I understand the controversity about Kanye. But it is a great producer imho. I´m no hip hop afficionado so I don´t exactly know if this use of (speed up) soul samples from him is pioneering. But I know it sounds great on the blueprint and on numerous songs from his own albums. I’ve just finished the book about ‘Donuts’ from J Dilla (331/3) and that album is heavily inspired by the productions of Kanye. So he must have do something good 
Me and a mate walked away from Kanye’s set at the Big Chill Festival in 2011 when he want on a fifteen-minute rant about something or other. I was keen to see him too. Haven’t paid him any attention since then - until yesterday. Sat through nearly two hours of Donda and it reflects his egotisic self and is overblown. The production is on point though. Enjoyed it although my bar for him was set pretty low.
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I guess the guy always had his issues and I’d imagine that level of stratospheric fame has had some repercussions on his mental health,
Ozzy Osbourne “These days if you wanna be a fuckin’ rebel – don’t get a fuckin’ tattoo”
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Right, well this could be the end of me…
Dogs
Never did, never will.
Did i miss the bit where a bag of dog shit became a fashion accessory? Most folk I see these days have got one tucked somewhere.
When I was a kid dog shit was a thing to be disgusted by as you scraped it off your shoe or from between your studs with a stick. Maybe it doesn’t stink anymore, is that it? Is it like a new style, green deal, low emission pocket warmer?
People hang the bags in trees like a fecal bauble. FFS.
This morning I watched a woman in her pyjamas and dressing gown, fag in mouth, grubbing around in the long grass after her labrador’s morning deposit. Obviously frustrated at having to use two hands she took the fag from her lips and helped the errant turdage into a very flimsy polythene bag. She then returned the fag to her lips and continued with her perambulations. All this before 9am. Has the world gone mad?
Then there’s the ‘oh he’s only being friendly’ brigade. Yes? well he’s got a funny way of showing it. Not everybody is as interested in your dog as you are chummy.
Oh i don’t know, it’s probably just me.
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Dogs are for people who need adulation. Give me an indifferent cat that fucks off all day anytime.
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‘Plant Based’ what was wrong with Vegan?
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not all “plant based” products are vegan
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I assumed it was, always learning! I think many restaurants do use it as an alternative to saying vegan though.
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I was always agnostic on Kanye as well but given the hype over the years (music only) I figured it was just me. Once in a while I’ll listen to one of his albums all the way through to see if something clicks for me but hasn’t happened yet. (last attempt was “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” a few weeks ago - one of his better ones, I think).
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Yeah, ‘vegan’ is quite a tight definition eg no honey, but also no ingredients that have ever been tested on animals in any way (even harmlessly, 50 years ago). Hence plant based.
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Barista… Used so often and out of context to be meaningless. It’s Italian I guess? For those that know what does it mean - is it something as basic as somebody who works in cafe and makes coffee (admittedly probably a decent cup in Italy). I went to quite a remote beach in NE Scotland today, there was trailer that served ‘barista coffee’… I mean wtf!!!
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There was a discussion in the Vegan magazine pre it becoming trendy whether swallowing semen was a vegan thing to do. Pre internet so a long time ago
Nottingham always had big vegan scene.
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Yes that is exactly what it means. A person has made your cup of coffee instead of a machine doing it. I used to work in coffee. I’d operate an espresso machine… steam milk and pour the milk over the espresso.
The bit that annoys me is differentiating between very similar combinations of espresso and steamed milk with terms such as micro foam. If your foam has massive bubbles you’ve done a shit job of it and it will settle down in seconds. Other than that it’s just espresso and steamed milk so you can vary the quantity of either of those as much as you like but it doesn’t need a dozen names. Oh and when you order a massive cappuccino half of it is air so why order it massive…
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Cheers that answers a few questions, always sceptical of all that foam. Filter or Mellow Birds for me…
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(deep breath)
Disco and Boogie,
Ok, so I yes, own a few records from each camp, but it’s the collectors, gatekeepers, and DJs who play these genres exclusively that have given me an underlying hatred for both. Almost as bad as the Northern Soul set (almost).
It’s almost always white guys coveting these slabs of black musical outpourings as if they recorded the bloody things themselves. Get over yourself Tarquin, you’re just a nerd who likes telling other nerds how much he spunked up a wall for an average sounding private press disco raer he overpaid some guy from Ohio for.
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Big coffees. They’re on my list for sure.
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Ouch. But I know what you mean.
Yes, and very like the NS crowd, can’t stop telling us how much they are all worth. That always makes me walk away.
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Yep. Small. Extra shot
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