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Props to Kanye for standing up against gay-bashing, of course. :dope: But just a few thoughts of mine on using the word "gay" as slang...
I do not particularly like when people use "gay" as slang for bad, or uncool, or anything generally negative. However, I get even more frustrated when people assume that others who use the word in this fashion are being hateful or are homophobic. The fact is, "gay" has become a colloquialism, and there are plenty of people who have simply had this word engrained in their informal speech. Especially in certain regions (such as here in the Boston area), where it's really part of the local vernacular... A friend of mine was recently accused of being a gay-basher on an online forum because he used "gay" as slang. Of course, it was a speech & debate forum, and he had joined only as a joke, immediately starting a thread about how much he hated this activity (ie: "hello, I'm new here, and speech & debate is gay). But ANYways, the point is, he claimed that these people were being presumptious, didn't understand the concept of conversational language, and were fabricating controversy. I agreed. To an extent. My take is: sure, many people who use "gay" as slang aren't trying to imply anything about homosexuality, and it's probably ignorant to assume they are, but these people should probably make a point to try to delete this expression from their speech (I have), knowing the origins of it are hateful and that it could easily send the wrong messages. It's not a matter of malice for alot of people; it's a matter of learning to have more tact in their word choice.
How's THAT for a highly unnecessary rant?? :thud: This is what I do when I'm bored. :davidblaine:
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That's enough...boring and so on..thats taste....BUT..it isn't UNORIGINIAL! THAT is what it exactly is.
UNORIGINAL is Will's beats..but they're good anyway.
HAhhahhaaha :3-laugh3: I'm not even gonna argue this point, because some are and some aren't, but you HAVE to know you're gonna get some talk back on that one. :noooo:
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Thanks for this! :dope: I especially love the following exchange...
T.JONES: “What song did you have the best time making in the studio?”
JEFF: “There is this song called ‘Then She Bit Me’ that probably was the most fun we ever had making a record because we literally wrote that song line for line. It was a stream of consciousness. It wasn’t supposed to make any sense. Line for line, someone would come up with something, and he’d walk in the booth and say that line and walk out. Then, we’d think of something else. We kept doing it. It’s pretty much the dumbest song that anyone has ever heard.”
:lolsign: That's pretty much how I always pictured Then She Bit Me being made. I love it.
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Nope, time for me to get back to the good old Big Will, Outkast and Slick Rick. Hell yeah!
Nothing to do with anything really hhaha, but Kanye name-drops Slick Rick on "Touch the Sky" as someone he used to listen to. :interesting:
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Legend or not, I love the 2 tracks I've downloaded from Kanye's new album. :switch: "Heard em Say" has a really smooth instrumental made with the guy from Maroon 5, and the rap's a pretty well done, thoughtful piece. And then there's "Touch the Sky," which I think is very comparable to Will's Big Willie Style stuff. A funk sample, rhymes about his road to success. And I really love the end of the track, when he starts chanting, "I'm, I'm sky high! I'm, I'm sky high!" :ithinkimkanye: Tim, is it possible to have that play whenever someone reads my posts? Because it needs to happen. And when I instant message someone on AOL, it'd be sweet if I could hook it up so it'd start playing there too. But enough of my deluded ramblings... I'm lookin foward to hearing the rest of Kanye's new material. :dope:
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Let's Face It by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones was my first CD.
I saw them in concert once. The best part about it was that they had one guy, in a suit (like all of them), who did nothing but do the running man the entire show.
:lolsign: Classic.
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Big Willie Style, which was the second CD I had ever bought, and one of the best I've ever bought to date. :wickedwisdom: (the rate at which this smiley is shaking is seriously unsettling) Let's Face It by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones was my first CD. And before that, the only music I had ever bought was a cassette version of Deep Blue Something's Home, which I bought solely for Breakfast at Tiffany's. I honestly don't think I ever listened to the rest of it even once. So those were my humble beginnings in the field of music purchasing, presented for your reading pleasure. :thud:
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This track is so good. :hail: I love the calm, alternating rap/singing delivery with the story, which is really well told. Only thing I'm not thrilled with is that electric guitar thing in there, even tho it does fit in with the desperate feel of that portion of the story. The regular instrumental is so smooth, I just want to keep going uninterrupted with that. :3-laugh3: Clearly a minor complaint.
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Some really chill tracks like "Ain't No Place Like Home" and "So Fresh." :davidblaine:
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I love Kanye for being so reasonable about the downloading thing. :dope:
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I am also enjoying this remix. So yeah-- my thanks, too. :dope:
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Common
Common vs. Ma$e
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Hahaha that's awesome :interesting: It's always fun when you hear random, unreleased songs you know playing in public.
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Aslo... do you guys remember the show Ghost Writer on PBS. That was my show...
Oh snap!!!!!!
I thought I was enough of a geek that I remembered all the shows I used to watch back in the day, but I had completely forgotten about that one! :hail: Oh, and uhhhh... Will doesn't really have a "ghostwriter", per say, so let's put that to rest (once again). :dope:
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amazing Dave... me and Julie were in stitches when you were telling us about it on Skype...! I thought they had a pole?
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure someone stole it off of the pole lol... there's an odd hole where a lock should be to hold in the coins, and it was undoubtably picked. :yeah: (I'm dancing because I'm just generally excited)
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Here it is, in all it's glory...
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I have a very sophisticated sense of humor, and the following lines get me every time. :3-laugh3: I love Will's delivery...
"A Blazer, '89,
Tinted windows,
I wish it was mine.
Oh, it is,
But where are my keys?
There they are,
...In the ignition."
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I stepped away for dinner after watching Jonny's fireworks (top notch, by the way), and now noone appears to be on any more. So I guess that's it for this Podcast attempt. :shrug: However, we forge on into the future bravely and with hope. :pony: When are people available for another shot at recording this thing? :hmm:
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Don't be a tool!
In my humble opinion, this little piece of advice sums it up. :switch: Just completely ridiculous behavior. And I hate the fact that TO and his agent are pretty much on every talk show ever all the time. But even though they are unspeakably annoying, I still watch. It's perversly interesting to hear them rationalize their actions out loud. :wtf:
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That's great, thanks for the link. :dope: Be nice to see Jeff catch a little bit of the spotlight, instead of hiding in the shadows on the turntables during another performance of Switch. :3-laugh3:
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***PREDICTABLE JOKE ALERT*** I'm pulling for Hillary in '08, just because Bill Clinton moving back into the White House as "First Man" would be high comedy. Let's get a dramatic slow clap going for that one... :switch:
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In conclusion and in summary, until this video drops, the JJFP fan board will continue to look a little like this...
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(who's the calm guy?)
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:speaker1: Bloodhound Gang, "You're Pretty When I'm Drunk".... What a profoundly ridiculous song, but it's fun... I'm also listening to JJFP, "Family Christmas" :noel: .........weelllllllll not really, but I needed to use the Santa smiley. :davidblaine:
Kanye West defends gay community
in Caught in the Middle
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It's not like that at all (MaxFly-style bolding). You can't compare that statement in quotes with 90% of slang usage of gay. What you gave is an example of territorialism, mixed with blatant racism. I'm talking about pure colloquial language that has nothing to do with homosexuality.
ANYways, I can see what you're saying, Schnazz, but I respectfully disagree with your disagreement (smooth wording). Of course, anti-homosexuality does exist, and it's a problem that needs to be addressed in our society, but for you to assume that people who use the word "gay" as slang fall into this category, isn't really fair...
Again, I wanna emphasize that I make a conscious effort not to use "gay," because I realize what it can imply to some people, etc. And I think other people should just stop using the word, too-- even tho it can be difficult when its so a part of your normal vocabulary. But it needs to made clear that for at least some people-- and I don't know the percentages or ratios, Schnazz, maybe you've encountered more people who are truely anti-homosexual than I have-- it really is just a matter of poor word choice, and they don't deserved to be labeled as bad people for this.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand, done. :dope: