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I went to one of Mancuso's Loft parties for the first time a few weeks back. I was half expecting it to be the last days of Disco over 40s crowd and no one else, but it was an incredible party. Best night out I've had in ages. "Turn this motherfucker out!"

Sick Boy - I'm not going to argue with you about this statement: "Grime and dubstep made and continues to make me more excited about music than anything else going on anywhere right now. Grime is currently going through a transition period - the game is changing but it's not over. In fact, the...

As I said Logan, it didn't remind me of one hip hop record particularly. That doesn't mean it isn't reminiscent of hip hop and I'm making this up. And this is a trend in grime, it's not just a case of Breakaway sounding very much like hip-pop, it's a lot of the music. There is a difference...

Is this mysterious thing hovering over western Australia on google maps a black triangle UFO like the ones seen over Belguim, the US and more recently Iran and Iraq? Whatever it is, I blame Hadouken...

I think Cruise might have been pretty good in this. I just can't see Watchmen surviving the long difficult journey and becoming a decent film. Isn't this like the third attempt at a film version?

I don't think the tide really turned, people on Dissensus were pretty polarized about this before the post and remain so.

Laura looks like she's just aching to bust chicken noodle soup.

I do. And I agree. But I agree with Outraygeous' point too - its become impossible to understand where grime stops and hip hop begins.

Those Bushes do love them some Gasolina... http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_Laura_and_Condi_get_jiggy_0310.html

I wasn't thinking of a specific hip hop track/tracks that it was reminiscent of specifically, it just came over as sounding very much like any mainstream hip hop/R&B track to me personally. And yes, this whole 'R&G' thing started by Terra and copied by everyone since is very much a calculated...

You can't say in the same post that melodies have been added to make something more accessable, ie - it's been hip-hop-ized into mainstream urban muzak, and then say 'but it doesn't sound like hip hop.' A lot of Davinches stuff sounds like hip hop to me. And that's fine, it's good, I like it...

ditto.

Breakaway sounds like straight up hip hop. It's a good track, but a perfect example of how the line between the genres is getting blurred.

This film was so terrible. I had high hopes. I recently got this, The Da Vinci Code and A Scanner Darkly in the same day via Netflix. I only managed to sit through Scanner Darkly til the end and was disappointed (I guess Da Vinci Code was my own fault). All three films were pretty bad, and...

I couldn't agree more Mr UFO. There are (at least) two different things here that we are discussing and people seem to be confusing. One is outright theft with total contempt for the originators. The other is appropriating and borrowing a sound to create something new. And this is not the...

Logan please don't make me bring up some of the outfits I've seen you in. We're having a serious discussion here.

Or you could argue that it's just time for something else to take grime's place.

I wasn't suggesting artists need to make awful mainstream crap. My problem with grime right now is it sounds a little too formulaic and hip-hoppy. Anyone moving away from that I think is going in the right direction. Just so we're clear, what exactly is "proper" grime Logan?

What's interesting about what's happening in Vermont is this is a truly grass roots effort from voters, not politicians, pressuring their leaders into acting. The Dems are trying to resist this for the reasons you say, but the people that vote for them seem to be on the warpath...

There is an increasing amount of chatter about grassroots efforts to impeach Bush and Cheney going on, this will probably be on the TV news networks non-stop by this evening. What do you guys think? Does this seem likely? Some links...