The MirrorARCHIVES: Apr 14-20.2005 Vol. 20 No. 42  
RantLine

This week: Psytrance, Fondue, gigantic T-shirts!
Plus: Intelligence of lottery ticket buyers questioned!!


“edited” by AL SOUTH
sub-edited by ROGER ARGENT

M What's up with all of these young hip hop kids wearing these oversize, gigantic, quadruple, extra-large T-shirts? First of all, they're so ugly. I hope this is not a trend that's gonna sweep the nation, because they're just dragging on the ground and they just look so dumb. I mean, picture them with a belt around their waist - it would look like a DRESS or some kind of like weird skirt, I don't know. Get back to me and let me know what it's all about. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned but it's a pretty ugly style. Peace. [BLEEP!]

M Yeah, this goes out to my club and hip hop DJs, specifically with regard to the selection of quote-unquote hip hop that I hear - that everybody hears - every night in every shitty spot. Forget it. The crap. You can't tell me that listening to Dr. Dre shit from 1999 in the year 2005 is doing anybody any good. You can't pretend that we're gonna look at Lil Jon 10 years down the road and say that was some classic shit. Beats may be hot, but how many times are we gonna hear some re-fucking-cycled crap redone, redux, remixed, exclusive bullshit, you know? Because that's what rock does. Rock repackages the same old shit time and time again - with no disrespect to rock music because some of it is great. But it's derived from rhythm and blues and there's only so many things that can be done. Hip hop has so much more room for creativity in music, to reinterpret. And just because something isn't some bling-bling motherfucking bullshit doesn't mean that it can't be hot! Because lyrics can be beyond the scope of material possession and the topic of the party at hand doesn't make it not hot. And just because you're talking about going out and getting fucked up and doing some things ON THE LOW that you wouldn't necessarily go home and brag to mom and dad about don't make you a criminal either. And if more people would just come out and do their shit and do their thing and take it easy and smoke some herb, but do it with pride and a sense of belonging and community, instead of a sense of being tougher than the next guy, needing to hear the same bullshit every single week to make them feel like they're at the party, then we could BUILD LOVE, NOT HATE. Love for thugs, love for everybody. Listen, DJs, get it straight. Playin' MOTHERFUCKING "In Da Club" for the 800th time in your three- or four-year career, come on - have a little self-respect and respect for hip hop. [BLEEP!]

M I was at the Amon Tobin show at the Corona and I still have such an erection because the girl next to me had her nipple RIPPING through her shirt. Damn, she was sexy. Peace and love. [BLEEP!]

F For the guy talking about the Bal en Blanc. I've got a suggestion - you should check out the psytrance scene. There are some very tripping parties here in Montreal and maybe you could get some info at this store called Psychonauts on Prince-Arthur. Good luck. [BLEEP!]

F To the gentleman who needs a rave to feel peace and love in his life. If you need speed and ecstasy to feel peace and love and SERENITY, you need psychological help. Please go seek it. [BLEEP!]

M To the stupid raver looking for the candy ravers - 1999's over. It all stopped at the year 2000 when they realized there was no Y2K. That's the only reason there was all that peace and love in the first place, because everyone was fucking scared shitless. Once they realized it wasn't happening, they went back to normal. You should, too. [BLEEP!]

F What is this shit at the Green Room? What's it called? I think it's Fondue? That's gotta be the lamest night - it's like every single person there could be applying for a part on The O.C. I understand if IRONY in pop music is supposed to make some kind of sense but that's gotta be taking it up a notch. I was there with a bunch of people and we were wondering if there was a way we could e-mail this DJ and tell him just how lame he is with his Whitney Houston and his bizarre view of the 1980s and the McGill crowd - seriously, man, they should be thankful that Spin magazine wrote about it because otherwise there would not be a soul there. [BLEEP!]

M This message is for the guy who was complaining that there are too many under-aged girls in the clubs he goes to. Uh, where exactly was it you said you hung out? Thanks. [BLEEP!]

F What is up with these people who buy lottery tickets and scratch NUL SI DÉCOUVERT right away to see if they've won instead of playing the game?! The whole FUN of it is scratching it and seeing if you win. Then even if you did win, if you bring it to the dépanneur, you can't get your money because you're not allowed to scratch that if you win - that's a code number under there. Today I found three lottery tickets and two of them were winners. What, these people can't read either - how to play a simple game? [BLEEP!]

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