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Music

Mix and Mash

Some days I am in a rock mood and am really into news like Them Crooked Vultures showing one of their new songs and releasing their album in Nov., but other days I can get into other stuff. If you couldn’t tell with the recent excitement about Dj Hero, I currently into mixing/spinning/dj-ing. On the list of the favorite er…. remixer-guys include Girl Talk, Crookers, Z-Trip, MSTRKRFT, and Soulwax.

The Soulwax consists of 2 djs who also go by the name of 2 Many DJ’s. They did an album under this moniker called As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 that is fucking fantastic. It is kinda like those continuous mixes B96 or KissFM play during weekends, except done well and using good songs.

October 26, 2009
Music

White People like Mos Def

Like most people, was a fan of Mos Def based the Italian Job, Chappelle Show, but not on his music. Those nerds at Sound Opinions explained that it is because he hadn’t put out any interesting music lately. That is, until this new cd, the Ecstatic. This song, Quiet Dog performed on Letterman, is from that cd and pretty badass:

October 21, 2009
Random Posts

Its time to play the music, its time to light the lights

I prepared for a recent road trip by downloading a bunch of free podcasts from itunes. One of them, Stuff You Should Know, is from an awesome site called HowStuffWorks.com. The two in the podcast give an overview and talk about articles from the site. Me and Ellen listened to ones explaining hangovers and muppets.

The one about muppets is especially neato. And did you know there is actually a whole wikipedia for the muppets? You could get lost on that for a while.

October 19, 2009
Activities

Coupons

This website hasn’t been the place where I/anyone alerts people about deals, but Restaurant.com has a deal till the 14th for getting $25 gift certificates for $2. There are usually restrictions like not being able to use it on the weekends or having to spend twice the amount you buy. But its a cool way to eat a bunch of food at restaurants you haven’t tried before for cheap. Just use the discount code: FOUR. Check it out here.

October 14, 2009
Movies

Oscar Time!

Now that the summer blockbusters are over, movies are coming out that rely more on hilarity or tears rather than explosions or t&a. One example is Black Dynamite, which I may have mentioned before and is coming to Chicago this Friday. Another movie is Zombieland. Don’t wanna say too much about rather than you should just see it. And stay till after the credits. Here’s the red band trailer:

That song in the beginning of the trailer is pretty cool, right? Apparently it’s from a Johnny Cash Remix album. The concept doesn’t sound like something I would like, but the three songs I found at in ALL caps from it are really good. And if you like good songs being raped by remixers like I do, check out the remix of Mr Sandman from this scene is dead and Whip It.

October 13, 2009