Posted by: goofy328 on: January 11, 2008
Once the Exclusive Domain of Hip-hop Producers, it Seems that More Often Than Most “real Music” Has Been Sampled from Somewhere Else
I was minding my own business when I came came across some interesting videos on YouTube proclaiming to trace the origin of the samples used in what was arguably one of Daft Punk’s first [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: January 11, 2008
An Unscientific Look at Food and More Practical Ways to Regulate Weight
I was at McDonalds and had a cheeseburger and small french fry. It was only $2, but I had around 500 calories, which isn’t much. In fact it was a bit more actually, according to “The Daily Plate”; say 230 calories in the fry [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: January 11, 2008
Among the Designer Clothing Offered at Steve and Barry’s, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Bitten Line is About the Best
I hadn’t been in Steve and Barry’s for a while; first off I found their nickel and dime approach to retail to be almost downright pedestrian and was a bit offended that anyone was offering clothing for as [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: January 5, 2008
In “Not Going Back” off of Nas’ “Hip Hop is Dead” CD Nasir Jones proudly, belligerently and arrogantly proclaims that he not only knows what is still going on in the hood, but he isn’t going back there; ideas of friends who would play him false and want him to go back to the ghetto [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: January 4, 2008
I was reading an interesting review about the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie when noticing that the reviewer felt that the movie touched on some rather serious points and that, contrary to popular belief, the movie is actually well developed and gives the chipmunks more of a personality than you would expect. That took [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 10, 2007
At the time of it’s height, Rolling Acres was synonymous with what was good about the limited shopping opportunities in Akron. Most of the shopping opportunities in the area were dominated by Cleveland, which was a much larger city with about 10 malls, and Canton, which had Belden Village mall, a very high priced [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: November 8, 2007
I only wish that it were that exciting; yet by the time another article is finished it happens in silence, tranquil, middle of the hurricane, eye of the storm silence. It could have been exciting, with all of the ecstatic enthusiasm of Dora and friends as I figured out another piece to the puzzle, if [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: October 23, 2007
I was never really into the whole vlog thing, missed out on LonelyGirl15 and found out about it through the traditional media. In fact I was late to the whole blogging scene and while I could accept podcasting I thought it was a niche application that would never find an audience. Yet I was wrong, [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: September 13, 2007
I’m listening to the radio one morning and I hear a story about a young woman being brutally assaulted, raped, tortured, you name it, occurring in the suburbs of Charleston, WV. Given that I live out in Chesapeake, VA I figured it was worth listening to because it took the disc jockeys about 5 minutes [...]
Posted by: goofy328 on: September 8, 2007
The iPhone has been touted as the second coming, until they let down their first customers, better known as “product testers” because they went ahead and applied Touch technology to their iPod’s anyway and dropped it’s original cost. Yet it is fair to say that despite some naysayers reaction to the product, they were the [...]
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