“On My Block” features Scarface (of the Geto Boys) rapping over a fantastic Nashiem Myrick beat — as featured in the aforelinked Cam’ron freestyle. This is off 2002’s The Fix.
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A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkSvtVEeEZA
A group of Japanese soul musicians perform “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell & the Drells. All did not go well for your hosts when we watched it, however.
- Colin:
- His accent is SO BAD ahahahah
- Colin:
- MAKE IT MARRO
- ‘Ili:
- DYNAMITE SOUL SHOW
- Colin:
- That trumpeter is really having a bad lip night, yikes.
- Colin:
- (he’s soloing at around 4 minutes in)
- ‘Ili:
- Just hit that.
- ‘Ili:
- suddenly blat
- Colin:
- Keyboardist has a great solo, ends around 6 minutes in.
- Colin:
- lmao what an ernest hemingway lookalike is on stage now and he’s dancing
- Colin:
- Oh my god what at this dancing
- Colin:
- WHY IS THIS HAPPENING
- ‘Ili:
- ^
- Colin:
- DO THE HOSE
- Colin:
- why is this a wide shot now at 9:50 what
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Fantastic Cam’ron freestyle
Linking rather than embedding so you can skip the rest of Dipset and get straight to Cam. Incredible two verses — plus he counts money the entire time. Cam is paid!
Missing foxes fuel spread of Lyme disease
Missing foxes fuel spread of Lyme disease
Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience:
As coyotes take over their ranges in North America, red fox populations are plummeting, and researchers have found one surprising result: The drop is fueling the spread of Lyme disease.
Lyme disease cases have increased enormously in recent years: From 1997 to 2007, the number of cases increased by 380 percent in Minnesota, 280 percent in Wisconsin and 1,300 percent in Virginia. Researchers used to think the increases were due to increasing deer populations, since deer are an important host to the disease-causing bacteria. However, the new data show these increases were independent of deer population levels.
Nature is weird.
Hawaii governor: Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison agrees to buy 98 percent of island of Lanai
Hawaii governor: Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison agrees to buy 98 percent of island of Lanai
Breaking news: the Lana’i buyer is apparently Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle. From the AP:
Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison has reached a deal to buy 98 percent of the island of Lanai from its current owner, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie said Wednesday.
The land’s owner, Castle & Cooke Inc., has filed a transfer application with the state’s public utilities commission, Abercrombie said.
The sale price for the property — the vast majority of the island’s 141 square miles — was not immediately clear. The Maui News previously reported the asking price was between $500 million and $600 million.
Officials discuss Hawaiian island’s potential sale
Officials discuss Hawaiian island’s potential sale
Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, AP:
The sale of Hawaii’s smallest publicly accessible inhabited island is imminent, and local leaders are anticipating what new ownership could mean for the island’s some 3,200 residents.
A potential buyer of Lanai, part of Maui County, was revealed to Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the county’s mayor at a meeting last week with representatives from landowner Castle & Cooke Inc. Self-made billionaire David Murdock’s Castle & Cooke owns 98 percent of island’s 141 square miles.
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The asking price is reportedly between $500 million and $600 million, the Maui News reported.
The island of Lana’i is indeed almost entirely owned privately. This is part of the legacy of plantations and the Big Five on Hawai’i.
In the mid-80s, New Wave band XTC put out two releases under then name “The Dukes of Stratosphear”. Basically, the Dukes are an extended homage to the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s — think Syd Barrett–era Pink Floyd. Here’s one of their tracks, “25 O’Clock”. Love this.
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So this Zoltan Orosz guy can absolutely shred on the accordion. I’m not sure if the piece in this video has a name other than “Balkan Tune,” but that’s what it seems to be called. Just wait for 2:23.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Angela Watercutter for Wired’s Underwire blog:
The premise of Safety Not Guaranteed, directed by Colin Trevorrow, comes from an internet meme: a wanted ad seeking a partner for time travel that found its way onto You’re the Man Now Dog. In the film, a group of magazine staffers try to track down the author of the classified ad, Kenneth (played by Mark Duplass). To get to him, they send their female colleague Darius ([Aubrey] Plaza), who ends up being charmed by Kenneth’s oddball ways.
- ‘Ili:
- WHY IS THIS REAL
- Colin:
- Personally, I think this looks dope. Aubrey Plaza absolutely kills it on Parks & Recreation — I’ll go see anything with her in it.
- ‘Ili:
- THAT DOESN’T EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS REAL
- Colin:
- I blame the Duplass Bros and mumblecore in general.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Fruit flies sleep too
Northwestern’s Science in Society talks to Ravi Allada, a neurobiology and physiology professor, about fruit flies:
Do flies really sleep?
Yes, really. They exhibit all of the behaviors that we associate with sleep—they stop moving, become unresponsive to stimuli, and so on. In fact, if you deprive a fly of sleep one day, it will try to make up for it the next. So why do we all need sleep? This is the big question. And a better understanding the mechanisms behind sleep will help answer it.
Interview’s fairly short, but really good.