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  2. Posted

    I love the show but I have one bone to pick with this episode. There are people who are afraid to go out in public because they are afraid of the ridicule they receive when they speak. The have lisps, they slurp their words, or they stutter which our culture finds hysterical for some perverted reason.

    You chose to represent your advertiser by slurping through the commercial, next time speak with a stereotypical black street accent or a clownish chicano accent...it's all as equally offensive.

     

    People at Earwolf already speak with black street accents and clownish chicano accents for comedic effect. People who take offensive to that are told that they have no sense of humor and are being too sensitive. I'm going to give you that same advice.

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    Not just a Full House storyline. I don't remember if he was ever considered an official member of the band, but he did play drums on several of their albums and was part of the live tour setup for a while. I think he even played on the recent 50th Anniversary Tour.

     

    That's fucking insane!!! You're gonna blow my mind if you say there was a real band called Jessie and the Rippers as well. John Stamos has led a charmed fucking life.

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    This should be interesting.

     

    I just remember this having a sort of ... Willy Wonka/Beatlesesque retro-arty sorta look and feel (and i think it was done well?) and of course Williams is the zany madcap toy inventor?

     

    So what seems to be the unique thing is that it might have been the first movies to introduce Rappers into costarring roles?

    I remember I did not like that.

     

    As a general rule I find almost every rapper sucks at acting. Possible exception being Snoop Dog or someone else I don't care about.

    I remember I never did really know or care about what the movie was meant to be about or had any desire to think of it again. Until now!

     

    Tupac was the best rapper/actor. He killed in the Juice and in Gridlock'd.

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    I believe these 'EDM' things must be relatively easy because I KNOW I have no idea how to write music and doubt I know exactly what a 'chord' or 'octave' is supposed to be,

    yet,

    I had this Music Maker Pro and 'Fruity Loops' and some other DAW. To be honest I just dicked around for enough hours to figure out how to use the software. Around hour 10 I figured out how to layer beats, bongos, add some synthesizer and then a recording of myself 'rapping' Bob Odenkirk lines.

    Put it on Facebook for stupid laughs.

     

    Numerous people wanted to know where I got the song and were somehow impressed and treated it as a genuine single of some real importance.

     

     

    You should have made a couple of more, put them out as an LP, and then tour the world making millions with your laptop.

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  8. Posted

    See, I recall The Grove being mentioned on numerous podcasts last year as the place people spotted (a washed-up) Fred Stoller on a daily basis. That made it sound like the saddest place on Earth.

     

    Anywhere Fred Stoller is, is the saddest place on Earth. He's like a real-life embodiment of Eeyore.

    "Oh Piglet, I'm just gonna stand here at the Barnes and Noble and flip through magazines."

     

    -eeyore-clipart-4.gif

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  9. Posted

    Be real, all the zombie civil rights leaders would just wanna talk about brains.

     

    But even more real, uhhhh how is Miley Cyrus NOT important? Millions of people listen to her and watch her videos. Hundreds of thousands of people go her shows. She's got all kinds of merchandise. Her name is used to draw high volumes of lucrative web traffic. Entertainment is an industry, in which she is a very large and successful business. It's not just some girl twerking, there's mad money involved.

     

    What I hated about Joshie's comment was that he was defining these arbitrary lines about "actual" instances of co-option and what Miley Cyrus was doing -- which, in my opinion and many others, is co-opting a culture she is not a part of to sell shit. And while he isn't certain about what co-option is, he is ready to say that there is "actual" misogyny going on though. It's all bullshit; either you see the intersectionality of this shit or you are condoning bits and pieces to suit your agenda.

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    Did LL admit to being all huffy, or was that just this Canibus person's story? Was it possible that it wasn't recorded well, or maybe it just didn't fit the song in some other way, and Canibus, being a hot-headed newcomer just took it as a personal dis? All over a single line in a verse? That'd be like if I made a movie and wiped my ass with a VHS copy of "Boys N The Hood" because John Singleton cut a scene out of "Abduction" where I was an extra. If I keep my mouth shut, he never knows I'm upset, doesn't even know who I am, and doesn't make a movie called "PlanBFromOuterSpace Can Go Fuck Himself" in retaliation that kills any chances of me having a film career. I have to admit though, I think I'd get off on the attention, and my parents would be so proud...

     

    Oh no, LL was being all huffy. The song was already done because everyone did their verse according to their personal schedules. They weren't all in the studio together making the song. LL was listening to a rough cut of the master and flipped his shit over Canibus' line. So, he re-recorded his verse on the spot and released that instead.

     

    There is actually a phone conversation that one of them recorded (I think it was Canibus) where LL basically says, "Just eat shit on this one, ok? I know I dissed you. You know I dissed you. But the general public doesn't know anything at all is amiss, so just roll with it."

     

    But Canibus didn't, so LL smacked him back down. LL has a history of over-reacting to other people's lines. Kool Moe Dee had a line that talked about radios or something, and LL took that as a diss against him and started beef with Kool Moe Dee. You don't hear too much about him nowadays either. Like I said, don't cross James Todd Smith.

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  15. Posted

    Yeah, those "Resident Evil" movies never do more than barely above-average business in the States, but have really cleaned up internationally. Whenever anyone starts the "American audiences have no taste and don't like good movies" debate, I like to throw that argument at them. I understand that explosions are the universal language, but there is some truly stupid shit that the rest of the world likes a lot more than we do.

     

    It is interesting that these make money overseas. They wanna see Milla Jojovich in tight outfits fighting other beautiful women in tight outfits. Remember, the Taylor Lautner movie, "Abduction," did gangbusters overseas as well; they wanna see those T-Rex arms.

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    Confession time: I used to be a club DJ/promoter and we would sometimes book these flash-in-the-pan guys like Skrillex who had dropped some wacky track that was popular for a summah because you have to fill 52 Friday nights and sometimes you do what you have to. Then they'd get on to do an actual DJ set, and it was like Ableton Live vomited all over the dance floor. I remember one guy specifically had some success because he basically did a dubstep remix of a Smashing Pumpkins song, and his set was just 1 1/2 hours of garbled noise with occasional bass drops. Then about 6 months later I was at another club that had booked him, and it was literally the exact same set. I think he just pre-recorded everything and pretended to fiddle with knobs to keep up appearances.

     

    Gawker had a list of how much EDM people made last year and the numbers are staggering. Millions of dollars to twiddle knobs, or in this case, pretend to twiddle knobs.

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    Yeah, that's what bums me out. We went from chill summer jams (say, around 2006-ish) to all mainstream R&B/pop sounding like rave shit from 15 years ago. I can't listen to the "urban" station here anymore cuz it sucks.

     

    My theory is that all of the production moved to Miami after Hurricane Katrina wiped out Louisiana. So, since Mannie Fresh and his stable of producers were in South Florida, they started taking in that Euro techno sound. Once Mannie was down in Florida, a lot of other people came to network get their music commissioned and hook up with Rick Ross and DJ Khalid.

     

    It's very weird because when the production was centered in Atlanta and New Orleans, there were elements borrowed from the marching bands -- the snare roll to setup a break comes to mind. And then when production was centered in New York, it was borrowing from jazz.

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  18. Posted

    Humblebrag time! I was at Decibel fest one year, and the night I played I was literally the only performer who wasn't using a laptop. I have a rack of analog gear with a drum machine and a Boss SP-303 velcroed to the top, all being driven by a Roland MC-50 (which uses 3.5" floppy disks!), and I play a Juno 60 and an MS2000. People were looking at me like I was a fucking necromancer or something. Looking out at the audience, it was all glowing Apple logos.

     

    I know how to use Reason, Logic, etc, but I need physical knobs and keys; it just ain't the same. But yeah, like you said, with some basic knowledge you can just churn out a bunch of generic dance music very easily. And then during mastering they just compress it to hell and it sounds like shit.

     

     

    I used to mess around with Reason and Fruity Loops back in the day, but I decided that I didn't want to put in the time to actually try to do that as a way to make money, so I gave up on it.

     

    And love that you called yourself a necromancer. To those people, you might as well have come out on stage with a set of triangles and recorders. ;)

     

    "Doesn't he know there is a Juno VST? Some people just don't know how to make music."

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    Also, I never noticed how big The Grove plays a part in Los Angeles culture. They make it seem like everyone is there. When I went there, I didn't see anyone famous or anything interesting going on. I always thought that place to be was that little theater in Westwood. There was a full blown movie premiere going on when I was getting my coffee at the nearby Coffee Bean.

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    It all sounds like a lamer, uninteresting version of the techno wave that came to the States around the mid-to-late 90s (Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, etc). And that's not to say that stuff was all that great either, but there was something more going on than just random noises and fades, which is what my ears hear now.

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    I have no idea who that is. That reminds, there must be SO many tracks from like a decade or so ago, when attacking your rival in song was a sign how tough you were, that must make absolutely no sense whatsoever anymore because the person being attacked in them or even the attacker themselves ceased being relevant within months of it being recorded.

     

    You have to be a hip-hop head to know about the Canibus vs LL battle.

     

    So, Canibus is a young and upcoming rapper who gets a verse on LL's "4,3,2,1" song, which is also notable for being one of the first appearances of DMX (pre-crack). So, the story goes is that Canibus has a line in his verse that says something like, "let me borrow that mic on your arm". This is in reference to LL's tat of a microphone on his right arm. So, when they are mixing the record, LL get's all huffy and re-records his verse to shit on Canibus and that is the version that is released to the public.

     

    Canibus is like, "what the fuck, man?"

     

    LL, doesn't care and isn't taking the newcomer seriously at all. That whole album was doing gangbusters (this is the album that had "Doin It" and "Hey Lover") and LL is touring, making videos, etc. So, Canibus makes Second Round KO and basically says LL ain't shit, has never been shit, and most of his fans wear high heels, so you can't take him seriously anymore. Basically, Canibus says LL went Hollywood.

     

    LL responds on his song, "Jack the Ripper" and really piles the shit on Canibus. So, much so, that Canibus' career is over before it ever got a chance to take off.

     

    So, LL brought this guy on the scene, gave him some shine, then smacked his ass back to obscurity. That's reason you don't know who Canibus is PlanB; you don't cross James Todd Smith and get away with it.

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    All of the Resident Evil movies should go into this category as well. I do not see how they keep making them every couple of years and they never are a big, huge hit. Its like, if the numbers that "Resident Evil 6:Aftermath Requiem Delirium" does are that good to greenlight another, then we should be eighteen movies deep into a Mortal Kombat franchise.

     

    All of the Underworld sequels belong in this category as well. It should have stayed at just one movie, but now, the lichens(sp?) are mating with the vampires and having hybrid babies and no one can find any fabric to make clothes out of besides patent leather.

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    Har Mar Superstar has GOT to be the guest.

     

    He's been reading LL Cool J's biography on Nocturnal Emotions lately, and it's been aaaaaaaaaaamazing.

     

    The last bit he read Toys was mentioned and I remember thinking, in an already insane reading of an insane book, "this shit sounds insane."

     

    Cool James thought the movie was great apparently.

     

    I remember when that book came out, LL had a beef with Canibus and in Canibus' song, "Second Round K.O." he talks about reading it to get material for his lyrics. There's even a shot of him with the book reading it in the video of Second Round KO.

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    I think it has to do with the kick being on beat one. As long as there is the untz untz untz you can loop anything over it and it is still EDM. I could be wrong, the only EDM I hear is on this show and in public places where it is forced into my ears.

     

    The kick? WOW! That is garbage.

     

    I don't listen to that stuff either. It sounds like people taking the stocks sounds out of a DAW and going to crazytown.

    "I have an empty block right here...maybe I should fill that space with a bleepity bloop"

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  25. Posted

    This whole discussion was dumb. Getting worked up about people moving their butt cheeks like other people is an insult to actual instances of co-option and destruction of important ritual taboos in co-opted culture. A good question to ask is what would WEB Dubois, or Malcolm X, or MLK have to say about the issue. Here they'd shake their damn heads at you guys for getting worried about butt stuff. All cultures should be working to moving beyond a point where anyone of any race twerking is national pop cultural news, even working past the co-option there is a core of commodotizing sexuality for sale and misogyny that it is not worth fighting for.

     

    This whole comment is full of crazy. What are the "actual" instances of co-option vs the "fake" instances of co-option, Joshie? I want a definitive list.

     

    And can you ask the reanimated corpses of black civil rights leaders what they think of Kanye West's new album as well? It should be easy since you have them in your Frankenstein lab and are apparently grilling them about twerking. And what makes you so sure that the misogyny that you see is "actual"? It could very well be "fake" misogyny, which would make sense since it stems from a "fake" instance of co-option. Can you reanimate the corpse of Susan B. Anthony and ask her before you make such statements?

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