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NxWorries – Why Lawd? Tour
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NxWorries present the Why Lawd? Tour. Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge are
taking their GRAMMY Award-winning album on the road with 22 stops featuring
specia...
05 April 2008
Brooklyn Flea
Brooklyn Flea, the largest outdoor market in New York City, is opening tomorrow April 6 then every Sunday, from 10am-5pm, at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene.
There's going to be a food court dishing out Waffles, cookies, cupcakes and cannoli made with Salvatore Bklyn Ricotta.
Bring your greenbacks cause it's cash only.
This weekend the MTA is doing work, so the F is running on the A/C line from Hoyt-Schermerhorn to the Market (use the Lafayette Ave. stop, 5 minutes away. Buses are replacing the F/G from Bergen St. to 7th Avenue. The G is stopping normally at Clinton-Washington Ave., which is a block from the flea market (use Clinton Ave. exit).
Harmony Korine Restrospective at the IFC Center
In celebration of the upcoming release of MISTER LONELY on May 2nd, The IFC Center will host a midnight retrospective on the work of Harmony Korine during select Fridays and Saturdays in April. KIDS will screen April 4-5, JULIEN DONKEY-BOY on April 11-12 and GUMMO on April 25-26.
www.ifccenter.com
These Are Powers
I went to see the band "These Are Powers" open for "Excepter" a couple of months back. The Brooklyn-based, Chicago ghost-punk band nearly blinded my eyes with their janky Nintendo Mike Tyson's Knockout graphics synched with experimental electron-melodies.
http://videothing.com/videos/04-05-08_these_are_powers.mp4
http://www.myspace.com/thesearepowers
04 April 2008
Man Pregnant with his Wife's Child
Yes, you read the title correctly. A trangender, legally male, Oregon man is 6 months preggo. Thomas Beatie was born a woman, but decided to become a man 10 years ago and retained his female reproductive organs.
"I opted not to do anything with my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day," he told Oprah. Tom's wife inseminated him with a syringe using sperm purchased from a bank.
03 April 2008
States Facing Budget Trouble Consider Releasing Inmates Early to Save Millions
Get your crime on...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Lawmakers from California to Kentucky are trying to save money with a drastic and potentially dangerous budget-cutting proposal: releasing tens of thousands of convicts from prison, including drug addicts, thieves and even violent criminals.
Officials acknowledge that the idea carries risks, but they say they have no choice because of huge budget gaps brought on by the slumping economy.
Click here to read more. 2008 The Associated Press.
Jammin' on the one Jammin' on the 1!
I could not stop saying, "Jammin' on the one, jammin' on the one," and laughing to myself on the train today (which probably made a lot of people think I was crazy).
Hell yea, Tracy Morgan.
RIP Wayne Frost AKA Frosty-Freeze, Rock Steady Crew
(Speedy D & Speedy Legs handing Frosty a Zulu Nation Hall of Fame Award at the 2001 Anniversary.)
B-Boy pioneer and graffiti writter Wayne Frost, AKA Frosty Freeze, of ther legendary Rock Steady Crew, RocStars and CIA crews, died Today at the age of 44. Frost died at Mount Sinai Medical Center after a long illness.
Frost was known for his acrobatic and inventive style. His trademark move was "The Suicide," also known as "The Death Freeze Drop" (a move that he created accidentally by attempting a backflip and landing on his back).
It was in a brief scene in 1983's "Flashdance," Frosty Freeze and the Rock Steady Crew introduced the world to b-boying. The defining moment featured the trio- Normski, Mr. Freeze and Frosty Freeze - on a piece of cardboard.
rocksteadycrew.com
wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_Freeze
Mare139's Blog on Frosty
Steady sippin' SIZZZRUP
Note: drinking the substances described in this article and its comments can be DEADLY. I recommend that you do NOT try them.
Real drank is Prometh w/ Codeine VC, marketed by Alpharma. Nothing less than a deuce (2 oz) into a 10 oz. styrofoam cup, (a 1,2, or 3-liter is ok for ladies) 6oz Sprite 1 Grape Jolly Rancher and Ice. Real lean tastes sweet like candy, if your's taste like crap guess what? You are a toy and your boy hooked you up with ROBO, you are drinking a DXM cocktail which comes from robotussin. Promethazine is an antihistamine which suppresses your cough... so next time you sippin' syrup hit that brown dirt weed, feel like youre gonna die, take a sip, and watch your cough just go away. Prometh can only be obtained thru a doctor.
RIP DJ Skrew
Don't call it a comeback,
it's just corporations biting. Again.
That perfect LOL moment for me is when I find mistakes in others especially corporations or advertisements.
Check out Subway's new campaign "Five Dolla Holla"
A real 5-dollar holler aint nothing special, it ain't nothing different, it just getting between the sheets and hit skins, and for the money it's more than enough. The 5-dollar holler also refers to a Nickel bag of any form of dope or a $5 dollar crack rock.
Oh yeah, and I take offence to the idea of “Pimping-out" The Great Emancipator. Just becuase Lincoln was anti-slavery doesn't mean if he were to walk earth in present-day he’d act like a wigger from the suburbs.
Three cheers towards a boycott of the racist-Subway-pigs.
http://www.subwayfreshbuzz.com/index.asp?cid=10
02 April 2008
Death before dishonor.
Word is bond.
Most everyone has forgotten the true meaning of these statements. Rather then the testaments they once pronounced they are common phrases with light implications. The majority of people hold no code of honor nor understand true honor. The streets are filled with hustlers out for their own often while dishonoring families, friends, and self. When it comes self-pride and honor amongst community you have to give it up to the Japanese.
Seppuku (切腹 "stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku has been used both voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, and as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses. Plunging a sword into the abdomen and making a left to right cut is the proper performance of seppuku.
You may be a ninja, but you’ll never be a Samurai.
01 April 2008
Bjork's Visual Wanderlust
She's done it again. If you haven't seen it already, check out Bjork's innovative music video masterpiece for her single "Wanderlust." It's a 3-D (yes, get out your glasses!) visual menagerie directed by Encyclopedia Pictura. Filmed with a custom made stereoscopic camera rig and a mix of puppets, scale models, and computer generated animation, the stunning video took nine months to film and channels the folklore of the mountainous Alps.
The video premiered at Deitch Projects Studio in Long Island City, Queens earlier last month. The video was actually shot in the Dietch space. The official release date of the video was yesterday, but it's hard to find a good quality version in the virtual world. It will be released later on DVD.
In the meantime, I highly recommend viewing the clear 2-D version of "Wanderlust" on the Enyclopedia Pictura website here. Wow.
Human Jukebox
If you are going to beg for money at least look good doing it.
Here is a fragment of the Human Jukebox's obituary in the San Francisco chronicle:
In the days before schizophrenia stole his wits, Grimes Poznikov played music on "The Mike Douglas Show" and was lauded by journalist Charles Kuralt as one of the most popular entertainment attractions in San Francisco. It was the 1970s and early 1980s -- and Mr. Poznikov, "The Automatic Human Jukebox," sat at Fisherman's Wharf in a refrigerator box playing songs for cash.
He was a very good musician by all accounts, a skill he always attributed to growing up in a house where everyone played an instrument and his mother was a locally famous singer.
But that was in the old days.
By the late 1980s, Mr. Poznikov's mental illness made him so erratic he could no longer perform, and he began sleeping in the streets. And that's how he died, from alcohol poisoning, on Thursday. A passer-by discovered him lying on a sidewalk near the corner of Caesar Chavez Street and Highway 101. He was 59.
31 March 2008
Killing Season
It’s Spring...the seasonal changes cause new plant growth to "spring forth." Daylight hours rapidly increase and as Chicago warms the snow begins to melt and colors come out. Rejuvenated from a long and cold Chicago winter, many find spring to be about proving themselves. Blood is spilling on the streets and in headlines. Recruiting season in Chicago’s gangs is now upon us. New recruits across all sides are holding down their colors, nation, and hood by killing the innocent along with the enemies. By the looks of the streets, parties, and newspapers, kill-zones have been established and the murders have begun.
As one respectable person mentioned last night, “There are a lot of seats to fill and plenty of asses for the job.” With homicide rates equaling that of the mid-ninties, this year looks to be a bad one. Promise me this, ,when you hear shots don’t spring forth, fall back.
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