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    Saturday
    20Feb2010

    supersonics, oh yeah

    DateSaturday, February 20, 2010 at 21:50

    Saw The Presidents of the United States of America at the Showbox on the 12th. I had my money's worth after the opener, so the fact that the Presidents killed and played 'Supersonics' was gravy upon gravy.

    Guitbassist Dave Dederer - who was playing with them for the first time in five years - is the one doing the speech at the beginning, which I managed to catch all of on my 3GS from the VIP...and then completely forget I was filming it. Hence the distortion, shaking, and me yelling 'Blackburn!' ten seconds in. PUSA instantly became one of my favorite live bands, see them if you have the slightest opportunity.

    This version of 'Supersonics' is slightly different from the one I own and many know because Sarunas Marciulonis gets namedropped [joyously] here and he wasn't on the '96 Finals team that the Sonics ran off a bunch of singles of this for. I'm glad PUSA loved Sarunas. He's awesome.

    Here's that version:

    Presidents of the United States of America - Supersonics

    The song they charge into at the end of the video's is 'We Are Not Going To Make It' from their '94 self-titled.

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    Saturday
    12Dec2009

    sfs: 'swagger jackin'' for nsenga

    DateSaturday, December 12, 2009 at 16:00

    Somehow, I hadn't put one of my favorite Professors on my blogroll yet. Whoops. Rectified.

    Nsenga Burton is a Queen of Web Presence - peep her blogroll on her Wordpress. Also the prof who let me write that wrestling essay. The way she cuts up pop culture is something I aspire to. If she's got a weakness as a teacher it's that she knows so much that sometimes she's got to turn down the BPM so we can catch the references. And despite being a Cowboys fan, her Facebook statuses vacillate between one-liners and parables.

    One of the recent ones was about swagger jackers. Now, I hate the term 'swag' - not only does it get conflated with the superior and versatile precedent 'schwag' [meaning either horrible cheap weed or free promo stuff] - but love the term 'swagger jacker'. As someone who plays with language all the time, something about overdoing syllables appeals to me. I'd never use 'biter' when swagger jacker is out there.

    I also might like it because Dyme Def are the hope of the city:

    Image ganked from Jordan Nicholson's flickr.Dyme Def - Swagger Jackin'

    I don't want to equate national shine with success especially now that even good Rihanna albums are catching L's, but I'd love to see Dyme Def work up a Pac Div-like buzz. [They really need to get that album out, too.] All the glowing reviews of DD will point out that as a trio, they evoke images of old-school cipher spitting. While that's true, their last two releases - the 3 Bad Brothaaas mixtape that 'Swagger Jackin''s on and the Panic EP, loosely a recession-hop concept - are definite envelope pushers. BeanOne and MC Brainstorm handle the production and it's built around creative samples and a in-your-face energy that translates to the stage.

    They're like...The Mod Squad when they started figuring stuff out.

    Nsenga could probably put it better.

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    Friday
    28Aug2009

    just listen.

    DateFriday, August 28, 2009 at 1:34

    There are some sounds that can't be duplicated.

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    Wednesday
    05Aug2009

    i write for blog bodies now

    DateWednesday, August 5, 2009 at 7:56

    Updated on Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 9:33 by Registered CommenterTyler

    I'm lucky enough to be joining Blog Bodies, a rad concept blog wrangled by my man Big Ase, who's gotten a lot of people who are much better writers than I.

    Here's the shtick: Every week one of us picks a topic [or starting point, if you weeel] like 'birth', or 'summer' or, this week, 'Mobile Suit Gundam'. Everyone picks a song, does a writeup, we post a mixtape. Bam. 'Sbrilliant.

    I started this week, but you gotta read and d/l the whole archive.

    The only other person I know is Quinn, he of the Mixtape Muse blog/radio show, and the Blackbirds. Which makes writing and reading this really cool - I don't know if I'll ever meet Hasan or Jess, but I'm gonna get to know them. And, of course, I'm going to be breakin' concrete on my entries to make sure they're up to snuff even more because I want to impress them.

    [Why front? I want to be loved.]

    Asa and Adam are part of what fuels the remarkable I Could Die Tomorrow blog, which, along with everyone else's blog, will be matriculating over to the blogroll.

    Occasionally, I'll probably be struck to pontificate on my entry for the week a little more over here. I don't have much to add this week except for a simple little video that probably connects song-to-topic that much more. After the jump.

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    Tuesday
    28Jul2009

    this is a good use of internet

    DateTuesday, July 28, 2009 at 0:30

    Robes P bought a house. Friggin' mindblowing. That's a smart kid right there, because now is the best time for someone our age to buy a house *checks watch* ever.

    Lubbock has curbs?The Four is still really cool - my lease is almost up and Moorman Prop has been really good to me, so as long as the price is right, I'm sticking here for a while. I know a few other people who have bought houses with other folks - Robes is going to be in there with his bride-to-be [also somewhat mindblowing] but I'm nowhere near there yet. I've gotten way better since freshman year, but I'm still not trying to be livable unless I have to be - living with Buttercup was great, but it's probably not going to happen again for a while.

    Anyway, there's a house blog [hausblog?] and I'm gonna be all over it hoping that's me in five, six years. As far as uses of the internet go, this is a great one. I like blogs that are personal but also have stated purposes - Double Cee's would be incredible even if I didn't know her, I love me some photo blogs, and DFK's incredible even though I will [likely] never meet Ginger.

    The hausblog's called Little Box in Lubbock. Cute [both name and residence], but I don't think it's that little.

    I always want to have friends who are in different places. It makes you whole. Wish kid was a little closer, though.

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