wakefresh
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Howard, its called roots reggae. It's not some specific style that is only for Bob Marley to use. And I have to disagree that the Golden Age of Hip Hop is the late 80s -- it starts from the beginning of West Coast gangsta funk and ends after the dissolution of Rawkus Records.
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Episode 51 — LIVE from A3C Atlanta w/ Pharoahe Monch
wakefresh replied to JulyDiaz's topic in Shots Fired
This is a fucking good episode! It's been awhile since I heard his song, "The Light" but as soon as you played it, I was transported back to gym jams in Winston-Salem circa 1999. And yeah, the radio in NC bumped Pharoahe Monk hard. We recognize good music; Little Brother/9th Wonder/Justus League are our state sons, ya know. Is this the new format that was spoken of in an earlier episode? If so, this is a real good. There are so many people that you don't hear about that had a huge influence on hip-hop, like Paul C. Also, if you all are setting up interview formats now, would it be possible to interview Large Professor? This is a guy that I hear mentioned by a lot of NY rappers, but have never heard of outside of that. I feel like he's some sort of shadowy kingmaker in NY hip-hop; like a one-man rap illumanti. -
There is no conversation on the advantages that someone being born rich has over other people -- the access to better education, tools, and business connections that can really make or break an endeavor.
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Gotta love JDR! I would love to sponsor a series of PSA with June and Casey talking about paternity issues. It would be called, "Mama's baby, papa's maybe".
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All of Crichton's books are Luddite morality tales. I've read a couple of his books (Timeline, Prey, Jurassic Park) and they all center around someone creating a new, exciting technology and then having that technology backfire and kill everyone except for the cautious narrator character who expounded upon the need for restraint the whole time. As far as I know, there isn't one of his books that have a new technology do good and work wonders. The scientists never have to grapple with things like, "oh this is a new drug that cures all diseases, but as a side effect, it slowly turns you into a serial killer." The question is always centered around should we even be researching this in the first place.
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Because before you wrote (emphasis added) Yeah, Joshie, because they don't have the mental capacity to understand you unless you throw in a mangled "eh chico" at the end of your order. Otherwise their little brains would be confused. And I did address your other point. PoC are telling you that they don't want to you do that. They don't want you to put on an fake accent when you read their poems and works of art. How is that white people can read Beowolf without an medieval German accent (or what they would think that would sound like) but they have to bring out their best "blues"/AAE affect when reading the Slave Narratives? And then, when PoC say that it is stupid, racist, and offensive to do that, would in the world would you still double down on the isn't-it-more-racist-if-I-don't-do-it bullshit?
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OH SHIT!!!!!! GUYS, IF YOU NEED ME I'LL BE IN THE BATHROOM.
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I never read "Congo" and apparently neither did the screenwriter. I love that you can get away with that in Hollywood. "We want you write a movie about 'Tuesdays with Morrie'" "Well, I'm not going read that book. I'll tell ya what...how about I write a movie about futuristic society that is run by cyborgs and their alien masters, and I name one of the characters Morrie...and how about every Tuesday, a human has to fight one of these cyborgs to the death? "Great! We love it!"
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Although this had a pretty compelling cross species romance, "Passions" takes the cake when it comes to forbidden primate love. [media='']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKH2jge3pMo[/media]
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Don't worry about it, Howard. It's more interesting when you freestyle. You'll do better next week because you were kinda thrown into this situation at the last minute.
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There were a couple of times where someone got shot on the courthouse steps because the writers said, "fuck it! I wrote 60 pages" and didn't want to write an actual ending.
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This is where you are wrong. The very premise that you are basing this whole argument is patently false. PoC are telling you that they are offended by white people mimicking their accent (if they happen to have one). They do understand you if you speak in, as you call it, "Rich Uncle Pennybags" accent. You don't have to exaggerate your speech because you are talking to "those people" whoever that may be -- Jamacians, black folks, Latinos, etc. What you are implying when you do this is that "those people" don't have enough mental activity to understand you, so you have to speak at "their level." It's bullshit. JFK had a Boston Brahmin accent, but did people adopt a false Boston accent around him,so that he could better understand them? No, the assumption is that a rich, Boston, white dude is going to be intelligent; not like "those people" who don't understand anything unless you throw in a "eh, chico", or "knawhatImean", or "rude boi".
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One of my favorite gags in Futurama was the show "Everyone Loves Hypno-Toad" spoof of "Everyone Loves Raymond." That cracks me up to no end, because they had the studio audience and everything. All so that Hypno-Toad could be on a bare stage. And it cracks me up further because that is the first thing that came to Hypno-Toad's mind. Hypno-Toad didn't want to be the president, or a business leader, or anything else. He wanted to be a star on TV. Hypno-Toad is vain as hell.
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Episode 57 — Public Access Nonsense
wakefresh replied to JulyDiaz's topic in The Fogelnest Files with Jake Fogelnest
I didn't know he had a TV show when he was 16, or that it was so popular. I only knew him from the I Love the 80s/90s shows on VH1. I thought he was a comic. -
Damn, that is dark. I remember that show only because of that dumb baby. That show was so fucking weird though. Do you remember the sexual harrasment episode? It revolved around the main character's wife getting a job at a store or something and this creepy dinosaur, Harris, was hitting on her? And then it went to court and the new segments were titled, "What Harris Meant?"
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I will concede that I am an old, so that probably has something to do with it as well. Though, to be fair to Carvey and Myers, they had sketch characters that everyone talked about -- Wayne's World, The Church Lady, The "Pump You Up" brothers -- but I haven't seen anything from recent SNL that was talked about like that -- aside from the political lampoons of Tina Fey and Will Ferrell.
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Other shows -- Mad TV and In Living Color -- has had alumni go on to bigger things, but those shows are off of the air. I say that it is tradition now, because no matter what the ratings for SNL -- and they have been dismally low at times -- NBC doesn't pull the plug. It's like they keep thinking that they will recapture the ratings the show had from the late 70s to early 80s. It is not going to happen. There is too much stuff to watch and too many channels to watch it on. Those types of ratings are only going to come back when cable networks stop making original shows and the US cuts off the Internet. SNL is like the WWE of sketch comedy. They're the only game in town, so there is no way to accurately judge what is going on with them. They have no competitor in which to measure them by. Because they have no competitor, there is no reason to stretch or go beyond what they are used to. Plus, they are still run by Lorne Micheals and he tastes still reflect the 70s -- you can tell that by the casting/writing staff problems. The only funny stuff I do like about them is the digital shorts and parody music videos. But those are something that Micheals was at first reluctant to do. Thank God for Samberg or the show would have had no redeeming qualities.
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It sounds strange to say that doesn't it? The stuff we grew up on is old school. And in another decade will be classic. Man, I'm getting old.
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Hypno-Toad Lives!!!
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It's an actual martial art called kali. I've seen it pop up alot now in other action movies where they want intense knife fighting. It was in the first Jason Bourne movie where he is fighting Clive Owens in handcuffs. I haven't seen Olympus Has Fallen, but I they weren't the first make kali look foolish.
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I blame the success of Jurassic Park for this movie. In the early to mid 90s, dinosaurs were soooo cool! So cool, in fact, that now we have a professional basketball team called "The Raptors" and no one raised an eyebrow about why a team from Tornoto, Canada would be named that. Why not make a buddy cop movie with a dinosaur; they were trying to cash in on dino-mania.
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It sort of looks like the dinosaur in that short-lived TV show about talking dinosaurs. The one where the baby dinosaur would do evil shit and then look at the camera, and then say, "I'm the baby, you gotta love me."
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if they get the person in the first 20 minutes, then you know it is gonna be a "legal drama" episode where everyone gets to have a philosophical monologue about a X subject. Those are the most boring and the also the most infuriating because that's when the double standard of Asst DA Hotty Hotpants is very clear.
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I love this movie, but would still like to hear the gang's take on it. The knife fight at the end between Jones and Seagal was the shit!
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Whoa!!!!! That is a crazy revelation that Andrew brought up on the podcast. It just goes to show you that racist messages are given to us from day one and no matter who you are, whether white or a PoC, you are hearing it and it becomes a part of your thinking pattern.
