{"id":452,"date":"2006-02-20T22:12:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T02:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/20\/monday-mp3-miscellany\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T02:28:07","slug":"monday-mp3-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/monday-mp3-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday MP3 Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, in lieu of actual content, I bring you a bag of links to audio content, both musical and book-related. This’ll be a long post.<\/p>\n

\"Best<\/a>First up, we enter the magical world of musical mashups, where there have been a couple of interesting new releases lately. The kids at Bootie<\/a> have brought us a CD-length collection of the “best mashups of 2005<\/a>“, to starts us off. Some of these are lots of fun, but none of them come close to the ALL TIME MOST AWESOME MASHUP DISC EVAH<\/a>!. Anyway, here’s the tracklist for the collection, with some emphasis by me:<\/p>\n

Party Ben \u2013 Paid For My Doorbell (Eric B. & Rakim vs. White Stripes) * Torero \u2013 Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange (Gwen Stefani vs. Snoop Dogg vs. ZZ Top) * The Lovemakers \u2013 Shake That 50 Cent (50 Cent vs. The Lovemakers) * Jay-R \u2013 S.L.H. (Sri Lanka High) (M.I.A. vs. The Ramones) * A plus D \u2013 An Honest M.I.A. (M.I.A. vs. The Bravery) * Party Ben \u2013 Somebody Rock Me<\/strong> (The Killers vs. The Clash) * Ruff Muff \u2013 La La Her Madly (The Doors vs. Goldfrapp) * Earworm \u2013 Since U Been Gahan (Kelly Clarkson vs. Rex The Dog vs. Depeche Mode) * Party Ben \u2013 Walking With A Ghost In Paris (Tegan & Sara vs. Mylo) * Party Ben \u2013 Computer Talk (Coldplay vs. Kraftwerk) * Loo & Placido \u2013 Black Beatles (Beatles vs. Black-Eyed Peas vs. Ludacris vs. Kelis) * King of Pants \u2013 Badd To Me (Ying Yang Twins vs. The Cure) * DJ Riko \u2013 P-Funk Is Playing At My House (LCD Soundsystem vs. Gerald A. vs. Katie Enlow) * Thriftshop XL \u2013 Do You Wanna Cuz It’s Tricky (Franz Ferdinand vs. Run-DMC vs. The Knack) * Brat \u2013 Big Shot Pimpin’ (Billy Joel vs. Jay-Z) * DJ John \u2013 It Takes Two To Kiss (Rob Base vs. Prince) * Tripp \u2013 Super Holla Tricka (Beastie Boys vs. Gwen Stefani vs. A. Skillz & Krafty Kutz) * Jay-R \u2013 My Other Car Is A Beatle (L’Trimm vs. Armand Van Helden vs. Beatles vs. Gary Numan) * Jimmi Jammes \u2013 Sgt. Pepper’s Paradise<\/strong> (Beatles vs. Guns N’ Roses) * Cheekyboy \u2013 Smells Like Compton <\/strong>(N.W.A. vs. Nirvana)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Already<\/a>Meanwhile, over at The Agony Column<\/a>, Rick Kleffel (the reviewer who, in my searching so far seems to have tastes are closest to my own) has his latest review and interview<\/a> online. The review<\/a> is of Already Dead<\/a>, and the interview is with it’s author Charlie Huston. I was particularly interested in this, since I just picked up the book on my last Boston trip, and thought it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

You could just read the review, but it’s kind of fun to listen to the audio version<\/a>, and of course the interview<\/a> is audio only.<\/p>\n

Here’s a bit of the review text:<\/p>\n

‘Already Dead’ is anything but the title. Outrageously funny, superbly well-written, gripping and even occasionally touching, ‘Already Dead’ hot-melts gory vampire fiction with noir so hard boiled you could tie it to the feet of someone you really didn’t like and watch the bubbles rise from their mouth as they sank beneath the oil-slicked waves of the Hudson River. In case you think there’s any Rocket Science going on in this novel, let me disabuse you of that notion. ‘Already Dead’ is simple, classic but definitely not classy noir fiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Let<\/a>Back in mashup land, we’ve got the announcement of a new Beastles album<\/a>, the second collection of Beatles \/ Beastie Boys mashups by djBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I thought the earlier collection was kinda fun, and I’ve always dug the Beasties, so I’ll definitely be checking this one out. (It’s already DL’d but I didn’t get a chance to give it a spin today.)<\/p>\n

He got slammed serving this up, so you should use this torrent link<\/a> to get the tunes & artwork. (You can also directly DL the MP3s from the mirrors at Boing Boing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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\"Karl<\/a>Back in literary land, the Small World Podcast<\/a> has an interview<\/a> with Canadian SF author Karl Schroeder<\/a>. You might remember that we had a lovely discussion<\/a> about one of Schroeder’s posts here a while back. <\/p>\n

Some print interviews that I’ve seen with Schroeder, like the shallow one at SF Site<\/a>, or the slightly more indepth one that Locus did (excerpts here<\/a>), offered hints that he would be a great person to sit down and chat with, but this interview makes that very plain indeed.<\/p>\n

Here’s just a few<\/strong> of the things covered in the interview:<\/p>\n