Some of you might be interested in a video of Ice Cube talking about the Eames house. (I'm assuming that most people on this list are familiar with Charles and Ray Eames and their Case Study house in Pacific Palisades, California.)
http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/ and click on "watch the video."
You'll find out that the San Diego Freeway is bourgeois and the Harbor Freeway is "gangsta." Important stuff. But seriously, the observation in the 1:20-1:40 range is interesting so if you only have twenty seconds, go there. (The whole thing is only 2:16 so it's not a big investment of time.) He compares the Eames house to mash-ups and sampling. That might resonate more for those of us who remember Ice Cube when he was a straight outa Compton rapper rather than just in his more recent incarnation as a slightly rotund purveyor of family kitsch tv and movies.
Gunnar
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