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Favourite Songs With a Beat.

I’m a big fan of songs that have a kick ass back beat. Part of what makes me like them is the way a beat can draw you in. If you’re doing something mundane and that song can entice you to dance, especially at work, then the song has done its job. 

What are your favourite songs with a back beat? Here are some of my favourites:

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THE BEAST 50 MOST LOATHSOME PEOPLE IN AMERICA, 2008.
January 28, 2009, 11:15 am
Filed under: Humour | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The Beast rounds up the 50 most loasthsome people in America for 2008. #43 is you!

You think it’s your patriotic duty to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when it’s actually because she’s just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and don’t understand why they’re so ungrateful. You think Tim Russert was a great journalist. You’re hopping mad about an auto industry bailout that cost a squirt of piss compared to a Wall Street heist of galactic dimensions, due to a housing crash you somehow have blamed on minorities. It took you six years to figure out what a tool Bush is, but you think Obama will make it all better. You deem it hunky dory that we conduct national policy debates via 8-second clips from “The View.” You think God zapped humans into existence a few thousand years ago, although your appendix and wisdom teeth disagree. You like watching vicious assholes insult each other on TV. You support gun rights, because firing one gives you a chubby. You cuddle falsehoods and resent enlightenment. You think the fact that 43% of whites could stomach voting for an incredibly charismatic and eloquent light-skinned black guy who was raised by white people means racism is over. You think progressive taxation is socialism. 1 in 100 of you are in jail, and you think it should be more. You are shallow, inconsiderate, afraid, brand-conscious, sedentary, and totally self-obsessed. You are American.

Exhibit A: You’re more upset by Miley Cyrus’s glamour shots than the fact that you are a grown adult who is upset about Miley Cyrus.



The 5 Types Of New Year’s Eve Parties.

Listicle presents the 5 types of New Year’s Eve Parties:

You’re blessed with one friend who keeps complaining that you guys are walking too fast and her shoes are killing her and another who is suspiciously shitfaced. (The culprit is later revealed to be a well-hidden flask). Then everyone gets mad and starts snapping at each other and someone finally yells “I just want to be somewhere, anywhere inside, at midnight. Not wandering around on the street.” So you go to the worst, first bar you can find and have a couple beers and hug meekly at twelve then drink some more, and then the secret ninja drunk is trying to coax a stranger at the bar to do untoward things so it’s time to take them home and who’s going where and let’s split cabs maybe? No? OK, fine. Good night. Let’s actually make a plan next year, and ugh. You hate New Year’s. It’s never what you want it to be.



The Best of 2008.
December 18, 2008, 12:27 pm
Filed under: Lists, Music | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Let the listing begin:

Best albums of 2008 (50-26)
Honorable mention
Best tracks of 2008

All via pitchfork. Making lists is so hipster. gaaaawsh.