Double Reading

The other week in my post about Michael Jackson I made a terrible mistake! When I listed my three favorite Michael Jackson songs (“Thriller,” “Off The Wall,” and “Wanna Be Startin’ Something”) I left off my true favorite Michael Jackson song: “Beat It.” I’m not sure why I omitted it. I think I was caught [...]

I’ve recently been dealing with a fairly difficult (for me, at least) breakup. As part of the cathartic process I’ve been working on what I’ve referred to as my “bitter breakup mix.” It’s finally finished and I must say that both the experience of making it and the final product have made me feel a [...]

Due to the nature of my job, it’s usually a few days after a huge event until I start to really reflect on it. This weekend I (along with probably a lot of other people on the planet) I’ve been thinking about Michael Jackson. My mom reminded me that as a kid I really loved [...]

Seriously? Another DJ mix from Who Shot JR? Wasn’t the last one posted only a week ago? Yup! Coachella is coming up in just a few days (Friday, April 17, to be exact) so I was under a tight deadline. The mix contains artists and DJs who are going to be performing at Coachella this [...]

Now that it’s only four months too late, I’ve finally finished my “Year 2008″ mix project. Before that, though, I wanted to share some of where I came from and do some year-end lists. Don’t worry — I actually compiled these lists way back in December before I was swayed by all of the other [...]

I intended to post this a loooong time ago but while writing it my computer crashed and I didn’t realize that the new version of WordPress saved drafts! While mucking around I found it again so here it is… Out.com has a list of The 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums (of All Time). Depite being gay [...]

Somehow I missed the memo when the whole “Who is Fake Blood!?” question was answered! I don’t know how I did, but it looks like it’s been confirmed that Touché is indeed Fake Blood. Fake Blood has probably been my favorite DJ/remixer of 2008. His choppy remixes with the signature “Fake Blood” callout have been [...]

Last summer Slate had a nice piece about the “Afronaut Invasion.” I.e. hip-hop music that was obsessed with outer space and sci-fi stuff. I gotta say, that the more electro and spacey crazy aspects of hip-hop are certainly my favorites. The first hip-hop album I really loved was Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive (which [...]

I’ve been meaning to get back into the blogging thing for a few weeks, so since Molly tagged me to join her Seven Song meme, I’ll take that as a cue to get warm up. According to iTunes, these are the seven songs that I’ve most recently added that have a rating of four or [...]

The film Across the Universe accomplished something that I’ve been playing around with in my head for a long time: Create dialogue that constantly references pop music lyrics. While Across the Universe took the idea a step further and turned that dialogue into a musical format, I still love the idea and was impressed with [...]