Makeovers galore to come. In the meantime, something we can feel:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxSXvL9ZFs[/youtube]
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It’s World’s Fair Use Day! Err, what’s that?
World’s Fair Use Day (WFUD) is a free, all-day celebration of the doctrine of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. WFUD will take place at the Newseum in Washington D.C. on Tuesday January 12, 2010, and will be organized by Public Knowledge (PK), a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, consumer-advocacy group. PK works to ensure that communications and intellectual property policies encourage creativity, further free expression and discourse and provide universal access to knowledge. As part of its campaign to return balance to copyright law, PK hopes to use WFUD to educate the public about the importance of fair use in an information society.
That’s where I’ll be all day. Sound interesting to you? You can watch the proceedings below, and participate via the connected chat and Twitter hashtag #wfud (which I expect will be projected behind the speakers for most of the day).
(moved embed to the flip b/c it’s autoplaying)
No apologies:
More about the making here. And I don’t even like Starbucks.
Iggy Pop did it first:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEY6_jcrzI8[/youtube]
(That’s a fanvid.)
Siouxsie & the Banshees waited a decade, and did it well:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkr4pb8Hcc[/youtube]
And then some DJ brought Peggy Lee in to make it perfect by nearly changing it completely:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yChDESaUg[/youtube]
And on that note, I’m off for a bit. Hitting the road tomorrow. Enjoy the holidays. Please don’t rob my house.
Irving Berlin’s Let’s Face the Music and Dance? Has yielded much. How could it not?
There may be trouble ahead
But while there’s moonlight and music
And love and romance
Let’s face the music and dance
Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill
And while we still
Have the chance
Let’s face the music and dance
Ella Fitzgerald’s take:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o1jfByi3aE[/youtube]
And then, well, there’s Taco:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wEs0cS84c[/youtube]
I love me some Ella. And Taco? Wish I could pull that off. But my favorite? Comes courtesy of Nat King Cole:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFI0rFFp8j8[/youtube]
Still, I can’t help but thinking that there’s a sublimely perfect version out there, somewhere . . .
Dig this – I’m sure you haven’t heard it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWLwZIncec[/youtube]
Didn’t know Dead Prez had done this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAhSJt_8x8[/youtube]
And this? A household favorite:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9jT2eM6KQ[/youtube]
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but this is an honest to god Washington Post correction:
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
Really.
Update: I think I might have found the original article, and if so, it means that WaPo – institutionally – is the joke. And not the author. Will post more as I find it.
Stuck in my head for some reason:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hFvCldX9G4[/youtube]
A horrible no-good entirely forgettable movie. And yet, the soundtrack is memorized.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6fysAU8v3o[/youtube]
(That one’s for you, Katie White & Stacy Sutton)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eK74avTqL4[/youtube]
One day, there will be a mashup with the above and this track . . .
I’m sure Sony/BMG will kill it all soon, so click while you can . . .
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK3uf5V0pDA[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLedW-YYfE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HDOrzDvNkU[/youtube]