Super off topic, off topic thread

[Redz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNR74UCidBI&feature=player_embedded#!

[misha]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNR74UCidBI&feature=player_embedded#!

In the 40s, when it was performed, that was equal to adult movies now.

[Redz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtUlc0-6z8A

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[Bahku]

In honor of one of my favorite living legends, Paul Pierce, a poem of tribute by my second-favorite historical figure, Walt Whitman:







            Oh Captain, My Captain


O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

    
- Walt Whitman

Note: For those who may not know, this was a poem Whitman wrote about the assasination of Abraham Lincoln ... his "Captain", and was published in "Leaves Of Grass".

[ACF]

[cdif911]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gM5TjSOQ48

ahahaaa

[Gomesfan]

Falling asleep watching......The Hurt Locker!! Dragging......

[Bahku]

Keep fighting, Coach Karl ... we want to see you back on that bench!





Thinking of you ... and praying for you.

[ACF]

[Redz]

"People need to understand that children with special needs don't have an illness, so there is no cure & it's not contagious. They only want what we all want, to be accepted.It's Special Education week, and this is in honor of all the kids who need a little extra help & understanding."

[bdm860]

They don't call him the Genius for nothing.

SLUG: What would you like to see come out of hip hop in 2010?

GZA: I would like to see more artists grow and develop. I would like to see hip hop take a step up the ladder as far as the maturity level because hip hop in the masses is associated with immaturity, ignorance and stupidity. I would like to see growth of originality. It would be good if in 2010 the ten most played hip hop songs on the radio sound like ten different songs.  There's other things that would be great to see, more lyrical content, different subject matter. I mean the world is composed of billions of things, so many things to write and speak about.

SLUG: Do you feel that hip hop has hope to progress in positive ways with albums like Pro Tools and Only Built for Cuban Links Part Two providing  higher standards on what should be acclaimed as epic ground-breaking new albums?

GZA: It all depends on who’s listening. Pro Tools might not mean Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline. to the average crew that's out there, because people look at things differently. Some people might look at an album from the sales it made, some might listen to the content of it, some may judge it by its music, some may not judge it at all. I mean, you have to go outside the box, but stay within yourself. Everything doesn't have to be about the same thing. Stephen King may do horror flicks, but each time he's doing something different.  He's not going to do 15 Pet Sematary movies. I always say if rappers were in Hollywood, many of them would be outta the job. You got guys out there rhyming about big million dollar mansions saying this is my lifestyle. Dude, that wasn't your lifestyle six, seven years ago. It doesn't make a difference whether you live it or you don't. I can write about stuff I don't live, the person who wrote Harry Potter you think they lived all that Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.?! I don't have to physically own a Rolls Royce to talk about being in one. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with talking about cars or clothes, but Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline., make it interesting.

SLUG: With the genre growing into so many different branches such as indie rap and hyphy, do you think evolution like that is positive or negative?

GZA: I think it’s positive and negative. It all depends on the method it’s given and the message that's got. Hip hop was started to get kids off the streets, keep them outta gang violence. Then you flash forward thirty-something years later and you see all this violence in hip hop and you’re like, man it’s lost. I'm not saying songs should be about go to school, get an education, learn to read, ‘cause it’s about delivery. Music should be delivered in a unique way. It should be clever. It should be fly. It should be hard. I think it should be gangsta. I can do songs that have only one profane word and it will sound just as hard as having a bunch of very profane words, because I can deliver it like that. And a lot of artists don't realize this because they don't control it—the environment controls them. That's why they always have to be in the mansion if they at home, they can't be in a shack. I can be in a shack because I know I’ma get more out the rhyme. If I'm in a shack with no TV, no luxury, I’ma get more out the rhyme because it’s harder for me. If I'm sitting in a mansion eating outta silver spoon, it’s too easy, where’s the struggle? What’s the plot? Nowadays I see a lotta kids and they wanna rap because they wanna be rich. I don't run into kids that say I just LOVE writing. No, they be like ‘yo I can spit, yo bust this, what you think’ and then they bust some ol’ hood or they'll talk some real thug Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.. Talkin’ about how they got their block lock and they'll shoot anybody that look at ‘em the wrong way. It’s like, ok well where’s your drive? Where’s the passion?

http://www.slugmag.com/article.php?id=2039&page=1

[ACF]

[Bahku]

Thanks for another great season, Tommy & Mike ...





... see you in October!

[cdif911]

[BuckeyeCelt]

Thanks for another great season, Tommy & Mike ...





... see you in October!

Every year I wonder if it is the last time I will get to hear Tommy...Thank goodness for NBA LP, I will miss him when he finally hangs it up!!