I Got Your Link Dump Right Here! DLD 9/11/09
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 12:34 AM PDT
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PrintStraight outta Florida, str8 from his 10 day sick bed, it's a fat sign man, hell bent on putting the hell back up in this biznatch.
I'm a white boy, born and raised in a fairly rural area of Indiana. So naturally, I'm a huge fan of old school rap music.
So, without further delay, we have a DLD based on old-school rap, old-school rap that I like. It is, after all, my DLD.
The earliest rap, or mention of rap that I remember came from an unlikely source--Deborah Harry and Blondie's Rapture. Now I know, as a grown man with the power of reasoning and a powerful thirst to search the internet, that this was merely the first time I was exposed to anything like this. The hipster NYCers in Blondie were surely exposed to tons of rap prior to this recording (in their favor, her first rap words "Fab Five Freddie," was a fixture in the NYC early rap scene and the orginal host Yo! MTV Raps). "Now you see what you wanna be/just have your party on tv." That's what we're doing, my friends. Think of these last few weeks as a party for the breadth of talent we're sure to have next season. These guys are on the brink. You can feel it, I can feel it, and I'm excited for next year, not 2011. Now let's all go eat some cars.
The first rap that I remember breaking to was Five Minutes of Funk by Whodini. Unfortunately, there's only the crappy remixed version on the web available for mass comsumption, so you'll have to love the second Whodini single I did the centipede to, The Freaks Come Out at Night. "You could never tell what a freak was thinking of/and you may never catch a freak without at least one glove." Which leads us to him, who we have to feel hopeful about heading into next season. Viva la Dallas!
The first rap cassette I remember buying was the soundtrack to Krush Groove. It was a throwaway movie--convoluted plot, lots of weirdness, but it did bring together a couple icons--Kurtis Blow and The Gap Band--with a couple of acts that would last and last and last. You see, the Krush Groove soundtrack featured the first song LL Cool J ever recorded--Radio and also featured the first time the Beastie Boys released anything remotely rappish--She's On It. This song was my greedily-kept secret (along with Boomin' Granny, which I got as a "B-Side" on a CD single)) til the Beasties released their anthology, Sounds of Science in 1999. Our gredily kept secret, ANers, has to be Neo. The rest of the league doesn't quite know him yet, but they will. "Cause I saw you in the check out line/you dropped your coupons and you were looking fine."
The break through for me had to be Run DMC's remake of Aerosmith's hit Walk This Way. I loved the video, loved the set-up, the rehearsal spaces next ot each other, Run DMC getting pissed, Steve Tyler getting so pissed at their stealing his lyrics that he busts through the freakin' wall. This was before Aerosmith decided that sobriety and hair metal were a good plan for the remainder of the 80s and still held a real serious bad-ass quality to them. It was a perfect balance, a perfect match--it brought together disparate worlds for the Indiana corn fed boys--the world of classic rock and new rap. And that, dear readers, is what I hope 2010 will be for us--our cooperative crossover hits, where we punch and claw and surprise the hell out of everyone.
Um, links.
VK excuses our newest underacheiver...
Um, here's a book you should all read, if you haven't...
Okay, add a quiz and kick the punters out, and turn out the lights. Oh, if you don't know (and you should), 67M wrote this very good book. Buy it now if you haven't yet. And what the hell, he's a nice guy: buy it regardless of whether you already have a copy. Make him feel the love. I'm a whore, but only for my friends...
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CGV be damned.
Take a minute today to think about the first responders and innocent lives that suffered in the 9/11 tragedy. RIP.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
by mikev on Sep 11, 2009 1:02 AM PDT reply actions 7 recs
I do have a big mouth!
Thank you for noticing.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
You have vision.
I appreciate it.
You’ll go well with Tapatio.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I've always considered myself more of a hot buffalo-style sauce kind of guy.
But Tapatio is good too. Do you have a wine choice? I suggest Amarone della Valpolicella.
by LoneStranger on Sep 11, 2009 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I open up this DLD, at 6 am in the morning as I am watching
the movie Breakin’ before getting ready for work.
I'm sorry I mised this, BP!
I expect a full review, even though we both probably saw it 25+ years ago…
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for the plug, LB.
Book plug, that is.
And hey folks, if you act now (or before Halloween), I will donate $1 for each book sold to the Breast Cancer Awareness foundation.
Did I mention the book cover is made out of bacon?
But enough about that…
To echo mikev, prayers aplenty for all those affected (then and now) by 9/11…for our troops…and for Steph.
I'm here to talk about the past.
BACON COVERS?!
Who wouldn’t buy one or even five of those?! Only a fool!
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha I was stumbling on -StumbleUpon-...duh! haha and I encountered this!!!
by LiZaRdReVoLuTiOn on Sep 11, 2009 7:46 AM PDT reply actions
Oops, I suck at this link stuff....
Here it is: www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=idaho_blows/topic:Satire
Travis Buck's hair: "Wash me!"
by LiZaRdReVoLuTiOn on Sep 11, 2009 7:48 AM PDT up reply actions
wow
that made me laugh, a lot.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
What hell do
A) where he went to college
B) how good the team behind him does
have to do with an award this is at it’s basic core an individual performance award? We’re not talking “Most Value Rookie”, just the best. There’s absolutely nothing short of “I didn’t see him so I can’t tell you how good he is” that would disqualify him simply because the A’s sucked. And his college? That has exactly what to do with how he performed this year.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I guess in some ppl's minds they will equate college education with team choice?
which in their small little minds translates to how the team plays behind him? Who the Heck knows
I am so with you that ROY should be all about the person’s outstanding performance. And that goes for the Golden Glove too which IMHO should have gone to our very own unicorn in years past – but did not ostensibly b/c we had not won enough games or some such crap.
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Sep 11, 2009 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
in that article
they describe Bailey as a “poor man’s Mariano Rivera”. I guess that the Rivera comparisons are inevitable for anyone who throws a cutter, but while working on the most recent GOG, I was struck by his similarity to Joe Nathan (see question 6).
What do people think about that comp?
didn't Bailey call himself that?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
the article attributes it to
Gil Patterson, roving pitching instructor for the A’s.
And I’m not saying that it’s wrong necessarily. Maybe Bailey’s cutter moves similarly to Mariano’s (wouldn’t that be excellent), but Rivera throws exclusively cutters while Bailey is 57% fastballs and only 26% cutters, according to fangraphs.
Whatever happened to MTV, anyway?
Are they still on the air?
Prithee, be not perturbed by yon third bagger.
No mor videos.
But if you subscribe to their fifteen offshoot channels, I think there’s a tleast one or two that play videos. Sometimes.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
The sad thing is that they could have changed their brand to something closer to what they actually show.
Then a year or two later, reintroduce MTV on another channel with actual videos.
by LoneStranger on Sep 11, 2009 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
It is now.
If they had rebranded ten years ago, maybe things would be different.
by LoneStranger on Sep 11, 2009 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
One of my MMA guys decided to
“get a jump” on the two UFC fights next week (a freebee on Spike on Wednesday to plug the new TUF and UFC 103 on Saturday from…San Antonio, maybe?). I’ve got ten fighter’s worth of shorts logos today. On a normal, busy, hair-pulling-out day, I’ve got five, tops.
Needless to say, I’m about to rip EVERYONE’S head off. Will someone surrogate my DLD til 7pm tonight for me? I’m AWOL. Sorry, party people.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
Shift-C is working again this morning. Yay!
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Looks like Munson's time in the playoffs is done a day after hitting a homer
The A’s brought him up. Saw it on the side with the Rotoworld stuff. Wonder if this is going to mean Powell gets some more ABs since Munson could spell Suzuki in case something happens.
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
I guess that makes sense.
And I know that the Show is the ultimate long-term goal for these guys, but damn. Let them play in the playoffs, even if they are the minors. We can be fairly certain he’s not going to start on the club next year, so let him earn his (short-term) goal he’s been working all year on.
by LoneStranger on Sep 11, 2009 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd agree with that in general
He’s been there the whole season and now that they’re in the playoffs the A’s bring him up to be Suzuki’s emergency backup? I know the Majors is where it’s at but sheesh.
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Last of the Ninth - Photography
Keep in mind that being called up 2 weeks early is worth in the neighborhood of $20,000 to him (can't give an exact number b/c I don't know what his minor league salary is)
I don’t think he’s exactly sore about it.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
I'm sure he appreciates the extra money, sure
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if it means getting Powell some more AB at DH
then I’m for it. I doubt he really has the bat to be a legit DH, but we need to somehow give him opportunities to show what he can do.
I know this probably shouldn't have surprised me
But it kinda did – the realpolitik in action
People of Walmart
Just heard of this site. Not sure if it has been posted before. Pretty f_cking hilarious.
Dude, you just pwned LB in the "iglew baiting" category.
< deletes overreactive and uncharacteristically violent comment > No, I don’t really wish that.
I do, however, wish that Walmart uses it’s mega-corporate muscle to sue the crap out of the website and force them to shut it down.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
why make them shut it down?
it’s hilarious.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
See the "Tips for Photographers" thread and I think you'll have a pretty good idea
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ah, I see
I guess I can see his point and that the website might bother him for the same reason. BUT in my opinion if you go out to Wal-Mart dressed like some of those people, you deserve to be made fun of. Of course if someone to a pic of me and then posted it on the internet and made fun of me, maybe I would feel different.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I'm going to guess most of them will probably never know...
…because I doubt they have the internet.
It’s not a very tasteful thing to do in making fun of them, but I can’t help but laugh at how amazingly bad some of them are.
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Last of the Ninth - Photography
At the risk of prolonging a discussion that I'm ready to drop,
I should clarify that what bothers me is purely the fact that people are being photographed without their permission, not that they are being ridiculed.
I would be equally offended if the website if the photographs were art photographs celebrating the people’s beauty.
But I would be unoffended if you spent you and your buddies went to Walmart live and spent your afternoon giggling at how ugly everyone is.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Agree
Though I get what’s funny about it. IN the Wal-mart, by going out in public, they’ve already agreed to any ridicule. They didn’t agree to having their image taken and “profited” or exploited.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
The ONLY reason he "pwned" me in iglew baiting is
because I already sent it to you.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Naah, that college stuff is just the usual bullshit
The site that celebrates shooting innocent people in the back while they’re at Walmart really pisses me off.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
come on
with the way most of these people dressed, they were looking for the attention.
And maybe I am a bad person but the one about the woman who sharted about killed me.
That was definitely one of the worst.
I can’t stop loooking at this site! The first few pages bored me then around page 6 it got disturbing. Cant. Stop. Looking.
i still have the krush groove record! i know it wasn’t citizen kane, but as far as early rap movies go, it was pretty legit just because it did have real groups doing their songs, and they were all so skinny still. well, except for that one act that wasn’t.
in high school, we wore out a licenced to ill tape driving around in a chevy luv. i don’t think there was another tape in that truck. funny how the beasie boys were so damn hot at first that nobody knew they put out a masterpiece second record till it got sort of rediscovered a couple years after the fact. paul’s boutique on vinyl had a 4-way gatefold and you could take the record cover, fold it in a box around your head, and if you were wasted enough, that seamless panorama picture made it seem like you were standing in the street handing out with the b-boys.
i remember singing booming granny on the street with members of a band called cake. then they found out there was already another band called cake.
speaking of early rappers who lasted, i wanna know who’s the A’s equivalent of early-to-late dr. dre.
don't care if i ever get back.
foul ball etiquette
read this article recently:
http://zachls.blogspot.com/2009/09/foul-ball-etiquette.html
I’m curious to hear what people think about grown men (or women) bringing a mitt to the game. This sparked up quite a debate in the comments section.
I always bring a mitt, mostly cause I really want to catch a ball and partly because it’s fun and I feel like it’s part of the overall ballgame experience. I was surprised to read all the negative comments about bringing a mitt.
I think it's perfectly appropriate for a grown person to bring a mitt.
Provided that if s/he catches a foul ball, that they give the ball to a nearby youngster.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I disagree
While I think it’s very nice to give the ball to a kid, and I’m glad people do that often, I resent the notion that one is obligated to do so. Can’t an adult ever get a ball? I’m certainly not saying you should knock the kid over to beat him to it, but if the ball comes to you and you catch it, you shouldn’t be reviled as an ogre just because you don’t then hand it over to someone eight seats away whose only qualification is being five years old.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
by iglew on Sep 11, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
This
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
You're all sick and wrong.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions
You just want the kid to bring the ball home and throw to you
Right, boy?
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(wags tail expectantly)
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I knew it!
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Last of the Ninth - Photography
Yes...
but what are your thoughts on adults keeping the ball if they got it fairly without unnecessary attacks on children?
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I have never caught one during a game.
So if i do catch one, and it’s a “clean” catch (and it would be), I am keeping it.
Maybe.
If i give it away to a kid or the hot brunette in front of me, it’s because I chose to.
I'm here to talk about the past.
If it's the hot brunette
make sure you add your number.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
IF Frank Thomas hits a HR and I catch it, I'm probably keeping it.
BUT…If you caught a foul ball off the bat of Alexi Ramirez, WTF you gonna do with that ball? I’m going to take it home, set it on my microwave, then put in on my spare desk for six months, then probably give it to Goodwill.
In opposition to this, the kid may actual think it’s completely magical and play with that baseball for the next five years. My vote’s for the kid. And it ain’t even close.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 6:29 PM PDT up reply actions
you could knock her down for the foul ball.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
The only thing that bugs me is that there are kids there who get not just one, but two or more balls during batting practice.
I’m not giving those kids a ball. I’m not young or cute enough to get a player or someone else to give me a ball. I hate it when someone gives a kid a ball and the kid turns around and yells to their parents “I got another ball! Now I have two!”
by LoneStranger on Sep 13, 2009 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Greedy little bastards
Like cute kids don’t get enough pampering in this society. Someone needs to stand up for old and ugly people.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
I say we start a campaign to punch these children in the crotch.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 13, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I worked for too long in the medical field,
so “clean catch” usually means something different to me than it does to the person who’s saying it…
Prithee, be not perturbed by yon third bagger.
I saw my dad
fight it out with two kids once for a BP foul ball. I’ll never forget him shouting, “I got it, I got it” to those kids. It was hilarious.
In his defense, he did give me the ball. Which I then used to play catch and baseball with my friends until it got lost.
We do put the "AN" in tangents, don’t we? - 67MARQUEZ
My brother caught a football at a Raider game.
And I lost it. Not just any football. The last touchdown scored at a home Raider game before they moved. The player who caught the pass was Ken Margerum, a rookie out of Stanford, who was playing for the Bears. We had moved down from the third deck to the first deck as the game was coming to a close (and btw, none of us believed it to be the Raiders last home game in Oakland because we were in denial). So Margerum scores, and its first NFL touchdown, and he’s so excited that he throws the ball into the stands. And my brother reaches over the guy in front of him to snatch it (there was no flag thrown), he instantly put it under his shirt, and we got the hell out of there. He let me keep the ball with all of my other memorabilia, on the premise that I would eventually return it. Then I got married, and we moved a lot, and well, yeah. My only wish now is that someone, somewhere could provide footage of that game. Surely the camera followed the ball, at least for a second. Right?
I'm here to talk about the past.
Nothing wrong with bringing a mitt
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Like I said over there, you'd just better make the catch with it
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
Prospect Hot Sheet
Chris Carter in at #3
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/prospect-hot-sheet/2009/268861.html
Further down
MEN AMONG BOYS
Grant Desme, of, Athletics: Like many prospects in the low Class A Midwest League, Desme was embarking on his first year in a full-season league in 2009. The only difference was that he was already 23 years old. A second round pick by the A’s in 2007 out of Cal Poly, Desme’s pro career had been plagued by hand and shoulder injuries that limited him to only 49 pro at-bats over his first two seasons. Finally healthy in 2009, Desme showed the power and athleticism that led the A’s to take him so highly, belting 31 home runs and stealing 40 bases between stops with Kane County and high Class A Stockton.
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
you know, when Desme's in the majors you will all be so sick of me saying
Des Me baby, like you’ve never Dessed before.
I care about your fantasy team.
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo kind of, sort of quits acting
And the movie The Hobbit might include things that aren’t in the book, like Aragorn making an appearance.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Well, as long as he agrees to play Stomper
when they finally film this.
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
Stomper loosely equals Strider.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
so that talk of an Eastern Promises sequel didn't pan out?
I would gladly spend a few more hours in that world with those characters.
I care about your fantasy team.
That was truly one of the best movies I have seen
A bit violent for my taste but so good and suspenseful.
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Sep 11, 2009 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm listening to the Reds at Cubs game, on the Cubs feed.
I want everyone to know that they aren’t spared by the Guiko commercials. Did you know they just made their 15th out of the game?
funnyordie.com
Julianne Moore as Scarlett would have been awesome!
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Couple of funny news items from the Chron:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/11/national/a122318D07.DTL&type=bondage
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/11/national/a090346D51.DTL
this is an easy way to post a link.
Write out some text describing the link
Highlight it
Click the link button above the comment section,
Paste the link in the box,
Click the “open in a new window box”
Click submit.
Woman Pummels Clerk or $20 bill
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Oh, that first link looks fun...
The Oakland A's: Pissing off fathers of disappointing baseball players who still managed to be better than their dads (charter club members: Tom Grieve & Ed Crosby)
Last of the Ninth - Photography
really excellent article
This is a little on the long side, and has nothing to do with baseball, but is well worth your 15-20 minutes.
Written for the Chicago Reader by Jake Austen, who is the public affairs format director at whpk — the University of Chicago radio station that I dj for. Starting from an interview on Bob Abrahamian’s soul music show, Sitting In The Park, Jake managed to track down a lost recording that predates the first Jackson 5 single (which was on Steeltown Records based in Gary, IN).
It’s a really fascinating read, not just for Jackson stuff, but for a good picture of some of the small time record labels and studios on the south side of Chicago in the late 60s, and all the wheeling and dealing that went on in the record business back then.
She's On It was a secret?
they played it all the time on KJET in Seattle in 1986 (when they weren’t playing the Pretty in Pink soundtrack). My roommate always called it She’s Honest.
I care about your fantasy team.
Yes, that is me in a video with Bob Loblaw.
Check it out here. I’m only in it very briefly (as the guitarist) but nonetheless I am quite proud of being connected to AD in one degree.
We do put the "AN" in tangents, don’t we? - 67MARQUEZ
A post for old school rap? It’s too bad that I was at school, then.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 11, 2009 3:45 PM PDT reply actions
aren't you way too young?
hell, I’m way too young to remember any of this stuff. For me, “old school rap” was listening to a Vanilla Ice tape on my way to school and hoping that my mom wasn’t paying enough attention to notice the explicit content in “Life Is A Fantasy”.
thanks for making me feel even older, colin.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I listen to basically all of that old school stuff from the ’80s and the ’90s.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Sep 11, 2009 7:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Am I the only one whose oxymoron alarm went off?
“old school” from the ’90s? Does not compute.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
shoot, the kids today...
they don’t even hafta get out of this century to refer to it as “old school”….
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions
We gotta remember to them it IS old school!!
Perspective….
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Sep 11, 2009 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I knows, but...c'mon.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
i saw a tee-shirt at a show once, something like: you can’t be old school if you’re till in high school
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Sep 12, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I already feel bad about my first comment
I don’t want to suggest that you can’t really appreciate some music unless you were around when it was made. Most of the music I love is either older than I am, or came out when I was still more interested in saturday morning cartoons.
Um… Vanilla Ice excepted, of course.
you damn whippersnappers!
Get the hell off my lawn!
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
you have tonic?
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
You're the one from Florida
the land of Ponce de Leon. Oh what? He didn’t find the fountain of youth? JK
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Sep 11, 2009 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Ponce de Leon is constantly on.
The Fountain of Youth, not Robotron.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll make you feel there are songs to be sung.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Of all the odd news stories...Police Arrest Man For Identity Theft of Kiko Calero
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/12192097
PHOENIX — Arizona state police say a man they stopped on a Phoenix freeway for having a low tire has been arrested on suspicion of stealing the identity of Florida Marlins pitcher Kiko Calero.
An Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman says 41-year-old Oscar Corral showed an officer a fake Puerto Rican driver’s license with the name of Enrique Calero Carrion. DPS said that’s the full name of the Marlins relief pitcher.
I might be entirely out of my element here…but assuming the identity of a minor-(minor-minor)-public figure probably isn’t the greatest of ideas.
I'm way out the mix, I guess,
but I literally had NO IDEA that was Calero’s name. Enrique Calero Carrion. Huh.
In fairness, I sometimes pose as Esteban Loaiza, but never while driving.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 11, 2009 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Kiko is typically short for Enrique.
I didn’t know about the Carrion, though.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
So Enrique Iglesias's friends call him Kiko?
…and are you related to Enrique?
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 12, 2009 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Ever heard of the Darwin Awards?
Link Here The identity thief didn’t quite go as far as the award winners….but might be just as not smart……
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Sep 11, 2009 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Things I didn't know:
1. Calero is on the Marlins.
2. His full name is Enrique Calero Carrion. I think it’s a good thing he goes by Calero, because that rhymes with Valero, which I will always equate with Bill King saying the ads: “Valero… gas with vrooooom!”
by whiteshoes40 on Sep 12, 2009 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
as opposed to Carrion.
which rhymes with Marion, which was the first name of the Mom on Happy Days.
Plus I think it means dead stuff.
Two vultures board a plane with roadkill possums under each wing. The stewardess stops them: “Sorry, no carrion.”
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 12, 2009 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions
GREAT DLD- My favorite link - of course- was the one about college and HS grades.
I sent it right to myself at work so I can share it with my colleagues! Some of that info we already know – especially about the poor retention at Community Colleges. I always say “Life intervenes”. But it makes me sad that we aren’t doing a better job making changes that IMHO need to be made. That’s all the further I will go – lest I go political on y’all.
I had NO idea we had an author in the midst and that little morsel brought some of his posts into sharper focus.
Glad you’re feeling better LB.
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Sep 11, 2009 9:47 PM PDT reply actions
Yes, well, being at work at 3:30 in the morning probably
doesn’t bode well for my continued health, but thank you, madam.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 12, 2009 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I was wondering why the heck you are posting at this time?!!?
Sleepy time…..drive safely if you must drive! Manana.
"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber
by BERRYJO on Sep 12, 2009 1:08 AM PDT up reply actions
wha?
Work is important. Must stay on top of sign shop…must dominate Sarasota-area sales….
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 12, 2009 3:33 AM PDT up reply actions
let's get this link dump started again
LB, are you out there?
Anyway, I went to this pretty rad concert thursday night. The headliner was an improvised set with Andy Moor on guitar and dj/rupture on turntables.
Andy Moor has played in a couple of the all time most awesome punk bands, The Ex and Dog Faced Hermans.
dj/rupture mixes beat-based music from all over the world, along with some more ambient and experimental type stuff. There is a cool video here for a track from one of his mixes. Also, you can download another mix in its entirety from his website here.
The connection makes sense because both Andy Moor/The Ex and dj/rupture have gotten pretty deep into the music of various non-western countries. For dj/rupture, it comes out of different styles of dance music throughout latin america and africa. In the case of The Ex, there is a history of collaboration with African jazz musicians, like Ethiopian saxophone legend Getatchew Mekuria or crazy fuzzed out party music like the electric likembe band Konono No. 1.
Anyway, the show was awesome. Moor and rupture released an album of their collaborative improvisations, so you can check out the sound here.
hmm
evidently the rest of AN doesn’t sit in front of their computer on a Saturday night, pretending to get work done. Good for you.
I only sit in front of my computer to make signs or
look at porn follow stock reports.
Or to look for areas of the web in which to express my frustration with Charlie Weis. I have spent this evening…unsatisfied. Anyone know of a AN-type blog for Notre Dame fans?
It was nice to see Zigfan/cityplANner’s team win. It’s very strange. I have little hate in my heart for USC, but I despise Ohio State, seemingly without provocation. I’ve got reason to dislike USC and I really don’t.
If it’s non-western music, I’m lost without map or compass, colin, though I will explore your links…
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 12, 2009 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Ethiopia is non-Western?
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
pretty sure...
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 12, 2009 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I was also stumbling
over the fact that a lot of the Ex’s musical explorations have gone in the direction of eastern European folk. I couldn’t come up with a good term to describe what I meant.
SBN has a ND blog
Something of Mallow, I think.
[The “Something” obviously being a placeholder and not part of the name of the blog…]
USC is annoying, but them winning indirectly helps out the Bay Area teams, so I’ll put up with it.
Speaking of which, I hear Stanford got shafted today… but I have no idea, really, because freaking standard cable did not have that game today. I mean, WTF?
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
I can find nothing called Something of Mallow,
except for an old Burt Bacharach album…
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 13, 2009 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
The cooperative improv between the two doesn't work for me
as well as their sounds alone. The Ex stuff is impressively good, and I REALLY like the way they sounded with Getachew. The linked one had an almost Gary US Bonds feel to it?!
I downloaded both the dj/rupture mixes and will listen to them in my leisure, though I think it’s probably more of a mood-dependent listening—IOW, I gotta be in the right mood—mellow and wanting to groove.
Meanwhile, where do I start with The Ex?
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 12, 2009 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions
the concert video with Getatchew
I was at that one (free noontime show at the Frank Gehry designed bandshell in Millenium Park). Later in the set, Getatchew retreats backstage and then comes out in his Haile Selassie shirt and colorful hat/cloak ensemble.
Getting into the Ex is a bit tricky because they have been putting out music since the late seventies, and have played a lot of different stuff, starting with anarchist punk but also exploring avant-garde (with cellist Tom Cora), folk music, and the previously mentioned african jazz.
It gets more difficult because they are Dutch, not American, so some of there stuff seems like it didn’t really get much of a US release. Their recent albums have been released in the US by Touch and Go, the excellent Chicago based punk/indie label. They put out a singles collection (one mp3 sample there), if you want to hear some of the early anarchist stuff.
But what I would really suggest you check out is Scrabbling At The Lock, one of the albums that they recorded with Tom Cora. The album opener, State Of Shock, is one of the all time greatest songs I have ever heard. I used to know of a good youtube video of the Ex playing that one with a largish brass band as accompaniment, but I can’t find it anymore. What I can find is a fairly restrained live version of the second song from that album, a Hungarian folk song called Hidegen fújnak a szelek.
ok, a little more digging
and now I have some State Of Shock:
live version, with decent sound
some undergrad art project that has the album version of the song as a soundtrack. This one is good, because it features Tom Cora’s cello, but the art school pretentiousness of the video is barely tolerable.
is it possible i saw the ex play with fugazi around 98-99? i’m pretty sure it was them because i was pissed how close their name was to one of my all-time favorite bands and band names: X. but when they went on i was duly impressed by their sound.
anyway, last night… there was this free all-day show in a corner lot on 25th and MLK in oakland — i’m trying to find it in the internet and apparently it was called hoodstock. the name fit, given the location, but if they wanted to name it after the apparent dress code, they would have done better with blazer-and-a-hoodiestock. japanther was the headliner. i didn’t get to see them though. my friend’s band was playing too, and he said they’d go on at 5pm and japanther was 2 bands after them. so i drank accordingly. come 10pm, when my friend’s band really played, i couldn’t even stand up by myself so i recruited the help of my bike as a walker and went home past the taco truck. i suck. i wanted to see japanther so bad.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Sep 13, 2009 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions
the ex touring with fugazi
sounds very probable. I’m also drooling at the idea of how awesome that show would be.
Speaking of bands with the same name as X (I assume you are talking about the Los Angeles version), have you ever listened to the Australian punk band called X? They also started sometime around the late-70s, and some of their stuff is really good.
kind of gang of four with less twang / PiL with less drone. i like it. thanks.
don't care if i ever get back.
Hey! I like that drone!
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 13, 2009 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
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