Kreayshawn’s Gucci Gucci is Hip-Hop, BOOM!

So you may have heard of her, if not here’s the gucci gucci video. This rAnt is going to be heavily dependent on you having these videos fresh in your mind soooo nike.

rAnt coming but first, here is sugar hill gang’s* “rappers delight”

Ohtay, here goes. Gucci, Gucci, Louis, Louis, Kreayshawn is a Rapper. Let me first address some of the more common objections to her rapness.

her style. her lyrics. her race.

Those three pics, all rappers. yeah yeah many of you are with me on how wack waka is but still, am confident many Kreayshawn haters flock to flocka. Now one may say all three in one is a little much, plus adding in whether her persona is manufactured, and to you I say, be realistic about the music industry of GTFO.

We all have a certain BS meter, and with many of us, that thing is constantly from full dealing with the everyday absurdities we have put in our life that at times when confronted by something that is way less absurd compared to some of our daily routines, we flip out against it since we cannot accommodate any more BS. much, much more on this train of rAnt to come, much more.

A Twittle Change to the Face of Change.

I was discussing the unfortunate state of many developing countries, specifically in Sub-saharan Africa, when i compared them to hot-lead age of gangland America (early 1900′s entertainingly depicted in movies such as Miller’s crossing). The comparison fit, with the lines between thuggery, politicking, enterprising, preaching and many other social pillars in most of the developing world being essentially intangible when found. It was quite a depressing thought as per the comparison, it could be assumed that it would take the 50+ years to change for the better.

I quickly came to a realization that can gladly drastically cut down the time, communication.

The comparison to gangland is only partially fitting. It may be more accurate to describe it as a mix of post colonial, old west and gangland America. This presents the developing world with assorted historical hurdles as well as unprecedented potential aide.

Post colonial would fit due to the relative youth of most developing countries. The older countries just approaching 50 years of governing themselves without direct colonial participation and the youngest one, South Sudan, less than a week into it after decades of civil strife.

Old west would fit due to the living conditions of most people in the developing countries. though states and the governmental structure that goes along with them have been established, they do not factor in the daily lives, weeks or months of the a large majority of the citizens, whose main interaction with their state and representatives comes during election time.

Gangland would fit due to the high levels of blatant institutionalized crime and corruption in  most urban areas. You can watch the news and see that the charred remains of a disheveled homeless man in lynched in the slums for stealing a chicken to feed his starving family by the same citizens whom in the following story, are standing by their elected Minister of Parliament as he directs his bodyguards to break off the clamp on his illegally parked car in the center of the capital city (unfortunate tru fax The MP is the potbellied chap in the green pants with the approaching Mr.T levels of tacky chains around his neck).

Communication can bring change

Call of Duty 6 : Kill Nazi Everything

You know you want it

I play video games, my friends play video games, we play them together we watch each other play them.  We would all love to have this game and i think many others would too.

This cover is inspired by one friends placed Knut as his profile picture and we had often wondered about how it would be to play the game form the losing vantage point of that Axis forces and have to coordinate retreats and such.

Those who thought I made this because everything German is Nazi, shame on you only most things German are Nazi. I wonder if this will be flagged in Germany for using German and Nazi too often and too close together,

The same friend had just finally reached level 31 on the popular Nazi Zombies mod of Call of Duty World at War. (Co-op on ps3 with the drinks and super weapons) This may understandably not seem like an achievement to many of you but it is pretty good. Not impressed ? take a look at this …

Everybody’s Mad at the Tiger

I follow sports more, now that I am in italy than when I could watch ESPN and competitions on TV in America. This is mostly due to reading Yahoo! Sports. It has become increasingly hit or miss. I am either enthralled with the article, or find myself wondering why the hell anyone needs to know this random stat about so and so before his what n there game.

Is Tiger and never was anything but Tiger

I hardly ever do comment on these sports stories but do at times marvel at the comments from the ‘true believers’ vs everyone else of whatever sport, team or athlete is being discussed. Today I felt the need to comment after reading the article ”Backlash: players, media speaking out, standing up to Tiger.” If you do not feel like reading the entire the summary is as such, Tiger is giving a press conference, it coincides with some golf tournament opening, toes have been stepped on, rich people that used to act like they like tiger now act like they don’t like him. The excerpt that made me want to comment is below this short clip that you should listen to before reading audio is not in sync with the video but i could not find a better one.

“disgusted people who believe Woods ought to answer questions, if not about his family — which is a justifiably off-limits target — then at least about the way his actions have affected the hundreds of people who have millions of dollars at stake in protecting his image.”

These people can go wipe their tears of disgust and fury away with the millions they already made from him.

Pat Robertson : Haiti in a Rush to Limbaugh with Robert Pattinson

My thoughts on Limbaugh and Robertson fiasco.

I think what they said was rather ridiculous, but sadly one thing I don’t think the statements were, are signs of them lacking humanity. These two people spoke their thoughts, their human thoughts.

human thoughts illustrated

I will begin with Pat Robertson. Even if you don’t believe in the pact of the devil,  (and if you do you probably also are against Robert Pattison and all the other vampire craze instigators since we all know vampires are really demons and of the devil) but do in some religion and deity, then you may believe the earthquake was allowed to go down. Or it is some sort of Divine plan beyond our understanding. Or retribution for something or a continued battle between good and evil where evil won out or a test of our and their faith in him.

It is well documented that the impoverished tend to be more religious than the well off,

Obama : “…he’s a Jackass”, Kanye : That’s just his…

…white half talking. Many of you have seen the Kanye eruption and if not have been caught in the avalanche of response to it. If not here is the gist of it, Taylor Swift, young mega famous in her own right country singer, wins an award that Beyonce was also nominated for.  Kanye gets up right in the middle of the cute , lil, rich, still famous, still getting the award, girl’s speech and gets on the stage. He then proceeds to… well to be Kanye, may have been even more Kanye thanks to the bottle of Hennessey* he was pictured with holding during the night… though if this is what a bottle of Hennessey results in, They should give every one a bottle of Hennessey at the start of the Red carpet and not let them into the venue unless its half finished by the time they get to the doors, I would watch more Awards show’s, so would you and so would the people that tell Obama about it.

Then the world then looses its isht. or at least most people with an Internets connection.

Most people seem to agree on 3 things. One,  Beyonce had the better video and won an award later for it. Two, Kanye was wrong for how and when he went about saying it. Three, they are now no longer a fan of Kanye.

Here are my thoughts.

One, on an aspect of video itself then yes Beyonce was more… entertaining, with the choreography and what not, as for the content I have previously rAnted about that. Many people feel the same, but apparently enough of the people who vote for things like the music awards liked Taylor’s video. this could be used as a what happens when you dont’  exercise voting rights campaign.  More people may have liked Beyonce’s but many of those people probably feel awards shows are cowdookie so don’t vote. Then there is the whole MTV execs ‘Beyonce is already winning an award let us let Taylor get some love too and increase our fanbase.’ which is an option that falls into the bovinefecesiness of  award shows

Two say what you want Kanye, it’s your right just as it is his right to say whatever he wants whenever he wants

Real Family or Familiar Relatives?

Just attended my first wedding, not counting the several attended as a child with my parents not only did I attend but I was one of the groomsmen for My older brother.  Now he knows how I feel about weddings and wearing suits but after 9 years of no suit and a few wedding invite turn downs I was there, and had a great time. There is a lot i plan on going into surrounding weddings marriage and other events that occurred around this occasion…there may be time for that. I would like to make time to focus on what weddings are about*, Family.

I am now more than I have ever believe that there is a large difference  between being related to someone and being ones families. Not so much you say? Does an adopted kid with 2 loving parents not have a family? If blood relations were a prerequisite for family then marriage would not make one family or on the other hand we would all be related, well in the biblical and most other religious senses we would be due to shared ancestry. What exactly do you define as family?

As marriage is an extension of dating and that aspect of relationships I will use observations from dating in order ignite some thought in whom we consider family. My mother, brother Sister and I moved to America in 1994. I was 11 and it was the 3rd continent we had lived in. Never lived in one place long enough to develop the urge to have a clique, let alone the seemingly unspoken rule in Western culture that men and women can not be friends without ulterior motive (At least once the ulterior motives for hugs no longer end at a quick snapping of the bra… for her little pain and your laughing pleasure as you run off) I was one of the few guys who had female friends.

Funny Games : Moovie Review

Some interesting cinematography, Some ok music, Some good depiction of the bland proper upper class lifestyle (where people have million dollar homes they go to when escaping their other million dollar homes)

All in all a rather crap movie. Watch “A Clockwork Orange,” if you haven’t, and save yourself the disappointment that is “Funny Games.” If you’ve watched “Orange”, re-watch it or read the book and save yourself the disappointment that is “Funny Games.” Maybe this is a version of Clockwork for the new age (ie those that have nto heard of Orange)…but for me the calling each other different names like Beavis and Butthead and other odd references, although made some sense with them pointing out violent and odd media and also certain social buttons such as the weight issue, it was…well not enough. Maybe i’m getting old, maybe this would have been better if i had not seen Orange.

 

*just found out it was a remake of a 1997 australian film, weak. I may give the original a watch but i doubt ill re-watch the remake.

Muslim Women forced to cover up due to Hijab!

First, WTF!?!

Now on to the rAnt. I will venture to say that most of the women that wear it do so proudly.  With as much pride as most church-goers have when they imbue the blood and body of Christ.

I have met many Muslim women that do not practice hijab as strongly as others if at all. I have also met many non-Muslim women that choose to dress as conservatively as many if following hijab.

On the other spectrum there are many women that wear near to nothing. Dressing provocatively and such…wench-like to be more exact.  And when they walk around those that do not ogle them tend to scorn them. Or ogling followed by scorn. These women may have been influenced by their societies but their fashion choice is essentially just that, a choice. Different ends of the spectrum, both being questioned by society for their appearance, could the issue more be society wanting for people to conform to a comfy middle?

Sure some certain countries tie this belief into the laws of the country and even foreigners visiting are held to the same standard but, what is so wrong with that? How different is that from going to someones house and speaking the language,  driving on their side of the road, eating the foods they find customary.

Who would honestly claim that religion and state are separate. You want to say that a religious person who goes into politics will not include his beliefs, the very way he believes is the best and right way to live, in his choices for himself, his family, friends and constituents?

WTF!!! NY Post calls Obama A chimp?!

PeTA , of whom no love of mine is lost on, is however not the reason for this rAnt. the following is an excerpt from an article i read today:

NY Post apologizes — to some — over Obama cartoon

NEW YORK – After two days of protests, the New York Post apologized Thursday for a cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police. But the newspaper also said its longtime antagonists exploited the image for revenge.

entire of the article

WTF, does not cover my reaction to this! How on earth does this count as an attack on President Obama. If anything the people insinuating  the monkey is Obama are the ones with issues.