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- We love you Michael
After a couple very late nights, my MJ tribute is finally done. It basically says what I can’t.
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Louis Farrakhan Intro
Don’t stop til you get enough (demo)
Don’t stop til you get enough (studio)
You wanna be startin somethin
Jackson 5 live in Amsterdam interlude
I want you back
I bet you
Never can say goodbye
Maybe tomorrow
I’ll be there
ABC
The love you gave
Mama’s pearl
Who’s loving you?
Jackson 5 big brother bully interlude
Dancing machine
The life of the party
Forever came today
This place hotel
Off the wall
Rock with you
Billie Jean
Vincent Price interlude
Thriller
Human nature
We are the world (demo)
Louis Farrakhan interlude
The way you make me feel (acapella)
The way you make me feel
Bad
Another part of me
Liberian girl
Dirty Diana
Who is it? (IHS mix)
Jam
You are not alone
Butterflies
You rock my world
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Bonus: We’re almost there (DJ Spinna remix)Thank you Michael. You were too beautiful for this ugly world. Rest in Peace.
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- 2-4-6-8 who do you appreciate?
Photo: JENNIFER ZDON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEI’m still getting my Michael tribute mix together, but in the meantime here are two amazing tributes released over the last couple days…
First is by DJ Jaycee, Ludacris’s man behind the decks. It’s focused mostly on MJ’s early years, Jackson 5 stuff especially.
DJ Jaycee - Michael Jackson: The Soulful Years
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DJ Premier - R.I.P. Michael Jackson Tribute Mix
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*AND IN ADDITION*
MJ Tribute NO Style:
VIDEO: Huge second-line honors Pop King Michael Jackson From the Times-Picayune
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- VERY FEEL HD Clean-up Random Picture Post
I had to clear space on my hard drive the other day and amongst the huge amounts of forgotten and mostly worthless material (a PDF of Mein Kampf in German, THREE copies of the Pharrell album…), I found a bunch of images that somehow or another entered my life over the past few years. My guess is that most of them were sent to me and I wish I could remember the sources to give them proper thanks, since all the images that follow are awesome. 100%.
The world’s tallest man and the world’s smallest man. (Both Chinese)
The world’s tallest dog and the world’s smallest dog. (Both American)
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- Tokyo Subwwway
With the assurance that it represents the pinnacle of ‘internet nerd shit’, my friend Niek just put me on to this map that plots web trends according to the lines of the Tokyo subway. It’s made by Information Architects , an interactive design office out of Tokyo & Zurich. It’s updated regularly, and this is one is apparently the 4th edition. VERY FEEL is conspicuously absent, otherwise super tight. Click the image to enlarge. For the heavy duty 100% version click here. For an interactive version that let’s you check the sites, go here.
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- The Sound of Stupidtelligence
Fresh on the heels of Birthday Sex, I got a great new mix from my homey and fellow Drunken Lion Sound System associate Jeruniverse AKA DJ Haas. The music is great, the mixing is tight, and it even has that rarest of rare mixtape qualities - a sense of humor. Listen up…
Haas - No Way!!! Stupidtelligence Mix
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- Pic of the Day
Found this today in a bunch of old photos. Pretty sure it’s Brooklyn. I think I should have it painted.
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- The Boss
Last week my man Thijs told me a cool fact: Apparently, Robert De Niro’s often-imitated-never-duplicated “You talkin da me?” monologue from Taxi Driver was inspired by Bruce Springsteen. De Niro went to see him perform and I guess the audience was shouting for him or calling him Boss or Bruuuuuuce or whatever and Springsteen said, “You talking to me?” and the next thing you know….
Anyway, on the strength of that fact I decided it was time to make a tribute to one of my favorite artists of all time - Bruce Springsteen AKA The Boss.
Now I know that The Boss is not to everyone’s taste. I actually remember him being heavily ridiculed in my elementary school for his over-earnest, testosterone-drenched performance in the “We are the world” video. But still, I’ve always loved and will always love him if for no other reason than he was my mother’s favorite singer all through the ’80s and so I’ve got a lot of warm memories of dinners and parties and car rides set to Born to Run, Born in the USA, etc.
But usually when I feel the need to try to convince a non-believer of the power of Bruce Springsteen, I lean on the advocacy of other, more articulate people. I don’t want to weigh this post down with a lot of text, but if you’re on the fence I recommend reading this article by Greg Tate, which describes how he came to be a fan after seeing Springsteen play a show in his native New Jersey. Here’s a taste:
To see Springsteen in a Jersey arena is to see Springsteen under a revival tent. It’s in fact where his blue-collar creed connects up with his all-American Confidence Man Carny Barker Televangelist shtick. So that you get band introductions being delivered as prophecy (”And the gypsy woman said you need looooove in your life! Introducing Patty Scialfa, ladies and gentlemen! And she said you need rhythm! Max Weinberg!”) and the man’s patented grandstanding on top of Roy Bittan’s grand piano being made into a forum for crowd-incitement that would give Robert Duvall’s Apostle a run for his money, or maybe even the Muhammad Ali of What’s-My-Name fame. Springsteen’s rapport with his folks staggers not only for the degree of adulation present, but for his ability to move them from vulgarity to deep thought in a heartbeat.
So I think then it only makes sense to get into some performance clips, of which Youtube offers many.
First, here’s short feature on Bruce from the local NY news in 1978. Even though this predates his most successful stuff, I think a lot of what makes him special as an artist comes through here, particularly in Joel Siegel’s keen observation that “Bruce Springsteen is to Rock & Roll what fireworks are to the 4th of July!”
Next, here’s a clip from the mid ’80s glory days. I think the combination of working class modesty and over-the-top, hammy exhibitionism that Greg Tate talks about is pretty clear here. Also this song is awesome.
I’m on Fire (Live)
Finally here’s a much more recent clip. I also think it’s important to make clear that The Boss isn’t just about goose stepping, jumping on top of pianos, and inciting Mexican waves. The man simply loves music and loves performing and he’ll do it anywhere, for instance on a street corner in Copenhagen, surrounded by curious, semi-believing onlookers and one of the happiest amateur folk singers in the history of the world.
The River (Live)
OK, so I suppose I should make it rain MP3-wise at this point.
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- Jam of the moment
Cassie ft. Diddy - This must be love
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right-click + save link as (mac) / save target as (windows)I love this song. I’ve been playing this thing mercilessly for the past few days and, like a great piece of news or an airborn illness, I just can’t keep it to myself. This falls into that melancholy love family of R&B, over which Mary J Blige reins supreme. And this song fits well with Mary’s earlier ‘My life’ era music, which maybe makes sense since Puff Daddy was behind a lot of that and he’s behind Cassie too (wink wink). I gave it a little instrumental intro for greater mixability and because the beat (produced by Bryan Michael Cox) is so damn great.
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- Heel Toe
Flamenco from Turkey. Man. Be patient, things don’t get really real until about the 5 minute mark.
Thanks Labiba!
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- Drunken Lion Mixtape #9: Birthday Sex
The next in the Drunken Lion series. Mixed by me. R&B, Kuduro, Baltimore Club, Baile Funk, Kwaito, and a whole bunch of House. All love.
Expensive Jewelry - Birthday Sex
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Jeremih - Birthday sex
J Holiday - Bed
The Dream - Put it down
Ryan Leslie - Gibberish
Aaliyah - One in a million
Marc Evans - Given me joy
Groove Armada ft. Angie Stone - Feel the same (Muthafunkaz love remix)
Voices of Life - The word is love (Mousse T’s kinda deep mix)
Teddy Douglas ft. Margaret Grace - God created woman
Paleface & Kyla - Do you mind (Crazy Cousinz remix)
DJ Amorim - In the rush hour
Baile mystery section
DJ Technics - My life extra
Rye Rye ft. MIA - Bang (DJ Booman remix)
Lil Wayne - A milli (Infuze remix)
Lykke Li - Dance dance dance (Buraka Som Sistema remix)
DJ Amorim - Drum and bass
Black Coffee ft. Lvovo Derango - Kwenzenjani
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- Super Scientifical 3: Soviet Xmas
Yesterday I was doing some research into imagery from the US-USSR space race and stumbled onto these Soviet Christmas cards. They are awesome.
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- Super Scientifical 2: Chemical Party
I’m working on a project about the future of the European Union these days and in the process of gorginging himself on all kinds of EU-related material my colleague and homey James discovered this video clip sponsored by the EU and made by free video poker how to play backgammon no deposit bonus online casino 888 no download casino play roulette craps game black jack download american roulette play video poker baccarat free casino game no download online casino free money on line casino wagering roulette online online casino betting free online casino slots free craps best casino roulette gambling internet casino gambling uk best casino online full pay video poker no deposit casino code best craps game black jack tournament best online casino site craps online game newest online casino free slots no download play blackjack online free dueces wild video poker black jack gambling online video poker game free casino cash no deposit video poker tutorial play free video poker how to win at black jack casino roulette casino guide how to win at roulette rules of craps casino game online real money backgammon baccarat casino online free video poker game play free video poker video poker odds video poker tournaments Marie Curie Actions, a European Commission-affiliated program that - in EU’s trademark dull-positive language - “wants to make research careers more attractive to young people”. In my opinion this nerderific clip titled “Chemical Party” is a damn good start.
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- Super Scientifical
Image: WiredIn a totally unexpected development, I spent most of the last week manically consuming information about sustainability. I’m hoping to apply this knowledge in some coordinated way in the future, but for now I just want to mention a fascinating and terrifying article that I came across a few days ago. It’s called “The Geoengineering Option” and is featured in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. Here’s a link, although only an extract is printed on the FA website. Here’s the summary they provide:
Global warming is accelerating, and although engineering the climate strikes most people as a bad idea, it is time to take it seriously.
Well, that might sound innocent enough, but, as I alluded before, this article freaked me right out. I actually think it’s of enormous importance in terms of framing the discussion on climate change and establishing just what the risks of inaction really are, so I’m going to make a synopsis of the article’s main points…
The basic premise is that the challenges of establishing a coordinated global policy on limiting carbon emissions are so great that we have to begin assuming that some sort of major eco-catastrophe is inevitable.
Eliminating all the risks of climate change is impossible because carbon dioxide emissions, the chief human contribution to global warming, are unlike conventional air pollutants, which stay in the atmosphere for only hours or days. Once carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere, much of it remains for over a hundred years. Emissions from anywhere on the planet contribute to the global problem, and once headed in the wrong direction, the climate system is slow to respond to attempts at reversal. As with a bathtub that has a large faucet and a small drain, the only practical way to lower the level is by dramatically cutting the inflow. Holding global warming steady at its current rate would require a worldwide 60-80 percent cut in emissions, and it would still take decades for the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to stabilize.
This essentially means that we need to imagine environmental interventions that will slow global warming or limit its consequences (rising sea levels, increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, etc.)
These strategies, often called “geoengineering” envision deploying systems on a planetary scale, such as launching reflective particles into the atmosphere or positioning sunshades to cool the earth.
Ok. You see where this is going. Sci-fi shit. Here’s the science:
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- Bean One: Alphabet Love
Recently I became aware of the work of Bean One, an Italian artist based in Barcelona. He works in a variety of media, including clothes, album covers, walls, skin, posters,etc. but his subject is almost always the roman letter. Having spent a large chunk of my youth trying to figure out new and awesome ways to combine post-modern tagging with pre-modern script, I was totally blown away by this man’s work. Here’s some samples…
Lots more stuff in different media and styles on the Bean One flickr stream.
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