Hate To Deal With Hate. Or is it Hate?

I was at work with my iPod on shuffle as usual when I am working on the weekend when a song that i didn't recognize came on. It was a track by the Meatmen, and it started with a nice racist rant about how the lead singer doesn't like people from the Middle East. The track I have found out now was called Camel Jockeys Suck, so that is off my iPod, but I first off wonder what s going on in that these guys think this is appropriate, and how many tracks on my iPod do I have that contain messages such as this.

The answer to the first question is that these guys are from the original punk wave and are probably used to be able to say all the offensive stuff they wanted. I guess they haven't adapted to society, or the United States is more tolerant of that kind of message.

The second question has me quite perplexed. I found a few rap songs that I took off like Ice Cube's Horny Little Devil, but there are others that are more border line such as Black Flag's White Minority, which they maintain is a statement about life in California, and not supposed to be racist, but there are some very border lines lyrics throughout the entire song. Then there are other songs such as The Vandals Shiite Punk which seems to make fun of extremists from the Middle East. I like both these songs, and ther eare others that I like that use homophobic slurs to saterize a subject, or occasionally just to call names which may be where the line needs to be drawn. One of the songs, I Just Want Some Skank, was played on my radio show the On-Slot. I didn't get any complaints, but i was embarassed when Kieth Morris state that he finally got laid so his parents won't think he is a "fag". It is done to make fun of the way people react to those that aren't making sex a prioiy in their lives, but maybe it is time for me to try to eliminate all prejudice, even in jest from my iPod.

WWJED What would Jaremy Ediger do? What do you think I should do.

Duncan Is Onto Something

My random has never been so awesome, and even better than the lack of crap on my iPod is how much more cool stuff is coming up that i don't even know. Most of those tracks came free from Mike Park at the Asian Man.

Sam I Am just came on and I accidentally skipped it to Shout At The Devil, whatever I need to get home and rock out there. Oh man this Foo Fighters Wind Up is taking me back to my days as a delivery driver at Tony Roma's.

Here is a question I pose to everyone, but especially Tuesday 10-Noon Editing class. Should I start taking off tunes I like, but sometimes are a drag to make my iPod random of which I am trying non-stop hard, fast, rollicking good times

Comedy Isn't Funny When

Your strange co-worker over listens Adam Sandler’s Do It For Mama. Secondly, after you have listened to the first two Jerky Boys albums more than ten times. Hey, it was funny, just not after four albums, a movie, and Internet hijinks. Thirdly, when it is screwing up a sweet random, even if it is Cheech and Chong’s Let’s Make A Dope Deal.

For these reasons and more I have deleted most of the comedy from my iPod this week. The three above artists are all I actually had on there for comedy, because I had the sense to know that Bob and Doug McKenzie, or Andrew Dice Clay on the Downtown’s iPod. Unfortunately I did not, at the time, have the sense not to buy these titles. Bob and Doug was my doing, but I blame Kesh Cameron for the Dice. He told me it was hilarious, and then I heard a clip on an Ice Cube CD (another strike against rap) so I picked it up when I was sixteen. All this guy does is combine stereotypical Jewish words with potty humour.

Label Adam Sandler, Andrew Dice Clay, Cheech and Chong

For instance his joke about red headed guys with the punch line “Oh! He’s got a freckle on his schmeckle.

This is the advice I have for anybody loading up an iPod:

1.Do not put any comedy on it.

2.If you do limit it. There is nothing worse than getting three comedy tracks in the first ten songs or less of your random. In music terms I speak of course.


3.Only put comedy that you think other people want to hear. That is the only reason I ever put comedy on is to let people listen to some bits that I think are great.

Don't Tell Edigerl

Yeah so don't let Jaremy know that I have deleted all of his Preservation Hall tunes from my iPod. At first I really liked this rockin blues collection, but it has just been throwing the work place random out of wack so it had to go. This has been happening to a lot of the slower stuff on my iPod. Slower Elvis may be a target as well as Paul McCartney, and even my beloved Beach Boys.

Also out this week were more intros, skits, and interludes from rappers such as Eminem. I didn't go as far as to delete to much rap. Cypress Hill, 2 Pac, and Busta Rhymes put a nice mix into the work day Saturday, and Funk Masta Flex was keeping Sunday urban even though my boy Graham wasn't there to dishwash the hell outta G-Money Gangsta Sundays featuring Downtown, and Dielawn the greatest rapper of all time.

A new thing that I'm also adding is stuff that I thought may get cut but has been kicking some serious butt. I have been getting really pumped for both Madball, and System Of A Down who had been on the shelf for a long time. I think i will dig out my burned copy of Toxicity and add that to my iTunes if I can actually find it. Ensign, Ensign is another won that has been blowing my brain balls.