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a music video that doesn't suck

I love Interpol. I love Metric.

I love this vidja.

Interpol frontman (Julien Plenti)'s debut album features this

lovely video with the always amazing Metric frontwoman

Emily Haines who is the resident sexy vixen. Work it out.

f*ckthatturkeyteasermix 11.09

The new 11.09 SHIFT Teaser Mix is ready for your downloading pleasure.

SHIFT is on Saturday!

Your Delicious Download

enjoy your 36mins of danceable recharge

Tracklisting:

Kill Bill - LA Riots

Rubies & Pearls (Trash Yourself remix) - El Paso Hot Button

Richard Vission & Static Revenger - I Like That

She Wolf (Calvin Harris remix) - Shakira

Beaches & Friends - French Horn Rebellion

Gold Digger (Radio edit) - Dolly Rockers

Professional Suicide - Ladyhawke

Might Like Ghosts Better - Amanda Blank vs. Deadmau5

Love Or Torture - Blake Lewis

Can't Believe a Single Word (LA Riots remix) - VHS or BETA

Pop Goes the World - The Gossip

Drop Down - Designer Drugs

3 (The Knocks remix) - Britney Spears

Cheated Hearts (Peaches remix) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Cammie's Tampon Disc Tragedy - Cassidy DuHon

it's decorative gourd season, motherf*ckers

{By Colin Nissan of McSweeney's Internet Tendency}

I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I'm about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it's gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There's a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.

I may even throw some multi-colored leaves into the mix, all haphazard like a crisp October breeze just blew through and fucked that shit up. Then I'm going to get to work on making a beautiful fucking gourd necklace for myself. People are going to be like, "Aren't those gourds straining your neck?" And I'm just going to thread another gourd onto my necklace without breaking their gaze and quietly reply, "It's fall, fuckfaces. You're either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you're not."

Carving orange pumpkins sounds like a pretty fitting way to ring in the season. You know what else does? Performing an all-gourd reenactment of an episode of Diff'rent Strokes—specifically the one when Arnold and Dudley experience a disturbing brush with sexual molestation. Well, this shit just got real, didn't it? Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they're both extremely fucking real. Sorry if that's upsetting, but I'm not doing you any favors by shielding you from this anymore.

The next thing I'm going to do is carve one of the longer gourds into a perfect replica of the Mayflower as a shout-out to our Pilgrim forefathers. Then I'm going to do lines of blow off its hull with a hooker. Why? Because it's not summer, it's not winter, and it's not spring. Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it's fall, fuckers.

Have you ever been in an Italian deli with salamis hanging from their ceiling? Well then you're going to fucking love my house. Just look where you're walking or you'll get KO'd by the gauntlet of misshapen, zucchini-descendant bastards swinging from above. And when you do, you're going to hear a very loud, very stereotypical Italian laugh coming from me. Consider yourself warned.

For now, all I plan to do is to throw on a flannel shirt, some tattered overalls, and a floppy fucking hat and stand in the middle of a cornfield for a few days. The first crow that tries to land on me is going to get his avian ass bitch-slapped all the way back to summer.

Welcome to autumn, fuckheads!

best video of the last 20 mins

dance party overload?

So. There are lots of parties popping up here and there. Something about a sock, and then there's a french house, and a deliciously uncooked evening of debauchery, and even a sprite with hindquarters... Not to mention the long-running and enjoyable monthlies of Mixtape, Bliss, and Nouveau Riche... as well as the quarterly/random fun times of Homo/Sonic, WTF, and Razzmatazz.

A lot is going on.

We do have one thing to say, despite all this traffic. SHIFT is happy to be among these many parties, and wish them all the best of success.

Let's keep the standards as high as the fun gradient, the music nothing but quality, and the asses shaking as much as possible. F*ck the rest.

DJ majr - RISE & FALL opening DJ set on Wed

mixtape on the horizon

MIXTAPE
Saturday, November 21
10:00 PM - 3:00 AM
@ The Rock & Roll Hotel
1353 H Street NE
21 and over

$5 Cover

Drink Specials

http://MIXTAPEdc.com

Facebook RSVP @ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164570259870

and now a word from the French...

and it's not all racial slurs.

"Announcing a very special MAISON party at Napoleon on Thursday, November 19, 9 PM to 2 AM.

This month, MAISON -- a party that features the best of French house, electro, and pop -- is on the same day as the release of the 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau.

Please join DJs TMY and Shea Van Horn on Thursday, November 19, in the basement of Napoleon Bistro in Adams Morgan for a special French-themed party with extended happy hour from 8-10 PM with half-price champagne cocktails and 2009 BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU plus tapas menu from $5-$9.

You'll hear an eclectic mix of French house, electro, and pop plus some oldies like Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. Last month's set list included Bob Sinclar, Daft Punk, Yelle, Phoenix, Justice, Mirwais, Cerrone, C++, Sliimy, David Guetta, Modjo, Plastic Bertrand, and more.

Follow MAISON on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/MAISONDC

Listen to MAISON mixes at http://8tracks.com/maisondc

MAISON + 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau Release Party Thursday, November 19 9 PM to 2 AM @ Napoleon Bistro Lounge 1847 Columbia Road NW 21+ No Cover"