Calvin and Hobbes + Fight Club Mashup – Thumbs Up

We love mashups here at Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down.  Here is a great one with Calvin and Hobbes images set to the trailer of Fight Club:

Two awesome things combined become an even awesomer thing.

(via @anniecolbert and TheHighDefinite)

All Day Samples – Thumbs Up

Girl Talk released his newest mashup album, All Day, a few weeks ago.  Travis McLeskey put together a website, www.alldaysamples.com where he displays the songs currently being sampled visually as you listen.  This really helps you appreciate all the detail that Girl Talk puts into his work and demonstrates why he is the best mashup artist around.  Here is an interview that McLeskey did about the project.

(I realize that I am super late on this, but I thought I would post it anyway because I hadn’t blogged in a while.)

Kanye West Tweets with The New Yorker are Dope! – Thumbs Up

Last year, hip-hop artist Kanye West made the news for reasons that no one would be proud of.  He jumped on stage during the MTV Video Music Awards interrupting Taylor Swift while she was accepting her award for “Best Female Music Video” and uttered those words that will forever be remembered (and mimicked in multiple different ways):

“Yo Taylor…I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!”

Most recently, Kanye West jumped on another stage to display his rants: Twitter.  And, the great thing about it is that Kanye tweets just as you would expect him to talk.  Nothing changes.  You can follow him at @kanyewest and see for yourself.

Well, with the new Twitter account and the 140 characters of gold that Kanye gives to the world each time he tweets, comedy duo Paul and Storm decided to use that gold and turn it into comedy gold.  How did they do that?  By taking various Kanye West tweets and using them as captions to a number of The New Yorker comics.  You can see a few good ones below or a whole slew of them here.  You can also see future ones posted on twitter by following the hashtag #kanyenewyorkertweets.

(via Mashable)

Thumbs Up- Slaughterhouse 90210

This blog presents mash-ups but instead of mixing together different songs, it takes screen shots of television shows and putting them together with quotes from literature. Although some people might doubt the power of mixing low and highbrow entertainment, the quotes add an interesting perspective on the situations of the show. You don’t need to know the quote to get them, but it does help to know the shows. Here are a couple of my favorites:

“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”
— Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife

“If there’s one thing girls’ parents don’t want to see in you it’s whatever it is their daughters see in you.”

—Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers

“He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”
— Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Check out the rest at http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/.

Thumbs Up – The Hood Internet

Do you like mash-ups? Love listening to 100 songs in one album with Girl Talk or Super Mash Bros? Then you need to check out The Hood Internet. These guys put out great mash-ups all the time, and pretty regularly too. From Phoenix to Wale to Michael Jackson to Lauryn Hill to Bon Iver, these guys cover everything. And now you can sample the best of their work in one album, The Mixtape Volume Four.

First off, how can you say no to any album that had this cover. I would consider listening to Celine Dion if her album had a cover this awesome. Secondly, this album is just over an hour long, which is a bit longer than Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals and longer than all the Super Mash Bros. tunes I have. Now we come to the actual music, which is awesome. Most of the tracks are fairly short (there are 34 of them) so you get a similar effect to the fast paced nature of more well known mash-up artists. All in all, the album is upbeat and fun to listen to, as well as very eclectic in its selections. So check out this album, and if you like it, there’s 3 more mixtapes for you to enjoy too.