Cultural Blind Spots
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Half of the kids in our school district have Indian names. Fucking followers.
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Hey, Raj! Hey, Squanto! Want some ice cream?Ryan wrote:Half of the kids in our school district have Indian names. Fucking followers.
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mister d wrote:It is a pretty unfortunate name. Like picking a kid's name a couple years before it becomes wildly popular than everyone lumps you in with the followers.
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Ok, I got another one. I like to think of myself as being up-to-date on new music, including some hip-hop...well, as much as a 50 year old white dude in Seattle can be...
But what the hell is the difference between a Hip-Hop album and a "mix tape"?
But what the hell is the difference between a Hip-Hop album and a "mix tape"?
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Remember when you were a kid, you would make a cassette tape of a bunch of songs from different bands for a specific purpose? For a party, or long car road trip, or to set a romantic mood, or to express your feelings for a young lady? That is a mix tape, and the origin of the term
Now there is no tape, but a digital playlist of songs from different bands/groups, either on a device or burned onto a disc (kids do occasionally burn music onto discs, right?) Or burned onto a memory stick/thumb drive.
Now there is no tape, but a digital playlist of songs from different bands/groups, either on a device or burned onto a disc (kids do occasionally burn music onto discs, right?) Or burned onto a memory stick/thumb drive.
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago
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I don't understand tattoos.
Sure, people get one or two, it's - I guess - kind of interesting. Maybe there's some meaning for the marks.
But the heavy tattooing just boggles my mind.
Sure, people get one or two, it's - I guess - kind of interesting. Maybe there's some meaning for the marks.
But the heavy tattooing just boggles my mind.
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Weird. Just last night I was asking a tattoo friend if he'd ever heard of someone getting a full scale tattoo of someone else on their back. He hasn't.
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No....I know all that. What I'm asking is this: Drake put out some new music a couple of weeks ago, and I've heard it called a "mix tape"....where as Kendrick Lamar put out new music, and its called an Album, not a "mix tape".howard wrote:Remember when you were a kid, you would make a cassette tape of a bunch of songs from different bands for a specific purpose? For a party, or long car road trip, or to set a romantic mood, or to express your feelings for a young lady? That is a mix tape, and the origin of the term
Now there is no tape, but a digital playlist of songs from different bands/groups, either on a device or burned onto a disc (kids do occasionally burn music onto discs, right?) Or burned onto a memory stick/thumb drive.
What's the difference? Are the terms interchangeable?
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The Kendrick Lamar one is good, while the Drake one is not?DaveInSeattle wrote:No....I know all that. What I'm asking is this: Drake put out some new music a couple of weeks ago, and I've heard it called a "mix tape"....where as Kendrick Lamar put out new music, and its called an Album, not a "mix tape".howard wrote:Remember when you were a kid, you would make a cassette tape of a bunch of songs from different bands for a specific purpose? For a party, or long car road trip, or to set a romantic mood, or to express your feelings for a young lady? That is a mix tape, and the origin of the term
Now there is no tape, but a digital playlist of songs from different bands/groups, either on a device or burned onto a disc (kids do occasionally burn music onto discs, right?) Or burned onto a memory stick/thumb drive.
What's the difference? Are the terms interchangeable?
Seriously, the Kendrick Lamar one is very good.
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Mixtapes are what you put out without label intervention and keeps your name fresh in the streetz. It's also a means to hype an upcoming album as well. Wiki says "It is now a word to generally describe full length albums released for free, sometimes all original music, other times composed of freestyles and remixes of popular tracks."
There will usually be full records that will hit the radio on the mixtape that could also appear on the album later. That's how Drake was "discovered." His mixtape So Far Gone got him serious radio play with the track Best I Ever Had. and put him out into the mainstream. Hell, in the track Forever he has the lyric dropped a mixtape/that shit sounded like an album.
Basically, everything Gunpowder Jones drops is a mixtape. If he were signed to Def Jam Records and released an LP through them, it would be an album.
Hopefully that makes sense of things.
There will usually be full records that will hit the radio on the mixtape that could also appear on the album later. That's how Drake was "discovered." His mixtape So Far Gone got him serious radio play with the track Best I Ever Had. and put him out into the mainstream. Hell, in the track Forever he has the lyric dropped a mixtape/that shit sounded like an album.
Basically, everything Gunpowder Jones drops is a mixtape. If he were signed to Def Jam Records and released an LP through them, it would be an album.
Hopefully that makes sense of things.
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I had no idea. cuz i'm old.
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago
Oh yeah…
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Over a long time ago
Oh yeah…
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My Young-to-Old Translater app outputs this:
The modern mixtape is roughly equivalent to that white-cover/white-label bootleg of a live Stones concert that you bought in that little record store down by the parking garage that had the rolling papers and pipes under the counter, back in 1972. Except the sound isn't crap, and it's bootlegged by Mick so he gets the bread, dig?
The modern mixtape is roughly equivalent to that white-cover/white-label bootleg of a live Stones concert that you bought in that little record store down by the parking garage that had the rolling papers and pipes under the counter, back in 1972. Except the sound isn't crap, and it's bootlegged by Mick so he gets the bread, dig?
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Yeah, from what I understand, mixtapes are what young, up-and-coming hip hop artists make and distribute to try to gain recognition. The goal is for a DJ or producer to listen and like it enough to either play it on local radio or get you a recording contract.
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I don't understand today's youth who insist on fucking up their earlobes with those disc things. It's fucked up.
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I know, right?
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I stand by it.
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Much like a bad tattoo, they're likely to regret that look in twenty years.
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I know, right?
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My favourite student - a kid with brains and drive - has those expanders in his ear lobes.tennbengal wrote:I don't understand today's youth who insist on fucking up their earlobes with those disc things. It's fucked up.
He may be a great kid and a good student, but whenever I look at him the words "are you fucking nuts?" echo through my mind.
Do those holes ever close?
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It's a growing niche market for cosmetic surgery is my guess.
I imagine they say something to your crowd, about your identity. That has never gone out of style. The stronger, the better. This is way stronger than clothes and hair. Wait until we see what is coming next at this level. You know it will happen. It will probably shock and offend some of the ear lobe people. At least the new crowd will hope so.
I imagine they say something to your crowd, about your identity. That has never gone out of style. The stronger, the better. This is way stronger than clothes and hair. Wait until we see what is coming next at this level. You know it will happen. It will probably shock and offend some of the ear lobe people. At least the new crowd will hope so.
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What could they do? Stitch prosthetic penises to their foreheads?DC47 wrote:It's a growing niche market for cosmetic surgery is my guess.
I imagine they say something to your crowd, about your identity. That has never gone out of style. The stronger, the better. This is way stronger than clothes and hair. Wait until we see what is coming next at this level. You know it will happen. It will probably shock and offend some of the ear lobe people. At least the new crowd will hope so.
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Apparently, they are called "gauges." I learned this via Click Hole.DC47 wrote:It's a growing niche market for cosmetic surgery is my guess.
I imagine they say something to your crowd, about your identity. That has never gone out of style. The stronger, the better. This is way stronger than clothes and hair. Wait until we see what is coming next at this level. You know it will happen. It will probably shock and offend some of the ear lobe people. At least the new crowd will hope so.
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I try not to prejudge, but when I see someone with gauges, I immediately assume they're an asshole. Each disc should have "UNEMPLOYABLE" etched onto it.
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I'm with you. There is self-expression and then there is self-mutilation that screams "look at me."L-Jam3 wrote:I try not to prejudge, but when I see someone with gauges, I immediately assume they're an asshole. Each disc should have "UNEMPLOYABLE" etched onto it.
Mind you, here in Toronto there are many places where people with gauges, piercings and tattooed hands can find work.
Many of them are promoting racial tolerance this week as well.
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By definition, we can have no idea what is next.devilfluff wrote:What could they do? Stitch prosthetic penises to their foreheads?DC47 wrote:It's a growing niche market for cosmetic surgery is my guess.
I imagine they say something to your crowd, about your identity. That has never gone out of style. The stronger, the better. This is way stronger than clothes and hair. Wait until we see what is coming next at this level. You know it will happen. It will probably shock and offend some of the ear lobe people. At least the new crowd will hope so.
As hard as it is to grasp now, it was unpredictable and equally shocking to people with mainstream values when young men in the early 60s started wearing their hair so that they looked like girls, and when even nice boys at Ivy League schools (and on weekends, their faculty!) started wearing pants that signaled that they were lower-class hoodlums.
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1) That's a bastardization of the term mix-tape, I don't like it, and I want all of you kids off my damn lawn! (I grew up putting my mom's radio speakers up next to my cassette recorder, taping entire segments from The Electrifying Mojo in the 80s. I'd then reel-to-reel edit them down, keeping the Kraftwerk and Sugar Hill Gang cuts.)
2) I will never understand tattoos and piercings. I can see a small one on your ankle or wrist or whatever, but sleeves and stuff across your back or chest? No.
2) I will never understand tattoos and piercings. I can see a small one on your ankle or wrist or whatever, but sleeves and stuff across your back or chest? No.
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You mean like much of women's high-end fashion and even mainstream 'style'? Cosmetic surgery, fake boobs, hair coloring, food disorders, extreme tanning. Even high heels are known to cause significant damage to many women.Pruitt wrote:I'm with you. There is self-expression and then there is self-mutilation that screams "look at me."L-Jam3 wrote:I try not to prejudge, but when I see someone with gauges, I immediately assume they're an asshole. Each disc should have "UNEMPLOYABLE" etched onto it.
Of course. And many would find employment at a place that was less tolerant to be abhorent even if they personally chose to look like Tim Tebow. So they are not really limiting themselves by how they choose to look.Mind you, here in Toronto there are many places where people with gauges, piercings and tattooed hands can find work.
Further, the limitations may be less than is obvious, and diminishing. My guess is that long ago there were people with all of those visual attributes who were found employable by hedge funds at very nice wages.
Everything that can be said about this crowd was once the case with hippies.
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This is of course a major reason why these things have power and work for a significant part of our society.Nonlinear FC wrote:2) I will never understand tattoos and piercings. I can see a small one on your ankle or wrist or whatever, but sleeves and stuff across your back or chest? No.
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I'm thinking about getting a full scale tattoo of my wife's back on my back.mister d wrote:Weird. Just last night I was asking a tattoo friend if he'd ever heard of someone getting a full scale tattoo of someone else on their back. He hasn't.
Maybe you don't but I set the trends.DC47 wrote: By definition, we can have no idea what is next.
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You would not be.mister d wrote:I was judging you guys for judging then I thought about whether I'd be cool with Q or D going full sleeve or gauges.
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I think timing would matter a lot. If they were in business school and did it, I'd die. If they were in culinary school, whatev.
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Yo this is creeeeeeepy ... http://www.clickhole.com/article/middle ... e-siz-2051" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;mister d wrote:Weird. Just last night I was asking a tattoo friend if he'd ever heard of someone getting a full scale tattoo of someone else on their back. He hasn't.
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I didn't see it mentioned, but Steve O has a tattoo of himself on his back:
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I vaguely remember him saying in an interview that he did that because he lost a bet.Johnnie wrote:I didn't see it mentioned, but Steve O has a tattoo of himself on his back:
I need to check out Clickhole once in a while. Funny stuff there.
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Thought I'd resurrect this thread after it occurred to me that while I don't have anything against him, I have never read, watched, or listened to anything by Garrison Keillor.
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I read Lake Woebegone Days when I was a young teen up at a rented cottage.
Kind of liked it, but never felt the need to pursue his oeuvre any further after hearing part of one of his radio shows.
Kind of liked it, but never felt the need to pursue his oeuvre any further after hearing part of one of his radio shows.
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