R.I.P. "old school"
Apr. 11th, 2002 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raybearSo I knew the term 'old school' was being misused and overused, but today on the train I saw a cell phone ad on the back page of the New York Times with some wall street woman having it stamped on her forehead, apparantly because she doesn't have the newest, latest wireless service. Therefore, I am convinced this is adequate evidence that the phrase is officially dead and I will not be attending the funeral. I may pour some chianti out tonight at dinner, but for the most part, it's time for it to move on. Sure, I may occasionally still use the phrase genuinely when referring to pre-1988 hip hop (which is still techinically inaccurate, since it should probably be pre-Run DMC hip hop), but when the New York Times uses it freely, it's time to come up with new shit.
Sometimes I forget that mainstream lingo most likely has a long prior history, because I'm not always seeing it happening. But I also remember the first time I really new that rap was permanently mainstream and not a passing fad. It was after Fred and Barney rapped about Fruity Pebbles, and instead when the middle-aged white mom in a Jenga commercial was spitting rhymes about not toppling the tower.
And now to completely change directions, I particularly like today's meditation.
All states that can be returned to external causes are obviously not you, but that which cannot be returned to anywhere, if it is not you, what is it? Therefore, you should know that your mind is fundamentally wonderful, bright, and pure and that because of your involvement with the things of the world you have covered it up and lost it. In this way you are caught on the endless wheel of becoming this or that, sinking and floating in that sea of endless becoming. Awaken yourself now to your own bright mind.
-Surangama Sutra
Tonight I hide for real. Mentally I'm already gone. People talk to me and I'm just phased out -- paying attention, but totally passive and often unable to actively participate.
Sometimes I forget that mainstream lingo most likely has a long prior history, because I'm not always seeing it happening. But I also remember the first time I really new that rap was permanently mainstream and not a passing fad. It was after Fred and Barney rapped about Fruity Pebbles, and instead when the middle-aged white mom in a Jenga commercial was spitting rhymes about not toppling the tower.
And now to completely change directions, I particularly like today's meditation.
All states that can be returned to external causes are obviously not you, but that which cannot be returned to anywhere, if it is not you, what is it? Therefore, you should know that your mind is fundamentally wonderful, bright, and pure and that because of your involvement with the things of the world you have covered it up and lost it. In this way you are caught on the endless wheel of becoming this or that, sinking and floating in that sea of endless becoming. Awaken yourself now to your own bright mind.
-Surangama Sutra
Tonight I hide for real. Mentally I'm already gone. People talk to me and I'm just phased out -- paying attention, but totally passive and often unable to actively participate.
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You be illin'!
Date: 2002-04-11 07:56 am (UTC)Re: You be illin'!
Date: 2002-04-11 08:02 am (UTC)did you hear about a few years back about Russell Simmons organizing a public funeral for the word "def"? that man is so silly.
Re: You be illin'!
Date: 2002-04-11 08:23 am (UTC)He split from Russell Simmons and Def Jam to start Def American records and then held a funeral for the word Def when he changed it to American records.
i wonder if reverand run did the service ...
Re: You be illin'!
Date: 2002-04-11 08:41 am (UTC)Re: You be illin'!
Date: 2002-04-11 08:46 am (UTC)