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for example, i know this girl who's in her late 30s, very cool and on the level, has all kinds of friends, plays lots of 60s and 70s funk and latin sounds, and has more style in her right pinky finger than other women do in their entire wardrobe she's hip and were you to see her walking down...

if hipness is possessing a kind of knowledge, then it implies membership in or passage through some kind of culture or scene (or at least special access to the scene) = o/w the knowledge of "what's going on" would be purely superficial and therefore not really knowledge hipness means knowing...

i tend to associate hipsters w/ scenesters or maybe the term hipster encompasses both scenesters AND nomadic trend-spotters! i mean, at least in nyc the most visible hipsters are the rock-n-roll crowd, and they're hardly at the cutting edge of music again, it's tricky the original hipsters...

none of the above is to deny, however, that i sometimes find myself wondering whether grime has been less than entirely credible in the united states b/c of over-dependency upon internet and blog channels i.e., it's a very complicated question which has been addressed on other threads w/...

i think that thanks to people like blissblogger, woebot, k-punk, gutterbreakz, silver dollar, original soundtrack, et al, that a network is now in existence to push whatever sounds any of us may think worthy -- get promos out to people all around the world who you think may enjoy a band or sound...

forgot to mention that the rave got shut down early b/c of a brawl outside the venue around 6 am which is kinda cool too, if you think about it

i should also mention that dj b-12 (who didn't play, at least not when i was there, i.e, rave started at 7 pm) gave me a brilliant mix cd -- i've been rocking it non-stop on my computer b-12 has seriously got the right 92/93 sound -- the wicked party vibe w/ just a touch of zaniness (errrr, i...

i thought it was a pretty cool event got to meet the famed demographer and squat party vet pearsall spoke briefly w/ dave q and joe nice and i was very impressed with the actual space, the basement of bar sputnik -- despite living on bedford b/w myrtle and willoughby for a 4-month stretch...

db was excellent in the main room -- breakbeat hardcore heavy on the piano anthems otherwise, all the action was in the jungle room kech of "stuck on earth" fame was phenomenal -- very very deep jungle voodoo vibe -- and every track he played was strong -- never heard a jungle dj of his...

yes, i think we could use a heavy dose of oliver around here may not agree with oliver's positions on certain issues, but this place isn't supposed to be about easy consensus, is it?

i used to always dance, especially ages 18 through 22 (indeed i blame my love of dancing for my lack of dj skills) now i'm increasingly self-conscious -- somehow seems unbecoming when you're 30-ish my general rule is that i dance at loft or warehouse parties, but not in so-called dj bars

errrr, is it just me or is the map virtually impossible to read? i.e., i think i'd have to see a much larger image of the map to comprehend what this is even supposed to be about

will try to make it over to brooklyn for this

given the very impressive consensus behind ariel pink, i really must ask -- When do they play New York?

yes, but don't these same arguments apply to eating beef? or chicken? i.e., in the case of cattle raised for slaughter, we know exactly what's gonna happen the entire time whereas in the case of corrupt govts in cocaine- or heroin-producing countries, you really only get killed if caught in...

yes, but you do seem to making an argument in favor of putting the drug trade in the hands of exxon or phillip morris i.e., if you legalize drugs, just whom, precisely, do you think's gonna make all the money = multinational corporations

errrr, i think k-punk could make some compelling points here against the tendency to "medicalize" everything i.e., even if it's the case that drug abusers have some kind of dopamine or serotine imbalance, such an explanation only defers the question, i.e., why do so many people in modern...

rather than move this conversation over here last night, i instead pursued the point over on the original thread . . . . so now i've just "copied" nonseq's remarks and my response to them over here -- hopefully all that follows won't be too hard to read . . . . so we should legalize drugs and...

so we should legalize drugs and let phillip morris take over the business? i.e., people of course realize that if you legalize drugs then hustlers will be made redundant??? isn't this more a function of poverty and imperialism? why do you see drugs as the root of all evil? -- i.e., why not...

i'm not sure if it's racist or not however, i tend to agree w/ k-punk that male sexual desire is fantastic & pathological so whether such rules of attraction are racist is a question that has to be approached from the larger question of whether male sexual desire is inherently pathological