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.

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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

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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