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Something in the Water by Brooke Fraser, released on 2010-08-02, that was nearly four years ago and I only first listened to this song @ 2014-04-22T14:09:31Z.

Almost three month late, after binned this entry, now I dug it out and dusted it off while enjoying it in the background as I writing this blog post. Here is the quote-unquote “originally raw note” (doing the air quotes):

• there is something in the water - 2014-04-22T14:09:31Z
   ◦ basetrade tv Starship Trooper Ultimate Edition
     - 2014-04-22T14:10:22Z
   ◦ no Protoss - 2014-04-22T14:10:27Z
   ◦ http://youtu.be/u5C-YHSy3Fw - 2014-04-22T15:25:45Z
   ◦ http://youtu.be/f0pMgzYUEwA - 2014-04-22T15:28:25Z

As I reading my original notes—if you could honestly call it that—I was wondering the “no Protoss,” then I recalled Starship Troopers Ultimate Edition, a show match perhaps, was one ain’t allowed Protoss race to play. I believe it’s just for fun.

I recently also watched another, the players have to play opponent’s race, Kappa StarLeague (Match 9), happened to tune in for the last map, after 10 minutes of in-game time, finally realized Bomber and Crank were playing off-races. Didn’t actually listen to the casting, but I felt strange when the names and situations didn’t match.

Many songs I got to listen to and enjoy were from watching tournaments. Recently, I started to watch “Counter Strike: Global Offensive” streams. I used to think how on Earth they could cast games for FPS games like CS:GO, but it turned out, they could and I wasn’t confused.

If you ain’t in water and in Oklahoma, from a YouTube channel I was subscribed to: Remember, “there’s always SOMETHING to DISCOVER IN OKLAHOMA!”; and I hope you don’t find that something is a big shark with scarily sharp teeth!

As for me, there is Something in the Bin.

Ever since I started watching America’s Heartland, the theme song is so familiar every time the new episode starts. The show’s website has a page about the singer Michael Martin Murphey and a clip of the theme song, you can also watch it (different version) on Vimeo.

Watch on Vimeo

The complete song presents a broader perspective than the short and modified version in the opening theme:

You can see it in the eyes of every woman and man

In America’s Heartland living close to the land

There’s a love for the country

And a pride in the brand

In America’s Heartland living close to the land

It’s about the people who are working hard on the land, both men and women. I also like this part:

There’s something that the people know

Who make things live and make things grow

Deeper than the words of any sage

That unless you’ve touched this earth,

Planted seeds, or given birth

The human heart can never come of age.

It’s basically saying about the connection to the land. We all live on a land, one way or another, unless you are a astronauts who station on the ISS. Whoever you are, farmer or the President, you have to live on a land. But there is difference, farmer knows how the earth breathes, they have connection to the land.

These days, we have lost the touch, living on a land we have known nothing about for entire life. You don’t need to be a farmer or someone growing own food, you only need to touch the earth to have the bond.

It’s not about losing in modern life, but the heart.

A cover song of Nine Inch Nails song (1995), released in 2002, just before Johnny Cash passed away in 2003.

I sometimes heard this song from commercials, I couldn’t remember what the ads were, but you could guess they were not something happy products.

Like Roar, I heard Wasting All These Tears (2013) during interim in (WCS) GSL, which seems to play songs that fit to my tastes. The singer, Cassadee Pope, is the winner of The Voice, a reality singing competition show. “Reality” and “competition” are two worst words can be in a television show in my opinion, but people love the combination , so I’ve never watched that kind of show and never heard of her before.

It’s a song I like, but this post is going to have a detour. There is a fan clips video on her YouTube account, go watch it and see if you have same thought as I while watching it.

One keyword: V.V.S.

What I noticed was there are 8 clips were shot in vertical mode, out of total 14 clips. Yes, I watched twice, just to count how many were. For some unknown and bizarre reason, the difference between vertical clips and horizontal clips caught my eyes instead of those fans were saying.

It reminded me of Vertical Video Syndrome, a PSA video from little more than a year ago, as the syndrome was finally being identified. If YouTube showed 4 vertical videos at once, 8 / 4 = 2, time and bandwidth saved! Frankly, I don’t care how people shoot their videos, H or V is fine with me.

Back to the song, this is kind of sad:

I try to find you at the bottom of the bottle

Lying down on the bathroom floor

At least it’s not “lying down in a dark street at middle of night like a dead corpse, and smell like someone just peed on themselves.” Bathroom floor is much better, you can crawl into shower stall and turn on the water to clean up yourself without much effort required, not like I have ever experienced of that. Really, I swear on my dog’s life.

My favorite lyrics:

‘Cause you didn’t give a damn about me.

Don’t know many songs use explicit words, not like it is rare, just that kind of songs usually get no attentions from me.