You know that impulse you get when you’re watching some awesome old tv trash (especially the kind curated by the tastemakers at TV Carnage), that little productivity demon in the back of your head which incessantly gnaws “Sample this! Remix the shit out of it!” And the laziness angel responds, “but the couch is so comfortable, and the internet so interesting, and you just got a new email!”

Well, we bitch-slapped that angel and exercised our demons, grabbing some choice clips from one of the tv carnage discs. Here it tis for you, dear reader.

TV Carnage - Selected Audio Clips (tellmeyouloveme rip)

Including!

Air Mauritius
Alone in Your Electric Chair
Cheat and Eat
Fame
The Few the Proud
Hairdresser
Hot Cop Porno Theme
Inflatable Cube Breakdancing Theme
The Dirty Cowboy
Respect the Mentally Disabled
Shalom Shalom

This is how New York does it - but despite our city descending into revanchist, neoliberal hell, some people, namely us, still manage to find time to throw a party or two. Or perhaps we throw them because, being inside already-existing late capitalism, we subjects can’t really articulate a response that has not already fallen, Britney-Speaks-like, to the jackals of consumption. Below, then, are two unabashed pop songs that we will play at our party on Friday. And if you don’t want to subject yourself to more lectures, you’ll blast them right now.

Yes, I’m in finals mode. Tough shit.

Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
Gameboy Gamegirl - Sweaty Wet Dirty Damp

It’s always nice when people sing pretty songs about, like, politics. While all too often a political ballad will roll hamfisted into the gates of tacky hell, sometimes a small charming ditty — helped if delivered by a pretty girl — will lull you to happiness before understanding that what underlies your happiness is actually a Western gaze that insists on compulsively commodifying all it touches. Then you have your tea and feel better.

Mayra Andrade - Dimokransa
Mayra Andrade - Comme S’il En Pleuvait

Don Omar - Con el Cucu en la Boca — LINK FIXED!

Sabor Kolombia - Bota y Tambor