Girl Talk In Columbus: And With That My Holiday Shopping is Complete

I'm not huge on the holidays. Well, I take that back kinda... I'm huge into Thanksgiving because I LOVE to cook so Thanksgiving has been my marathon of perfectly executing several dishes over the course of six hours while my family drinks in front of the TV. It's one of my favorite days of the year without a doubt. But Christmas has never been a big thing for me. Now that all the kids in my family are older, we have skipped the gift giving and gone straight to the wine drinking. I haven't done any legitimate holiday shopping in over four years and don't really intend to until I have kids of my own. That's a good solid decade of spending my money on myself.

With that being said, it has recently come to my attention that Girl Talk will be coming to Columbus and so I decided to use the holidays as an excuse to treat some of my greatest friends to what will inevitably be an insane dance party.

Girl Talk has been around for a few years now, but has really gotten popular with club kids and music festivals since the release of his newest album, Feed the Animals. The one man DJ, Gregg Gillis of Pittsburgh, spins up some incredible combos with classic tunes that everyone recognizes and some newer underground tunes that will open you up to new artists. The mixes and mash-ups are quick to turnover making this music perfect for that A.D.D. music listener who has a hard time making it completely through even their favorite song. My current favorite is Play Your Part - Part I for its inclusion of Sinead O'Conner's Nothing Compares To You. Click on the link and listen to it NOW... you will love it. I'm sure it will make it into the set list in January.

Girl Talk will be coming to the Newport Music Hall on the OSU Campus on Saturday, January 17, 2009. Doors open at 7PM. Tickets are currently only available through TicketMaster for $16 each or $18 at the door, but I would bank on this show selling out. Better get these fast.

Since I've come across Girl Talk this past summer, I've passed him along to a few of my friends which have now become obsessed with his beats and bumps. I picked up five tickets today, emailed my friends letting them know to clear their calendars, received praise touting me as the best friend ever (clearly), and now we wait to hit the dance floor. Nothing too bah humbug about that!