“Fuck being hard, Posdnuos is complicated!”
—Posdnuos of De La Soul, “In the Woods” What other rapper has influenced so many lesser artists to do really uninteresting versions of his style? It’s like Pos birthed the whole “conscious backpacker” era with a few lines on this album, and all of his verses on Stakes is High.
February 2012
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“I had a little glitch in my program when I wrote “Freaky Tales.” I used to smoke Newports. I got on stage to sing this long-ass song, and I didn’t have the wind for it. I was on stage out of breath, you start sweating, you get dizzy and shit. And I know there’s a lot of cigarette smoking rappers, they need a back-up man, all the hype men. Rappers who rap really fast and say a lot of shit, they need the record to play with them because they can’t recite that shit back. I wrote my shit so I can say it just like it’s on the record.”
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Too $hort on breath control (breath control, breath control stylee) and rappers with too many goddamn hypemen (this is why I almost never go to rap shows anymore).
"Shake the Room" - Bumpy Knuckles featuring Flava Flav (Produced by DJ Premier →
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I would like to listen to this, but I have a had a headache and I can’t imagine that this combination would be good for it. That’s a lot of yelling.
Tell me how it is.
My Review of Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada →
elijahkinchspector.wordpress.com
Put up a review I wrote a couple months back of a really amazing and depressing (but not so depressing it felt like a chore) book.
“If a shaft of lightning had fallen at Dantès’ feet and opened an abyss with hell in its depths, it would not have produced a more startling or electric or overwhelming effect on him than these unexpected words.”
—Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (Buss translation, p. 167) Well, that doesn’t leave much space for ambiguity, does it? OG showing them how purple prose is done.
“On a visit to Amsterdam for an exhibition of his work he met William S. Burroughs — possibly, Ms. Zagari said, because Burroughs was seeking a reliable source of marijuana — and the two fell into rapt conversation. Some years later, when they met again in New York, Burroughs approached Rammellzee “and said, ‘Father!’ ” she recalled. “And Ramm opened his arms and said, ‘Son!’ ””
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“Rammellzee’s Work and Reputation Re-Emerge,” New York Times
Rammellzee gets an automatic reblog. And this all the more so.
My Review of Claudius the God →
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My paraphrasing of Claudius’ views on other religions of his time-period (including my own):
Judaism (“pretty weird, but they keep to themselves”), Christianity (“what a bunch of dicks”), Druidism (“seriously, what a bunch of dicks!”).
Also mentioned: elephants, femmes fatales, how putting a character in the center of your story can make them less likable, also a lovable scoundrel.
