Ethnomusicologist John Blacking put it more damningly: we insist that musicality is a rare gift, so that music is to be created by a tiny minority for the passive consumption of the majority. Having spent years among African cultures that recognized no such distinctions, Blacking was appalled at the way this elitism labelled most people ‘unmusical’.

Tim made me listen to this tonight while we worked on some new beats. In L-O-V-E.

Based on our neural architecture and everyday human behavior, self-awareness and personal insight don’t appear to have exerted a strong pressure on natural selection. In fact, possibly it was just the reverse: self-awareness may have been selected against, because it can lead to hesitation, self-doubt, and demoralization. In fact, it’s commonly suggested that depression results from seeing reality too clearly.
Burger Bitch

Carlos and I are starting a band and decided our name was going to be Burger Bitch. Looked into buying the url but alas, it was taken, and boy its much better than I could have ever done with my own hands.

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]  

Classic Juvenile. Reminds me of Ha

On to rap album covers

On to rap album covers

Saw this at the Newseum in DC this past weekend.
All I can say is supreme clairvoyance. Time magazine was dead on that people would become automatons (made of paper mache coincidentally) in the computer age. 

Saw this at the Newseum in DC this past weekend.

All I can say is supreme clairvoyance. Time magazine was dead on that people would become automatons (made of paper mache coincidentally) in the computer age. 

book titles

Dang, Carlos and I can’t stop thinking up crappy titles for imaginary books. Wish i had time to work on some of these cover ideas. Got to document them till I get around to making them. Absolutely none of these will make sense to anyone but then again no one reads this so it doesn’t matter. MLR.

  • Another Steve book, this time his autobiography: “I Love my hustle” or “I’m on my hustle” - haven’t decided yet. Might depend on what picture I can find.
  • This time Carlos and his autobiography: “Just let me live my life”
  • My book: “One chicken wing too many…..or how I made my first $90 bucks”
  • Another book waiting to be written: “Bros before Ho’s: The unauthorized Ben Franklin Biography”

Once this awful semester of orgo is over, I’ll take a look at making crappy ideas come to crappy life.

And talk about sticking the knife in, and then twisting it for good measure. Greg Hodge, managing director of the site, said: “Collectively, the worst looking team is Algeria. The term ‘trophy head’ could have been coined for most of their team. England follows close behind, with the most unattractive player on the planet, Wayne Rooney. The England team do have very beautiful wives and girlfriends, but this is surely due to their bank accounts which certainly makes them a lot more attractive.”

But Robert Hintze, founder of the site, goes one step further, saying, “‘There is a direct correlation between being attractive and being a great football player. Many of the ‘most attractive’ players are also the best players. Many of them however have been let down by their worse-looking team-mates.”

Kevin Carter’s suicide note:

“I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money for child support … money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”

True to You:
photograph of Rick Astley and Morrissey taken backstage at Top Of The  Pops in London, February 1989. Morrissey’s “The Last Of The Famous  International Playboys” and Rick’s “Hold Me In Your Arms” were released  on the same day, and both charted on their first week of release.

True to You:

photograph of Rick Astley and Morrissey taken backstage at Top Of The Pops in London, February 1989. Morrissey’s “The Last Of The Famous International Playboys” and Rick’s “Hold Me In Your Arms” were released on the same day, and both charted on their first week of release.

apparently my world cup pick

Steve: remember when you said in 2006 i ain’t no holland back girl
me: hahah, when did I say that?
Steve: dunno, you were talking about a world cup game
Steve: well i’m just wondering if it’s still true
me: hahah, im definitely no holland back girl

Vamos Espana!

Blogging this before Steve gets to it (since we did just talk about it).

Some people think they should go to heaven but NOT have to die to get there.

Sorry, but that’s simply not how it works.

This shocking act of disloyalty from our home grown “chosen one” sends the exact opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. And “who” we would want them to grow-up to become.

USAF Pararescuemen