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Archive for May 21st, 2010

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Posted by Richard on May 21, 2010

For your weekend listening pleasure, here's some virtuoso guitar playing by Rodrigo y Gabriela. In the first video, they perform "Buster Voodoo" on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. If this doesn't get your toes tapping and your heart thumping, you're dead. Turn it up! 


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Here's their marvelous acoustic rendition of "Stairway to Heaven," in case you're not one of the 5.7 million who've already viewed it:


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That's nice, you say, but can they cover Metallica? Of course they can — here's "Orion": 

You might want to consider adding some Rodrigo y Gabriela to your music collection. Like 11:11.

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Draw Mohammed Day

Posted by Richard on May 21, 2010

In support of South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, today is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. I like the idea of depicting him doing mundane things like grocery shopping. But since I have essentially zero artistic ability, I'll just repost the twelve Jyllands-Posten cartoons that caused a world-wide frenzy of radical Muslim outrage in 2006.

 Jyllands-Posten cartoons

Check Reason Hit & Run, the Stranger, or this Facebook page later today for some of the drawings. Unless you're in Pakistan, which has blocked large portions of the internet to protect you from being offended.

UPDATE: Reason has chosen three winners from among the nearly 200 submissions they received. All three are quite clever. I think I like the second-place entry, Where's Mohammed, best. But I see why the winner won — it's at once clever, amusing, and a challenge to the viewer. 

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