Friday, October 9, 2009

A directory of lists

It's been a while since I last posted, and I've decided I'm going to make this post a directory of list-based articles I've found on the internet. It'll update a fair bit, I hope.

I shall organise it into categories based on necessity.


Business


Culture
Film
Internet
Music
Nerdery
Television


Food


Politics

Products

Sex
  • The Best and Worst Euphemisms for Sex, Cracked (October 20, 2006), by Matt Wilson

Sports

Monday, August 24, 2009

A side-order of kvas with your gulag

A friend of mine has started a rather interesting blog in the same vain as the 'Stuff [insert ethnic community] People Like' blogs that were popular last year: Stuff Russian People Like. Have a look, it's quite well-written.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Forward Jah Jah Children

The great thing about Youtube is that it can introduce you to collaborations with obscure artists in various genres you'd never listen to otherwise. Jacob Miller, for example, seems to be practically unknown off Youtube. I have no idea, he has a great voice. Augustus Pablo had some damn good collaborations:

Things communists like

A friend of mine has started one of those '[ethnic group] people like' that were popular last year - in this case, Things Russian People Like:
http://thingsrussianslike.blogspot.com/
Worth a look, she's quite a good writer.

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Jah Light

I've been listening to (the awesomely named) Augustus Pablo recently, mostly on Youtube, and I came across a song with one of the best bass lines I've ever heard. Someone really needs to use this in a rock song.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Thought Process

I got into Outkast again during the past couple of weeks, properly this time (although I haven't quite managed to work my way through Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik just yet, and I think I'll give Idlewild a miss), and, in an effort to diversify my tastes, I decided to try and listen to a few songs by the Goodie Mob as well, seeing as they're held in similar regard as Southern rappers and are a part of Outkast's Dungeon Family. While Outkast has a tendency to explode in various musical directions at once, more often than not looking towards the sky for a(t)liens or astrology, what I've heard of the Goodie Mob so far sounds much earthier and grounded (even Big Boi has a tendency to muse philosophically). Soul Food is a great song, even if the film clips depiction of the stated subject makes me feel physically ill.

The one song of theirs that really reaches me, however, if Thought Process. There's a lot of socially conscious hip hop, and a lot of it, unfortunately, falls victim to the grand American tradition of cloyingly emotional tripe. But this song avoids that trap effortlessly. I honestly haven't heard a better song about poverty, everyone involved is fully involved. The line-up is great - T-Mo (I think it's him) wrote some incredibly confrontational lyrics, but managed to make it sound so self-aware and, to a degree, selfless, that his rap embodies a sort of timeless humanity (sorry, but I couldn't think of a less pretentious way to word that). And Andre 3000 caps it off nicely.




Tuesday, June 9, 2009

A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre

Just a quick post (I've got 2 others in draft stage at the moment). I found this great song by Outkast the other day, it won't leave your head. Force yourself to like it.