Final notes on the Day of the Dead

Man, if only the Dudley Boyz hadn’t buried Paul Bearer up to his neck in concrete, we could have had the perfect pitchman for June 25th, 2009… As it was, it’d be amiss of me not to say a few more things on those who’ve crapped out in the past 24 hours.

Commenting on Jackson is unnecessary and irrelevant, people with more talent, more knowledge, and more enthusiasm for the subject in hand will be doing this over the next five-to-ten years, and rest assured Jacko will now be replacing Hitler as the topic of choice for Channel 5 documentaries. All I’ll say is a) for boys of my age, attending a primary school fancy dress party as Michael Jackson was pretty much a rite of passage and b) here’s an MP3 section of Dan Greenpeace and DJ Yoda’s 2003 “Essential Mix”, specifically the 23 minute segment that dealt with hip-hop tracks that sample Michael Jackson. Enjoy it, and the tracklisting, after the jump:

Heroes of IchLugeBullets #1: Claude Carpentieri

Long-time readers of IchLugeBullets will be more than familiar with a cheeky jovial chappy by the name of Claude Carpentiere. For the unitiated, get your schooling on and check out classic ILB posts like this and this. We kinda slacked on talking about Double C for a while though, after you’ve given someone a roasting not seen since the days Eli Porter put Envy on the grill, your interest in them tends to wain. Plus, as you recall, he was going to sue us via Facebook, and why on earth I deleted that message from my Facebook account, but kept all the ones from the chick who runs the Robert Crumb fangroup spam messaging its members her eBay listings, I have no fucking idea.

No more, Butchie. No more of this.

This is starting to annoy me now. I’m getting distracted. For the past six months, IchLugeBullets.com has been your number one internet resource for the kind of indepth and detailed music reviews and opinions you’ve not seen since the triumphant three-issue run of X-Ray Magazine. I mean, I’ve been named “solo blog of the year” by some Croatians. Fun Croatian fact: Darijo Srna has a tattoo of a deer playing football on his thigh, and a brother with Down’s Syndyome.

But over the past few weeks, what with a Christmas malaise, we’d been a bit low on content. And then Claude Carpentieri happened.

Post-midnight Youtube filler: The Flying Pickets – Only You (#1, November 1983), plus Claude Carpentieri arguing that white people should be proud of their white culture and not follow inferior black forms

donning (1 year ago)  0    Reply | Spam

Sorry mate. My brother used to try to sing it when it was out (he was a toddler), he died in 2003. Nothing so evocative as throwaway pop songs eh!

Hum Hallelujah

 

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