Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Streaming NPR instead of typing homework

NPR did a segment on Anti-War songs in early Feb. as part of All Things Considered. Along with Sage Francis, thought provoking rapper Mr. Lif was mentioned with other musicians from different genres on the show as an example of music in popular culture that has largely gone unnoticed by the public in this time of war - in contrast to the musicians of the 1960s who topped the charts with their anti-war rhetoric.
Sage has largely remained about as small as his native state of RI in the public eye - even in his nonanti-war songs - mainly because of the unopened arms with which Clear Channel Communications welcomed his "Fuck Clear Channel Tour." Clear Channel being one of the largest communication companies in the industry, has the ability to be hostile towards a critical musician's career - lol.
They're tight with Green Day, though.
Anyway, the point of this whole post: Devolution. This is a very neat game, similar to to LIFE that utilizes such constructive criticism as "You're a dumb motherfucker" when players get an answer wrong. It's so good.

Another good NPR report was aired this past Saturday as part of the Weekend Edition - Gay in the Heartland

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