Inauguration Blues

Needless to say, I wouldn't have voted for Obama if i was of voting age. I would have "thrown my vote away" on some, some, third party. (Pardon the annoying text thrown in by the video poster.) But, the day has come for Barrack Obama to be sworn into office. I watched the speech and all that, listened to the poem (man, that woman is a horrible speaker). Etc. Etc.

It's a pretty big deal-

Even though I don't think it's going to be all this change like he's talking, like all politicians talk,

It's still a big deal.

A fairly funny thing happened the other day-

I changed my facebook status (oh lord) to "Just Marino can't decide what makes him sicker; false messianism or judas-like traitors." And some (random) girl comments "they're both equally as sickening." Fine. So it didn't really add anything, but I'm not that critical of people that i would have said anything before thinking about it this second, and I'm only thinking about it because of what happened next.

Ten minutes later, she updated her status to "obama" with that little heart thing at the end that i just don't know how to do.

I guess it's not inauguration day anymore. Oh well.

The point is, it's weird for me.

See, I haven't really known too many presidents in my life time.

I'm 17, which means bush took office when i was 9.

I was old enough to know i didn't like him, but not old enough to know why.

Essentially, all of my conscious lifetime, GWB has been president-

this is, in fact, a change.

It's also feeling that the world is very different than when bush took office,

but of course-

I was nine.

Everything was different back then. That was before middle school.

Actually, I remember when the world changed.

Nine-Eleven.

That was the first major, world changing event I was old enough to grasp.

I remember it being explained to me (by my older sister) that it was "never going to be the same."

It never was.

So this is another change.

Things change.

I guess I'll carry on the tradition, and explain to a youngster somewhere:

It's never going to be the same.

The Teacha

This is the saddest world in all of the universe-

cause there's all these people.

I want to be

Just smart enough to realize I'm smarter than someone else

but not smart enough to know I'm a moron.

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Does anyone else ever wonder when old school hip hop went out of style?

I mean, fine, I understand that the genre changes, and that modern style is going to be different now than it was twenty years ago. But, they still play classic rock and roll songs, they still play pop songs from the Eighties (unfortunately) why-come the DJ on the hip hop station never gives KRS-One a spin?

How come no one listens to a tribe called quest anymore?

I don't expect to see wu-tang on the top forty charts, but perhaps 50 cent should shutup and tip his (sideways) cap to the RZA, and the people who make the genre titles should stop calling pop songs Hip Hop and R&B simply because they've got people on the mic rapping about shooting shit and having unsafe sex in dirty clubs.

It's not that I don't like anything simply because it's new. Mos def is current, Immortal technique is current. Hell, they sound current, too. They don't sound like 1988 Boogie Down Productions. They've got the new sound, heavy on the bass drum, cleaner sounding, I dig it. To me, it's not about when you're around, and what everyone around you is doing, it's a matter of what you're aiming for.

Hip-Hop never was about being rich and powerful, just as it never was about being black or white. Pop music always has been about being rich, and getting richer by producing albums which sell, instead of writing music that's good.

So, pop stations can play 50 cent 9 times a minute, once per every bullet hole he's got.

I'll keep listening to the philosopher, cause if he shot fitty once, that sucker would be dead.