Trailerhead!!!

Welll.... I am about to talk a lot about some of my favorite music.

Trailerhead
Immediate Music is a production company that specalizes in trailer music, you know, the loud stuff with all the screaming choirs and large percussion... Due to a big fanbase they decided to release a CD of their music to the public and then I bought it because I am a huge fan of this sort of music. Unfortunately to please the pop music fans they sort of screwed up some of their songs with techno beat and synths and poop. But a lot of the songs are really beautiful. Below I will be reviweing each of their songs just to give a feel of their nice songs.

Prometheus Rising
I'm not sure if this is just because of the title, but this song reminds me of something large exploding or something.
It starts out with a very well done synth beat, which sounds like something grand is going to happen, not sure what. Then a heroic but dark melody blasts through with the horns. The strings begin playing as the monster breaks free. Slowly but surely it breaks its bonds and begins destroying everything in sight. missiles are fired, silence. Then, surprise! It's back! More destruction. More retaliation. End. The titan has won.

An Epic Age
Dramatic Entrance. Chuck Norris is walking in slow motion towards the camera. Pauses. Zombies quietly creep out of the darkness. Suddenly, a sword appears and he strikes them all down. More appear, and are dispatched as son as they come. Then, the army of monsters part and the Zombie King comes out. Epic battle ensues between the two, steel clashes on steel. Then, finally, it's over. Chuck Norris won.

Lacrimosa Dominae
Someone makes another dramatic enterence and yells something like "You were the chosen one!" Cut to armies marching towards one another. Battle ensues. The heroes begin dueling, In a moment of strugle, the hero almost gives up but pushes on and defeats the enemy.

Serenata Immortale
This song is by far my favorite on the album.
It sounds like some people passionately in love in a dystopian world. This song is their final struggle against the forces of evil, and their fall. Ya sorry if that sounds corny, but this song alone is worth the $12 that Amazon wants for the album itself.

Imperitum
The hero is being chased by an angry zombie.
This is one of the songs with the crowd-pleasing overused pop beat. It's not my favorite, but you may disagree.

Trial of the Archangel
This song to me sounds like nothing less than the world ending at first slowly, then finally climaxing as the hero runs to escape the earth being pulled into itself behind him. Boom.

Prelude to Paradise
Angels are singing and then they start breakdancing.

The Reluctant Warrior
All implications from the title aside, to me this sounds like the fall of the hero. He is engaged in a duel by his best friend and is morally ripped apart by the choices. At first the light side shows for a moment, but it is consumed again by darkness. The duel intensifies, climaxes. The hero has been lost.

Spiritus Omnia
I don't really like this one. It reminds me of the Greek Pantheon dancing the disco.

Fides en Lucius Dei
I think this one can be explained by the lyrics I found translated on Youtube:"Shelter [lit. shadow] of Right, Shelter of the Cross, Lord shelter us, (in) the Light of God
(Our) Faith willingly (given), Faith (made possible by Our) Lord, Sing (out loud) in worship [lit. Holy Mass], send it (forth) (in every) tongue
Praise (this) Life, Guide (to Thy) Promise, Praise (this) Life, Guide (to Thy) Truth
The Grand Fellowship of the Faithful [lit., the Great Mass], Faith Truly in the Lord, Praise Christ, Sent (to us) in God."

Shield of Faith
A final, desperate chase, the hero vs. the villain.

Onward to Freedom
Definitely one of the best songs on the CD.
An army is marching towards a dictator's castle. They are grimly determined to overthrow the king and create peace. Firget the battle scene, they're pretty sure they're going to win and not afraid to try.

Emoyrean Mercenaries
See description for Lacrimosa Dominae.

Generations
This song is very relaxing, which is odd considering the other type of music on this CD. It reminds me of a fleet o boats sailing towards a new world.

Age of Discovery
This song is pretty different, it is also one of my favorites.
I first heard this when reading 3001: Final Odyssey. It completely fit the book, in that it sounds like a progressive, revolutionary utopian new world full of technological wonders and such.

Thank you for taking the type to read all this crap, (or not) and I hope that you enjoyed this amazing album of wonderful music.
More reviews coming soon, hopefully all won't be this pointless!

iOS 5 beta Revue

Hello Revüsters!

It has been a while since I’ve posted, but today I’ll be talking about the new iOS 5 beta!
Upgrading to iOS 5 was a bit of trouble. It took many hours, but it worked!

Right in the beginning, I have to say iOS 5 is completely amazing. I’ve discovered many features, but not all the 200+ Apple claims to have put in. If you’re an iPhone owner, it won’t be a challenge trying to get used to iOS 5. Even if you’re not an iPhone owner, getting used to the new feel of iOS is a piece of cake.

Now to start revuing some the features the iOS 5 has to offer.

This is the Notification Center. This is amazingly useful. There’s no more annoying pop-ups (you can change that if you want for certain things) and it alerts you in a way where you don’t have check the notification ASAP. You also get updated local weather and a stock market ticker. Not too crazy about the ticker, but the weather is really useful for me.

Reminders is also a great app to have. It’s basically a todo list, but it’s more than a todo list. You can be notified at what time you want the app to remind you about something AND a location you want to be reminded at. Isn’t it great?

There’s also Twitter integration into the actual iOS. It’s actually really cool because it can check your contacts to see if they also have a Twitter.
(Make sure to follow me @applezme !)

What’s cool about the new mail app is now you can bold, underline and italicize parts of your email. This is really interesting because instead of trying to make you POINT with capitalization you can B/U/I.

The last thing I’ll be talking about- the camera.

Now you can take pictures straight from your lock screen to never miss those moments.

In the camera app, you have the option to turn on the grid option to help you align your pics. Another special feature I found out was when you take a screen shot, it keeps the screen shot in that orientation. As you can see, I had my iPhone in landscape and when I took a screen shot, it stayed in landscape! This was really awesome to find out because it was a real hassle to show screen shots sometimes.

Everything is all fun and perfectly working, right?
Think again.

Even though there are so many awesome things about iOS 5, we still have to consider it’s still in beta testing. I know a few things have been a little frustrating for me (safari opens then crashes, takes a while to sync, not all features such as wireless syncing are working, etc.) but I just put them to the side.

Overall, iOS is an ok OS as of right now, but I know future release will address these issues.
If you want to update to iOS 5, I only recommend it if you have lots of free time on a day and willing to be open for crashes and bugs.

Until next time, Revüsters!