DanielSwinney

I think sampling's roots actually go back to either Germany or France (musique concrete)

New Born Baby Colt has the highest hit-potential of any DBS track I've heard.

Ebert liked it. ***1/2

Well, I can only speak for myself personally... I don't rap (publicly) and I don't dress like a prototypical rapper, but I fell in love with rap music at five years old, before I even understood the racial split, and that was just because I thought it was the coolest-sounding music I had ever heard (in my long life). While initially seen as cute, my parents got kind of tired of it around middle school, and some of my schoolmates also picked on me for it (although it worked out because I bonded with other schoolmates, both black and white over it). And "cool" doesn't always mean "socially acceptable." At some point all those "bros"/"wiggers"/"wannabes" just got into the music and the style because they saw and heard and said, "Damn, that shit is cool. I want in on it." They were probably just guys who didn't care about "white society." I don't particularly care about it. I just enjoy the things I like, a la carte, whether that be Nirvana or EPMD. And few things are less cool than a blues festival of all white dudes. At least, based on most of the white bluesmen I've heard. Maybe there are some guys who fit that description doing good shit, but my mind goes to Delbert McClinton and Eric Clapton, who are both unlistenable to me. Basically, though, all my previous post was asserting was that if black rappers didn't create something awesome, white rappers wouldn't have fallen in love with it and become white rappers. Does it not stand to reason that white rappers were fans of rap before they became rappers? As to the "blackface wouldn't exist" part of your post, that only proves that black people's actions don't affect *every* white person. Of course there are going to be racist-ass white people who mock black people and think their culture is silly/stupid/horrible. But an individual member of any race can be inspired or influenced by the actions of an individual member of any other race, if what the latter person does simply strikes the former person as being inspiring/remarkable/"cool."

I dunno, I'd say the emergence of white rappers was definitely influenced by how cool the black rappers made it look and sound. I don't agree that one should just "expect" white people to start using terrible ethnic slurs because they heard the actual affected people using it.

Jaws was never his scene (and he didn't like Star Wars).

Oh and you can watch that Howard/DBS Comedy Central half-hour here: http://www.hulu.com/watch/236682

I'm uncomfortable with Kulap downing Howard's lazy Buddha God complex. It's a good complex.

I don't think Howard is afraid of losing fans. But maybe he wants to keep open the option to date a 27-year-old or something. He's been involved in youth culture all his life!

Next time: the Earwolf gang heads to the film section of the library in Analyze Fiche.

1) This is one of the most entertaining things I've ever heard. More more more. 2) Maybe Enmity would be a super nice place, in a Greenland/Iceland type of situation with Amity. 3) Spielberg is framboise.

Kyle is her sweetie, but not her fuck-sweetie.

I don't really have a problem with this one although I hardly see it as a strike against Jeremy Lin that he isn't "a bad dude" like Andrew says his cousins are.

You're all welcome.

Fabrice Fabrice has hammer toes.

Thank you dahling.

I have thoroughly enjoyed him on every podcast on which I've heard him (especially Never Not Funny.)

I think I have the clinch too. Let's start a movement.

I make it a point to argue with anyone I encounter who pulls out the "women just aren't that funny!" thing, which is a disappointing amount of people, male and female. It doesn't bother me when they name a specific woman though.

Well, to be fair, Kristen Schaal has something of an unusual voice but I could listen to her for hours. I do think Pamela Murphy is funny but there were a couple of times where the vocal presence of the Nancy character got a bit overbearing to me (even though she was saying funny things). Of course, the aforementioned Little Gary fits this description sometimes and I *love* Tom Lennon. Not to say there isn't something societal going against boisterously-voiced women comics/characters. Maria Bamford, who does the best voices in the whole word, had a pretty great observation on one of the Comedians of Comedy things when she said something to the effect of "I'm not sure it's that women aren't funny as much as it's that there are too many accountants with a bad Chris Rock impression and an irrational sense of confidence."

It sounded like Kyle was narrating the Youtube clip.

I would rather be told I dance well than poorly.

Yeah, I wish they would stop talking to her for long stretches and then maybe check in with her a bit.

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