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Best Songs of 2009: Week of 2/2: Dirty Sheets by The BPA with Pete York

"Dirty Sheets" by The BPA with Pete York  

The Brighton Port Authority (BPA) is a musical project initiated by Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) with his long-time engineer Simon Thornton. Their first release, I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, is gonna be huge. Each song is a collaboration with a different Brit pop/rock artist and the collection is an eclectic set that will surprise you (in a good way). 

I happen to like this song with Pete York (NOT the legendary drummer, but a great musician all the same), but there are several stand-outs on this album, including "He's Frank" featuring Iggy Pop, "Seattle" featuring Emmy the Great, "Local Town" featuring Jamie T, and "Toe Jam" featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. 

There's no video for "Dirty Sheets" but the two for "He's Frank" and "Toe Jam" are funny (especially the latter one). Ergo, here ya go. 

"He's Frank" video

  

"Toe Jam" video

Darwin 2009 Facebook Birthday Group Progress

Believe it or not, our Facebook Group dedicated to finding 200,000 people by 2.12.09 to wish Darwin a Happy 200th Birthday is growing by 7.5 members per minute! 

We just passed the 8,000 mark in members!! I think we're going to meet our goal of getting 10,000 members by the end of the day. Wow.

Join the Darwinian fun at http://tinyurl.com/darwin200

You can also find out more at http://www.happybirthdaycharlesdarwin.com

This Facebook Group was only launched a few days ago. Pretty crazy, I know. Here's a fun little chart that Phil put together to show our growth rate. It's the new member per minute growth from 2am to 2pm New York time today, 2.1.09, for the Darwin Birthday group. 

The volunteers for our group--Team 200,000--had our first conference call today to discuss logistics and more ideas to get the word out, as well as thoughts about what we'll actually be able to do for our event on Darwin's Birthday. We're using and sharing Google Docs to keep up with it all. We'll see how that goes.

This is a fun social experiment that has really taken off! Join here: http://tinyurl.com/darwin200

P.S. Did you know Darwin and Lincoln were born on the same day in the same year? February 12, 1809

http://www.happybirthdaycharlesdarwin.com