Oedipal Beatdown » Music http://oedipalbeatdown.com Thu, 27 May 2010 17:25:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Get Your Peanuts Here! http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/10/get-your-peanuts-here/ http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/10/get-your-peanuts-here/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:26:32 +0000 Peter http://oedipalbeatdown.com/?p=751

Email exchange between me and Ty during Game 6 of the ALCS.

Subj: Linguistic drift: in-game edition
me: Dude in my row asked the peanut vendor to “throw out the nutsack”
ty: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/da+lench+mob/all+on+my+nut+sac_20238056.html
me: Guerillas are in the midst of Fairfield county apparently.
ty: Peter Kay played “Guerrillasinthemidst” for 137 pts and just bingoed your ass, jigga.

]]> http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/10/get-your-peanuts-here/feed/ 0 Is there anything funnier than house music and french dancing? http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/09/is-there-anything-funnier-than-house-music-and-french-dancing/ http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/09/is-there-anything-funnier-than-house-music-and-french-dancing/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:46:58 +0000 Ty http://oedipalbeatdown.com/?p=738 At 10.37 on Tuesday night, the answer is no.

The roll call of politeness:

  • Dude in the suit: Frenchman, please.
  • Breakdancers: come on.
  • Black woman: oh, really.
  • Other woman: you need help. (said with a rise in tone at the end of the sentence to communicate sympathy and concern.)

The track is, as they say, a club banger, but the lo-fi typographic aesthetic, married to the “Dancing With the Stars” as produced by De Anza JC staging, leaves one with the faint whiff of oh-come-on-you-can’t-really-be-serious.

If you see this on Jay Leno’s new 10pm gig, you should start stocking up on gold bullion, because it is an indicator that the variety show is dead and that the decline of Western Civilization has reached hugging distance with zero, asymptotically speaking.

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Oedipal Beatdown’s entry for the 2010 Coney Island Biennial.

]]> http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/08/opposites-collapse/feed/ 0 The Renewed Mind is the Key to not Losing Your Money in a Dice Game. http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/07/the-renewed-mind-is-the-key-to-not-losing-your-money-in-a-dice-game/ http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/07/the-renewed-mind-is-the-key-to-not-losing-your-money-in-a-dice-game/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:10:31 +0000 Peter http://oedipalbeatdown.com/?p=719

The New Knoxville dancers get down to the immortal Mr. Strawberry. Don’t miss the breakdown at 1:55.

]]> http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/07/the-renewed-mind-is-the-key-to-not-losing-your-money-in-a-dice-game/feed/ 0 Stevie P Makes The Music With His Mouth http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/06/stevie-p-makes-the-music-with-his-mouth/ http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/06/stevie-p-makes-the-music-with-his-mouth/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:22:19 +0000 Peter http://oedipalbeatdown.com/?p=711

]]> http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/06/stevie-p-makes-the-music-with-his-mouth/feed/ 0 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl vs. QOTSA http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/06/electra-woman-and-dyna-girl-vs-qotsa/ http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/06/electra-woman-and-dyna-girl-vs-qotsa/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:39:53 +0000 Peter http://oedipalbeatdown.com/?p=698

Glitter Rock and Sideman mesmerize Electra Woman and Dyna Girl with Run Pig Run.

]]> http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/06/electra-woman-and-dyna-girl-vs-qotsa/feed/ 0 Caucasians Reifying Earnestness As Meme http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/04/caucasians-reifying-earnestness-as-meme/ http://oedipalbeatdown.com/2009/04/caucasians-reifying-earnestness-as-meme/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:26:36 +0000 Peter http://oedipalbeatdown.com/?p=620 NPR gets on the ethnomusicological tip and traces the origins of C.R.E.A.M. by The Wu-Tang Clan.

Money quote:

…may seem like an unabashed celebration of materialism, but the words of Raekwon, Method Man and Inspectah Deck paint a complex picture of hustling as a matter of urban survival rather than conspicuous consumption.

The jazzification of hip-hop is complete…

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