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I'm a raging leftist, and a protestant. I'm not incredibly religious, but I am a CHRISTIAN.
Let it be known: Some Catholics are out of their head. I just watched the Colbert Report, and listened to this idiot spout bullshit til my head popped off and I had to bolt it back on. This man considers himself a leader, and an educated man. If he is, I'll watch the Passion of the Christ til my eyes bleed.
I watched this educated man tell me that Jesus was the founder of the Catholic church. This however isn't true, the founding of the Catholic church was most certainly created long after the death and resurrection of Christ, and considering it's reformation as the Roman Catholic church under the Nicean Convention, was most cerrtainly not founded by the JEWISH Christ. In fact Christianity wasn't created by Christ, it was founded on him, and based on his life, the actions he took, but not by him. Christ was a Jew. A Rabbinical Jew.
Why are we mentioning that Christ was a Rabbinical Jew. Well, this man had the audacity to call the Da Vinci Code a downer of a movie. Now this is most certainly an oppinion, and I cannot deny this categorically, however, much of what is stated in the Da Vinci Code is backed by Rabinical law. Mary would never have been allowed to touch Christ, lest she was married to him. Christ could also never have been a Rabbi without a wife. Christ was a Jew, and as such to have never sinned would have been forced to follow the laws of the jewish. Considering his lauding of the Passion of the Christ as the best movie out of Hollywood in the last 25 years, I'd like his head checked. The Passion was a joke. Continuously claimed as an authentic movie, the exaggerations, and the outright junk written into the movie, were totally without biblical foundation. A Raven did not bite the eye out of the third man on the cross. There was no devilish demonic baby mentioned in the bible.
A third thing which has pissed me the bloody ******** off: This educated leader of Catholics claims that we, the left, though he qualified saying the secular left, feel guilty about things which we should not feel guilty about. To illustrate this he makes mention of the atrocities dealt to the Native Americans. Why does this bother me, I've heard it so many times before? His reasoning was that the actions of forefather's are not our own. Same rhetoric as used by many gaians, however he continues in this rhetoric claiming that Native Americans, are not Natives. Of course he would know having been born in these United States; Native Americans simply migrated several thousand yrs ago across the Bering Strait from Asia.
This man, is William Donahue, the President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. This man is an idiot. A full blown idiot, I doubt he's ever read a bible in his life, for serious. The fact is that in the bible, the sins of the father are visited upon the sons. His hatred for the GLBT community is well noted and notorious. His study of both Catholic and Protestant history is obviously lacking. This man amuses me in that he believes he is Christian.
Caz_Nova · Wed Jul 26, 2006 @ 05:54am · 3 Comments |
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Yo, before anybody checks this let the first thing I say be, I'm a backpacker. Let the second thing I say be this, I use the term as it's mean to be used. Yeah I like backpack rap, I love the underground, but that's not all there is. The underground has just as much crap in it as the mainstream and I'm saying this from the bottom of heart, first and foremost, I like good Music.
Now saying that, I love the Black Eyed Peas, but I'm also devoted to the fact that the first album they dropped was an embodiment of lyrics, beats, and dancable rhythms. I think that they've sold out.
Why, you might ask after for nearly 5 yrs I listened to and lauded the abilities these three emcees (and now a vocalist) had, I feel disappointed that they've simply forgotten about their fans with their new music. I'll tell you. BEP released two, even three albums whose intensity was matchless. Even peerless in musicality, in strength of lyricism and beats, but "Elephunk" and "Monkey Business" have simply lacked those. Comparatively, it's the lack of intensity, after having listened to Dashboard for a year, "A Mark, Amission, A Brand, A Scar" was released. Not to say that Dashboard had sold out, but it simply wasn't the same.
BEP, however, according to an interview, read from OKP (Okayplayer), Will.I.Am, BEP's frontman, has made a concious decision to make music that is more radio friendly. This is not a direct quote, the interview has been removed from the site, however Will's intention with the addition of Fergie and the release of their third and fourth albums was to move musically away from what made his fans love them in the first place, and to an extent away from simply creating good music.
Let's all face the fact, that BEP has moved on from the lyrical intensity, that once brought songs like "Joints&Jam" to life. Consider that BEP shows once were a nn-stop festivus of b-boy breaks, and lyrics to go. Why now, have they lost this? It's not the addition of Fergie that's changed their music, but the fact that they've made a decision to change their style.
According to Will, the fact that he was aging has simply increased his want to make money. Does that mean everything Will touches will be crap. HELL NO!
Timeless, the new Sergio Mendes album, is a beautiful production, and Will, and BEP, are a large part of that. I love Will, as a producer, Will's production is top notch. The guy is nuts on Protools, but the fact is just beats are not enough to make an album.
I know that BEP sold out for one reason. Regardless of what they've made in the last two albums, their ability to lyricize has not disappeared. "My Humps" has as much poetic talent on it as a Vogun publication, but "That Heat" has one of my favorite Will lines since Behind the Front.
This my compatriots, is totally selling out. Everything that it's about. The death of musicality but not the loss of it.
Caz_Nova · Tue Apr 11, 2006 @ 09:35pm · 3 Comments |
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It's so much bigger than HIP HOP, HIP HOP, HIP HOP |
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Why?
We are more than the sum of our parts, and hip hop is more than the sum of it's elements. A number. 4. The DJ, The Emcee, The B-Boy, The Writer. Why is Hip Hop the cultural phenomenon it is?
Many stated that the arts of hip hop were a fad. A set of ignorant youths that were brought up invariably to destroy. These young men and women from the innercity streets of New York, too uncultured, and uneducated to take what they had and turn it into beautiful beats, rhymes, and life.
It's hard to say when many of us realized that Hip Hop was here to stay, whether it was the first time we heard Melle Mel dropping his "Message" on the beats crafted by Grandmaster Flash, or maybe when Run DMC became the Kings of Rock, but most of us can say, we know why we participate. Many of us, our only goal is to stay Black/White/Latino/Native/Issei/etc. and die, but we know, when we step into the roda (our circle, the world we exist in, a Capoeira term that fits many of Hip Hop's rituals) whether it is to rhyme, or dance, we ready ourselves to be kings and queens. DJs step to their tables, and see what few can; and writers can turn a wall into a message grander than any simple word.
This is the essence of artistic culture whether it be punk, straight edge, goth, or emo. It's the source of our elitism. Some f us do it for the culture, some of us have been told it's cool, and that being cool is the most important thing in the world. Is there a difference between Rap and Hip Hop? Yes, and No. All Rap is hip hop, the voice of it, the pulse of the rhythm underneath a lyrically continuous, congruous poem crafted to that pulse. However not all Hip Hop is Rap. It is this dichotomy, that has many of my compatriots in the culture confused.
No, Hip Hop isn't dying. Culture does not die, it is rather, squandored, or forgotten. For this we say, that it's so much bigger than Hip Hop. Hip Hop will live until we forget it, until we move on to another culture. Hip Hop, the artform, grows, changes, evolves ,and is by it's nature greater than the sum of its parts, because we are greater than the sum of ours. We are Hip Hop.
Caz_Nova · Fri Apr 07, 2006 @ 07:37am · 1 Comments |
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The Next Person That Complains about Black History Month... |
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Better know about more than two black people. The whole of African American History does not lie within the realm of the Civil Rights era, and the Slave era. There are more than two Black People that have done something Historical. MLK and Malcolm X are not the only Black people in history worth knowing about. As glossed over in public education as black history is in America, there should be two to three straight months where nothing but minority is taught, not because we're more important, just becasue we're as important as everyone else.
The next person that tells me we shouldn't celebrate Black History Month better know more than one Hip Hop song from the Early eighties. If you only know of Rapper's Delgiht than you need to study. If you've never heard the Message, you are lacking in aural happiness. If you don't know who Eric B. and Rakim are, or you think that Will Smith never made music that's worth listening to, don't come at my african american head. If you don't know that Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nothing to ******** Wit' you're lacking in experience with African American history. Of course I'm exaggerating.
However it is my general experience that people have a lack of respect for our history. We learn American History in class, but we don't know the history of the Native. We know more lies than truth; some people still think that Lincoln freed the slaves. It's not that we want to learn our history at the cost of learning yours, it's just that we want to history. Black History and White History are not mutually ******** exclusive, and I believe that many of the people who believe there should be no Black history classes, or a Black history month are of that ideology. MLK asked for a socialistic equality for everyone, not a tilted playing field, the BPP asked for the ability to form a nationalistic commune, not to remove white people. Revolutionaries despite what you may think have not been asking for the destruction of the government, but for it to be mutable enough to allow a true equality.
Now That's What's Up
Caz_Nova · Mon Feb 06, 2006 @ 07:55pm · 4 Comments |
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Give me a pig foot and a bottle of beer... |
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I'll do the huckle buckle and be out of here.
It's about 7:30 pm first saturday of the new school semester, and I'm just trying to do my duty. I got called off from work earlier today, and next week it'll be worse since I'll only have to wordk two days, but I'm going to be superr duper poor, nad therre's os much that I want to get for myself. I'll live though I guess. Now on to my angry black man rantings and ditherings.
I need somebody, anybody, to just go back and listen to the music that people were making in the past and listen to it. To remember the messages that people used to put in their songs. What happened to the Bill Withers, the Billy Hollidays, and the Marvin Gayes of the world? What happened to popular music that was worth studying? So much talking, so little said. Is there anyone with the strength to go out on a limb and regardless of the money to be made, create?
And are there any of us left to listen, to hear and to respect talent and content over the ability to make someone shake their asses? Or is the lack of talent necessary to cause that a** shaking? Why can't we dance to truth instead of to lies of ignorance and sexual debauchery?
There are musicians out there, and we should listen to them. True artists rather than the money grubbing fools that Clearchannel plays. Music made to educate and enjoy, and we aren't buying it. so lets try this: Go out, find a real record store, look around, ask for oppinions from the owners, see what they say about some new music to listen to. Or look online for reviews of musicians that you may have never heard. Ask your friends. You know at least one person that loves music to the point that they don't listen to the radio any more. Someone who owns more music than the rest of your friends, someone that recommends music to you on a daily basis. For once in your life do yourself a favor, listen to them.
But finally, listen to the music. Listen to the lyrics, and don't fall victim to the crowd or the media.
Now That's What's Up
Caz_Nova · Sun Jan 22, 2006 @ 01:56am · 1 Comments |
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"WILL YOU IGNORANT NIGGERS PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP?' |
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Aaron You've ******** done it again.
First I should say that, this is in no way true of everyone, and that I certainly don't mean to make that statement. Blanket statements are wrong.
After 3 decades, we have forgotten. We have become complacent and bourgeois, and with weak leader and dead heroes many of us have once again become the happy sambo.
For too long have we allowed oursleves to ponder on the stereotypes that we are shiftless, that we are lazy, and that we are ignorant. I ask my people, are we blind to what we support? Do we not see the memories , the work of our ancestors? We have created for ourselves a mediocrity that we accept and a belief in those stereotypes. Too often I have heard my own people saying that racism does not exist. That we have reached the pinnacle, the mountaintop, that we as people are equal. Too often have I heard my people say that we are not equal, that we are handicapped, that we our being held back by "the man."
We as a people need to see the truth. Neither of these are true. Yes there is an infrastructure in our native country, that causes us to "die foreign" more often than not, never truly seeing those things promised to all men. Assata once said that she knows less what freedom is, and more what freedom isn't, and it's true. We are slaves still, but not to the white man, or to the government, we are slaves to our own self pity.
Yes we are more free than we have ever been, but we are not truly free, and racism still exists, but until we as a people make the conscious effort to deny the infrastructure its power we've no right to complain.
Turn off the degrading music, and if you love the beat buy the instrumental, listen to what your favorite artist has been saying to you these past years. Realize what BET is saying to you when they refuse to play a music video which they consider too intelligent for it's viewers.
We should never give up, never wait for someone else to do what we ourselves can. Read, and write, and pass on your objections, complain, but with respect and reverence to the possibility of a solution. Do your BEST. Support yourself, give love to yourself, and hope to your people. Maybe we've forgotten, and maybe we've just become a little apathetic, but we don't need to get angry, we just need to stay concerned.
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Rest in Peace, Martin L. King Jr.
Rest in Peace, Minister Shabazz
Rest in Peace Fred Hampton
Blessings to Assata Shakur
Forget we not the workings of our heroes, and predecessors.
Caz_Nova · Tue Jan 17, 2006 @ 05:31am · 2 Comments |
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I'm dying of feverish coughs and late nights spent doing homework that isn't really helping me to pass my classes. I'm in this ridiculous Differential Equations class that's pretty much driving me nuts because it's so bloody hard. Otherwise I'm doing good. I'm having fun with my life, trying to create a long standing Registered Student Org with my friends.
We live, we love, we are Hip Hop. I'm working on learning the School Radio Station's handbook so me and my guy Saypien, can get a webcast going, which I might actually advertise to the general Gaian public.
Soon I shal infiltrate even the strongest of the strongholds that SIU holds...
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHHHA!
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Caz_Nova · Wed Feb 16, 2005 @ 05:08am · 5 Comments |
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and as such I'm simply testing the limits of Yellow- M's Hypothesis of better debating while drunk. I'm writing this at the end of a friday night while I am still drunk. I know that I am considered, at least in some ways, to be a respectable member of Gaia and as such some of my testimony will be disregarded.
I am quite willing to admit that I have been drinkinking far too much, however that does not deny my intelligence. I have met several people less intelligent than me that do not drink at all. I am also willing to say that the level of intoxicatin does not justify the comment.
Note that this Journal will pprobably be editied when I am completely sober.
Caz_Nova · Sat Jan 15, 2005 @ 08:30am · 0 Comments |
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I think I'm a little late with this one but forgive me... |
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I just took one of the most harrying trips in my life. I flew with my mom and two of my friends to Vegas, out of the O'hare Chicago airport. My trip was punctuated on both ends with weather issues and delayed flights, otherwise though the visit was pretty cool. Now on to other things...
I saw Ocean's 12, and I was very impressed. This one seemed to be a lot more dialogue driven and I loved the interaction that we got from some of the other characters. Linus, and Basher got to be fore front which was greatly enjoyed. (Note: Catherine Zeta Jones is now on my list of hottest women in entertainment.) The movie was generally excellent aside from the Constantine trailer at the beginning.
I also got to see Hellboy, a movie I wasn't too interested in until the recommendations of Siona, and a few others. Still the highlight of a fairly awesome week in Vegas, was the fact that I found the origins of Gen X TPB, for 20% off.
Altogether I'm much happier than last week.
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Caz_Nova · Thu Jan 06, 2005 @ 01:11am · 0 Comments |
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