Word of the Day
Sustenance (n., SUSS-teh-nence)
Something that supports life or health, especially food. Technically, when you go to an ACME, you are sustenenance shopping. It's more awkward in the budget, though.
Gif of the Day
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Link of the Day
Music mashups
One of our favorite songs of the last couple years is the mashup of Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like A Hole" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." It's stunningly good and bizarre, the cynical angst of Trent Reznor layered on top of Jepsen's sunny song of possibilities:
The funny thing about this is that Nine Inch Nails was also used for another eerily good, subversive mashup with Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off":
Good mashups are always fascinating since they find new wrinkles in songs that we didn't know about...or sometimes we did. This one layered Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" through one channel and their "Someday" through the other, showing how similar the songs are in structure (the effect is easiest to hear with headphones):
The best mashup of all time, for our money, is Nelly and the Bee Gees, but we'll let you discover that on your own when you're old enough.
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