I like Kanye, I do, but this is totally indefensible. Who cares about the VMAs? This is just fuel for the hate fire. Barry.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Do any of you guys watch videos on MTV anymore?
I know most of you probably haven't watched a video on MTV in years.
Does MTV even show videos anymore?
Yeah they do. I watch them every morning at 6:00. I guess 6:00am is a little too early for reality TV. Anyways, from about 6:00 until 6:30 I flip back and forth between MTV, VH1, MTV2, MTVH (the H stands for hits I think), MTVJams and I think there's another one in there too. The funny thing is while I'm flipping through the music channels in the morning I keep seeing the same videos. I don't mean I see the same videos everyday, well I mean that too, but what I mean is I see the same videos playing at the exact same time on these various music channels.
The same videos!
Sometimes one particular video stops and when I flip to the next music channel it's just starting on that channel.
These channels are all owned by the same people!
Each channel only plays about 20 - 30 videos per day and what, they ran out of videos?
Listen, the point of all of this rambling is that today I saw a video I actually liked. I saw it two times in a row in fact.
The weird thing is I think I'm posting this video not because I want to turn people onto a song that I like but because I think most of you will hate it. I think I'm the only person who likes Lily Allen (or at least I liked that single she had last year that I used to watch at six in the morning. i think it was called "Smile".) and I just assume that that it's not cool to like Common anymore either.
Does MTV even show videos anymore?
Yeah they do. I watch them every morning at 6:00. I guess 6:00am is a little too early for reality TV. Anyways, from about 6:00 until 6:30 I flip back and forth between MTV, VH1, MTV2, MTVH (the H stands for hits I think), MTVJams and I think there's another one in there too. The funny thing is while I'm flipping through the music channels in the morning I keep seeing the same videos. I don't mean I see the same videos everyday, well I mean that too, but what I mean is I see the same videos playing at the exact same time on these various music channels.
The same videos!
Sometimes one particular video stops and when I flip to the next music channel it's just starting on that channel.
These channels are all owned by the same people!
Each channel only plays about 20 - 30 videos per day and what, they ran out of videos?
Listen, the point of all of this rambling is that today I saw a video I actually liked. I saw it two times in a row in fact.
The weird thing is I think I'm posting this video not because I want to turn people onto a song that I like but because I think most of you will hate it. I think I'm the only person who likes Lily Allen (or at least I liked that single she had last year that I used to watch at six in the morning. i think it was called "Smile".) and I just assume that that it's not cool to like Common anymore either.
Wear Black on September 20th, 2007
Not to get political on yall but . . .
Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more Black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town's police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."
The noose-hanging incident and the DA's visit to the school set the stage for everything that followed. Racial tension escalated over the next couple of months, and on November 30, the main academic building of Jena High School was burned down in an unsolved fire. Later the same weekend, a black student was beaten up by white students at a party. The next day, black students at a convenience store were threatened by a young white man with a shotgun. They wrestled the gun from him and ran away. While no charges were filed against the white man, the students were arrested for the theft of the gun.
That Monday at school, a white student, who had been a vocal supporter of the students who hung the nooses, taunted the black student who was beaten up at the off-campus party and allegedly called several black students "nigger." After lunch, he was knocked down, punched and kicked by black students. He was taken to the hospital but was released and was well enough to go to a social event that evening.
A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
ColorOfChange.org
In support WE ask that everyone, no matter where you are, WEAR BLACK to support the Jena 6. Some may say that this is not going to make any type of change but it does not hurt to try. If WEARING BLACK on September 20, 2007 is the closet you can get to helping the DO IT!
(this was all cut and pasted from www.colorofchange.org and www.progressiveu.org)
Last fall in Jena, Louisiana, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more Black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town's police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."
The noose-hanging incident and the DA's visit to the school set the stage for everything that followed. Racial tension escalated over the next couple of months, and on November 30, the main academic building of Jena High School was burned down in an unsolved fire. Later the same weekend, a black student was beaten up by white students at a party. The next day, black students at a convenience store were threatened by a young white man with a shotgun. They wrestled the gun from him and ran away. While no charges were filed against the white man, the students were arrested for the theft of the gun.
That Monday at school, a white student, who had been a vocal supporter of the students who hung the nooses, taunted the black student who was beaten up at the off-campus party and allegedly called several black students "nigger." After lunch, he was knocked down, punched and kicked by black students. He was taken to the hospital but was released and was well enough to go to a social event that evening.
A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
ColorOfChange.org
In support WE ask that everyone, no matter where you are, WEAR BLACK to support the Jena 6. Some may say that this is not going to make any type of change but it does not hurt to try. If WEARING BLACK on September 20, 2007 is the closet you can get to helping the DO IT!
(this was all cut and pasted from www.colorofchange.org and www.progressiveu.org)
Snaxxx the Enabler
People like Snaxxarellia, have made this possible.
I'll be watching this show right after I watch Cavemen.
The "Leave Britney Alone" guy could be getting his own TV show.
I'll be watching this show right after I watch Cavemen.
Racist Toothpaste?
(PS this was written by my cousin, Frank. He's my cousin on my mother's side, which mean he's white, and he currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan)
Denton Tall Tales #29
There was an old railroad bridge that not that many people knew about. It was real old and was missing boards and was kind of sketchy. I heard people used to jump off of it and go swimming.
One day I had some shrooms, some brewskis, and some blunts and we decided to go up there and chill out for a while. We climbed up the hill and through the woods to get there and just sat dangling our feet over the edge.
Out of the woods came these three hick kids with no shoes on and dirt all over their faces. They looked like modern day Huck Finns. They walked over to us and said what’s up. They lived close by and it was obvious they had plenty of experience with the kids that hung out there. The oldest was 12 and the youngest was 10. The first thing they asked us was if we had any “pot”. I said no.
“well, we do”
The oldest kid took out a little bag of weed and proceeded to roll a little teeny joint. He told us that he stole it from his mom. I was tripping and started laughing my ass off. The oldest started smoking and he didn’t even hesitate when he passed it to the youngest. The youngest then passed it to me. I was bugging out a little bit and was hesitant, but this was obviously not his first time smoking, I was already wasted, and it wasn’t my weed….so who gives a fuck, right? Right.
They hung out the whole time we were there but they got pissed when we wouldn’t give them any beer or share our blunts with them. They told us that they were growing hydroponic weed because they had planted some seeds under water at the river bank. They were really funny.
One day I had some shrooms, some brewskis, and some blunts and we decided to go up there and chill out for a while. We climbed up the hill and through the woods to get there and just sat dangling our feet over the edge.
Out of the woods came these three hick kids with no shoes on and dirt all over their faces. They looked like modern day Huck Finns. They walked over to us and said what’s up. They lived close by and it was obvious they had plenty of experience with the kids that hung out there. The oldest was 12 and the youngest was 10. The first thing they asked us was if we had any “pot”. I said no.
“well, we do”
The oldest kid took out a little bag of weed and proceeded to roll a little teeny joint. He told us that he stole it from his mom. I was tripping and started laughing my ass off. The oldest started smoking and he didn’t even hesitate when he passed it to the youngest. The youngest then passed it to me. I was bugging out a little bit and was hesitant, but this was obviously not his first time smoking, I was already wasted, and it wasn’t my weed….so who gives a fuck, right? Right.
They hung out the whole time we were there but they got pissed when we wouldn’t give them any beer or share our blunts with them. They told us that they were growing hydroponic weed because they had planted some seeds under water at the river bank. They were really funny.
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