KJAMS THE TOUCH FREE

The word surgeon originally meant hand healer, from the Greek for hand ( kheir) and work ( ergon). Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, cured people by touching them. The practice of healing massage emerged in India, China and southeast Asia by the third millennium BCE, before spreading west. The earliest forms of medicine drew on this human need to touch and be touched.

All over the world, children play tag without having to learn how. A new-born baby will instinctively turn its head towards a touch on the cheek. The hand of a two-month-old human foetus will grasp when it feels something in its palm. It offers proof of the solidity of things other than ourselves. It is the basic animal instinct that lets us know we are alive in the world. But one could just as easily say that touch is the highest sense and for the same reasons. He looked down on it because it was found in all animals and it relied on mere proximity, not the higher human faculties of thought, memory and imagination. And “hunger” feels like the right word for it, in the sense that your body lets your mind know that something is up, and fills it with a gnawing sense of absence.Īristotle considered touch the lowliest sense. I even miss those clumsy, mistimed hugs where you bang bones together and it goes on just slightly too long or not long enough. Now I find that I really miss hugging people. It must have been like trying to cuddle a scarecrow. The best I could manage at first was a sort of bear-claw hold with my arms hanging limply down my huggee’s back. Then, just as I had completed my long internship in handshaking, it began to lose currency and I had to hastily reskill in hugging. I used to botch them all the time, offering the wrong hand (being left-handed didn’t help) or grabbing the other person’s fingers instead of their palm. But it is also artful, because it has to be silently synchronised with someone else, unlike a handshake which can be offered and accepted asynchronously.įor the truly socially inept, even a handshake can be fiddly. It is natural because bodily contact is the first, endorphin-releasing language we learn as babies and share with other apes.

A hug feels to me like an odd mix of the natural and the artful. I have looked on nervously as, over the past two decades, hugging has moved from being a marginal pursuit to a constant of British social life. I am a socially awkward, non-tactile person. The first episode premiered on October 28, 2012.Skin hunger is not a phrase I had come across before last year, nor a problem I ever imagined facing. They joined MTV's hip hop expert, Sway Calloway, a vanguard radio personality, record producer, hip-hop artist and MTV News Correspondent. MTV also recruited a hip hop dream team of contributors that would serve as the hosts of “The Week in Jams” and also provide expert commentary across all of MTV's channels and screens including: mixtape legend, radio personality and television host DJ Envy, industry insider, radio personality and cast member of “ MTV2's Guy Code” Charlamagne Tha God, Motown Records recording artist and songwriter Sofi Green, West Coast mover and shaker Levi Maestro, and west coast radio personality and nationally syndicated nighttime radio host Nessa. Fans will discover new artists, hear the loudest opinions, keep up with new trends from all over the country and sit in on hard-hitting interviews.

KJAMS THE TOUCH FREE

Where “Sucker Free Countdown” focused primarily on music, “The Week in Jams” expanded focus includes the latest in the hip hop lifestyle, from music to fashion, gear to sports and, of course, real talk. They also announced they would be relaunching the MTV2 music video countdown known as Sucker Free Countdown. The move effectively extends the MTV Jams brand from a 24-hour digital channel to now touch all MTV properties. On October 11, 2012, MTV announced they would expand and unify its hip hop music and lifestyle programming and content across all of its multiple channels and screens under the MTV Jams brand name. Hosted by DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God, and Sofi Green. Its a 2-hour top 15 countdown, it aired on Sundays at 11AM ET/PT and 11PM ET/PT.

The Week in Jams (a re branded version of Sucker Free Countdown), is MTV2's sole hip-hop video block.

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