The latest installment of The High Definite’s mixtape series uses the Cubicle Party songs selected in the last 3 months of last year. With these songs, we say goodbye to The Aughts and the terrible year capping them off. Good fucking riddance.
Much thanks goes out to the peerless Mikey Beats of Sleeping Giant Music for pushing out yet another quality project for this site. I’d also like to thank my pal Claudia for working with my childish sketch and somehow turning it into another great piece of cover art.
Tracklist & audio after the jump. Enjoy.
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If you’re not excited, you fucking should be.
Thanks for your donations to last month’s charity (New Eyes For The Needy). Despite the short amount of time to collect donations, we still managed to scrape together a decent donation. This month I’m throwing the GAS Project coffer at the relief & recovery efforts in Chile. From AmeriCares:
Currently, there are over 700 confirmed deaths and this number is expected to rise. Chile’s President Michelle Bachelethas declared a state of emergency. Search and rescue are underway to locate Chilean earthquake survivors.
Electricity and basic services are damaged, regional hospitals had suffered damage and some were evacuated. A major bridge connecting north-south of Chile reportedly damaged and inoperable now.
To help speed aid to survivors, AmeriCares is also working with our active partners in the region—Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia—to coordinate our response.
Since 1989, AmeriCares has delivered over $16 million in medical and humanitarian donations to Chile. For over 25 years, AmeriCares has responded with emergency relief and lifesaving aid to catastrophic disasters around the world that have affected millions of families: from Hurricane Katrina in the U.S., the Tsunami in Southeast Asia, to deadly cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe, to the January earthquake in Haiti – and now to the earthquake in Chile.
As always, if you want to join in our community donation you can do so here.
Also, as always, if you don’t trust me, you can donate directly through these sources.
Thanks for your help.
Each month, amidst all the jackassery and bullshit I post on this blog, I get the pleasure of selecting a charity that this site donates to thanks to the generous contributions of its readers. This month’s charity will be New Eyes For The Needy, an organization that uses donated glasses to provide a less fortunate person with the gift of corrected vision. I’ve used glasses and contacts since 1st grade, so I definitely know what it feels like to not be able to see shit, and it sucks…balls. The group’s vision, from their website:
Our mission is focused: to improve the vision of poor children and adults by 1) purchasing new eyeglasses in the United states and 2) recycling donated glass for distribution in developing nations worldwide.
Since our founding in 1932, New Eyes has improved the eyesight of more than 7,000,000 people in the U.S. and around the world.
For about $60, New Eyes for the Needy can improve a person’s life. Each new pair of glasses purchased by New Eyes helps an American child succeed in school, an adult secure a job, or a senior citizen read medicine labels. Our recycled glasses bring clearer vision to scores of people living in poverty overseas.
Last month I randomly selected a contributor to receive the Texts From Last Night book. This month I’ll be sending out a copy of the Cyanide and Happiness book.
To be part of The High Definite’s GAS Project Donation click here.
If you don’t trust me, you can also donate directly through the site here.
Thanks for your help.
Site might be spotty today due to high levels of traffic and my hosting company deciding they want to do scheduled maintenance during peak viewing hours. Fucking Mondays. I’ll make up for it whenever shit gets back to normal. Updates can be found on HighDef’s Twitter page.
This is awkward…
Although I loved hating on Twitter in the past, I love views more…and I think I’ve proven I will whore myself out shamelessly and to no end to acquire more of them (Exhibit A). So, I made a Twitter account for HighDef.
I have no idea what you can expect by following me…but I’ll try to make it worth your while and as entertaining as possible.
The High Definite on Twitter.
I want to take a minute to sincerely thank all that donated to this month’s coffer. As a result, this month’s GAS Project came to $968.86 which isn’t huge, but it’s definitely 3-4 times larger than the normal GAS Project donations, so that’s awesome.
In related news, Matt H. from St. Louis is the randomly selected winner for the Texts From Last Night book that Gotham Books has been so kind to provide.
Thanks again. Next month’s GAS Project Charity will go up next week.
I had a hard time coming up with this month’s charity, but after the devastating news in Haiti due to yesterday’s quake, this month’s charity became pretty fucking obvious.
If you don’t know, Haiti was hit with the worst earthquake in over 200 years yesterday. The 7.0 quake was followed by multiple aftershocks that were each over 5.0 on the Richter Scale. Millions have been displaced and thousands are feared dead or still trapped by the rubble.
Wyclef Jean started the Yele Haiti Foundation in 2005 to provide scholarships to thousands of kids after Hurricane Jeanne. He is directing the foundation’s entire efforts towards aid and recovery of the shattered nation. The picture above is from Boston’s Big Picture, which is doing a continually updated photo essay on the quake.
I’m upping my monthly contribution of $50 to all my ad revenue from the site this month. I really want to give as much as this site can muster to this cause, so if just being a part of High Definite’s contribution isn’t enough, me and the good people over at Texts From Last Night and Gotham Books are also giving away a copy of the new Texts From Last Night book coming out January 26th to a randomly selected donator this month.
To be part of The High Definite’s GAS Project Donation click here.
If you don’t trust me, you can also donate by texting “Yele” to 501501. $5 will be charged to your phone bill and given to relief projects through the organization.
Also, more ways to help can be found here.
Thanks for your help.
Site had some issues today. It’s mostly back up and running but I lost all my posts from Wednesday through today since last Wednesday is the last time my hosting company backed up my site. I’ll post the more significant lost posts as reposts on the Facebook group, but I’ve already been working on this for like 6 hours today so I wouldn’t expect much more of an effort. Hopefully it’s back to bidness tomorrow. Thanks for your patience. I give you this photo with no explanation in return.
Update: Thanks goes to Lauren for the traffic spike.
I hope you have this much fun tonight.
