Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
This is a "clay cookie." Some people eat them as food.
Angel Aloma, executive director of Food For The Poor, gave this one to me this morning.
In some of the poorer areas of Haiti, they make these out of clay, oil and salt and then bake them in the sun. To me, it tastes like play-doh with sand in it.
There's no telling what effect they have on your body but I find it hard to believe that eating plates could be healthy. This, at least, keeps them from feeling hungry.
Aloma also showed me a bottle of water that is "typical" of what people are drinking down there. The bits of stuff in the cloudy water looked to me like feces, which is likely, and explains the cholera outbreak.
Don't take your lunch for granted today.
So, Hot Sauce Committee Pt 2 is the same thing as Hot Sauce Committee Pt 1? Only the Beasties would do something like that.
The Beastie Boys website is now a group blog run by, you guessed it, the Beastie Boys.
More importantly, they've explained in another email that all the tracks planned and announced for Hot Sauce Committee Pt 1 will see the light of day after all. I'll let them explain:
BEASTIE BOYS HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 2 TRACK LISTING REVISED, REPLACED ENTIRELY WITH SONGS ORIGINALLY RECORDED FOR HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 1
In what can only be described as a bizarre coincidence, following an exhaustive re-sequence marathon, Beastie Boys have verified that their new Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 will be comprised of the same 16 tracks originally slated for inclusion on Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The record (part 2 that is) will be released as planned in spring 2011 on Capitol.
The tracks originally recorded for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (which now are actually back on Part 1) have now apparently been bumped to make room for the former Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 material. Wait, what?
"I know it's weird and confusing, but at least we can say unequivocally that Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 is coming out on time, which is more than I can say about Part 1, and really is all that matters in the end." says Adam "MCA" Yauch. "We just kept working and working on various sequences for part 2, and after a year and half of spending days on end in the sequencing room trying out every possible combination, it finally became clear that this was the only way to make it work. Strange but true, the final sequence for Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 works best with all its songs replaced by the 16 tracks we originally had lined up in pretty much the same order we had them in for Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. So we've come full circle."
Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 marks Yauch, Mike "Mike D" Diamond, and Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz's first full length effort since 2007's Grammy winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up. The new track listing of the album is now as follows:
1. Tadlock's Glasses
2. B-Boys In The Cut
3. Make Some Noise
4. Nonstop Disco Powerpack
5. OK
6. Too Many Rappers (featuring NAS)
7. Say It
8. The Bill Harper Collection
9. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (featuring Santigold)
10. Long Burn The Fire
11. Funky Donkey
12. Lee Majors Come Again
13. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
14. Pop Your Balloon
15. Crazy Ass Shit
16. Here's A Little Something For Ya
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
If you have an Android phone, get ready for DEALS DEALS DEALS!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
RIP Eyedea
The Beastie Boys "Hot Sauce Committee Pt 2" will be out in spring 2011. Yes, I said part 2. Sweeeeeeeeeeeet.
Friday, October 15, 2010
"Hurley" sucks, and that rarities album on the way is worthless. This is Weezer, and they'll never be this good again.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
UNKLE offers sampler before US "tour."
Mon. Oct. 25 Los Angeles, USA @ El Rey Theatre w/Sleepy Sun
Thur. Oct 28 San Francisco, USA @ Regency Ballroom w/Sleepy Sun
Sat. Oct. 30 Guadalajara, Mexico @ Rock X La Vida
Sun. Oct. 31 Mexico City, Mexico @ Circo Volador w/Sleepy Sun
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A sample from a new book, just received in the newsroom.
From "'Twas The Night Before Christmas: 21st Century Edition" by Bruce Kluger and David Slavin.
Great, clever political satire on the downfall of Santa Clause. Brilliant.
(Read the book at the link above, or buy it on Amazon.)
A sample from a new book, just received in the newsroom
From "'Twas The Night Before Christmas: 21st Century Edition" by Bruce Kluger and David Slavin.
Great, clever political satire on the downfall of Santa Clause. Brilliant.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Here's the Mickey Mouse follow-up to Donald Duck's adventure in demagoguery and brainwashing.
It must have taken days to get this mash-up together. It figures Donald Duck would fall for Beck though, right?
I haven't listened to the new Elvis Costello album yet, but my expectations have been raised significantly because of the cover.
If Costello has gone political, methinks he's already got the story figured out. This "National Ransom" is going to very good.