i'm listening to The Roots (ha! gonna get that black card back, yet!) and reading stuff on the internets. thanks to Bitch, who points to Rootless Cosmopolitan, the personal blog from a south african journalist/editor from Time. check it out.
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speaking of music, i just have to hand it to dave chappelle's Block Party for getting me curious enough to go to virgin and actually go into the rap/hip hop section - for the very first time ever. i am now the proud owner of Homegrown! The Beginner's Guide to Understanding The Roots Volume One and Blackstar's first cd.
what's next?
11 comments:
Uh! You know not all black people listen to rap!
true, but in terms of race card identity politics/semiotics, hip hop is a signifier!
'sides...i liked The Roots...
Mmm, and for pinoys, balut is a signifier.
exactly.
can i call myself a real pinoy if i don't eat balut or speak tagalog or my mother's regional language? (pangasinan? ilokano?)
identity politics is a tricky and touchy thing.
ahh, bisaya.
and we are most pinoy when we are slightly toasted, singing karaoke.
Can I be pinoy, too? I get the hot pinoy beef injections. Does that count?
Orange, you are more pinay than you know. But being pinoy is not about the booty potato, although congratulations.
Being pinoy is about pinching, bursting into song, wishing for rice, being lazy and not ashamed. Being pinoy is about eating with your hands, saying "hmph!," being ideologically (if not practically) bisexual, giggling and screaming when somebody farts.
Everybody is a little bit pinoy. Filipinity is a state of mind.
whenever there's a fart, i will laugh.
whenever someone is bending over i will poke their butt.
whenever there is a chance to rhyme 'poot' i will do it.
whenever i can walk rather than run, i will stand still.
if there is rice, there must be a spoon - and i will use it.
hear me, i am pinoy.
oh, and to be even more pinoy, if you say 'pantie' you have to say 'bantee.'
i made my roomie do it and now she's pinoy.
yeah, i just acquired some talib kweli for the same reason. Baby steps.
exactly. better late than never.
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