The Official Music Video for "Mean wit it"
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Whatever happened to reading?
From Sullivan:
"When I was a boy, the bestselling books were often the books that were on your piano teacher's shelf. I mean, Steinbeck, Hemingway, some Faulkner. Faulkner actually had, considering how hard he is to read and how drastic the experiments are, quite a middle-class readership. But certainly someone like Steinbeck was a bestseller as well as a Nobel Prize-winning author of high intent. You don't feel that now. I don't feel that we have the merger of serious and pop -- it's gone, dissolving. Tastes have coarsened. People read less, they're less comfortable with the written word. They're less comfortable with novels. They don't have a backward frame of reference that would enable them to appreciate things like irony and allusions. It's sad. It's momentarily uphill, I would say."
That void "serious+pop" that's in music too though. Wonder who we're gonna get to handle that? (Scratches head.)
"When I was a boy, the bestselling books were often the books that were on your piano teacher's shelf. I mean, Steinbeck, Hemingway, some Faulkner. Faulkner actually had, considering how hard he is to read and how drastic the experiments are, quite a middle-class readership. But certainly someone like Steinbeck was a bestseller as well as a Nobel Prize-winning author of high intent. You don't feel that now. I don't feel that we have the merger of serious and pop -- it's gone, dissolving. Tastes have coarsened. People read less, they're less comfortable with the written word. They're less comfortable with novels. They don't have a backward frame of reference that would enable them to appreciate things like irony and allusions. It's sad. It's momentarily uphill, I would say."
That void "serious+pop" that's in music too though. Wonder who we're gonna get to handle that? (Scratches head.)
I started a joke........
This is one of the saddest songs I've heard but I dig it. I would've just posted the song but I couldn't find it except for this Final Fantasy video someone made. I heard the song in Zoolander and looked it up. It's origanly a Bee Gee's song but I like this version by The Wallflowers better. I sometimes feel like the words to the song, favorite line is "then I finally died, which started the whole world living." In unrelated news, I think I'm slowly getting inspired to write something, more than lyrics, like a short story or a long one. All I have is the title in my head but that's enough to do something with. I'll probably start it once I give you guys this music I've been holding back. It's gonna be called "If this city slept"......Oh! and I just got the finished version of the mean wit it video. 09 is mine.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Hope.
Let me break down the reason why this is important. This his first sit down address since assuming the presidency. The fact that it is displayed in arabic is huge. Minimal effort for maximum impact, it shows respect. Also, Obama stating his muslim experience and up front honesty about the future of all the nations involved. If we are to come out on the other side of this war alive, this is a good first step.
Something worth reading......
I picked it up a few hours ago. I only put it down to type this but yea, probably the illest graphic novel I've read since my "sin city" joints.
Monday, January 26, 2009
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