Controversy: Is the music playing in the "background" on Padma Lakshmi's website [www.padmalakshmi.com] the same music used in the film 'Synecdoche, New York'?

3.18.11: So this is weird. But first an unrelated weird thing: Why do thy call music automatically playing on websites "background music." Background music is something you put on at a low volume at a cocktail party, or music you hear/don't hear while walking through a mall. Websites with auto-start music are sort of the exact opposite of that. If anything they are in the forefront because you are like "really, website music? Come on dude." I digress.

If you go to www.padmalakshmi.com , the internet homepage of hit television show Top Chef's top fan of enunciating words to their fullest and most elitist-sounding (plus she has a scar, is very 'exotically' beautiful / regularly beautiful, etc. of course we are talking about who else) Padma Laksmi, you will hear a lovely piano-based ballad that incorporates sound effects (rainy weather) and some other, light, 'jazzy' (barf) instrumentation. (Sidebar poll: Should Padma drop the Lakshmi [TWSS] and just roll straight Padma on the world, 'Cher-style'?) This song immediately reminded me of the movie Synecdoche, New York, the dare I say underrated weirdo film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in 2008. I've only seen the movie once (in the theaters) though I've been meaning to re-watch it on a burnt DVDR I made right after I 'Handbroke that shit' from Netflix and put an MP4 version on my hard drive circa when it was released. Oh well. Regrets.

So I don't know for certain if they are the same song. The more interesting thing is that there seems to be some interest as to what this music is exactly, note the google search, there are several 'links of interest' on the first page alone (though, alas, I found nada when I added "Synecdoche, New York" to that same search, and I felt alone and small in the universe because no one else 'out there' noticed this particular similarity, or so it seems, I felt like ).

I feel like this is something I am never going to know the answer to. Like when I do finally get around to watching Synecdoche, New York again, even if I remember this whole 'ordeal' and I get out my laptop to check www.padmalakshmi.com, I feel that the music will be gone, that someone in 'Camp Padma' probably told Padma or [person in charge of Padma's web presence] that no one really puts music on websites like that anymore. The music will be gone. I'm not sure if not knowing this is working for or against me as an individual.

UDATE: Mystery solved!



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