Amazon is having a sale through October 31 where 50 select digital albums are on sale for $5 each, including Nina Simone's "The Definitive Rarities Collection" featuring 50 songs, as well as "Five hours of classical favorites" which is a great deal for not that much "monet." [Via]
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Christianna Ablahad gets mildly traumatized in her interview with John Mayer for New York Magazine.
What do you think about health care? Would you take the public option? Have you ever heard me play guitar? I'm really fucking good. You know what I'm bad at? Answering questions about public health care. This is not in my wheelhouse. Do you have any questions about music? I almost got a mad need to lighten up. You need to lighten up, because the questions you asked me were all troublemaking questions. If someone gave me the Nobel Peace Prize, and I didn't deserve it, I would just shut my mouth and enjoy the hell out of it.
Hilarious.
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Intriguing cover of MIA's "Paper Planes" by the Hoodlums. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RNaY9WLomw&fmt=18]
Click here to play a piano virtually online and tap into your inner Victor Borge. [Via]
Artist Takashi Murakami is (unnecessarily) collaborating with Kirsten Dunst and director McG (previously) for a "video project" that involves Dunst in cosplay singing "Turning Japanese" in the streets of Tokyo. I can't really defend this one: It's just so weird, and paradoxically derivative. For something a bit more inspiring, go see Murakami's new painting "A Picture Of The Blessed Lion Who Stares At Death" at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. I saw this a few weeks ago and it was pretty grand.
I've been loyal and faithful to my BluBlocker shades for the past four years (pre-Hangover Zach Galifianakis thank you very much), but these new wood line of Wayfarers from Shwood is making my eyes wander again.
The winner of the Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition is the Michael Jackson Public Domain Countdown Clock by artist Evan Roth aka fi5e.
The monument is a digital display which counts down to the moment when all of Michael Jacksons’ creative content will enter the public domain. In 70 years when the clock reaches zero it will play Billy Jean on loud speakers, making it the first time the song is played free of copyright.
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Joe Sabia tells Boing Boing that he drove thousands of miles from England to Mongolia where along the way he filmed dozens of Kazakhstan locals to create this tribute video to Tupac. RIP homie. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kdcbaiv2y4&fmt=18]
GYLLENHAAL: Your affection for dirty rap is something that people really don’t know about you, which I think is fascinating. You do incredible things for the world, and then you listen to just completely obscene hip-hop music.
PORTMAN: Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. Those are like my two favorite things, so combined . . . I’ve been listening a lot lately to “Wait (The Whisper Song)” by the Ying Yang Twins, where the lyrics are like, “Wait ’til you see my dick”—which is just amazing because it’s whispered. [whispers] “Wait ’til you see my dick . . . ” [laughs] Crazy. So I just listen to it like I’m a five-year-old, like, “Oh my god! I can’t believe he just said that!”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55I83jEAIhk&fmt=18] Kate Miller-Heidke’s sings this expletive laden song, "Are You Fucking Me" about getting a friend request on Facebook from an ex-boyfriend. She also includes a shout out to Twitter in the song. Check out a neat animated music video for her latest single which I blogged at Sundance Channel.
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Gun shaped coin purses by James Lassey might just attract the wrong kind of attention from everyone. Seriously. You'll either look like an idiot or get shot.
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Frank Plant is an artist who creates pieces using steel wires, including this recently constructed 350 cm x 120 cm steel frame AK-47 titled "Something for Everyone."
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Hilarious soundboard featuring catchphrases uttered by rappers and a few surprise cameos like Michael Scott and Rush Limbaugh. Feel free to turn up your speakers with this one to bother the cat studying at your table or sitting in the adjacent cubicle. [Thanks Andy Underscore Kim!]
Mother Jones shares a fascinating footnote about Woodstock in which "the festival sparked a mini-culture war between the [New York Times] reporters out at Woodstock and the editors back in Manhattan."
It was difficult to persuade them that the relative lack of serious mischief and the fascinating cooperation, caring, and politeness among so many people was the significant point. I had to resort to refusing to write the story unless it reflected to a great extent my on-the-scene conviction that "peace" and "love" was the actual emphasis, not the preconceived opinions of Manhattan-bound editors.