It’s been a rough week, and it’ll be an even rougher weekend, it looks like. Who’s helping me get through it? Three monstergroups of music:
OhWord.com’s 50 Incredible Rap Songs. Dear OhWord.com, welcome to my bookmarks. And heart.
Palms Out’s Sampled By Daft Punk. Either impressive or damning, Palms Out’s MP3s of the Daft Punk source files displays the French duo’s knack for finding old riffs that sound, really, really new. (Note: Oh my God, Cola Bottle Baby, Oh my God)
SXSW’s Fest4Pod a 727-song set of every artist going to Austin’s South By Southwest this year. If you can’t find a song you like in here, you are officially deaf. Bonus if you can spot some Disengage picks from the past year in the mix.
If you don’t have time to download all these (no, really, you don’t), at least check out my new secretly-listen-at-work song, 2 Glock 9s.
World of Warcraft’s recent patch included an in-game engine speed-up, which Blizzard tells me is the cause of my video card overheating and vomiting green squares all over my nice pretty desktop.
I guess I didn’t realize how addicted I’d become in the past two weeks until moments ago, when I was speccing out a $2,900 new Mac tower at Apple.com. Eerie.
Minor update: Several posters on WoW forums confirm my suspicion that even expensive video cards and faster systems do not resolve this life-destroying, mind-killing problem. Thank you, internet, for saving me a lot of money. Now: Save my level 33 Priest. He’s got to kill orcs.
Major update: Okay, I opened up my machine and pulled out the card, and, like Blizzard told me, it was covered in black heat-retaining gunk. Ugh. Anyhow, I hereby absolve to stop blaming massive push-out patches for stupid localized hardware problems. This week.
That thing behind them is a partially human-controlled “electric rainbow machine,” which debuted last week during this show. It was pretty fun, and it’s pretty fun to see how many videos of this show ended up on YouTube. Makes me feel like I’m doing important things with my free time instead of just rocking out to songs about Pandas.
It’s been a long week at work, so here’s a grab bag of remixes. Of note:
Girl Talk vs. Grizzly Bear’s “Knife.” How, do you ask, would Girl Talk remix a song? Exactly the way you’d imagine.
Van She (YAY) takes on The Klaxons’ (OH YAY) “Gravity’s Rainbow” (OH MY GOD THAT’S FUN).
MSTRKRFT (alright) remixes Wolfmother’s Woman. Hah.
And while Cadence Weapon’s unstoppable “The Gorilla Is For Sand Racing” isn’t a remix, I got it from Eb so I have to pass it along.
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