Monday, September 05, 2005
Rock and Roll is Fat and Ugly
Mainstream rock and roll has continued on with its unrelenting express towards unending boredom, while hip hop, in the last five years, has progressed beyond Bone Thugs N Harmony, Warren G, and Coolio and actually become relevant and interesting. You can argue you all you want, and come up with pretty solid arguments, that mainstream rock and roll is inferior to independent rock and roll, it's a lot harder to make that same argument about hip hop. Jay'z working with Dead Prez makes sense and actually works, 'Tallica (pre or post Cliff Burton) teaming up with Fugazi doesn't.
Kanye West did tonight what Michael Moore could never do, and no I don't mean tearing himself away from an all you can eat buffet, and that's doing more than preaching to the converted.
Is it as important as Ali's 'no vietcong ever called me a nigger'? I'm not sure, but it's a lot more interesting than anything ever uttered by any rock group in the last decade.
The video can be found here
Mainstream rock and roll has continued on with its unrelenting express towards unending boredom, while hip hop, in the last five years, has progressed beyond Bone Thugs N Harmony, Warren G, and Coolio and actually become relevant and interesting. You can argue you all you want, and come up with pretty solid arguments, that mainstream rock and roll is inferior to independent rock and roll, it's a lot harder to make that same argument about hip hop. Jay'z working with Dead Prez makes sense and actually works, 'Tallica (pre or post Cliff Burton) teaming up with Fugazi doesn't.
Kanye West did tonight what Michael Moore could never do, and no I don't mean tearing himself away from an all you can eat buffet, and that's doing more than preaching to the converted.
Is it as important as Ali's 'no vietcong ever called me a nigger'? I'm not sure, but it's a lot more interesting than anything ever uttered by any rock group in the last decade.
The video can be found here
Tonight at karaoke a woman got up and dedicated a song to the people of New Orleans while she was wearing a 'Twister' t-shirt. She then proceeded to stumble through Willie Nelson's "You were always on my mind".
I thought a hurricaine hit New Orleans not a train wreck.
I thought a hurricaine hit New Orleans not a train wreck.
