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Probably a toss up between Tim Horton's and Mint Aero Bars when I'm in Canada. In the states, I enjoy getting a breakfast jack at Jack in the Box, or if I'm in Seattle, I like getting a cheeseburger and chocolate shake at Dick's Drive-In.
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probably roger smith from big o in a film to cover/resolve the loose ends of big o. i think i essentially get what the show was going for, but some more denouement would be nice. i liked that setting as well.
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I would probably would go for Outlaw Star. The restored/remix version looks great, and the story just brings a lot variety and energy to the table.
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Anything with hemp. I am allergic.
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Ol Dirty Bastard or George Carlin. It'd be funny.
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Nope, and not really.
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If you didn't watch Panty And Stocking with Garterbelt this year, you've missed out on the most inventive and bold anime since Trapeze, probably since Gurren Lagann, perhaps since FLCL. It's that good.
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Posters with logos from organizations from giant robot shows (Nerv from Evangelion, Nergal from Nadesico, etc,) seem like a good option, and the Futuruma propaganda posters seem like solid starts. For super nerdiness, write the chant from a magical girl show transformation sequence in the original Japanese.
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This is a very tricky question. On one hand, I like MC Frontalot's most recent statement on the term - it's an adjective that can be applied to you if you happen to cross into certain topics, and once that sticker is on you, it's pretty permanent. This is the short answer, and it's one that silences the argument pretty quickly - when you're a public figure, you are what the public describes you as, not what stickers you put on yourself.
The flipside is, I can see where some artists take issue with that. They do these very personal records - even if they are at times humorous, they are nonetheless very direct reflections of one's self. To then have a section of what they likely feel is a special and unique expression put into a context by someone else using terms they have no dominion over is probably some what of shock. Suddenly a piece of their identity that they subconsciously had assumed was completely self-defined is now bound up in terms of the Other, to put it in Lacanian terms. This may be further compounded when one considers HipHop is about keeping it real. Having kept it real, being told what your reality is after feeling you've already defined it yourself has to be jarring.
In a less grandiose sense, when you're an artist on tour and making a living, you're out there promoting you, and suddenly a section of every interview is taken up with "so, some say you're a nerdcore artist." I can only imagine that if you haven't come to terms with that label, it has be to very annoying to address that question time after time. Further still, if you're then asked inane follow up questions about Nerdcore as a genre rather than about yourself, that must be infuriating after about the billionth interview, even if you are self-identified as a Nerdcore rapper. I mean, I imagine some of these journalists (and I can say this having spat out some boneheaded lines as a reporter for ToonZone,) may at points ask stuff like "why do you think a lot of nerdcore is wack?" or something equally caustic and bated. Questions like that would offend even people who are 100 percent comfortable with the label. No one should hold one artist responsible for a genre that came into being entirely on accident, especially in a era where any new genre can run into an issue of non-musicians suddenly taking up arms to participate. If you add to that the question of whether a given artist even self-identifies as Nerdcore, it's easy to see where you get statements like "I'm not nerdcore" or "nerdcore is racist" or "nerdcore is a minstrel show." It's easy to make a question that bates that response, even accidentally. Even less negatively oriented questions can be annoying because it's taking the spotlight off the topic that should probably be at hand - that artist. I mean, it's clear from some of these interviews that questions like "which Nerdcore artists do you like?" get asked, and while I love to hear my name in response to those questions from my peers, I know it's one less question really about the artist.
In that sense, you wonder how much distance some of these guys really hold at the end of the day, and how much of that is the wrong words in a skewed context. None of them are so terrified of the brand as to put up a wall of any permanence between themselves and nerdcore. MC Lars still tours with YTCracker, Jesse D has no problem turning out to moderate a Nerdcore Panel and MC Chris always manages to rebury the hatchet with most people. Don't get me wrong, I know some of them have specific issues with specific trends in the genre, and sometimes even specific people. However, the label itself is something they seem to have pause embracing less because of pidgin-hole worries, and more from exasperation with press focus when you deconstruct the whole scenario.
From the business side of things, if someone who was very explicitly Nerdcore made it tomorrow, and they started headlining at places like the Showbox, there isn't one nerdcore-adjacent artist that'd shy away from opening for that act. Ultimately, everyone in this wishes they could eat off it, and I haven't seen anyone so attached to being not Nerdcore as to not embrace it if it was most viable to do so. -
Tough choice. Lately I've been on dried cranberries, but pretty much anything salty or sweet is a good start. I guess tortilla chips and salsa is particularly nice.
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Not really. My variety of scientific knowledge and macgyver-like skills that could easily make me a threat is probably offset by very mild demeanor.
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Ok, how about about a rap response on this. In 96 I was buying cassingles from skeelo / bone thugs cause i really loved their flow / also coolio the backing was tight / on a little track gangsta's paradise / then I bought the fugees / I also bought beck / both taught me lots on how to keep it in check / took a break for a while / rode a drum n' bass style / but quickly hiphop reraised it's profile / noticed mc hawking and frontalot / heard mc chris and thought that was hot / so i recorded a record it was well received / it did much better than I could believe / so then I kept on it while the cameras rolled / played around america and left crowds told. and now you know, the rest of the story.
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