Bistro Bijou

[sassynyc]

You gonna dance like that, msSazzy? hmm. I'll postpone it if I get to watch them hipz longer!

Champ, I'll shimmy for ya once you recuperate. Complete with tassles, veils and those tiny finger symbols.

 

[champagne1982]

Champ, I'll shimmy for ya once you recuperate. Complete with tassles, veils and those tiny finger symbols.

oooo... i'm lucky.. wait til i'm off crutches so i can wiggle witcha...

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

I wouldn't classify myself as a Luda fan per se, but I do enjoy hip hop in general. I like the energy of it. I listen to hip hop in my car or when I am cleaning.

 

[Anschul]

Well, all of your excellent mojo was felt at the terminal end of the wires attached to my anaesthesiologist's brain and he assured me that the morphine that caused my eyeballs to itch the last time he managed my case will be left out of the cocktail this time annnnd..

YES! My surgery is scheduled for next Thursday.. a week! And all those who poo poo our semi-socialized medicine setup as keeping people on long waiting lists can go fluff their own dusty penes...

Much thanks to all of you for your wonderful supporting thoughts and wishes.

Cheffapalooza! Most excellent news about your little M. I'm hoping that the move and the transition between health facilities proves uneventful and happens as smoothly as a Tim Horton's Iced Cap.

Champie, thanks. I'll be thinkin' of you too, the whole time. And remember, when in doubt, there's always versed...aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh...

*sigh*

Am I here telling a joke to myself? LOL

Well, I might as well indulge myself and tell myself the answer. LOL


Answer:

100. One to actually change the bulb and 99 to feel the change.

Wait...I know...I know... 100. One to change the bulb and...oh, shit, sorry...already answered.

 

[sassynyc]

Well your name says you're familiar, at the very least. I can't claim to be a fan of his myself, but he has songs here and there that I like. But he was the first thing to pop into my head when I spotted your name. I like hip hop, but I'm more partial to old school than current. The current artists that I like have been around for a while, so even if they're not quite classic, they're not
'new jacks'.

 

[Homburg]

Well your name says you're familiar, at the very least. I can't claim to be a fan of his myself, but he has songs here and there that I like. But he was the first thing to pop into my head when I spotted your name. I like hip hop, but I'm more partial to old school than current. The current artists that I like have been around for a while, so even if they're not quite classic, they're not
'new jacks'.

"The gun didn't know I was loaded."
-Chuck D

I was listening to PE today, a little bit of Cypress Hill, some Boogie Down Productions yesterday, and Kool Moe Dee before that. There's acts out now that I'm cool with, but there's nothing I've heard that approaches Chuck D or KRS-One.

 

[Tzara]

I was listening to PE today, a little bit of Cypress Hill, some Boogie Down Productions yesterday, and Kool Moe Dee before that. There's acts out now that I'm cool with, but there's nothing I've heard that approaches Chuck D or KRS-One.

One of the fabulous things about getting older is how reading what other people write about music makes as much sense as a manual for a nuclear powered cheese slicer. Written in Latvian.

Damn! Where'd the wife put all my Mantovani LPs?!

 

[sassynyc]

"The gun didn't know I was loaded."
-Chuck D

I was listening to PE today, a little bit of Cypress Hill, some Boogie Down Productions yesterday, and Kool Moe Dee before that. There's acts out now that I'm cool with, but there's nothing I've heard that approaches Chuck D or KRS-One.

"I got a letter from the government the other day..."
~Chuck D

I'm sayin'....

*dreamy eyed*
Oh how I miss the Golden Age of hip hop. KRS-ONE, untouchable back then. He's still pretty nice, but these days it's kind of a crap shoot. Moe Dee, P.E and C.H....all hot. I love Rakim, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest.....dammit, you just induced an ''88 flashback. My absolute fave from that era was Big Daddy Kane.
*bats eye lashes furiously*
Barring the fact that I was jailbait back then, I was sooooo going to marry him!

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Well your name says you're familiar, at the very least. I can't claim to be a fan of his myself, but he has songs here and there that I like. But he was the first thing to pop into my head when I spotted your name. I like hip hop, but I'm more partial to old school than current. The current artists that I like have been around for a while, so even if they're not quite classic, they're not
'new jacks'.

I do love old school, but I like to stay current too. I just love when I am in my car, blaring my hip hop CD's. My 15 yo daughter is biracial and HATES hip hop. I laugh when we pull into a parking lot or whatever and remind her that people probably think it's her music. We have a running joke in response to my reminder. She proclaims to hate hip hop. I tell her, "Roni, you're black." She says, "And you're white." LOL

She's too funny sometimes.

 

[Homburg]

One of the fabulous things about getting older is how reading what other people write about music makes as much sense as a manual for a nuclear powered cheese slicer. Written in Latvian.

Damn! Where'd the wife put all my Mantovani LPs?!

*blink*

Some of the albums I am referring to are 20+ years old. How old are you Tzara, and how young do you think I am?

Kool Moe Dee started his career in '78 as part of T3, so his stuff has been around for 30 years. Krs-One/Boogie Down Productions started in the mid 80's giving them 20 years. Public Enemy got their start under a different name (but still Chuck D and Flava flav) in '82, so 26 years. And Cypress Hill started in '88 as DVX. 20 years for them too.

Sure, we're not talking Chuck Berry here, but I'm not talking young acts either.

 

[sassynyc]

I do love old school, but I like to stay current too. I just love when I am in my car, blaring my hip hop CD's. My 15 yo daughter is biracial and HATES hip hop. I laugh when we pull into a parking lot or whatever and remind her that people probably think it's her music. We have a running joke in response to my reminder. She proclaims to hate hip hop. I tell her, "Roni, you're black." She says, "And you're white." LOL

She's too funny sometimes.

Hip hop has become so big, the commercial end of it has become the new American pop. I know plenty of black people that hate it, and just as many people of various backgrounds that love it. Hip hop is to this generation what rock n' roll was in it's hey day, and what jazz was to the generation before that. They're all totally different, but their common thread is innovation and mass appeal.

 

[Homburg]

"I got a letter from the government the other day..."
~Chuck D

I'm sayin'....

*dreamy eyed*
Oh how I miss the Golden Age of hip hop. KRS-ONE, untouchable back then. He's still pretty nice, but these days it's kind of a crap shoot. Moe Dee, P.E and C.H....all hot. I love Rakim, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest.....dammit, you just induced an ''88 flashback. My absolute fave from that era was Big Daddy Kane.
*bats eye lashes furiously*
Barring the fact that I was jailbait back then, I was sooooo going to marry him!

Heh, I have a De La Soul album or two, and some Tribe called Quest. I have some awful stuff too that I cringe when I recall it. Garbage like MC Hammer and the like.

I was listening to De La Soul again recently. Good stuff.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Barring the fact that I was jailbait back then, I was sooooo going to marry him!

LOL
Reminds me of the first black man I fell in love with. omg, I had the biggest crush! Promise not to laugh?

You have to promise!

Malcom-Jamal Warner

Look!

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q357/writes4fun/Malcom-JamalWarnercropped.jpg

Theo's all grown up!

 

[sassynyc]

*blink*

Some of the albums I am referring to are 20+ years old. How old are you Tzara, and how young do you think I am?

Kool Moe Dee started his career in '78 as part of T3, so his stuff has been around for 30 years. Krs-One/Boogie Down Productions started in the mid 80's giving them 20 years. Public Enemy got their start under a different name (but still Chuck D and Flava flav) in '82, so 26 years. And Cypress Hill started in '88 as DVX. 20 years for them too.

Sure, we're not talking Chuck Berry here, but I'm not talking young acts either.

You gotta cut the man some slack. Did you hear what was playing in the deserted bistro last night? I don't think Birgit Nilsson fans know T3, F5, The Juice Crew and the like. Just sayin'

 

[sassynyc]

LOL
Reminds me of the first black man I fell in love with. omg, I had the biggest crush! Promise not to laugh?

You have to promise!

Malcom-Jamal Warner

Look!

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q357/writes4fun/Malcom-JamalWarnercropped.jpg

Theo's all grown up!

Ok.....I'm not laughing. But I could never get into Theo. At any age. Even though he's older than me, even in the 80's he just seemed so kid-like to me. I was sooooo not interested. This is what comes of being the youngest in a family where all your siblings are way older than you. Theo wasn't grown up enough for me. HA!

 

[Homburg]

You gotta cut the man some slack. Did you hear what was playing in the deserted bistro last night? I don't think Birgit Nilsson fans know T3, F5 The Juice Crew and the like. Just sayin'

Harrumph. Acts like Public Enemy are huge. I may not listen to new country but I do try to keep abreast of the bigger names, at least enough to recognise them. And acts with as much influence as PH, BDP, and the mighty Cypress Hill? Makes sense, to my self-admitted music whore mind, to know such acts. Then again, my iTunes library has passed nine thousands songs, and that was after cleaning out almost 800 chaff tunes that were duplicates or songs I didn't dig.

I am a music whore though. My tastes are so broad as to make the term eclectic look exclusionary. Or, as MIS says "You like everything ".

Days like this I want to pick my horn back up. Makes me pissed that my lip is gone.

 

[sassynyc]

Harrumph. Acts like Public Enemy are huge. I may not listen to new country but I do try to keep abreast of the bigger names, at least enough to recognise them. And acts with as much influence as PH, BDP, and the mighty Cypress Hill? Makes sense, to my self-admitted music whore mind, to know such acts. Then again, my iTunes library has passed nine thousands songs, and that was after cleaning out almost 800 chaff tunes that were duplicates or songs I didn't dig.

I am a music whore though. My tastes are so broad as to make the term eclectic look exclusionary. Or, as MIS says "You like everything ".

Days like this I want to pick my horn back up. Makes me pissed that my lip is gone.

Not everyone is as musically promiscuous as us, hat boy. And I include myself in that category loosely. My tastes are eclectic, but those numbers make my collection seem anorexic in comparison. I would love to pillage that library. I'd be like a kid in a candy store. I've slowed down on buying cds simply because I'm running out of storage space. There's a huge chunk of my library that's older than I am. I love old school everything.

I bet you're one of those music junkies that hears a sample and recognizes it instantly. One of my favorite things in hip hop is sampling, when it's done creatively. I love picking a sample apart to identify it. I like when a sample is completely rearranged to sound like something new. Not so much if it feels like there was no thought put into it.

ETA: Hmm, MC Hammer. I trust that was among the 800 that got the ax. My favorite MC Hammer moment is the Hallmark Father's Day commercial, and he's not even in it. At least the commercial was intended to be ridiculous. You need to do penance for that one. I need to go ponder something sufficient for that offense.

 

[Eluard]

Hmmmmmmm well, I was listening to Ligeti the other day…

 

[Homburg]

Not everyone is as musically promiscuous as us, hat boy. And I include myself in that category loosely. My tastes are eclectic, but those numbers make my collection seem anorexic in comparison. I would love to pillage that library. I'd be like a kid in a candy store. I've slowed down on buying cds simply because I'm running out of storage space. There's a huge chunk of my library that's older than I am. I love old school everything.

I traffick in musick, arrrr.

I bet you're one of those music junkies that hears a sample and recognizes it instantly. One of my favorite things in hip hop is sampling, when it's done creatively. I love picking a sample apart to identify it. I like when a sample is completely rearranged to sound like something new. Not so much if it feels like there was no thought put into it.

Sometimes, yeah. I'm not that solid on 60's funk, and that is where a lot of it comes from. I pick up on other sources pretty well.

ETA: Hmm, MC Hammer. I trust that was among the 800 that got the ax. My favorite MC Hammer moment is the Hallmark Father's Day commercial, and he's not even in it. At least the commercial was intended to be ridiculous. You need to do penance for that one. I need to go ponder something sufficient for that offense.

I was in my early teens, and a friend gave me a large list of acts to check out. I figured I'd give it a shot. Bad idea.I do penance by keeping the tape around. It shames me to own it =P

And my CD collection is scattered literally all over my house. Very few rooms do not have CD's or tapes in them somewhere. My house isn't dominated by it, but it is stashed all over the place. Right now.. I thin the kids' room and the bathrooms are the only places I can think of that are CD/tape/vinyl free. Nah, the kids have some tape sof their own. So that leaves the bathrooms.

 

[Tzara]

*blink*

Some of the albums I am referring to are 20+ years old. How old are you Tzara, and how young do you think I am?

Well, sir, your first question kind of answers your last. I'm. Old. Er.

It's kind of fun to make you *blink* actually.

Kool Moe Dee started his career in '78 as part of T3, so his stuff has been around for 30 years. Krs-One/Boogie Down Productions started in the mid 80's giving them 20 years. Public Enemy got their start under a different name (but still Chuck D and Flava flav) in '82, so 26 years. And Cypress Hill started in '88 as DVX. 20 years for them too.

OK. I believe you.

And I know you're not trying to make me feel really old.

And, yes, I was there.

This is actually kind of fun. I feel like like I'm talking to my mom about the Andrews Sisters Or something.

Well, like the other way around.

Sure, we're not talking Chuck Berry here, but I'm not talking young acts either.

Maybe not, but you are, sorry, talking about acts that have had no (meaning absolutely none) impact on my consciousness over the last thirty years.

And, this probably will sound stupid when I say it, but I really like music.

I wouldn't fret too much about it. I think it's some generational thing. So I missed some thing in '78 (and, like all the years after that). Way it goes.

You guys are not going to make me the Adult now, are you? That grumpy complaining person whose only words are NO?

I hope not. Shit.




I seem to be getting on the wrong side of people lately. This is a problem. Perhaps I need a different breath mint.

 

[sassynyc]

You guys are not going to make me the Adult now, are you? That grumpy complaining person whose only words are NO?

I hope not. Shit.

'Tis a generation thing, for sure. Like it or not, you are the adult. Not the parent though. The fact that you cuss and hang out in a (albeit poetic) den of iniquity is good for a few cool points. I'm appointing you the stately and scholarly uncle (who lets us take a few swigs when the parents aren't around). How's that?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

So you tease me with the idea of a nekkid picture and I put one up and you don't?

okay, yet another moment in my life when it's proven beyond doubt that I'm kinda gullible.




and that I'll take any excuse to get naked.




Cures for boredom:

watch this cartoon

Go here and look at funny pictures

look! cool WWII pinup pictures!

Seriously, go play this game. Champagne found it and put it into the bistro archives. I play it a lot. But I don't know if I've ever won.

bj

Ooops misunderstood completely thought it was a metaphorical (is that the right word?) nekkidness in the back room!

..or I could write my psych paper.. but, who wants to do that?
LOL Thank you for the suggestions, you are just the sweetest hostess! I'll have to check them out.

I'm done soaking my nails. Now, I just better get this acetone off before I light up or I might.. well.. light up.

Hope you finished those nails lol here's mine
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn276/itsannier/thumbnail1.jpg

One of the fabulous things about getting older is how reading what other people write about music makes as much sense as a manual for a nuclear powered cheese slicer. Written in Latvian.

Damn! Where'd the wife put all my Mantovani LPs?!

Well I am stuck in the 60s and I still think it was the best music ever

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Hope you finished those nails lol here's mine
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn276/itsannier/thumbnail1.jpg

I finished removing my nails. This is what they looked like before I removed them:

{Nekkid pic removed...LOL}

oh, i'm sorry! am i only allowed to be nekkid in the back room?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Oh nipple! Nice nails too!

 

[Homburg]

Well, sir, your first question kind of answers your last. I'm. Old. Er.

It's kind of fun to make you *blink* actually.

That statement worries me...

OK. I believe you.

And I know you're not trying to make me feel really old.

And, yes, I was there.

This is actually kind of fun. I feel like like I'm talking to my mom about the Andrews Sisters Or something.

Well, like the other way around.

Nope, not trying to make you feel really old. I honestly doubt that you are so old as to have no idea at all about acts that have been around for 20-30 years. I figured it was just ignorance of the genre, which is entirely excusable. I'm not some raving hip-hop adherent that thinks it is the most important thing in music. I simply have a number of acts that I really dig, and for various reasons.

Honestly, I would think that a lot of poets could appreciate some of the acts mentioned. KRS-One has a literate style, and Chuck D is amazing. Heck, the only two "well-known" poets currently active that I dig are both musical artists that work in Spoken Word as well (Henry Rollins of Black flag and Rollins Band, and Angelo Moore of Fishbone, aka Dr MaddVibe)

The active poets that I read the most are, well, in this thread.

Maybe not, but you are, sorry, talking about acts that have had no (meaning absolutely none) impact on my consciousness over the last thirty years.

And, this probably will sound stupid when I say it, but I really like music.

Nah, not stupid. I had no idea who Mantovani was until I looked. Then I remembered that I had a CD of music that he directed, I think. That name is somewhere in the hundreds and hundreds of albums I own. We each have our own musical stomping grounds, and there are folk here who could easily pas snames that I would be utterly clueless on. The more broad your taste, the more likely it is that you have a love for an act that no one else has heard of.

Heck, I could probably rattle off ten of my favourite acts and I would bet that no one here will have listened to each of them. And I am probably not the only person here that could pull that trick.

I wouldn't fret too much about it. I think it's some generational thing. So I missed some thing in '78 (and, like all the years after that). Way it goes.

This I agree with. I'm a tad surprised that Public enemy had no recognition, as they sold a LOT of records, and had been in the news quite a bit in the 80's and 90's for their controversial political views and political associations. PE is not quite Britney Spears, but they did get a lot of airtime.

You guys are not going to make me the Adult now, are you? That grumpy complaining person whose only words are NO?

I hope not. Shit.




I seem to be getting on the wrong side of people lately. This is a problem. Perhaps I need a different breath mint.

You're okay, old man

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Well I am stuck in the 60s and I still think it was the best music ever

Annie, I listen to a lot of 60's stuff. Probably not the same sort thtat you go for, but the 60's was still a truly incredible decade musically speaking.

I'm an enormous fan of ska from the 60's, and the same with blues.