Party Music / Party Videos

By Artist:

• Beastie Boys
• Intergalactic
• Sabotage
• Black Eyed Peas
• Boom Boom Pow
• Just Can't Get Enough
• Cypress Hill
• Dave Matthews Band
• Say Goodbye (link, w/ lyrics)
• Foxy Brown
• Candy
• I'll Be
• Ghostland Observatory
• Freeheart Lover
• Sad Sad City (link)
• Katy Perry
• California Gurls
• E.T.
• I Kissed A Girl (link, link, Sobule)
• Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
• Use Your Love
• Ke$ha
• Blow
• Take It Off
• Your Love Is My Drug
• LMFAO
• Sexy and I Know It (link)
• Lady Gaga
• Bad Romance
• The Edge Of Glory 
• Love Games
• Lil' Kim
• Big Momma Thing
• Crush On You
• Queen Bitch?
• Suck My Dick
• Lil Wayne
• Lollipop
• Michael Jackson
• Dirty Diana
• Smooth Criminal
• Miscellaneous
• The B-52s -- Love Shack
• Cobra Starship -- You Make Me Feel...
• Cupid -- Cupid Shuffle 
• Dee-Lite -- Groove Is In The Heart
• Divynyls -- I Touch Myself
• Ester Dean -- Drop It Low
• Gym Class Heroes -- Stereo Hearts
• Nelly Furtado -- Promiscuous
• Outkast -- Hey Ya!
• The Wanted -- Glad You Came
• Tweet -- Oops (Oh My)
• Nicki Minaj
• PANTyRAiD
• Crunkalicious
• One Mo! (link)
• (basically anything from The Sauce, which is the greatest album cover, ever)
• Rihanna
• Cockiness
• Don't Stop The Music
• Red Lipstick
• Roc Me Out
• S&M
• Skin
• We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)
• Where Have You Been
• Shakira
• Hips Don't Lie
• Taio Cruz
• Dynamite
• Tenacious D
• Double Team (link, link w/ lyrics)
• x

My List:

• 1986: Beastie Boys -- (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)
• 2009: Black Eyed Peas -- I Gotta Feeling
• 2010: Rad Omen -- Rad Anthem
• 2011: Buckwheat Groats -- Arbor Day Party (original at Funny Or Die)
• 2011: The Black Eyed Peas -- Don't Stop The Party
  
• 2011: Katy Perry -- Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
• Deee Lite -- Groove is in the Heart (better video at DailyMotion)
• B-52's -- Love Shack
• d
  

Honorable Mention:

• 1994: 69 Boyz -- Tootsee Roll
• 199x: 69 Boyz -- Daisy Dukes
• 2009: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour -- The Golden Age

Other Lists:

• http://www.squidoo.com/partysongs
• http://www.mydearvalentine.com/top-10/party-songs.html
• http://www.discjockeysunlimited.com/topsongs.htm

References:

• [staff] (2011:Apr.25). "Want Better Brains? Party!" Live Science.

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Country Music

• Jerry Jeff Walker:
• Sangria Wine

Research Process videos

Per Cyn's original mtg request:

• We need to develop an outline of how we want to breakdown the research process
• Decide what steps we would like to include
• Start writing a loose script.

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Cyn & I met on 4/27/2011 at 9am. The following outline was the result:

1. Broad general concept
2. Narrow that concept (then narrow some more)
3. Thesis statement (which further narrows your concept/topic)
4. Get your keywords from this (i.e. do NOT do natural language searching)
5. Choose Your Correct Database
6. Personal Librarians pages
7. Databases by subject
8. Searching Databases
• type1
• type2
• type3
9. Analyzing Results (i.e. "choosing articles" / note: "Most people stop here")
10. Second-order searching
11. Third-order searching
12. "Rinse & Repeat" as necessary
13. Review Your Notes
14. Plagiarism & Citation
15. Writing
16. Proofread, and consult with your professor

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Ratings Agencies

Resources:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agency#Oligopoly_produced_by_regulation
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agency#Ratings_use_by_government_regulators
• http://www.investopedia.com/articles/bonds/09/bond-rating-agencies.asp#axzz1VUpReAvF
• http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2010/05/why-did-the-ratings-agencies-fail-during-the-subprime-crisis.html
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/rating-agencies-financial-crisis_n_849410.html
• http://volokh.com/2011/08/19/regulatory-scrutiny-of-the-rating-agencies/

Book Recommendation:

Timothy J. Sinclair (2005). "The new masters of capital: American bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness," Cornell University Press (Cornell studies in political economy).

Contents:
Good, bad, or indifferent: the emergence of rating -- Unconscious power -- Rating corporations -- Rating state and local governments -- Global growth of the rating business -- Blown calls: rating challenges and crises -- New constellation of power.

Abstract: "In The New Masters of Capital, Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the global economy - the rating agencies. In the global economy, trust is formalized in the daily operations of such firms as Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, which continuously monitor the financial health of bond-issuers ranging from private corporations to local and national governments. Their judgments affect unimaginably large sums, approximately $30 trillion in outstanding debt issues, according to a recent Moody’s estimate. The difference between an AA and a BB rating may cost millions of dollars in interest payments or determine if a corporation or government can even issue bonds. Without bond rating agencies, there would be no standard means to compare risks in the global economy, and international investment would be problematic. Most observers assume that the agencies are neutral and scientific, and that they interpret their role in narrowly economic terms. But these agencies, by their nature, wield extraordinary power and exert massive influence over public policy. Sinclair offers a highly accessible account of these institutions, their origins, and the rating processes they use to judge creditworthiness. Illustrated with a wide range of cases, this book offers a fresh assessment of the role of an often-overlooked institution in the dynamics of modern global capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.

Why "tax the rich" is not a panacea

http://reason.com/blog/2011/04/08/why-arent-the-rich-paying-50-p
http://reason.com/blog/2009/04/10/do-you-resent-the-rich-or-high
http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/11/horror-meister-stephen-king-as
http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/28/total-tax-burdens-rising-on-th
http://reason.com/blog/2011/04/11/taxes-we-hardly-knew-ye
http://reason.com/blog/2010/12/14/evil-bush-tax-rates-made-rich
http://reason.com/archives/2010/09/30/taxing-the-rich

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3059
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9224
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13016

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/one-simple-reason-and-two-easy-steps-to-show-why-obama’s-soak-the-rich-tax-hikes-won’t-work/