Letters to the Editor
Gams on Glass
Published Letters: 279 Editor's Choice: 6
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protesting too much?
[Read the article: What ever happened to Britpop?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rather than address the article herein immediately, why not a few words of wisdom from Reynolds' prototype ... the Brother Jones article:
"There’s no point in faulting Arcade Fire for what it doesn’t do; what’s missing from the band’s musical DNA is missing from dozens of other popular and accomplished rock bands"
"Why did so many white rock bands retreat from the ecstatic singing and intense, voicelike guitar tones of the blues, the heavy African downbeat, and the elaborate showmanship that characterized black music of the mid-twentieth century?"
"The cadence of African slave hollers shaped the rising and falling patterns of blues singing, but there is still debate about the origins of the genre’s basic chord structure—I-IV-V"
All I can say is WOW... the very article presuming to critique 'britpop' (the term au currant) or segregationist grounds manages, in the first few paragraphs to evoke genetics, black extravagance and slaves... A remarkably similar rhythmic pitter-patter to that of America's finest anti-miscegenists and separatists.
Perhaps luckily, the author here throws out his own grenade, rehashing the same allusions of black music having great 'feel' but then spends 3 pages listing off songs with some rather short hand elaboration what's to like or dislike about them. Fantastic! The article feels like a meth freak flapping around your room, smoking and jabbering on regarding any particular thought that happens to bubble up. None of them have any merit whatsoever, of course, as this is, after all, a mind-bent drug bunny. The fact that most postings here pin the article down to the race topic may illustrate the weight race plays on our minds in our particular society, but I tend to think it is really as much an attempt to contrive coherency our of scatter brain nonsense.
I much rather would have preferred an article discussing Kraut Mod Rock, German racism and fecal matter (sheisser porn) forming a triangle of German insecurity regarding their own bodies resulting from centuries of instability and partition as well as the birth pains of Bismark's consolidation. 99 Red balloons certainly reflects the optimism as well as the potential backslide inherent in the new, multi-racial German society....... ?
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And another thing!
[Read the article: What ever happened to Britpop?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The article criticizing britpop's self-segregation finalizes with a shout out to "Mike Skinner of the Streets, Lily Allen, Hot Chip and Lady Sovereign".
Lilly Allen? Lady Sovereign? The latter has an absurd, arguably offensive, black-face/steppenfetchit shtick but none of these could be considered positive in any way. They are all HORRiBLE!!
Now, Amy Winehouse is fantastic and even if you don't like her, her singing is observably outstanding, with phrasing and tonality the equal of any in the r&b business. But the again, her influences could well have been the same as Mick and Keith's.
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Damn straight!
[Read the article: Shaheen resigns from Clinton campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As soon as I head about this I went straight to Obama's site and donated 200 buckaroos. The last time I gave to anyone was 25 dollars to 1996 Clinton... maybe I gave 20 or so to Gore.
At any rate, this lit a fire under me.
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OJ's Love Train
[Read the article: "The Great Debaters"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The minute a person says the criminal justice system is unfair to blacks and latino's, there's always someone who will argue, well O.J. got away with it"
For my part, I myself have never heard anyone make this argument, irrespective of their race. Moreover, I have never even heard anyone suggest that this was a common or stereotypical defense defense of the justice system, or that they had heard someone state this. Well, until now.
I would suggest this is a part of your internal dialog that you are projecting on to others as what you THINK someone might say. In reality, while OJ's Knife Class may have included seminars on The Race Card and Wealth in the justice system, even some of the most cloistered, rush-listening conservatives I have known have never even suggested that the case merits attention as even tangentially related to the state of the courts in america.
J'accuse: You are making it up.
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Buy nothing
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton gets serious]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"buy one, get one free" -- Okay, please explain how that was a 'theme' of the 1992 race.
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Breakfast and MURDER at Zulu Dawn
[Read the article: Our new friend is a racist -- should we dump him?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I once had a friend who sailed over the South Afican plains in a hot air balloon... One of those things most often placed on "100 Things You Must Do In a Lifetime" lists. It was beautiful, and when the balloon landed in a crash-and-drag huff in the midst of the Savanna, a breakfast with Champaigne was awaiting them.
Shortly thereafter, however, they were set upon by violent and angey Zulu Soliers, bearing spears, scythes, shields and a smattering of axes. My friend, and the entirety of his brigade was axed to death right there on Walters (Dakiim) Hill. It was 1899. Years later, I learned he had been a member of a British National Army, suppressing the indigenous people of the Southern Plains. He was wrong.
It is your turn to lash back. You must MURDER your friend. Take him, perhaps, on such a Balloon flight over the fields of lakes, Windmills and power plants, softly landing near a copse in which to deposit his remains. There, adorn your self in African masks and MURDER him. Set upon him in the most stereotypical fashion, shrieking and pounding your fists in the air as in a colonial era comic book. Then, stab your sword into his engorged gut, and MURDER him, and feast upon his soft white flesh, tearing him limb from limb in atavistic manner. Trust me, he will be scared crapless.
You must re-ingest his innards, to make him part of you and cleanse his foul imperial soul. For, only MURDER may abate the White Man's Burden.
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'Delicious'???
[Read the article: Delicious rumor: Jay-Z and Apple to start a record label?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First: Using 'delicious' for non-food items -> lame
Second: This sounds like a nightmare. Jaz-Z is a shit-mongering SOB.