CDG>JFK>ATL>JAX

It is morally and gastronomically wrong to serve airline food to people coming back from france. sack lunches should be allowed and recommended.

Also, i kept having this weird feeling where i would drift off and fall asleep in the plane and the plane would move up and down a little and i would snap awake and look out of the window. i think i thought that i was in the RER or the metro, i was trying to see which stop we were at....so i really didn't sleep that much.

a metro ride

remember the alien toy from toy story? the one that's in the claw machine? imagine it as a large plush hat.
now imagine that the hat is being worn by a guy who looks like that mugshot from when james brown got busted for crack.
also, he's wearing a puffy, shiny, purple jacket.
and he gets in the metro and tells everyone to pay attention because he's about to disappear into thin air. he makes some strange groaning and squealing noises "hummmphhbeeeeaaayyyyp!" and then he starts laughing and says of course he can't dissapear into thin air, thats impossible! and laughs, and everyone has a good laugh.
then, he gets two dolls that are about two feet tall, each with its own freaky outerspace accessory (sunglasses, bobble antennaes) and sings a song about how we're all aliens. "on est des extra-terrestres...wooohooo...on est des extra-terrestres...woohoo" with other subway riders joining in on the woohoo.
a few more jokes, then he pulls out a pink panther stuffed animal and sings another song. "doo, boo doo doop....BOB MARLEY! doo, boo doo doop....BOB MARLEY!"

his second song is met with great applause... he walks around, gets some change, more applause, and he exits at the next station.

at the very same station, a guy comes in, wearing a boombox fanny pack throws up a black cloth attached with bungee cords in between two poles and starts a puppet show to the music of pat boone's "speedy gonzalez" two stops later he gets off.
you look down at the clothes basket full of books and your backpack full of stuff from the cabinet and refridgerator of your old apartment, and laugh.

stolen from metafilter

great post with great videos


NOLA.

media manipulation..

makes you wonder about our manipulative media..

breakfast

got blimp? ron paul does...

if you want to donate to paul's campaign, do so today, sunday commemorates the boston tea party, and it should be a pretty big event.

in other news, i have been listening to two really cool french artists... pilooski and sebastien tellier... i would highy reccomending going here and downloading this hour long mix that pilooski did for a radio show, its really cool and if you have to drive or ride the bus or train somewhere its tops for the ipod or the cd player...

i just woke up. have a great day, i'll do the same.

the weekend

ah hell, what a weekend, it all started friday when le rachael jeanfreau came in from from the small french hamlet of cambrai. We then met up with john, celine, tim, and later eleanora, for who other than girltalk? He rocked this really swanky club, and supposedly jay-z and beyoncé were there?? anyway girltalk rocked the house, everyone danced like crazy mothas and then we took a night bus home. saturday, les puces, here is a picture of rachael and a cool dude from west africa at les marchés puces. so if you go to les puces de clignacourt, check him out.

saturday...karaoke with some of the folks from vice... beer, whiskey, asian food, and karaoke. this is me and alex, and yeah, we rocked it.
sunday was a day for rest and laundry. i gave thanks, i napped, i washed clothes. and monday...dan deacon and girltalk redux.


girltalk's intro...

FRED AT WORK

FRED AT WORK, originally uploaded by dingler1109.

here he is, first time ive seen him, the grey ghost

im fucking sick of reading about people getting tased...

why is this news? why is there almost daily a story about this on drudgereport? why not about the people that are killed, that starve to death, that are raped, that are arrested for no reason, true injustices.

Hearing Impaired Man Tased by Police.
Pregnant Woman Tased
Second Taser death this week
Taser Used on 79-Year-Old In-Law
Motorcyclist tries to evade police, gets Tased

soulja boy...

...has a huge list of videos on youtube.


here, my boy just bought a NeW wHiP, and is showin it off...gO SoUlJa!! StAy ClAsSy!



flAsHiN AlL hIs CaSh after his InTeRsCoPe records meeting... i really enjoy how soulja asks his minion camera man to respond to all his questions (tell em where we at! tell em what we just did! tell em what this is!) and you know ya boy SoUlJa steady flashin them price tags!


wiki HaTeRz so mad!!

Nobodysmiling.com said, "Think of Soulja Boy as sort of a Lil Jon for teenagers and pre-teens, that means don’t expect to hear much in the way of metaphors and narratives, just crunk-ass music."^[6]. The Daily Yo also says, "If anyone has not yet embraced the fact that hip-hop, through a main-stream perspective, is a dying breed; after listening to the musical styling of Soulja Boy in his debut album, Souljaboytellem.com., I'm sure that the truth will become evident." ^[7]. The Review says "Soulja Boy seems to think irritating repetition mixed with loads of moans and groans are enough to replace any skillful presentation of words.", and "Soulja Boy, making no effort to persuade his audience otherwise, offers little diversions from stereotypic garbage rap lyrics."^[8]

Further criticism of Soulja Boy came from rappers and others within the business. In an October 18, 2007 article on Yahoo.com, rap veteran Snoop Dogg was quoted as saying, about Soulja Boy and other new rap artists (such as those aforementioned) "They're not making substance material — they're not really going into creating a sound. It's all about making the hot song for right now, but the artists who will stand the test of time like myself are about making records, not songs. You got to make a quality album so you can hold people's attention. It's like a movie. If you make a movie that got (only) one good scene, ain't nobody gonna go see it." Jermaine Dupri added "That's just a business mind-set for the record companies ... instead of artist development, they're looking for that. It makes the record companies not want to artist-develop the groups anymore because that's what they're into — they want to try and sell as many ringtones as possible." Even rapper 50 Cent said "Right now the state of where we are at in hip-hop, it's different. I don't think they want the lyrics to be complex — they want it to be simple, catchy. The Southern-based artist can be credited (with) that, because they're dancing, so now your record has to pretty much be catchy. It doesn't have to be super content, extreme content. It has to have a good rhythm to it and dance."

However, Soulja Boy himself has tried to somewhat combat some of the criticism. In the same interview he said that lyrical complexity and high content in his songs is not something that potential buyers of his music are interested in. He says "People don't want to go to a club and hear (about) people getting shot or hear about your life story. People want to ... have fun and dance and party." ^[16].

Also, you gotta have love for my man hurricane chris ( a baybay) repping the county market in his video.

truly beautiful.

So, in summary, hip hop is apparently dead, but does that mean that the dream is? I want to write and produce the next big crunk hit to sweep the third coast clubs, i want my record company to get behind my album for just the single, and i want this single to be promoted and sold as a ringtone across the world...yes friends, hip-hop IS dead, but you can't kill a young man's dream...

lsu vs tenn

im about to go watch my second lsu game of the season.. inside sources say that les miles is gone to michigan... i have sources that say that saban is back at lsu...