You might have noticed the change in my LJ headline — it's a Charles Bukowski quote from 'The Genius of the Crowd" — I used a version read by him in a recent mashup, about being an artist in an age of indifference. 

It's as much a message to myself, but the lyrics of Jimmy Eat World's The Middle are far better and far more poignant than they ever deserve to be....mixed with Etherwood, so drum and bass.

Not Wanting Solitude
Not Understanding Solitude
They Will Attempt To Destroy
Anything
That Differs
From Their Own

Not Being Able
To Create Art
They Will Not
Understand Art

They Will Consider Their Failure
As Creators
Only As A Failure
Of The World

Not Being Able To Love Fully
They Will Believe Your Love
Incomplete

And Then They Will Hate
You

And Their Hatred Will Be Perfect
Like A Shining Diamond
Like A Knife
Like A Mountain
Like A Tiger
Like Hemlock

Their Finest
Art

And also a few more mashups from the same challenge — inspired by the bandlist of the frankly odd 'When We Were Young' festival later this year in Las Vegas.

One a rather sad slow mashup, mixing Wolf Alice's Lipstick On The Glass with Slowdive's Falling Ashes and a more upbeat new wave one that I think fiftypoundnote  might like — Linda Linda's vs The Go Go's — GOh Beat! — Oh! vs We Got The Beat.

1. The Future Sound of Peaches (FSOL vs Peaches)
2. Missy Wants A White Horse (Missy vs Laidback and jacky - one of my personal faves)
3. Fragile Tomorrow (Kings of Tomorrow vs Cleo)
4. FCUKK Fashion (Prodigy vs Bowie and DJ Yoeri) (as Instore - with the Kate Moss situation strangely topical now!)
5. Kylie's Ass is a Spaceship (Kylie vs SFA vs NERD)
6. Still haven't Found It (Negativland live vs String Quartet)
7. Blancmange Milkshake (Kelis vs Blancmange)
8. Satan Bush Blair (Bootie edit - original featured over at Bushwhacked)
9. Ludakriss (Kid Carpet intro) - (here's the original with the Kid Carpet 'Jump' intro)
10. Altogether Let it Be Me (An excercise in combining songs inspired by Pachelbel's Canon - Nancy Sinatra vs The Farm)
11. Radio 4Play (Shannon vs Radio4) - I got kind of obsessed by Shannon's 'Let the Music Play', and then Kelis's Milkshake...shows huh?
12. My Muppet Band (Tokyo Ska Orchestra vs D12 - originally over at Strangely Familiar website)
13. Infidel Milkshake Party (Wyclef & Missy vs Kelis)
14. Work it Tiger (Le Tigre vs Masters at Work)
15. Egyptian Jet (Bangles vs Jet -a month later a mix of this appeared on 7" - dunno if it was mine?)
16. Shannon's Knuckles (Shannon vs Rankie Knuckles)
17. Madison Heartbreak (Maisonettes vs Madison Avenue)
18. Brightside Slippy (never totally finished since I was afflicted by a sudden inexplicable hatred of the Killers)
19. Fire (Bootie edit of a minimix - DJ Zebra mixed into Fire mix (Grandmaster Scott vs Radio4 vs Electric6 vs Trammps)
20. Jump minimix - Ludakriss / Jumpx2/ Renegade Trouble - first time online! (Made for Uprising 3.5, also played in part at Bastard -
    Kid Carpet / Ludacris vs Kriss Kross / House of Pain vs Kriss Kross / Wildchild vs Beasties)

1. I Love Happy Hardcore (Fuck Happy) - first DJNoNo boot, done for a Happy Hardcore competition where mrNo shows how much he likes Happy Hardcore...
2. Too Many Egos - full version (various based on the odd acapella version of EgoRocker and a pisstake of several Ego-Rocker boots - a short 70s version that eventually appeared on Marty Batfreak's 100 mix)
3. Em is a Naggin Fly (Crossover vs Eminem vs Roy Orbison - pisstake of Eminem boots and mrNo trying to prove Bush No.10 wrong when he said Eminem boots now didn't work. Did thaNo succeed? Erm, pass...)