Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Gah. This video makes me homesick. Pacific Division's "Mayor" has been on the "most played" (played in a good way, lol) list in my itunes for a while now, but this video damn near brought a tear to my temporary Atlantan, bout to be Iowan eyes. The Forum, the Roscoes t-shirt, the beach, the palm trees, even the random shooting noise that causes everybody to duck down for a second, it truly captures the essence of LA. The real LA, not the one that out-of-towners paint as superficial and label-obsessed. Most of the superficial "hollywood-types" aren't from LA at all; they're from the East Coast, the Midwest, the South and wherever else
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Tags: Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus, Los Angeles, Pacific Division, Proper Song of the Day, Public Transportation, The Mayor
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Well, actually not my cheer in the traditional sense, but she definitely does steal part of the little black girl songs I remember from my youth for her new video "Work." Amidst all the gyrating and some impressive dancing (I give props to anyone with the knees for all that low-to-the-ground booty popping), Ciara throws in a few lines from the sassy girl games and songs I remember playing growing up:
"We got the rhythm of the beat, we got the ryhtm of the hands, lets get the rhythm of the feet. Jump in, jump out, jump in, jump out."
She might as well have said, "my hands up high, my feet down low, and this the…
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Tags: Ciara, Go Girl, Hood ditties, Marta Girl, Work
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Ever since I was ten I knew it was summer not because of how my hair shriveled up, but because local DJs break out the song every child in Long Beach should be required to know. "Summertime in the LBC" reminds me of being pushed off of diving boards into swimming pools by adults, and free county box lunches from the park - with those extra dry turkey sandwiches and one chocolate chip cookie you tried to convince your home girl she didn't want. My old babysitter "Aunt Flo" use to have us…
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Tags: Dom Kennedy, Dove Shack, Future Street/Drug Sounds, Long Beach, Proper Song of the Day, South Central, Summer
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
If you haven't noticed, Angela and I have been on an Internet hiatus. Ang was in Puerto Rico and I, well, I have a crappy computer (death to Toshiba!) and haven't been able to do anything but play with Twitter on my phone. Being away from the Internets isn't half bad. Sometimes I feel like I'm on information overdrive and the web definitely doesn't help those gloomy days when I'm down and out. Reading about death, recession, and school cuts doesn't necessarily make me want to run down the…
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Tags: Do The Right Thing, LAPD, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Proper Talking Points, Spike Lee, Swine Flu, U.S. Supreme Court
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
The American attention span is shorter than the tiny Asian man's penis in
The Hangover. If you haven't seen that movie, the man's penis was this _ size. No really. But this isn't about short penises. It's about our collective Attention Deficit Disorder. Exhibit A: Mike Tyson.
Remember when Mike Tyson was everywhere? The cover of
USA Today, 20/20 interviews,
TIME Magazine, or
even
joking…
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Tags: Darfur Genocide, Mainstream Media, Media, Mike Tyson, The Hangover
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
It seems some of the greatest to do it were born in the month of May. We were just celebrating the birth of
Stevland and
Detroit Red and now it's Biggie's birthday. He would have been 37 - the same age Jay-Z should have really left the game.
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Tags: Biggie Smalls, Dream Hampton, Notorious BIG, Tupac, Twitter
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