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Excuse me, but how do you get this again:

We did two rounds of lecture/show-and-tell on Friday with the laptops jacked up to the projector and my colleague’s DJ equipment at the side. The indie part went first, with the likes of Travis, Feeder, Our Lady Peace, Jebediah, etc, played, followed by some explanation. Then the usual crowd-pleasers, such as “YMCA” and “Staying Alive", followed by some new inserts like “Take a Chance on Me” (ABBA and the campy Erasure version) and the vomit-inducing “Funkytown", and the hilarious spoof on Michael Jackson’s “Bad", Weird Al Yankovich’s “Fat". After the ’80’s vids, my colleague did a short demonstration on his CD players and his mixer, followed by one or two inputs from my Ninjatune Zen TV DVD (Kid Koala’s “Fender Bender", Beck’s “E-Pro” from another sampler).