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.

let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo.

I know, I know.  I said no more inspirational crap, but this was too beautiful to pass up.  And I don’t use that word too often.  Which means it’s true.  To be completely honest, the music feels a little repetitive toward the end, but it’s still pretty, and I love the particle effect ehre.  It’s a great piece of work and the message is great too.  WATCH IT!  I command you.

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.