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Feevaleo TV Episode 3: #4Fun Wayne Olympics (#TeamSwisher Theme Song)

Feevaleo & #TeamSwisher enter #4FUN Wayne Olympics as 1st time participants. This is our highlight reel! Shoutout to @HoodChef @DameDillion @AOHKCartel @AnimalMajor @JonJonSinnati @HoodChef @DirttheTurk @TheRealLeek @GRAMZD @FumLifeFlea @MrSaksFifth @OdaButcher @40THOUSAND @DockyBoy @BrooklynT @WSTDTLNT

Buckets The Cake Speaks...

What's funny about people is that they scream family unity love ur fellow man and sister up until that money's involved lol

And u have to because real ish the electric company doesn't except love offerings to keep them lights on lol

It's amazing how people will use people at any angle they can to get a head in life smh but just know they will answer to somebody 1 day!!!

A true friend is someone that u rock with if they can't help u or even themselves sometimes but u have a bond of some sort people use words ...

So loosely these days I sometimes question if they still have meaning in some instances. If I call u fam or friend it's unconditional !!

Dont judge but look around at the people use terms of endearment with and ask if I couldn't help them in any way would we still be people's?

In successful businesses & etc. in society theres a chain of command or "food chain" and that's how some of us behave like animals #sad

Every once in a while u have to check the inventory of your friends even fam sometimes and place everybody on their proper shelf.

Just like a dept. everything doesn't always get restocked Im definitely rearranging my store today !!!!

Check out Buckets The Cake on twitter: @bucketsthecake

Check out his mixtape: Distorted Musick aka Practice hosted by DJ Muda

http://www.datpiff.com/Buckets-The-Cake-Distorted-Musick-Aka-Practice-mixtape.261635.html

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four5six.net's own @BucketsTheCake (follow him) shares his unabashed thoughts about twitter:

I can't tell u how many things I RT (retweet) that I don't get ish from or for but niggas don't RT my mxtp (mixtape) coming out Tom (tomorrow) rather RT main stream that got a million followers and would never need to RT that in life smh (shaking my head) it's ok I got cha no worries #fake bitches.

Just less people to look out 4 later that all - no hard feelings, just don't be surprised later when I refuse to acknowledge u!!!

Most these industry people on twitter act like bitches on here wtf (what the fuck) are u on twitter 4 to talk to niggas in ur phone book smh ??!!

I apologize to anyone that does follow me that supports our #so (Silent Order) #PC (Pounds of Cake) movement if I offended u, but this ish gets frustrating !! People don't support a dude doing something positive.

I went to school, graduated Cum Laude, job market sucks, music is my passion- if I chose to go wild out (robbing and shooting people) then they would be saying "another statistic", but I'm trying hard and still a statistic- it's frustrating not just for me, but all these artist out here trying to do something positive. Give 'em a chance man, everybody got a break somewhere!

World never wants to hear the real, just how great they are and what they claim, but how about u do something different 4 a change. U got starving people in a world that has food and [enough financial] support, why? because people are selfish and ignorant , it's 2011 when is it ever gonna change ?! When people gonna do tangible things that matter and quit talking about bs!!!

I'm done for the day and night- fuck twitter for the rest of the hrs left in this day- get Distorted Musick aka Practice hosted by @DjMuda

http://www.datpiff.com/Buckets-The-Cake-Distorted-Musick-Aka-Practice-mixtape.261635.html

Feev and Buckets The Cake II

Feev and Buckets - Real Talk Part 1

#four5six with the question of the day

hellokhodahafiz

Prediction: Gang Gang Dance's "MindKilla" will be a dance floor stomper for summer 2011.

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DJs of the world, get to work!

@notrichgambino

Poetry from @notrichgambino:

Haikus are not hard, sometimes they just don't make sense, roast beef majesty.

T.J. is Drunk

So here it goes. Mr. T.J. Rowe is not at all on the sober side of life. don't worry about it. I know i won't. (Says mr. t.j. rowe.) what it comes down to is that i have heard that some frat houses have sent home freshmen giving them a point system of hooking up. . . I personally do not agree with that system. So the systen that was sent home with them states if you have sex with a girl you get 10 points. if you get a blow job from a girl you get 5 points. (so far so good in my book). if you get a hand job you get negative 2 points. . . . . . here is where the problem comes about for me. . . . so i get sex being 10 because for some reason 10 is the best which was decided by some people long ago. i get blow jobs being 5 because bj's are awesome. I mean really who doesn't love a nice relaxing "beej" in the morning? anyway. moral of the story some asshole frat house decided that a hand job would be negative 2 points. . . guess what FUCK YOU FRAT HOUSE THAT SAID THAT! clearly any dude with a dick (gotta love alliteration) would prefer to have sex or to get blown. but even if he feels that the person giving him a hand job could do better it is still more exciting than just jerking off. Many guys claim they would rather jerk off than get a handsky from someone. My feeling is they are full of shit so long as they are in some way attracted to the individual giving the hand job. which they are if they got that close. . . moral of the story. hand job givers. please don't stop, also please don't give up. . . also please give head. . . either way i'm giving the dude a high five. not you though. not until i'm sure you washed your hands.

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New track "The Way I Like It" by Dussel Has Friends (Rich's band). Check it out and please reblog this!!

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New track “The Way I Like It”!! Another new track coming next week. All will be available on iTunes in February. In the meantime, enjoy it and paaaleaseeee!! Reblog it!

Dussel Has Friends - The Way I Like It

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Vital Information

Different Uses for Freedom

In Garner's Modern American Usage, by Bryan A. Garner, you can find eight terms derivative of the word 'freedom' and they all appear on one page: 367.

from http://avaxhome.ws

The first is the suffix "-FREE", where Garner simply draws the distinction in spelling between those '-free' words that are "established" and those that are not and denote only the absence of some quality or component usually attributed innately to the word, such as caffeine-free coke or germ-free environment (no guarantees on its physical possibility though, or whether it even is as favorable as it sounds at first, opposed to eerily, shroud-of-death-ish unnatural), and always uses a hyphen. The former "established" words are meant to denote those that are more singular in their definitions, such as the example given by Garner, "carefree," which signifies something more like 'unburdened' than 'lacking cares that should otherwise be expected'. A carefree person does lack care, most of the time, but you wouldn't necessarily expect that he wouldn't, nor would you go so far as to make that judgement having not met or interacted with him and, anyway, it's not to say that he's careless.

In the next entry it is listed in the broadest form able to be tapped, to wit, 'free', but applied in its most narrow, material sense. As in "free; for free", the latter being technically incorrect since 'free' is an adjective and if you're going to put a preposition in front of something it should be a noun, such as "nothing" (again, Garner's example). But remember what Kris Kristofferson said about freedom, that it's "just another word for nothing left to lose". And nobody cares if he/she loses nothing, because ain't nothing for free, especially not freedom (see bumperskickers). But the way Garner would put it would be to call it a "casualism", meaning, in his own words "the expression is far to common to be called an error." (Garner's descriptivist sympathies are revealed here. What that means is, believe me, something you don't care to know in full detail right now, but suffice it to say it's one of two ideological schools of thought in the linguistics academia, neither of which does anybody really ever claim but, rather, are dubbed with by other writers, because nobody sees their POV as anything but the right POV, and therefore not moniker worthy.)

Garner also accounts for the difference between 'freedom' and 'liberty', which he says has "connotative distinctions." "Freedom is the broader...term" and it "carries positive connotations" and 'liberty' is "slightly less emotive" and refers more to the "removal of restraints on specific freedoms". Except in the Declaration of Independence.

In the case of "Freedom of' vs. freedom from", both are ok, as long as you make sure not to cross the negative with positive, such as -of hunger and -from expression. As long as you got that down, feel free to attach whatever suits you as you go.

Then there's "free gift" which is a redundancy, since all gifts are given for free and, according to Garner, was used initially by advertisers, who really don't care about language anymore than a car thief cares about the car he just stole, because, apparently, their philosophy is 'why lie in one word when you can use two and get paid more for it' (my summary).

"Free rein" is spelled without the letter 'g', because it alludes to horses, and not a free kingdom through which you can roam rein-less.

If you look up the term 'freethinker', the entry prompts you to "see atheist". As in "freethinker. See atheist." However, it's snarkiness breaks down when you actually flip back to atheist, where the latter gets widdled to the former, which is really nondescript sounding, and surprising that it's even attributed directly to religion, that makes you wonder if Garner initially meant to be snarky but his conscious shrunk his balls as he fleshed it out, or not at all.

And last, but not least, the bee's knees of all these different variations on freedom, one of the broadest, most comprehensive concepts we have,- "free will" (which can also be written as one word) can be used to refer to the lofty philosophical question or a simple description of basic, meaning less action, such as getting up one day and watching TV for 14 hours while eating cereal, then Dominos, and then chips for dinner, which, let's be honest, if we're to cut through all the philosophical musings and equivocations, is what most of us ultimately do with our free will, if not a sufficient analogue.

Bryan A. Garner on lawprose.com

I'd like to go ahead and apologize to Garner and anyone else for any subtle or glaring grammar or usage errors, malapropisms, or just any cringingly irksome choices in attempting to set up this little playground for the word "freedom" but, this shit's for free, so what do you expect? And that's the most prominent problem with freedom of speech. In, admittedly, very crude terms, any jack ass can take something and completely, or just in specifica ways that vital to the thing, mess it up.

Madison wrote, "Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." Now, you could point to qualifiers such as "political", or the specifier, "faction", on which the entire statement hinges, and argue that I'm reaching a bit to connect it to the pontificating of a superficially educated dumb ass. And for that, I have nothing...I am retort-free.

...Too bad Madison didn't have a copy of Garner's book to see he was using liberty incorrectly (in his defense though, words do stretch and change through time.)

-Matt

#freedom #Garner #Garner's American Usage #Federalist #Madison #James Madison #free #liberty #freethinker #the federalist papers

-video of a quote included in the text below.

Thoughts on David Foster Wallace-10th Installment

Discussing Suicide Part 3

I wouldn't venture into the forest of trying to synthesize some meaning for suicide (or Wallace's suicide, in particular, either) out of Wallace's fiction and essays (we'll leave interviews out of this for now, for reasons that will become more obvious in a bit) if it didn't seem like a necessary, albeit trapdoor fraught, step, and won't do so without first establishing caveats. Both concerns, fortunately, can be handled nicely by this quote from an episode of Charlie Rose, from May 17th, 1996.

"I think part of the fun for me was being part of some kind of exchange between consciousnesses; a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff that we normally can't talk about...like we're sure not going to be able to talk about this stuff here..."

Which also should reveal why interviews will be disregarded. Wallace said it in during the show's second half segment, that was a panel discussion on the purpose of fiction among which included two other authors, Mark Leyner and Jonathan Franzen.

Now despite the overall attempt to view suicide with a new, less sanctimonious and horrified lens, the word 'fun' is not a word that's ever going to come anywhere near it. But if you can isolate the idea of fun from the rest of the quote (it may even be a good idea to go one step further and treat 'fun' here as a circumstantial term, exchangeable with words like 'rewarding', 'cathartic', or even 'satiating', or 'invigorating', none of which really fit well with suicide either, but are at least more thoughtful than 'fun'...perhaps 'moving' or 'compelling' would be closer...) and focus on 'a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff that we normally can't talk about', you should be able to understand why it's more than just a good idea but practically necessary to look at DFW's fiction, as well as, to a lesser, more discriminating extent, his essays (Wallace claimed he was a little foggy on the definition of this writing form in his Introduction to The Best American Essays: 2007, Deciderization 2007-a Special Report, stating "I think I personally prefer the term 'literary nonfiction'). In order to fully understand why you have to be somewhat familiar with Wallace's life (which, since you're reading this, you most likely are), important details of which will be included, or somehow or other gotten to, further on. For right now, its important to make sure, as we go ahead and look into his writing, to be aware of the influence of his major depressive disorder and suicide, with which he had his first serous struggle in college (at least in a way that can be attributed to a time line), before any of his fiction was published.

It feels as though I'm now actually beginning to talk about suicide.

-Matt

Here's a link to video of the entire May 17th episode of Charlie Rose in 1996, in case you're interested in getting a better feel for the conversation and time.[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8874820733386594323#]

Read past blogs on David Foster Wallace here which you can also get by scrolling to the bottom, where all of our recurring topics are listed and linked.

#David Foster Wallace #suicide #DFW #infinite jest #literature #charlie rose #jonathan franzen #mark leyner #consciousness

Monday's Suggestion (01-03-11)

Asobi Seksu Release New SIngle

“Trails”, the first single off of Asobi Seksu’s upcoming fourth release starts off in a wall of dissonant, bagpipe-esque noise. If this were to continue another ten seconds it would be annoying, but in its current incarnation it creates a ‘come hither’ allure that begs you to keep listening.

From there the song opens up into the sort of dream pop that has come to characterize the band’s sound. Lead singer Yuki Chikudate sings and coos over carefully layered synth and a rolling drum beat heavy on tom work and accented with single shakes of a tambourine.

Overall, there is a sort of hope and wonder to the song that recalls Metric, the XX and Chairlift. If the new record Fluorescence is full of this breed of expansive shoe-gaze, look for this album to finally push Asobi Seksu from darlings of the underground to mainstream contenders in 2011, similarly to how “Crystalised” did for the XX last year.

Asobi Seksu’s full length LP Fluorescence will be out February 15th on Polyvinyl Records, and the band will be supporting the release with a North American tour. You can download Trails for free here and check out their tour dates on the band’s myspace.

Recommended If You Like: The XX, Metric, Chairlift

#Asobi Seksu #Dream Pop #Brooklyn #Shoegaze #Indie Rock #Fluorescence #Polyvinyl Records #Trails #Yuki Chikudate #James Hanna

January 17th will be the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower's presidential farewell address in which he gave that famous warning about the "military-industrial complex", that was really more like a caveat than a straight-up beware the Ides of March style foreboding to the American public. It has been portrayed in the more commonly viewed rehashing as the latter, to up the drama. But, really, the drama is either going to be sensed or not by the viewer based on what he/she knows about history, government, and our economy, all the way up to his/her present (the distinction between 'to know' and 'to believe' is infinitesimal here and not meant to be nailed down) and the attempt at manipulation through emotional cues may work for some things, but would ultimately fizzle out.

If you don't have time to listen to the whole thing, here's a link (since I don't know how to link more than one video on Tumblr) to an, at least, very available example of the military-industrial complex stuff, with dramatics and all.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY]

Good Enough For Government

Contracts

Now, the Department of Defense announced Thursday a new roll of contracts that are worth $183,451,599 collectively.

Its divisions (because the military is all about hierarchy and 'divide and conquer') unfold as such...

Navy

The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO-$69,098,221- as a "delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement...for the procurement of integrated logistics support"

Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fort Worth, TX-$22,021,303- as a "modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price...and services in support of H-1 helicopter upgrade program"

The Boeing Co. (again), St. Louis, MO-$14,471,274- as a "modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract"

Mikel, Inc., Fall River, MA-$9,068,671- as a "cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide engineering services to Team Submarine and the PMS 425 program offices"

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Bethpage, NY-$6,582,920- as a (if you were thrown by the contract-ise above, get ready for this) "modification to a delivery order placed against a previously issued basic ordering agreement...to exercise an option for engineering, technical and sustaining services in support of Taiwan Air Force E-2C aircraft"

Air Force

Teradyne, Inc., North Reading, MA- $28,377,673- "for maintaining the B-1 automatic digital test systems and application development environmental systems" (So far only, $9,617,451 "has been obligated")

Integrated Data Services, Inc., El Segundo, CA-$10,436,911- "for the Comprehensive Cost and Requirements System, a financial program management software tool which is used by Air Force acquisition and sustainment organizations to accomplish planning and execution of program budgets" (So far, only $4,354,725 "has been obligated")

General Dynamics Advanced Information System, Minneapolis, MN-$7,832,414- to "provide a research and development program...to develop an open architecture for modular open systems architecture common back end for radio frequency..." The last ellipses covers the phrase "that conforms to interface standards" which implies that the Air Force already has the system referenced above, but that it does not meet "interface standards"; Only $230,000 "has been obligated"

Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions, Santa Maria, CA-$7,189,632- "for four adaptable multi-based land/ocean stabilized antenna systems to replace aging antenna systems"; Only $6,657,099 "has been obligated"

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency- which is, taken from the "About" page on its website, "the research and development office for the U.S. Department of Defense. DARPA’s mission is to maintain technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security. We also create technological surprise for our adversaries." which engenders more questions but foremost- What is "technological surprise" exactly?

BAE Systems National Security Solutions, Burlington, MA-$8,372,580- for a "cost plus fixed-fee contract"

It's not exactly a decisive point to make, to say that you should pay at least cursory attention to military contracts and activity, since it is the largest sector of our government (and that's to say by a lot: the most at $663.7 billion compared to the second most, which is $76.8 billion in Health and Human Services, according to the budget from 2010)...

from www.seekingalpha.com

...because it really might not be imperative for you to do the work to pay attention. It may even be overall detrimental to your life. And it might not matter one bit in the end if you had paid attention or not. Or rather, furthermore, tried to pay attention, because even if you do, it's an engrossing complicated endeavor that necessitates certain knowledge that might never even be available to you. This stuff is really hard and there is no guarantee to anyone that he/she will attain the understanding set out for or even anything compensatory to it.

But on the other hand, it's really no less a waste of time than reading a book, watching a movie or sports, dicking around, or doing a crossword puzzle, the merits of all of which could be argued.

-Matt

The info for the contracts was taken from Veterans Today's website, linked here veterenstoday.com's report on defense contracts where you can find more specifics, such as breakdowns of the locations where the work being paid for will be done.

#Department of Defense #DOD #Eisenhower #miltary industrial complex #contracts #navy #air force #darpa #gates #boeing #northrop grumman #lockheed martin

Vital Information (12-29-10)

Top 20 Albums of 2010 Summarized

Here is a summary of my 2010 Albums of the year along with all the ways you can check out each band.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs -website / iTunes

Minus the Bear - OMNI - website / iTunes

The Black Keys - Brothers - website / iTunes

Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown - website / iTunes

Glasser - The Ring -website / iTunes

Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager - website / iTunes

Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise - website / iTunes

Foals - Total Life Forever - website / iTunes

Freelance Whales - Weathervanes - website / iTunes

Kele Okereke - The Boxer - website / iTunes

MGMT - Congratulations - website / iTunes

Angie Mattson - Skeleton Arm - website / iTunes

Fences - Fences - website / iTunes

Rogue Wave - Permalight - website / iTunes

Gaslight Anthem - American Slang - website / iTunes

Yeasayer - ODD blood - website / iTunes

Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone -website / iTunes

The Naked And Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You - website / Bandcamp

Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard - website / iTunes

[The] Slowest Runner In All The World - We, Burning Giraffes - website / Bandcamp

Honorable Mention

All Grown Up - I'm Over Here - website / bandcamp

Bear Hands - Burning Bush Supper Club - website / iTunes

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - website / iTunes

Eminem - Recovery - website / iTunes

2010 Albums of The Year Part IV (albums 1-5)

2010 Albums of The Year Part III (albums 10-6)

2010 Albums of The Year Part II (albums 11-15)

2010 Albums of The Year Part 1 (Albums 20-16)

This Week's Post

Thoughts on David Foster Wallace

St. George

Yeah, so the idea of rifling back through Wallace's stories, essays, and interviews for a kind of composite, total expression of his experience with suicide and then, out of which, some complete explanation of suicide itself, is just a little too sentimental. It fits too easily into this narrative template that, stripped down, goes more or less like 'all that exists of a person after he/she is gone are what he/she left behind', which is useful in its own right and could work in many circumstances, but in this case is just too small and simple, and the opposite of robust. Applied her, it would be like being given the answer to a riddle or like an android version of true meaning.

Here's relevant a quote from Everything & More, in which the specifics are not carbon copies of DFW's, but it is obvious how they correspond-

"The cases of great mathematicians with mental illness have enormous resonance for modern pop writers and filmmakers. This has to do mostly with the writers'/directors' own prejudices and receptivities, which in turn are functions of what you could call our era's particular archetypal template. It goes without saying that these templates change over time. The Mentally Ill Mathematician seems now in some ways to be what the Knight Errant, Mortified Saint, Tortured Artist, and Mad Scientist have been for other eras: sort of our Prometheus, the one who goes to forbidden places and returns with gifts we all can use but he alone pays for. That's probably a bit overblown, at least in most cases."

And there's a footnote that comes later in the paragraph that is not attached to anything in this quote, but expands on the concept and is essential to the point I want to make-

"In modern medical terms, it's fairly clear that G.F.L.P. Cantor [who is the 'mathematician' of concern in the quote above and whom Everything & More is about] suffered from manic-depressive illness at a time when nobody knew what this was, and that his polar cycles were aggravated by professional stresses and disappointments, of which Cantor had more than his share. Of course, this makes for less interesting flap copy than Genius Driven Mad By Attempts To Grapple With ∞...Saying that ∞ drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting."

This is taken out of context, somewhat, since the statement was tangential to the text, included for the sake of setting boundaries for the reader. The point was about how to look carefully at a person's biography and what he/she is able and unable to learn from it; how, embedded in this vehicle, are untruths married to truths like conjoined twins. But if I'm wrong about what DFW meant by it, or have myself twisted its meaning, you at least now know without having to read the book on your own and somehow remember this small point made in a blog. To say that Wallace is the sum of what you can quote from him is not only wrong...it's insulting.

(aside: Can you insult someone who is not present to receive the insult and be affected by it, and could never possibly be in a position to receive or be affected by it? is a metaphysical question so I'll just leave it at, it certainly feels like it will insult someone; and wrongly too.)

-Matt

Read previous blogs on David Foster Wallace here.

from http://corvallis.libguides.com

#David foster Wallace #DFW #Infinite Jest #Everything and More

Monday's Suggestion (12-27-10)

MAD MEN

So I’ve been sick in bed for the past two days, what a way to end the year right? As a result I haven’t really had the chance to write this blog. However, in light of this I’m going to suggest what I’ve been doing with my time while sick (other than watching the Giants break my heart).

Mad Men is an AMC original program based on the Advertising Industry in the 1960′s, specifically the firm Sterling Cooper and it’s ace Creative Director turned partner Don Draper. This show is full of sexual harassment, whiskey, cigarettes and all those other descriptors that can be applied to the good ol’ American way of life in the 60s. Its captivating, funny, sexy and makes you want a drink and a smoke. What else do you need in a TV show?

I just finished Season 1 on Netflix, and other than Modern Family, this might be the most addictive show I’ve seen in a really long time. I’m late to the game (the show started in 2007), but luckily I’ve been able to get a fresh start as I haven’t watched a single episode prior to starting Season 1 in November.

I’m going to leave this post brief, as I’m going to take a nice hot shower and try to steam the crap that’s chilling in my sinuses out before I leave for first night of recording with Dussel Has Friends.

Here’s two videos that I think summarize the show well. Seriously, go get into it…

-Rich

#Mad Men #Don Draper #Sterling Cooper #AMC #television

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