good stuff, huh.

Yeah it is :) And I do very basic training with weights. I've got 2 halters which weigh 2 KG (that's 4 lbs I guess), and just to stuff for my biceps, triceps, shoulders and chest. I want to keep the weights as they are now and just try to repeat every exercise till my muscles can't handle it :p

lol moog..

[QUOTE=moogoogaipan;13989958]That's funny... whether or not you intentionally mixed Japanese and Chinese culture.[/QUOTE]

I did. That's how my friends and I are constantly, though, always laughing and having fun. You would swear we were little kids.

Also, STOP SAYING HIP, YOU GUYSSSSS!!!!

[QUOTE]why people like thomas lang, andrew ceccarelli, marco minneman, virgil donati, etc. sound so dry and UNHIP compared to people like Gadd, Dennis, Weckl, Vinnie, etc[/QUOTE]Mortals can't compete with Gods.;)

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990271]moogoo and company i think you miss the point

we are talking from late 19th century to present

why all the major music movements have come from the US and why you see japs walking down the street with 80's punk dyed mohawks etc.

i am very aware of the native musics of different countries

but the unique property of hip (which means everything from innovation and cultural change to counterculture and social change) is american alone, and copied by everyone else[/QUOTE]

i get you point...
America ftw..? :thumb:

They can, but then you get the Ragnarok and nobody wins...



"The purpse of literature is to invigorate the reader; to open their eyes and minds and"

That's 20 minutes of work, and it's still lame. =/

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990302]haha you're right futuro


well im glad you get what im saying zep

although theres a lot of things i hate about america (white supremacy, bible belt, neo conservatism, etc) it is the only place for me[/QUOTE]

well, white supremacy is going a little overboard, no? i mean, thats a little behind us.

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990271]

but the unique property of hip (which means everything from innovation and cultural change to counterculture and social change) is american alone, and copied by everyone else[/QUOTE]

That's the problem. That's not true.

You ever seen an "anime dork".
perhaps listened to a latin clave pattern.

These aren't American inspired. Claiming that everything innovative and hip is American is extremely narrow-minded. It's a bi-product of increasing internationalism. We weren't "hip" a couple hundred years ago... we have folk arts, but you don't see that catching on.

America is a place where it can grow, but it isn't the only originator... by far. Actually, America is so damn mellow that it's disgusting. How many remade movies have come out in the last 5 years.

Plus, in relevance to the reason of this whole conversation. Japanese taiko drumming is an incredible art form. Taiko drummers are super skilled, it doesn't take less or more skill than to play a drumset and it's not like it's a dying art. There are tons of practicing players and it's even big here in America... especially on the West Coast.

[QUOTE=moogoogaipan;13989897]そうですか。
ここででんしゃがありません。

うちからだいがくまでさんじゅじゅっぷんぐらいかかいます。　<--does that sound correct?

how many years have you studied Japanese now?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that sentence is correct :thumb:
I'm in my third semester and it's getting really interesting now, although they go through everything pretty fast. You have to do a lot of self-studying or you won't pass the exams. And because of that, i have a load of Kanji to learn for a test tomorrow, so good night everybody :)

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990343]you'd be surprised... living in the far north where there is NO diversity... people are very bigoted and hateful[/QUOTE]

thats not true.. not at ALL.
i live in the north, and there is absolutely no hate whatsever.

[QUOTE=Kosmos Tree;13990386]Yeah, that sentence is correct :thumb:
I'm in my third semester and it's getting really interesting now, although they go through everything pretty fast. You have to do a lot of self-studying or you won't pass the exams. And because of that, i have a load of Kanji to learn for a test tomorrow, so good night everybody :)[/QUOTE]

ありがとうございました。 We'll do it again.

I should imagine Japanese is solid to learn right? Its not just a different language, its learning the alphabet too... ありがとうございました。??

[quote=Super Cameron;13990271]moogoo and company i think you miss the point

we are talking from late 19th century to present

why all the major music movements have come from the US and why you see japs walking down the street with 80's punk dyed mohawks etc.

i am very aware of the native musics of different countries

but the unique property of hip (which means everything from innovation and cultural change to counterculture and social change) is american alone, and copied by everyone else[/quote]
That's pretty closed minded. Have you ever left the US?


Where do you think Gadd, Weckl etc.. get their influences from?
Latin maybe?
African maybe?
Indian maybe?

Where did the modern snare drum originate from?
Where did punk come from?
Where did metal originate?
Where did electronic music come from?

[I]^ the answer is outside the US[/I]

i live in New Jersey. so you were a little more north than me, but i mean, thats just one area, because no one in mine has like a huge problem with difference..

[QUOTE=Jred250;13990430]I should imagine Japanese is solid to learn right? Its not just a different language, its learning the alphabet too... ありがとうございました。??[/QUOTE]

arigatou gozaimashita

it means: thank you, and it's got a past tense addition so what I'm basically telling him is "thanks for talking with me"

i'm back from break. school starts tomorrow. i've got a new set up i've been playing on. i'll take pics this weekend.

w0000t

so, theres this girl i like, and......


SHES A DRUMMER!!!

omg!! w0000p

has a sonor kit, that is apparently totally muffled except snare cos her 'rents are gay...

[quote=Super Cameron;13990487]i am beginning to see you just don't understand

you aren't citing anything that is hip at all.. you're making reference to pop culture...

i described the change from hip to mainstream breifly before...

that is the engine that keeps hip alive... the constant search for growth after something becomes mainstream


being so into japan, i am surprised how uneducated you seem...
anime began "when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that were being explored in the West." I thought that was common knowledge

typical rebellious american youth... the stuff of ignorance[/quote]
You're coming across as ignorant.

don't be so stereotypically Super Cameron, i mean yea, there is alot of "rebellious youth" in america, but don't be a pessemist, and look at the good part, of the well educated, well mannered, [drummers :thumb:] like me :)

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990487]

being so into japan, i am surprised how uneducated you seem...
anime began "when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that were being explored in the West." [/QUOTE]

Anyone can Google "history of anime" and post up whatever they find.
Doesn't change the fact that anime is anime... it's not Western animation. It's not hip for being western animation... it uniquely japanese... until recently when Americans copied it with those damn cheesy *** morning shows on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

Lol... I hate your f[I]u[/I]cking pompous attitude. This is twice since you've came back that I've seen it... well, twice that I've pointed it out..:p
[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13968179]
I'm probably one of, if not the most knowledgeable and proficient musicians in D/P (not something to brag about)

[/QUOTE]
sorry, that's 3 times.
[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13979203]
moogoo's entry was good but its not like he's some jazz drum phenom tbh (no offense)[/QUOTE]
oops... 4 times. In that post... I never even claimed anything about my playing ability.. if that shows how dedicated you are to your academic supremacy.

so... just stop acting like a know-it-all. That's the world's problem.
I'll never claim to know it all, there's no possible way. People need to suck up their egos.

And what makes you know what is hip and what's not?

[QUOTE=Seafroggys;13990669]And what makes you know what is hip and what's not?[/QUOTE]

Bam!! and there's the heart of this argument.

Exactly what I said before... it's all opinion. This is your opinion Cameron... your entitled to it, but to pass it off as truth is ridiculous.

Japanese Enka music is hip... to older japanese. You're not gonna find younger kids listening to it, and it's hard as hell to find in America. Doesn't change the fact that it's really cool music.
To me... it's hip. I don't give a damn whether American's want to add it to their music libraries.

[quote=Super Cameron;13990578]see, you don't understand either

these 20th century innovators got their influences from other places just as the first pioneers of hip did...

as i described earlier, hip began in america

it was the mixing and tension of african, latin, and american (early european settlers) that set the groundwork for our modern culture[/quote]
And that didn't happen in England, Australia, Germany, France and countless other places?
[quote]all modern music is a result of this mixing of cultures unique to america
[/quote] Incorrect. Modern music has grown from a variety of places and continues to influence further development. America is not an island. The world is an open society where ideas have been traded for centuries. Baroque wouldn't be the same if composers didn't travel, jazz wouldn't be the same if jazz players didn't tour...

[quote]it all goes back to things like this example:

cultures mixed when slaves were taken to the carribean and then to the US... further growth occured when the european culture early americans had mixed with these blacks

thus started the growth of hip[/quote]
There are a myriad of different styles of music, not just funk/blues. You should do your homework and realise that.
[quote]also, do your homework... modern electronic music made most of its movement in the us... techno, house, etc. even a lot of composers using electronics did most of their work here[/quote]
This is also incorrect and shows you know nothing of electronic music. Germany was the original hot-house of electronic music and now England and Australia are pushing the boudaries in Drum and Bass, Hard House, Trance and Break; the [I]hip[/I] styles of the current.

[quote]punk is an outcropping and evolution from existentialism to counterculture 60's thinking [B](american)[/B][/quote]
Incorrect again. It is generally accepted that punk grew from a movement [U]against[/U] modern rock music and as a throw back to surf in England.

[quote]metal is a divergence of rock, which came from the white/black hybrid music (blues and gospel) of early america.. [/quote]
Again you ignore the fact that I was highlighting where it came from; Europe.

[quote]of course there are cultures that influence america... they are way older too
but what i said originally is that HIP is uniquely american... modern music is fueled by it causing the rest of the world to imitate us[/quote]
No it's not. You're of that opinion but don't realise that your being UScentric.

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990695]
anime WOULDN'T be anime without the west, and who said it was hip anyway? a long time ago, in the cultural timeline, maybe... but certainly it holds little relevance now
[/QUOTE]

once again, though. My point all along is this.
Where do you get decide what's hip... You'd get your *** kicked by the nerds at cosplay if you said that anime isn't hip anymore.

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990721]
you might not like miles davis, for instance, but you cannot ignore his influence on music and culture[/QUOTE]

No ****, but everything else you are saying is just stupid.

^lol, yea that statement was irrelavent.

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990818]
moogoo and seafroggys dont understand what 'hip' is

look at it not as what you, as an anime nerd, are interested in

but as development of art and culture

[/QUOTE]
oh my god... quit with your ego.

I'm not an anime nerd

I just had marmalade for the first time.



It's awesome.

what is it?

[QUOTE=Super Cameron;13990818]
moogoo and seafroggys dont understand what 'hip' is[/QUOTE]

neither do you. So shut up about your elitism and go back to drumming.

When someone uses "hip" in a sentence, is when I know they have no clue what hip is...

It's orange jelly, with like orange peels and stuff in it.

[QUOTE=poopoogaypoon;13991020]When someone uses "hip" in a sentence, is when I know they have no clue what hip is...[/QUOTE]

Such as yourself?

my god this has to be the most retarted argument i've ever seen... who honestly gives a crap what is hip and what is not... you know who decides what the popular music is at any given time? people... whatever style has the majority of people listening to it will be what is "hip" or "in" or whatever the hell you wanna call it... and as soon as someone comes along with something new and interesting the record companies find about a million carbon copy bands and sign them until that type of music is dead... right now it's the "loser" or "freak" image (panic at the disco, hellogoodbye, motion city soundtrack, ok go)... as soon as people get tired of that the record companies will find something else they can mass produce...

there are always exceptions, but for the most part that's how things work... in music, television, art, anything... the cartoon channels have those cheap anime-style shows because that's the popular style... that's what kids like, that's what they'll watch, and that's what get advertisers to pay them for their air time... the only reason andy worhol was famous was because his art was different... in the 60's the majority of people were trying to rebel against everything already established and completely seperate themselves from the culture of the time... andy worhol's paintings were completely different from anything already out there... they honestly weren't anything to rave about (what's so great about soup cans painted in 4 different color themes)... but it was different... the majority of people could understand it... so they bought it...

money makes the world go round... money decides what's popular, and what isn't... what's popular is what sells... and when it's stops selling, it loses support, and dies out...

oh and by the way, you might think rock/jazz/blues or any combination of them dominates the market, but look at the top 10 listened to songs in any given week... for example this week... 5 out of the 10 are hip hop or rap... 3 are pop... 2 are rock... and that's even questionable (MCR and The All-American Rejects)... i'd like to know how that's dominating

rofl, you cought him..

Edit- and you do have a point wesm, but i wasnt part of the hip argument, i was goin for the racism part of it.

That what I was getting at with my post.
Hip is what is percieved as "cool" to somebody...
and nobody thinks alike

The hip is a part of the body.

Okay.


Okay, okay.


There is something I need to say. Something I've been keeping bottled up for a very long freakin' time, and I can't keep it in anymore. I know that I have a lot of things wrong with me, but JESUS CHRIST.


THE ELLIPSIS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR A COMMA OR PERIOD!

If you have an unfinished thought, wish to indicate a pause in dialogue, or are omitting an understood part of speech, then you may use it. Heck, you can use it incorrectly once in a while, but NOT EVERY SENTENCE.

O noes. Super Cameron neg repped me for disagreeing with him.

"Do your homework next time"

How about you try stop being a dick?