So I've got this yawning gap in my musical tastes where rap and hip-hop are concerned. It would be easy to form a uniformly negative opinion of it from the consistently brainless uninspiring stuff from the radio, but if I were to judge rock from the crap they play on the radio (CBC excepted) I'd think the same thing. So just like I did a bit down for novels, I'm going to open this up for you people to dictate my tastes in rap and hip-hop. Beat poetry can come too, if it washes its hair.
You heard me - post some hip hop artists, or better yet artists and albums, that for one reason or another will blow my mind.

A new political endorsement:

Kinky Friedman for governor;
Why the hell not?

The Black Rider is a very fun album. Listening to it, you realize that it is actually quite an unpleasant sound. Which means that - by embracing ugly art - I am more fashionable than you.

It's been almost six months without reading a novel - by no choice of mine, mainly I think because I read like thirty-two plays - and so I have decided that I am going to start reading novels again. I've already started, in fact, but I discovered that I don't know what authors I should be looking for, which makes sifting through the pulp a challenge. As such, I hereby seek literature recommendations, specifically for authors of novels. Bear in mind that even if I don't think it's good, I'll probably still enjoy it, becaue I'm weird like that.

Iggy on Lebanon

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a government this lucid and intelligent? Can you imagine a standard political statement on this topic being anywhere near as, well, good? Now, we may not all agree entirely with him, but at least it's something we can disagree with, instead of the standard "clean up our get tough on street crime doesn't pay for the love of god bless america" crap. That's why, more and more, I'm thinking that this is the dude I want to lead the Liberals so that we can, eventually, have an intelligent prime minister. If we want to raise the level of political discourse, we really have to endorse the people that are already at that level.

(Here's looking at you, NDP - stop trading principle for marketing, and find a candidate with brains and boldness instead of the clean-paper-napkin vanilla pretty face.)

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