Circulate like a Sunday paper...

Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me you eardrums
it was a beautiful day off in the neighborhood
Yellows and greens and blues and browns
and greys and hues that ooze beneath dilapidated wood
Ain't a thing could explain but what pertains
to cocaine & sustaining rain
See summer roll around niggas all about change
then they steady move them keys like bob james
Coz old man winter's arrived
the temperature dives
November just died
December's alive
thus it ain't no typical ride
just individuals way to bring home the bacon when bacon was all gone
making it our own taking me all wrong
We've all indulged in the bulge of those no-nos
no you ain't solo, there's even lower levels you can go
take sun people put them in Atlanta snow
~Dre 3 stacks

Last Day Dream

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”
~Jeremy Irons

June One Six, Seven One...

Crazy to think he would have been 38 today....

I took the picture below at the infamous Las Vegas intersection, Koval and Flamingo, where he was fatally shot in 96'...



"The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
~Dr. Eldon Tyrell


RIP 2pac


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New Ending

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
~Maria Robinson

from Post Secrets

Champion of Courage

" True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

“If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' about the good things that happened in my life.”

"You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy."

Arthur Ashe

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

A little more than a year ago, i had this movie on repeat, day and night.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
~A portion ofEloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

The Fallen and Forgotten Champion

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
~Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson's downfall ≠ Buster Douglas, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, or Don King but Robin Givens...

ok he was a little crazy too...



and i know, random...

Self Checkout

Back in my college days, I would scan organic fruits and vegetables as non-organic pesticides, insecticides and herbicides filled fruits and vegetables b/c it was cheaper...

Its not that I don't do it now b/c I know that it is unethical but b/c the grocery store that I go to doesn't have self-checkout...

and yes I definitely saved a lot of dinero doing it..

Mix Tape Guide/Rules

Just thoughts...

This post orginated from another unpublished post I wrote a while back...It was a post about music and how I discovered certain songs. Within this post I mentioned how I would wait by the radio (FM 92.3, Tha Beat) to tape 2pac's Do For Love when it first came out. It was nineteen nighty seven yall and it was my intro to the art of making a mix tape...

When I say mix tape, I mean the processing of combining together various songs to create some form of cohesive emotion and/or feeling on an Cassette Tape and not on a playlist and/or cd...

The art of making a mixtape required the mastery of the play, record, and pause button. Nowadays it is a lost art form...but w/ the advancement of technology that is understandable...

Let me stress the use of a Cassette Tape. Unlike a CD and/or Playlist, a cassette tape lacks the ability to skip from song to song, the mix tape needs to be considered in its entirety. This requires the mix tape creator to consider the transitions between songs, the effects caused by juxtaposing a soft song with a loud song, and the overall "narrative arc" of the entire tape.

"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick it off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind", but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules..."
~excerpt from High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby

Voodoo

I found a pretty good mini documentary on one of my favorite albums...D'angelo's magnum opus...Voodoo.

"The term R&B doesn't mean what it used to mean. R&B is pop, that's the new word for R&B...(Contemporary R&B)'s a joke, and the funny thing about it is that the people making this shit are dead serious about the stuff they're making. It's sad—they've turned black music into a club thing."
~D'angelo circa 2000

Ironically this album...more specifically this video caused D'angelo to lose his mind and possibly is explains his 9 yr absence from the music scene...

I heard he was making a comeback...possibly this year???

Life Resolution/Determination

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson



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