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My friend invited me to guest host his inaugural radio show back at WCWM, where I was a DJ in law school. It was a blast to be in the studio and listen to some new tunes with my buddy. If you’re in Williamsburg, be sure to check out DJ Milk’s new show “Kids with Dynamite” on Fridays on 90.9FM, or just tune in via the Internet at http://wcwm.org.

As a graduate guest host (DJ, J.D.!), my friend let me do a small set with a couple of songs. I took the the opportunity to play Discovery’s “Orange Shirt”, a mash-up of Grizzly Bear and Dead Prez from The Hood Internet, and Sleigh Bells’ “Crown on the Ground.”

Smells Like Pre-Teen Spirit? While cleaning out my suburban closet back home in Virginia, I stumbled across some old cassettes that I had dubbed in the early 1990s. I think the artwork on this particular bootleg of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is probably the least punk thing ever to have been influenced by Cobain.

Smells Like Pre-Teen Spirit?

While cleaning out my suburban closet back home in Virginia, I stumbled across some old cassettes that I had dubbed in the early 1990s. I think the artwork on this particular bootleg of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is probably the least punk thing ever to have been influenced by Cobain.

Arlington, VA. Parody Perfection.

Video was made by my classmates’ brother too! Trying to convince her to introduce me so I can spit a verse on his next hit…

The dude who gifted us with the hastily made Cleveland tourism video was tapped by TNT’s basketball crew to make an amazing self-deprecating follow-up. This is why I love the NBA. (Skip to 2:03 if you have the attention span of a hockey fan).

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Phoenix- “Lisztomania” (The Tremulance Remix)

via Gorilla vs. Bear

Perfect music to study to in a somewhat empty library, where nobody will ask you to stop tapping your feet.

Headphones Recommendations?

I will be studying for the Virginia Bar Exam all summer and I am looking for comfortable headphones to use in the library. Preferably, I can wear them for hours without hurting my ears and they will also have magical powers that help me learn (noise-cancellation?). I am still a student, so cheaper is better. Maybe I should just ask Marco.org…

UPDATE: Like a digital Bat-Signal, Marco swoops in to save the day whenever he sees “headphones recommendations” on his Tumblr Dashboard. He answered:

“Sennheiser HD 280 Pro. Not cheap, but not unreasonable, at around $80-100. Very comfortable, great outside noise isolation.”

I might just splurge if they’re worth it and durable. Feel free to chime in with more insight and I’ll report back later.

Enter the 37th Chamber: (soul sides) 

“Music inspired by the Wu Tang” by El Michels Affair.

This is getting me through exam-prepping and paper-writing. Wu Tang retold through its own roots. So much soul. Very familiar.

Martin Luther King Sings

Did we ever figure out the public domain copyright status of MLK’s “I have a dream” speech? I would love to see a fifth fair use element added onto 17 U.S.C. § 107:

5. the effect of the use of auto-tune on the original copyrighted work.

We could call it the T-Pain-mendment. Holla at me, Lessig. I got big ideas.

Upon further review, I think I love these guys. Yes, auto-tune the news and history and all of space and time.

American Analog Set
“We’re Computerizing and We Just Don’t Need You Anymore”

This song started playing with iTunes set to random. My only conclusion— the iTunes playlist has become self-aware. It also has good taste in music.

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Free Darko: An Interview With Bethlehem Shoals

On today’s episode of “Headphones Are Stethoscopes” I had the chance to chat with one of the authors from FreeDarko.com, a blog about basketball, but so much more than that. It’s about race relations, politics, the pursuit of the aesthetic, philosophy…

Here’s a quick recap of topics discussed:

- Michael Lewis’ Statistical Analysis
- Liberated Fandom
- NBA Stars (and Fake NBA Stars) on Social Networks

References include Milton Friedman, Pi, Facebook, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The River Wild, Jesus Shuttlesworth, William Carlos Williams, Polvo and the Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac (in stores now!).

If books aren’t you thing, go snag a t-shirt. Wear your art on your sleeve.

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