2008-01-06

Happy new year ---  I'm planning on bouncing in 2008 myself, gettin a little air, seeing over the treeline ----

Here is a mix I made on new year's day  ----- each one of these songs made me lose my shit and play it over and over and over again at some point during 2007 --- as usual I can't beatmatch worth a damn but this one's got a pretty good feel I think ----

Here's the tracklist:

Sly ---- In Time
Raheem --- Raheem to the Rescue
Gucci Mane ft.Ludacris --- Freaky Gurl rmx
Fat Pat ------ Peepin Me
Polow Da Don --- Throw some d's instr
Kanye ---- Flashing Lights
Sizzla Kalonji ---- The Things you do
SPM ---- Woodson n worthin
Z-ro ------ Living in the city
Alicia Keys ---- Like you'll never see me again
Bill Withers --- Just the two of us
Loretta Lynn ----- Hello Darlin
Lil Wayne ----- Prostitute Fling
Nate Dogg ------- Scared of Love
Lee Hazelwood ----- The Night Before
Ghetto Mafia ----- Straight from the Dec
Jimmy Donley ----- Think it Over
Project Pat ft. Pimp C ---- Talkin Smart
Young Bleed ft. Jackie Williams ----- Gangsta Boy
City High ------- Caramel rmx
T-Pain ------ Bartender instr
Gladys Night & the Pips ------- Neither one of us
Big Moe ---- My Life

2007-12-18

This week I've been called an idiot and an ingrate.  Separate conversations.

In neither case was the judgment unconsidered and in neither case did my interlocutor have anything to gain or lose by the observation.

So nothing to mistrust.  I've thought about it and decided that I'm guilty on both counts.

I should really learn to accept shit like this when people remind me -- at least to the extent that it saves me the energy I'd waste reminding myself.

2007-11-28

I don't play pop music.  Well it's okay if you want to call it that I guess, I try to be easy to get along with and names don't mean shit etc. etc. but I get instantly suspicious when I hear that lil phrase and I would never use it to describe myself ----

Who knows how words come to mean what they do -- in the case of pop I think its meaning has been affected by onomatopoeiac bubble associations -- but really it's short for popular, right?  Like cheerleaders in high school sure but I'm thinking further back, more along the lines of "popular song", i.e. "of the people" --- i.e. what aristocrats say about non-aristocrats.

Basically trying to trace it back to where popular and vulgar meant the same thing --- which they did.

Anyway whatever people mean now when they talk about pop music it's clear  to me that they are working in the tradition of the ol' high low culture divide and of course putting themselves square on the high side.

You make or listen to pop music?  Are you a person?  then be respectful and just call it music. Unless you're trying to be aristocratic calling it pop music is redundant --- condescension makes elitism no better or more palatable.

2007-10-15

RIP Big Moe 1974-2007
"knockin off codeine by the case!"

2007-09-17

Aw man these damn things glowing at me all day.  You must know what I mean.

Hard to rationalize even sitting down to type this cause I get glowed at at work all motherfucking day long.  I have absolutely no doubt that the work I do is invented, i.e. it's not directly necessary for living.

I begrudgingly perform invented tasks which can be called necessary only insofar as they address a displaced psychological need for purpose on the part of the privileged geopolitical caste to which I belong.

But then again, generally speaking, people leave me alone.

Sometimes I think the main reason I try to keep my money straight is to insulate myself from dealing with people.  If you can't afford rent you have to deal with roommates, or extended family.  Someone else buying you lunch?  They're consolidating their power over you.

I try to strike back: no no no motherfuckers this one's on me!  A social instinct sure I guess, but it's not generosity ---