Sorry I haven't been too active here lately. So rest assured that it is never forgotten, and shall only further develop in the future.
In the meantime, cheers!
And for something to post, here's some drunken Friday night's posting over at Ace of Spades HQ.
412 Well Holy fuck, eh? We made it to another Friday night, heh! Been a helluva week, great and hard. Like life.
Quick funny that made my barkeep laugh. Our local tavern (where he barkeeps) stocks a smaller amount of my favourite brew (Carling Lager, a discount beer the reason which I first bought it for, but since have come to favour over any other, even premium domsetic or imported - Carling is my home). There's only a few local regulars who regale it, but my dear and effervescent mother-in-law, being the good Christian servant she is, asks me a couple of weeks ago what my fave beer is, as they usually drink Labatt Lite. Naturally, I begin to extole the virtues of Carling and how I first stumbled upon it as a discount beer, but its high quality won me over quickly, and I now buy nothing else, even flush with payday moneys.
So I buy my pre-Friday Wednesday night 12 of beer and ask Terry the barkeep how many they have left. Only 2 he says, somebody other than regular bought one of them yesterday. It was my Mother-in-law buying one of my last cases to make me happy, depriving me of my holiday's second-next.
Mother fucker do I digress. Anyone else wearing their Modern Drunkard Fez? Been meaning to work on my blog some more, but... shmamina shmamina...
It's okay that I'm already fucked up. It's only 2:30 Friday night and I'm on holidays for the next 10 days!
Got a few things down from our evening together, mother fucker, I have not debated, or waited to speak, or laughed, so hard in a few fucking years!
My wife somehow asked me after work today about people who I've punched in my life. I thought, smiled, drank deep, and I said to my wife the only people I have punched repeatedly at once, are the two mother fuckers coming over here this evening.
Fuck... been that long for us mother-fuckers... joking about shit and shat, shat and shit... 20 fucking years we mix together in a few hours once or twice a times a year...
Been a year at least since the us of all of us had been having drinks to the degree that they call each of us.
All o y'all here post way too fucking fast for a Drunkard like me... but wow... yeah... I'm gonna run for Mayor of Boozetown...
My Friday pay-grade, after work, is... loving the blessings... cheers...
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415 Hear ya jaleach - our second last, being our 5th annual Halloween Party, was chugging the last of the Wild Turkey and assaulting my buddy's Wiser's Rye afterwards. Threatening murder on each of our esteemed, yet drunken guests, clearly reminded me why whiskey is not for everybody, specially me.
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421 Fucking Canadian East Coast Hip Hop http://tinyurl.com/o9sj42 dat's some nice shit. Somthing you can listen to a coupla tiimes in a row...
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 03:32 AM (yqnD8)
422
Fucking Canadian East Coast Hip Hop
It's funny listening to that. A song about weed. Back in the 1980s I was the biggest smoker. Dropped a ton of acid, too. Smoked and dropped for fucking years. Now I'm an ultraconservative. To the right of our beloved Hun, Attila. My old dope smoking buddies wouldn't recognize me. Well, they might right after I ordered their execution!
Posted by: jaleach at June 27, 2009 03:38 AM (gHrZU)
423 Yes, Yes, that is Sparks, I hearda that. Heh, a 6%, nice. I pared mine back to 4.9% Carling it helps me drink a few days in a row if I need to. Aww, I'm just having fun on my waves now... that balancing act of smoke and drinnk, green and brown, clear and amber all saluting at once.
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 03:42 AM (yqnD8)
424 Yes, my transformation has been a ... journey as well. My Damascus Road came at, ... phew, wow, 95 after a long journey through darkness and witchcraft till Nazi-ism, till, hallelujah, Christ got through to me.
Now I have Blood and scars behind me, I move forward everyday. My life is fulfilled beyond what I previously ever imagined.
The Puritans called Beer, "God's Good Creature". Aye, ....
God bless us, and God bless Ace...
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 03:57 AM
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425 Too much information, please feel free to ignore anything I might be saying...
Great tip, btw, take out a 20% volume of your bong and replace it with blue mouthwash. The menthol just cools your lungs as you smoke...
Mmmm....
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Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 04:01 AM
426 No, don't ignore anything I have to say. Afford me merely the grace I have been blessed enough to see.
Cheers!
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 04:12 AM
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427 Internationalism 101. Graduating student, with honors, Barry Obama, Kenya.
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 04:16 AM
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428 PSALM 69: 22 Let their table become a asnare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Cap & trade? More like snare & trap. They all have stood and voted. It is uneven balances and the Lord tells us He doesn't like that.
Fuck 'em and God bless 'em.
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 05:36 AM
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437 Some of y'all know I'm Canadian, and you might kinda know what our government is like up here.
BUT HOLY FUCK BOYS!!!
It ain't like that in Canada! You now have a bona fide COMMUNIST in charge! Even fucking Pierre Trudeau wasn't as much of a rabid socialist as you saps have as your Commander-in-Chief.
WHAT the FUCK happened. I mean, this is like, "Oh my Lord" shit going on. It's done gone from typical US stuff, to biblical scary shit in half a fucking year.
But hey, welcome all yer asses up here, we're now one of the last top three Western countries in the world.
How about a huge influx of white Christians who've experienced tyranny and freedom in the realms of Eastern Europe? Why are their doors not WIDE open?
And sure as fuck we're the only serious Western nation in Israel's camp. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you, sayeth our God.
Ya'll fuckers better clean house, one way, or another liberty tree other, in ought 10, or the subversion of 232 years of attacks againt the Blessed Republic will finally have won out.
So yes, may the Lord God bless, keep, and protect us, and shine Himself upon us. But we have to shine that light in everywhere we go and in everything we do. And fight the darkness wherever it might be seen.
To quote from an episode of Disorderly Conduct where the perpatrator was being detained in a police car against his adamant will, and upon the refusal of his strigent requests to be released, and the threat of his physical attempt to escape the backseat, told the police officers of his intent to smash-out the rear side window with his head, and upon their refusal to comply with the citizen's rights of refusal to be incarcerated, he proudly proclaimed the executions of his stated intent, "HERE WE GO!"
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 10:22 AM
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438 "HERE, WE, GO!"
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 10:46 AM
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369 {makes hand gesture}
Bacon! big fucking deal!
What about Israel? Pray for her everyday.
Did ya know that pig shit and pig fat is our secret weapon aginst the baddies?
Save yer bacon grease and use it as a weapon when they come for you...
A Euro-continent conquered by them, and here they fucking come. And we worry about illegals from Catholic countries. Fuck, when it comes, look at the UK, it's coming, y'all be blessed to fight with ANYONE Latino.
But us conservatives at Ace o Spades are so nice, we'd never say that ONE religion is teh problem.
Ultimately, in the end, you all know that's what it is gonna come down to...
Who are you blessings? Israel, or Islam? Fucking evil dipshit c*@t from corrupt Chicago, muzzie schools in Pakistan when it was illegal to go there, teh One went to further his Koran studies. Raised on the Koran, odds on him still at able to recite the Blood Verses?
The Tree of Liberty is shrieking for thee.
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379 Us stupid, vain bastards. Is this our life? A few will come down to one.
Sorry, but still, send like one fucking email today. Just one to a Jew, Christian, or anyone (everyone) assaulted by their Taqwa.
And just pray. Jonah pleaded for love and freedom's sake.
Okay, goodnight for real ...
Posted by: The Drunken Conservative at June 27, 2009 02:20 PM
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
From a long-weekend Friday
' Ello then, (king-size would be the right length right now, motherfucker.), and 'ere we are. It's already quite a weekend, and it's Friday night only 2 am on a "summer hours" long week-end. This might be a little disjointed as I'm fairly drunk right now.
But, ah yes, what do we hold yet dear? That is to say, enough of us to remember what trust in government inevitably brings. Enslavement.
Tell me how it is that the mantra of "never again" was so quick to follow anyone's lips, yet now, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 years ago, the lesson of not repeating mistakes has been entirely sacrificed on the altar of apology, appeasement, and acquiescence.
Yeah, that's right, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, Khrushchev, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Yasar Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Il-Sung... to mention JUST a FEW motherfucking socialists. They've all been so peaceful and beneficial to the cause of humanity and freedom.
But wait, how exactly did ANY of that Socialism work out then, eh? Remind me. Was it the hundred million or two tortured and killed so that the "ones who know better" can take over the government, business, and education so that it's run "properly". No society has ever benefited from The suppression of freedom, the takeover of industry, this is fucking Communism.
However, a few nations remain, most notably Israel. Stalwartly defiant in the midst of continual threats and calls for its GENOCIDE. Fucking Hitlers and Chamberlains have again risen to the fore.
Our alcohol-blessed Churchill is stirring, somewhere. Let us pray for him, or her, and us all.
Yeah, Socialism, never been tried before, eh? Obama will make socialism better!
As his previous job as a community fund-raiser he's learned so much in how to foment, anger, and raise the rabble of the crowds to agitate for his beliefs.
Who was it who said that "a Communist is nothing but a Socialist in a violent hurry."
Freedom and Free Enterprise are the God given attributes of all Judeo-Christianity has fertilized and fought for through the Millenia.
And the battle wages still, from enemies within, and without.
Remember, there is the ONE common enemy who will never cease or stop till all others are subjugated to their 7th Century beliefs, the world over.
But, those fighting for goodness and truth and light are far more than the enemy would have us know. Stand up, look about, and fight.
God bless us everyone.
But, let our hearts not be troubled, now or ever. Just keep fighting the good fight in the arena, stadium, couch, or chair, wherever it is that God has put you on His good Earth.
Anyway, here's a little Friday night blessing...
To all, to each, a fair week-end,
with worries none,
and pleasures many.
Cheers!
But, ah yes, what do we hold yet dear? That is to say, enough of us to remember what trust in government inevitably brings. Enslavement.
Tell me how it is that the mantra of "never again" was so quick to follow anyone's lips, yet now, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 years ago, the lesson of not repeating mistakes has been entirely sacrificed on the altar of apology, appeasement, and acquiescence.
Yeah, that's right, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Tse-Tung, Khrushchev, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Yasar Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim Il-Sung... to mention JUST a FEW motherfucking socialists. They've all been so peaceful and beneficial to the cause of humanity and freedom.
But wait, how exactly did ANY of that Socialism work out then, eh? Remind me. Was it the hundred million or two tortured and killed so that the "ones who know better" can take over the government, business, and education so that it's run "properly". No society has ever benefited from The suppression of freedom, the takeover of industry, this is fucking Communism.
However, a few nations remain, most notably Israel. Stalwartly defiant in the midst of continual threats and calls for its GENOCIDE. Fucking Hitlers and Chamberlains have again risen to the fore.
Our alcohol-blessed Churchill is stirring, somewhere. Let us pray for him, or her, and us all.
Yeah, Socialism, never been tried before, eh? Obama will make socialism better!
As his previous job as a community fund-raiser he's learned so much in how to foment, anger, and raise the rabble of the crowds to agitate for his beliefs.
Who was it who said that "a Communist is nothing but a Socialist in a violent hurry."
Freedom and Free Enterprise are the God given attributes of all Judeo-Christianity has fertilized and fought for through the Millenia.
And the battle wages still, from enemies within, and without.
Remember, there is the ONE common enemy who will never cease or stop till all others are subjugated to their 7th Century beliefs, the world over.
But, those fighting for goodness and truth and light are far more than the enemy would have us know. Stand up, look about, and fight.
God bless us everyone.
But, let our hearts not be troubled, now or ever. Just keep fighting the good fight in the arena, stadium, couch, or chair, wherever it is that God has put you on His good Earth.
Anyway, here's a little Friday night blessing...
To all, to each, a fair week-end,
with worries none,
and pleasures many.
Cheers!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
To Ace, May long
Long weekend in Canada, eh! Saturday morning Round 2 = woo-hoo!
It's Victoria Day on Monday, a National Holiday. Every good Canadian is at least getting drunk a coupla times this weekend.
Oh yeah, we also have a Conservative government. And a balanced budget. And we're actually paying down our debt with each fucking budget.
You know how good it feels when you're putting money on your credit card debt and you see that huge ass balance actually going down? That's Canada.
You know how shitty it feels when you've run up your credit card with stupid shit like that box of fudge from Moose Jaw and that pirate shot-glass from Florida and all that other shit in between? And you're maxed out on 4 of 5 of your cards and you don't know what the fuck to do cuz you're gonna be paying for those Wal-Mart trips forever. That's America.
Certified 52% stupid.
It's Victoria Day on Monday, a National Holiday. Every good Canadian is at least getting drunk a coupla times this weekend.
Oh yeah, we also have a Conservative government. And a balanced budget. And we're actually paying down our debt with each fucking budget.
You know how good it feels when you're putting money on your credit card debt and you see that huge ass balance actually going down? That's Canada.
You know how shitty it feels when you've run up your credit card with stupid shit like that box of fudge from Moose Jaw and that pirate shot-glass from Florida and all that other shit in between? And you're maxed out on 4 of 5 of your cards and you don't know what the fuck to do cuz you're gonna be paying for those Wal-Mart trips forever. That's America.
Certified 52% stupid.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
May has come...
May comes, and fills me with many blessings. So much pain, so many tears, so much blood as a child I had spilt. But so much it's brought. Oh, how winds of May have blown so mightily. Healed, healing, now still, growing, remembering, cheers-ing.
Hallelujah. What more to say. Hallelujah! What was it King David wrote on the sides of some of his Psalms... Selah!
Ah, the joy and merriness to abound in having a drink with him, eh? He knew about the struggles in life, about how important it was to maintain the path of right regardless of how bad you might fuck up. About how you ever strive to walk with God in your life. About how each scar all over your body tells a tale of how He has been there with you. Thirty years of scars and still so much of a tapestry to weave.
Cheers and God's blessings to one and all!
But my buddy the Aztec, well, I miss him dearly. Too long since he's graced us with his presence, though barely over a month ago. He's one of those guys who'll always be there for you no matter any of life's circumstance, even if you usually only see him 5 or 6 times a year. Can't wait to sit on the deck, fire going in the stone pit below us, graced by The Tragically Hip, Pink Floyd, a few specials tunes by the Doors, and every melody we can't wait to indulge and share.
Speaking, laughing, freely, we represent liberty, its brothers-step, walking side by side to our own drummer, though never forsaking each the other.
And yes, as Tiny Tim said vitally, "God bless us everyone!"
With cheers and blessings,
A Countryman
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Hallelujah. What more to say. Hallelujah! What was it King David wrote on the sides of some of his Psalms... Selah!
Ah, the joy and merriness to abound in having a drink with him, eh? He knew about the struggles in life, about how important it was to maintain the path of right regardless of how bad you might fuck up. About how you ever strive to walk with God in your life. About how each scar all over your body tells a tale of how He has been there with you. Thirty years of scars and still so much of a tapestry to weave.
Cheers and God's blessings to one and all!
But my buddy the Aztec, well, I miss him dearly. Too long since he's graced us with his presence, though barely over a month ago. He's one of those guys who'll always be there for you no matter any of life's circumstance, even if you usually only see him 5 or 6 times a year. Can't wait to sit on the deck, fire going in the stone pit below us, graced by The Tragically Hip, Pink Floyd, a few specials tunes by the Doors, and every melody we can't wait to indulge and share.
Speaking, laughing, freely, we represent liberty, its brothers-step, walking side by side to our own drummer, though never forsaking each the other.
And yes, as Tiny Tim said vitally, "God bless us everyone!"
With cheers and blessings,
A Countryman
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Wasn't gonna post here drunk 001b
From a comment over at Ace of Spades....
Why shan't we import the Irish and Scots and Germans into an emptying Detroit for instance?
It's, ahem, fucking worked before you know, eh?
I only even saw on the mo-foing CBC how to buy a real, live great house for two thousand dollars there. Only 900 dollars for a new family house. Why aren't Micks'a' Thousand coming here?
I didn't know Detroit had 2 million people what, twenty years ago?
And now it's down to 800 thousand people. A multi-million people city is turning into a
ghost-city.
From within. Fucking Zombie City Room. In the Dead of Night. Bring us again those hungry and weary and yearning for liberty masses from those who withstood at the Gates of Vienna.
Let it become New Amstercastle.
Some, somewhere, together, all of us believers and lovers of liberty, must unite against the tyrannies encircling the globes above and below the Earth.
A thirsty, starving Republic needs better food than the fodder Democracy tosses it into the troughs of the continuing corruption of certain too old Districts.
Funny though, I've more than once read of capital ideas in Richmond. (Cool how Louis Riel liked to play Cribbage. Lower Fort Garry Museum is an excellent place to recall Manitoba's unique heritage of liberty and its defense thereof .)
Yes, actually, we've got our martyr here at least.
He's a Christian. Half-white, half-Indian. Louis Riel. Got fucking hanged by our Ottawa government. Here in Manitoba. Fucking Federalists. Fuck them and the lengths of federalist papers they enforce us to sign.
But, perseverance is required.
Ha ha, for only then, if only, they Arose and
Slew the Dragon that had accosted them from
over a thousand years ago.
And Canada has Dehli too - it is not New here. They too have stood their stands.
Unstoppable when we unite. Hope prays for our deliverance.
And, to quote fucking Journey already, dammit, "Don't stop believing, don't stop
believing..."
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Dude, go to bed already. It's not like it's actual Ambrosia bottled...
Why shan't we import the Irish and Scots and Germans into an emptying Detroit for instance?
It's, ahem, fucking worked before you know, eh?
I only even saw on the mo-foing CBC how to buy a real, live great house for two thousand dollars there. Only 900 dollars for a new family house. Why aren't Micks'a' Thousand coming here?
I didn't know Detroit had 2 million people what, twenty years ago?
And now it's down to 800 thousand people. A multi-million people city is turning into a
ghost-city.
From within. Fucking Zombie City Room. In the Dead of Night. Bring us again those hungry and weary and yearning for liberty masses from those who withstood at the Gates of Vienna.
Let it become New Amstercastle.
Some, somewhere, together, all of us believers and lovers of liberty, must unite against the tyrannies encircling the globes above and below the Earth.
A thirsty, starving Republic needs better food than the fodder Democracy tosses it into the troughs of the continuing corruption of certain too old Districts.
Funny though, I've more than once read of capital ideas in Richmond. (Cool how Louis Riel liked to play Cribbage. Lower Fort Garry Museum is an excellent place to recall Manitoba's unique heritage of liberty and its defense thereof .)
Yes, actually, we've got our martyr here at least.
He's a Christian. Half-white, half-Indian. Louis Riel. Got fucking hanged by our Ottawa government. Here in Manitoba. Fucking Federalists. Fuck them and the lengths of federalist papers they enforce us to sign.
But, perseverance is required.
Ha ha, for only then, if only, they Arose and
Slew the Dragon that had accosted them from
over a thousand years ago.
And Canada has Dehli too - it is not New here. They too have stood their stands.
Unstoppable when we unite. Hope prays for our deliverance.
And, to quote fucking Journey already, dammit, "Don't stop believing, don't stop
believing..."
**********
Dude, go to bed already. It's not like it's actual Ambrosia bottled...
Wasn't gonna post here drunk 001a
My dear darling wife and I went to a wedding today. It was for a beautiful couple who "outstands" in our community's circles too.
The reason? Because of their friendship, adoration, and smiling love.
And this, dearest all, this love and dearest happiness is to be, can't help but be, further shone.
Oh yes, there's the three couples who are shining now.
These cats who everybody notices, and sees what love should be like. That's the fuckin' representin' goin' on.
Oh, and that the people can make it without government mandating their futures.
Free enterprise holds onto freedom tighter, deeper, further, longer, than the best of any government ever has.
Let freedom reign!
The reason? Because of their friendship, adoration, and smiling love.
And this, dearest all, this love and dearest happiness is to be, can't help but be, further shone.
Oh yes, there's the three couples who are shining now.
These cats who everybody notices, and sees what love should be like. That's the fuckin' representin' goin' on.
Oh, and that the people can make it without government mandating their futures.
Free enterprise holds onto freedom tighter, deeper, further, longer, than the best of any government ever has.
Let freedom reign!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
A positive word about hip-hop
As there is with all music, there's different types of hip-hop. Some is ugly and disdainful. Some is sad and scary. But some hip-hop is uplifting and actually quite filled with traditional values.
When I'm in the mood for that kinda beat, that's the hip-hop I listen to, and it can actually elevate and inspire, and even solidify godly foundations.
I find a lot of that in Latino hip-hop especially. (Plus I've always had a thing for that Latin brass horn kinda sound that you find in some of this music.) There's ideas about monogamous love, and not misogynistic sexual prowess. About the desire to make your girlfriend a wife, about family, and loyalty, about God and community, about enjoying the blessings of life.
Now not every line in every song like that will be a perfect reflection of all things good and pure, and there's often a lot of rough language, and some, ahem, "drug use" and things like that, but I don't like to throw out the proverbial baby, so I try not to let that dissuade me from gleaning the good things out of life. (Who was it who said about the poem actually being what the reader gets from it?)
So yes, you have to exercise your powers of discretion and conscience, because certainly not all hip-hop is beneficent, or uplifting, and you have to search it out to find it, just like anything in life.
But, that all said, some favourite hip-hop artists with tunes that echo these ideals (or are just a lot of fun to listen to) would be, Lil Rob's Neighborhood Music, Just One Of Your Kisses, Can We Ride (one of the tunes my darling wife and I shared with the the town on our Wedding Drive), Summer Nights, Barely Getting By, and Drinking On My Driveway. (Drinking On My Driveway, fucking love that song! See, there's the ideas of liberty and private property and freedom and kinship and pride of tradition and value of humour, and much more, all wrapped up in a fun and alcohol-blessed motif.)
Lil Menace has a coupla songs I like to put in my playlist too. There's Throw Up Your Hood (I was cruising through the neigbourhoods last summer in my beautiful black Buick with that tune pumping, and as I got about half a block from the turn I was going to take, I noticed a couple of kids playing on the corner yard. The one boy, guess he musta been about 10, was watching my car and dancing to the music as I drove by. Man, that put a good smile on my face, and we just looked at each other as I drove by. Heh, I bet he's gonna appreciate some blessings when he grows up.)
Lil Menace also has the somber and moving Firme Memories, I listened to that and Kid Frost's Smile Now, Die Later (aka Family Thing) alot after my Mom followed my Dad to the grave last summer.
Gotta love Kemo the Blaxican's song La Receta, it'll always bring all the wonderful times of my Wedding year right back to me whenever I hear it.
Dr. Dre's Ain't Nuthin but a "G" Thang really hits the spot sometimes, unlike any other song (whenever we go to the local bar I always have to put it on in the big jukebox there), and of course, The Ghetto Boys have the anthemic Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta. Also, you can't forget the classic from Snoop, Gin 'n Juice, or a Friday after work favourite, Ice Cube's Today Was A Good Day.
In fact, I'm eagerly looking forward to stepping out on the deck tonight yet, (it's still Friday night to me!) and having a few more drinks with some excellent music to inspire and entertain me!
Cheers and blessings to all!
When I'm in the mood for that kinda beat, that's the hip-hop I listen to, and it can actually elevate and inspire, and even solidify godly foundations.
I find a lot of that in Latino hip-hop especially. (Plus I've always had a thing for that Latin brass horn kinda sound that you find in some of this music.) There's ideas about monogamous love, and not misogynistic sexual prowess. About the desire to make your girlfriend a wife, about family, and loyalty, about God and community, about enjoying the blessings of life.
Now not every line in every song like that will be a perfect reflection of all things good and pure, and there's often a lot of rough language, and some, ahem, "drug use" and things like that, but I don't like to throw out the proverbial baby, so I try not to let that dissuade me from gleaning the good things out of life. (Who was it who said about the poem actually being what the reader gets from it?)
So yes, you have to exercise your powers of discretion and conscience, because certainly not all hip-hop is beneficent, or uplifting, and you have to search it out to find it, just like anything in life.
But, that all said, some favourite hip-hop artists with tunes that echo these ideals (or are just a lot of fun to listen to) would be, Lil Rob's Neighborhood Music, Just One Of Your Kisses, Can We Ride (one of the tunes my darling wife and I shared with the the town on our Wedding Drive), Summer Nights, Barely Getting By, and Drinking On My Driveway. (Drinking On My Driveway, fucking love that song! See, there's the ideas of liberty and private property and freedom and kinship and pride of tradition and value of humour, and much more, all wrapped up in a fun and alcohol-blessed motif.)
Lil Menace has a coupla songs I like to put in my playlist too. There's Throw Up Your Hood (I was cruising through the neigbourhoods last summer in my beautiful black Buick with that tune pumping, and as I got about half a block from the turn I was going to take, I noticed a couple of kids playing on the corner yard. The one boy, guess he musta been about 10, was watching my car and dancing to the music as I drove by. Man, that put a good smile on my face, and we just looked at each other as I drove by. Heh, I bet he's gonna appreciate some blessings when he grows up.)
Lil Menace also has the somber and moving Firme Memories, I listened to that and Kid Frost's Smile Now, Die Later (aka Family Thing) alot after my Mom followed my Dad to the grave last summer.
Gotta love Kemo the Blaxican's song La Receta, it'll always bring all the wonderful times of my Wedding year right back to me whenever I hear it.
Dr. Dre's Ain't Nuthin but a "G" Thang really hits the spot sometimes, unlike any other song (whenever we go to the local bar I always have to put it on in the big jukebox there), and of course, The Ghetto Boys have the anthemic Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta. Also, you can't forget the classic from Snoop, Gin 'n Juice, or a Friday after work favourite, Ice Cube's Today Was A Good Day.
In fact, I'm eagerly looking forward to stepping out on the deck tonight yet, (it's still Friday night to me!) and having a few more drinks with some excellent music to inspire and entertain me!
Cheers and blessings to all!
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