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Ever wondered who that was ranting about parking tickets on DJ Shadow's Stem/Long Stem? Turns out it was Murray Roman (not Elliot Gould, surprisingly). A question I finally answered thanks to www.whosampled.com - a database of beats and pieces listing all types of loops and lifts.

"Traffic offences! Bah! Parking tickets!"

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9th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Ad Nauseum: Prawns

The land of advertising is a dangerous business. Post-meerkat, a high-concept ad campaign is likely to fall flat on it's face, but drafting in Sgt Elias AKA Willem Dafoe is one way to seal the deal.

Newsflash chimps: Prawns.

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8th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Who are FOUNDATION X??!

nuts story from the House Of Lords

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4th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria

Great short from David Blair the director of WAX: Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees, which still stands as one of the craziest, most original films I've ever seen

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3rd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Neil Young - Angry World

Neil Young's playing with his delay pedal here

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2nd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Tapes 'N More Tapes

new album from Tapes 'N Tapes coming. MP3 of Freak Out over at Gorilla Vs Bear

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1st Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Stephen Fry On Wagner

Fry weighs in on this year's X Factor

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31st Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Fire up the Chimp-O-Matic?!

not quite sure what to make of this until we've talked to our Chimp-o-lawyers (especially as we're lovers, not fighters), but there's a Chimp-O-Matic weapon in PS3 game Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time 

"The Chimp-o-Matic was a weapon that turned enemies into chimpanzees and, according to its demonstration video, was originally designed as a party gag by bored GrummelNet engineers. Robotic enemies were turned into toy monkeys with cymbals, while organic enemies turned into normal chimps."

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30th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Back to Back to the Future

The Back To The Future Blu-ray box has hit the shops and some of the extras are popping up on YouTube - including some rushes with Eric Stoltz in the Marty McFly role ...before he was replaced by Michael J Fox.

As a double geek-out, a recent episode of Fringe set in their parallel universe featured two of the watchers coming out a movie theatre, showing the Eric Stoltz version of the film.

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26th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Life On Board The International Space Station

alarm music: Muse, Macho Man and the Wallace & Gromit theme tune

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25th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Hot Sauce Update

OK just to be clear, here's what's going on with the new Beasties record (TRANSLATION: some songs you haven't heard yet are now going to be replaced by some other songs you haven't heard yet but you'll still get to hear the other lot later):

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

UPDATE: The Beasties also have a new website.

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25th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Piracy Comics and Sales

interesting case study of piracy and sales

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23rd Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Nick Robinson Loses Plot

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21st Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Skate or die: More Mark Gonzales

Following a successful art career, legendary skater Mark Gonzales can be seen out and about again more and more.... Here's a nice little day-in-the-life from 2009.

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21st Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet