Awesome Italo Acid House–Fare Soldi – Tutto Tutti Sempre Subito

Sounding like a mix between Daft Punk, a Just Blaze vocal sample, and early 808 State, it’s Fare Soldi’s new track Tutto Tutti Sempre Subito from the ITALO SCHOOL compilation.
Via Asian Dan via Big Stereo

Avatar movie review–sophisticated eco-fantasy

Wow, Avatar may be the most expensive and sophisticated eco-fantasy movie ever made.
This movie has been getting rave reviews, and pretty much deservedly. The animation is very, very good, the visuals amazing, they developed a complex and believable alien ecosystem, and the 3D works very well. My only complaint is that [...]

Awesome Analog Synth Library Music Prog Funk

Mannheim Steamroller–Four Rows of Jacks

Bee Gees–Nights on Broadway
Check out the awesome analog synth action at the beginning…

Siouxsie and the Banshees–Arabian Knights & Cities in Dust

Some classic Siouxsie from the early 80s…such a great mixture of experimental and pop sensibilities…

Siouxsie and the Banshees–Arabian Knights

Siouxsie and the Banshees–Cities in Dust

Lossless JSON encoding/decoding of XML in PHP????

So I got some XML and thought “well, simplexml looks like an easy way to parse the xml.” Then serialized it with json_encode and json_decode. BUT it loses the attributes on some of the nodes!!!
Someone reported this as a bug:
“Description:
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If you json encode a simplexml object, any xml leaf nodes will [...]

The Best 80s and 90s R&B: Stevie Wonder–That Girl, Michael Jackson–Remember The Time

Stevie Wonder–That Girl (1982)

Michael Jackson–Remember the Time (1991)
Ah, so good! Some of the best and most distinctive songs of the 1980s and the 1990s. Well, Remember the Time is so close to being cheesy, but….

Just Blaze Extravaganza: Jay Electronica–Exhibit C, Nas–The Scientist, Saigon–It’s Alright, Saigon–Say Yes Pt. 2

Wow, great new hip hop from Just Blaze. This plus him producing for the next Eminem album (even though I’ve never liked Eminem, the production will make up for it!) totally makes up for there being no Just Blaze beats on the Blueprint 3.
Nas–the Scientist
Jay Electronica–Exhibit C
Saigon–It’s Alright
Saigon–Say Yes Pt. 2
This Say Yes [...]

The Matrix Movie Series’ Homages to Commando (Arnold Schwartznegger)

The movie the Matrix has many homages in it to the movie Commando.
Check out this scene at 2:55 in this video of the mall fight in Commando where all the cops pile on Arnold and he throws them off–exactly like when all of those Agents pile on Neo and he throws [...]

Big Bear–Doin Thangs

Big Bear–Doin Thangs
I looked up this album after hip hop producer Just Blaze used the image of the cover as his Twitter icon. What…is…going…on…in…this…video??? Some sort of weird alien multi-gendered Grand Theft Auto hip hop animation…with bear roars…???

Donald & Sons Heavy Metal Hardware Store

From Liam Lynch, the genius behind Sifl & Olly (when are those going to be put out on DVD???)
Donald & Sons Hardware…heavy metal style

Here’s one for Wilkinson’s Family Restauraunt…