Good ambient Music

As I blogged about my tunes and putting them up on myspace I thought I would mention what motivated me to start making some music again. My blog entry is here if you fancy listening to any the tunes I made

http://hoskysvoyage.blogspot.com/2006/08/hoskinator-tunes-are-out-there.html

I have recently to some really good ambient music

Global Communications started it all off and their album 76.14 (I think) and then I brought Substrata Vol.2

Then recently I brought Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase

and finally I have brought a couple of Banco De Gaia albums Big Men Cry and Last Train to Lhasa.

It was good finding these artists because alot of the ambient music I had found before was a bit more poppy/dancy. Which is okay but sometimes I wanted a bit more chilled out, especially for when I am listening to music at work.

Check out the chooons. If anyone has any good suggestions for ambient music in similar vain to the music mentioned please leave a comment pointing me in the right direction.

Snakes on a plane

ohh man how much do I want to see this film

I am a big fan of cheesy horror films like Wasp Woman, attack of the killer shrews , boggy creak.

This sounds like something similar. The plot is pure genius, an assassin has to kill someone on a plan so he drops a crate of killer snakes onto the plane. I think the film also deals with people who scared of flying, small spaces and snakes.

I just love saying

Snakes on a plane

Also the king of cool Samuel L Jackson is in it but unfortunately he doesn't say "in France they call them Le Snakes on a plane"

I am in the process of trying to convince my girlfriend that it would be good fun to go and watch the film to which the cheeky minx replied, you never want to see my films and you say they are naff and rubbish. Yes my dear but your horrible films are naff and rubbish in a worse way, they don't know it and they are being serious. My girlfriend once made me watch coyote ugly, what a cheesy film, that is bordering on funny because it is so rubbish.

if anyone has seen Snakes on a plane please leave a comment to tell me what you thought of it.

imdb hasn't got anything, apart from one bloke who's review is quite amusing but I'm not sure if he knows it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

my favorite bit of the review is this

"Plot is pretty thin, something generic about a kid (Nathan Phillips) who witnessed a mob murder and has to be transported to L.A. to testify in court, but I doubt anyone will mind. We know the basic story. There is a plane in the air that has both venomous snakes and Samuel L. Jackson on board. Samuel L. Jackson defeat snakes in a number of thoroughly awesome ways, which I will not reveal as to not diminish their awesomeness, and simultaneously deals with whiny, stereotypical frightened passengers. Trust me though, seeing the snakes rampaging through the plane and wreaking havoc on said stereotypical passengers is indeed sweet."


I will not reveal as to not diminish their awesomeness. Come on guys and girls any review which has that in it must be one bloody good film.

Hoskinator tunes are out there

I have been known to dabble in a bit of music making from time to time and if anyone is interested I have created a myspace link

http://www.myspace.com/hoskinator

They aren't that good and they are in the ambient rambling style but they are worth a listen, go on treat yourself.

I have to admit the tune slow down is certainly my favorite

Working Repeated - The start

I was bored today because I know I should be revising for my SCJP exam and my Xbox is busted so I am here larking around on the computer (forbidden blogging).

Anyway I thought I would write a rubbish story, so be prepared to be amazed at my awful english, terrible spelling and the worst grammer you will ever likely to see by an adult. I don't know why I writing this because i doubt anyone is actually reading this apart from my Mum (Hi Mum).

Anyway here is the first page, I am planning to link the story together with links but I don't know if it will work and I will probably become bored with it. If you have any comments please leave them, even if it's just to take the piss.

Here it is

I wake slowly, a distant noise is growing in decibels, relentlessly getting louder, louder, the same three tones puncture the air

beep, beep, beep

again, louder

beep, beep, beep

again

beep, beep, beep

Why does the noise cease getting louder, perhaps it’s conserving it’s energy? What would I do if were an alarm clock, I would do my job to the best of my ability, I would ring loudly but not to loudly, the perfect days work for an alarm clock is to slowly caress it’s owner into waking, slowly nudge your tired owner into the land of the leaving.

I glance over at the clock, the digits 7.00 brightly shine, boldly telling the time to all who looked in it’s direction. I closed my eyes, savouring the precious seconds of half slumber, neither awake nor asleep but a perfect balance between. I opened one eye, still 7.00, Yes a few more seconds of bliss.

I could feel the slow evaporation of my relaxed state of mind and body slowly ebbing away, tension is inevitably seeping into my skin

If I look again will it still be 7.00

I let a sigh out, open my eyes and there it is staring back at me, a sign and a sign in bold red digital letters. Its message is clear and absolute, no rest for the wicked, no time to layabout here, no sirree, seize the day Master – Carpe Diem Sire, get out bed you lazy fucker. It says 7.01, it can mean only one thing, it’s time I shock my lazy bones out of bed and initiated the waking up routine.

Tideland - Gilliam back

I was reading the guardian and it had an article with Terry Gilliam from Monty Python fame, although I like him more for his films which I love like

Brazil
12 Monkeys
The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen

etc

His latest film looks like some right crazy shit. It has a scene where a child of 12 is looking after her dad and is giving him a shot of heroin, a disturbing image.

The new film is called

Tideland

and he has had a 12 million pound budget and Gilliam should make good use of that to create some twisted landscapes. I didn't like his last film that much the Brothers Grimm but I like the actual story is just that he couldn't really pull it off because it was financed by Hollywood so they insisted on certain actors and certain story lines etc.

Gilliam also is a big fan of Don Quixote. I have read the book and even though it was bloody tough going I did enjoy it and I enjoyed the madness of it, delicious. Because I read the massive book of Don Quixote I brought the film which was pretty boring but my mate saw that I had brought a new film and watched it and was bored out of his mind, ho ho ho how I laughed.

It sounds like the film must be nearly finished or quite a bit done so this will be something to look forward to. I would link to the guardian for you but I don't know if I can be bothered. Oh I've got myself interested now

Here is the rough plot from the guardian film website

after her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose\'s attempts to deal with what\'s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper\'s veil.

here is the imdb link, it has a really good review here

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410764/

I have just brought the book because it sounds good, so there