Subject: Adam Yauch (MCA of Beastie Boys) Dead at 47

i have since reconsidered

yeah that sounds about right

oh i'm not opposed to venturing into beastie boys' territory; it's just that i've got other non-music projects/interests that are a higher priority
i'm sure i'll get there eventually

what 'je ne sais quoi' do these fellers have that other rappers don't?

i don't know enough about them to capably answer, but my favorite artists in the hip-hop genre tend to employ a fair bit of whimsy

who are some of your faves?

the wu-tang clan, outkast, LFO

i would suggest de la soul as a candidate for your further study. while they do not attain the dizzying lyrical heights of LFO, they are nonetheless a clever bunch.

i basically know very little of the rap game, and i feel as though my music bona fides would be enhanced by enlarging my aural ambit

your high tolerance for misogyny will not impede your journey through the rap annals

i'm flirting with that threshold where tolerance becomes endorsement

in that case, you're ready to go straight for the hard stuff: go with snoop dogg's "doggystyle" album

i still have that album, along with the chronic, an album by nate g, and various other early/mid-90s softer joints like jodeci, silk, etc

by nate g, do you mean warren g, nate dogg, or our very own orpheus?

i don't know...the "regulator" guy

that applies equally to warren g and orpheus, but then again what doesn't

all jesting aside, provide for me an optimal order in which i should acquaint myself with the beastie boys work

1. Paul's Boutique
2. Ill Communication
3. Check Your Head
4. Hello Nasty
5. Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
6. To The 5 Boroughs
7. Licensed to Ill
8. The Mix-Up

i don't really like the "you've gotta fight for your right to party" kind of nonsense. what little i've heard from their later stuff seems much more interesting and more intelligently composed...does your list reflect this evolution, bro?

yeah, mostly. "fight for your right" was on Licensed to Ill, their debut. Paul's Boutique was their second album, so there's a bit of the brashness present there, but it's diminished. Boutique stands as a landmark in hip-hop as (arguably) the first album to perfect the sampling technique.
Licensed to Ill is really the Beasties equivalent of Ten. probably their most famous album but not a good representation of their style. the "frat rap" style was mostly attributable to the influence of a producer who helped shaped the album, not due to the Beasties themselves.
the most stylistically varied albums are clustered at the top of the list, with the exception of Boutique. it's innovative and adventurous, but it's strictly hip-hop.
it's worth noting that The Mix-Up is an instrumental album--no singing, no rapping, just the Beasties playing their weird brand of funk. i prefer the rapping Beasties to the funk-rock-playing Beasties, but you might feel otherwise.

interesting, thank you for being a beacon in these dark times

i'm considering beaconing full-time

in an ironic twist, i'm moonlighting as a beacon

beats the hell out of deaconing

i've yet to provide RM with a suitable tithe

is RM the quintessential free rider program?

i'm writing my summer paper on the externalities imposed by the dkfan9 account on the entirety of this e-community

i wonder if he ever suffers from inflammation asymmetry

i'd nominate him for chairman of the board's whey and means committee

dkfan9 inflicts us all with a case of splendor euphoria

can you imagine having to live in ohio

i mean, it would kind of be a step up for me

i find it hard to believe that a louisville or lexington is worse than a columbus or a cleveland
we drove through columbus on our way from philly to KC and, wow, what an absolute shithole...applebee's, kohl's, and sundry lower/middle class detritus as far as the eye could see

i just don't appreciate the "southern" aspects of culture enough to fully appreciate the area. lexington is too small to really be compared to the other cities. louisville's actually pretty goodl, overall, and it's no coincidence that most kentuckians consider it more midwestern than southern.

there are certain aspects of southern culture that i truly miss (hospitality, cuisine, etc), and others that i hope to never again revisit (aesthetic homogenization, religious zealotry, etc). i will say that my experiences in philly, KC, and elsewhere have shown me that the south - and in particular, poor white southerners - does not have the market cornered on racism
i could very gladly reside in a town like nashville, i think

i spent a lot of weekends in nashvlle in college and found it rather enjoyable. a vibrant downtown--not something very common in southern cities.
how does the pacific northwest stack up overall against the other regions you've experienced?

vancouver: too expensive, lots of residential/commercial homogeneity, lots of groupthink (not unique to the region, of course), interesting mix of genuine hospitality and "too cool to converse with you" douchebaggery, very little distinct culture (melting pot effect), too few dive bars and places to revel on the cheap, amazing public transit and natural beauty, lots of very interesting people
seattle: too expensive, lots of distinct neighborhoods with unique vibes, very heterogeneous residential/commercial places, shitty roads, much more culture than vancouver
i much prefer seattle to vancouver

i bet the shadow of huntsville hangs over these cities like nah over a huddle house waitress

surprisingly, huntsville lacks indigenous cuisine

did you ever consort with its indigenous population?

i mean, i did have an unfortunate wide-wale corduroy phase. so yeah

when you lived there, did you ever sense that there was a lonesome, wide-set-eyed boy with a door surplus daydreaming under that same huntsville sky?

i was too busy plying po*n to think about that

what a world of difference between an "o" and an "r"

lol

i've only just now acquainted myself with the dkfan9 account's e-travails
http://thecoolship.com/author/pwright1/

dkfan9's pontifications are the dingleberries of the internet's hindparts

i am officially offended by his abuse of all things parenthetical

but bro can pull off a sombrero

i wish i was so clever as to don a sombrero on cinco de mayo

such things happen when acne takes on a personage

i read somewhere that enterprise car rental employs more political science majors than any other company employs any other particular major

can a blogger truly be confined by the company name on his or her paycheck?

i guess it adds some street cred, amping up those proletariat bona fides

i was in that iconoclast's city on new year's eve and didn't even think to say hello

which iconoclast would that be? adam yauch?

pat wright (cincinnati)

i long to hear your impressions

i don't have very strong impressions of cincinnati. my time there has been limited to a bengals game, a couple of reds games, and the aforementioned (hazy) new year's eve. i had some delightful pizza at a place called A Tavola, patronized a couple of divey bars with decent craft beer selections, and had a few lunches at hole-in-the wall sandwich shops within walking distance of the stadia.
it's not the kind of place that will inspire poetry.

but will it inspire faux-etry?

pat, but right

sombre(b)ro

what did RM do to deserve dkfan9?

we failed to run our whey flag up the nuance staff with sufficient zeal

luckily for us, for every dkfan9 there is a mystyle185 and a theodore bundy

who is responsible for the theodore bundy account? it is easily my favorite second account

i have no idea, but i bet if you started a thread asking that very question you'd get a lot of great leads.

it's withoutrings i bet

our mercurial shadow trader does have a penchant for mischief

it's a level 7 account, and it mostly contributes level 7 posts. RM's sudden dearth of level-7 posters leads me to believe it has to be one of a select few. the theodore bundy leitmotif is right up the withoutrings account's alley
but i have been wrong on no fewer than dozens of occasions in the past, so it's not clear that this isn't another one of those times

i am an unlucky man to count on only one hand the number of level-7 posters on RM

the absence of the spike and nah accounts is most pronounced

nah achieves his singular purpose with utmost proficiency but lacks the multi-dimensionality to be a 7-er, in my humble opinion.

i just rounded that level-5er up is all

what level is our dear boy lenny

levels are an insufficient metric to capture everything that the lennytheweedwhacker account encompasses

the answer saddens me too friend

i would pay good money to attend a "lenny camp"

i bet that documentary would have the pace of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the moral overtones of Left Behind

what kind of currency do you suppose the fine folks at camp weedwhacker would accept?

dolors

well done

?/10

let's put together an "RM camp" for the wayward tig accounts of the world

i've been trying a "show, don't tell" approach with that very goal in mind for months now

it might be time to adopt a "tell, and then tell again" approach

maybe that RM camp could essentially be a thread in which our PM conversations are posted in their entireties

a true rapture

so i'm thinking i'll post this PM conversation in GD, starting with your post about the beastie boys, as a long string of quotes. do i have your permission?

you do

This was a great read!

It really was.

I'm definitely not reading through all of that.

perseverance is one of the many key traits of a level-7er and schpoink's got it in spades