August 10, 2005
Inward Side Outward
A hit-it-and-quit-it entry today. Carpal Tunnel ain't gon get me yet!
Your Momma's so stupid she buys her disses off eBay. (via Spine Magazine)
I'm not racist against Japanese people...I got Japanese friends (best excuse ever)...but they've finally managed to create something more frightening than all the other frightening shit that they've imagined up--a life-sized (albeit anatomically censored) R Kelly doll (via All HipHop).
And while my mind is on racialism: What's our motherfuckin name? Now, though I do prefer non-slurs to slurs and personally take issue with the idea of blackness (as oppsoed to Africanness), will a renaming really make a damn differenece in the face of the neocolonial mindset of post-911 so-called Western democracies? They can call you a man, but as long as they treat you like a dog, it's an empty gesture. I think the dialogue about nomenclature is important, but only in the hands of the people.
Black Bretons still on my mind, MTV talks about Grime. And, of course, they lead off an article on rapidly growing Afro-British underground music scene with the "female Eminem". Yo, no bad blood against Lady Sovereign on my part, but that's so fucking typical. They also completely neglect cats like Roots Manuva and Ty who have been putting down the UK Hiphop scene proper, in lieu trendhopping. But should I have expected more? And what, exactly, does the author mean by "buck bounce," "more black," and "buckshot"?
Jeff Chang and Sylvia Chan sat down to dissect Hollywood blockbuster Crash some time ago, but it's still worth reading if you haven't. (via Can't Stop Won't Stop)
And lastly, before I drop something gets me permanently barred from newsing-n-boozing, Jef sends good words from the Rich Coast.
amigos
life saunters on... actually it feels like my time here has been speeding by,
but in a good way. in the 'i don't have to go to work or take out the trash'
kind of way. the 'hey, i think i'm going to go dig up some turtle eggs for
dinner' kind of way. almost. i've gotten used the the mosquitos and have now
made it all the way to level 4 where i'm learning the difference between saber
& conocer (ej. conozco su madre - i 'know' your mom. and yo se sobre su madre -
i know about your mom.) also, the exciting form of future tense has opened doors
and allowed me to write a whole page about "el futuro del mundo". maybe i'll
submit it to some high-brow journals or something seeing as how i'm so
insightful.
a few of us traveled over to the carribean to toruguerro last weekend in hopes
of some turtle watching, but there was some miscommunication with our
reservations and my plans for turtle egg soup were abruptly ended. instead we
got to take a tour of the canals via canoes at six in the morning. it was then
that i truly came to understand why they call it a rainforest. i also
understood why they said to bring a poncho. i did not quite grasp why we still
canoed around for three hours in the rain, but i did get to see two little
crocodiles and a monkey. i didn't get to touch them though. kinda weak.
anyway, this backwards country has continued to be good to me. i'm a little bit
tired of arroz con carne, but on the whole it's hard to complain. especially
while i'm sitting here in my hammock on the beach, sipping beer being served to
me by monkeys. also they are building me a house from coconuts. you all can
visit when it's done since i might not come back.
un abrazo
ix
Posted by urn at August 10, 2005 11:51 PM
