I don't know if you kids are down with the new music craze that's sweeping the nation, but it's all about the mashups these days. [editors note: By "these days" Kennyb clearly means "a few years back", and by "that's sweeping the nation" he means "that used to be popular quite some time ago]. I first was introduced to the concept (quite late in the game, I will admit) at a RJD2 show in Brooklyn, when Diplo opened for him.

Diplo did these amazing and (to me at the time) unheard of things - like looping the guitar opening to Weezer's Sweater Song, and dropping pounding hip-hop beats on top. Made the crowd crazy go nuts (and I actually just remembered that I wrote about this once before in my old blog).

And since that day, I just fell in love with the musical combination of things that probably shouldn't have gone together but did anyway. There are just some brilliant things out there. At this very moment, I'm listening to Britney's "Slave 4 U" mixed with Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker." Really, the only thing that's missing is a video with Richard D. James' head photoshopped on the body of a hundred Catholic school girls.

But all in all, I really don't think it's worth it, and I'll tell you why. Because every once in a while you'll totally be rocking out to something, and you'll look down and see that what you were totally just into right then was Death Cab For Cutie mixed with Madonna. And that's really embarrassing, and just not worth it.