Note that Jaime Pressly said that “Ugly Betty” was “big-upping the ugly fat girl,” not that the show was “bigging up the ugly fat girl” (or “bigging the ugly fat girl up“). So we find that big-up is being treated as a single entity that can be inflected with verb endings, rather than as the verb big plus the particle up.
- "Big-Up" on the Rise by Ben Zimmer, OUPblog, 01.24.08
I'm sure my first awareness of "Big-Up" was Biggie Smalls giving "Big-Ups to Brooklyn". Given his Caribbean roots that all makes sense.
- Numero GroupEccentric Soul: The Bandit Label takes a look at the underside of Chicago soul through twenty tracks of blistering R&B, sweet soul, and discofied funk. Hundreds of hours were spent researching, interviewing, re-mastering, and compiling the history of Bandit and the life of Arrow Brown. Unearthed in the process were two cassette tapes worth of acappella rehearsals that we\'ve done our best to preserve in their lo-fi, in-the-red state. Numero 003 might be the deepest we\'ll ever dig. No map, no shovel, just a stack of 45\'s and a city of three million people.
This space, in which I usually talk about my week, my head, my heart, my future, intentionally left blank. This week, this is my private life.
Now, on with the show.
Top Artists for the Week:
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Jazzanova |
37
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| ▲ | 2 | wale |
34
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N*E*R*D |
27
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Notorious B.I.G. |
25
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| ▲ 32 | 5 |
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MF DOOM |
22
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| ▲ | 6 |
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Nina Simone |
19
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| ▲ 3 | 7 |
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Feist |
11
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| ▲ 39 | 7 |
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Death Cab for Cutie |
11
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| ▲ 6 | 9 |
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De La Soul |
10
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| ▼ 6 | 10 |
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Björk |
9
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Top track of the week was Jazzanova's Theme from Belle et Fou - "The Bows" but I've already posted from that album so I'll give you Ten Cent Blues by Eisley. Eisley's sophomore full-length, Combinations, underwhelmed in 2007 but this track is nice.
I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?
-With friends like these... by Tom Hodgkinson, The Guardian, 01.14.08
I was back on facebook briefly yesterday, with good reason, and then jumped right back off. In the 2 weeks I'd been gone, my deactivated account had received Oregon Trail invitations (what?) and more stupid "Fun Wall" posts than I care to think about.
Let's just go get a drink.
Current music: Blanche – A Year From Now
I woke up from my nap today with this sound bite in my head, "When you get it up and move out in faith that shows God your faith is alive" and I knew it came from a song but I couldn't immediately place it. At first, I was convinced it was a Talib Kweli or De La Soul sample but knew I know all those old audio pulls natively. Not being able to place one of those would be like forgetting my own name. Then, I thought, it's Dead President's Wolves!!
No, it isn't.
So, I went to dinner at my folks' house and watched the end of the debate and talked politics and religion and money and all the things a family talks about around food on a quiet evening and then I got in my car and it finally popped into my head...
"Get your instructions from God and then do what God tells you to do."
Current music: Waiwan – Feelin Me Feelin You (Featuring Loretta Heywood)
Wale* is killing it for me today (and, ooh wee, I was going to open with something else but this go-go track is bom**)...
Go-go music is still alive y'all! Let your back bone slip. Now, get your hipster dance party on
*Not this Wale.
**This is my new slang (well, slang I'm aping from my sister and, really, it's old slang spelled differently) that I'll explain later.
We forget that in his final years, he faced not only a rising "white backlash" — the media term for white obduracy in the suburbs and working-class neighborhoods, North as well as South — but resentment from establishment liberals who thought he had executed too radical a turn by opposing a Democratic president and the Vietnam War.
