Guten tag friends, friendettes, and frixnds! Today's (and the last updates) blog titles were both given to me by the lovely Rose. Thanks Rose, they're great and not at all suicide inducing. Right off the bat I said today that I wanted to talk about negative friendship experiences I had, and technically I didn't lie about that in the sense that I drafted out a post and wrote everything. There's just ooooone problem: I did not have fun writing it at all. Like, it made me feel really shitty to think about bad friendship experiences, even if I tried to put it in a humorous manner. Who would've thunk it! So that's probably gonna go into the vault never to see the light of day again unless I decide to revisit and rewrite it. Oh well, rest well my sweet. One day you might see the light of heaven. But otherwise, here's how things have been going...
For one, I think my ID slipped out of my phone case on the bus ride to school, so I'll probably have to get it replaced. It's funny because I was considering carrying five bucks on me today to go shopping after school. But I didn't cause I was like "I eat too much unhealthy food as it is, I think I can skip the trip to Wendy's after school today." and then I realize I lost my ID and now I need a replacement. And you're never gonna believe how much a replacement ID costs. Never. I actually hate my life. But I'll get a replacement tomorrow to quell my worries about going to school ID-less. On that note, I also gotta get a new phone case. The one I'm currently relying on is pretty much on it's last limb at this point, I swear. My mom and sibling keep making fun of me for it and I can't even be mad cause it looks like shit.
I also can't wait for my learner's permit to arrive in the mail. Actually, scratch that. I can. I definitely can. The picture I took for it is like awful dude, I don't even wanna think about it. Especially considering I didn't have my glasses on and I always look considerably better with my glasses. Besides when I don't, but that's rare. UGHH I need my permit already they should never make me wait for ANYTHING. Purrsonally I think I deserve to have everything handed to me on a silver platter because I'm simply godly.
But I've been getting into Remixes lately, specifically Tribe Called Quest remixes but also remixes as a whole. I really like a lot of the remixes off of this one Compilation album: Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller.
NOTE: This album artwork sucks. Actually, it's not as bad as The Love Movement, just boring.
ALMOST* all of the remixes in this album are bangers, my purrsonal favorite being the extended boilerhouse mix of Can I Kick It? I really wanna make an extended extension of it and combine it with some parts of the original Can I Kick It? Instrumental. I think, I could make it good. You just have to trust me bro. Otherwise I really like the Bonita Applebum Hootie Mix (which is better than the original), Luck of Lucien Main Mix, If The Papes Come Remix, Pubic Enemy Saturday Night Virus Discomix, and Scenario Young Nation Mix. I have a playlist full of my favorite remixes that aren’t just Tribe that you can find
Hereeeeee but I’d also recommend just
listening to the album for yourself. It’s really good, I promise.
*But did you notice that asterisk that I put after the word ALMOST? If you did, congrats on the astute observation. It’s there for a reason, you see, to elaborate on something I said. See, this album would be absolutely perfect if it didn’t have a remix that I despise. the I Left My Wallet In El Segundo Vampire Mix. This mix is the bane of my existence, it’s so buns. When I found out that it even existed I was so excited to give it a listen. I Left My Wallet In El Segundo is one of my favorite ATCQ songs of all time, and even one of my all time favorite songs in general. On top of that, I love vampires. Vampires are awesome. So when I saw this I was like “okay, this is gonna be sick.” And I was so excited to listen. But then I did… and I didn’t like it. Me liking it isn’t the only problem, though. The problem that I have with it is that IN THEORY it should rock. It has vampire in the name, it’s based on I Left My Wallet In El Segundo, there’s absolutely no reason for this to suck. But it does, and that pisses me off. Such a nothingburger of a remix, it’s so lame.
The thing I enjoy about these remixes is how you can see the remix-er putting their own spin on the song. Like, take the Harder Better Faster Stronger remix done by the Neptunes. It’s a perfect example of The Neptunes taking this already really good song and putting their own specific spin on the music to recreate it in their style, with what they would’ve done differently. To put it in simpler terms I’m sure most of you will understand: think about it like a DTIYS (Draw This In Your Style.) Of course there is an original piece of art, but the point is to try and recreate it in your own art style with things that you would’ve done to change and put your own flair on it. It’s interesting to see how all of these different artists have their own take on a piece of artwork, what they like about the original and what they personally would’ve changed. But if your recreation of the original art piece makes changes that aren’t particularly interesting or intriguing, and even removed some interesting parts of the original piece, why even bother? Thats how I feel about that remix in particular, it’s just so bad. But my favorite remixes have to be the previously named Harder Better Faster Stronger remix done by The Neptunes, Meat Grinder remix done by Four Tet , Hold On Remix done by Kanye West, The Weekend Funk Wav Remix, This Love remix done by Kanye West, and the Richcraft remix of Why Don’t We Fall in Love. But I also appreciate remixes that are literally just an additional artist adding on a verse or two to the original song, like the remix Kanye did on Ego by Beyoncé or the remix Nicki did on Best I Ever Had by Drake. It’s great, awesome even.
I think that’s all I for today, though. I gotta say, I definitely enjoyed writing this and getting to nerd out about music more than I did the last idea I had. Solid update. This is spidey, signing out. I’ll see you when I see you!
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