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Far Out vs. Hot Dang, Vol. 28

Joe Warminsky — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:00:13 +0000

REVIEW OF FUNDAMENTALS: On one side are the deep thoughts, the reflections, the revelations, the oddballs, the paradoxes and the acid trips. On the other side are the conflicts, the punchlines, the flameouts, the retorts and the oh-wows. Or something like that. It's Far Out vs. Hot Dang, people and it is THE FUTURE OF D.C. CULTURE JOURNALISM.


Afropolitan / iSayWord: "What celebratory dance is more ubiquitous than the Cabbage Patch?"	"Someone told me I looked like a young Tonya Harding recently, as if 'young' would soften the blow."
'ZARDS	How Does Underage Wizards Player John Wall Get Into D.C. Nightclubs?
" 'Hipster moose' has been a good topic."	Kristen Byrne: "I'm feeling like the Kool-Aid Man. big and sweet."
"You worry about those vaccines. I worry about these 24-bit .wav files."	"He seems to skirt the problem of interpretation altogether by simply beating time and not taking any kind of stand on the content of what he is leading"
"His pterodactyl yelps may be slathered in delay here, but they’re no less bizarre"	"it gives his otherwise purebred bebop style a certain R&B volatility that pierces the gut like a switchblade"
"He's the person that I feared becoming if I had stayed in the Maryland area, working in retail, living alone, not having any friends and living a rich imaginary life."	"I don’t think go-go is what our community needs at this time."
"Suppose that Earth was invited to join the Intergalactic Congress of Planets, and its chair-being, Zinglos-Atheling, wanted to know more about our strange species. What one person in history would you choose to best represent humanity?"	"the young writers showing up in my classroom of late are of that generation that has always been told they are whatever they want to be . . . you know, with helicopter parents who send them to famous novelist summer camp the moment they put crayon to paper"
"It's not just the panic of characters encountering rising water ... it's also the sense of stillness as you creep through the theater's haunted house installation"	Sarah Godfrey: "Access Hollywood airing segment on the difficulties of recreating a tsunami on a movie set. Who thought that shit was a good idea?"

Far Out vs. Hot Dang, Vol. 16

Joe Warminsky — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:08:09 +0000

Gentle readers, today Far Out vs. Hot Dang is here to warn you not to reflect too much upon 2010. Nostalgia generally is for suckers. You'll thank us for saying it now, rather than three weeks from now. And while you're striving to avoid suckerishness, we've got the usual dose of cool-ish shit and hot-ish shit.


DEAR ZOMBIES: PLEASE UNITE AND EAT THE SANTAS. THANK YOU.	"That shit was so traumatic that I couldn't play 'Legend of Zelda' for like 3-5 days"
"some have accused me of being a card-carrying member of the John Birch Society, while others think I'm somewhere to the left of Karl Marx"	"Starr’s push-polling e-mail offered a carrot to those who are sympathetic to her agenda as well as a stick to those who might prefer not to respond."
"Yes, all those tired cliches you've heard about how jazz bridges the gaps and brings people together turn out to be true."	Yet another example of the fine line between "hot dang" and "ew, yo"
The toughest job that Sarah Godfrey ever loved	Judah: "I wonder if bammas in other cities ride around with christmas ornaments on the front of their cars like DC, MD and VA folks"
“It definitely got kicked in the ass after Shat Shorts.”	"It's definitely gay-orientated and it can get kind of gross.''
Jayson Werth greets Teddy	"I figured we should all live the Albert Haynesworth lifestyle and see how we feel the next day"
"the kitsch colors and swirling lines lift a mountain view into magical other-wordliness"	"I kind of resisted musicals forever, because everyone loves musicals, you know what I mean?"
"The lyrics differ – a little – but the melody of these dirges doesn't change: existential angst gliding along one spare, cool paragraph after another, like a Giacometti statue strutting out of the Iowa Writers' Workshop."	Jessica Hollingshead: "Spent $7,000 on Rare Books today = job well done. I wish I got kudos in my personal life for spending so much money."
"When it comes to pungent, sex-drenched, nekkidness-obsessed theatrical tomfoolery that often turns out to have an actual point, nobody has ever done it better than Cherry Red Productions"	"She points to her breasts with rehearsed self-pity."
Marcus Dowling: " 'Yep, I'd still have sex with Grace Jones.' – Me to a friend."	"We defintely wanted to show the condoms."

DMV Hip Hop Round-up

PJ Urquilla — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:10:20 +0000

New Wale Single, DC Graffiti, DMV Awards, Lyriciss and more!

Wale is kicking his 2009 project plan into lightspeed this week-launching what looks like the album release campaign. His mixtape with 9th Wonder drops tomorrow, the lead single Chillin drops on Friday, he'll be down at Winter Music Conference later this month and hitting the college circuit the whole time. Oh, and he just caught his first hockey game. All you aspiring rappers take note-Wale's interactive marketing strategy is sick. Don't think you're going to twitter your way into web 2.0 marketing synergy like that. Double bonus-you get major media press (XXL, The Source, Spin, Vibe, ETC) in the summer when you send out press-releases in the spring.

On Wednesday there will be a double feature of DC Graffiti Documentaries held by Words Beats and Life-a dope DC non-profit that does hip hop arts and education work. I heard both these flicks are hot-check em out!.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:30pm – 11:30pm
Words Beats & Life Headquarters (St. Stephen's Church)
1525 Newton St. N.W.

BORF! by Paris Bustillos – 9:45 p.m. (running time-26 min.)

CHOCOLATE CITY BURNING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF "DOT-COM" by Apoxy One 0:15 p.m. (running time-54 min.)

This event is free. Donations welcome.

DOUBLE BONUS: Asad ULTRA Walker has a dope post over at his blog about DC Go-Go Graffiti history!

The DMV Entertainment and Music Awards (warning – site with totally annoying autoplaying music) were recently announced – check the nominees here. Shoutouts to Sarah Godfrey for getting nominated for "Most Supportive Media Person." Bigups to all nominees and best of luck to everyone! IT'S AN HONOR TO BE NOMINATED. YOU COULD PUT IT ON YOUR MANTLE.

Overall, the award nominees where mostly what I expected: In general the usual suspects and a bunch of people I hadn't yet heard of. In the future I hope they can make these awards a little more representative of who is really making noise on the scene and who just has a good e-team voting for them to get an award...

Ra the MC will be performing at the DMV awards – check out this video including some of her performance at Jamming Java. And yeah, what do you know about her DJ Premier produced track? I mean, what other MC from DC has a Primo beat? Check her myspace for a stream of "Anything You Like".

Lyriciss has a new mixtape "The Day Job" (z-share link) and a new video for his single "Go Hard" featuring XO and Pro'Verb. The kid is nice and has been putting in mega-work overtime on his fast-rising career. I found myself in a deep head-nod while listening, smirking at his punchlines. Rookie of the year!

T.E.F.L.O.N sent me this exclusive freestyle over XO's Realmatic instrumental by BKS. It's dope. I love that beat and have been spitting over it the lil instrumental break at the end all week.

Whats good everyone, I know i'm late on a drop this month so I wanted to hit everyone with a quickie for right now... Here's a little something i did over a track off of an upcoming DC artist named X.O.'s album called "Realmatic". Go google it, download, support it, etc.. It's produced by Best Kept Secret. Hit me with some feedback, I got alot of shit in store for when it warms up outside.

"REALMATIC FREESTYLE"

http://www.zshare.net/audio/571392322033edbd/