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August 22, 2005
party like it's ok
The usual suspects have been awful quiet about Fifty & Mobb Deep's Outta Control rmx - a little TOO quiet, fer real. I know it's probably a little too MTV New Yorkish & doesn't have the southern exotic gothic feel that we like so much these days, plus it's like two months gone, as far as interweb exclusivity shelf life goes, but this song is so perfect, so fitting, so immediate that Summer 2005 will always sound like this for me. Party like it's okay: you know, as if. Trust me man it's okay... A tired city, five years deep into hell, rolls its eyes: you wanna search me then search me but hurry up cause I'm thirsty... And check out that piano stamp that comes right after the main Hitchcock string stretch: To me, sounds like the debilitating acceptance of the absurd that accompanies sheer exhaustion. You know, the strings are going all wild, spiraling, tense, kinda hallucinatory & freaked, and the piano just kinda sighs and keeps time, ignoring the bullshit, one eye on 1996, one eye on 2008, resigned to quiet stoicism and a catchy chorus that's still kinda sad: quit playin, turn the music up a lil bit...
(1) Shout to everyone who came out on Saturday; what an extraordinary scene. Go-go dancing and Jonesy pulling off a two minute Dire Straits/House of Jealous Lovers blend. Jesus. This Saturday is gonna be the most triumphant thus far: Certy-fied Bananas and us, Fast Times times two, all night, tell a friend.
(2) Fred Kaplan on Bush's insistent comparison between Philly 1787 and Baghdad 2005:
The real inference to be drawn is that the American colonies were as well-fit for a democratic union as any society in human history—and they took more than a decade to get their act together. Today's Iraq enjoys almost none of their advantages, so how long will it take to move down the same path—and how long will we have to stay there to help?
Posted by caps at August 22, 2005 03:12 PM