Ya know how sometimes somebody will get a bit of notoriety for doing something a little glib or snarky, but then when u peel back layers you find out that there actually aren’t any layers there at all? That what you saw in that fleeting glimmer was all there was to them. That there was actually no shine and that it all was just candle light water play off a mirror? Now think about how u felt when u realized that this something that u thought was soooooo cool and soooooo whatever turned out to be dolla store electronics with a true lifespan that frizzled up in less time than it took you to find somebody to tell about it.
Can you taste that…un-goodness?
Well I’ve got your remedy, I’ve got your flavor savior and his name is WATSKY.
U may have seen his “pale white rapper” youtube video of him rapping really fast that got him a spot performing that same track on the Ellen show.
That ish wasn’t even the tip of the iceberg. WATSKY runs deep and comes with a bazaam of mental hip-hop that will soon enuff land in comparative sentences with the likes of Sage Francis, MC Chris, Deltron and Aesop Rock… (amongst others).
But there is no need to take my word for it. get your free download of his new mixtape, “A New Kind of Sexy”
Listen to it and download it by visiting the following link:
http://gwatsky.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-kind-of-sexy-mixtape
Be sure to listen to the extra track, you won’t be sorry.
If this album is your gateway to underground hip-hop, then glory be to that.
Go listen now and thank me later.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
that old money dance
Now here we go around and around
Shaken from shaking our souls for the town
Gospel to gutters, that wide spanning prance
Delightful and spiteful; that old money dance
Boys in their colors and girls nice in white
See nothing unseemly done by them this night
They extend a hand and a shoulder to chance
For riches to pour out; that old money dance
And after the service, they box up and roll
Enchanted, life’s granted them such bold control
And settle they down for the high of romance
No thoughts of the scatter; that old money dance
The sun blares a glaring alarm in the morn
Past dreams seems have steamed formed a thick trickly thorn
Brows now endowed seek out grands of advance
Taking shakes, staking steaks from that old money dance
Days end and out sides both the loft and the street
Oh so cold, souls patrol beating heat feats with feet
As they stand understanding the lance of demands
Resolute suits scoot boots to that old money dance
Keeping heads above water till we’re well below ground
No break from making that to which we’re bound
Traps perhaps happen, you plan; it commands
That you must… bust dust… Hustle and shuffle
do that old money dance
Shaken from shaking our souls for the town
Gospel to gutters, that wide spanning prance
Delightful and spiteful; that old money dance
Boys in their colors and girls nice in white
See nothing unseemly done by them this night
They extend a hand and a shoulder to chance
For riches to pour out; that old money dance
And after the service, they box up and roll
Enchanted, life’s granted them such bold control
And settle they down for the high of romance
No thoughts of the scatter; that old money dance
The sun blares a glaring alarm in the morn
Past dreams seems have steamed formed a thick trickly thorn
Brows now endowed seek out grands of advance
Taking shakes, staking steaks from that old money dance
Days end and out sides both the loft and the street
Oh so cold, souls patrol beating heat feats with feet
As they stand understanding the lance of demands
Resolute suits scoot boots to that old money dance
Keeping heads above water till we’re well below ground
No break from making that to which we’re bound
Traps perhaps happen, you plan; it commands
That you must… bust dust… Hustle and shuffle
do that old money dance
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
oh my my...
oh my my, what have we done?
we've pawned all of our bullets to buy some bigger guns
we burned all the maps so that we can plainly see
that everybody's lost; you as well as me
rather than extend a hand to share a neighborly drink
I pissed in the canteen so you have to smell it stink
cut down all the trees and hid away of their fruit
now can't seem to find them, but hey, neither can you
I plan for tomorrow by souring today
to prove that it didn't work out; not doing things OUR way
you want us to be unyielding, and so for you we stood
you all may be suffering, but it's really for your own good
and when there's nothing remaining for granddaughter and son
and they ask, "oh my my, what have you all done?"
we can just smile down upon them all like the rays of the golden sun
and tell them oh so proudly, "child, what we've done ...is won."
we've pawned all of our bullets to buy some bigger guns
we burned all the maps so that we can plainly see
that everybody's lost; you as well as me
rather than extend a hand to share a neighborly drink
I pissed in the canteen so you have to smell it stink
cut down all the trees and hid away of their fruit
now can't seem to find them, but hey, neither can you
I plan for tomorrow by souring today
to prove that it didn't work out; not doing things OUR way
you want us to be unyielding, and so for you we stood
you all may be suffering, but it's really for your own good
and when there's nothing remaining for granddaughter and son
and they ask, "oh my my, what have you all done?"
we can just smile down upon them all like the rays of the golden sun
and tell them oh so proudly, "child, what we've done ...is won."
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
What? dreams may come...
The following is an incomplete list of things that comprise the major topics touched upon in my dream last night:
Screendoors
How U.S. embassies in non-combatant countries handle irrational citizens reporting low-level emergencies.
Competitive indoor long-distance swimming
The behind-the-scenes lives of professional make-up artists working in the adult film industry
How Asian female body guards keep in shape and how their mindset can affect the emotional state of their male relatives who’re dealing with uncertainty in their current committed relationships.
Sights that might be seen if visiting a covered (yet fully vegetated) foot-ball field sized arboretum courtyard entrance to a building that is part shopping mall, part studio apartments, and part shooting range
People who hate screendoors (unrelated to prior topic)
How to choose a tire repair service technician when you’re in a town unfamiliar to you and just as you get a flat, you notice that there are 2 of these type places right across the street from one another and they seem to be operated by feuding relatives.
The step by step guide to rising in popularity by systematically disliking things that those around you speak of disliking
This is about 1/3 of the things that actually filled the dream (I just can’t clearly remember more of them at this point) and the linear timeline of the dream jumped around touching on these topics like a spastic Frogger icon.
So...what did YOU dream about?
Screendoors
How U.S. embassies in non-combatant countries handle irrational citizens reporting low-level emergencies.
Competitive indoor long-distance swimming
The behind-the-scenes lives of professional make-up artists working in the adult film industry
How Asian female body guards keep in shape and how their mindset can affect the emotional state of their male relatives who’re dealing with uncertainty in their current committed relationships.
Sights that might be seen if visiting a covered (yet fully vegetated
People who hate screendoors (unrelated to prior topic)
How to choose a tire repair service technician when you’re in a town unfamiliar to you and just as you get a flat, you notice that there are 2 of these type places right across the street from one another and they seem to be operated by feuding relatives.
The step by step guide to rising in popularity by systematically disliking things that those around you speak of disliking
This is about 1/3 of the things that actually filled the dream (I just can’t clearly remember more of them at this point) and the linear timeline of the dream jumped around touching on these topics like a spastic Frogger icon.
So...what did YOU dream about?
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
2 issues
So today I have 2 issues on which I’d like to touch. The first is an ideological question. And the 2nd is a bit of…“hope against hope” advice. As always, responses are welcome.
Issue 1:
I can justify why the chicken crossed the road, but seriously what exactly were “ all the king’s horses” hoping to add to the Humpty Dumpty rescue effort? Were they like the 1st responders on the scene? Were they there for crowd control?
I'm not trying to incur the wrath of equine rights groups, but I'm guessing that the lack of opposable thumbs made reconstructive manipulation a bit dodgey for them. I feel a t-shirt design coming on… details to come soon.
Issue 2:
The other day I was thinking. And when I was thinking, I thought about this thing that I'm about to tell you. It may be useful to somebody at some point.
Now, I hope that this information is not something that many people would ever really HAVE to find useful, but just in case I’ll pass it on.
If (due to either some happening of your own devising or just because the fates have aligned against you) you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to best/outdo/beat/conquer the devil or some other supernatural being of malice in order to save something (your eternal soul/ your friends & family/ the planet/ a half panda-half koala bear cub or whatever) then there is only one thing I would suggest.
Say this, “I challenge to a contest to lose everything. And if you are not successful, then you have to return to me everything that I lost during the contest and in the way that I request it.”
This may seem counter-intuitive at first, but when you think it through…either the supernatural being doesn’t successfully lose everything and has to return everything to you or (for a bit) it does think that it was successful. But then u inform it that if it was successful, then it just won something, thus making it no longer successful of losing everything and therefore it has to return things to you.
It’s a risky and gutsy move, but I'm gonna image that if you’re in a situation like this, your options are probably not the most ideal.
So there ya go. I hope u never need this info, but if you do…there ya go.
Issue 1:
I can justify why the chicken crossed the road, but seriously what exactly were “ all the king’s horses” hoping to add to the Humpty Dumpty rescue effort? Were they like the 1st responders on the scene? Were they there for crowd control?
I'm not trying to incur the wrath of equine rights groups, but I'm guessing that the lack of opposable thumbs made reconstructive manipulation a bit dodgey for them. I feel a t-shirt design coming on… details to come soon.
Issue 2:
The other day I was thinking. And when I was thinking, I thought about this thing that I'm about to tell you. It may be useful to somebody at some point.
Now, I hope that this information is not something that many people would ever really HAVE to find useful, but just in case I’ll pass it on.
If (due to either some happening of your own devising or just because the fates have aligned against you) you ever find yourself in a situation where you have to best/outdo/beat/conquer the devil or some other supernatural being of malice in order to save something (your eternal soul/ your friends & family/ the planet/ a half panda-half koala bear cub or whatever) then there is only one thing I would suggest.
Say this, “I challenge to a contest to lose everything. And if you are not successful, then you have to return to me everything that I lost during the contest and in the way that I request it.”
This may seem counter-intuitive at first, but when you think it through…either the supernatural being doesn’t successfully lose everything and has to return everything to you or (for a bit) it does think that it was successful. But then u inform it that if it was successful, then it just won something, thus making it no longer successful of losing everything and therefore it has to return things to you.
It’s a risky and gutsy move, but I'm gonna image that if you’re in a situation like this, your options are probably not the most ideal.
So there ya go. I hope u never need this info, but if you do…there ya go.
Monday, July 11, 2011
ish i think is cool 7.11.11 edition
So today i've been watching the first season of a show call The Boondocks. It's been around for a while (I think they might be on season 4 now) but I've just started it. If you have any qualms about ethnicity relations being explored in a unapologetically un-PC way, then this is probably not the show for you. How ever, it is extremely funny if you can get past that. A few of the character names have made me laugh out loud; (Col. H. Stinkmeaner, Gangstalicious and A Pimp Named Slickback just to name a a couple).
It's not only the Character names that have made me laugh out loud but some of the dialog. I'd like to now share with you some of my favorites so far:
Huey: I got an idea - why don't we go to college so we don't end up like Gangstalicious?
~~~
Riley: It's like going to heaven and finding God smoking crack.
~~~~
Cristal: The name's Cristal, you know like the Champagne.
Huey Freeman: Cristal, that sounds like a stripper name. Might you be a stripper, Cristal like the champagne?
Cristal: And what would you know about strippers little man?
Huey Freeman: Not much, but I do know they're usually named after liquor.
~~~~
Ed Wuncler: It smells like hot Armpit on wheat bread.
However the thing that made me post this...um...posting was a reading of 2 proposed “dishes” from the menu for a restaurant called “The ITIS” :
Sausage and waffles and fried chicken breakfast lasagna
and
Bacon wrapped chitlins stuffed catfish
The rest just needs to be seen.
It's not only the Character names that have made me laugh out loud but some of the dialog. I'd like to now share with you some of my favorites so far:
Huey: I got an idea - why don't we go to college so we don't end up like Gangstalicious?
~~~
Riley: It's like going to heaven and finding God smoking crack.
~~~~
Cristal: The name's Cristal, you know like the Champagne.
Huey Freeman: Cristal, that sounds like a stripper name. Might you be a stripper, Cristal like the champagne?
Cristal: And what would you know about strippers little man?
Huey Freeman: Not much, but I do know they're usually named after liquor.
~~~~
Ed Wuncler: It smells like hot Armpit on wheat bread.
However the thing that made me post this...um...posting was a reading of 2 proposed “dishes” from the menu for a restaurant called “The ITIS” :
Sausage and waffles and fried chicken breakfast lasagna
and
Bacon wrapped chitlins stuffed catfish
The rest just needs to be seen.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Ears on fire! 7.6.11 edition
First of all I’d like to thank the good people over at “Kevin Bourgeois” for initially directing me to the A.V.Club’s video page by posting a link of TMBG performing a Chumbawumba ditty. In case you don’t know about this whole thing, (admittedly I hadn’t up until then), the A.V.Club has a list of 25 songs that people submitted. Then 25 different bands come in and choose a song off the list to perform live in the A.V.Club’s office. Once a song has been performed, it get crossed off the list and cannot be chosen by a later band. So as things progress there are less and less songs from which to choose.
The TMBG performance was once of those. And they nailed it by bringing in what I guess was the entire office staff to belt out the mob chant of “I get knocked down!” on the choruses. You can see that video by following this link [http://www.avclub.com/articles/they-might-be-giants-covers-chumbawamba,53068/ ].
After rocking out to this vid, I perused some of the other vids (including some from the previous year) and was glad that I did. Some of the other incrediblastic covers included : Of Montreal doing White Stripes; Coheed and Cambria covering the Smiths; Rise Against doing Nirvana; and Ben Folds intimate tribute to Elliott Smith.
As awesome as all of these were, the one performance that prompted me to lay fingertips to keyboard and has been dominating half of my recent listening (we’ll get to the other half in a sec) was that of Wye Oak’s take on the Danzig sonic juggernaut, “Mother”. Just go and bear witness [http://www.avclub.com/articles/wye-oak-covers-danzig,53066/ ]. Wye Oak was a band that knew little about, but you can be sure that I’ll seek out more from them in the near future.
Now the other half of my recent listening has been pretty packed with music by somebody with whom I'm far more familiar. And yes I am of course speaking of Darryl Jenifer who you might know as the towering bassist of groundbreaking punk-rastas Bad Brains. Well he’s releasing a new solo album entitled, “In Search of Black Judas.” Visit his page [http://www.darryljenifer.com/ ] to hear the 2 tracks I'm been loving so much and to see everything else that Darryl and his big green bass has been up to.
The TMBG performance was once of those. And they nailed it by bringing in what I guess was the entire office staff to belt out the mob chant of “I get knocked down!” on the choruses. You can see that video by following this link [http://www.avclub.com/articles/they-might-be-giants-covers-chumbawamba,53068/ ].
After rocking out to this vid, I perused some of the other vids (including some from the previous year) and was glad that I did. Some of the other incrediblastic covers included : Of Montreal doing White Stripes; Coheed and Cambria covering the Smiths; Rise Against doing Nirvana; and Ben Folds intimate tribute to Elliott Smith.
As awesome as all of these were, the one performance that prompted me to lay fingertips to keyboard and has been dominating half of my recent listening (we’ll get to the other half in a sec) was that of Wye Oak’s take on the Danzig sonic juggernaut, “Mother”. Just go and bear witness [http://www.avclub.com/articles/wye-oak-covers-danzig,53066/ ]. Wye Oak was a band that knew little about, but you can be sure that I’ll seek out more from them in the near future.
Now the other half of my recent listening has been pretty packed with music by somebody with whom I'm far more familiar. And yes I am of course speaking of Darryl Jenifer who you might know as the towering bassist of groundbreaking punk-rastas Bad Brains. Well he’s releasing a new solo album entitled, “In Search of Black Judas.” Visit his page [http://www.darryljenifer.com/ ] to hear the 2 tracks I'm been loving so much and to see everything else that Darryl and his big green bass has been up to.
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