Chilly Gonzalez – BBC Radio 1 Minimix

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“When Annie Mac asked MC meets keyboarding-producer meets singer extraordinaire Chilly Gonzales to do a minimix, he decided to take things literally. That’s all you need to know.”

Some tracks included in the piano minimix:

Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Queen – Another One Bites The Dust
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
Eagles – Hotel California
USA for Africa – We Are The Children
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Dr. Dre – Still D.R.E.
Nirvana – Come As You Are
…and many more.

Via Crazybirds.

Kanye West ft. John Legend – Blame Game

I can’t get enough of this.

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Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [Explicit] – Amazon.com MP3 – $7.99

Gorillaz – Crystallised (The XX cover)

Gorillaz stopped by the BBC studio and did their track, “Doncamatic”, but then went on to perform a cover of The XX track “Crystalised”. This haunting live rendition is nothing short of perfection, but you wouldn’t expect anything less from Damon Albarn.

Via Earmilk.com.

Lupe Fiasco – Never Forget You

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Amazing beat and melodic lead vocals. Impressive.

Appearance and Respect

“Mr. Greenfield first grasped the importance of appearances while trying to survive the Holocaust. When he was 14, he and his father, mother, two sisters and a brother were taken from their home in Pavlova, in what was then Czechoslovakia, and later delivered to Auschwitz.

He was assigned to wash clothes in the camp’s alteration shop, and one day he accidentally ripped an SS officer’s shirt, an affront for which he was beaten. The officer threw the shirt at Mr. Greenfield, who mended it and started wearing it instead of the uniforms the other prisoners wore. From then on, he said, the guards and prisoners began treating him with respect.

“He looked like a somebody,” said Jay Greenfield, 52, Mr. Greenfield’s oldest son and the executive vice president of the company, Martin Greenfield Clothiers, explaining that his father attributes his survival to that shirt. The rest of Mr. Greenfield’s family perished in the camp, though he did not find that out immediately and spent two years after the war looking for them.”

A Tailor, Called Upon by Designers and Politicians – The New York Times

A Considerate Young Man

What a considerate young man my cousin is! He’s got the good nature to know that bleeding inside a Cayenne Turbo is strictly verboten!:

Bravo!

Black Swan Halloween Costumes

I’m putting on a preview screening of Fox Searchlight’s Black Swan at Seattle’s Pacific Place on December 1st, and looking through all the press coverage, I’ve found the following gems…it seems that some young ladies have been anticipating the premiere of Black Swan so much that they dressed up as Nina, the film’s main character, fully a month before the film’s commercial release!:

Marni From Toronto:

Sara from Los Angeles:

And Marisa from Toronto even found a life-size movie poster, for comparison (must’ve been at the Toronto Int’l Film Festival!):

Some even went as far as making Black Swan eye-makeup tutorials and posting them on YouTube! Here’s one:

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