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GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA STYLE WEBLOG
FRESH TAKES
ON MOVIES, MUSIC,
PEOPLE & MORE
CONSUMING CULTURE, SPITTIN' HYPE
ON OUR STEREO
The Top 10 discs that get us through the night...
1. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
2. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (EMI)
3. Lily Allen - "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone)
4. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)
5. Kanye West - "Late Registration" (Roc-A-Fella)
6. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" (Virgin)
7. M.I.A. - "Arular" (XL)
8. Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment" (B-Unique)
9. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" (Saddle Creek)
10. Mos Def - "The New Danger" (Geffen)
Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus"
(Island)
Favorite Kicks ...
Adidas "Adi Color Winner"
-- Fresh high-top sneaker design from the German tennis shoe maker.
Favorite Video Game on Our PlayStation...
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
(Rockstar Games) -- The greatest GTA eva'! It's been out for over two years and we're still freakin' playing it!
Overheard...
Guy talking into cellphone on West Broadway in Soho, NYC:
"Hey man, can you hear me? Got a new cell phone -- it's a Treo, man! That's right, a Treo. Yeah, the Palm Treo 650 and it's aaaawesome ... uh ... hello, can you hear me? Hello? Hello ... Shit!"
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Supercore:
Ivan Corsa
Princess Lower
East Side:
Reiko Oishi
OK Computer:
Typhoon
Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Sources Direct:
Rob Samra
D. Carter Witt
Damon Smith
Adrian
Tharani
Jess Eddy
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu
Hardware:
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 + G3 Computers w/ OS X
Toshiba Satellite Laptop w/ Windows XP
Krups Il Caffe Duomo Espresso Machine
Resources Directory [Beta]:
TECH GEAR
Mobile Devices We Like:
T-Mobile Sidekick and Sidekick II
Easy to use, unbusinesslike and not too techy-looking, we like the Sidekick 'cause it's easy on the thumbs for typing and is probably the most comfortable cell phone and text-messaging device in terms of keyboard size and design.
Palm Treo 650
The treo 650 is to the Sidekick what Prada dress shoes are to Adidas sneakers. Despite that analogy, the Treo will not win points for style compared to many cell phones, though the Treo is well-designed and nice on the eyes. The Treo is a so-called Smartphone and runs an OS for its Palm PDA functionality. Part phone, part PDA and part e-mail and Internet-enabled handheld computer, the 650 comes in slightly different versions for Cingular, Verizon, and Sprint. The best part of the 650 is its keyboard and high-resolution color screen.
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September 14, 2004
Right About Now, Fatboy Slim Releases a New Tune! It's Good to be Norman Cook!
The funky soul brotha' is back. Fatboy Slim, he of 90's bigbeat, ten-gallon cowboy hats, heavy-MTV-rotation music vids, happy faces, club culture and massive outdoor dance music parties on the seaside of Brighton, England, Rio and elsewhere, otherwise known by the name of Norman Cook, is back.
Writing for the UK's the Guardian' newspaper, Alexis Petridis reunites with Cook for an interview. The last time the journalist met with Fatboy was on the eve of "You've Come a Long, Baby," the hugely successful album of catchy dance-floor party tunes that made the DJ and former Housemartins member an international pop star with a bankroll to match.
When not driving around the town in his VW Beetle, organizing free outdoor raves like the Big Beach Boutique (which drew an estimated 250,000 people), and fending off the papparazzi, Cook spends time with his family (he's married and has a daughter) in his home in the town of Hove, on a stretch dubbed "Millionaire's Row," as it's home to a number of Brtitish celebs, most notably Paul McCartney.
Oh yeah, and one other thing ... Cook's been working on his new album, which is due out in October. Called "Palookaville" it'll be Fatboy Slim's first full-length disc of original material since 2001. A single "Slash Dot Dash" is due out in the United Kingdom later next week.
It's all great if you're fan of bigbeat and Cook and the Skint Records sound... and maybe it's great if you're just your average MTV-watching, pop-radio-listening person, as were many millions who didn't even know what bigbeat was but bought "You've Come a Long Way Baby" in 1998-99.
"Baby" was such a good dance record that it became the party music equivalent to instant noodles, and, for millions the default soundtrack to good times at the weekend from Sao Paulo to Sydney, whether at the club, the pool hall, the dorm room or the backseat of your Nissan.
RELATED LINKS
How the Fatboy grew up [The Guardian]
Fatboy Slim Official Website
Posted by typhoon at September 14, 2004 09:04 PM
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