tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929763.post114193115467912483..comments2023-11-05T05:15:31.947-06:00Comments on Banned Breed : Keep The Shiny Side Up!: Raine Devrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05727555308980820036noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929763.post-63450165202761727842020-01-21T01:25:16.459-06:002020-01-21T01:25:16.459-06:00Excellent post! The information conveyed is amazin...Excellent post! The information conveyed is amazing and has great value! Thanks a lot for uploading such a highly informative post! Learn about more <a href="http://fobico.com//" rel="nofollow">piles remedy</a> that will only benefit you when in need!Sankethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07833159713469593058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929763.post-1142025626169047342006-03-10T15:20:00.000-06:002006-03-10T15:20:00.000-06:00I am so glad I am not the only one who feels this ...I am so glad I am not the only one who feels this way about this "music." As someone who grew up in the projects, I saw the real ghetto culture, when it is your life and you're a little kid and theres no escape, it is brutal and unbelievably harsh. I saw poverty, violence, hell I thought all hallways smelled like urine when I was a kid. My grandma was murdered, my dad was mugged, and now this lifestyle is glamourized by those who have no clue to the brutal reality of it. If they experienced first hand the "pimp" life, if they could not go back to their nice house in their safe little world, they might feel differently. As for me, I was a grown person when my dad got mugged, I managed to get his money and wallet back by threatening the thugs who did it (BTW, they towered over me but I was a "tough biker chick".) I think back at the things I did to survive in that world. It's amazing I did survive.<BR/>When I was a starving art student in NY I fended off the pimps that lived in my neighborhood by saying I would slash their throat if they came any closer, and I would have. I saw many young girls, my age and younger that gave in. I now live in the country, in the nice neighborhood where most of my neighbors have horses. That cruel world is far away from me now. <BR/>But funny thing, I still carry a knife, and a baseball bat or shotgun are in easy reach no matter where I am in my studio or shop. Old habits die hard. <BR/>BTW, I love that song, "The way you looked tonight." It is so timeless. That's the world I wanted to live in, a world of Moon River, of songs that could life one's spirits, no matter how far they had fallen. I made it out of the ghetto. And I just find it sick that so many now embrace that as a trend.<BR/>Today I was driving through a local posh, very trendy area and a very glamourous country club type woman was sitting here her Mercedes Convertable, listening to "pimp" music, it was blasting.<BR/>Sorry for the rant.Crazy Horsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14803017848012100632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17929763.post-1141948449852247052006-03-09T17:54:00.000-06:002006-03-09T17:54:00.000-06:00AMEN!For the record: Three 6 Mafia: 1 OscarMarti...AMEN!<BR/><BR/>For the record: <BR/>Three 6 Mafia: 1 Oscar<BR/>Martin Scorsese: 0 Oscars<BR/><BR/>Kind of puts it all into perspective, doesn't it? <BR/><BR/>I wasn't intoxicated by this year's Best Song Category. But the song from Crash was the best piece of music and Dolly Parton's piece was a close second. I really thought the academy was going to give it to Academy Member Dolly Parton.<BR/><BR/>It's Hard Out There For A Pimp. My ass. Definitely this song does not belong in the same category as the songs you've mentioned, or these recent Oscar Classics either:<BR/>My Heart Will Go On from Titanic<BR/>You Must Love Me from Evita<BR/>Sooner or Later from Dick Tracy<BR/>Lose Yourself from 8 Mile<BR/>Theme From Rocky by Bill Conti<BR/>Into The West by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore, and Phillipa BoyensMatthew S. Urdanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15423237354496730048noreply@blogger.com