March 2012
“Who claimed, That dubstep is related to reggae?? Them a city sounds, metro,...”
– **snip snip, ignore the quote by now**
Shit.
This is really annoying me now; there are historians who have made exactly these points about the blues evolving into r&b and the soundscape people lived in meaning it just sounded ‘right’ but I cannot remember who. Seems like something you would...
“Who claimed, That dubstep is related to reggae?? Them a city sounds, metro,...”
– Comment on a YouTube video for King Tubby ‘Flag Dub’, the first result for ‘dub’ that’s actually a classic dub tune. Which I went to after seeing this part of the Skrillex interview on Pitchfork where he mentions dub:
“I got a lot of reggae-infused shit. Still a lot of dubstep, but kind of going...
antesdachuva asked: I've just read the Sinead O'Connor thing. I was with her when she was talking Trayvon. I was with her when she was discussing all the things black people have been though. But she lost me at the rap music and 'stop killing yourselves' bit and I'm sat here in a rage, like HOW DARE SHE? She had absolutely no right to go there. It was very very ill-advised IMO.
Sinead o' Connor Gives Her Thoughts On Trayvon...
fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:
I would like to extend my very deepest sympathies to the family and other loved ones of murdered teenager, Treyvon Martin. I am very sad today (and am certain the whole of Ireland is) to learn of poor Treyvon’s terrifying ordeal and horrified by the fact his known and named and admitted killer has not been arrested, despite the crime having taken place a month ago....
I'm curious. Reblog with an explanation of your...
anedumacation:
I’m constantly being edumacated.
that’s about it, really, nothing super creative happening.
For a long time I was deeply uncomfortable being called by my name and wanted to retain an air of anonymity. I asked my followers to stop using my name, and a few of my friends jokingly went through their histories and edited it to {name redacted}, and it stuck.
thistumblrisbetterthanyourlife:
Stephon stood just a few feet away from Barack Obama. The president, busy shaking hands, looked right at him. “It was like he was waiting for me to say something,” he said later.
So the 26-year-old Prince George’s Community College student took his cue and spoke to President Obama in his first language: American Sign Language.
“I am proud of you,” Stephon...
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ffaannggrrll:
I’m playing my records down at Sick Club later this month. It’s a new monthly night hosted by the amazing Dee Sada of Blue On Blue. It’s March 24th at Catch in Shoreditch, London.
There are a few bands playing and best of all, it’s completely free.
It should be a fun night, especially if you like your DJs to not have a clue what they’re doing with the equipment, in an environment...
Important Story for UK Trans People (and LGB...
fuckyeahftms:
Some people who keep up with current trans issues may know that an unknown trans man from the UK recently gave birth to a child biologically. It was reported in the Sunday Times newspaper after a journalist got hold of some information from the Beaumont Society.
If the man in question hasn’t stepped forward by now, then he probably doesn’t even want to be identified or talked to...
The GF Really Doesn't Like Horslips
Me: You're just jealous that Canada never wrote a riff this awesome.
GF: That is a lie!
Me: Go on then, name a Canadian riff more awesome than this.
GF: Something by Rush.
Me: I said awesome, not wanky.
GF: ...
Me: ...
GF: THE UNICORNS!
Me: They don't count.
GF: Why not?
Me: Because they're better than everything, even though they still don't have a riff this awesome.
luckythinks91:
kyssthis16:
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Irish Questions: Oirish Orientalism
easpag-ag:
If you’re not familiar with the concept of Oirland and the Oirish, it works on a similar plain to Orientalism. Though it’s not necessarily an inaccurate portrayal of the culture - broadly speaking, all those elements do exist - it’s just that they’re the only parts that ever get shown. And never mind that those parts are actually in the vast minority, it’s always somehow the...
Am I Still Ill: Also I'd love to see a movie where... →
mysocalledgender:
dizzzymi:
myasphyxiatedmind:
dizzzymi:
dragony-little-scamp:
dizzzymi:
wadeinthefire:
autumn-and-eve:
genderbitch:
autumn-and-eve:
genderbitch:
Fucking cis people.
Or about her being a sex worker, or about her tricking straight men into sleeping with her. Actually, I would just want a trans woman in a movie period that didn’t have any of those roles. …
...
Seriously Though Jewish People
I’m not the kind to get in the way of a good party, but when you’re driving around on a flatbed truck playing music SO LOUD that it drowns out my laptop turned up full, with all the windows closed, then you’re officially the ones who are being dicks in this situation.
I should not have to run my laptop through my stereo just so I can watch a movie. I wouldn’t mind, but the...
Unless I've Been very much Misled About What...
I’m pretty certain that I just saw a bunch of Jewish kids wandering around dressed like racist Mexicans.
:S
Man
I always forget just how hard conservative Jewish folks can party. My neighbourhood is going nuts at the moment. It’s glorious!
konjum-mainakkale:
I can’t even count the number of times I received hideous awful messages and reblogs from irate white people on here. Charming things like ‘you need to slit your filthy nigger wrists’ and so on. I stopped reporting it ages ago because I assumed that Tumblr didn’t actually pay attention to that stuff. But it’s extremely disheartening to find out that they actually do take...
This blog has now been created.
pocharassed:
As per so-treu’s suggestion - this blog has now been created to archive all the harassment against PoC that tumblr staff do nothing about.
A wordpress will be set up soon, in case tumblr takes this down.
so-treu:
genderbitch:
Kinsey Hope Can’t Focus For Shit: re: Tumblr staff not giving a good gotdamn about POC being harassed
dullusername:
so-treu:
might i make a suggestion? i say we start collecting links and screencaps, and then throw them u on a separate blog - like blogspot or something - so that we can have a live example of the shit that Tumblr staff is non-responsive to. b/c Tumblr...
WatchI really need to sort my shit out and meet up with this person at some point. We’ve been talking about doing something musical together for like a year now, but shit keeps getting in the way. Mostly a combination of no money and no like minded people. It sucks, because she’s pretty cool :(
anedumacation:
Uh, there’s absolutely no legal basis in the argument that Anne Rice uses to protest against fanfiction, right? That she’ll lose her own copyright over her own characters?
And there’s also nothing legal that an author can do to a fic writer, if they want them to stop writing, right? Like, fanfiction is on entirely legal grounds, right?
No, fanfic is entirely illegal. However,...
Started Watching Fringe
And the first episode (discounting the pilot) goes for a triple sexism whammy. Though she at least gets a name, the woman who the episode centers around:
Is a prostitute
Has an alien pregnancy
Is fridged and never mentioned again
Pretty impressive considering all this happens before the credits roll.
Which was doubly disappointing as the pilot showed a lot of promise. Though the cast is...
konjum-mainakkale:
OK so when I was 11, I got really heavily into punk and I’d take the bus with my mates from school to Ramat Gan to see hardcore basement shows (of course, it was all in Hebrew so I could understand very little but then who understands all the lyrics on a Discharge song anyway?) and it was so white. All the kids were Polish Jews or whatever and I got shit from the idiotic ones...
anedumacation:
ankh-the-odd replied to your post: Sucks to be you, fictional character.
I would read a story about a struggle between fictional character and author, and the fictional character coming to terms with being fictional.
I would read the shit out of that.
You really, REALLY need to read the Thursday Next series, written by Jasper Fforde. It’s … pretty surreal.
Amanpreet Kaur is a Punjabi Sikh who is being...
tooyoungforthelivingdead:
Amanpreet has been suffering from mental illness, she has cut her wrists and refused food. On one occasion when she was banging her head against the wall she had her breasts grabbed by an officer while others laughed at her.
It is not acceptable that Amanpreet should have to ‘prove’ that she is a lesbian in order to have her claim for asylum taken seriously.
Please...