[3 points -- but only because my Jackie Paper identification skills netted us some extra points at trivia this week]

Hereabouts, Boingboing -- probably the fastest way to find cool stuff on the internet -- brought my attention to, surprise of surprises, a cool thing on the internet.

Dean Gray's American Edit. It's an album of remixes of the songs of Greenday's latest album with an assortment of other songs which could only have been chosen by a random number generator. If you found "Eminenya" (A medley of The Real Slimshady and -- I am not making this up -- Orrinoco Flow) halfway as amusing as I did, you'll want to give this one a look.

One thing I've always liked about Greenday is that all their songs sound different. I mean, seriously, it's not all that easy to accept that Good Riddance, When I come around, American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams are all by the same group. Contrast that with some other groups. Heck, I think most of Ace of Base's songs are pretty good, but if you play the album from one end to the other, unless you're paying close attention, you won't even notice that you've heard more than one song. And Dave Matthews, seminal though he was to my experience of music during my college years, is even worse. But Greenday's stuff all sounds different. And now they sound even more different (Though it's a little scary how well Boulevard of Broken Dreams mixes with Oaisis's What's the Story Morning Glory).

As the Boingboing link points out, there's even a Doctor Who remix. But what they don't point out is a bit of wonderful recursion (recursive (adj.): see recursive). The song isn't being mixed with the theme from Doctor Who. It's being mixed with Doctorin' The TARDIS, an 80s single by "The Timelords" (which was originally released on the gimmick of gimmicks, a square CD), which is itself an experiment of the very same sort, mixing the Doctor Who theme with Gary Glitter's Rock and Roll Part 1. It's a remix of a remix.

Dr. Who On Holiday is a pretty good song, but of the ones I've listened to so far, I think my own favorite is Boulevard of Broken Songs. But check it out, see what you like.

One last bit of metaness in this whole project. One of the best known -- in addition to being my personal favorite -- songs on the original album is Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It takes its name from a pretty famous painting of the same name, which shows Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, and Marilyn Monroe in a diner with no doors. Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a medly of sorts itself. It's a parody of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

Updated 11/25: D'oh. I incorrectly identified the Oaisis song used in Boulevard of Broken Songs as What's the Story Morning Glory. It is, in fact, Wonderwall. I apologize for all the pain and suffering caused by my lack of research. My Bad.