View this post on my blog if the audio clips below aren’t showing up. Just saw this old (but fun) post on the blog Mental Floss, “6 pop songs that rip off classical music.” Some aren’t so surprising–for example, the several rap songs with samples of dramatic orchestral pieces. If the combination of rap and (More…)
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast. If you’ve never heard Andrew Bird before, don’t bother reading or finding anything about him. Just pick up this album when it comes out on Jan 20, or download a torrent of the leak now, and listen until you fall in love. (UPDATE: I had to take down the sample (More…)
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] My friends and I made an unexpected find yesterday at the video store, thanks to a “free documentary with any rental” deal at Quickflix. We grabbed Grizzly Man, a documentary by Werner Herzog about the conservationist-filmmaker Tim Treadwell. The story is pretty simple, and uncannily similar to the (More…)
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] My roommate Zach gave me a few tracks by Tally Hall 3 years ago. Apparently he’s friends with a cousin of one of the band members. For whatever reason, it took me until today to actually listen to one of the songs, which is a shame. The song (More…)
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Under Mao Tse-tung, the country used a basic but effective network of so-called “barefoot doctors”. But since the introduction of sweeping economic reforms in the past two decades, everything has changed. The reforms have brought new wealth but the collapse of many local clinics and free services mean (More…)