I gotta say those sideburns look like they're going to eat Rutan's face. Why do I get this vibe like he's going to get in on some wacky adventures with Jim Garner and Angel in the Rockford Files?
Their words, not mine. The article spends most of the section qualifying SW not being SF but using it as a watermark in SF. Kind of confusing really.
The part above the quote I used:
On the subject of science fiction: Star Wars ain't it. In the strictest of senses, this is completely true.
[snip]
But like the Force itself, the influence of Star Wars flows in all directions; despite not technically being a science fiction film, the influence Star Wars had on the science fiction genre as a whole is practically incalculable.
In Star Wars, the future is a mess. From the rough-and-tumble welded and plated spaceships to the brushed concrete buildings full of dingy flickering lights, to dusty deserts and seedy cantinas, the universe envisioned in Star Wars had a gritty, industrial look, a jaded cynicism that had rarely been expressed in cinema before
Eh? I can't agree with this. Outside of Mos Eisley, the world of the first three Star Wars movies was industrial, yet clean. Just go to the scenes inside the spaceships, the Death Star. The Imperial design was "blocky", but that is far from dystopian. It was more Victorian SF than say 1930's Futurism. Even the rebel base at the end of New Hope was pretty clean.
And even Mos Eisley wasn't that bad (apart from being a wretched hive of scum and villainy). Dark? Ok... it was a bar. Outside it look about as dystopian as the ape town in Planet of the Apes. And that movie got dark and wierd when they found the remains of NYC (especially in Beneath with its post-apocolyptic underground).
Bleek futures had existed in Hollywood before, and some were on a more grimey tip than SW: Soylent Green, The Omega Man. Basically anywhere you had a post-fallout society, you had some pessimistic views, a pessimism that Star Wars lacks.
And that's just film. Dystopia was pretty stock in SF literature. The world of the proles was bad in 1984 or that even that of the Morlocks in Time Machine.
The true thrust of dystopianism in film is usually agreed to be the merger of SF and Film Noir. This achieved critical mass with Ridley Scotts movies (Blade Runner, Alien both mentioned in this article). And many would point to Godard's 1956 Alphaville as the first movie to explore this connection. It even used a form of Orwell's Newspeak.
There's probably more geneological ties to those movies than the pretty standard rebel v. evil empire aesthetic in Star Wars. And all of this does nothing to diminish the series' gargantuan impact.
which is a cohesive front for indie retailers around the globe. You can find some great stuff, out of print, foreign or hard to find that doesn't show up on iTMS (the closest I've gotten for my tastes has been emusic.com). The last four CDs I've bought have been from the UK, Belgium and France and purchased from Canadian, French, and UK distributors respectively, all of them privately owned small shops. Several of these shops (Action Records in London and Cheapthrills in Canada) have gotten repeat business from me.
Hell, its easy to find good record stores in your home town. Just go to digitalcity.com and type it in. But there's so much great stuff that, even in this age of cheap plastic discs, is still in limited print. Hell, Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs is out of print due to an unlicensed Godzilla sample on there. You won't find it in a Best Buy or on iTunes. If you feel like shelling out 50 clams, you can find it online, and keep the indie distribution network alive to boot.
People forget (or may not know in the first place) that the voice of Sponge Bob (and I believe Patrick) are done by Tom Kinney who was part of the wonderfully subversive Mr Show comedy show on HBO a few years back (with David Cross, Bob Odinkirk, and Jack Black). Before it got cancelled, Mr Show produced some of the best sketch comedy in the last few years. Stories such as a musical about a man who has sex with a milking machine and the show ends with the machine singing "Auld Lang Syne".
There are many parallels in the absurdism in each (with one being a more adult variety), something I think that appeals to all ages.
The lesson of don't say, do, or send anything online that you wouldn't want someone you hate to get. The Internet produces artifacts, things that are more concrete than the regular 'well I heard blah-blah-blah say...' gossip. I guess this just goes up there with one of those hard life lessons that define being an adolescent (and define why it sucks).
Better to just change your username/handle and electronically disappear.
Not blacks and latinos? I can't tell if this is a joke or not but they've had episodes about both groups several times ("Fat Butt and Pancake Head" "Here Comes the Neighborhood" "Krazy Kripples") along with the Chinese, Japanese, gay, and the handicapped.
The reason why there are subgenre's isn't what people think they sound like, but what musical geneology they come from. 'Hip-hop' comes from a very specific set of men working in the South Bronx. Likewise 'Electro' means a very specific thing. Trite? Probably. But musicians like to form little families and this is how they do it.
It's all crosspollination these days. Personally there should be two genres: music you like and that you don't.
Hey, if I was Jack Black I would've come in and said "What the fuck is this shit?!? I'm sorry Rob but if you wanted to listen to Sad Bastard Music all day..."
"No, Barry, I just want something on I can IGNORE!":p
I'm glad they took a well-sized sample of 200 people to represent the 7 job classifications. That's almost 29 datapoints per class. It've been more interesting if they would've tried to find corollaries to see who listens to what. Hell, I'd assume there's probably an age distinction more at play into someone listening to Classical than to job type (although I think age might play into that as well. I don't know many 19 year old IT managers).
And not to nitpick, but 'Electro' (in the article) is not short for Electronic. It is actually an identifiable style deriving from Kraftwerk (which they have on there, but the Orb and Underworld are not Electro) meshing electronics with funk (see "Planet Rock"). It then has all of its offshoots over the years like Darkwave (which most folks just confuse with Industrial anway) and Electroclash (Adult., Dopplereffekt, Fischerspooner, Peaches).
So what's on our lab iPod playlist?
Twine Twine, IDM/ambient. Mr Vegas Pull Up, Dancehall. various Welcome to the D: Electro, Electro. various Lo Fibre Companion, grindy bass ambient from Birmingham, UK.
In addition to Rakim, Eminem's style is very similar to Masta Ace (to whom he actually gave thanks to at the Grammies). Of course we're getting into more fundamental hip-hop here.
I guess Rakim got as booty as he does on that Truth Hurts cut. But I think his problem now is that he' been tied to Dr Dre who seems to have little interest in putting out the R's album. Its fine when Dre shelves his own products (re: Detox) but when it comes to other artists (Eve's first album is somewhere in his vault as well) I think its a great disservice.
I think mainstream hip-hop could use a dose of the Golden Era MCs: ATCQ, etc.
English haiku is totally different in structure than Japanese haiku (due to it reflecting on the language). Yeah, I could've just found another Ezra Pound poem but I decided on something different.
being shown Justice Department documents asserting that terrorists have communicated over the Internet via public library computers.' On the other hand, 'Critics of the Patriot Act argued that even without it, investigators can get book store and other records simply by obtaining subpoenas or search warrants.'"
Who wants to get a subpoena or search warrant? That requires talking to a judge and getting him to sign a piece of paper.
Who wants a papertrail when they steal you away in the night to an undisclosed location? Let's just call it a 'Cuban Beachfront Resort'.
Was it recently? For a while that kept the max pretty low (since, well, the best anyone could do was be on less than a fifth the shows Jennings has been on. Also might explain why his winnings are about five times as high).
On a related note: I liked Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption talking about auditioning for Jeopardy where he got some pretty high marks but chose a less skilled contestant because Mr Tony wasn't "telegenic enough" (ironic since he cohosts PTI, is a guest on another weekly DC sports show and the Sports Reporters). I guess criteron might be out the window too.
However, what I haven't seen was coverage on Slashdot... since there is very little other news so far today, why not talk amongst yourselves!
*checks upperlefthand corner of webpage, notices the banner still says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."*
I can't see how this comes even close to News for Nerds, especially the tight way it is defined on the FP of/. Of course I'm trying to remember why folks don't like it when incendiary discussions are posted...
But while it speaks much truth
There you go. Statements like that. The sort that start 400 reply flamewars and do little but pump up the ad counts on a slow Sunday. I think I'd rather have a forty count of goatse ascii art. Its understandable a reader would submit such a thing (since he considers it "interesting"). It's sad that an Editor would think this is something apropo to this site.
Screw that. The true knowledging of the Wu-tang is to find out all about the 5% Nation!
How else are you going to find out that all white men are the nefarious product of an evil black scientist, Yakub?
Peace to all my Gods, Earths, Seeds! From ya cipher all power derives!
Actually Masta Killa's No Said Date is turning out to be the best hip-hop release of the year... besting Pretty Toney, Madvillainy. The new V. Vaughn (Venomous Villain) may turn the tables...
The Miranda Rights are only for suspects who are being arrested. It is designed to remind the suspect of his 5th Amendment right to nonself-incrimination.
As it says on the Wiki police only need to Mirandize those who they intend to question. Snip: "Arrests can occur without questioning and without the Miranda Warning. Furthermore, if public safety warrants such action, the police may ask questions prior to a reading of the Miranda Warning."
For the franchise gamer, backwards capability is a must. It isn't like everyone has a PS2 and a Gamecube to then play MSG: Twin Snakes. And the new Siphon Filter has been a while coming.
And when you get that new console, how many new games do you have? 2 maybe? Backwards capability allows you do build a catalog.
which apparently tries to install copy-protection software on your computer when inserted (Win and Mac obviously). Hell, while they're at it, why not install Gator or Bonzi Buddy?
Slashdot Mirror
The sky is blue. Water's wet.
I gotta say those sideburns look like they're going to eat Rutan's face. Why do I get this vibe like he's going to get in on some wacky adventures with Jim Garner and Angel in the Rockford Files?
until it got /.'ed to hell. What sort of story will we tell our grandchildren?
"Yeah... I remember when the first commercial space launch occured. I was sitting in front of an idle browser window..."
Their words, not mine. The article spends most of the section qualifying SW not being SF but using it as a watermark in SF. Kind of confusing really.
The part above the quote I used:
On the subject of science fiction: Star Wars ain't it. In the strictest of senses, this is completely true.
[snip]
But like the Force itself, the influence of Star Wars flows in all directions; despite not technically being a science fiction film, the influence Star Wars had on the science fiction genre as a whole is practically incalculable.
In Star Wars, the future is a mess. From the rough-and-tumble welded and plated spaceships to the brushed concrete buildings full of dingy flickering lights, to dusty deserts and seedy cantinas, the universe envisioned in Star Wars had a gritty, industrial look, a jaded cynicism that had rarely been expressed in cinema before
Eh? I can't agree with this. Outside of Mos Eisley, the world of the first three Star Wars movies was industrial, yet clean. Just go to the scenes inside the spaceships, the Death Star. The Imperial design was "blocky", but that is far from dystopian. It was more Victorian SF than say 1930's Futurism. Even the rebel base at the end of New Hope was pretty clean.
And even Mos Eisley wasn't that bad (apart from being a wretched hive of scum and villainy). Dark? Ok... it was a bar. Outside it look about as dystopian as the ape town in Planet of the Apes. And that movie got dark and wierd when they found the remains of NYC (especially in Beneath with its post-apocolyptic underground).
Bleek futures had existed in Hollywood before, and some were on a more grimey tip than SW: Soylent Green, The Omega Man. Basically anywhere you had a post-fallout society, you had some pessimistic views, a pessimism that Star Wars lacks.
And that's just film. Dystopia was pretty stock in SF literature. The world of the proles was bad in 1984 or that even that of the Morlocks in Time Machine.
The true thrust of dystopianism in film is usually agreed to be the merger of SF and Film Noir. This achieved critical mass with Ridley Scotts movies (Blade Runner, Alien both mentioned in this article). And many would point to Godard's 1956 Alphaville as the first movie to explore this connection. It even used a form of Orwell's Newspeak.
There's probably more geneological ties to those movies than the pretty standard rebel v. evil empire aesthetic in Star Wars. And all of this does nothing to diminish the series' gargantuan impact.
which is a cohesive front for indie retailers around the globe. You can find some great stuff, out of print, foreign or hard to find that doesn't show up on iTMS (the closest I've gotten for my tastes has been emusic.com). The last four CDs I've bought have been from the UK, Belgium and France and purchased from Canadian, French, and UK distributors respectively, all of them privately owned small shops. Several of these shops (Action Records in London and Cheapthrills in Canada) have gotten repeat business from me.
Hell, its easy to find good record stores in your home town. Just go to digitalcity.com and type it in. But there's so much great stuff that, even in this age of cheap plastic discs, is still in limited print. Hell, Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs is out of print due to an unlicensed Godzilla sample on there. You won't find it in a Best Buy or on iTunes. If you feel like shelling out 50 clams, you can find it online, and keep the indie distribution network alive to boot.
Why can't a man drink in silence? Why can't a man treat his wife with violence?
Y'all been brutalizing me.
People forget (or may not know in the first place) that the voice of Sponge Bob (and I believe Patrick) are done by Tom Kinney who was part of the wonderfully subversive Mr Show comedy show on HBO a few years back (with David Cross, Bob Odinkirk, and Jack Black). Before it got cancelled, Mr Show produced some of the best sketch comedy in the last few years. Stories such as a musical about a man who has sex with a milking machine and the show ends with the machine singing "Auld Lang Syne".
There are many parallels in the absurdism in each (with one being a more adult variety), something I think that appeals to all ages.
The lesson of don't say, do, or send anything online that you wouldn't want someone you hate to get. The Internet produces artifacts, things that are more concrete than the regular 'well I heard blah-blah-blah say...' gossip. I guess this just goes up there with one of those hard life lessons that define being an adolescent (and define why it sucks).
Better to just change your username/handle and electronically disappear.
Not blacks and latinos? I can't tell if this is a joke or not but they've had episodes about both groups several times ("Fat Butt and Pancake Head" "Here Comes the Neighborhood" "Krazy Kripples") along with the Chinese, Japanese, gay, and the handicapped.
Slashdot Editors,
;p
Sooner or later you guys need to grow up.
You must be new here.
(if so, you've probably already heard this joke)
The reason why there are subgenre's isn't what people think they sound like, but what musical geneology they come from. 'Hip-hop' comes from a very specific set of men working in the South Bronx. Likewise 'Electro' means a very specific thing. Trite? Probably. But musicians like to form little families and this is how they do it.
It's all crosspollination these days. Personally there should be two genres: music you like and that you don't.
Hey, if I was Jack Black I would've come in and said "What the fuck is this shit?!? I'm sorry Rob but if you wanted to listen to Sad Bastard Music all day..."
:p
"No, Barry, I just want something on I can IGNORE!"
I'm glad they took a well-sized sample of 200 people to represent the 7 job classifications. That's almost 29 datapoints per class. It've been more interesting if they would've tried to find corollaries to see who listens to what. Hell, I'd assume there's probably an age distinction more at play into someone listening to Classical than to job type (although I think age might play into that as well. I don't know many 19 year old IT managers).
And not to nitpick, but 'Electro' (in the article) is not short for Electronic. It is actually an identifiable style deriving from Kraftwerk (which they have on there, but the Orb and Underworld are not Electro) meshing electronics with funk (see "Planet Rock"). It then has all of its offshoots over the years like Darkwave (which most folks just confuse with Industrial anway) and Electroclash (Adult., Dopplereffekt, Fischerspooner, Peaches).
So what's on our lab iPod playlist?
Twine Twine, IDM/ambient.
Mr Vegas Pull Up, Dancehall.
various Welcome to the D: Electro, Electro.
various Lo Fibre Companion, grindy bass ambient from Birmingham, UK.
In addition to Rakim, Eminem's style is very similar to Masta Ace (to whom he actually gave thanks to at the Grammies). Of course we're getting into more fundamental hip-hop here.
I guess Rakim got as booty as he does on that Truth Hurts cut. But I think his problem now is that he' been tied to Dr Dre who seems to have little interest in putting out the R's album. Its fine when Dre shelves his own products (re: Detox) but when it comes to other artists (Eve's first album is somewhere in his vault as well) I think its a great disservice.
I think mainstream hip-hop could use a dose of the Golden Era MCs: ATCQ, etc.
That's all ya need ;p
English haiku is totally different in structure than Japanese haiku (due to it reflecting on the language). Yeah, I could've just found another Ezra Pound poem but I decided on something different.
being shown Justice Department documents asserting that terrorists have communicated over the Internet via public library computers.' On the other hand, 'Critics of the Patriot Act argued that even without it, investigators can get book store and other records simply by obtaining subpoenas or search warrants.'"
Who wants to get a subpoena or search warrant? That requires talking to a judge and getting him to sign a piece of paper.
Who wants a papertrail when they steal you away in the night to an undisclosed location? Let's just call it a 'Cuban Beachfront Resort'.
Here's a picture. Decide for yourself (he's on the right).
;)
Of course he was on PTI once with no makeup... looked like he escaped Evil Dead
Was it recently? For a while that kept the max pretty low (since, well, the best anyone could do was be on less than a fifth the shows Jennings has been on. Also might explain why his winnings are about five times as high).
On a related note: I liked Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption talking about auditioning for Jeopardy where he got some pretty high marks but chose a less skilled contestant because Mr Tony wasn't "telegenic enough" (ironic since he cohosts PTI, is a guest on another weekly DC sports show and the Sports Reporters). I guess criteron might be out the window too.
However, what I haven't seen was coverage on Slashdot... since there is very little other news so far today, why not talk amongst yourselves!
/. Of course I'm trying to remember why folks don't like it when incendiary discussions are posted...
*checks upperlefthand corner of webpage, notices the banner still says "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."*
I can't see how this comes even close to News for Nerds, especially the tight way it is defined on the FP of
But while it speaks much truth
There you go. Statements like that. The sort that start 400 reply flamewars and do little but pump up the ad counts on a slow Sunday. I think I'd rather have a forty count of goatse ascii art. Its understandable a reader would submit such a thing (since he considers it "interesting"). It's sad that an Editor would think this is something apropo to this site.
Screw that. The true knowledging of the Wu-tang is to find out all about the 5% Nation!
How else are you going to find out that all white men are the nefarious product of an evil black scientist, Yakub?
Peace to all my Gods, Earths, Seeds! From ya cipher all power derives!
Actually Masta Killa's No Said Date is turning out to be the best hip-hop release of the year... besting Pretty Toney, Madvillainy. The new V. Vaughn (Venomous Villain) may turn the tables...
The Miranda Rights are only for suspects who are being arrested. It is designed to remind the suspect of his 5th Amendment right to nonself-incrimination.
As it says on the Wiki police only need to Mirandize those who they intend to question. Snip: "Arrests can occur without questioning and without the Miranda Warning. Furthermore, if public safety warrants such action, the police may ask questions prior to a reading of the Miranda Warning."
For the franchise gamer, backwards capability is a must. It isn't like everyone has a PS2 and a Gamecube to then play MSG: Twin Snakes. And the new Siphon Filter has been a while coming.
And when you get that new console, how many new games do you have? 2 maybe? Backwards capability allows you do build a catalog.
which apparently tries to install copy-protection software on your computer when inserted (Win and Mac obviously). Hell, while they're at it, why not install Gator or Bonzi Buddy?
Free Tibet, my ass...