'blue chips' is my favorite album of the year, and i need a place to transcribe every single lyric
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
that's an awfully chillwave name
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
His stage name derives from gangster William "Action" Jackson, and tough-guy actor Charles Bronson.
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
shit is like If Nathan Rabin Rapped
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Move cocaine outta Spokane, I got no shame
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
that's fucked up, you know rabin is on some people under the stairs shit
― adam, Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
― internet somebody (some dude), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:50 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
hahaha
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:46 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
used to lose, now everybody kangaroos
it's really more like if you took dom passantino's brain and put it in whiney's body
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
PIES N THIGHS on my mind all the time
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
well whiney has eaten at per se, so you can take some of his brain, too
good thread
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:53 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't know what you think my physique is like these days, dogg, but i'm on top of that shit a little more than Action Bronson
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
still have to listen to this
― been to lots of college and twitter (k3vin k.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i know, i just thought it was a good line regardless xp
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
tubby ginger ironman fishscale
i'm into it
― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
burning bitches from the TV like a CD
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
architecture art decotwist the pussy like a soft pretzel
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
i think some dude is probably the only crossover from the Community thread, so can we use this thread to talk about how terrible Community is
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
saw some live clip where he was all "315, not the time, that's my weight" between songs. i like this dude but he does not look healthy atm.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, fuck you again, j0rdan
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
it's seriously hilarious to read the "no really, he's not just the shyne of ghostface anymore" reviews and then put it on and be like uhhh
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
it's seriously hilarious to read the "no really, he's not just the shyne of ghostface anymore" reviews and then put it on and be like uhhh where's my train cd
― internet somebody (some dude), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:12 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
btw whiney can i officially invite you to the community thread? it's honestly so bad that it could only improve w/ your presence
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
hey whiney remember like 4 days ago when we talked about having a ceasefire on pointless "lol you like middlebrow things!" zings? did some alts pop shots at you on twitter about liking linkin park again so you gotta keep the cycle of abuse going?
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
dude, i took a peek in there and like, seriously, the only way those posts could be more embarrassing is if everyone had brony avatars. i would be banned from ilx in a minute
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
i thought that zing was harmless, sorry dogg
no, it's a safe place. i promise.
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
i lol'd
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
i mean it's totally harmless but if someone disagrees with you about rap on a rap thread and their go-to is "GO LISTEN TO GREEN DAY DOOD" you'd probably be thrilled too you must admit
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
i think part of the thing w/ the NO REALLY, HE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE GHOSTFACE (more on this from me in the future) is that maybe if you just listen to him for a year it kinda wears off? cuz when i heard 'dr lecter' i was all "hahahah, no. really?" but anyway this album is just much better
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
the thing to me is that more than the voice his writing seems so clearly, stiflingly influenced by ghostface
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
some dude, this thread is basically gonna be a goon locker room, no one is gonna see this shit.
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
certainly not the sub-onion a/v club saddos in the community thread, and the real tears they cry nightly on their muppet bedsheets
re his size, he's really let himself go in the past, like, year or so
in these videos from a few years back he's not anywhere near obese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnyyficfliM
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
"THIS EPISODE IS ONLY AN A+, DAN HARMON YOU ARE CAPABLE OF A++ WORK"
fart
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
― internet somebody (some dude), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
idk i think he's much more a rapid fire punchline dude than ghost
honestly i think his absurdism is more in the lineage of, like, cam'ron than ghost, but he sounds EXACTLY like ghost so it's kinda hard to get that out of your head
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
whiney i'm gonna strangle you to death
he literally says "don't compare me to ghost's shit" on the tape, man. did you not get that far?
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha this thread is gr8 and i don't really know who this dude is
― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
the one thing i think is interesting is that he basically has that hyper punchline feel of 90s whiteboy Copywrite/High&Mighty shit, but with that Cam'rom/Ghost attitude of "I really don't care if you're catching the jokes or not"
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
doesn't every rapper say "don't compare me to [rapper everyone compares me to]"? why follow their bullshit rules?
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
some dude, if you dont like this, i dont know what
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't listened to all of it, i'm not hatin hatin just fuckin around
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
go listen to it its gr8
― cum on feel the cone (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
k
― internet somebody (some dude), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
i find this dude likeable but i have a lot of trouble imagining this record is as good as everyone is saying rt now. his earlier stuff was already overrated as it was
― D-40, Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
the production also sounds a lot like the kind of beats ghostface gets
― flopson, Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
love this guy.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
i watched the brunch video, and it was pretty upsetting to me, mostly because the scenario depicted was really similar to something that happened among people i knew (don't want to go further with explaining this.) women who have been directly the victims of domestic violence would probably see that video and be very upset, or triggered. if the concert is going to be like that, and it's a public event, it kind of sucks that a portion of the public can't enjoy the concert.
idk. i don't feel strongly either way, but i see the argument. i don't think it's similar to the cases when the concept of "triggering" have been invoked to silence the expression of controversial ideas. this guy is glorifying a type of violence that is widespread.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
the government (which represents the people) has no business deciding which speech is permissible in a public space. at least according to the american understanding of free speech
this isn't entirely true - there are limits, "clear and present danger" etc.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 1:01 PM (3 minutes ago)
ok dude i know
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
i think some folks would argue otherwise, viz. the elision of speech and violence in the article linked earlier
yeah and I don't think those arguments would be credible or hold up in court
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
besides the standard is inciting imminent lawless action these days anyway xp
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
like "it hurts my feelings" or "it's traumatic" is not the same, legally speaking, as a physical threat of violence and imo that's how it should be
xxp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
shakey otm wrt treeship's point
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Still trying to work out how this is different from Christian conservatives wanting, say, Marilyn Manson taken off a bill 15 years ago.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link
So suppose whatever committee initially chose the acts for this festival considered Action Bronson for a spot, but then decided not to book him, on the basis of the "Brunch" video and the fact that he has a song called "Consensual Rape". Would that have been censorship--not extending an offer to have him perform in the first place, because of some of his song and video content?
If not, what makes it censorship when effectively the same decision is made after the fact in response to a petition?
If so, is it censorship for there to be any content-based standards for who is invited to play the festival?
― JRN, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
Don't know about 15 years ago but last year Manson cancelled a show in response to bomb threats and 400 orthodox protesters taking to the streets:
http://www.hitthescene.net/2014/06/28/news-bomb-threats-and-protests-cancel-marilyn-manson-shows/
You could compare that to a peaceful protest w 40,000+ signatures on it.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
a group not involved with the organization of the event imposing it's will on how the event is organized.
Now, the organizers could just say "fuck you" but then they know they would be facing boycott/losing money/more headaches and they probably decided it wasn't worth it. Is a boycott "censorship"? No, not in the government-enforced censorship sense. But it's censorship in the sense that a portion of the public has effectively imposed its will on what is acceptable to be performed in public.
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
When Thurgood Marshall was considering a screening of The Birth of a Nation in (iirc) the 1950s he made a distinction between legitimate protest against the screening - pickets, demos, boycotts - and censorship: lobbying the authorities to ban it. Why is this distinction so hard to understand?
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
I mean, this can't be a serious question: "What makes it censorship when effectively the same decision is made after the fact in response to a petition?" It's like the difference between Body Count not releasing Cop Killer in the first place and protestors insisting it be removed from the album - all the difference in the world.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
xpost
it was hard to understand a long time ago, too. the NAACP lobbied to get BoaN banned, and one can see why. (this allowed Griffith to get self-righteous about all of it, and ultimately to make Intolerance.)
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I wrote a long piece about the Birth case. It was a tricky issue for liberals and the success of the campaign is still hard to gauge but one difference is that the NAACP - particularly WEB DuBois - didn't deny that it was a suppression of free speech. They admitted it was and made a case for why it was necessary. There was some honesty there.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 2:00 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's very difficult for some people to grasp that these speech protections are designed to be viewpoint-neutral. their ability to protect speech that is deeply unpopular is exactly what makes it so powerful and useful. so when a group (we'll broadly call them "liberals") that is used to these protections favoring them finds that they can't justifiably use them for their own (otherwise noble) ends -- think KKK demonstrations, or for a less obvious example, this bronson stuff -- it's no surprise that it bewilders them. tough cookies though
that said this is all taking place in Canada, right? they have their own rules
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
i don't even know what censorship means anymore tbh
― flopson, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
government restricting any speech is a good place to start
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
idk what sort of constitutional protections they have in canada
when i was living in france i often have to remember that they effectively have /no/ protections of this kind that are guaranteed in the way they are (or seem to be) in the usa. it's more of an effective /principle/ and of course lots of legal precedent, but no absolute foundation.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
/had/ to remember
it's not clear to me whether the Canadian govt was actually involved in getting Bronson removed from performing in the square. NXNE's sponsors include a bunch of public entities, and obviously the City of Toronto must be involved in numerous ways, but whether those entities are the ones that responded to the petition and forced the NXNE organizers hand = eh who knows
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
When Thurgood Marshall was considering a screening of The Birth of a Nation in (iirc) the 1950s he made a distinction between legitimate protest against the screening - pickets, demos, boycotts - and censorship: lobbying the authorities to ban it. Why is this distinction so hard to understand?― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 1:00 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't think this distinction is applicable in this case, since Action Bronson is not being banned from performing in Toronto.
― JRN, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
I definitely don't think there was legal censorship here; I don't think the government stopped this concert from happening. I don't think that government suppression is the only definition of censorship, and I think the rationale given ("he shouldn't be allowed to perform in a public space") is a direct call for censorship. Also, want to note that I'm trying to use "censorship" as a neutral term here, not as a pejorative or as a boogie-man.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
if the people were petitioning the government to remove him from the festival, it absolutely is
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
From an account of Jesse Helms and the NEA: "Helms and his supporters were at pains to deny that the amendment had anything to do with censorship. Where could those liberals have got such an idea? Censorship: that meant repressing works of art (or 'so-called art' to use the correct locution) that people made on their own time and with their own money. Refusing government money to 'promote' indecency wasn't censorship. Decadents like Mapplethorpe, and blasphemers like Serrano, could do what they wanted with their own time and money. But let them not come skulking and sniffing after that one-six-thousandth of one penny of the average decent American's tax dollar."
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
and i guess one could argue it hinges on the public space thing but i feel like it would have just as much momentum without it
― flopson, Thursday, May 28, 2015 2:41 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sadly prescient. a similar group of ppl are now furiously signing internet petitions trying to get him off the bill at osheaga, a private festival in Montreal
― flopson, Friday, 24 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-15.html
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 24 July 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
― flopson, Friday, July 24, 2015 3:21 PM (15 minutes ago)
seems like a reasonable exercise of the democratic process to me
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, 24 July 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
Bronson backing down from the ghostface beef was hilarious, Ghost probably figured it would be good for both their careers
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 July 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
def hilarious. also i can't imagine the ghost beef going any differently, bronson really only had one option i mean come on
― marcos, Friday, 24 July 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
Don't see this as a censorship thing? Like the government isn't prohibiting action bronson from anything. private individuals are pressuring a commercial organization, they'll can bronson's show if they feel the reputational risk is too hugh/outweighs the commercial benefit of him performing
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Friday, 24 July 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
sportscenter guys baiting bronson into dissing ghost when he clearly had no interest in doing so was masterful, as were their faux shocked reaction when he followed through
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI2fIbATUPM
for those who havent seen
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
white guy had a rap record out in the 90s lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9YcbKG5.png
wu tang forever
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
that's max kellerman! he and his brother (rip) were a small-time rap duo yeah lol
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, 24 July 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW-mK5KQ4Pc
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, 24 July 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
kevin kellerman
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 July 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
lol
― johnny crunch, Friday, 24 July 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
Vice Bets on an Unlikely Food Star: Action Bronson
http://nyti.ms/1R6QZ1W
― o. nate, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYCNjMnzWiE
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 February 2016 00:39 (eight years ago) link
bronsons brand > any song hes put out in like 2+ yrs
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 February 2016 00:46 (eight years ago) link
kool my cable package is gonna have this viceland channel & i just season pass dvr'd the hell out of dis show *_*
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 February 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
the bong factory clams whole sequence is wild
― johnny crunch, Friday, 11 March 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
"this is the first time ive been to a private concert in an oven"
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 2 April 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
Does this dude really have a song called "Consensual Rape"?
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 2 April 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
unfortunately yes
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 2 April 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
This guy is an ass and a moron
― beamish13, Saturday, 2 April 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
I think it's really funny that Viceland markets themselves as tv for Millennials, but only Millennials would ban their star attraction from campus
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 2 April 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link
luv body on thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUs7snDnJE
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 September 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link