So.
Q-Tip's solo effort "Kamaal the Abstract" will finally be released this year. It was recorded in '01 and was put on the shelf by some asshole know-nothing label dipshits who deemed none of the songs worthy of "single" status. It's just too "experiemental," too "not ATCQ," such a departure, in fact, that it's unacceptable for talented artists such as Q-Tip to produce. Well, he did, and I think it's brilliant.
http://www.antimusic.com/news/09/june/re26Q-Tips_Chinese_Democracy_Finally_Gets_Release_Date.shtmlBy the way, I hate the term "Chinese Democracy" when applied to expected follow-ups by artists (books, movies, records, etc.). It was funny and cute when Guns 'N' Roses used it, but now it's become a blanket term for anything that takes longer than a year without any consideration for process or thought or any of that. And besides, it's not the same situation. These songs were recorded eight years ago! This isn't some mythical project he's been talking up to get people stoked.
Anyway, it's worth checking out.
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One of my new favorite websites to read is "The Beast," which is a collection of political/social satire rants and writings.
http://buffalobeast.com/One of my favorite things they do is their compiled lists of the 50 "most loathsome of the year. In '08
http://buffalobeast.com/134/50mostloathsome2008-full.html you were #43. I think these people should be on the short-list for '09:
-- Steve Wilkos: Faux alpha-male on a faux tv show. Pussy in tough guy's bowling shirts (?). Throws chairs. Yells a lot. Because his show is fabricated ratings bullshit-- mostly viewed by people who want to feel good about themselves despite the fact that they are fat, unemployed, unintelligent philistines too lazy to read a book-- never really changes anything or makes any honest observations. Talks a lot about being a former cop and marine as if those two things automatically merit everyone's unfaltering admiration and respect. Invites the "dregs" on his show to ridicule and break them down, despite the fact that he was a security guard on
Jerry Springer. Wears bowling shirts.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Figurehead of Iran. Wrote a cool scathing letter to President Bush a few years ago. Aside from that bit of inspired genius, a theocratic asshole of massive proportions.
-- Mir-Hossein Mousavi: Sore loser. Can't prove he actually won election. Named himself victor right after putting his vote in the ballot box. Progessive only in terms of Iranian Conservatism. Might be worse than Ahmadinejad. Has many youngsters in Iran convinced his "snubbing" was an affront to "democracy," which doesn't truly exist in Iran to begin with; thus delusional.
-- You: are probably STILL spamming about Iran on Twitter right now, and bitching about how sad it is that the death of Michael Jackson is still number one in the trending topics, decrying such a thing as "typical" of America's idiocy despite the fact that you think the new Star Trek movie was "pretty awesome." You spend too much time on the internet. You only speak one language. You think America is a Christian nation. You dismiss any criticism of Israel as anti-semitism. You think either version of "The Office" is funny. You get more upset at the prospect of a stolen election thousands of miles away than the prospect of not having affordable, adequate healthcare. You are too lazy to walk two blocks. You can't distinguish between fucking, dating, and a relationship. You think any movie starring Seth Rogen is comic genius. You think Dane Cook is funny. You call glorified gameshows centered on drama between contestants "reality tv." You watch them. You're the common denominator, the "regular Joe," the average American, the unwashed masses, the majority, the embodiment of all that's real, imagined, held down, built up, YOU... are you. Fuck you.
-- Tucker Max: Another faux alpha-male/internet celebrity douchebag who can't write, can't think, and if those stories were true, can't bring women to orgasm or hold his fucking liquor. Weak dude. Word has it his dog shit smeared script was picked up by a soon to be bankrupt studio, made into a "should be" straight to DVD film (he claims on his site that it will be released to screens) starring a couple of shit actors (what Jason and Jeremy London weren't available? Shame!), and will come out this year. Congrats.
-- Perez Hilton: Another internet celebrity, followed religiously by some for being a spiteful, unfunny "commentator" on the lives of people somehow only marginally more interesting than he is himself. Shitty nome de plume. Now is whining about getting knocked out by Will.I.Am's manager for using a gay slur. Yeah, you're a hypocrite. I think that's pretty verifiable.
-- Tao Lin: Hi. Sometimes I think about what a gimmick riding, untalented writer I am and it depresses me. Most people are depressed, I guess. But something is different for me. I'm popular on the internet and the lines outside the venues for my readings kind of resemble those outside of a *insert emo/indie/hipster band here* concert, but I feel so empty and alone. I think Richard Yates was a great writer so I named my forthcoming novel after him. I have probably never read Richard Yates, but who cares, the cutesy gimmickry will get me much further with the "Napolean Dynamite" crowd than intellectual honesty. I disguise the fact that I have no discernible writing skill or anything of import to say by writing and speaking in a clipped monotone. I never, ever, under any circumstances stray from simple sentences. This is because I erroneously assume that less is more, when the reality (semantic or otherwise) is that less is, by all accounts, always less.
-- Kanye West: Responsible for two of the best tracks on Talib Kweli's "Quality." Other than that, the second coming of Puffy. Has no flow. Basically writes pop songs. Talks about how creative he is, but hasn't learned from Tim Burton that just because you're weird doesn't mean you're creative, talented, or worth all the hype that boosts your ass into the hearts and minds of lame college kids everywhere. Probably a racist.
-- Me: I am a lazy, smug, condescending, self satisfied curmudgeon of a human being. Dropped out of college. Works for peanuts. Clutching to the hope that I will some day be able to make a living writing. Will probably be back in college in two years. Writes all this despite the fact that no one actually reads it. I randomly change perspectives at least four times in this paragraph. Drops pronouns. For this probably nullifies all accusations against Max and Lin. That's seven times. Spends too much time on the internet.
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