Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Mom Quotes

I'm curious to see some of your (if there are actually any of you out there) favorite mom quotes.

Mom's are classic.

"I found what I believe to be, a marijuana" - my mom

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Omar



One of my favorite fictional characters.

Monday, February 8, 2010

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April 4, 2010. 8:00 p.m. The Bourbon Theater. Lincoln, Nebraska.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Hip Hop

is better when it's more about, "Money, gear, drugs, guns, Goodyears" than your typical, disingenuous, socially conscious bull you hear in groups such as, Blue Scholars (I saw them recently--not impressed). Having a so called, "social conscious," regardless of artistic context, takes the art out of the social; it makes the artist more apparent than the art.



Raekwon's music, although likely exaggerated and embellished (but what good art isn't?), exposes much more of the hip hop culture than anything a group that editorializes their particular point of view could ever do.

Overtly politicized art is half art as far as I am concerned. Art can only reach as far as its fundamental limitations will allow. Therefore, art based in the ideas, policies, and consciouses of others' is art that only belongs to that artist insofar as they have developed these things for themselves.

Raekwon is an artIst. His songs grow past society's limitations in a way that use a sort of social artifice to recognize culture in a way that allows the product to be the product, as opposed to an auxiliary end to the producer. Right?

Monday, February 1, 2010