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The Stones - Shine a Light.

Cremate me. I don't need/want a headstone.

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Not being argumentative, but the American Heart Association has recommended the tempo of "Stayin' Alive" for compressions for several years now. They probably think the title is catchy too.

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I've been a paramedic for twenty years; I've recertified in CPR, ACLS, and PALS, though the AHA, every two years in that time, and this is the first time I've ever heard this. Maybe this is what they tell the lay people?

FWIW: I just looked up the tempo of "Stayin' Alive." 103 beats per minute. Compressions are supposed to be delivered at a rate of at least 100 per minute, so, there you go. Good advice.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz.

to head the next question off at the pass, Boyd Crowder is the greatest villain in television history.

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0000 steel wool and then lemon oil. Be careful not to scratch pickups.

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This. You can use a credit card to scrape off large grime deposits.

Jim Croce was an incredible talent. Love his work. Even if he did look just like Luigi.

I don't know, but his is the definitive version of "Feelin' Alright", in my opinion.

Questlove wrote a really great article based on this theme a few years ago.

How Hip Hop Failed Black America

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I want to start with a statement: Hip-hop has taken over black music. At some level, this is a complex argument, with many outer rings, but it has a simple, indisputable core. Look at the music charts, or think of as many pop artists as you can, and see how many of the black ones aren’t part of hip-hop. There aren’t many hip-hop performers at the top of the charts lately: You have perennial winners like Jay Z, Kanye West, and Drake, along with newcomers like Kendrick Lamar, and that’s about it. Among women, it’s a little bit more complicated, but only a little bit. The two biggest stars, Beyoncé and Rihanna, are considered pop (or is that pop-soul), but what does that mean anymore? In their case, it means that they’re offering a variation on hip-hop that’s reinforced by their associations with the genre’s biggest stars: Beyoncé with Jay Z, of course, and Rihanna with everyone from Drake to A$AP Rocky to Eminem.

It wasn’t always that way. Back in the late '80s, when I graduated high school, you could count the number of black musical artists that weren’t in hip-hop on two hands — maybe. You had folksingers like Tracy Chapman, rock bands like Living Colour, pop acts like Lionel Richie, many kinds of soul singers — and that doesn’t even contend with megastars like Michael Jackson and Prince, who thwarted any easy categorization. Hip-hop was plenty present — in 1989 alone, you had De La Soul and the Geto Boys and EPMD and Boogie Down Productions and Ice-T and Queen Latifah — but it was just a piece of the pie. In the time since, hip-hop has made like the Exxon Valdez (another 1989 release): It spilled and spread.

So what if hip-hop, which was once a form of upstart black-folk music, came to dominate the modern world? Isn’t that a good thing? It seems strange for an artist working in the genre to be complaining, and maybe I’m not exactly complaining. Maybe I’m taking a measure of my good fortune. Maybe. Or maybe it’s a little more complicated than that. Maybe domination isn’t quite a victory. Maybe everpresence isn’t quite a virtue.

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A second vote for Bukowski's "Post Office."

Fans of the Hitchhiker's guide books should check out the Dirk Gently novels; I enjoy them almost as much.

For my contribution, I'll say Night by Elie Wiesel. And it can be read in about an hour.

Mini-documentary about Willie's axe. As a guitar nerd, this was like porn to me. Also, I had no idea that Wille idolizes Django Reinhardt. That blows my mind for some reason.

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