17 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Share a good tip with us.
Submitted by TheFiercestCalm.
Pick out the biggest one in the group. Hit him first.
Show us your favorite television character.
There are many -- including Frank Burns, Fred Sanford, and Peter Griffin -- but I would say this guy rises above most. I get a little bummed when I think of what genius work this guy would've put out between today and the time that worthless, psychofuck of a bitch wife of his put a bullet in his head while he slept.
I guess I could say the same about Cobain, Jam Master Jay, River Phoenix, Jeff Buckley, and David Foster Wallace, but that's getting away from the question-answer now, isn't it?
Show us your favorite YouTube video.
Heidi sent this to me several weeks ago. I watch it maybe once a week.
Show us your favorite moment in sports.
Without a doubt, what these guys did had the fucking balls to do:
Let's clear a few things up, shall we? I first saw this image when I was in about the ninth grade. I'd read an article about what this display meant and was oddly fascinated by it. Until I was 16, I long had Olympic dreams. It was that age when a track coach told me that if I wanted to fully commit myself to training and practice -- and by "fully" he meant training out of something like "Rocky" -- he thought I stood a decent chance of throwing discus and shot at a Division I university. From there, with an undistracted regimen, who knows what could've happened. At 16 though, I said fuck a bunch of that and moved along.
But before all of that, I found a picture of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, all black gloved-out on that podium in Mexico City in 1968. I showed it to my father with great pride, who then promptly reminded me that "those fucking niggers disgraced this country with that shit." It made me appreciate them even more. The Chicken was hatched one year after this picture was taken, during a Summer of Love, but also during the summer of Charles Manson, and a warm, sunny season of aggression and ambivalence in the young people of that time, of clashes in the streets and sounds of heads being cracked. To call it "turbulent" is a glowering understatement. I was born while a generation raged, fought back and said "fuck this." I was born screaming. I haven't stopped. And I never will.
This image is not about black power, as it has long been categorized. Through articles and interviews about the 1968 Olympics and to hear either one or both of them tell it, the gesture was not about black power or black rights, rather, it was dedicated to those struggling with their own human rights. And not just in the United States, but worldwide. They took a moment devoted to self and shared it selflessly with the rest of the world, despite pending vilification and scorn, mock and ridicule, threats and promises of violence swift in pain and rich in symbolism (some guy threatened to kill Carlos' father and mail him back to him a piece at a time).
I have seen some cool shit in sports. This beats them all.
Show us something you love about Mexico.
That one of my best/oldest friend's ancestral ties start there.
Show us your favorite photo of yourself.
New Year's Eve, Detroit, 2006
Show us what you're drinking.
It's my birthday today. I am 38 and
Audio: Show us five CDs or albums that changed your life.
Submitted by redhotmomma.
Right around the seventh- or eighth-grade, when we started getting high:
Probably around sophomore or junior in high school, I show up to Glom's and he had mail-ordered this:
FLIPSIDE VINYL FANZINE vol. 2 LP
Label: Gasatanka/Enigma
Released: 1985
1. MIA "Just a Dream
2. DECRY "Island Paradise"
3. OUTPATIENTS "Backwards Explosion"
4. NAKED RAYGUN "Metastasis"
5. ROACH MOTEL "Mad Dog"
6. JFA "Out of School"
7. MASSACRE GUYS "Let's Forget"
8. VAGINA DENTATA "Golden Boys"
9. PLAIN WRAP "Magnetic Shoes"
10. DI "Johnny's Got a Problem"
11. MISFITS "Attitude"
12. NECROS "Walking the Dog"
13. C2D "Aggressive System"
14. ICONOCLAST "Domination or Destruction"
15. CHEETAH CHROME MOTHERFUCKERS "No Wordz"
16. DISORDERLY CONDUCT "How Old Are You"
17. CATATONICS "Descending in E"
18. BRAILLE PARTY "Let It Burn"
19. GERMS "Forming"
20. GKH "Dickermann"
21. AGENT ORANGE "Shakin' All Over"
This was my introduction to punk rock music. We listened to it over and over, every day, for so long. Dirty Jase would later turn us on to so much good, quality, aggressive music.
We would later find metal, which was sort of a gateway to so many things. After getting into this epic collection, it was on to Slayer and, again, thanks to Jase, the likes of hardcore in the form of The Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Minor Threat, The Accused, et. al.
This came along at just the right time, at the ripe old age of 19. I still listen to it to this day. Matter of fact, I still have the warped and faded Maxell cassette tape Jeff Weller made for me in some box in the basement.
The fifth and final spot is tough. There has been some monumental offerings here--Pearl Jam's "Ten" and the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" immediately come to mind, as well as a lot of Scorpions, Judas Priest and other back-in-the-day metal. But, in the true sense of changing one's life, I would have to go with this:
This played in the CD player while Mrs. Chicken and I had our first power makeout session in our very, very early days of dating. THAT changed my life forever, in ways I can't even begin to explain here. The other four were great, undeniably important musical bookmarks in my life. In an instant I can go back to a time and place of true friends, TRUST and unrivaled comaraderie among peers, the likes of which I've yet to see as an adult. But the Social Club? I get shivers (the good kind) just thinking about it. This CD was the soundtrack behind the best thing to ever happen to me.
Show us a logo you really love.
"The brand with the three stripes"
Audio: Share an album or song in your collection with a really strange title.
