one thing i hate is when the subject of rap is brought up around white people and they say
"i'm so white" or "i can't rap, i'm so white" or they go "yo yo yo" and they cross their arms and act like they're scratchin a record get off the whole race thing.. we already know u are fcking white u don't see black people sayin things like that cuz we aren't hung up on race like me for example, when i got into music as a teen i listened to white rappers more than black ones before eminem even came out like i was into the beastie boys, then icp, then some other guys like kmk, then eminem, and a lot of rock in the 90s had rappers like limp bizkit, kid rock, crazy town, and some bands had latino rappers such as 311 and rage against the machine so to me, when white people talk about rap and they do some dumb sh*t like turn their cap sideways and act like idiots it just shows me they don't get out much.. like rap is not about race, so stop bringing that up.. no music is about race! your "i'm so white" jokes are not funny and they've been used WAY too much.. i've seen white people do it my entire life STOP IT, u look stupid not only are u kicking dirt at every white rapper as if they never existed, but ur acting as if black people are all some kind of rapping stereotype i get it, it is born out of insecurity.. someone brings up the subject of rap and u feel inadequate cuz u don't know much about the subject.. WELL THEN DONT GET IN ON THE CONVERSATION! just leave it alone! (sidebar note: eminem was the highest selling artist of the 2000 - 20009 decade.. in other words.. ITS SAFE TO STOP THAT "i'm so white" ISH!!! DO US ALL A FAVOR AND ACT LIKE U ARE IN 2010)
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i tend to wear skate shoes
i wear them for a number of reasons but sometimes people come up to me and they say "do u skate?" i say "no" and they say "oh so ur a poser then?" i normally just say "yep" the reason i say yes is because i feel like for them to even approach me like that shows that their view is so narrow that i can't possibly explain to them what is wrong with them asking me such a dumbass question its like.. no, i'm not up for trying to explain quantum physics to a 2 yr old today so i shrug off their assumptions with a "yes" and go on about my business ok.. well i'm gonna take some time out here and explain why i wear skate shoes, and why i'm not a "poser" #1. skate shoes are the most fashionable sneaks they put a lot into the look of their shoes.. i am a creative person, i make music and i write and i naturally appreciate other forms of creativity game recognizes game and i like skate shoes from a fashion standpoint #2. skate shoes are the most comfortable sneakers not only do they just fit right, and have extra padding, but they also most times have elastic on the sides of the tongue which keeps it in place at all times.. not only that but it also makes it so u don't really have to tie ur shoe.. because ur foot is always essentially being "hugged" #3. skate shoes have fair prices it is normally possible to find skate shoes for very reasonable prices the latest skate shoes i got were $48.. a fair price.. but really, more than fair considering what is put into the fashion and comfort of the shoe ok.. now let me move on to my last point if i buy a piece of team apparel, and i'm not actually ON the team.. am i a poser? how about say, if i bought a dallas cowboys jersey because they r my fave team, but say i live in michigan.. am i a poser? like, i just bought a new york yankees new era cap.. i don't play baseball, i don't live in new york.. and i am not even a fan of baseball but the hat matched a shirt of mine AM I A POSER? NO, its clothing, not a damn tattoo! in other words GET OVER IT, i wear skate shoes because i want to and because IM NOT YOU. one thing i hate about black people is when they are condescending to their own race
like i remember reading a cee-lo interview a few yrs back and he said something like "i like portishead.. can u believe that? a black man who listens to portishead?" i just stopped right there like "ARE YOU FCKING SERIOUS!?" WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE DO THAT!? when black people listen to rock sometimes they think they are the only black people who enjoy it!!! u discover nirvana and u automatically think u are the only black person who likes nirvana THAT WILL NEVER BE THE CASE. stop acting like black people only like one thing yes black culture a lot of times does deem certain things "cool" and other things "uncool" .. so yes, some black people are kinda closed-minded.. but the key-word there is SOME go to almost any concert of any genre or band and u will see black people there end of story i find it funny
i thought i had it kinda hard this semester in 2 ways 1. i have class at 8am sometimes 2. i have 4 classes back to back sometimes so in 8am class, i sat by this chick and i asked her how many classes she has today.. she said "well, i just got out of one, sooo" i was like WHAT? lol i thought 8am was the earliest u could have class! she said that joint started at 6:55am then later i ran into a girl and i was like i wish he'd hurry up i'm hungry.. she was like "yeah i know what u mean, i have 5 classes back to back today" i thought four was bad! i personally take this as God saying to me: "i know u think u have it kinda bad, but i need to remind u #1, you don't.. and #2, don't even think about complaining or making excuses" thanks a lot Posted by poolboyjames on January 24, 2010 at 8:24 PM comments (2)i have noticed that its better to take classes for subjects u hate than to take classes u think will be cool
i've learned this because my english class is garbage and we've only had a week of class so far i love writing and i love creativity so when i take an english class i expect it to be good on some level unfortunately it is ass on rye so far we haven't written anything, the teacher just goes on and on talking about garbage that means nothing.. he's explaining to us the mechanics of writing.. mechanics are developed with use.. so why not let us DO something? our first assignment is a writing about someone else's story! how is that an assignment? what is the point? this is the same thing that turned me away from the school band in the 6th grade.. i'd be thinking, i love music but i don't want to learn about what some guy did 100 yrs ago.. so they made something great for THEIR time.. so the fck WHAT!? i feel like my creativity is deemed irrelevant at school!!! no wonder i'm buying pink shoelaces and decorating my room with weird stuff all the time!! because at school its like "check all opinions and creative ideas at the door" this is one major reason why school bothers me so much!! its starting to be clear to me now.. all those times i didn't do good at school, i'm starting to see exactly WHY i hated it so much its funny because i feel like, in order to succeed at school i actually have to TURN MY BRAIN OFF which is effed up to say the very least AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why do people like to get in your business?
as a person u like to offer your good news to others.. they downplay it they would rather probe for the negative aspects of your life and magnify it ok i'm goin on record right now to say i am closing up shop and not telling anyone anything i deem unnecessary for them to know about me anymore i am semi upset at myself for even letting people know about some of my circumstances and situations because they bring it up all the time as if that is all i am for example if i said to someone "i sometimes drink too much" then next time i see them its "hey whats up james.. what ya got there? coffee? oh u trying to let go of the alcohol huh?" or "hey should u be going out? they have alcohol there" or WHATEVER.. whatever they say will be about the negative thing but if i say "hey i just got a job! it pays $2,000 a week!" they will try to make it lesser of a big deal.. "well u know, job security is a bitch these days" "u better get started on paying those loans back" "oh $2,000 a wk? how much is that after taxes?" HOW IN THE FCK IS THAT ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! i wanna talk about why i don't go to school for music i went to belmont and school of audio engineering in the past belmont is touted as the premier school of music buisness school of audio engineering (sae) is self explanatory at belmont i tried to start a hip hop club because everyone seemed to be country and gospel oriented.. no one wanted to sign my petition everyone was closed minded "don't rappers use curse words?" stuff like that.. people not understanding that music is what u make it, not just what u've seen people do with it as for the actual music business classes.. i learned a few things but one thing i also learned is that the music business is a business.. meaning if u are an artist, u need a basic knowledge but the rest has to be left up to experts.. if u sat around doing business all day u wouldn't be able to do music would u? so u need a lawyer, u need a manager, a booking agent, etc. etc. thus.. the school of music business is more geared towards people with those aspirations if u wanted to be an artist like me.. everything was very boring and lame.. "i'm at a music school.. so why is school so wack?" no, ur at a music BUSINESS school, beyond that.. everything they teach changes very quickly, so anything beyond a basic knowledge FOR AN ARTIST, is too much info for example, when i studied at belmont they taught us about the big 5.. 5 major record companies and their subsidiaries and royalties and ish now there's only 3 and mtv doesn't play videos anymore and mp3s sell more than cds now and all cd stores are pretty much closed because u can get music for free etc etc meaning the whole landscape changed so quickly that damn near everything i learned was worthless, a few basic principles may remain, but today.. today u can do what u want.. the labels don't have ur nuts in their hand anymore.. draw up your own contracts and live by them.. why not? the rules have been tossed out the window as for sae this school was even worse they taught us things that were irrelevant to today's music creation landscape for example, i know how to use a tape machine.. but who gives a f*ck? would it make any sense for me to BUY a tape machine today? or better yet, buy that expensive tape? its so archaic to sit there editing with tape and a razor blade.. but this sort of ish is what i was graded on also.. no joke they gave u assignments to "develop your ear" they would make u spend hours at a time in a room with headphones on listening to white noise do u fcking know what white noise is? it is the sound when ur tv does this GREAT
re-read wtf i just said.. u would have to log HOURS listening to f*cking white noise i shouldn't have to say anything else after that but basically i will say sae was bullshit for someone who wants a basic knowledge of how to make music.. my teacher was a tech-y guy who loved 70s music.. no joke one day i raised my hand and asked him how he knew so much stuff because he for some reason explained how a f*cking toaster worked to the whole class he explained how he knew it, then he said thanks because he took my question as a compliment, a testament to his vast array of stupid-ass knowledge what i mean is, if ur not one of those guys then that shit is not for u what music schools do is they prepackage bullshit and sell it to u in the form of "THE ROAD TO YOUR DREAMS" what i have learned is, u just go out and work and make your dreams come to fruition through planning and long term and short term goal setting why do i say this? ok u can go to SAE (school of audio engineering) and pay some asshole $9,000 to make u memorize 10 pages of microphones, or the fcking sound frequency of a tremolo (NOT EVEN KIDDING) or make u listen to white noise like u have nothing better to do with your saturday OR u can take half that money- get on the internet, figure out what u need to buy, buy it, then start making your album there is no right way to get to your dreams these schools want u to think their way is the way to success, but they just limit u, make u feel like everything u do is wrong, make u feel like if ur not doin it like this or that that ur not relevant the way to success is prayer, planning, goal setting, and accomplishment so for me music is MY thing, i refuse to allow anyone to tell me anything about it i would rather go to school and work and do things completely out of the realm of music, than be in music and have my beloved hobby raped and devalued and deemed worthless by some idiot in a suit who has no understanding of what i'm attempting to do in the first place i think about fashion a lot
some mornings this past semester at school i'd wake up, put something on, then change, then change again.. then be like.. man, there's nothing wrong with the clothes, its my body LOL then look for something else to wear its kinda funny cuz when i was growin up i liked to look my best then in my teen years i didn't really care much about fashion at all but now its like i am back to wanting to look my best fashion to me is so interesting and cool, and there are so many diff looks a person can go for, its really a labor, but its a labor of love and creativity its kinda like a small hobby of mine to just think about fashion, think about what works and why.. think about the implications of a certain look this particular shirt only looks good brand new, however this other shirt looks better the older it gets.. why does something work on one person but not on another fashion can be as easy or as difficult as one may want to make it recently i've been thinking about diff accessories and how they play a part in an overall look fashion is the act of saying something without saying anything i wouldn't say i've mastered it yet but its fun to mess with it here and there but i'm just thinkin outloud u know i don't understand why people like movies
i hate movies they are so gay videogames murder movies in my opinion for me, a movie has to be a damn classic just to be worth watching more than once and ish like movies are the same everytime, this is why i don't understand why people collect movies and ish.. its the same damn movie everytime!! at least in a game u have the campaign, then u have collectibles and ish, then u have online multiplayer and all that.. ish never gets old! but my fave movies for anyone who is curious i like ghostworld and office space i've liked more but those are very close to my heart classics in my book it seems like i hate girls more and more everyday i don't have one of my own
when i was little i had a sega genesis and some kids had a super nintendo no kids really had both systems, most had one or the other if u had a genesis u dissed the super nintendo if u had a super nintendo u dissed the genesis partly out of envy, u wanted the other system to fail.. cuz u knew u'd never get to play the games u saw in the magazines for the system u don't have it was like "if i can't play it then fuck that system!" LOL same thing today i got no girl so i just grow angrier and angrier its like if i can't find one for myself then f*ck yall! ish is bonkers LOL + Z |
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