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Right. It's POPular. POP culture. Most pop culture and hot trends are both popular and devoid of substance and real culture. Real Housewives of NJ and Jersey Shore are wildly popular at the moment, probably the hottest and most popular "reality" shows; but I wouldn't consider either to be any great contribution from NJ.
Hip-hop is the "Jersey Shore" (show) of music; it's a spectacle, it titillates the common folk with images of low-brow, low class living, and people pay money for it. Big money-makers, huge commercial pop culture successes, but devoid of lasting, significant cultural contribution. And hip-hop is no better or worse this way than rock music or any other pop junk. My favorite band is the Red Hot Chili Peppers - I think they're a great rock band who has contributed much to rock music, but I have no delusions that they're such incredibly great contributors to society at large. Mozart, however, did contribute to society at large with regards to music.
Do you know why Hip Hop was created? No. It was created to get the kids off gangs. So Hip Hop has done many things for the community. So Hip Hop has a great substance. Why Rock was created? Just for the sake of it.
The Alamo/ Missions Historical site
Fiesta
Riverwalk
the phrase that every basketball team around the NBA does or has
there own variation...back in 2005 playoff "Go Spurs Go" was born
Military City USA
San Diego:
1. Beautiful weather
2. Surfing
3. Anchorman
4. Tijuana/mexican border
5. Comic Con
Lived in and loved San Diego but I'd have to say I think Hawaii may have a better claim to surfing. One thing that I recall being unique to San Diego was the Over-the-line tournaments at Mission Beach. I'm trying to think of some of the team names, but they escape me at the moment, hmmmm....
Over-the-line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... The tournament has gained a negative stigma above and beyond the debauchery it seems to champion: as the population that began the event continues to age (the tournament began in 1953), it garners increasingly severe critiques from both spectators angered at the adult elements, and those younger tournament goers who find the older participants increasingly out of place. Despite this, the OMBAC expects 52,000 people to attend the event in 2009 over the two July weekends it is held.
Lived in and loved San Diego but I'd have to say I think Hawaii may have a better claim to surfing. One thing that I recall being unique to San Diego was the Over-the-line tournaments at Mission Beach. I'm trying to think of some of the team names, but they escape me at the moment, hmmmm....
That's true and yes Hawaii has surfing too, but a lot of out of staters say "surfing" is what they think of about san diego. Over the line is popular too, but I forgot about it until you mentioned it lol Nice videos by the way
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Chapel Hill NC (where I've lived for 11 years):
James, Livingston, Kate and Alex Taylor
weathy-crunchy (see above)
UNC (see above)
"Is Chapel Hill The Next Seattle?" (1993, indie rock, and the answer was...NO)
basketball
Charlotte (my hometown):
banks
NASCAR
more banks
Charlotte Motor Speedway
a few more banks
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