bad look: i walk outside to the parking lot to hop in my car and head home after work. approach the vehicle and my rear view mirror is off. the parking lot is in the sun, and the shit was beating down today so im sure it just melted the glue...the bad look part about it is that my rear view mirrors have lights in them, so they have a power cord that goes from the roof area of the car into the rear view mirror, so the shit didnt just fall when the glue gave, it was fucking hanging....and i had to drive home (hour commute) with my rear view mirror swinging back and forth....THEN to make matters worse, the five oh pull me over, and are all "are you aware your rear view mirror is not functioning properly?" or some garbage (wtf its sitting here swinging, im AWARE) i fed the dude a story how im just trying to get home so i can get some glue and fix it and after a hastle and a bastle dude finally let me go, making my commute home even longer...FUCK!
A couple of girls were trying to hit on me and my man Mike Z. at The Derby in LA the other weekend. I was definitely NOT trying to holler at this square jawn but here's how our part of the conversation went. It's pretty much the definition of "Repping Philly, Bad Look Style."
SQUARE JAWN: "Hey so you're DJing tonight." MARCO: "Yep." SQUARE JAWN: "Wow cool. Where you from?" MARCO: "North Carolina." SQUARE JAWN: "Oh my god! I'm from back east too! Philadelphia! I used to DJ hiphop back there a few years ago!" MARCO: "Cool. Have you heard of Cosmo Baker?" SQUARE JAWN: "Um... no." MARCO: "Diplo?" SQUARE JAWN: "No..." MARCO: "Hollertronix?" SQUARE JAWN: "Nope." MARCO: "Oh" (pretends he sees someone waving at him, walks off)
Not a good look... NAME DROPPING
No shit. And to diss a girl because she doesn't know your hip list...
when someone gets told by a mutual freind that your a dj, and they go "ooooh your a DEEJAY hey" (then grin like an idiot and do that inane air scratching thing)
you say that like its a bad thing. "breakout" is one of my all time favorite jams.
That's what I'm saying...I actually spin that record on occasion.
Hey, if you guys liked my first sentence, you should check out my second one: I stand by the sentiment--it's just my faded Funkmaster-Flexing on the topic that makes me cringe. I'm just north of thirty, and grew up in a series of half-horse burgs, so please believe that all that Euro-stylish 80s mile-wide inch-deep vaguely conceptual lido-deck UK escapist shit--though it ultimately amounts to not very much--was (and still kinda is) the ice in my drink. Swing Out Sister? ABC? Blow Monkeys? Pet Shop Boys? Sade? Any record made by three or more haircuts that has a track called "Theme From [Whatever]"? If it's under a fiver, yo, sign me up. I think I even have some Basia on cassette somewhere. Don't test mine.
And "Breakout" is cool, but you hear it a lot. Y'all might should step up to "Twilight World" or "Waiting Game" or something.
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ipod numark mixer dj's
people that wear fannypacks
people that clip their fingernails in public
ZING!
Hatters. Step your games up, this is 2005.
Theres a dude in my office who rocks sandals and socks.
I also gotta add people who dont rock a bit of deodorant... why do they always have to be the dudes who like to be up in your personal space? (no ayo)
no hatting man. juss playin.
ez.
Although i did see an old Mercedes on Divisadero in SF with the plate 'Bukkake'.
theres a dude who slangs raers a PCC with a license plate that reads "BLUNOTE"
Damn! Is that you and Shing-a-Ling??[/b]
No shit. And to diss a girl because she doesn't know your hip list...
I've never heard of any of those people either.
My boy T***y's whipper whip:
MySpace, home of the "bad look".
Is that Egon?
KIDDING
Hey, if you guys liked my first sentence, you should check out my second one: I stand by the sentiment--it's just my faded Funkmaster-Flexing on the topic that makes me cringe. I'm just north of thirty, and grew up in a series of half-horse burgs, so please believe that all that Euro-stylish 80s mile-wide inch-deep vaguely conceptual lido-deck UK escapist shit--though it ultimately amounts to not very much--was (and still kinda is) the ice in my drink. Swing Out Sister? ABC? Blow Monkeys? Pet Shop Boys? Sade? Any record made by three or more haircuts that has a track called "Theme From [Whatever]"? If it's under a fiver, yo, sign me up. I think I even have some Basia on cassette somewhere. Don't test mine.
And "Breakout" is cool, but you hear it a lot. Y'all might should step up to "Twilight World" or "Waiting Game" or something.