I’m on a mashup kick as of late, much to Heidi’s annoyance on road trips. When I get to run the radio, it’s all Girl Talk lately and she hates that stuff. Anyway, I found two more artists over the last few days. Both guys have their stuff on their web site for free.
The video above is using a mashup called Sweet Home Country Grammar which is a mashup of Sweet Home Alabama and Nelly’s Country Grammar. So far, it’s just about my favorite discovery of the past few months. The mashup is by DJ Mei-Lwun. You can download this track along with several others at his web site (click his name in the previous sentence). I also really love his mashup of Kanye West’s Jesus Walks and AC/DC’s Back in Black. The mashup is called Jesus Walked Back and He’s Black. It works really well.
The other artist I found has also been doing the mashup thing for a while. His name is Party Ben and he also has an extensive collection of his tracks on his web site. My favorites right now are Galvanize the Empire, a mashup of the Chemical Brothers’ Galvanize and the Empire March from one of the Star Wars movies, and Rehab (Can’t Help Myself), which mashes up Amy Winehouse’s Rehab and the Four Tops’ Can’t Help Myself. So good. Check out his web site, you can preview and/or download a whole ton of stuff there.
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I’m sure the high gas prices aren’t related.
While the link is in last night’s link dump, I think the issue is important enough to break out into it’s own post. The Republican Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has sent letters out to the scientists whose research forms a critical part of the third IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR). The IPCC is the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the TAR is their periodic report on the state of research into global climate change. This report, specifically some of the studies cited in it, found that there was significant evidence that the global climate had warmed in this century and that the change was caused by human factors. The study is controversial among those that believe global warming doesn’t exist. Others have issues with the methodology of the study.
The interesting thing is that with all things the Republicans do (or, I should say, politicians in control of both Congress and the White House do), this seems to be a coordinated event. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed section opened fire on the same study. Congress also has been working on the energy bill which contains little climate change policy and in general chooses for the U.S. to go it alone. Not surprising considering the administration.
The Journal OpEd makes the same claims as the Congressman, so read the RealClimate article for a rundown of the issues.
What makes the Congressman’s move pretty patently biased is that he hasn’t requested similar information from the other side of the debate. If the Committee was interested in learning about the issue, they would probably ask both sides to prepare defenses of their research since both sides have already responded to each other in various studies and articles. The Committee could just read those if they were interested in the research. Instead, they’ve identified the key scientists behind the studies in the IPCC TAR and decided to harass them. Why does the committee need background information on the funding that the scientists have received unless they’re “suggesting” that an investigation is possible?
What the hell is going on in our country?
