off-topic is fine when it's funny or offering lunch tips.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I just keep seeing deej running into Taco Bell and screaming "WHERE THE PAD THAI AT, NIGGA? POW POW WAKA WAKA GUCCI MANE"
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:06 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
still LOLing at this....
― melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously though have you guys seen a menu at cheesecake factory? shit's like the manual to Protools
― da poupier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
where we only spread love and talk about jungle bros.
dude those jungle bros threads are usually just you and me lol
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
upper: yea, and it has advertisements in it. I think i've had approximately 8% of the stuff on the menu. also some of the items have enough calories to be like an entire day's worth of eating.
― melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
now i want an xxl chalupa
― am0n, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
man 8% is probably what like 20 dishes?
― da poupier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yea. I took my ex there A LOT last year, plus there's one right close to me.
― melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
you guys really shouldn't eat at cheesecake factory. for your health, if no other reason.
now off to have my 11th cigarette of the last five hours.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
lol.
no joke tho after I read about the calorie counts at that place it was like o_O
― melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the thread that keeps on giving
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i am eating some good-ass pad thai right now. in all serious i suggest pad thai today for those who have yet to eat lunch.
ok fuck yes I am now going to make for lunch my world-famous Pad Thai Del Unemployment Line
peanut butter soy sauce and linguine noodles & don't fucking knock it til you try it
― drawl the whine (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
aerosmith livin on the edge
― gr80 antebellum (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0BlXy3Roj4
also still dope btw
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
When I go to the Cheesecake factory, I order the Pad Thai off the "exotic sensations" page.
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I chugged a broccoli cheese soup purchased at Einstein Bros :(
what the blood clot indeed
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
hey guys: fuck you
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
take it to the cee-lo thread
― melody-hating aggr0 nerd (San Te), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hey deej in seriousness would like to hear what you think about biz and kool g rap as i mentioned up thread
― da poupier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
cuz to me Biz is exactly what yr talking about but sometimes ppl don't see personas etc unless they are really serious ones like scarface
― da poupier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought that was a really good pt & im glad someone is actually paying attention to what im saying. biz strikes me as a dude whose personality translated very fully thru his raps early on
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean thats the thing, theres a detachment to gza that ghost doesnt have
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
so mad
― am0n, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
biz strikes me as a dude whose personality translated very fully thru his raps early on
even tho Big Daddy Kane wrote a bunch of them lol
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't buy the thing about personas at all really
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― am0n, Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:40 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes im rather aggy
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
maybe he was a good writer?
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i do understand yr point, but i would like to throw in that i feel like you kinda of underrate the old school punchlining stuff...
to me that era will always just sound fresh, it's the only time in my life where i got to hear something *really* happening, like a new genre coming into maturity....that stuff seems like chuck berry records or james brown records or the stooges or whatever, like very dated to its time but also timeless...
like i heard a buddy holly song on a commercial and i was like damn that is dope...just feels perfect....that era of rap is like that to me...
maybe the punchlines are dated and i understand that it def hold you at a certain distance to the artist, like who IS big daddy kane, you don't have a feel for him outside of a loverman/microphone technician (as opposed to Schooly D or Slick Rick or Biz who are more fully formed characters)....but that makes it no less great to me.
but honestly i'll be stuck on that stuff to a certain point my whole life...the same way that 60s dudes are stuck on dylan and the beatles and hendrix and etc, because honestly we can all talk about oh man school of seven bells rules or the new waka flocka record is dope but it's SOOOOO rare to hear something really being born, then grow up in front of you....nirvana/alternative/indie (which i guess would be the other thing considered a "revolution" in the canon that I lived through) isn't the same...like it was only because it got popular, everyone in the know (like dudes older/cooler than me) just saw it as a surfacing of 80s underground U.S. rock in pop culture.
but to turn on the TV and see "Microphone Fiend" for the first time? To hear Rakim's voice for the first time...man I will never forget that.
― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
(xposts)
― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuckin' frame Matt's post somewhere and be done with it, because that says it all.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is totally how I feel about it too. maybe it's just personal "you had to be there" shit
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
just to derail further: wasn't dance music / techno really happening, in a much more decisive ground-breaking way, than underground rock?
― paulhw, Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i lived on a farm in southern mn, so like had zero idea until the chemical bros. and moby and prodigy and shit like that, but yeah i guess in uk and other places it was
― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
dance music's big revolution seems like it happened in the late 70s/early 80s to me. by the time rave kicked in in the 90s it was just ooh louder/faster/bigger/more annoying
xp
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
but yeah the 90s stuff was a MUCH bigger deal in the UK/europe than it was here
dance music's big revolution seems like it happened in the late 70s/early 80s to me.
btw what I'm referring to here is stuff like disco edits, the wholesale adoption of synths/drum machines/computers, the DJ as artist, etc.
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
everything that came after was just an extension of those concepts/approaches
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
nuh uh
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
do tell
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"everything that came after was just an extension of those concepts/approaches"
Couldn't you make that absurdly reductionist claim about basically anything? I mean why listen to any metal post-Sabbath it's "just an extension of those concepts/approaches", etc.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't think that was direct commentary on the worth of what came after, but rather an opinion on what constitutes something being "seminal" with the added indirect rider that he finds seminal works more interesting/exciting than things that expand upon the original toolkit.
So, it's not that that stuff was worthless or anything, it just wasn't as exciting as disco. Which, you know, is kind of silly, but then that's why opinions are so fun to argue over.
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
well I did say 90s techno was "more annoying" so in some ways it was a value judgment albeit a flippant one. you could say it about a lot of genres (I don't think metal is a good example tho, cuz metal REALLY broadened as it grew older). but yeah pretty much every genre takes shape around a few basic tenets that are then explored and refined in subsequent years, it's just the way it is I don't think it's inherently negative. My point with dance music was that the seminal/shaping of the genre occurred way earlier than the 90s. If there was some massive formal shift in dance music in the 90s I have no idea what it was, feel free to elaborate.
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
and yeah M@tt's whole post was about the excitement of witnessing a genre take shape - which IS exciting - so that's what I was referring to.
― i was like a person at a table at a place (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the wholesale appropriation of sampling in the late 80s took dance music in a bunch of different, divergent directions, culminating in the explosion of sub-genres that marked dance music in the early 90s.
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i wasn't leaving out techno/dance on purpose, my post was more personal, what hip hop meant to me back then. i didn't even know techno existed back then, and i still don't really know enough about it to say how significant it was or which era was important.
though that said, i don't think it would have felt the same to me because hip hop wasn't just watching a music take shape, it was really an exposure to people, or the lives of people in america that i couldn't imagine and had no knowledge of...like i would see the videos and think about the bronx or compton and it was so far away to me. even just the street names and the neighborhoods or references to local businesses (like sir mix-a-lot talking about dick's hamburgers) clothing or shoes, just all the little details of lives i couldn't fathom.
techno doesn't have those things.
it's weird to think about that time when everything wasn't available to you all the time, how amazing it was when you found something.
― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
well no, techno in its purest form is all about gay robots giving you dance drugs
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
First result in google for gay robots dance drugs:
http://www.houseofdiabolique.com/links.htm
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Face it. You have little reason to visit any other websites after seeing mine.But here are some that interest me.
microhouse is weak like clock radio speakers.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean those kinds of similies are basically like, your literature/language arts teacher explaining rap music kind of goofy. its just ... dated juice crew type ish. rappers inhabit personas more fully now― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:23 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:23 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
"clever and/or unexpected wordplay is so dated" goes a very long way towards why I don't feel a lot of current hip-hop― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― GLEERILLAZ! (HI DERE), Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
metal (discussed upthread) is a good comparison genre, though. i love metal, and have to admit that i don't want my orc-puverizing fantasies interrupted by goofy, artist-humanizing asides. i want nonstop blood and thunder. maybe this is because i genuinely enjoy certain aspects of metal's fantasy universe: weed, monsters, insanity, barbarian carnage, horror flicks, etc. and maybe it's because the fundamental unreality of that universe prevents me from ever taking the artistic POV too seriously. i dunno. point is, i'm not so in love with the corollary aspects of contemporary rap's fantasy universe: dealing, wealth, gangsters, strippers, clubs, etc. and rap's not always so clear about the placement of the line that separates entertaining fantasy from ugly reality. which goes some way towards explaining why i like it when the personas involved aren't quite so fully inhabited.
― miss danilelle steven and her clitoral stimulator, away! (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link