Awesome Rap soundboard, now I can hear Rick Ross’ UGH grunt on command!
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My name is Paul.
I'm not exactly sure who I am.
Day 50: I was going to make this more complex and awesome, with muscles and ligaments and everything. Then I looked at how complex hand anatomy is. Nyehhh.
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"The week’s events have been extremely upsetting and culminated with an email from an unidentified person threatening to kill me and rape me and my family. While it is certainly possible that the email came from an overzealous fan of Odd Future, and not from the group itself, it has become clear to me that this is a matter for the police."
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Amy Harris, photographer pressing charges against OFWGKTA’s Left Brain for a physical altercation.
I have just a few thoughts on this, which is of course a really up in the air, facts unknown type of thing. But, dating and living with someone who gets death threats, and threats of violence and rape, has given me a little perspective, maybe. For one, this happens! Which is amazing to me. I had previously thought that things like getting emails threatening to rape or murder people simply didn’t happen.
Emails, comments, message board threads about such. Who does that? Did I pass out on my keyboard and accidentally log into MySpace?
But, well, say someone does that. They’re not actually going to do anything, right? They’re just kids or trolls. Well, maybe. However — do you really want to 1) place the onus of whether or not to be afraid of a threat back onto the threatened rather than put it on the threatener? (No.) And 2) believe that semi-random/semi-premeditated rage-induced violence does not happen? (It does.)
The thing about Odd Future is that it’s never been about the lyrics. Not in a vacuum. It’s about the way people relate to the lyrics in a social way. The way the lyrics fit into the historical conversation of racism and misogyny in America. Proponents of the group, the thoughtful ones, claim OF gives a good occasion to re-enter those conversations with a fresh, modern perspective. The more critical of us claim that OF’s fans and admirers shirk their duty to do that, thereby just reveling in violence, racism, and misogyny as a tourist’s hedonistic enterprise into brief depravity. (There’s also a historical conversation about ‘slumming it’, appropriating others’ culture, and dabbling in violence to ‘feel alive’ or, if you’re Hegel, ‘be a human being’.)
Now, OF’s publicist’s statement after the event, which says in part,
Vyron (Leftbrain) took a swipe at a few cameras, NOT people. To manipulate the situation to insinuate an attack on a woman specifically is careless and manipulative.
is itself manipulative. Honestly, no one is an apt target for violence, just like no one is a proper perpetrator of it. But the group has a problem with women. Its de facto leader has made numerous public statements to the effect that he gives no shits about women. So when a woman ends up getting assaulted at an OF show, even inadvertently, that’s still on them. The publicist sounds like Sarah Palin defending her gun sight imagery. Foolish. (via bmichael)
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All Hallow’s Read (vía Prepare For… All Hallows Read [insert scary ghost noises here] | En Tequila Es Verdad)
"The roots of left colorblindness lie in the white democracy and the distorted mindset it creates. It encourages whites to think that their issues are “universal” while those of people of color are “specific.” But that is exactly backwards. The struggles of people of color are the problems that everyone shares. Anyone in the occupy movement who has been treated brutally by the police has to know that Black communities are terrorized by cops every day. Anyone who is unemployed has to know that Black unemployment rates are always at least double that of whites, and Native American unemployment rates are far higher. Anyone who is sick and lacks healthcare has to know that people of color are the least likely to be insured (regardless of their income) and have the highest infant mortality and cancer rates and the lowest life expectancy rates. Anyone who is drowning in debt should know that the median net wealth of Black households is twenty times less than that of white households. Only left colorblindness can lead us to ignore these facts."
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Firstly, the word Occupy has understandably ignited criticism from Indigenous people as having a deeply colonial implication. It erases the brutal history of genocide that settler societies have been built on. This is not simply a rhetorical or fringe point; it is a profound and indisputable matter of fact that this land is already occupied. The province of BC is largely still unceded land, which means that no treaties have been signed and the title holders of Vancouver are the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Tseilwau-tuth, and Musqueam. As my Sḵwx̱wú7mesh friend Dustin Rivers joked “Okay so the Premier and provincial government acknowledge and give thanks to the host territory, but Occupy Vancouver can’t?”
Supporting efforts towards decolonization is not only an Indigenous issue. It is also about us, as non-natives, learning the history of this land and locating ourselves and our responsibilities within the context of colonization. Occupation movements such as those in Boston and Denver and New York have taken similar steps in deepening an anti-colonial analysis.
Secondly, we must understand that the tentacles of corporate control have roots in the processes of colonization and enslavement. As written by the Owe Aku International Justice Project: “Corporate greed is the driving factor for the global oppression and suffering of Indigenous populations. It is the driving factor for the conquest and continued suffering for the Indigenous peoples on this continent. The effects of greed eventually spill over and negatively impact all peoples, everywhere.”
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