Re: Jihad For Breakfast

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the buddhists - objectively pro-tolerance
so more and different - merrier
to rock on!


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 8:46 AM
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And another where the kids start chanting "Pigs are haram!" when the cops break up the show.

Six kinds of awesome.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 8:53 AM
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I don't really know anything about Buddhism, but (despite the fact that there are no doubt many rock stars who self-identify as Buddhist) it would seem that an embrace rather than rejection of Desire and all of its pitfalls is a requirement for Rocking Out.

Of course, I mostly listen to hardcore and opera, both of which are pretty much, "Drown me, Desire! Then toss my lifeless corpse upon your rocky shoals!"


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 9:06 AM
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"Keepin it Sunni Side Up since 2005!"

I contend that both the pun and the use of 'keepin' disqualify The Kominas from calling themselves 'crunk', 'punk,' or 'grime.'


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 9:09 AM
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remember i'm a tantric buddhist
in your pending pre-buddha state
all pleasures are welcom


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 9:13 AM
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Now read is getting into the spirit of the Mineshaft!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 9:14 AM
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5/6: Yes! Touché!


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 9:15 AM
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remember i'm a tantric buddhist

And within minutes, the Mineshaft took up a collection to fly read to UnfoggeDCon...


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 9:20 AM
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it would seem that an embrace rather than rejection of Desire and all of its pitfalls is a requirement for Rocking Out.

Once you achieve enlightenment, you can rock out effortlessly.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 10:44 AM
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9: But . . . thumos. Thumos is required as well.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 10:56 AM
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Once there was a buddhist monk who had been meditating in the mountains for twenty years. During this time his rice bowl was accustomed to travelling down to the nearest village, and then back with a few grains of rice, of its own power, so as not to disturb the monk, but he had not yet attained that level which some are said to reach, in which the monk eats nothing but pine needles, and then nothing at all, for sustenance. So when it once happened that his bowl did not return at all for an entire week, he was disturbed from his meditation and went down to the town to see what might be the haps.

When he got there, he saw his bowl sitting in its accustomed place, but no one had put anything in it, because all the townspeople were enrapt by Yngwie Malmsteen, who was busking with his saffron-colored electric guitar and full Marshall stack, pulling near-constant guitar face as his fingers raced around the fretboard and yanked violently on the whammy bar. His rice bowl was overflowing, but still the people tried to put more in.

When the monk saw this, he calmly stood near his bowl and held his arms as if they were holding a guitar as well, and started to move his hands and fingers just as if he were playing one. And then, so loud that one could hardly hear the sound coming from Yngwie's amps at all, came the absolutely heaviest, shreddingest, hottest-shit metal solo ever heard by the ears of man. All the people turned from Yngwie and started giving gifts to the monk, but he refused them, and picked up his still-empty rice bowl and returned to the mountains. For at that moment he had become enlightened, and realized that the things of this world are shackles and illusions.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 11:01 AM
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Are you conflating thumos and desire, oudemia?! Shame!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 11:03 AM
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Let's pretend I had had the presence of mind to write "thumos and orexis" above.

Orexis—the key to male sexual enhancement!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 11:03 AM
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No. I am not at all! What have I done to deserve such calumny! Mr oudemia (he of the platonisme continental) would cast me into the street!
My point is that both are necessary to RAWK.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 11:06 AM
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13.2: All men by nature orexis-ify themselves out toward knowing. Aristotle: as keen as ever.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 11:20 AM
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OK, not real Muslim punk, but fun all the same.


Posted by: Mo MacArbie | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 11:26 AM
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Where are the moderate Muslim punk voices?


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 3:59 PM
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Ogged: The Muslim Bill Cosby.


Posted by: Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 5:07 PM
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The sentiment uttered in 17 (without "punk" of course) may be a cliche, but in my mind it'll always be associated with ex-governor/attorney general Dick Thornburgh, who for some reason was involved in a forum on "How can the US fix its image in the world?" on our campus a few years ago. He kept saying that over and over.

In order to show us that the influential Muslim we would want to communicate with are all so radical that attempts to reason with them would be fruitless, so we should keep doing what we're doing, you know.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 5:12 PM
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nisvanis

i like the lyrics, really angry
no profanity at all
and says all right things about life in general


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-18-07 6:07 PM
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Like, In f-n shallah alread y


Posted by: 01011010 | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 3:43 PM
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21: No crushing!


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:11 PM
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Who knew? Mongolian rock is cool. Thanks dude. Is there a Uighur scene?


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:25 PM
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i'm glad you liked it
i don't know, uigurs are in the chinese Sinjaan-Uigur, and we do not comprehend their language, their language is similar to kirgiz may be


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:32 PM
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Apparantly yes.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:32 PM
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Translation:

"Sucka Uigha,
Uigha Uigha
I throw the sucka in front
for the ones that front . . ."

Also, that video linked above gets more interesting musically at about 1:40.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:34 PM
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Also, that video linked above gets more interesting musically at about 1:40.

Visually, too, though it should be pointed out that it's not in Uighur.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:38 PM
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25
apparently you mean,
say bah in uigur, and i acknowledge you my egual


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:47 PM
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What language is it? I have no clue other than it's not Mandarin.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:47 PM
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oops, equal deshita


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:48 PM
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25 was to 23.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:49 PM
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29 was to 27.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:50 PM
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fyi it's in russian


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:52 PM
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Ah. Thanks read.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:54 PM
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not at all, 34


Posted by: read | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 4:54 PM
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"Wigger" is deprecated, but uigur is OK.


Posted by: Knecht Ruprecht | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 6:50 PM
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36: Uigha please.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-20-07 11:10 PM
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