...more more...yeah...musique.

I've been listening to some really great albums lately including Killah Priest, the Smiths, Cyne, etc. I've been sitting at this computer recently almost since Saturday listening to hella albums that I've been recommended to listen to by friends and albums that I haven't listened to at all. Hell, I have albums on my computer that have never been played to since the day I downloaded them. Yeah, that's right...I said downloaded! I'm not afraid of the Music Federallie's. I have realized that the albums that I have slept on the most and never played were the best albums in my whole musical collection. I'm just thankful that God gave me this wide-open musical taste to like many different types of music beyond hip hop and rock. I love the fact that I can play Frank Sinatra or Billie Holliday, Atreyu, Aesop Rock, and Dieselboy all in the same play list and appreciate all of them. I definitely need to do a profession that includes writing and music. I think that all of you should check out all of these artists.


Killah Priest (of Wu Tang Clan)


Cyne


LMNO (of the Visionaries)


Justice

Music

It's easy to misjudge someone based on the things or events in their life that they have been through. It's funny how something like musical taste can define the events and things a human being has been through. By this correlation, people generally tend to choose music that defines their feelings towards the past and current events that have/are going on in their lives. For example, I love hardcore rock for the basis of its abrasive yet true lyrical content. Most of the hardcore rock (or rock in general) is laden with lyrics of introspection, renunciation and even abdication. The general age of the bands that I listen to are within my age range of 18-30 years old therefore it is a bit analeptic to know that there are people that feel the same way I do. It is reassuring that there are people in this world that can have the strength to display all of their insecurities for the world to see through the medium of music and not feel a sense of self-mutilation while doing so. I tend to pick music that I can most relate to; as do you. Yes, the brunt of my musical taste is music that is absorbed with lyrics of disservice and slovenliness and with heavily maniacal guitar and percussion play, but it helps define bits of me.


Thursday


Circle Takes The Square


As Cities Burn

Goodbye, Sprint.

I haven't been writing blogs for a while now for one huge reason (well, two). School has started back up again, and I have been so consumed with being broke now that I haven't really been on the internet as much as I used to. But, that is all soon to change in a while (I hope). Nothing tremendous has been going on in my life as of late other than I am in huge debt right now. I owe Sprint a ridiculous amount of cash for their 'services.' It's beginning to get ridiculous and extremely taxing that I have a Sprint balance that is damn near the same amount as my rent for my townhouse. I have been with them for over 5 years now, and they continue to pimp me out of every red cent that comes into my hands. It's sad when for years I have paid almost 100 dollars every month for 5 years to keep this crappy phone service on.

I ask myself this question everyday; "Why I pay so damn much for a cell phone?!" Well, I am in the Bay Area now for good, so I don't need a nationwide service such as Sprint anymore. I will just have to get a Metro PCS phone for the time being. $50 a month for unlimited minutes and text messages on my phone doesn't sound bad at all. Yeah...Metro PCS has extremely crappy networking such as dropped calls. Hell, Metro PCS drops more calls than Tiki Barber dropped footballs in the 2000 NFL season. But, whatever. I am not picky in these days and times. I am utterly broke and a true starving student now. To just have a cell phone and rent paid is all that truly matters at this time. (God, I hope I get this marketing internship with Photobucket.)

Sunspot Jonz

The true hip hop! Definitely true hip hop indeed from Oakland-raised and bred co-creator of the Living Legends crew, Sunspot Jonz on his most recently released underground hip hop LP, "Why We Fight." There are six members of the Living Legends whom are both from California's hubs, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. All of the Legends have gone on to do many solo projects and most of the solo projects were just alright, but Sunspot Jonz has definitely proven on this LP that he can be successful with or without the Legends. "Why We Fight" is laced with 19 heavy bass-laden and eclectic tracks and a bonus track at the end of the installment that all carry their own many different themes to leave your ass nodding your head for 80 minutes . I was hella impressed with what I have heard on this LP!. From the jazz-influenced instrumental, "Hip Hop" to tracks featuring the Grouch, Equipto, Luckyiam.PSC, and Eligh, this album is definitely one for any hip hop collector. I would recommend this to any hip hop fan, well any music fan in general. Sunspot Jonz will not let you down on this LP; he will leave your senses and ears tingling and wanting more.

Overall Grade: 84 percent (B)

This shouldn't be to difficult to read.
shehatesme
thetheoryishere
thedestructivepath
ofchangesdoesntreveal
thepainstillifeel
yetthingscouldntbe
thewayiwantedittogo
believeit
conceiveit
iwasnttherightoneforher
iguessnot
icantletgo
no...
i can't
let

go.

Wearing Hella Hats.

So...I didn't get the online moderator job for Meez.com. It pissed me off yesterday morning, but soon after receiving the bad news, I got over it. I am moving into my place possibly tomorrow or Saturday. The online moderator job for Meez.com only included moderating the forums. Basically, I would make sure that the teenage kids wouldn't put any porn on the forums, or start stupid threads on the forum. And the best part is that I would be able to do this job from the comfort of my home! Getting paid for this...a dream! But, I didn't get it. I have an interview today with another "online community," so let's hope that it pays as well and can be done from home as well.

I start school on Monday; I am rather ready for it to start so I can graduate! To graduate and move onto bigger and better things. I have an article that I have published in my local newspaper, "East Palo Alto Daily News" on gentrification. In fact, it was a blog that I wrote a while back that I submitted to be published. I will continue to try to freelance write for as many publications as possible in order to add more and more things to my resume. I think that by this time next year (Lord say the same) I will have a wide range of things to put on my resume.

At this point in my life:
1) I am interning for one of my favorite hip hop groups, Zion I.
2) I write for my local newspaper, "East Palo Alto Daily News."
3) I write club and venue reviews for NiteVibe.com.

Possibilities in the Near Future (like next week):
1) Online Community Moderator (Limbo.com)
2) Writing Internship (Vintage Auto Racing Magazine)

I am blessed.

Hardcore rock

It's not very hard to sit here and write with Josh Scogin of The Chariot screaming in my ears with my headphones in. As hard as it is for most people to comprehend what hardcore rock bands lyrics are, for me, it isn't that hard to understand exactly what they are saying through their low death groans and high screeching yells. In the beginning when I first start listening to metal, I used to find myself looking up the lyrics via Internet to understand exactly what the hell the singer from these various bands were trying to convey through the screams. After reading the lyrics of a few songs, you start to realize that metal is more than "a handful of white boys screaming their lungs out" (like an average Black man would say). You start to realize that these lyrics are deeper than most of the radio-friendly rock bands' songs that you are saturated with on a daily basis.

The Chariot


The Number 12 Looks Like You


Norma Jean



As Cities Burn


Every Time I Die




Sevendust

Broken Glass All In My Mouth

Sometimes I look in the mirror and I don’t know who that is staring at me. Who’s that guy weathered by stress and beats himself down to a pulp. Does he fail to realize that he is divine? I know that I am divine but sometimes I look at myself and it hurts my eyes. The reflection I see…the guy that is inside of me..asking what’s it like to be free…ooh free is just a state of mind…a simple feeling…strikingly blindly to the depths of the ceilings…of caverns of my thoughts…I was bought….hell, well I can’t be bought when all I ever had is to soon to be lost…I scraped, scratched, and fought for the world to be easy…found out that I was much more than the dirt so she could see me….maybe she would give it a chance to derail my train of thought….so we could get beyond all the soon on here and after thoughts…but the timing of these events just didn’t seem to come here on after…I stated and forgave her for me crying and her laughter…the soon of a broken thought made the jokes a bit badder…like climbing to the top then realizing it’s a broken ladder…

Refurbished Dell

Fingers working almost overtime at a double pace while the notes of a piano play through the raggedy speakers of this refurbished Dell laptop. A song by Atmosphere playing in the background; he types away at the keyboard hoping for something inspirational to jump out at him like a panther pouncing on its prey in a jungle. But, there still is nothing inspirational coming into the background or even his foreground as he types. The clock on the desk blinking "2:23 A.M." from the power outage two hours and twenty-three minutes ago. His ironed-on tightness of a face begins to give in to two large dimples. His pupils are now wider as the song comes on. The song he had first heard back in January that has made him a fan of this particular band, Band of Horses. As the tempo of the song begins to go back down, his heart rate becomes parallel with the bass line slowing down as well. The chorus comes back in raising the tempo (and his heart rate) once more. He finds himself staring into space looking for some inspiration. Damn it, some sort of inspiration somewhere around this room. He looks at the bright colored shoes below him thinking they might have some sort of worth in this writing. He shrugs and continues to type away, but finds nothing to write about. Another blog finished.

Take A Cold Stare At The State That We Live In...Please!

A presidential Executive Order entitled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq" was signed with a huge smile by my favorite person in the world, President George W. Bush on July 17th. What this Executive Order implicates is that any person or persons that is of an organization or entity that is of an anti-war in Iraq movement of nature can have their assets confiscated and frozen through the order of our great president, George W. Bush. Basically what this means is that if you are found at an anti-war rally opposing "Big Brother" Bush's grander scheme of things for world dominance through the entities of masonry, then you will be under direct order to have all of your finances, money and assets (property, etc) stolen from you.

This newly signed Executive Order is just another piece to the puzzle of the great future for all of us here in the U.S. The grim reality of martial law is upon all of us. The Executive Order violates the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments, but we all already know that when the Patriot Act was signed stating that all of your rights here within this country would easily be violated and stripped away from you.

In May 2007, Bush issued a National Security Directive (National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51/HSPD 20) which could suspend the constitutional government and give the President dictatorial power absolutely over the nation if there were to be another 9-11 scenario implicated within the country. What this means is when another national tragedy such as 9/11 occurs, martial law will be implicated throughout the whole country.

Turn on the TV sets and you will see the major headlines are all about the 'next Al Qaeda attack on the nation's soils. This should be foreshadowing of what is next to come in this nation within the next few months, maybe years. I honestly and truly believe that another 9/11-like attack will happen to suspend the presidential race of the future president and will give President Bush a longer stay in the White House so that his plans of martial law can and will be enforced by the end of this year. Don't be surprised if martial law is enforced a lot sooner than you think.

Read for about the latest Executive Order here:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6377