Dead In Motion By The Anti-Pop Consortium Is Spot-On

This quote is so wrong-headed it's embarrassing:

There's never been a time when rap didn't have to defend itself. The culture perpetually generates criticism and accusations from every corner: from the political establishment; from proponents of other types of music; and, most crucially, from itself. 

Luckily, rap is particularly well equipped to absorb all the criticism it invites, because rap, by its very nature, is a culture in which almost nothing is impermissible. Pathological narcissism, poor taste, and criminal behavior are punishable traits by the standards of the mainstream culture. But within rap, even the most shameful acts are defensible, if only because rap is meant to be a melting pot of egregious behavior and reckless judgment.

Gee, what could I get to counter that argument? How about a never-complained-about True Sounds Of Liberty doing "Code Blue"?

 

I never got along with the girls at my school
 

Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
 

They'd pile all their problems on my head 


I'd rather go out and fuck the dead 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain 


I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


Middle of the night so silently
 

I creep on over to the mortuary
 

Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
 

Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red 


'Cause I can do what I want and they won't complain
 

I wanna fuck I wanna fuck the dead 


And I don't even care how she died...
But I like it better if she smells of formaldehyde!
 

Never on the rag or say leave me alone
 

They don't scream and they don't moan
 

Don't even cry if I shoot in their hair
 

Lying on the table she smiles and she stares
 

Chorus

So, Rock songs about fucking dead girls - performed without irony - are A-O.K., but let a Rapper call a feminist "bitch" and it's the end of Western civilization. 

 Race problem? What race problem? This is something different altogether.

Until recently, I haven't mentioned race on TMR, and there's a reason:

Too busy discussing American racial double standards with the corpse in my basement,...

 

Search For Meaning: I'm "Reading The Papers" Like You

France is the rudest place on Earth - again - but I'm supposed to buy we're NOT spying on them? O.K., sure, whatever you say [vicious eye roll,…]

I don't see the phrase "You're just a gullible fool!" in print often enough. 

I find a lot of examples of it, but not enough referencing, I think.

"I'm spitting game to you mark-assed lames,…"

-- Too Short, A Bitch Is A Bitch, long before there was a pathetic online "player" community

Mental illness, either. You just can't get anyone to admit mental illness. I don't know why - because they can't fix what's wrong until they admit something's wrong - but here we are. 

Probably the self-help capital of the world.

A Swedish woman was charged with necrophilia after skeletal parts were discovered in her home.

And to think, most marriages break down over mundane household chores,...

Let's Put A Space Probe In Hugo Chávez's Brain

Hugo Chávez, he of the televised multi-hour conspiracy theory rant - and Noam Chomsky-loving, necrophiliac, socialist cult of personality in Venuzuela - is at it again. Keep in mind, this is the guy who had Sean Penn and Oliver Stone, amongst others, hooked on his every word during the Bush administration. (He famously claimed to smell "sulfur" emanating from George W. Bush, back in 2006, when Chávez spoke after him at the U.N. in New York.) Oliver Stone even went so far as to make a documentary about him, claiming Chávez is "misunderstood". See if you understand this:

Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

Got that? Understand it? I do - the man runs a cult - and it's "logic" like this that absolutely proves it. I don't care how high he's risen in politics:

Hugo Chávez is 100% nuts.

Call Him "The Artist Formally Known As 'Putz'"

Now, you see, here's the problem in a nutshell:

Above, you've got this bozo talking about he's written "the ultimate Christian Rock song", which - to be perfectly honest - is a very, very low bar to hop over (What are we talking, here, something by Winger?) and still he fails. Not only with the composition, but with the presentation, and just,...well, everything.

So now we can do a comparison of "Jesus Rocks" (which ought to appeal to The Crack Emcee, right?) with the best manifestation of Satan we could find - T.S.O.L. (True Sounds Of Liberty) doing their glorious punk ode to necrophelia, "Code Blue":



Um,...hmmm. Well, we gotta say, "Sorry Jesus", but - when it comes to a choice between praising your name or having sex with a dead corpse - Satan just makes the latter sound like a lot more fun! His minions play better, have a greater grasp of musical theory, and lyrically? Face it:

Some lamer in a tweed jacket, warbling about religion, just can't compete.

And that's really the problem with religion today, whether we like it or not. It's the problem with "spirituality", too. It's the same problem with almost the whole stupid set-up around here:

Like your turkey, resting in the center of the Thanksgiving table, y'all just make death by fire look too damned good.

Hat Tip: Scotteriology