Archive for August, 2008

T.I. ft. Rihanna - “Live Your Life”
This week, the world shuddered on its axis a bit when people heard the latest leak from the new T.I. album. Featuring Rihanna on the hook, “Live Your Life” samples the infamous Romanian dance anthem “Dragostea Din Tei“.

O-Zone - “Dragostea Din Tei” (live)
While it is certainly fashionable to sample […]

Thesis progress presentation, CMS Orientation, 26 August 2008
Fifteen minutes of me riffing on the main topics of my master’s thesis from the CMS orientation event. Two semesters to go, my dogs!
As always, you can grip the slides for more digital digging. (Hint: use the arrows to move forward and backward through them or press “a” […]

i went to brooklyn. i went to the cape. i went to milford. i went to the emergency room. now i am back and it’s time to GET TO WORK!!!

WORK NIGHT
Tuesday, 8/26
Ryan Durkin
Mayhem
Lone Wolf
Free / No Cover
9:30pm - 1am
CAN U DIGG IT?

Like some fuzzed out snow crash, Bitch Ass Darius is playing at the offline version of Todo Mundo this Thursday in Jamaica Plain! Come on down and do some ethnography on the dancefloor. To get why this is so funny + weird + awesome, check my previous post about B.A.D. and booty musicsz.

+ TODO MUNDO […]

Starting today, recurring feature Translation Nation will be joined by White Life, an exclusive peek at the wild weird world of Straight White Men from your boy on the inside.
As anyone who has spent time with me in a populous urban environment can tell you, I have a tendency to attract the conversational attention of […]

In the months since I likened the prolific best rapper alive to Miles Davis, I have enjoyed seeing others try out their own genre-bending comparisons as we all try to find an archetype to fit Mr. Carter into our personal pop histories.

Malcolm & Coltrane on A Love Supreme
Last week, Mark Anthony Neal dealt a wonderfully […]