Wow. Long time, eh?

I promise, I will start blogging again soon, I am required to blog for my school radio station, so most of my blogging energy goes to that. I will begin posting on this blog once again after this semester ends, but until then, check out KSSU's blog where I often write: kssunews.wordpress.com.

Thanks, and I will be back really soon!

KSSU Show #2 - 02/17/2015

It's a wrap on show number 2 here at KSSU! Like a song you hear during the show? Check out the playlist here on the blog! Any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks.

Name of Song / Artist / Album

Youth	Daughter	Wild Youth
Air Traffic	Owl City	Maybe I'm Dreaming
From All Sides	Lights	Little Machines
Warrier	Kimbra	Vows
Sick Muse	Metric	Fantasies
Trust	Panama Wedding	Parallel Play
After The Moment	Craft Spells	Idle Labor
Pick Up The Phone	Dragonette	Fixin to Thrill
Sleep Alone	Two Door Cinema Club	Beacon
Love Song	Sara Berellis	Little Voice

KSSU Show #1 - 02/10/2015

Hello all!

I just finished up my show on KSSU, Sacramento State Student Radio. As promised during the show, this is where I will be posting my playlists each week. You can check out artists and songs that you may have misses and chat with me about the show.

Any thoughts are appreciated! Thanks.

Name of Song / Artist / Album

Call It in the Air	The Cinema	Talking in Your Sleep
Years of War	Porter Robinson	Worlds
Same Sea	Lights	Little Machines
Black Sun	Kintsugi	Death Cab for Cutie
Let It Go	Bodyparts	Dragonette
Silhouettes	Swimming With Dolphins	Ambient Blue
Dead Air	Chvrches	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
All of the People	Panama Wedding	Parallel Play
The Unknown	Foxes	Glorious Deluxe Version
We're Not Alone (Killabyte Remix)	Virtual Riot	We're Not Alone
Fly (Killabyte Remix)	Protohype	Hear No Evil
Take a Walk	Passion Pit	Gossamer

I Missed January + Radio Show?

So, yah.... January came and went, and I completely forgot to do anything with the blog! To be fair, I was busy moving houses and working, and I honestly just sort of forgot.

In other news, however, it looks like I will have a radio show for the Spring 2015 university semester! That's right, I jot a "job" at KSSU, the college radio station for my university. When the details are finalized (in the next week, hopefully,) I will post all the details here, as well as Twitter. As of now, it will be a 1 hour show every week, and will be streamed online through a service called TuneIn, for which there is a website and an app. (Links to come)

Needless to say, I am excited to get started, and because the station is free form, there is no required playlist that I need to follow. Instead I simply keep track of the songs that I play and can pretty much play whatever I want, as long as I don't violate any FCC regulations for broadcast radio.

Because of this format, I plan of playing songs from a variety of genres and styles, however if you read this blog, you may find that the majority of music that I listen to falls roughly into the Alt/Indi category - fear not, however, as I will do my best to represent as many varying genres as I can.

As I said, I will post an official "Radio Show Announcement" when the time comes, to let you know of all the details and where/when you can tune in to the show. Until then, thanks for reading, and I will talk to you soon.

- David

I'm a strange one...

I often find myself reading some of the most bizarre things, and not for any reason, per say. I was not assigned these readings bey a teacher or professor, nor am I required to read things for work. No, I genuinely enjoy reading some of the most "boring" things on Wikepedia. For instance, I just finished reading the - in my opinion quite interesting - entry on the International Civil Aviation Organization's airport and aircraft identification and naming conventions.

I genuinely find these types of things interesting! Am I weird? Perhaps. But I think we all have interests that are a bit off the beaten path, existing on the fringes of what might be considered "normal" or "mainstream" and I think that that is wonderful. Let me know what you think.

Thanks for reading,

- Dave

Review: Imitation Game (2014)

Breaking the unbreakable German code in World War II might seem like an impossible feat, but Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) is up for the challenge. Playing a socially awkward and misunderstood incarnation of the real man, Cumberbatch leads the cast of stellar characters that make up this film. While being predictable at times, the film still managed to throw me some twists that I didn't see coming, and entertained me through the entire movie.

The Imitation Game is about the life and work of British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, and follows his journey of attempting to break the "unbreakable" German code during World War II. The film explores his childhood, as well as the events after the war, and also looks at the personal relationships Turing built while building a machine that he hoped would be able to crack the code.

Turing's machine is considered to be the first mechanical computational device, and as such he is considered to be "the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence." (Beavers, Anthony 2013)

The film is a period piece, of course, and the sets and costume design was beautiful and, from what I can discern, fairly accurate. In addition, the overall production design was well done, and I really believed that the action was unfolding in mid 20th century England.

The acting was superb. By far the best part of the film, in my opinion, and Benedict Cumberbatch truly did an amazing job - not to over shadow the other actors in the film, however. Keira Knightly did a fantastic job as well, as did really the whole primary cast.

While the shining moments of the film are the highlight of the film, there were a few things that I was not as thrilled with, like the somewhat predictable plot (though some parts of the film did catch me by surprise) and the decent (but not amazing) score detracted a bit from the film, but not enough to prevent my recommendation.

Is it, as some have said, the "best British film of 2014?" Maybe, I'll be honest, I haven't seen that many British films this year. But is it good? Yes, yes it is. I would say that, despite the minor issues, and they are minor, this is well worth the watch.

The verdict?
7 out of 10 - Heartily Recomend

Merry Christmas!

I am not one for celebrating the holidays, but there is something about this time of year that is just very exciting. And, since it IS December 25, 2014, I thought I would make a quick post to say, happy holidays, merry Christmas, and I hope you all have an amazing holiday season! Here is a Christmas song I am a little
hooked on right now.



Talk soon,
- Dave