The internet is also over if there isn’t another remix done adding in some extra Donald Trump recent video content for ‘context’.
I know what you people are thinking, why don’t you do something about saving the internet bryan? Well I’m already sitting here in my underwear eating salt and vinegar crisps, what more do you want from me!?!?!
Travis’ stuff is always excellent.
What would they think of this one?
I like this one.
I like the octopus food fight too.
I never quite understood the reasoning for the odd ordering of the articles.
It’s not just boingboing either, there seemed to be a period a while back where nearly every similar site i view went to great lengths in order to not display the articles chronologically…
this version is the one that makes you realize the song isn’t about reconnecting, it’s actually about domestic violence - one of the greatest covers of any song ever, imho
It was the fact that she didn’t explain anything or try to use
anything rational that made me think of the prior comic about how we
dismiss emotion as an argument. It isn’t enough that someone would feel
a certain way, they have to make us empathize with them and be able to
relate to their emotion to put any value on their opinion. I think we
do tend as a society to devalue people who don’t keep their emotions
under control. My wife pointed out that violence is like that is many
ways, we demand that anger take a non-threatening form otherwise we feel
justified in physical vengeance and punishment regardless of whether
their anger may be valid or not.
That is all much less interesting though then the last thing you said about commerce being so pervasive and offensive to you. Would you be willing to explain a bit
more what you mean by that and how it plays out in your daily life?
Music these days is so dirty. Why can’t they have good wholesome songs like back the 1930s when they had songs like “New Rubbin’ On That Darn Old Thing,” “You Can’t Tell The Difference After Dark,” “Please Warm My Weiner,” or “It’s Tight Like That.” (those are all real songs from the 1930s https://www.amazon.com/Copulatin-Blues-Sidney-Bechet/dp/B000001LYI)
Anything can be a song if you try hard enough.
Yep. And meanwhile, Cannibal Corpse have recorded tracks whose titles are so disturbing that I can’t bring myself to type any of them here. But they’re white and they said they’re just joking so I guess it’s OK.
It probably helps that the vocalist is about as intelligible as the Cookie Monster on Thorazine and barbituates, so you don’t really hear much of the lyrics.
Note: I’ve only heard a smidgen of CC and never really cared for their style of metal. But like every rubbernecker, I’ve definitely seen their cover art and track listings. Someone who’s a CC fan, correct my ignorance if I’m sounding overly alarmist.
I love the classic dirty blues. Lucille Bogan, of course, but “Tight Like That” is a classic. It was written and performed by Thomas A. Dorsey, who was a prolific hymn writer and is considered the father of southern gospel music.
“Me and My Chauffeur Blues” by Memphis Minnie is another great one. Drive her way downtown indeed. No innuendo there.
Also check out “What’s That Smells Like Fish”. Blind Blake did it originally, although there’s also an excellent cover by… Hot Tuna 
I like “Dirty Motherfucker” (not a rap song) and “Let’s Get Drunk And Fuck” (not a country song), but I can’t find video. I’ve performed both of these. Maybe it’s time to bring them back. Maybe there’s a reason I don’t get asked to perform much 
I’ll leave y’all with this little song about chairs:
The gay/bi female singers of the Harlem scene alone could comprise their own box set of flirty 'n dirty songs. Ma Rainey, Gladys Bentley, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters—they may have crooned about male lovers for the labels but on stage their eyes and voices sang to the women. And they wrote plenty of songs to show that dedication.
Clearly, the word, “abortions” is what set her off. The rest she reads rather dispassionately. I know a few people who’d have a similar reaction to that word under the right circumstances.
That said, she may need to get out of the house more. She sounds depressed.
Nobody tell her about gay swans.
Exactly. She’s exhibiting a Pavlovian reaction, set by right wing media.
That definately happens. But the tone police comic also gave examples of people who did articulate what they felt about things. How this mom feels is relevant and has value because it is how she feels. But it doesn’t change the fact that I can only guess exactly what she feels and why. Maybe:
Another possible problem about how others value her feelings is that her reluctance to go into any depth could indicate to some that she doesn’t even value her own feelings enough to really discuss them. So if she doesn’t think they are worth talking about, why should I? I disagree that controlling one’s emotions changes the message or value of what people say. Watching the video, I was expecting the crying mom to go into some detail about why she was in disbelief about the track, what she presumed her kids thought or felt about it.
Like I said in my above post, my experience has often been that many people don’t know how or make the effort to communicate about their strong emotional reactions to things. Many times they indicate that how something conflicts with their values should be obvious to others, and if it isn’t, those others might be bad or unempathetic people. That’s not fair to anybody concerned.
I talk about it a bit in other posts. I think it would be too much of a diversion to go into it here in this topic. But my basic point is that people often decide how seriously to take others’ upset based upon relating to specific shared values. There are people who would be a crying wreck from seeing two people having sex in a park, whereas I would probably just smile as if it were a picnic and go about my business. The strong visceral reaction doesn’t make sense to me, but because so many people are hung up about sex, many would understand their reaction even if they didn’t feel it as strongly. In contrast, to many people commerce is such a deep and meaningful ritual that my level of revulsion to it comes off as just alien. They literally cannot take it seriously, as if it is a joke. It takes explanation and patience for people to understand each other, which often does not happen.
My first introduction was this one.
with a budget of pennies.
I’m guessing she strongly dislikes certain words and especially doesn’t want her kids to hear them. There’s something genuine about her. This isn’t “you said a naughty word so I’m not going to listen to you”, this is someone who has firmly-held beliefs and is faced with cognitive dissonance when those beliefs are challenged. Abortion seriously upsets her, and I don’t begrudge her that.
She’s probably ignorant of people those neighborhoods. She doesn’t know or care how they live. If someone showed her, she’d feel sympathy, but it doesn’t seem like she’d go out of her way to find out. If she wants to shelter her kids from “those people” it’s a subconscious reaction and not outright bigotry. My guess is she wants to shelter her kids because she’s sheltered herself, and she has the extra duty of making sure her kids are safe.
I don’t begrudge her for having strong beliefs. In fact, I respect her for the strength of her convictions and for wanting to keep her children safe. What I can’t stand is her ignorance, both of how other people live and how she herself lives.
Holy Crap, it just occurred to me that he knew Trent Reznor when Trent was in the womb.
I assume they left that long pause so you can sing it as “Brick … shit… house.” But when I try it, I can’t figure how to get the rhythm right. I wish they had secretly recorded a version the way they intended it to go.
