Honestly, this is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while, and I see a lot of cool things around.  I love Pink Floyd, although I haven’t listened to them a whole lot lately to be honest, but I was shown this today and I really enjoyed it.  8-bit music interests me and I felt like this was pretty good for 8-bit.  So yeah.  Enjoy.

So basically, Simon and Garfunkel are one of my favorite music acts of all time.  I love them.  I love soft music on many an occasion, and they are one of my favorite providers.  And my favorite song of theirs is The Sound of Silence.  I think it employs some great harmonies, and I love it.  I learned it on guitar about a year ago, but I’ve completely forgotten it now.  Anyways, I was on YouTube, and I found this sick video.  It’s Paul Simon (The Simon half of Simon and Garfunkel) and Bob Dylan, performing a changed up version of the song.  I love it.  Five stars on YouTube.  And I don’t rate movies too much.  Listen to it.  If you like music, you’ll love this.  Oh, and in posting this, I’m also adding Simon & Garfunkel to the list of Dennis Beatty-Seal-Approved music.

Honestly, I saw this trailer just now, and apparently it was just released a couple hours ago, and it looks pretty darn good.  If you want to watch it, do so and then read what I think about it below.  Or just watch it and leave.  It’s a free country so you can do what you want, but I’m guessing since you’re already here you want to read what I have to say.  If you want you can skip the video too, but I’d check it out anyways.

I have to say, the trailer kind of has me wanting to see this.  I enjoy the music, I enjoy the cinematic style, and I think it will actually be pretty good.  I had never actually heard of the comic this is based on, but if the movie’s any good, I might actually check it out.  The premise seems kind of cheesy, but this appears to be shot in almost the same style as Speed Racer, and that was one of my favorite movies of all time to be honest.  I just love that style where it’s supposed to be a little stupid, but at the same time it’s really good.  Yeah.  I’m gonna keep watching for more trailers.  Tron: Legacy is still my most anticipated movie for this year, but this looks pretty good too.

So I’m adding a new category to the Seal of Approval: music.  And today, I’m adding the first addition to this new category.  I don’t know how long you’ve known me, but if you’ve known me long, you might know that while I love pretty much any genre of music, rap has never been very close to my heart.  I’ve felt like it’s the black sheep of the music genre family.  I actually found some rap that I really like though.  Even though rap was declared dead after the failure that was the new “We Are the World,” I’ve found a new life to it.  TJ Fredette.  And he’s pretty dang amazing.  He just put out this new song about his brother Jimmer a couple weeks ago, and it was pretty big news just cause Jimmer’s pretty amazing too.  Anyways, I’ve heard it a couple times before, but I finally decided it deserves a new Seal category because I definitely approve.  Check it out for yourself:

The video isn’t the best quality ever, but the music’s pretty great, especially considering it’s pretty different from what I usually listen to.  And it’s clean rap.  Like Will Smith but it actually sounds good too.  Yeah I just went there.  I would love for him to go mainstream, but I’m afraid the fact that he doesn’t just rap about sex and drugs will kind of screw him over as far as that goes.  If you’re not under the restrictions imposed by BYU on its Internet, you can check him out on Myspace Music as well.

As if buying a Super Nintendo a couple months ago wasn’t good enough (NBA Jam and Super Mario Kart are still pretty sick even to this day), I further returned to my roots by watching Space Jam tonight.  Such a good movie, and so much different to watch it now that I’ve grown up.  I love some of the more mature humor that they snuck in there that I never caught as a kid, like when the little aliens say something like, “That was a fun trip.  We should do it again.”  Not the best acting of all time, or the best visual effects, but it definitely brought back memories.  Surprisingly, I can still remember my dad taking me to see this in the movie theater when I was five or six.  I really do remember some weird stuff sometimes.

Today was pretty much all about basketball though.  I skipped my Book of Mormon class to watch the BYU-Florida game.  Pretty intense, and made much better by the fact that we actually pulled it off.  And then I fell asleep after that and slept for five hours.  Definitely not the best thing I could have done for my sleep schedule.  And after that I watched The Office, 30 Rock, and then Space Jam, so pretty much my entire day was devoted to basketball.  Not a bad way to spend a day.

When Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was in the dollar theaters over my Christmas break, I was planning to go see it, but the friend I was going with didn’t really want to, so I set aside my "I Do What I Want" mentality for an hour and a half and settled for one of the crappiest movies I’ve ever seen.  I’m actually not sure exactly how bad it was, but when I don’t remember a movie, I figure it can’t be too good at all.  I just remember being there.

Anyways, last week, a friend said I had to see it, so I got it and watched it with mi primo tonight.  Holy crap.  I really should have watched it over Christmas break.  I remember reading the book when I was much younger, but I remembered the book being nothing.  Just like Spike Jonze did with Where the Wild Things Are, Phil Lord and Chris Miller took this one and ran with it, and I feel like they did a much better job than Jonze too.  Where the Wild Things Are was a great movie, but only if you’re into super artsy films where you have to dig for meaning throughout.  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs pulled through in a way that made it more kid friendly and a movie that you could just watch.  And sometimes that’s really nice.  Sometimes I like to get away from thinking because I think weird.  And it’s not good.

Seriously though, Justin and I were laughing the whole hour and a half.  Lord and Miller did a great job of making this kid-oriented humor that everyone will love.  Or maybe it’s just cause I love stupid jokes.  And awkwardness.  And this movie was all about that.  If you haven’t see it, I’d definitely recommend buying/renting it.  Awesome movie.