In my view, there is no other language more suited to the cadence of gangsta rap than Punjabi. Watch any movie by Sultan Rahi or Mustafa Qureshi and you will encounter the crew chillax in da hood wid a fly ba-donka-donk, rollin’ in da benjamins and da bling-bling. Of course, some wanksta will start buggin’ [...]
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Intellectually, emotionally and conversationally, I abhor lists of all kinds. Top ten this or that makes me feel top-notch geeky. Still, I like sven more than I hate lists so, per his request, here is my top 25 songs. Except. He requested something like 25 favorite songs of all time but below are the 25 [...]
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Blake informs me that Bryan Adams is HUGE in South India. Alanis Morisette is HUGE in Pakistan. Explain.
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Friday night we went to see the Decemberists at the Metro. The opening bands were kinda boring (the Long Winters’ last song did rock) but, no matter, since we were there solely for Colin Meloy and his crew. This was the second time I have seen them – caught them at the Schubas April 1 [...]
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How come there has not been a great flowering of protest rock against Bush? We have books enough to kill a redwood or two. Most of the blogosphere. Some folks in the print media. But there hasn’t really been any GOOD anti-war, anti-Bush record [please, no one call Mecha Streisand]. People tried to trouble the [...]
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Heads up for those in Chicago: The up-and-coming soon-to-be-big-in-Europe (hey, it worked for BackStreet Boys) Chicago band magnus will be having their record release party tonight. I intend to go and anyone wanting to join in on the fun would be highly welcome. Their sound is a combination of liverpool, chicago and norman, oklahoma. they [...]
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