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Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 8:04 pm
by the acid never lies
NilsFG wrote:Turned 18 today. I just know I'm going to have a huge hangover tomorrow.
And tomorrow I'm going to have my money on the bank so I can rob the Nike store.
Mate you're 18, hangovers don't exist yet
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:59 pm
by NilsFG
the acid never lies wrote:NilsFG wrote:Turned 18 today. I just know I'm going to have a huge hangover tomorrow.
And tomorrow I'm going to have my money on the bank so I can rob the Nike store.
Mate you're 18, hangovers don't exist yet
I wish that was true my friend
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:23 pm
by stephisaint
An afternoon with cadburys caramel and my nintendo DS haha ^_^
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:25 pm
by fretn
Coki - Ruff Lovin', cheers me up!
should be a whitelabel
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:29 pm
by DRTY
Girlfriend just bought a game called 'Peggle'. I can't stop playing it, kinda good. Also on about my 13th episode of Curb today
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:29 pm
by AntlionUK
fretn wrote:Coki - Ruff Lovin', cheers me up!
should be a whitelabel
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:31 pm
by deadly_habit
guilty pleasure of the day - jersey shore. i guess there is some enjoyment or entertainment in watching stereotypes and stupid people at some base level, even if it is scripted.
also twisted individual - unreleased works vol 3 dropped

Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:35 pm
by Dead Rats
salad
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 6:08 pm
by the acid never lies
Dead Rats wrote:salad
Tossed?
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:08 am
by kidshuffle
I like Nas. I like his political edge, and the fact that someone who raps about Black struggle can be so famous and relatively mainstream is impressive. That said, I do not like the album cover. Despite the fact that I'm white, I'm pretty appalled that he would compare his own struggles in America to the horrors of slavery (it is so similar to the famous photograph of a slave's back, covered in thick bull whip scars--and Nas is certainly knowledgeable of Black history enough-- that is cannot be a mistake). I realize that Blacks are still oppressed in America, and perhaps he was making a connection to wage slavery (which does not effect only African Americans), but still. Even Dead Prez wouldn't pull something like that.
Also, the song Fried Chicken could be quite politically charged, given the stereotype. Perhaps he gets into the idea of racial assumptions/expectations and feeling that he is caught in a paradox--living up to these racist ideas by actually enjoying fried chicken, and feeling that this preference relegates him into Sambo territory. It syncs well, I think, with the sweet potato chapter juxatosed agains the grit incident in Invisible Man (earlier in he novel, when the white clerk tells him that the special is porkchops with grits, and insinuating that the Narrator would be excited it about it, because of his color--while he likes pork chops he is so enraged hat he orders something "white"--coffee with toast--and is even more livid after a white patron orders them (anger, perhaps, that the white fellow is able to order whatever he wants because he doesnt have to worry about stereotypes), with the sweet potatoes, later on, he feels a sense of freedom--he ordered what he wanted because he no longer cared about if he was living up to expectations). It could also, I suppose, be a commentary on how these cultural staples have led to African Americans having extremely high rates of heart disease etc., but I would like to think that Nas is a little more complex than a PSA.
Sorry for the super ling, self-indulgent post. I'm currently taking a seminar class on Ralph Ellison, and have taken a few classes in the past concerning African American culture from the colonization of Africa to the present.
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:09 am
by kidshuffle
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:15 am
by knell
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:10 pm
by herbalicious
Couple days off work on a Birthday flexxx. A quarter of a century now though

Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:21 pm
by WhosZena
Appy Birthdayy
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:29 pm
by herbalicious
Fanxx

Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:31 pm
by helix
^That smiley made me happy today.
As does
this.
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:34 pm
by herbalicious
Helix [Delay] wrote:
^That smiley made me happy today.
As does
this.
Oooh I shall accept that as my Birthday present! thaanks.
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:36 pm
by WhosZena
Helix [Delay] wrote:
As does
this.
Its funny how happiness spreads.
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:41 pm
by elibomyekip
Helix [Delay] wrote:
^That smiley made me happy today.
As does
this.
The fuck is this? And why do I like it so much?
Re: things that have made you happy today
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:06 pm
by helix
elibomyekip wrote:Helix [Delay] wrote:
^That smiley made me happy today.
As does
this.
The fuck is this? And why do I like it so much?
Skweee.