Like Charles Darwin before him, Stanley Fish is an interested amateur in a field where he may yield surprising useful results. While Darwin is remembered for his research and development of what we now call "The Origin of Species", Fish posts on an excellent blog on the NYT. He recently wrote about the NBA draft, something that I spent too many hours reading about.
I've decided I don't unconditionally love pink floyd anymore.
THE FISH THAT WROTE ABOUT THE DRAFT
2009/06/30
2009/06/29
2009/06/28
Thoughts
So there's 1968, banner year for muzik. Tropicalia, Psychedelia, TROPIC OF CANCER, all doing the can-can on the stage of your mind.
One particular highlight that springs to mind is Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies; what of that typo that they never changed, is it part of the overall message of the album, of the decade?!?!!?
That's just one part of the equation though. What equation, you understandably ask. Well. It looks like this:
Maxwell's demon Physics
a hypothetical being imagined as controlling a hole in a partition dividing a gas-filled container into two parts, and allowing only fast-moving molecules to pass in one direction, and slow-moving molecules in the other. This would result in one side of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: named after J. C. Maxwell (see Maxwell 2 ).
FUGHEDDABOUTIT. First of all, there's this guy:
RICHARD FEYNMAN
And then the Bee Gees put out "Odessa" in 1969; similar title to the previous years' Bluntstone, Argent and co. masterpiece.
I'm hearing it for the first time as I type these words. If you don't gotta copy, then read this Ed O'Bannon related hypothetical hip-hop question.
One particular highlight that springs to mind is Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies; what of that typo that they never changed, is it part of the overall message of the album, of the decade?!?!!?
That's just one part of the equation though. What equation, you understandably ask. Well. It looks like this:
Maxwell's demon Physics
a hypothetical being imagined as controlling a hole in a partition dividing a gas-filled container into two parts, and allowing only fast-moving molecules to pass in one direction, and slow-moving molecules in the other. This would result in one side of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: named after J. C. Maxwell (see Maxwell 2 ).
FUGHEDDABOUTIT. First of all, there's this guy:
RICHARD FEYNMAN
And then the Bee Gees put out "Odessa" in 1969; similar title to the previous years' Bluntstone, Argent and co. masterpiece.
I'm hearing it for the first time as I type these words. If you don't gotta copy, then read this Ed O'Bannon related hypothetical hip-hop question.
2009/06/27
GEORGE ELLIOTT
Hmm, so then I got to thinking about the continued Harrison influence. Then I thought, what about a step back (GEORGE IS MERELY A PAWN IN A MUCH LARGER GAME). His hero was Roy Orbison, tourmate in the '60s; big sunglasses, penetrating voice, country shuffle.
New Wilco
George Harrison 'Wrote' (peep the Dick Cavett interview on youtube for full explanation) My Sweet Lord:
He was given shit by certain other artists and their legal representatives for sounding suspiciously like "He's So Fine":
WILCO OFFERS THIS ON CONAN RECENTLY:
HISTORY IN THE MAKIN', who cares anywayz?
He was given shit by certain other artists and their legal representatives for sounding suspiciously like "He's So Fine":
WILCO OFFERS THIS ON CONAN RECENTLY:
HISTORY IN THE MAKIN', who cares anywayz?
2009/06/25
Mj's Dead Momma!
No Twitter account, too many words.
Maybe the great flood that Noah warned us all of was the number of MJ tributes that will come out in the coming weeks (you could say Rihanna was timely with her direct reference to Mj recently, others might say it is wholly unsurprising that poppa Joe Jackson outlived his youngest son.
It's ridiculous, buttfucking ridiculous. I would say this should not outshadow Ed Mcmahon's passing. This is way sadder than when Heath Ledger died.
NBA DRAFT, instant tributes? Finna find out.
Maybe the great flood that Noah warned us all of was the number of MJ tributes that will come out in the coming weeks (you could say Rihanna was timely with her direct reference to Mj recently, others might say it is wholly unsurprising that poppa Joe Jackson outlived his youngest son.
It's ridiculous, buttfucking ridiculous. I would say this should not outshadow Ed Mcmahon's passing. This is way sadder than when Heath Ledger died.
NBA DRAFT, instant tributes? Finna find out.
2009/06/23
PIERRE MENARD, AUTHOR OF QUIXOTE
JOOOOOOEEEEEY: BOB Dylan's Desire plays while you read this.
After three cultishly revered albums with Organized Konfusion, underground legend Pharoahe Monch cut a solo deal with Rawkus and delivered his debut, Internal Affairs, in late 1999. Both Monch and Rawkus seemed to want to push their music farther above ground, and some longtime followers were shocked to hear a harder, angrier, more profane Monch, who seemed to be courting a more thugged-out audience. But it's a reinvention that doesn't compromise his high lyrical standards, making Internal Affairs a success on its own terms. Sounding like it was sampled from a monster-movie soundtrack, the club smash "Simon Says" sets the tone for the album; Monch delivers rapid-fire, intricately rhymed lines in between shouts of "get the f*ck up!" and "girls, rub on your titties!" It proved to be the most successful crossover bid of Monch's career, and much of the rest of Internal Affairs manages to straddle the underground/mainstream divide surprisingly well. Even when he's just giving shout-outs to Queens, or enlisting guests like Canibus and M.O.P. to help pummel a track into submission, Monch lives up to his reputation as one of hip-hop's most technically skilled MCs. Nowhere is this balancing act more evident than on "Rape," a rather disquieting extended metaphor for his mastery of hip-hop (other MCs just "ain't f*ckin' it right"). A more benign theme track is "Official," whose carefully constructed barrage of sports references demonstrates the cleverness that made Monch a cult legend. Not everything sits well together — the sophomoric "The Ass" is an odd way to lead into the love song "The Light," the Organized Konfusion reunion "God Send," and the reflective "The Truth," which features guest appearances by Common and Talib Kweli. But in terms of bringing an underappreciated hip-hop great to a (somewhat) wider audience, Internal Affairs generally gets it right.
After three cultishly revered albums with Organized Konfusion, underground legend Pharoahe Monch cut a solo deal with Rawkus and delivered his debut, Internal Affairs, in late 1999. Both Monch and Rawkus seemed to want to push their music farther above ground, and some longtime followers were shocked to hear a harder, angrier, more profane Monch, who seemed to be courting a more thugged-out audience. But it's a reinvention that doesn't compromise his high lyrical standards, making Internal Affairs a success on its own terms. Sounding like it was sampled from a monster-movie soundtrack, the club smash "Simon Says" sets the tone for the album; Monch delivers rapid-fire, intricately rhymed lines in between shouts of "get the f*ck up!" and "girls, rub on your titties!" It proved to be the most successful crossover bid of Monch's career, and much of the rest of Internal Affairs manages to straddle the underground/mainstream divide surprisingly well. Even when he's just giving shout-outs to Queens, or enlisting guests like Canibus and M.O.P. to help pummel a track into submission, Monch lives up to his reputation as one of hip-hop's most technically skilled MCs. Nowhere is this balancing act more evident than on "Rape," a rather disquieting extended metaphor for his mastery of hip-hop (other MCs just "ain't f*ckin' it right"). A more benign theme track is "Official," whose carefully constructed barrage of sports references demonstrates the cleverness that made Monch a cult legend. Not everything sits well together — the sophomoric "The Ass" is an odd way to lead into the love song "The Light," the Organized Konfusion reunion "God Send," and the reflective "The Truth," which features guest appearances by Common and Talib Kweli. But in terms of bringing an underappreciated hip-hop great to a (somewhat) wider audience, Internal Affairs generally gets it right.
2009/06/22
NOTES ON A MULTICULTURALISM TALK
Arjun Appadurai, world renowned anthropologist, deals with the cultural dimensions of globalization in works such as "Modernity at Large" and "Fear of Small Numbers."
LINK TO THE KULTURHAUS in Berlin
TOO CLOSE & TOO FAR
-Yesterday's strangers are today's neighbor; the geography of daily life has changed.
We are becoming all at once too far and too close to each other in this increasingly global age;
TOO FAR
Increasing isolation (the growth of urban areas magnifies this) (NOT JUST THE INVIDIVIDUAL, GROUPS ARE ISOLATING THEMSELVES, but on the basis of what I ask)
TOO CLOSE
Today's global cultural flows have a curious inner-contradiction; the old barriers of ethnicity, nationalism, religion and other ****FUNDAMENTAL**** issues are impeding/slowing the development of common ground cultural flows (internet, art, jobs, etc.)
MULTICULTURALISM IS OUTDATED
Too 'soft' politically
Too weak intellectually
Multiculturalism has had recent value, historically; a benign (safe, soft) lens by which to discuss cross-border traffic in the neo-liberal economic framework (big market, aka western europe and THE US OF A)
MASS ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS (TERRORISM)
NATURAL DISASTERS
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
All these things are tied in to the political, social and humanitarian issues that MULTICULTURALISM has never had a real answer for, in general offering nothing more than a shrug of the shoulders.
CONVIVIALITY
Living together in a way that is enriching in certain ways, while leaving certain key choices to the invididual. (UTOPIA?!?!) In the world we seek diversity is
encouraged,
sustained
and enhanced
DIALOGUE
Risks: No one can enter a dialogue without risk
The other party may not understand you; we try to be as inter-subjective (understand as much as possible the other side of the story) as possible, but there are always limitations and things that get lost in translation.
the other party may understand you all too well; one's ulterior motives, what your REAL preferences are (what makes you not them), prevent you from placing emphasis on the us.
A PROBLEM
Let's take a look at the series of binary oppositions (Christian and Muslim world, et. al) that rule our lives (itself in a binary opposition with death; the 1 0 boy-o! because1 + 0 = 1, this is the only math that I really fundamentally believe in):
-Religion
-Language
-Hometown
GLOBALISM FURTHER PLACES EMPHASIS ON SOCIETY's INTERNAL DIVISIONS
There are basic things that differentitate the me from you, things that are set in stone like the ten commandments; WE CAN't FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AS HUMAN BEINGS, we are limited, fractured creatures. SO, THEN WHAT TO DISCUSS?!?!?!
-With CONVIVIALITY as a general end-goal for which the means of DIALOGUE are employed; we go about the act of compromise for the ever greater good (Feeling good, feeling great!)
BUT!
DIALOGUE MUST OCCUR WITH BOTH THE OTHER AND THE SELF (A duality of the invidividual HIGHER ORDER THINKING [let's take drugs!])
So, there must be a constant renewal of the self
Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations (ATTACHED); is a theory that the world is becoming more and more divided through a series of binary oppositions (IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE THIS, but with an increasingly connected world, there become more and more areas of polarization (HATE AND LOVE, this usually leads to violence, we're violent creatures; so, how do we fight through our anger, our embarrassment, our disappointment in ourselves; I PERSONALLY think it is through something beautiful that can allow you to leave the self temporarily. I can only achieve this through playing music, maybe by writing notes, these notes are pretty fucking good, huh? Must've been a good talk; I hope you don't need a translator to read this effectively.
WHAT ARE THE INTERNAL DEBATES?
THE RISKS OF DIALOGUE REAR THEIR UGLY HEADS
Selectivity; we don't share all our humanity all of the time.
URBAN POVERTY
60% of the world will be living in cities by some date that I didn't write down (speculation, doesn't mean toooo much to this boy-o)
THIS MEANS MORE AND MORE URBAN POOR AKA SLUMDWELLERS
COSMPOLITANISM FROM BELOW
-A compulsory (involuntary [produced without being provoked by an other]) kind of cosmopolitan culture comes from these slums ( you're seeing the transmission already from AMERICA's URBAN POOR to other's music and style (AKA BASEBALL HATS in Kreuzberg)
-Multi-lingual; poor people in places like India where there is extremely high linguistic diversity are finding common ground through the market, maybe.
1/2 of the World's Ubran population will be in these kinds of slums.
THEY accomplish this new shared global cosmopolitanism through the internet, the visibility of stars in movies, sports, etc.; it is without any of the economic benefits that allow traditional cosmopolitanism to develop, aka people like me who grow up because they come in to a little bit of money.
This means local more and more becomes global; a butterfly flapping it's wings in venezuela won't cause a tornado in West Texas, but this is all conected at something deeper I tell myself...
THE URBAN POOR ARE FASCINATING!
They are performing great experiments in dialogue (demonstrating the risks!)
WRAPPING UP
CHANGING IDEAS OF CITIZENSHIP
Building our society on conviviality and dialogue rather than territoriality.
A HARD ROAD TO HOPE
IF WE ARE TWO DISTINCT 'I's
ME You
I I
The common ground is what we're standing on (It's about the environment, dude. THERE IS A NEW CRISIS LOOMING IN THE INTERNET[what if it gets overpolluted and everyday people can't even use it properly, we gotta find a way to be more efficient with our usage of space; AM I A FUCKING HYPOCRITE, or AM I JUST ON MY WAY; I have hope...)
OUTKAST GHETTO MUSIK IS THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NOTES IF YOU'RE BORED
I miss YOU! Time is short, but LOVE IS BIG.
LOVE,
al
LISTEN TO THE TEN YEAR's AFTER SONG "GONNA RUN" it's been a personal favorite of mine for about 4 years now.
LINK TO THE KULTURHAUS in Berlin
TOO CLOSE & TOO FAR
-Yesterday's strangers are today's neighbor; the geography of daily life has changed.
We are becoming all at once too far and too close to each other in this increasingly global age;
TOO FAR
Increasing isolation (the growth of urban areas magnifies this) (NOT JUST THE INVIDIVIDUAL, GROUPS ARE ISOLATING THEMSELVES, but on the basis of what I ask)
TOO CLOSE
Today's global cultural flows have a curious inner-contradiction; the old barriers of ethnicity, nationalism, religion and other ****FUNDAMENTAL**** issues are impeding/slowing the development of common ground cultural flows (internet, art, jobs, etc.)
MULTICULTURALISM IS OUTDATED
Too 'soft' politically
Too weak intellectually
Multiculturalism has had recent value, historically; a benign (safe, soft) lens by which to discuss cross-border traffic in the neo-liberal economic framework (big market, aka western europe and THE US OF A)
MASS ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS (TERRORISM)
NATURAL DISASTERS
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
All these things are tied in to the political, social and humanitarian issues that MULTICULTURALISM has never had a real answer for, in general offering nothing more than a shrug of the shoulders.
CONVIVIALITY
Living together in a way that is enriching in certain ways, while leaving certain key choices to the invididual. (UTOPIA?!?!) In the world we seek diversity is
encouraged,
sustained
and enhanced
DIALOGUE
Risks: No one can enter a dialogue without risk
The other party may not understand you; we try to be as inter-subjective (understand as much as possible the other side of the story) as possible, but there are always limitations and things that get lost in translation.
the other party may understand you all too well; one's ulterior motives, what your REAL preferences are (what makes you not them), prevent you from placing emphasis on the us.
A PROBLEM
Let's take a look at the series of binary oppositions (Christian and Muslim world, et. al) that rule our lives (itself in a binary opposition with death; the 1 0 boy-o! because1 + 0 = 1, this is the only math that I really fundamentally believe in):
-Religion
-Language
-Hometown
GLOBALISM FURTHER PLACES EMPHASIS ON SOCIETY's INTERNAL DIVISIONS
There are basic things that differentitate the me from you, things that are set in stone like the ten commandments; WE CAN't FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AS HUMAN BEINGS, we are limited, fractured creatures. SO, THEN WHAT TO DISCUSS?!?!?!
-With CONVIVIALITY as a general end-goal for which the means of DIALOGUE are employed; we go about the act of compromise for the ever greater good (Feeling good, feeling great!)
BUT!
DIALOGUE MUST OCCUR WITH BOTH THE OTHER AND THE SELF (A duality of the invidividual HIGHER ORDER THINKING [let's take drugs!])
So, there must be a constant renewal of the self
Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations (ATTACHED); is a theory that the world is becoming more and more divided through a series of binary oppositions (IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE THIS, but with an increasingly connected world, there become more and more areas of polarization (HATE AND LOVE, this usually leads to violence, we're violent creatures; so, how do we fight through our anger, our embarrassment, our disappointment in ourselves; I PERSONALLY think it is through something beautiful that can allow you to leave the self temporarily. I can only achieve this through playing music, maybe by writing notes, these notes are pretty fucking good, huh? Must've been a good talk; I hope you don't need a translator to read this effectively.
WHAT ARE THE INTERNAL DEBATES?
THE RISKS OF DIALOGUE REAR THEIR UGLY HEADS
Selectivity; we don't share all our humanity all of the time.
URBAN POVERTY
60% of the world will be living in cities by some date that I didn't write down (speculation, doesn't mean toooo much to this boy-o)
THIS MEANS MORE AND MORE URBAN POOR AKA SLUMDWELLERS
COSMPOLITANISM FROM BELOW
-A compulsory (involuntary [produced without being provoked by an other]) kind of cosmopolitan culture comes from these slums ( you're seeing the transmission already from AMERICA's URBAN POOR to other's music and style (AKA BASEBALL HATS in Kreuzberg)
-Multi-lingual; poor people in places like India where there is extremely high linguistic diversity are finding common ground through the market, maybe.
1/2 of the World's Ubran population will be in these kinds of slums.
THEY accomplish this new shared global cosmopolitanism through the internet, the visibility of stars in movies, sports, etc.; it is without any of the economic benefits that allow traditional cosmopolitanism to develop, aka people like me who grow up because they come in to a little bit of money.
This means local more and more becomes global; a butterfly flapping it's wings in venezuela won't cause a tornado in West Texas, but this is all conected at something deeper I tell myself...
THE URBAN POOR ARE FASCINATING!
They are performing great experiments in dialogue (demonstrating the risks!)
WRAPPING UP
CHANGING IDEAS OF CITIZENSHIP
Building our society on conviviality and dialogue rather than territoriality.
A HARD ROAD TO HOPE
IF WE ARE TWO DISTINCT 'I's
ME You
I I
The common ground is what we're standing on (It's about the environment, dude. THERE IS A NEW CRISIS LOOMING IN THE INTERNET[what if it gets overpolluted and everyday people can't even use it properly, we gotta find a way to be more efficient with our usage of space; AM I A FUCKING HYPOCRITE, or AM I JUST ON MY WAY; I have hope...)
OUTKAST GHETTO MUSIK IS THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS NOTES IF YOU'RE BORED
I miss YOU! Time is short, but LOVE IS BIG.
LOVE,
al
LISTEN TO THE TEN YEAR's AFTER SONG "GONNA RUN" it's been a personal favorite of mine for about 4 years now.
2009/06/21
That's RICH!
Verbosity is a target worth destroying. Frank Rich's op-ed for the nyt is a lot more convincing online, this week's edition is no exception.
I wondered if someone could construct a labrynth that one could enter without even noticing.
Music Video Examples of this tehnique in action:
Sunday is the Psychic Holiday. WHAT A DAY for a song in your heart and a beer in your gut.
I wondered if someone could construct a labrynth that one could enter without even noticing.
Music Video Examples of this tehnique in action:
Sunday is the Psychic Holiday. WHAT A DAY for a song in your heart and a beer in your gut.
2009/06/19
Mynah Birds
I'm thinking at this exact moment about Rick James and Neil Young's ill-fated vocal group the Mynah Birds. If you listen to standout classic, sampled and retopping the chart funk like "Superfreak" and "Mary Jane" you hear a guy who could play his ass off on the bass on top of having an original and impressive vocal dynamic range.
Allmusic.com's take on the lifes and times of Dave Chappelle's misfortunate victim/accomplice in modern comic times.
In the late '70s, when the fortunes of Motown Records seemed to be flagging, Rick James came along and rescued the company, providing funky hits that updated the label's style and saw it through into the mid-'80s. Actually, James had been with Motown earlier, though nothing had come of it. After growing up in Buffalo and running away to join the Naval Reserves, he ran away from the Navy to Toronto, where he was in a band with future Buffalo Springfield members Neil Young and Bruce Palmer, and with Goldy McJohn, later of Steppenwolf. As the Mynah Birds, they signed to Motown and recorded, though no record was ever released.
James had a journeyman's career playing bass in various groups before signing again to Motown as an artist, songwriter, and producer. His first single, "You and I" (May 1978), topped the R&B charts and reached the pop Top 40. "Mary Jane" (September 1978) was another hit. Both were on James' debut album, Come Get It! (June 1978), which went gold. Subsequent efforts were not as successful, though Bustin' Out of L Seven (January 1979) featured the R&B hit "Bustin' Out" (April 1979). James returned to form with the number one R&B hit "Give It to Me Baby" (March 1981), featured on the million-selling Street Songs (April 1981), which also featured the hit "Super Freak."
James turned his production attention to resuscitating the career of the Temptations, recently returned to Motown, and "Standing on the Top" (April 1982), credited to the Temptations featuring Rick James, was an R&B Top Ten. (He also produced recordings by Teena Marie and the Mary Jane Girls.) James' follow-up to Street Songs was the gold-selling Throwin' Down (May 1982), which featured the hit "Dance Wit' Me." The title song of Cold Blooded (August 1983) became James' third R&B number one, and the album also featured his hit duet with Smokey Robinson, "Ebony Eyes." James' greatest-hits album Reflections (August 1984) featured the new track "17" (June 1984), which also became a hit. Glow (April 1985) contained Top Ten R&B singles in the title track and "Can't Stop," which was featured in the summer movie blockbuster Beverly Hills Cop. The Flag (June 1986) featured the hit "Sweet and Sexy Thing" (May 1986).
James left Motown for the Reprise division of Warner Bros. Records as of the album Wonderful (July 1988), which featured his number one R&B hit "Loosey's Rap," on which he was accompanied by rapper Roxanne Shante. Nevertheless, his "punk funk" didn't seem to rest comfortably with the trend toward rap/hip-hop. In 1989, James charted briefly with a medley of the Drifters hits "This Magic Moment" and "Dance With Me." In 1990, MC Hammer scored a massive hit with "U Can't Touch This," which consisted of his rap over the instrumental track of "Super Freak." That should have made for a career rebirth, but James was plagued by drug and legal problems that found him more frequently in court and in jail rather than in the recording studio. The majority of his legal woes behind him, James returned in 1997 with Urban Rapsody, which didn't yield any hits but was well accepted by critics. Rick James died of a heart attack on August 6, 2004, at his Los Angeles home.
Allmusic.com's take on the lifes and times of Dave Chappelle's misfortunate victim/accomplice in modern comic times.
In the late '70s, when the fortunes of Motown Records seemed to be flagging, Rick James came along and rescued the company, providing funky hits that updated the label's style and saw it through into the mid-'80s. Actually, James had been with Motown earlier, though nothing had come of it. After growing up in Buffalo and running away to join the Naval Reserves, he ran away from the Navy to Toronto, where he was in a band with future Buffalo Springfield members Neil Young and Bruce Palmer, and with Goldy McJohn, later of Steppenwolf. As the Mynah Birds, they signed to Motown and recorded, though no record was ever released.
James had a journeyman's career playing bass in various groups before signing again to Motown as an artist, songwriter, and producer. His first single, "You and I" (May 1978), topped the R&B charts and reached the pop Top 40. "Mary Jane" (September 1978) was another hit. Both were on James' debut album, Come Get It! (June 1978), which went gold. Subsequent efforts were not as successful, though Bustin' Out of L Seven (January 1979) featured the R&B hit "Bustin' Out" (April 1979). James returned to form with the number one R&B hit "Give It to Me Baby" (March 1981), featured on the million-selling Street Songs (April 1981), which also featured the hit "Super Freak."
James turned his production attention to resuscitating the career of the Temptations, recently returned to Motown, and "Standing on the Top" (April 1982), credited to the Temptations featuring Rick James, was an R&B Top Ten. (He also produced recordings by Teena Marie and the Mary Jane Girls.) James' follow-up to Street Songs was the gold-selling Throwin' Down (May 1982), which featured the hit "Dance Wit' Me." The title song of Cold Blooded (August 1983) became James' third R&B number one, and the album also featured his hit duet with Smokey Robinson, "Ebony Eyes." James' greatest-hits album Reflections (August 1984) featured the new track "17" (June 1984), which also became a hit. Glow (April 1985) contained Top Ten R&B singles in the title track and "Can't Stop," which was featured in the summer movie blockbuster Beverly Hills Cop. The Flag (June 1986) featured the hit "Sweet and Sexy Thing" (May 1986).
James left Motown for the Reprise division of Warner Bros. Records as of the album Wonderful (July 1988), which featured his number one R&B hit "Loosey's Rap," on which he was accompanied by rapper Roxanne Shante. Nevertheless, his "punk funk" didn't seem to rest comfortably with the trend toward rap/hip-hop. In 1989, James charted briefly with a medley of the Drifters hits "This Magic Moment" and "Dance With Me." In 1990, MC Hammer scored a massive hit with "U Can't Touch This," which consisted of his rap over the instrumental track of "Super Freak." That should have made for a career rebirth, but James was plagued by drug and legal problems that found him more frequently in court and in jail rather than in the recording studio. The majority of his legal woes behind him, James returned in 1997 with Urban Rapsody, which didn't yield any hits but was well accepted by critics. Rick James died of a heart attack on August 6, 2004, at his Los Angeles home.
2009/06/18
MEXICO: THE NOVEL
Nixon fixed his coat, and Groening poured it down your throat, middle name game, like Rob Smigel and the ex-presidents brilliant reanimation of Checkers, the first hound of the 1970's for a little while.
BLOG AWFUL SELF PROMOTION ONE MAN BAND FANSTAND GRANDIOSE TOMFOOLERY TOM SELLECK IN A LEXUS WITH TEXAS LICENSE PLATES WITH TINY ENGRAVED QUOTES FROM Y
WIKIPEDIA WRECKING CREW
BLOG AWFUL SELF PROMOTION ONE MAN BAND FANSTAND GRANDIOSE TOMFOOLERY TOM SELLECK IN A LEXUS WITH TEXAS LICENSE PLATES WITH TINY ENGRAVED QUOTES FROM YEATS, "THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US" (He was a fascist).
BLOG AWFUL SELF PROMOTION ONE MAN BAND FANSTAND GRANDIOSE TOMFOOLERY TOM SELLECK IN A LEXUS WITH TEXAS LICENSE PLATES WITH TINY ENGRAVED QUOTES FROM YEATS, "THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US" (He was a fascist).
Oh LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA MANNY RAMIREZ STORY BEHIND THE STORY DATELINE CNN NEWSWEEK TABITHA CHRIS CONNELY PRINCETON NEW JERSEY
Well, you can read about the 'wrecking crew' that Phil Spector employed to weave the magic he left the world before finally getting locked up for being a fascist (this is the least surprising aspect of ANY successful post-war american they will tell you in some analysis at a left-wing think tank ran by mustachioed gay-rights champions), whatever you wanna call it, or you can watch this video OR READ below for the most important aspects of it that you will probably hear me screaming the next time I'm in LA on a crime spree.
Jai Alais (Highlights for fake mexicans)
YES LA, THAT WAS ME TOO! (SLUM VILL NBA REFERENCE comes shortly later)
Jai Alais (Highlights for fake mexicans)
YES LA, THAT WAS ME TOO! (SLUM VILL NBA REFERENCE comes shortly later)
2009/06/17
electric vibraphone
Hand Drums are a fun game for the mentally ill.
Hilltop field was witness to some all-timers man.
Trumpets blare fanfare means it's time.
Thyme in my parsley jar means no respect.
Damn kids
Stealing my sweet premium wine, my yuengling lager, SLICK RICK on a mos def track?!
Oh, it's just a beat from the BEAT KONDUCTA series...
Work soon, job's great. I'm always early and I don't care.
Hilltop field was witness to some all-timers man.
Trumpets blare fanfare means it's time.
Thyme in my parsley jar means no respect.
Damn kids
Stealing my sweet premium wine, my yuengling lager, SLICK RICK on a mos def track?!
Oh, it's just a beat from the BEAT KONDUCTA series...
Work soon, job's great. I'm always early and I don't care.
2009/06/16
2009/06/15
It's OVER
The Los Angeles Lakers are your 2009 NBA champions.
The Magic redeemed their 1994 squad that got swept by the dream shake and other such tools of the trade, by winning a single game.
My preseason predictions didn't tell us much of anything, other than predicting Al Harrington to the Knicks (nice) and putting Joakim Noah's somewhat suspect street cred/douchebag duality in to its proper CEntral New Jersey Prep School context.
So of course everyone shows Shaquille O'neal's twitter; this finals is somehow all about him. And the Cleveland trade talks? BOOOOOORING!!!!!
Don't let hipsters get you down guys.
The Magic redeemed their 1994 squad that got swept by the dream shake and other such tools of the trade, by winning a single game.
My preseason predictions didn't tell us much of anything, other than predicting Al Harrington to the Knicks (nice) and putting Joakim Noah's somewhat suspect street cred/douchebag duality in to its proper CEntral New Jersey Prep School context.
So of course everyone shows Shaquille O'neal's twitter; this finals is somehow all about him. And the Cleveland trade talks? BOOOOOORING!!!!!
Don't let hipsters get you down guys.
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