Olympus has fallen

It's weird.
I sit here for countless minutes, watching the time pass by trying to think of a clever way to begin this entry...
I haven't come up with anything so I guess we'll get straight into things :)

This weeks movie was "Olympus has Fallen". And to get down to it, I thought it was brilliant!
Now comes the difficult task of breaking it down for you without giving away any spoilers...
Well firstly the story is about an ex secret service agent getting thrown head first into action again when a Korean terrorist group decides to attack the White House.
Now you might be thinking.. Well that's going to be pretty average.. How can you set a whole movie inside one house? To be honest I was thinking the exact same thing, but to my surprise they pulled it off spectacularly!
I must give you a bit of a warning though, they do not hold back on the ruthlessness during the film. Some of the kills are something you would picture seeing on some crazy video game or something.. In saying that, the movie could probably be seen as a game of Call of Duty played out on the big screen.
One of the few things I would criticise about the film would be the constant little update subtitles that kept popping up. Oh, my, god. Yes yes I know they were trying to make it look realistic and so on, but after the first few have interrupted your viewing you will just end up rolling your eyes each time a new one pops up informing you about what room they are in or who is speaking...
Other than that small nit pick I would highly recommend going along to see this :)

In other news, I recently treated myself to new Jimi Hendrix album "People, Hell and Angels".
Straight up, this album is a must own.
The album is made up of a bunch of tracks previously un released, and have been touched up by modern drum tracks just to fill in those empty gaps. We all know that Hendrix introduced us to more than our fair share of mesmerising riffs, and it has been great being able to see more of an insight to the songs that could have been.
Although... There is one thing...
Now we all know Hendrix, rock star of the 1960's
And then let me introduce Steve Vai, modern guitarist of near equal amazingness.
I have a little task for you guys if you feel willing to witness the weirdness of the world of music, have a listen to "Villanova junction blues" by Jimi Hendrix, which is off this album.

Done that?
Good.
Lets take a minute to remember this was recorded some time in the 60's, never released, never heard apart from those in the studio at the time.
Now we fast forward to modern day recordings, have a listen to "Tender surrender" by Steve Vai.

:O
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Right?
How is this even possible? Two different time eras, two different people with two different lives. And yet, we have relatively the same song!
Just goes to show how amazing music can be I guess. Which is why we love it so much.

That is all for tonight, and I will leave you with a foreign, yet creative version of "voodoo child", played on a traditional Chinese instrument.

Enjoy :)

Rusty out.

FIRST!!!

First post of the season! First post of the year! First post all together really...

Hello and welcome to Rusty Readings :)
Here you will pretty much find me going on about anything exciting that is happening. Although to be perfectly frank, I am going to be telling you about movies and music because lets face it, thats what I love.

Now being new to this whole blog thing, I wouldn't expect this first post to have much in it. It had the option of going one of two ways. I could either go on and on about all the movies I have ever seen, all the albums I have ever listened to and we could be here for quite some time.. Or, I could just do a general introduction and add in my 2 cents worth of all those wonderful things in future posts.

I guess I should tell you a little bit about myself if we are going to journey through this together.
My name is Rhys, and I am a 21 year old living in the brilliant country of New Zealand. I have found myself in my last year of study, (quite scary..) where i will hopefully propel myself into the diverse world of Audio Engineering!
My interests pretty much cover anything imaginable, well, not quite that many things but you get the picture.

For the last few weeks I have been purchasing a new CD every week. I think this habit is quite good as I have expanded my musical knowledge, and I hope to share this knowledge with you guys because sharing is caring and all that jazz.

Ha.. Yea.. Another thing you will have to get use to is my humour.. But if you have read this far then I have faith in you my friend!

Well i guess that will be all for tonight, hopefully posts will start rolling up more frequently in the next few days. The plan is to go and see "Olympus has Fallen" on thursday, so at least you can defiantly look forward to a juicy review then.

Till next time,

Rusty Rhys.