I'm back, baby!
1. Karl Rove raps while Washington burns. Interestingly, he lists his hobbies as quail hunting, stamp collecting and "tearing the [heads] off of small animals". I’m not kidding – watch the video. Far be it from me to draw any conclusions, but what a strange thing to joke about. (Credit: Soulstrut)
2. The National Review reviews a revue to which I contributed, the funky fresh anthology, Total Chaos.
I love the way the reviewer takes these very abstract notions about the relationship between art and identity and attempts to determine whether they are 100% true or 100% false. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something about that kind of simplistic mindset that I just find hilarious, e.g. "Tate sees the artistic voice of a downtrodden people as being necessarily political in nature, but this may not be true." Well, let me know when you find out - I’m on the edge of my seat!*
Second best line: "Chang’s attempt to mold hip-hop into a postmodern intellectual movement is utterly ineffective." Sorry Jeff, better luck next time!
3. Finally, to cleanse your palate, here are some previously unreleased tracks from Sly Stone.
* You see what I'm saying, though, right? When confronted with the question of how, and to what extent, politics is implicit in the art of the oppressed - a fascinating and complex question that has been debated by the world's great intellectuals for thousands of years without resolution - he feels confident that he'll be able to nail it down once and for all in his little hip-hop review.
2. The National Review reviews a revue to which I contributed, the funky fresh anthology, Total Chaos.
I love the way the reviewer takes these very abstract notions about the relationship between art and identity and attempts to determine whether they are 100% true or 100% false. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something about that kind of simplistic mindset that I just find hilarious, e.g. "Tate sees the artistic voice of a downtrodden people as being necessarily political in nature, but this may not be true." Well, let me know when you find out - I’m on the edge of my seat!*
Second best line: "Chang’s attempt to mold hip-hop into a postmodern intellectual movement is utterly ineffective." Sorry Jeff, better luck next time!
3. Finally, to cleanse your palate, here are some previously unreleased tracks from Sly Stone.
* You see what I'm saying, though, right? When confronted with the question of how, and to what extent, politics is implicit in the art of the oppressed - a fascinating and complex question that has been debated by the world's great intellectuals for thousands of years without resolution - he feels confident that he'll be able to nail it down once and for all in his little hip-hop review.
posted by Joe Twist at 5:22 PM
1 Comments:
Good to see you back, Dr.Twist! And sharp as ever.
It seems that, accding to the National Reviewer in question, the major mistake of Jeff, et al. (et tu!), was to mistake hip-hop for politics, rather than art. It has to be one or the other, you know.
As for Rove professing to be a geek (in the original sense of the term), surely that's just an allusion to Ozzie Osbourne's old theatrics?
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