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Linkthink 04-16-08
Don’t expect these too often…but for today, I feel like sharing lots of things.
Nerddom
LCD Games - Prehistoric Edition :: Youtube
Really frickin cool compendium of very old-school games.
Politics
Barack OBollywood :: Ethan Zuckerman
This is way awesome. Just…just watch it.
Mike Gravel - Rock :: Ethan Zuckerman (Good day at Berkman, apparently)
Mike Gravel, ex-presidential candidate, stares down the camera and then drops a rock into a lake. There are no words for this level of crazy.
Dancehall
Mariah Carey ft. Damian Marley - Cruise Control :: from Yawd From Abroad
Con: Damian Marley, you are so talented and you’ve made so many good songs, so why do you keep collabing with crazy U.S. has-beens divas? Pro: Mariah Carey says “ting”–epic lulz. Hot mess.
Badman Commandments (and Vol. 2) :: Heatwave
Gabriel Heatwave has listened to hundreds of dancehall tracks to collect all the instructions on being a good badman. My favorite: “Badman don’t drink Snapple.”
Mavado featured in GTA IV ad :: HearingTest
Apparently, Rockstar loves Mavado’s music and he’s recording some tracks just for the game. Anywayyyyyy
Political Dancehall
DJ Green Lantern - We Need Barack ft. Mavado & Barack Obama :: Wayne&Wax (the linkthink champion)
Mavado redubs his On the Rock for Barack…!?!
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Identity Pocket Picking
So this is no *really* big deal, but…someone (I have no idea who!) commented on another blog using this blog as the URL, making it seem like I commented. I wouldn’t be upset, but the comment was kind of trifling and I don’t want to be associated with that crap…
Whoever it is looks like they go to Harvard and possibly knows me? The name they used was ChristinaCiao. I’m not upset, but I am annoyed. Don’t do it again, whoever you are. If you have the balls to be trolling on other blogs, at least be proud enough to own up to it.
Readers: Has this happened to any of you? How’d you deal with it?
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YardMess 2008
In our efforts to encompass the diverse interests of the student body (are they finally admitting Harvard isn’t ONLY white suburban kids??) and reach out to every part of our community, we have decided to feature not one, but TWO artists, at this year’s big event. For Yardfest 2008, the CEB and the HCC are excited to bring together two impressive and engaging acts: Gavin DeGraw and the Wu-Tang Clan.
Gavin DeGraw is a rare blend in the music industry; a talented singer-songwriter with a pop-rock sound (Yep, sounds really rare) and soulful flavor, DeGraw’s music has received international recognition for its energy, emotional range, and real inspirational lyrics. His songs include “I Don’t Want To Be” (the theme song to the hit TV show “One Tree Hill”), “Chariot”, “Follow Through”, and more. His self-titled second studio album will be released this year, and its title track, “In Love With A Girl”, has already received critical praise.
The Wu-Tang Clan has proved itself as the most revolutionary hip-hop/rap group of the 90s. (I don’t understand how this is even in the same page as this crap about Gavin DeGraw. It’s almost like Harvard is saying the two of them are on the same level? This is false.) The original nine members are U-God, RZA, Raekwon, Ol’ Dirty Bastard (RIP 2004), Method Man, Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck, GZA/Genius, and Ghostface. The group’s 1993 debut album, “Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers)” showed their ability to mix different flavors of music into a hardcore and highly energetic sound. A multitude of solo projects and spin-off groups have found success in its following. The Wu-Tang Clan’s songs include “Protect Ya Neck”, “C.R.E.A.M.”, and “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit” (Did we really just censor the song title? BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING TO PERFORM HERE).
I go to a crazy school. This whole thing is just so…bizarre. And the detail they forgot to mention? The Wu-Tang Clan opens for Gavin DeGraw. WTF?! There are like 8 of them, and I don’t think Gavin has a song called “Gavin DeGraw Ain’t Nuthin ta Fuck Wit.”
At least it’s not Third Eye Blind–sucks to be you, MIT.
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I really shouldn’t be blogging right now (6 more pages of papers to write what?!), but I really felt like I had to share this article. My own nationalistic feelings about my homeland, uh, diminished a lot over the last few years, especially due to my work in the summer of 2006 with the Open Net Initiative. I’ve gotten in some pretty ugly debates over the Chinese Students Association’s listserv at Harvard (really the only occasion in which I participate in the organization at all!), often on the anti-nationalist side. But when it comes to the 2008 Olympics, I can’t help but disagree with the common opinion among most of the liberal friends and academics I really respect.
I just don’t think boycotting, at least the way people are currently talking about it, is the answer at all.
Rebecca MacKinnon, the always-amazing former CNN bureau chief in Beijing who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting through Berkman, seems to think the same thing, and I’m sure her reaction is much more thought out than mine. She’s been posting a series of blog posts and news articles on her daily linkthink that all point to various aspects of this, and a lot of them are really worth reading (not to mention they make me feel a lot less insecure/guilty about my initial reaction to the liberal reaction!) Unfortunately, I’ve only been skimming through them lately, which is why I initially missed this article.
Why I will Carry the Olympic Torch is by a Chinese-American lesbian feminist living in San Francisco, and I can’t agree with it more.
“Many of my conversations were with elderly survivors of civil war and revolution who have endured immense human suffering, from deprivation and humiliation to torture and death. Almost every one of them had family members or friends who had committed suicide before or during the Cultural Revolution that ended three decades ago. Yet, nearly all told me that they believe China is changing for the better and they are hopeful that Chinese society will continue to become more open.”
Hope. That’s the keyword here that’s causing this rift. For many Chinese nationals, this Olympics is an event about hope–hope that China will become a better country not just economically, but as a nation progressing in all ways. The generation that is currently in power, the Chinese baby-boom generation, has almost certainly lived through the Cultural Revolution and the cultural memory of the Japanese occupation and the Chinese civil war are fresh in the minds of the people as well. The frustration and anger that many of the Chinese bloggers have with the American portrayal of the situation is, I think, one of a child that has already improved his grades from an F to a B- but is still being admonished for not being good enough. And yes, I definitely agree that China is still failing at many things (sometimes spectacularly), but if the Western world doesn’t give it a pat on the back to encourage this direction of change, I’m worried that there will be some kind of reversion out of resentment rather than an increased drive to improve.
If you disagree, I’d love to know. But I think that I, too, would proudly carry the Olympic torch if I were given the chance.
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