After years of stalling, I've finally come up with a tracklist for my album. A select few of you will recognize many of the titles or tracks, but there are a few new ones, and some I decided to revisit...and here 'tis:
1) Re:birth 2) Re:prise 3) Boom Baptism 4) Vice Grips 5) Wait and See (lust) 6) Back Home 7) First Child 8) conVERSEation 9) 1 for 3 (love) 10) Verbal Stimulation 11) Rat Race 12) Smoke & Mirrors 13) Voices (loss) 14) Forever
After typing it out, it's officially real (although I may swap one song, change the title of one, and possibly add another). Regardless, I'm already excited to finally get "...1st Child" to fresh ears.
stream of consciousness beginning now... (might a well have a little fun on this ride...you coming?)
i am a people watcher... and i'd be the first to shout it from the top of the tenements. it's almost strange how i'm intrigued with how others interact. what words people choose while in any given situation. but even further than that, lies the subtext. what's not said.
that has gotten a lot harder lately.
before tweets and status updates, people were already growing accustomed to interacting in person less and less. they were doing this through texts & before that voicemails. so what is a people-watcher like myself to do?
i'm left to assume what the subtext is through what people decide to reveal to the world. Sometimes i look at status updates, tweets, and blogs and wonder 'what does that REALLY mean?'. i'm never one to just take something at face value. i've grown accustomed to that because i'd hate for someone to take me at face value. there is always so much more going on between the pages of the covers that you judge. i think that's another reason why i find the beauty in even the ugliest of people... (or MOST people anyway).
but maybe assuming subtext is bad. i tell myself things like, 'i shouldn't meddle in the business of others', or 'why should i even care?'. it's almost as if i'm reaching out to even the smallest of statements trying to grasp what the underlying meaning was.
in the end, it seems that maybe i'm just another homesick alien...
Subterranean homesick alien.
The breath of the morning I keep forgetting The smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town Where you can't smell a thing You watch your feet For cracks in the pavement
Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets
They're all uptight Uptight.. (x7)
I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane Late at night when I'm driving Take me on board their beautiful ship Show me the world as I'd love to see it
I'd tell all my friends But they'd never believe They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars And the meaning of life They'd shut me away But I'd be all right All right..
I'm just uptight Uptight.. (x7)
Monday, January 25, 2010
So here it is again... vlog #2.
i wrote this one over a year ago... if requested, i'll possibly post the transcript of it.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
So in addition to posting details of certain tweets, i've also decided to start Vlogging too... and here's the first.
i think i'm probably going to upload a verse every #MusicMonday. i've also got other weekly plans coming up, for example...
#OnSecondSpin is where i'll take an older music release (maybe even movies) and bring it to light where it maybe have not shined before.
#ForTheRecord seems a little self-explanatory ... well, because i'll be explaining myself.. ha.
#TrueSpit or #RealSpit, #WhatTheFerch, and other hashtags will come up in the future too... and i'm sure i'll drop little anecdotes about those details...
Thursday, January 07, 2010
"If you want to be a cartoonist, draw everyday."- Charles Schultz
I read this quote the other day. Sometimes the simple quotes can have the most impact. Efficient but effective. I've had an extremely bad case of writer's block and I grown so accustom to making excuses for it. How could i even write a verse, let alone a blog, when i nitpick meticulously at the details in a simple tweet or facebook status update...
my mind is funny.
When a thought occurs and jumps up into my head randomly, albeit humorous or dark (or humorously dark), i try to clickety-clack my big thumbs over the buttons of my qwerty as fast as i can. Minutes may pass before that last little button is clicked... and then i'll go off and edit it again... THEN i'd finally hit the 'send' button that shoots it off into the e-verse. there is a problem with that though. I wasted moments by spending the time thinking about how i was going to document the moment later. nothing is worse that not allowing yourself to be in the moment.
Then i thought about it. I've been "mirco-blogging" through twitter and facebook for all of last year. I don't have to think of stuff to write about if i've got writers block. i should pick one of my old updates and expand on what i was thinking at the time. it'd do two things. i'll be able to elaborate on some details behind the digital bytes and bits of my mind... AND ...i'd cure the wrenching blues of my writer's block. i'd take the advice from Charles Schulz...but tweak it a tad. instead of using the pen to create cartoons, i'll use keyboard keys to open doors with my words (or other peoples words if i'm quoting).
with that said (or written (or typed))... this is the first blog in a while that will give you glimpses behind the curtain. it'll recount random details of the past year, and also stories of future tweets too. hop on the caboose of my (often derailed) mental train of thought. hold on, sucka. choo-choo.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I get high with a little help from my friends.
As many of y'all know, I rep for a camp out here in daygo called, MAG FLUX. I've been rockin' stages with these cats for a few years now. an right now, they are on a tear of just droppin singles left and right. practically weekly. if you've missed some, here they are.
Fresh off the presses, another remix that'll make 'em go GAGA... "Make Her Say (Mag Flux Remix)" with Acromic, M.Y.O, and Mr.Oda. "Make Her Say" (Mag Flux Remix)
Insert shameless plug here: i'm not necessarily the sweetest guy in the world. but this is me painting a picture of what real <3 is... "1 for 3" - just.chill Download
If that wasn't enough, i'll hit you "Again"! This is a track that i did with my boy Evolve on the beat and he even does the middle verse as well. You get a geek cookie if you can catch all the references in the third verse. "again" - just.chill feat Evolve
Monday, September 14, 2009
but i did 5 mics...
I remember when I was a young tyke and I used to spend extra money on Hip-Hop rags. The coveted holy grail was The Source and their rating system. Before my distrust of critics and people who get paid to review things, I put all my faith and trust in the 5 mic review system they had. I even went on to try and cop all the 5 mic albums before they started giving them out like candy (look towards the bottom of that list). Some of those praised albums still get rotation in my deck today... (aquemini, blueprint, low end theory). They even RE-REVIEWED some albums that WEREN'T 5 mics before (some of those 4.5 mic albums are better than those 5s). Cue Miss Info...
I was first intro'd to Miss Info on one of those VH1 list shows. Many of y'all know my penchant for funny girls, asian girls, and hip hop girls. She was all THREE. Insta-celeb-crush. Then I did more digging. She was also a writer for practically all of the major hip hop publications. This morning, I learned she was one of the people who dubbed Nas' "Illmatic" with that dubious 5 mic honor. The following video is her describing it. Why she gave Nas the 5 mics though isn't why I posted this video... it's what she says towards the end of the video about how hip-hop now has many hands in it. To think that she received "Illmatic" as a handwritten preview tape shows it was REALLY about the music back then.
With the release of Raekwon's "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II" (who's original copped 4.5 mics)... I'm hoping that there will be a resurgence of real hip hop.
then again, no one is buying it... so the marketers won't cater. ahh.. then endless cycle.
it's been a long time... i shouldn't have left you.
It's amazing how much can happen in one year. The last time I posted in this was over four years ago. So one can imagine how much has happened. But I'm not about to recap what has gone down in the past four years. You've got Google if you want to do that. I'm just going to talk about there here and now, and whatever is going on at the time of the posting. It could be about a music that I'm feeling that may need more shine (cop Tanya Morgan's "Brooklynati"...). Maybe it'll be about movies that I've just seen ("Inglorious Basterds" may be Tarantino's best work since Pulp Fiction). It could be about pop culture, (I'm not even going to address Kanye's Joe Wilson move at the VMAs... wait, I just did). Or it could be something as simple as something I've seen online that y'all need to peep. What I'm NOT going to do is get uber personal on this blog. I've got a other outlets for that. Just consider this another part of the pieces of me... and when the cookie crumbles... the crumbles are still delicious, so take what you can.
