Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Where Is Smokey Robinson At?
My favorite rapper and my favorite DJ is hooking up for a new mixtape. Put this in the same ranks as Jet Files and The Grand Scheme of Things, and you have Jet Winter Takeover. Yes, I am excited. And below you can see the first and second of Spitta's new series for Jet Files
College Madness Pt 1
I recently had the privilege of having a discussion with my friend, who's "just doing it for the refund check," and the following feeling of disapproval and slight disgust pushed me to write this. Being that one of my favorite writers were able to beat my lazy butt in delivery of an essay on the same subject, I've still decided to put my big two cents into the college discussion.In my most recent post, I spoke of being rewarded with the presence of much desired birthday presents, but this is not a given by far. If it wasn't for my good grades, great work habit, and ability to just enough my way through school all the while gaining the coveted Hope Scholarship, and being able to do this same thing in college and hold on to Hope like Obama's speech writer, I would not be the spoiled(not a brat, I just gets a lot of things) child that I am today. While I don't take these for granted I feel as if many of my peers take their opportunities for granted.
I know I just jumped from bday presents, to college, but my views on higher education is that it is a privilege that is more so viewed as a obligation these days. Most students make the mistake of not getting out of a lower mode of education, not realizing that the teenage wasteland known as high school is built for accomplishment, and that the college experience is much more of a contest between peer groups. Meaning that with each passing school year, more and more people are dismissed from their learning experience due to lower than average scores.
I for one love this feature because my biggest peeve of college level slackers are the ones that complain about school yet won't take the time and effort to quit and enter the real real world. I hate when I see someone who has a scholarship piss that money all away while partying, missing class, and not even taking the time to fail a test by just missing it all together. Maybe they aren't interested in what they are learning in school even in the least of trivial bit, or they just don't give two feces about the knowledge they could be taking in, I don't know because I'm not one of those. I see what I can get out of each and every class even if they have nothing to do with my art major, but more so I see that I have a free ride for the time being in the best time of my life. The other, or as Phil says, the 85% that may have a scholarship just take it for granted. Wait till your parents, or you yourself have to pay for it. Bet it won't be that hard to waste your time and money then.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
One More Requests
Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Krane
With design that strikingly remind me of something that I would see in a more stylish and realistic Final Fantasy VII or VIII, one wouldn't think that Krane comes from Canada, both designed and produced. They also produce a bag line that is just as sleek and attractive, definitely have to keep my eye on this brand.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Knux Interview
If there is one artist that I would love to see in a MSFT tee it has to be Rah or Krispy or Curren$y. That would be my dream right there
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Cut Killer
I first saw this on La Haine, if you've never watched this movie I highly recommend it. Anyway Cut Killer is a dope ass dj.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Pill - Glass
PILL - GLASS from zachwolfe.com/live on Vimeo.
Before I started the video I came in wondering and pondering why this A town kid got everybody going nuts. Well this video shows more than enough proof to understand. What the Clipse and Wu-Tang did by going in realer than real and having their own spin on situations, is told here in a much more touching way.
Daft Punk on DJ HERO
I really really REALLY want this game. More than Guitar Hero because honestly I got arthritis
Dizzee Rascal x Nike
One of my favorite London artists is getting his own shoe truly showing how big he is. I can't wait to reach the level of fame to get my own pair of Nikes for sale.
Halo ODST
This trailer is amazing. They really put a lot of work into it. I hope the games follows suit
Monday, September 14, 2009
Ghostface Stapleton Sex
This video is very not safe for work, but if you at home alone, or at home with some headphones on then enjoy
Pac Div
New video from the L.A. trio. If you do not have Church League Champions on your itunes or on cd yet, you a lame shawty
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Buy List: The Bourne Trilogy
After watching a couple of minutes of the Bourne Identity recently, and watching Supremacy and Ultimatum numerous times, I've finally decided that the Bourne movies are the Bond of our time. I will even go as far as saying that these inspired the more gritty Bond movies as of late. Who wouldn't want a movie where at one point an assassin throws himself out of a window because he was caught by the protagonist of the film. The level of action is equal to that of the weirdest of being a super spy and not knowing it as in the film Identity, and from my knowledge of the last two the action is downright jaw dropping thereby leaving me to say that every man needs this in his collection of dvds.
Being that I am gonna start my book library up by buying books on the fact that they inspired people to create movies about them, I'm gonna include the book version of The Bourne Trilogy as well. Now let me figure out how I'm gonna get movie for this and I'll have it by then.
MSFT PARK
The above photo has nothing to do with the rest of the post. This was taken at the GSU Panther Prowl. I don't feel like explaining what that is so I won't. It's just an awesome photo of me and Liz.
One of the best things about the city is the parks that are dead center, and serve as a good opposite from the concrete and steel of the surrounding structures. It's also a great place to have a festival outdoors without the worry of having to close down streets, and possibly slow down traffic more than it already is. This particular visit to Piedmont was suppose to consist of a walking around a small arts festival, but before I could even arrive I was informed by Jessie that the neo Nazis in charge didn't allow people to walk around with skateboards. Being that we couldn't ditch Frank, we decided to skip over that.
A couple of Burritos and a good walk later, we made it to the best part of the park. Sitting in the grass taking in the scenes, enjoying the weather, and having great discussions about things that slip my mind right now. All in all if you ever find yourself bored and restless, and with have one+ friends with you, get your lazy butt to the park and relax. If that doesn't equal up to some type of fun because it isn't doing enough you can stop reading my blog. Hit up a club or something you thirsty ones.
Peace and Love people. Get outside on a beautiful day and stop complaining that there's nothing to do. You can always walk somewhere.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Kinetic Typography
Kinetic Typography - Lupe Fiasco - And He Gets the Girl from Joseph Humpay on Vimeo.
Meant to post this the other day, but didn't get around to it. Shouts out to Lucy at Indubious Minds. She always finds dope stuff
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The Moon Man Has Potential
Being that Scott Mescudi's debut album is one of the most anticipated albums this past year, I wasn't able to overlook the opportunity to hear weeks in advance what could be a modern classic. Personally I do not expect Cudi to disappoint any of his fans, luckily his twitter base is large enough to get a trend going. The one problem is that the broader community that have only heard Day and Night may be up to a big surprise. Think the end of D&N, but hitting all kind of different emotions and levels.
When one thinks a rapper the image of a confident, wealthy, thug, drug dealer type of sort when put upon radio standards, but the last time you think of an awkward shy guy rapper that could have possibly fit the role of geek in high school was most likely Lupe or Kanye, if you're thinking further back, De La Soul. Almost every emcee with a cult following has either been incredibly skilled, somewhat commercially awkward by the music biz standards of their time, or both. The kid from Cleveland fits perfectly in a both position.
There is a very strange quality about the Cudi's music when heard on a first listen. The skill of lyricism is not anything truly drop dead, rewind, and listen again quality, but the songs are more about the entire song. Straight forward lyrics with addicting production, and very unusual featuring guests such as MGMT and Ratatat. All in all there are only three actual rapping stars which is lovely for a debut album.
All in all Man on the Moon:The End of Day is a must listen whether you buy it, download it, burn it from a friend's computer, because lets face it as much as people want to support great artists, money is tighter than Cudi's pants at the Jay-Z concert.
Gourmets:Review of Due
My love for Gourmets are far from a secret, but I believe that it has expanded to an unforeseen level in the past two days. From arriving at my house, seeing an exceptionally large box filled with brown paper, and a smaller box, to opening that smaller box to see what I believe has to be the sexiest addition to my sneaker collection yet.
Black on black sexiness then graced my feet the next day(today) for class, the high school level "OOOOHHHSSS " and "AWWWWWWSSSS" are replaced with self assurance that I have the sexiest pair of sneakers on my feet in the entire campus, and this self knowledge of my own personal style is much more appreciated than the attention one gets from new shoes in a high school building, but enough on my feelings about dressing for one's self instead of the audience around you, and onto the beautiful Gourmet Dues.
Nothing could be more embracing than the feel of Louis Vuitton level leather, but even at half price I could not afford those editions. While the higher editions would have been a great edition to my closet, and a delight to have, I could not pass on just owning a pair of Gourmets post Nike law suit. Enough blabber though. Instead just go buy a pair of the best shoes in the world while I rub and pet mine like a dog........I'm not being serious here. I'm not a hypebeast, people.
Peace and Love.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Labor Day Weekend Pt 2&3
To say this is just a regular weekend in downtown Atlanta, would not be truly wrong, but to not say shit is extremely much weirder would be a true lie. Bums are still talking to themselves, but now wear sparkly hats amongst their head while uttering, "We need a total of 26 fuck ups."
Don't worry she wasn't worried bout nothing but the pizza right here
Another great occurrence was the transition to "college kid wealth" for my best friend. What was recently stress from a multitude of theories of bad expectations concerning her now obtained refund check. Which is like we both got rich, because if anyone has my light bright back it is Elizabeth aka Liz aka Dixie. It is personally great to see her not worried by such matters anymore; now she can move onto worries towards school. That is the real stress. Side note: eating out for college kids hits like a brick when the check is received. Side note 2: The entire time I'm writing this, the short one herself is sitting next to me doing what she does best, annoy the bejeezus out of me. Still love her though.
The next great occurrence could not have occurred without a couple of death threats if certain pictures are to be seen on this website, unfortunately for ya'll I wholeheartedly believe the one making the threats would honestly hurt me if she was to stumble upon some unwanted photos, so yeah. One of Liz's and I's best friends, and one of the only people tinier than her turned the big two O on saturday. Instead of heading straight to the club, which was delayed till Sunday night, the tiny terror decided to roll to a skating rink. Another unfortunate occurrence, the security of the kiddie club wouldn't let me carry the G9 into it's area so no photos there. Wouldn't of had any photos of me falling anyway. Sidenote: if you haven't been to a skate rink in a while, I recommend a trip with your best friends is in order. If not for the immense fun had on the death trap that are roller skates, but also to see the disgusting behavior of the younger generation. Can't hate though, when I start to remember about my young experience at the skate rink of New Orleans, I distinctly remember a circle of people watching a young girl get naked. Yeah shit gets crazy sometimes. Oh and it was a school sponsored night as well. Bless my childhood.
PT 3
After spending an over abundance of wasting time, me and the other half hit the town first stopping at the hippiest spot I know of in all of the south, Obie's. No this isn't a restaurant or a club, just a house with a dude, and a cat, and a dog with 6 toes on each hind leg. Yes 6 toes. Have you ever seen that one movie "Kids"? If so this apartment resembles closely to the spot where Telly and Casper stop over to enjoy some drugs, just without the balloons or nitrous. Just high grade grass, and random assortments of characters stopping by.
This crazy chick just happened to be walking down the street as we rolled up to the house. She was coming from Dragoncon(think Comiccon south), and just wanted to stop by and show some love to everyone's favorite music maker. And then randomly a person that use to be my exact twin back when we both had dreads stopped by. Stories of naked white girls scissoring during a house party in the same spot I sat, and which Yelawolf collection of work is the best. If you know where I'm talking about, and you know who I'm talking about then next time there's a party, hit me up. I'd be happy to join in the fun of watching some nasty ass chicks while I'm saying, "Damn dude, who let these girls in."
Fast forward past basketball, good dinner, and GTA LAD sessions, and you will be at the point where club outings are in the works. I'm not gonna go into detail of the club scene because one 18+ club is just like every other club, incredibly hot, incredibly boring and old music, thirsty broads, lame niggas, and young people expressing "this is the best night ever omg!". Give me Apache Cafe any night over this shit. Me and Dixie have decided that we will be club hopping soon looking for the best club of Atlanta that delivers more than just the same old crunk, swag, and e popping places. A wide arrange of music from slow jams, hip hop classics, and jamaican dance is in order. Liz tells that techno with all this in the mix is good as well, but I've yet to experience that so we'll see.
In the meantime I'm gonna get to some drawings that are necessary for both grade and pay are in order while listening to Kid Cudi, and highly anticipating some bar-b-q that should hit the spot in my stomach that most time can only be reached by gumbo and beignets.
Peace and Love fam, Kill the hate
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Expanding The Closet
Huf Hat, RockersNYC tee, NSF shorts, old worn out Nike Dunks
While my drawer is stocked full of tee shirts from my favorite brands, the closet area is comparably bare. Due to the fact that I have never once held a job, and more so hustle(not talking drugs here people) for the things I buy on my own, I haven't been able to buy more layering able articles. Two flannels here and there, a cardigan, a couple of hoodies, a nice rain jacket from Public School, and a a bit too big M-65 from Mishka, and you have the just of my coat collection. There's a point to every young man's life where he wants to wear more than just tee shirts, nice jeans, and fly sneakers. While I still love my tee collection, the obsession with the basic of all boutique items must come to a screeching stop. I have decided that if I'm ever to buy anything related to clothing, it must be worth the money I am putting in, something that I can't produce for my own clothing line, and it must go big! Big in the sense of high level Ralph Lauren, or anything that would have me feeling like I can walk into a building and make million dollar deals. I'll post more style photos on here as well. Something like a Satorialist or Street Etiquette(yes those guys are highly inspiring). Oh let me explain the photos I'm using. The one above is the most basic of attire for the morning, classes, gym, and chilling occasions. I call it the get-up-and-go. The one below while being for going out on the town is still basic shirt and jeans based. Wait till some money starts coming in. Till later peoples.
Reason flannel, Mishka tee, Nudie Jeans, same old worn out Nike Dunks
>">Friday, September 4, 2009
Labor Day Weekend Pt 1
Everyone knows that when Labor Day rolls around, it isn't too far till the leaves begin to fall as well. It isn't with disdain that I look at the seasons changing, and time moving on, but more so with great expectation and patience. Everyday is closer to when things really start to pick up, and 24 hours are felt upon my mental clock as mere minutes. Hopefully the acclimation to college live is enough for me to be able to handle all of the new workloads I am beginning to put on my ever growing back. Also I personally want to raise $180 soon to produce 500 stickers to cover the walls of Atlanta, it would also be nice to see msftasylm.com on the bottom of those stickers when we are able to find a good enough web designer....hint hint. Enough of my blabber, now photos from throughout the day of my random events from running into Jessie and Frank, walking around Underground and buying my first earring in years, to having a photoshoot for my grandparent's 50th anniversary. I said random.
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