My Music Monday: Tantric
Welcome to My Music Mondays. I haven’t done one of these in a while but the basic premise is that each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going somewhat randomly currently but eventually from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection is pretty extensive and I have a lot of one offs, I have set a qualification to be featured here. That is that I have to have at least two albums of the artist’s music before they can be considered. This week I look at Tantric.
A lot of people will make the argument that music after the grunge movement (post-grunge) is a joke. I am not going to get into the semantic argument of modern day music versus old music as it is all a matter of taste but I for one latched onto a few bands after the grunge era and one of those was Tantric. Formed from the remnants of the rock outfit, Days of the New, along with vocalist Hugo Ferreira, the band enjoyed moderate success over the next six years. The Days of the New guys left the band in 2007 but Ferreira continued the band and hardly a beat was missed, if anything Tantric is actually a better band today than they were when they formed a decade ago.
Favorite Album: Tantric
While I think the band has become better over time my favorite album is still their debut.
10 Favorite Songs
10. What Are You Waiting For
9. Hey Now
8. Fall to the Ground
7. The Chain
6. Paranoid
5. The One
4. Breakdown
3. Regret
2. Mourning
1. Astounded
Netflix Review: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
After a series of mysterious disasters occurs in the Pacific, from the disappearance of a plane to the destruction of an oil rig, a group of scientists discovers that a secret military mission has unearthed a prehistoric shark and a giant octopus. When the government learns of the existence of the menacing beasts, the team of scientists is tasked with formulating a plan to destroy the phenomenal creatures. Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson star.
I’m nowhere near done the film, but I’m pretty sure I have a sound understanding of this movie already. Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus stars Sean Connery, Suzanne Somers, and George Takei, but has very little in the way of the undersea monsters. And what you do see of them looks like they belong in the TV seris Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
There’s a love interest, a lot of tiny enclosed sets, and no sense of drama or suspense anywhere. But that may be due to the bad special effects. The movie also suffers from a severe lack of “show don’t tell.” Sequences of destruction and mayhem at the hands of the antagonists are cut to the bare minimum. It’s a shame that from the very beginning you know that Giant Octopus and Mega Shark are destined to fight, get very excited about it, and then realize that there’s about an hour and ten minutes before you get to see them duel (mind you the movie is about an hour and a half) and then another ten minutes before you get to see them actually duel. Also making the movie unwatchable is the bad dialogue and the bad acting. And it’s not just bad acting, it’s bad overacting. There are some things that should never be put onto a DVD, and this is one of those things.
Although the best part of the movie is when the shark leaps into the sky and eats a jet.
Not now! I’m watching my cartoons!
I woke up bored so I turned on the TV and found it set to cartoons. There’s this show called Rollbots, a Canadian-produced story about robots that transform into balls. They battle the evil Vertex and keep the city at peace.
Kids TV may no longer be as fun to watch as they were back in the 1980’s, but at least the animation has improved immensely. Also, Beast Wars’ Optimus Prime is the voice of the captain. Unfortunately, I’m not interested enough to keep watching it. But speaking of rolling objects, I have a review of a game I dug up on my Android phone that I’ll share with you next time.
