Corey Gouker's Machine Inside the Mind

Finally went outside to get the mail this morning. It being boxing day and all. Sadly I think UPS is still taking their sweet time with my replacement Hitachi HDD. In the mail though in addition to another 7 movies from Netflix, I received a statement from BofA for a credit card I cancelled a month ago. Apparently there was a periodic finance charge at some point after I already closed the account, who the hell knows. So I call up, go through their really stupid voice system, end up just saying customer service to get a human. The recording says their branch offices are closed on Monday and will be open tomorrow. I think crap, does this mean they'll hang up now and I'll have to call back tomorrow at work?

Nope, I get through, talk to the lady and just give my details, say that I received a statement today for an account I paid in full and closed a month ago. I let her discover the finance charge. She doesn't say the amount or anything but just says I'll go ahead and remove that to close the account out permanently. Fantastic, Ferris powers work again. This time to the tune of $7.33 . Sure it's only seven bucks but under Corey's Law no little amount goes unnoticed. It all adds up, hence why the Law continues to work.

Though besides the point, I'm curious why the finance charge was at the cash rates not the purchase rates since I've not done any cash advances or anything of the sort. Oh well.

Shame the same sort of things don't happen with women I meet.

I don't mean physically dead or emotionally dead for that matter. Brain dead just about sums it up. I had started writing about all the random music that's popped in my head and what not that I've spotted little bits of being borrowed in an ad or another song or whatever but I ended up just hitting CTRL+A then Delete. Maybe it's diet, maybe it a big change of plans, or the reasons for the change, or maybe everything else. On one hand I'm feeling great on the other I keep having this nagging feeling in the stomach, total opposite of butterflies one could say. I think I'll just take a little bit, a short hiatus if you will, before I finish what I was going to write.

One of the things that I find really annoying sometimes are the moments of listening in to some random audio and there's a tune I know I know or that I want to know but just can't think of. It may be on the tip of my tongue but it's just beyond the reach of my memory. It may not just be some song or some lyrics but may also be the name of an actor whose voice I may recognize.

Whatever the case I've decided that any time I get one of those itches that I just have to scratch I figure I'll post it up here so that hopefully later I can remember what it is that bugged me so much before I found it. Not to mention it may make it easier for someone to "finally figure it out".

The most recent one was actually rather easy but could have been much more difficult. One of my favorite programs that I download off the net broadcasted from the beeb is Top Gear. We finally got the the show in the US yet it's not quite the same. The producers of the show always seem to pick great music to go with the great cars and fantastic locations. Problem is, music credits are almost always no where to be found. Obviously sometimes there aren't even any lyrics or enough to identify the piece. In the third episode of this season there was one of those.

When I first heard it I thought it would be impossible since there were really no clear 'notes' and no lyrics, just a smooth melody. I was 100% possitive I knew it. Maybe 5 minutes later it struck me that the answer was obvious, it was someone well known for having great ambience and music that really is unique.

Brian Eno (the same guy that did the Windows 95 startup sound).

Here's a clip of the piece from the show. The melody is "An Ending (Ascent)" from Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks.

As for the other clips, I'll round up previous discoveries shortly.