Life Aquatic, Portuguese Bowie, iTunes & PayPal

Watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou--a title seemingly chosen to remind the audience to laugh--a few weeks ago. Was somewhat disappointed. Although, now that I think on it, I was somewhat disappointed with all of Wes Anderson's movies on the first go around. Perhaps I just need to give it another chance.

So anyway...

Likely the best part of the movie for me was Seu Jorge, the Brazilian crew member who sang Bowie songs in Portuguese. So I went to download a few of them.

Now somewhere during the past few years I stopped illegally downloading music. I'm not sure why. I think it had a lot to do with working at a radio station, where with a laptop and time, I gained copies of enough new material to keep me satisfied.

So I decided to check out iTunes. Why iTunes? Why not? And they had a special where one could get five free downloads if one used PayPal as one's primary method of operation. So I signed up and got Jorge's renditions of "Starman" and "Five Years" for free, above the table. I also got Sage Francis' "Climb Trees," Buck 65's "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," and DJ Reset's Mash-Up "Frontin' on Debra" (which uses Beck's "Debra," something by Jay-Z and something by Pharrell Williams). Pretty amazing, no?