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Re: Fred Throws a Party
Whatever, I was picking my ass and beating Devil May Cry for the 10th time on Dante Must Die mode at this kid's age. I give him credit for undertaking an artistic endeavor and putting it on the internet for people to mercilessly criticize it as if it were the latest Zach Galifianakis short. He'll mature.
By: boyblunders
Re: Louis C.K. vs Bill Donahue
I'm pretty sure some people will go on hating whether they get hate or not. The only way to get through to them is with an ice pick. Just kidding. But seriously, what else can you do to penetrate such a thick skull?
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Re: Kool Herc Old School
I think the trend with some underground hip hop is experimenting with swing rhythms, kind of like how New Jack pushed the beat, but now it's really cerebral, using unusual grooves, and overall it's pretty interesting to listen to. Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCXjL_0Ww9E
That's why I got more into Nu-jazz and house music, and ultimately into house dance. I still love old school hip hop, before it went commercial and "gangster," but the true feel-good party vibe stuck with house more than hip hop or bboying. I look to African cultures as models of what music, dance, art, and community ought to be, and house dance resembles those cultures, although house music definitely has its superstar DJs who portray the genre a certain way, thus affecting the culture drastically. House is supposed to be a music to dance to, like disco, but when me and other dancers hit clubs, its people staring at the DJ or dropping E. It's a strange thing, given that dance is natural - even making music is a dance, with drumming being the clearest example. But in today's mainstream climate, no amount of technical prowess or lyrical expression can reach knuckleheads who have no respect for the music, its history, or the people who nurture the culture and not just the industry.
I'm rambling, but there's a lot to talk about in terms of urban music and dance culture. I think it's dope that you think about what goes in your ears, and try to understand the history and where it's going.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCXjL_0Ww9E
That's why I got more into Nu-jazz and house music, and ultimately into house dance. I still love old school hip hop, before it went commercial and "gangster," but the true feel-good party vibe stuck with house more than hip hop or bboying. I look to African cultures as models of what music, dance, art, and community ought to be, and house dance resembles those cultures, although house music definitely has its superstar DJs who portray the genre a certain way, thus affecting the culture drastically. House is supposed to be a music to dance to, like disco, but when me and other dancers hit clubs, its people staring at the DJ or dropping E. It's a strange thing, given that dance is natural - even making music is a dance, with drumming being the clearest example. But in today's mainstream climate, no amount of technical prowess or lyrical expression can reach knuckleheads who have no respect for the music, its history, or the people who nurture the culture and not just the industry.
I'm rambling, but there's a lot to talk about in terms of urban music and dance culture. I think it's dope that you think about what goes in your ears, and try to understand the history and where it's going.
By: boyblunders
Re: Kool Herc Old School
Urban music has changed. It's great to acknowledge these people who pioneered it, who lived it, who gave America a modern national culture of cultures leading all the way back to Africa and Europe. But capitalism, the free market, and naked self-interest have destroyed what made hip hop special, and that's history. Urban music used to connect the working class. Urban music is cultural music that consoles and empowers. We may owe our lives to the man, but we have our art, and it isn't perfect, and its ours, it will always be ours, until self-interested individuals market and make it accessible.
Germany and many countries used to have a ministry of art. That's a dubious distinction, but so is a "heap of broken images," as T.S. Eliot called American culture. Hip hop had a history, and still has it in some circles that are pushing the beat and pushing the history. But this mainstream bullshit we have is no longer hip hop, has nothing to do with hip hop, and few people can see it, nor care to see it. The same goes for house music, another American musical origination, that, oddly enough has been completely ignored in the mainstream since the 90's.
Germany and many countries used to have a ministry of art. That's a dubious distinction, but so is a "heap of broken images," as T.S. Eliot called American culture. Hip hop had a history, and still has it in some circles that are pushing the beat and pushing the history. But this mainstream bullshit we have is no longer hip hop, has nothing to do with hip hop, and few people can see it, nor care to see it. The same goes for house music, another American musical origination, that, oddly enough has been completely ignored in the mainstream since the 90's.
By: boyblunders
Re: Omega Man - News Report - How the world ends
Isn't this movie based upon I am Legend?
By: boyblunders
Re: Seth Rogen 1996 Stand Up Comedy
I'm perplexed (who even says perplexed?) by your pretentiousness. I mean, you've just passed judgment on everyone who approves of Seth Rogen's comedy. What do you like? I've rarely if ever seen you comment on something that you like, only the stuff that you dislike. You're like the guys from High Fidelity. I like Seth Rogen, and you know, I've read read all the smart satire and humor like Voltaire, Kafka, Palahniuk, Thompson, the stuff that really shines humorous light on reality. I know what finely crafted humor is, and I don't need someone presuming something about me because I like Seth Rogen. It's no better or worse than Rachel Maddow Pen and Teller smug obnoxious clumsily executed tongue in cheek asshole humor.
Most funny movies and books are on a more obvious level of truth, but they help some people get through what they experience as everyday hardships. Loosen up, man. It isn't your place. And it isn't all about being super smart and having cultured taste.
Most funny movies and books are on a more obvious level of truth, but they help some people get through what they experience as everyday hardships. Loosen up, man. It isn't your place. And it isn't all about being super smart and having cultured taste.
By: boyblunders
Re: Worlds Fastest Street Legal Electric Car
To be fair, this guy is doing more that any of us to popularize an important component in a clean energy production and consumption system. He's glamorizing the consumption end of the loop, so that when it comes down to it, people will want to support the production end.
And like he said, it isn't just greenhouse gases that are emitted, but highly toxic partially combusted organics that cause cancer and respiratory disease. Let's not put too much weight on the fact that it isn't completely "green."
And like he said, it isn't just greenhouse gases that are emitted, but highly toxic partially combusted organics that cause cancer and respiratory disease. Let's not put too much weight on the fact that it isn't completely "green."
By: boyblunders
Re: HBO: Right America Feeling Wronged
These jerks don't get it. We don't really have a say to begin with. We're just picking one oppressor over another. I feel a mix of pity and contempt for the crying woman saying that she's worried for the country now that Obama's president. She should just be worried.
By: boyblunders
Re: Porndemic
The fact is that the primary medium by which pornography is conveyed changes the nature of it in ways that can very easily damage physical human connection, and you can't argue otherwise. People choose, most likely based upon their own negative experiences, to take that to an extreme and antagonize the makers and actors of porn.
The solution to this real problem is to foster an open dialogue about it, which this documentary does. We treat it as a "private thing," something that other people are not allowed to probe, and in this manner usage of pornography is allowed to develop into a destructive habit. It's worse when adolescents and teens become hooked, because they're robbing themselves of a type of very basic human connection for which we are evolved, otherwise known as love.
It's like a nightmare from a Kafka novella, where many of us find ourselves standing starkly naked within a different kind of world, where the nature of our relationships are changing due to technology, sometimes for the worse, and we need to be careful. If anyone's insulting "entertainers," they probably have problems about which they are too afraid to talk, therefore they irrationally lash out at the object of their day to day torture, and it's sad.
The solution to this real problem is to foster an open dialogue about it, which this documentary does. We treat it as a "private thing," something that other people are not allowed to probe, and in this manner usage of pornography is allowed to develop into a destructive habit. It's worse when adolescents and teens become hooked, because they're robbing themselves of a type of very basic human connection for which we are evolved, otherwise known as love.
It's like a nightmare from a Kafka novella, where many of us find ourselves standing starkly naked within a different kind of world, where the nature of our relationships are changing due to technology, sometimes for the worse, and we need to be careful. If anyone's insulting "entertainers," they probably have problems about which they are too afraid to talk, therefore they irrationally lash out at the object of their day to day torture, and it's sad.
By: boyblunders
Re: Persian Bruce Lee
Ed probably isn't used to these little outbursts that are a result of the perversion of our nature under pressure of "free-market" capitalism. Welcome to America, Ed.
By: boyblunders
Re: Climate Change: Anatomy of a Myth
A lot of people take this "climate change is a myth" argument too far, and tend to give the impression that we ought not change our habits at all. The fact is that there are also strong economic and political reasons why we should develop alternative energy technologies.
By: boyblunders
Re: Kinetic Wave Sculptures
This comes at a time when I really don't want to learn physics, but this ennobles it somehow.
By: boyblunders
Re: Craig Ferguson: Flight of the Conchords
Whatever. They're famous, and you are not. People are laughing at them, and not at you.
By: boyblunders
Re: ShamWow Commercial, Full Length
"...the house, the car, the boat, the RV," and all the other articles of your life as a bitch to the man, you overweight middle-class loser. It practically sells itself!
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