dir *.mp3 /on /b /s /w > playme.m3u ... this will sort the mp3's alphanumerically, with full file path information, stripping the listing of any extraneous information not needed by mp3 players that can play m3u playlist format files.
Now all you need to do is click on the resultant m3u file to play those mp3's! And you can move the m3u file to any other place on your computer's drive(s) and it will still work! :-)
Well - it worked okay for me - OS X/iTunes. It unzipped fine and I've just started to listen and everything seems to be there.
My personal theory is that YSI has a server login time limit for any file - and so if you are dl-ing for longer than that, the connection is cut at that point. For me anything ~150MB+ takes so long to dl that I can drop the connection and wind up with an incomplete archive.
wolfdaddy - worked great for me as well, "ditto carter config."
Thanks!
Since the time change, I've somehow cheated my body, getting less sleep, but feeling wide awake in the morning... Perhaps my sleepy goodness will be infectious
This isn't the bum-bum-BUM-bum music which is called "James Bond" (and wrongly credited to Monty Norman), it's John Barry's alternate "heroic" theme used for tense action sequences with 007. It's my favorite piece from the movies, and alas -- partly because Barry no longer does the scores -- they've quit using it. I miss it.
Newley was the composer of the song that Shirley Bassey sang so well. I like her belting, but Newley singing it himself gives it a subtler, creepier quality (not to mention the gender-bending angle).
If you remember, this was the code name that Tanaka and the Japanese Secret Service gave to Bond. Great summary of the 007 ethos. ;-) I forget if they actually had this in the end-titles or what, but they did not use it as the "You Only Live Twice" theme in the end, though it was considered.
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