The Hood Internet - THE XX GON’ GIVE IT TO YA (DMX vs THE XX)
I’ve been completely infatuated with the smooth, cool sounds of The xx lately, listening to the entirety of their self-titled debut album ‘XX’ on repeat on my iPhone for about 3 weeks now.
I guess this particular mash-up of the xx’s quiet, understated beats and DMX’s harsh voice and lyrics really caught my ear. Dissonance to harmony. It just works.
Props to The Hood Internet for continuing to create musical mash-ups, instead of the skipping-CD-player type of mash-up that has become so acceptable to many ‘artists’.
Give it a listen, and enjoy.
- Journalist Yuko Ito, “Cult of the Living Doll in Tokyo”, NYTimes.com
I started reading this article because I was sure that a story on how Japanese girls are dressing like ‘living dolls’ would be good for a chuckle (e.g. - LOL, Japanese people are freaking INSANE!!!!). But I ran across this quote, and it made me think…
Perhaps we’re the crazy ones?
amirite?
Sam Harris (via cocknbull)
I kind of agree with this guy, but the fact of the matter is, there will always be crazy people. We just have to try and give them less to be crazy about.
By the way, I’m talking about extremists here. But, if you want to go down that road with me, I’d recommend a full reading of Sam Harris’ book from which I believe this quote was taken, “The End of Faith”, in which he discusses the possibility (I’ll leave it there, and not take it all the way down) that by making accommodations for religious moderates, society ‘blinds us to the role that faith plays in perpetuating human conflict’.
ON second thought, I definitely don’t want to play that game, as I don’t want to encroach on anyone’s personal beliefs, out of respect for some friends and family that are believers.. This quote was made by Sam Harris, and I just thought it was a humorous notion, that in the future, wars could potentially be fought by people who disagreed on a particular discontinuity between the Matrix movies. They will be called Wachowski’s Witnesses.
It’s exciting to see the entire city of New Orleans revel with such great jubilation. There’s so much positivity, and (from what can be seen in the video) none of the rioting, looting, or vandalism that oftentimes puts a black eye on a city-wide celebration of this scale.
Congrats, NOLA.
