Mashups

From Wikipedia:

A mashup , bootleg or blend (also mash up and mash-up) is a song or composition created from the combination of the music from one song with the a capella from another.

The videos should be embedded and viewable here, but if you're viewing this through Facebook you'll probably need to click the "View Original Post" option below this note. Anyway, enjoy!

Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" & Radiohead's "15 Steps"


The Cure's "Lullaby" & Gorillaz's "Tomorrow Comes Today"


Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" & The Police's "Every Breath You Take"


Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" & Radiohead's "Talk Show Host"


The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" & Kid Rock's "All Summer Long"


Radiohead's "Reckoning" & Eve's "Tambourine"


NIN's "The Hand that Feeds" & Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters"


The B-52s' "Love Shack" & Brittany Spears' "Toxic"


The Beatles' "Let it Be" & Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me"


Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" & Radiohead's "High and Dry"


Kyle

Coldplay & Jay-Z: Viva La Hova

A few years back Jay-Z released an a capella version of his Black album which started off a tradition of remixing his lyrics into popular music like The Beatles' White album (check out "What More Can I Say?") and Weezer's Blue album (check out "Say it Ain't December 4th"). Recently though DJ Mick Boogie has taken Jay-Z's music catalogue and mixed it together with Coldplay's to make Viva La Hova which you can download in its entirety for free by clicking here. My favorite tracks are "X-Y-Z" and "No Love Coming Home," but I think the whole thing is worth listening to at least once.

Enjoy!

Music Playlist - Summer 2008

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview the entire playlist on iTunes.

1. "Where I End and You Begin (The Sky is Falling)" Radiohead
2. "Helicopter" Bloc Party
3. "North by Northwest" Blue Scholars
4. "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" Gnarls Barkley
5. "West Coast" Coconut Records
6. "The Way We Get By" Spoon
7. "Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love" Coldplay
8. "Daydreamin'" Lupe Fiasco featuring Jill Scott
9. "Idioteque" Radiohead
10. "42" Coldplay
11. "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" Avenue Q
12. "We Intertwined" The Hush Sound
13. "Waiting on the World to Change (acoustic)" John Mayer featuring Ben Harper
14. "Apocalypse Please" Muse
15. "50K Deep" Blue Scholars
16. "Pork and Beans" Weezer
17. "Chelsea Dagger" The Fratellis
18. "Handlebars" Flobots
19. "Death and All His Friends" Coldplay

The Best of 2007

About a year or so back I wrote up this list of my favorite movies released in 2006 and now that I'm (finally) all caught up on all of the ones that I wanted to see in 2007, I thought I'd make another list and add in my favorite novels and music as well.

Movies
1. 3:10 to Yuma
2. Gone Baby Gone
3. Juno
4. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. Sunshine
7. 300
8. Zodiac
9. Lars and the Real Girl
10. Superbad

I was actually surprised at how many great movies came out last year, especially compared to the quality of what's been released the last five or six years prior. There were a lot of great flicks like Persepolis and Michael Clayton that weren't as good as the movies above, but I would still gladly watch them again. Unfortunately, there were also a lot of absolutely horrible movies released last year as well, so here are my five least favorite from 2007:

1. Spider-Man 3
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
4. The Ex
5. Transformers

Novels
1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2. World War Z by Max Brooks
3. Harry Potter and the Dealthy Holllows by J.K. Rowling
4. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
5. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

Albums
1. In Rainbows by Radiohead
2. Writers Block by Peter Bjorn and John
3. Echos, Silence, Patience & Grace by Foo Fighters
4. Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor
5. Oh no by OK Go

Playlists
Spring 2007
Summer 2007
Fall 2007

THE BEST OF

2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009

Did You Catch the Debate Last Night?

Music Playlist - Spring 2008

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview the entire playlist on iTunes.

1. "Viva la Vida" Coldplay
2. "Satan is My Motor" Cake
3. "Can't Tell Me Nothing" Kanye West
4. "Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)" Gnarls Barkley
5. "Maybe I'm Amazed" Paul McCartney
6. "Sarah is Rising" Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band
7. "Tomorrow Comes Today" Gorillaz
8. "I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)" Louis Prima
9. "When the Day Met the Night" Panic at the Disco
10. "Starman" David Bowie
11. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher" Jackie Wilson
12. "Violet Hill" Coldplay
13. "New Soul" Yael Naïm
14. "When You Were Young" The Killers
15. "Start Making Sense" Peter Bjorn and John
16. "Nine in the Afternoon" Panic! at the Disco
17. "The Seeker" The Who
18. "Neighbors" Gnarls Barkley
19. "Hey Ya" Obadiah Parker
20. "That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)" Panic at the Disco
21. "A Little Better" Gnarls Barkley

Music Playlist - Fall 2007

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview (most of) the playlist on iTunes.

1. "We Know Something You Don't Know" DJ Format, Chali 2na, and Akil
2. "What is Hip?" Tower of Power
3. "Strangers" The Kinks
4. "Nude" Radiohead
5. "Love Gravy" Ike Turner and Rick James
6. "ATHF Theme (Remix)" Schoolly D
7. "Tropicalia" Beck
8. "Don't Go Away" Oasis
9. "1234" Feist
10. "The Underdog" Spoon
11. "Sunrise" Norah Jones
12. "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" Radiohead
13. "Linger" The Cranberries
14. "Home" Foo Fighters
15. "Fake Plastic Trees" Radiohead
16. "This Time Tomorrow" The Kinks
17. "Feather" Nujabes featuring Cise Starr and Akin
18. "When Did Your Heart Go Missing?" Rooney
19. "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" Scissor Sisters
20. "Warning Sign" Coldplay

Music Playlist - Summer 2007

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview (most of) the playlist on iTunes.

1. "Get Over It" OK Go
2. "Up Against the Wall" Peter Bjorn and John
3. "Hotel California (Spanish Mix)" Gipsy Kings
4. "Lonely Day" Phantom Planet
5. "Us" Regina Spektor
6. "The Bends" Radiohead
7. "Paris 2004" Peter Bjorn and John
8. "Your Song" Elton John
9. "Good Love is on the Way" John Mayer
10. "Smiley Faces" Gnarls Barkley
11. "High & Dry (US Version)" Jamie Cullum
12. "Dance Tonight" Paul McCartney
13. "Modern Way" Kaiser Chiefs & Buena Vista Social Club
14. "The Pretender" Foo Fighters
15. "Amsterdam" Peter Bjorn and John
16. "What More Can I Say?" Jay-Z & The Beatles
17. "So I Fall Again" Phantom Planet
18. "Nothing from Nothing" Billy Preston
19. "Objects of My Affection" Peter Bjorn and John

Music Playlist - Spring 2007

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview (most of) the playlist on iTunes.

1. "A Message for Your Mind" Rappin 4-Tay
2. "Young Folks" Peter Bjorn and John
3. "Samson" Regina Spektor
4. "No One Knows" Queens of the Stone Age
5. "Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen
6. "All My Days" Alexi Murdoch
7. "Fidelity" Regina Spektor
8. "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around Interlude" Justin Timberlake
9. "All About the Benjamins (Rock Remix)" Puff Daddy
10. "Flathead" The Fratellis
11. "High and Dry" Radiohead
12. "House of the Rising Sun" The Animals
13. "I Hope Tomorrow is Like Today" Guster
14. "Anna Molly" Incubus
15. "St. Elsewhere" Gnarls Barkley
16. "Ripple" Grateful Dead
17. "Dancing Shoes" Arctic Monkeys
18. "Hotel Song" Regina Spektor
19. "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" Dropkick Murphys

Music Playlist - Fall 2006

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview the entire playlist on iTunes.

1. "Sparks" Coldplay
2. "Some Fantastic" Barenaked Ladies
3. "Do What You Want" OK Go
4. "I'm Gonna Find Another You" John Mayer
5. "Songs of Love" Ben Folds
6. "Forgot About Dre" Dr. Dre and Eminem
7. "Learn to Live with What You Are" Ben Folds
8. "Song 2" Blur
9. "Drive My Car" The Beatles
10. "Fields of Gold (New Version)" Sting
11. "Kingdom Come" Coldplay
12. "Here it Goes Again" OK Go
13. "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room" John Mayer
14. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" Creedence Clearwater Revival
15. "Hallelujah I Love Her So" Ray Charles
16. "Susanne" Weezer
17. "Dreaming with a Broken Heart" John Mayer
18. "Piano Man" Billy Joel
19. "Boston" Augustana
20. "Show Me What You Got" Jay-Z
21. "The Heart of Life" John Mayer
22. "Good Bye Horses" Q Lazzarus

Music Playlist - Summer 2006

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview (most of) the playlist on iTunes.

1. "In the Summertime" Mungo Jerry
2. "The Denial Twist" The White Stripes
3. "Gone Daddy Gone" Gnarls Barkley
4. "How to Save a Life" The Fray
5. "The Adventure" Angels & Airwaves
6. "Who Cares?" Gnarls Barkley
7. "Strawberry Fields Forever" The Beatles
8. "Everything" Alanis Morissette
9. "Old School" Danger Doom & Talib Kweli
10. "Hey Julie" Fountains of Wayne
11. "Closer" Joshua Radin
12. "Take Your Mama" Scissor Sisters
13. "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley
14. "Rodeohead" Hard 'N Phirm
15. "Since They Wanna Know" Obie Trice
16. "Make Your Own Kind of Music" Cass Elliot
17. "Just Push Play" Aerosmith
18. "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" Scott McKenzie
19. "Jump" David Lee Roth with the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band
20. "Paint it Black" The Rolling Stones
21. "I Got a Woman" John Mayer Trio

A Brand New Coldplay Song for Free

From Coldplay's website:

Tonight's the first night of our tour. To say thank you to everyone who's bought tickets and supported us, here's a new song called "Death Will Never Conquer."

All you need to do is type in your e-mail and select your country here and you'll be set to download it. Enjoy!

Kyle

Music Playlist - Spring 2006

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview (most of) the playlist on iTunes.

1. "wash Away (reprise)" Joe Purdy
2. "Say it Ain't December 4th" Jay-Zeezer
3. "Amsterdam" Guster
4. "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" Wayne Newton
5. "Banquet" Bloc Party
6. "Gold Digger (Featuring Jamie Foxx)" Kanye West
7. "Dreaming of You" The Coral
8. "Embryonic Journey" Jefferson Airplane
9. "Fighting for My Love" Nil Lara
10. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" Panic! At The Disco
11. "Heartbeats"José González
12. "What's Left of Me" Nick Lachey
13. "A Little Polish" The Blanks
14. "Good Time" Leroy
15. "Me and Mrs. Jones" Billy Paul
16. "Tell Her This" Del Amitri
17. "Maps" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. "You're Beautiful" James Blunt
19. "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough" New Radicals
20. "Half" G Tom Mac
21. "Let a Nigga Know" Saigon
22. "Light & Day/Reach for the Sun" The Polyphonic Spree
23. "99 Problems" Jay-Z

Music Playlist - Fall 2005

Here's what I've been listening to lately. I'm always looking for new music, so please drop me a suggestion or two of some of your recent favorites in the comment section. A list of previous playlists can be viewed here.

Click here to preview the entire playlist on iTunes.

1. "Last Goodbye" Jeff Buckley
2. "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)" Ryan Adams
3. "How's It Going to Be" Third Eye Blind
4. "Always" Blink-182
5. "Heart Design" Aqueduct
6. "Such Great Heights" The Postal Service
7. "Fair" Remy Zero
8. "So Damn Lucky" Dave Matthews
9. "Make Yourself" Incubus
10. "Overkill (Acoustic Version)" Colin Hay
11. "Kite" U2
12. "Stitched Up (Featuring John Mayer)" Herbie Hancock
13. "Bruised" The Bens
14. "Lost Cause" Beck
15. "Just Pretend" The Bens
16. "It Must Be Love" Madness
17. "Levon" Elton John
18. "Needle in the Hay" Elliot Smith
19. "Life on Mars (Uncut Version)" Seal

Download Firefox 3 Today (And Help Set a New World Record)

Mozilla's going for the gold today by attempting to set the world record for the most downloaded piece of software in a twenty-four hour period with their latest update to Firefox. Those of you that already use Firefox know that it's better than Internet Explorer in almost every way imaginable including its safety, its password and bookmark management systems, its built-in spell checker and pop-up blocker, and its ability to integrate a number of user created add-ons.

The newest version improves upon version 2.0 in a number of ways by offering even more security features, one-click bookmarking, instant website ID, a smart location bar, and more (a complete list of the dozens of upgrades can be viewed here). I've had it installed since earlier this afternoon and I already think it's a huge improvement over the older model, which is saying a lot.

At the time of this posting the current number of downloads is at 2,078,939 and you can track that number either globally or by nation at Mozilla's official Download Day website until around ten o'clock PST tomorrow morning. You can also use this site to read an FAQ about the software if you have any questions about it (like how to transfer all of your Internet Explorer information over to Firefox).

If you've ever had problems with internet security in the past, hate pop-ups, are a terrible speller, or you're just looking to help set a world record, I'd definitely recommend giving Firefox a try. Click here to download it and check it out.

Last Night's Tornado

I'm sure that by now everyone reading this knows that there was a pretty severe storm that rolled through the central area of Kansas last night and that the storm eventually created a tornado that completely ravaged Chapman and parts of Manhattan. Since a lot of people from out of town seem to be curious about what happened around here, Kansas State University has put up this collection of some of the damage on and around campus. Below are a few of the more severe ones (click to enlarge).




Since the campus was obviously in no state to operate today (current estimates put the repairs at somewhere around twenty million dollars) and many of the businesses around town were either in a similar state or had no power, a lot of people decided to go around town to check out the damage and take pictures, so thanks to Eric Janzen, Chris Conrow, and Mason Riphahn for taking all of the photos below.







A few of the businesses over on Seth Childs got hid pretty hard as well. Here's the Toyota delearship:




And, probably the worst damage in all of Manhattan, here's where True Value used to stand: