Pages tagged “feed the animals”

In 1839, an American writer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens was sent to Central America to serve as Special Ambassador. He traveled around the continent during his time there, and, after happening upon Mayan ruins at Copán, visited almost 50 other such sites, gathering material for a travelogue that has long been credited with enlivening modern interest in Mayan culture.

If you're alive, under 50 and capable of aural stimulation, then you've likely wondered how Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk, does it—how he knows Jay-Z's rap was always meant to be heard over the sweet sounds of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android," why he employs beats from Ace of Base's "All That She Wants" to encase Lil Scrappy's "Money in the Bank."

Ever since 2006's Night Ripper thrust Greg Gillis and his musical project Girl Talk into the national limelight, he has been one of the most polarizing figures in popular music. Many feel Gillis is cheating the system, stacking the musical tape deck if you will. Sort of like how the Yankees can afford Rodriguez and Jeter in the infield (not that Young Berg and Tony Basil are exactly Jeter and A-Rod, but you get the idea), it just doesn't quite seem right.

Girl Talk is coming to town*.  Armed with a laptop and the ability to get a crowd pulsing to pretty much any genre of music, mash-up mastermind Gregg Gillis is headed on a North American tour in support of his latest, Feed The Animals.

You are a tiger. A crazy, starved tiger. At least that’s essentially what Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis said of the title of his new album when Paste caught up with him in May. However, he also said he'd soon have something to nourish you. And it’s available for download now.