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raybear1. The man who invented the laugh track died this week. While I can appreciate the invention as a technological advancement, I will be pouring no liquor out for the man who significantly contributed to ruining people's ability to discern what's actually funny on their own without it being spoonfed through audio cues.
2. I'm no fan of Nelly (though I don't hate on those who are, particularly the ones on my livejournal friends page). I will admit he has talent as a pop musician, but as an influential hip-hopper, no such credit will be given at this juncture. Having said that, I'm desperately in love with the song Pimp Juice. I actually suspect it was ghostwritten by someone else, a theory supported in part because of Snoop's presence in the video. Which reminds me of my favorite juicy tidbit regarding ghostwriting -- Dr. Dre's "Forget About Dre" was, at least in part, penned by Jay-Z. Ah, the ironing is delicious.
3. Further proof that I have no understanding and a very loose grasp on house music and why it's important or good: I've read all these things about the recent remixes of Yoko Ono's Walking on Thin Ice. As a big Yoko fan, I was curious to hear them. I don't get it. It's the um-cha um-cha um-cha house beat with occasionally bits of her vocals spliced in. It's nine minutes of um-cha um-cha um-cha um-cha and maybe 45 seconds of her song spread out over it (Ice! um-cha um-cha um-cha Ice! um-cha um-cha um-cha Ice!). I don't understand um-cha um-cha um-cha um-cha and why/how people dance to it. Maybe because I don't often take ecstasy and dance shirtless in a crowd of naked torsos. Maybe I'm not really a gay man. Maybe my desire for having sex with women should have tipped me off to this idea sooner. Or maybe I just have too much music in my soul which reduces my tolerance for what other's constitute as "having a beat" or what's truly an original electronic composition. Having said this, I'll still probably play this remix at the end of the night tomorrow when I'm running low on creativity and need a bathroom break. Either that or the nine minute Dido remix.
4. I haven't seen A Mighty Wind yet. This is so me. I'll wait anxiously for months or years for a project like a movie or album to come out, then when it's released, I make no effort to see it. I think in part I know I'll probably see it once, maybe twice in the theater, plus will buy it on DVD later and see it several more times, so what difference does it make to see it opening weekend? But still, I hate some of the people coming up to me and telling me how funny it is and how I need to see it. Mthafcker, I brought you on board the Christopher Guest train so don't be trying to tell me what I already know as if you magically discovered it.
5. I'm such a bitchy pop culture whore.
2. I'm no fan of Nelly (though I don't hate on those who are, particularly the ones on my livejournal friends page). I will admit he has talent as a pop musician, but as an influential hip-hopper, no such credit will be given at this juncture. Having said that, I'm desperately in love with the song Pimp Juice. I actually suspect it was ghostwritten by someone else, a theory supported in part because of Snoop's presence in the video. Which reminds me of my favorite juicy tidbit regarding ghostwriting -- Dr. Dre's "Forget About Dre" was, at least in part, penned by Jay-Z. Ah, the ironing is delicious.
3. Further proof that I have no understanding and a very loose grasp on house music and why it's important or good: I've read all these things about the recent remixes of Yoko Ono's Walking on Thin Ice. As a big Yoko fan, I was curious to hear them. I don't get it. It's the um-cha um-cha um-cha house beat with occasionally bits of her vocals spliced in. It's nine minutes of um-cha um-cha um-cha um-cha and maybe 45 seconds of her song spread out over it (Ice! um-cha um-cha um-cha Ice! um-cha um-cha um-cha Ice!). I don't understand um-cha um-cha um-cha um-cha and why/how people dance to it. Maybe because I don't often take ecstasy and dance shirtless in a crowd of naked torsos. Maybe I'm not really a gay man. Maybe my desire for having sex with women should have tipped me off to this idea sooner. Or maybe I just have too much music in my soul which reduces my tolerance for what other's constitute as "having a beat" or what's truly an original electronic composition. Having said this, I'll still probably play this remix at the end of the night tomorrow when I'm running low on creativity and need a bathroom break. Either that or the nine minute Dido remix.
4. I haven't seen A Mighty Wind yet. This is so me. I'll wait anxiously for months or years for a project like a movie or album to come out, then when it's released, I make no effort to see it. I think in part I know I'll probably see it once, maybe twice in the theater, plus will buy it on DVD later and see it several more times, so what difference does it make to see it opening weekend? But still, I hate some of the people coming up to me and telling me how funny it is and how I need to see it. Mthafcker, I brought you on board the Christopher Guest train so don't be trying to tell me what I already know as if you magically discovered it.
5. I'm such a bitchy pop culture whore.
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Date: 2003-04-24 12:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-24 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-24 12:07 pm (UTC)Also whenever I hear speak of A Mighty Wind I think of farts.
A few thoughts about House Music
Date: 2003-04-24 01:45 pm (UTC)In the best of possible universes, this is the case: Perhaps a sonic painting is rendered, its only significance is due to its non-singularity. This technique mimics Warhol's soup cans or Pollack's paint splatter works. Proving the axiom that "Pop will eat its self" viv a vis that a piece of processed pop culture (i.e. a "pop" song) is fed into a synthesizer that further processes the song creating an even MORE accessible, consumable, but "new" piece of popular culture.
Worst case scenario: This type of music is the aural equivalent of motel room art, meant to neither challenge nor induce thought processes in the consumer. I fear the latter in this instance, that being said spin your ass off Raybear. Cheers, Nemo.
Re: A few thoughts about House Music
Date: 2003-04-24 01:52 pm (UTC)To me, with house music (and most electronica), when it's good, it's AMAZING, but when it's not, it's horrible and annoying. (Unlike other genres where I have a higher tolerance for the middle-of-road material.)
fun with numbers
Date: 2003-04-24 01:46 pm (UTC)2. really, it's just the scenery. though i look high and low for queer clubs that play hip hop and r&b with a beat on a consistent basis, there's nothing quite like the familiarity of the gay boy dance music. i know i'm always welcome.
3. i'm really picky about house music, but i still like the less-than quality stuff too. again, for above said reasons. too many years spent in queer raves and pride parties.
4. i couldn't tell you a single name of an artist to try. my consumption of the music doesn't actually live outside of the clubs.
5. (just for fun) i've had three different people tell me i am a really big fag, all in four days. refer back to # 1
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Date: 2003-04-24 02:05 pm (UTC)1. An excercise in the inane quality of sitcoms is to laugh along with the laughtrack... i.e. whenever there is an audible reaction, you force yourself to laugh too! Do it once, and you'll realize just how sorry the whole "canned laughter" concept actually was.
2. Everybody who's up knows that Snoop is the one with the juice in that equation.
3. I know that Yoko thing is going nowhere. My mom mentioned it to me in a conversation a few days ago. I guess Yoko did an episode of The View or something. I guess Madonna will be appearing there next week.
4. I'm trying to decide if A Mighty Wind is a
5. Lame Pop Culture DEMANDS bitchiness!
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Date: 2003-04-24 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-25 07:21 am (UTC)Are you coming to Circuit tonight? You should be dancing.
I should be dancin'...yeah!
Date: 2003-04-25 11:51 am (UTC)I may be unable to come, as I might be taking Poet Co-worker up on her sound advice and going to see A Mighty Wind tonight. Plus I was out late last night and I don't know if I can take it two nights in a row. BUT, I will a) tell cutie Big Man On Campus about the event, because he specifically asked for news of future Kings events, and b) come if possible.
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Date: 2003-04-24 04:51 pm (UTC)mighty wind
Date: 2003-04-25 09:18 am (UTC)Yeah, I know what you mean. Most of the time I end up not seeing the movie. I don't like to be in theatres with a lot of other people because, invariably, the people who talk or forget to turn off their cell phones always sit behind me and it drives me nuts. So I either go see a noon show on a Wednesday or I go to movies no one else wants to see (usually Alicia Silverstone is the star...what's the one with her and Benicio where she gets kidnapped? Now THAT'S a bad movie) or I wait too long and it's gone. I still haven't seen Bowling for Columbine.
You should check out Popbitch. It's UK based, so you have to know who Gareth Gates and Ronan Keating are.