"Folks get down in the sunshine." -
Roy Ayers, Everybody Loves the Sunshine (The Best of Roy Ayers)
Best war coverage in my mind right now is
MTV's work. And I'm not just saying that because I'm a company man. The news channels are all about conjecture and bullshit while
Sway and
Gideon and
Ian and the rest are out there talking to Americans to see what they feel, what they think, how they livin'. Watched Sway talk to Black folks at Howard and on the streets here in Los Angeles. The college students all noted that most Blacks don't consider this there war because the faces in our government don't look like them. That the interests of those in office can't possibly be the same as their own. Every high school kid talked about education and housing and 60 billion dollars being used better.
Umm, yeah.
I just feel like we're the 800 lb. gorilla unnecessarily throwing our weight around. Major news outlets keep presenting this as a very humane war effort. Maybe so. It's definitely better than dropping bombs
(word to your moms, I got my rhymes than the bibles got psalms) but, you know, we're not fighting with
milk and cookies (via
jessica).
Round up your Iraqis.
Kick out your Iraqis.
Whatever. I'm mostly just ignoring it. I'm watching
birthday presents and
basketball games and
playboy tv and
candida royalle movies. And eating lots of mac and cheese and chicken wings from
Whole Foods. And listening to music that makes me
smile and
bounce.
Is this all over the place rambling? Probably but I don't care.
The most interesting thing said in all of
Scratch was said by
Babu. He notes that DJ culture in the U.S. is the only place in the media in which Filipinos shine, it's the only place where there are Filipino stars. And I was racking my brain trying to think of anybody with Pinoy power that wasn't in hip hop or on the show I work on and couldn't think of it. Who else in popular culture is flip besides Babu,
Qbert,
Ruthie,
Melissa, and
Lori?
Love that Lumpia!