my enjoyment of this song is forever ruined
― Asstral Cheeks (latebloomer), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Mirakills more like ;_;
― Asstral Cheeks (latebloomer), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
...sorry?
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm kidding Abbs, no worries!
― Asstral Cheeks (latebloomer), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't even tell when people are joking IRL, it's ok.
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Monday, 26 April 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I have been thinking really hard about this song for weeks so you kinda opened a can of thinkyworms on yrself there, sorry.
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"i don't think icp were going for a critique of science per se as much as they're decrying the way the language of science (as successful and wonderful as it is) often reduces the beauty of nature to mere words"
They say scientists are lyin and shit. Its hard to spin that into "I think they're cheapening miracles by breaking them down with science."
― Evan, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops, was just said. Nevermind.
i actually forgot about the "lying" part of that line!
― Asstral Cheeks (latebloomer), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
so much to unpack with this song...it is a miracle after all
― Asstral Cheeks (latebloomer), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
and I don't want to talk to a scientistI understand their positions, but I can't concur just didn't work as well in context
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, yeah. It maybe needs a full stanza to elaborate the idea. But then you would end up losing out on shoutouts to ghosts and pyramids, two of the most prominent natural phenomena that science completely fails to explain.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 26 April 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
don't forget the ufos
― excitation needed (latebloomer), Monday, 26 April 2010 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Abbott's right in re the song itslef, but Violent J's recent response to "the haters" has him expressing latebloomer's reading explicitly.
Also, http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8826/insaneclownposseicpnucl.gif
― longer lasting, thicker electrons (sic), Monday, 26 April 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
fukkin magnets, how do they stop car crashes?
Druids use rock and magnets to stop road accidentsAustrian authorities say druids have been so successful in dealing with motorway accident blackspots in one area that they plan to extend the project nationwide.
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/23/article-1274648992744-09A6A356000005DC-978660_636x403.jpg
― this skit is ba-na-nas (onimo), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
that's actually violent J without the makeup
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2emxsJ9Bh1qb25dg.jpg
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
lol ^^^ this is not true in case anyone didn't know
― dud rock (crüt), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
thankig u
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
control-f "peep the giraffe" = "phrase not found"
"I don’t know what Webster’s definition of the word “miracle” is, but we’ve always thought it meant something fuckin’ amazing and incredible. A fuckin’ special, awesome event of some kind. A great, wonderful thing. A fuckin’ miracle.
The song “Miracles” is classic ICP. Our listeners know we’ve always included one or two deep, meaningful songs on our albums, we’ve just never made a video for one until now. It was a good idea, obviously, ‘cause it’s got people talkin’. The truth is it don’t make us mad to see all the hate “Miracles” gets from the mainstream. We’ve been “The Most Hated Band in The World” for many years. Without all the hate on the outside, it wouldn’t be as warm as it is on the inside with the Juggalo Fam. Instead, all the hate “Miracles” generates makes us sad. Sad for the haters.
I mean, yeah, we get it. It’s funny to people on the outside lookin’ in, seeing two clowns rapping about space and shit, while floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers. And SNL’s parody was off the hook hilarious. But when you step back and really look at all the genuine hate it got from everyday people, it’s hard to believe that so few got it.
Yes, most of the miracles we mention can easily be explained away by science, that’s why we say the line “fuck scientists.” Their factual findings sometimes explain away the Earth’s cool mysteries. Part of me wishes they were lying. Part of me doesn't want to know how they really make crop circles. My imagination wants to believe it’s aliens or somethin’. If people can’t relate to that, then that’s their loss. I mean, seriously, it must truly suck to have no imagination about these things. Us Juggalos have deep imaginations, and an awesome sense of humor.
As for the infamous line, “fuckin’ magnets… how do they work?” Magnets were like magic to me as a kid. You could move things across the table without actually touching them! I found that shit amazing and I still do. If you don’t like that, have a dick for dinner. As for the sun and the stars. Who looks up into the sky and doesn't wonder sometimes? Come on, man, I fuckin’ straight up feel sorry for anybody that can look at the moon the trees, and the seven seas, and not see fuckin’ miracles. It’s not about religion either. Nature itself is a miracle. Stand toe to toe with the ocean at night and tell me that shit ain’t amazing.
We appreciate all this shit. Especially a yellow ass, long neck giraffe. What’s a shame is how people walk around blind to it all. They lost their spirit about everything. If you can’t even see the miracle in animals, then you must have never truly loved a pet. That has to suck for you. Maybe you mother fuckers should relax that wound up, extra tense bitch ass of yours for a minute and go smoke a joint or somethin’.
Be an individual, step out and away from the flow of the crowd. Take a time out, open up ya mind and then peep the giraffe. Try to appreciate some of these miracles, bitch.
What’s a miracle is the fact that some people haven’t recognized by now that Insane Clown Posse will never die. ICP will go down in history as an independent music miracle. Get used to these ugly faces. MMFCLJ.
Violent JThe Happy Clown Serial Killer
P.S. -We feel like these haters are the big dumb, popular jocks ganging up on the little class clown scrub. When they have no idea the scrub is really a highly skilled, deadly, ninja assassin capable of cleaning their fuckin’ clocks.
― 6335, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
violent j otm
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta hand this one to feynman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZNsIFID28
― literally with cash (ledge), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
This is the line that gives the game away for me:
Part of me doesn't want to know how they really make crop circles. My imagination wants to believe it’s aliens or somethin’. If people can’t relate to that, then that’s their loss. I mean, seriously, it must truly suck to have no imagination about these things.
xpost Feynman otm too, obviously
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but I think all violent j is saying is "there is fun & wonder to be had in indulging a particular perspective" - it's a very post-LSD sort of reasoning: adopt a perspective, ride with it a while, you don't have to permanently adopt it but inhabiting a perspective is a worthwhile activity
juggalo for fucking life IOW
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll let my boy Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel field this one:"The realization attained by this individuality consists therefore in nothing more than this, viz. that it has cast forth this circle of abstractions from its confinement within simple self-consciousness, into the element where they are for self-consciousness, in other words, are expanded into an objective existence. [...] The merely single individuality [...], instead of having taken the plunge from dead Theory into Life, has therefore really only plunged into the consciousness of its own lifelessness and has as its lot only empty and alien necessity, a dead actuality."
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but what if we're all like the dream of an alien god
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Then you better hope I don't wake up.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
miracles are slight disturbances in his state of hypersleep, caused when floating space-rocks lightly brush against his complex multi-branched genitalia
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hi ned I didn't see you there
today is not a good day for crotch references on ILX
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Popul WTF
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
PEEP THE GIRAFFE
― 6335, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
great video clip ledge, feynman otm
― ksh, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"We feel like these haters are the big dumb, popular jocks ganging up on the little class clown scrub."anti-intellectual semi-pro-wrestlers going to play the nerd card? I always felt ICP were closer in spirit to John Cena (or makeupwise The Undertaker) than Mick Foley.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to, like, 5 seconds of their music would tell you otherwise
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
It's true, I've heard more of Randy Savage's rapping than John Cena's or ICP's.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1GaZv_yB6c&feature=player_embedded
I am absolutely certain that you, the good people of ILM, will love this.
― Hippocrates or wat!! (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
see what happens when you make the mistake of having eyes and ears
― henceforth we eat truffle fries (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 29 May 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://memegenerator.net/Douchebag-Giraffe/ImageMacro/976553/Douchebag-Giraffe-LIKE-VIOLENT-J-SAID-PEEP-THE-GIRAFFE.jpg
― Can the XBox 360 endure a virgin birth? (jamescobo), Monday, 31 May 2010 07:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji8N6sOS1Io
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Monday, 31 May 2010 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you guys trying to get people to remove bookmarks with these shitty youtubes?
― Fetchboy, Monday, 31 May 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FCKN-MAGNETS-HOW-DO-THEY-WORK/112338972123265http://www.facebook.com/pages/Knowing-How-Magnets-Work/120078281341206
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 31 May 2010 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the one I posted continues to blow my mind each time I watch it
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Monday, 31 May 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
shaggy is GOING OFF on twitter
http://twitter.com/shaggytoodope
― m@tt h (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 June 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
@KimKardashian seems sad innocent people have those diseases and you dont
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Friday, 18 June 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
@spencerpratt Seriously man why did you let your wife soon to beex-wife do that shit to her face? She looks like a melted wax figure
― m@tt h (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 June 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
@CBforJobSeekers youre site is horrible, half of the "jobs" are training agencies selling training products
― kkvgz, Friday, 18 June 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
truth bomb^
― m@tt h (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 June 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin scansion
how does it work
― silby, Saturday, 24 July 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link