Sunday, February 8th, 2004
LOVELY HOW I LET MY MIND FLOAT, VERSION 1
Odyssey “Native New Yorker”—>Nas “NY State of Mind”—->Strokes “NY Cops”
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Sunday, February 8th, 2004
Eric at the Stinkzone put me onto this Bravo documentary, Story of Jamaican Music. His post includes show and interview listings. Gonna check on Tuesday and report back.
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Sunday, February 8th, 2004
The best Norah Jones review ever likely to be written, by Ben Ratliff.
The best Neptunes/Timbaland article ever likely to be written, by your boy SFJ.
And they’re both from the New York Times. Fuck me!
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Friday, February 6th, 2004
Michaelangelo Matos gets an existential crisis over…Ninjatune and Mo Wax!
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Friday, February 6th, 2004
David Mays on his crusade against Eminem and whites in hip-hop. Is he Woodward or Bernstein?
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Friday, February 6th, 2004
Mike Davis on Hong Kong’s avian flu as the product of globalization.
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Thursday, February 5th, 2004
More genius posting fromJulianne Blazer on You Got Serviced. I (heart) b-boy/b-girl blogs. Back to the Bronx–the book, that is. I’m rewriting the 2 chapters on the gangs into one, while wishing I could do 17 more on just this stuff.
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Thursday, February 5th, 2004
“SEPARATE IS SELDOM, IF EVER, EQUAL”
From yesterday’s ruling by the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court on gay marriage:
“The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal. . . .
The bill’s absolute prohibition of the use of the word “marriage” by “spouses” who are the same sex is more than semantic. The dissimilitude between the terms “civil marriage” and “civil union” is not innocuous; it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples to second-class status. . . ”
I love this: the upshot of the ruling is that gay marriages begin in Massachusetts on May 17, the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Sidenote: Mass. boy John Kerry opposes gay marriage.
I really wish I had time to parse this more with yall–there’s so much here, and one of my side journalistic obsessions has become the recent cultural history of integration–but I’m in the last 48+ hours of editing.
Soon come…
In other news, Dean may quit if he doesn’t win Wisconsin. Is this a way to rally depressed Deaniacs or an admission of collapse? Probably both.
Another sidenote: Wisconsin has often been the reversal point for insurgent candidacies. In ’88, when Jesse Jackson was stomping all candidates after the early caucuses and primaries, Dem centrist operatives ganged up on him in Wisconsin, while Ed Koch revived the famous Hymietown thang. He never recovered.
In the end, Jackson finished a distant second to the short guy with the uni-brow from-where?-Massachusetts.
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
Greg Tate on Cold Mountain. Nuff said, believers.
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
Whoooeee.
The two-decade plus hate affair between the Village Voice and Al Sharpton reaches a new level with this cover story hit piece by Wayne Barrett.
On Democracy Now, Barrett got in an even tougher jab: Sharpton only walked out of South Carolina with 9.5%, not enough to claim the delegates he needs to position himself at the Convention in late July. Here’s the NY Times story.
Still rooting for the guy, underdog love. And Dems shouldn’t crow too loud. Lots of hip-hop heads are pulling for Dean and Kucinich and Sharpton…
On the other hand, glad to see you go, Joe. Relax. You and C. Delores can hang out a lot more now.
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