what is hip hop? Posted by poolboyjames on August 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM comments (0)a few years ago someone on tv asked about what hip hop is
i answered the question to myself with one word without hesitating at all i said "honesty" to me that was always what hip hop was about there's more to it than just honesty but can you call it hip hop if it doesn't come from an honest place? not to me yeah it might be "urban" or the person might be rhyming.. but to me, honesty is by far the number one prerequisite to having a hip hop song so.. that has always been my view, my mindframe, my take, and my intent in, and for the genre
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still angry Posted by poolboyjames on August 4, 2009 at 9:03 AM comments (0)man i hate summer
and u know one thing that probably makes me hate it even more is that so many people like it people are are like "i can't wait til the weather gets warm and sunny again!" and instantly they are filed into my brain's "worthless human beings" folder. i hate summer so much that i'm not sure if i can even properly express it its such an obnoxious season in general u wash ur car and an hour later a bird has re-painted ur ish u go outside and walk into a spider web i'm not even gonna make another list but basically i'm looking forward to fall and winter.. when everything freezes and dies and stops being so gay *prays to be able to move north* assault in the ring Posted by poolboyjames on August 3, 2009 at 2:01 PM comments (0)i peeped a good documentary today called "assault in the ring"
it was about a boxing match in 1983 what made me not turn the channel was the fact that it was a narrative feature about a boxing match between two boxers i've never heard of so i just decided to watch it out of curiosity cuz i figured there had to be some sort of interesting twist to this because why else would they be talking about a boxing match that occurred before i was even born? so basically, what happened was, this guy resto won the fight.. for about 10 seconds just a few seconds after he "won" then someone grabbed his boxing glove.. i don't know if it was to shake his hand or what, but when he grabbed resto's hand and felt his glove, he could tell that his gloves had no padding in them another thing resto's side did to cheat was, they plastered their hands prior to the fights.. so it was like their hands were solid and wrapped in the same way arm casts are wrapped on top of that, resto's trainer gave his fighters performance enhancing (not legally sanctioned) drinks when they were tired.. these drinks expanded the lungs and their oxygen intake, giving them great bursts of energy seemingly out of nowhere so basically, the guy resto beat up (collins) was taking bare knuckle punches the whole night by someone on performance enhancing drugs who had their hands plastered under their gloves needless to say, collins got beat into oblivion to the point where people were saying he would never fight again so collins got depressed and began drinking a lot and he died not long after that fight in a car crash from a mixture of alcohol and suicidal thoughts so the documentary was about what happened, who rigged the match, why, and what everyone is doing, etc. etc. i reccommend peeping it out one thing i personally noticed in watching it was how no one took ownership of what happened, no one took responsibility for rigging the match and cheating people in general always want to blame something or someone else, no one ever accepts discipline or criticism.. its just a drawback of humanity i suppose another thing i noticed was that money and greed corrupted that match.. there were outside bets (some involving cocaine dealers) that were more lucrative than any of the inside money.. so resto's side refused to lose based on all the money they could make if they won money isn't everything seeing money and greed ruin so many lives in this documentary reinforces to me that my favorite thing (music) is not about money or profit.. it is about making, sharing, creating, relating, having fun, and doing it all with integrity and honesty.. money is a byproduct of success, not a prerequisite to it yall peep that doc if ur interested peaCe quote tyme Posted by poolboyjames on August 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM comments (0)"sometimes u have to make the right decision, other times u have to make the decision right"
- dr. phil round 1 Posted by poolboyjames on August 2, 2009 at 7:21 AM comments (0)i been lookin for new music to rock
here's a few of the things i got costanza - "sonic diary" passion pit - "manners" killswitch engage - self titled blueprint - "sign language" lady sovereign - "jigsaw" of all these, killswitch engage is my favorite.. they are very talented, their songs have great instrumentation and they have a lot going on but somehow they make it sound welcome as opposed to overwhelming i can't exactly say i've found what i wanted yet.. i probably am looking for a classic alternative hip hop or trip hop album? but that's not to take away from the killswitch album at all.. its epic so yeah.. this blog represents round 1 of my new music search one thing i'd like to point out also is that in looking for new music i ran across team sleep again and fell in love with their music again their self titled 2005 debut is one of the highlights of this decade if u ask me.. like when we think back to this decade, that will always be a mid-decade classic waiting to be re-discovered and enjoyed.. sitting just under the radar for all the fans to find and have a personal experience with all the mindless pop and rap of the decade just make the cd that much more important too anyway on to round 2 peaCe a brand new concept Posted by poolboyjames on August 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM comments (0)i heard a term the other day that put words to a concept i had in my head for a few months
someone said the words "emotional lesbianism" once i heard it i was like "THATS IT!" ..like i don't even know if its a real term or not, but hearing it was like "concept meets vocabulary" .. so it was a total eureka moment i have worked with a lot of women, (my last job was almost all women).. and in some cases i noticed how they clung to eachother, in ways guys never would do like on one hand i think, ok if ur single, maybe u compensate for it with friends of the same sex but these women just crossed all sorts of lines with eachother (at least in my mind) whether they were single or taken basically scaling back a male's role to sexual and monetary, and amping up female "friends" to confidant, comforter, admirer, shoulder, supporter, companion, caretaker, etc etc these females are: telling eachother secrets they don't tell their male spouse telling eachother how cute they look calling eachother pet names giving eachother compliments on sexual body parts i.e. rear and chest speaking with eachother about sexual experiences u may even catch some light touching between these women the list just goes on and on.. like these are the girls who go to clubs and dance with eachother instead of with guys u might say "oh all that is normal" no, its all of this combined, and then some more stuff.. its not normal and yeah i'd say in general chicks tend to stick together more than males, but what i'm talking about is when it just gets weird like when chicks are totally just flat-out gay with eachother with every attribute for a relationship minus sex, like they have no kind of personal space and nothing is private or off-limits, instead everything is shared and they talk everyday and basically date one another they have mental intimacy and vulnerability with only women and only have physical intimacy with men emotional lesbianism as a term was almost like an epiphany for me, i always had this odd feeling about some of the women i worked with, but i never had the words to put to it its total emotional lesbianism how do i feel about it? i really just think these females need to grow up i think they have probably been through things that have led them to (or been taught to) have a fear of men and a trust of women i say get over it, grow up, and move on in a serious male/female relationship stop using females as a crutch, not saying give up all ur friends and family, but recognize what is going on ur gay and u don't even know it. word hgtv Posted by poolboyjames on August 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM comments (0)hgtv is home and garden television
i watch it quite a bit however i have some issues with the channel i love the shows and what they present, however i hate HOW they are presented like for example i was just watching it and they had 3 carpenter guys working on remodeling a bathroom all three of them were wearing express for men sweaters what capenter shows up to work looking like he just stepped out of a catalog? this is the kind of thing that irks me about the channel, it is just so gay and female oriented another thing is the whole newlywed theme that i see over and over.. why can't a show about people getting a new house just be a show about people getting a new house? why does it have to be half about a wedding or a newlywed lifestyle and half about the new house? i don't care about their wedding or their relationship in any way shape or form and another thing is what is the deal with the gay guys? its just out of control on that channel the other day i was watching it and this designer put mini-chandeliers in a damn garage it had a car on one side and on the other side there was couches and little mini chandeliers hanging from the ceiling WTF. i don't even have to tell u he was gay, his designing did it for me *smh* |
JaimsThese are my blogs from 2009. I started them in May of that year when I couldn't work on music but still needed a way to express myself. Archives
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