"Soulja Boy Tell Em", like much hip hop music, is not about the lyrics so much as it is about the beat and the flow.

Hip-hop in the current mainstream has been heavily influenced by the southern styles in recent years. The "crunk" style is largely repetitive dance music. Like techno, like disco, like a lot of funk. I had never heard the original before this, but in the intro he says he is basically advertising a new dance. Yknow,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 12:15 AM on December 24, 2007

Flunkie; Get a heart man.

A beefheart, no less.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 11:07 PM on June 19, 2007

"... cuz if you askin 'why is hip-hop dead?', there's a pretty good chance you're the reason it died. Its a pretty good chance your lame-ass, corny-ass is the reason it died, man. You dont give a fuck about it, you dont know nothin about it..."
--Nas "Hope"


I am so sick of this bullshit. "Lazy Sunday" and "White and Nerdy" both worked (hype aside) because the people doing it actually had flow and a sense of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 11:29 AM on June 2, 2007

I am against any criticism of the family guy in that it might encourage Fox to renew its contract.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 9:12 PM on October 19, 2005

A friend of mine just finshed the job of remastering the whole collection of shut up little man (he worked with Eddie Lee Sausage for several years). A full compilation should soon be available on CD. Sorry, no more info beyond that.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 4:29 PM on October 2, 2005

Calling religion a drug is an insult to drugs everywhere. Religion is more like the placebo of the masses.

Worth logging back in just to make a non-remark!
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 8:07 PM on September 30, 2005

This site has a few articles on the history of the beat generation, though it mostly revolves around Neal Cassady. [Note: Quasi-self link.]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 5:55 PM on January 14, 2005

rxrfrx: Wrong. He is quite up front about bush being a bad president. The difference is that he is NOT a democrat, nor does he give the democrats a "free pass" the way Dennis Miller did with Bush.

OK, his interviews with high ranking politicians are often soft, and he didnt ask Kerry the "tough questions". But he didnt claim to. He was equally soft on Richard Perle when he was on plugging his book on "winning the war on terror".... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 12:22 PM on October 29, 2004

I was never able to get on that site from Japan over the last year or so, I wonder if it was just blocked there.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 11:08 AM on October 27, 2004

Kenko: I think its The Name of the Rose Lite, but i havnt read Pendulum yet.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 12:10 PM on August 10, 2004

I get more than a little irritated, when I hear whites cheering Cosby on. Nothing wrong with agreeing with his options, but keep it to yourself. It's not our place. It's not constructive.

Absolutely not. This attitude is segragationist and wrong. We all live in a society, if one particular, sector of society is not working than society itself isnt working. It is indeed very difficult to discuss issues of race without automatically pushing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 4:42 AM on July 3, 2004

The effect of race is very subtle, lkc. While nobody may be handing out passes to you on the basis of your skin color, it does subtly effect how the world interacts with you. This is certainly no reflection of how you interact with the world, but how it choses to see you.

I understand that. Part of the point was that I came from an almost exclusively white background. In that sense, I dont think race was really an issue in my early... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 11:33 PM on July 8, 2004

These bands all suck, how come they didnt do anything good, like something by Roxette or Fleetwood Mac?
/t r o l l
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 9:01 PM on July 8, 2004

Wow, this guy sounds like me talking to my computer, only much much more relaxed.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 10:00 PM on July 6, 2004

Why do you hate circles?
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 6:58 PM on July 6, 2004

Wanna go in the woods and smoke smoke squeef and drink Peachtree?

I'm already there, dude...waiting for the rest of the party to show up. I just learned how to make a killer bong out of a coconut and some bamboo, but that shit doesnt grow around here so I took apart my moms furniture.

What would a girls' tee-shirt that declares "I Love Science Nerds!" have to do with science?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 6:30 PM on July 5, 2004

On second thought, I would probably buy and wear a T-shirt that says "I love science nerds."

...aw, I missed it, should have previewed twice. Konolia, you are dead on. What you believe is your choice, but you should believe it, not follow the cool kids. If there is an inherent spiritual truth to it, than it should not be necessary to recruit people by going after their social insecurities and/or hormone fluctuations.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 6:35 PM on July 5, 2004

journalism : the final resting place for assholes with nothing to say.

Biting my tongue.

I like pitchfork, even though I dont listen to any of the stuff that they seem to live and die by, like Radiohead. But I read it and other review sites just like I read reviews for movies. I already know what I like, but I like to see other peoples opinions on things. And their reviews for crap is usually pretty funny.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 10:15 PM on July 1, 2004

I have an iRiver iHP and it does everything I want. Namely: no DRM, upgradeable firmware, can record wav and mp3 through an internal mic or an external analog/optical connection. It is USB 2, which is apparently a little slower, but not enough to bother me. It does not require any drivers or software, just a USB capable computer. It works under any operating system (except my friends mac where he had disabled all his USB extensions). Great sound quality, long battery life. Plus, it isnt made by... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 8:47 PM on July 1, 2004

I think chapelles show is great, but there are points where he falls back on character gimmicks, or gets the pacing off, especially in the first season, but very admirable for having such limited resources, as has been pointed out before, he gets passed the "black people walk like this, white people walk like this" (though sometimes not too far). His musical segments can be hit or miss, and there is sometimes a sense of trying to pad out the episode, with the clips in the audience,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 10:34 PM on June 22, 2004

FARK! hey bob sarabia, from now one [sic], please post your worthless, apolitical blather posts under here, fark.com!.[sic] how about that? please?

Apart from the obvious typo and double punctuation, this post a bit perplexing. By "under here" do you mean that we should post the political links that we dont find interesting under the heading of this thread where you link to a news aggregation site? What do we do with the worthwhile... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 3:27 AM on June 18, 2004

(suffix...damnit!)
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 3:27 AM on June 18, 2004

T r a c y:
Absolutely. I was going to make a comment earlier to the tune that, while USA today is the fluffiest and most obvious "news"-paper in the U.S., the fact that they are reporting stories like this goes to show how obvious the psychological problems of Japan are becoming.

Gender is one issue, and admittedly a huge one (i could go on for hours, actually), but even the lonely planet guidebook describes their culture as being "morbidly... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 10:55 PM on June 3, 2004

oops, overtyped once again, the last paragraph was in response to what T r a c y said...the first part was what I was going to post earlier.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 11:01 PM on June 3, 2004

stav: yeah ok, fair enough. Also, stuff like that is why people become the expats in the first place, right? Cultural perspective and all. From what I have heard of Korea and Taiwan (from an admittedly small sample size) much of the same happens: all white guys look like brad pitt or tom cruise, friends of yours will still complement you on your amazing chopstick skills after they have known you for years, and some old men dress like rappers with an admirable obliviousness. Of course there are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 12:39 AM on June 4, 2004

Oh its fine, absolutely no offense taken. There are good things here, and there are reasons that I have been here as long as I have, certainly. Ultimately, I think its some of the difficulties japan is having in progressing that is what makes it so appealing to foreigners, who I generally find more objectionable than the japanese, who are usually at least polite.
Back on topic though: I dont think living with your parents your whole life is really -- as any measure of social progress... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 1:27 AM on June 4, 2004

Preview first: yep, the "where's my hamburger" types are here. But its ok, because there is mcdonalds everywhere and they make all the workers speak english to foreigners. Im pretty catankerous as well, and recently things have changed so that the things I like are pretty substantially outweighed.

Windbaggery second:
[sorry for the length, I write all day and drink a helluva lot of coffee, so I dont notice how long my responses are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 2:31 AM on June 4, 2004

No groo?
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 8:24 PM on June 2, 2004

Yes, but originally was on eclipse for the first 10 or 11 issues, then moved to the marvel subsidiary epic (or do i have those backwards) where it got to 100 issues before moving to dark horse. I have everything up until then, but that was when the indies were having a gimmick/price war with the big-guns, part of what caused the industry to crash.

Published by marvel should still be in the marvel universe. Just another example of the corporations holding the cheese-dip... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 2:10 AM on June 3, 2004

Well, this is obviously true, otherwise it wouldnt be on the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 6:23 PM on May 20, 2004

For the record: Michael Winslow rules. In fact, I just watched Buy and Cell (called 'Money Academy' in japan, to play up the fact that he was in police academy), it has quite possibly the greatest 80s cast: Michael Winslow and Robert Carradine (davids brother AKA the head nerd from revenge of the nerds) Rowdy roddie piper, the biker guy from raising arizona, and Malcolm McDowell as a prison warden...if only it had Curtis Armstrong.

OK, so maybe its not that good, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 10:42 PM on May 18, 2004

I love seeing these stories. A couple of my coworkers were passing around pictures of one that said "baka gaijin" (stupid foreigner), in Seattle several years back, there was a tattoo artist who would give free tattoos for what he thought was "revolution" only to find that it meant leather, and, there are always others...

I would feel pretty stupid if I were any of those people, but they would have to be pretty stupid to walk into a shop and say... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 1:43 AM on April 9, 2004

Since much of the lyrics seem to be original, its more of a stylistic tribute, musically to metallica, and lyrically to the beatles, though I am not intimately familiar with either.

Though given how litigious Metallica has proven to be, and the protection of the perpetual cash-crop of the beatles is in the best interest of the publishers, you never know...
posted to MetaFilter by lkc at 10:51 PM on April 6, 2004