Blog is a Mix Tape

speakeasy: big-ups to big-up

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:38:17 -0800

Note that Jaime Pressly said that “Ugly Betty” was “big-upping the ugly fat girl,” not that the show was “bigging up the ugly fat girl” (or “bigging the ugly fat girl up“). So we find that big-up is being treated as a single entity that can be in...

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one line: burial

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:59:27 -0800

Untrue is dystopian-soul music, the sound of love-starved dreamers reaching out into the darkness. (h/t: Mr. Kelly)

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song for sunday: the magic of your love

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:36:23 -0800

Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label takes a look at the underside of Chicago soul through twenty tracks of blistering R&B, sweet soul, and discofied funk. Hundreds of hours were spent researching, interviewing, re-mastering, and compiling the histor...

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votd: i feel it all

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:22:50 -0800

This might be my favorite song off of "The Reminder."

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last.fm says...

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:05:50 -0800

Do you dubstep? Last week, amongst a lot of old favorites (Death Cab for Cutie, N*E*R*D) was a cavalcade of dubstep artists in my weekly recommendations so I spent most of my eMusic dollars getting familiar. Amazon had been heavily recommending 2...

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speakeasy: more than you ever wanted to know about facebook

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:03:55 -0800

I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why...

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to self: don't forget this song

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:06:34 -0800

I woke up from my nap today with this sound bite in my head, "When you get it up and move out in faith that shows God your faith is alive" and I knew it came from a song but I couldn't immediately place it. At first, I was convinced it was a Talib...

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video: mlk & jay

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:10:59 -0800

I had grand plans to accomplish a lot with today but the gray skies has already sapped my motivations. So, outside of some web surfing, lunch with the fam and a call to the gram, I think I will curl up with Nina Simone's words and sounds and cons...

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saturday dance party: w.a.l.e. d.a.n.c.e.

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:34:21 -0800

Wale* is killing it for me today (and, ooh wee, I was going to open with something else but this go-go track is bom**)... Go-go music is still alive y'all! Let your back bone slip. Now, get your hipster dance party on We're not done. Take you...

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one line: remembering what we forget about mlk, jr

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:31:20 -0800

We forget that in his final years, he faced not only a rising "white backlash" — the media term for white obduracy in the suburbs and working-class neighborhoods, North as well as South — but resentment from establishment liberals who thought he h...

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