It's official - Mathilde is on the blogosphere

:D

Dubstep recommendations?

This was playing on the background of Adam's video of their Road Trip this summer (dubiously titled: "East Infection"). Pretty great video in every way (incl bc the Florida house features prominently!). I haven't been able to stop listening to this, esp while at the computer. Adam has a good blog post on these guys. Alex, any further recommendations of stuff that sounds like this?
mus

Visualized Beethoven

The Froot-Loops version of the first movement of Beethoiven 5th Symphony -mesmerizing!!

'Rome'

From a wonderful collabo album entitled "Rome" by DJ Danger Mouse and Italian classical and film composer Daniele Luppi (check out the cool-looking graphics at his website). They've created an beautiful, aching, honey-textured album whose tracks are lassoed together with Kill Bill/Spaghetti-Western themes.
I think the album is best listened to in its entirety, rather than track-by-track, but these two are pretty stand-out to me.
It's been on the background as I work for a couple of weeks now!

Jack white adds his vocals to the track above; Norah Jones to the one below.

Dolphin News

Article: How far will dolphins go to relate to humans?

Amy Winehouse and Mos Def performance

Hey, you know what? Mos Def will be changing his name in 2012. To Yasiin.
Here's what he says: I'm actually doing it. That's it. Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.

Yasiin is a name in the Qur'an's 36th surah, one of its most important verses. The rapper converted to Islam in his teens. "[I don't want] to deal [any more] with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as," Mos Def said.

So there you go. Also, fun fact, he has the same birthday as you, Alex.

Article here.

Trixie Whitley signing in a kitchen

In another life, I would like to be able to sing like her