watch it. love it. it is chromeo!

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

the best thing of November 30th, ever. and I don’t just mean today, I mean all November 30ths, ever!

play on!

Monday, May 21st, 2007

abc news reports on the Baghdad Symphony Orchestra playing ‘whenever and wherever it can’ despite an average citizen death toll of around 100/day.

abc also calls it Incredible that ‘only one musician has lost his life in the violence since the war’ – personally I would call it Atrocious. but the real appalling part of the story is where they report

Mohammed Qassim plays the violin — a beautiful 19th century violin that he bought in Czechoslovakia 25 years ago and has treasured ever since. But in a raid on his apartment building by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers, his priceless instrument was taken out of its case and smashed to pieces.

why? I just don’t understand why? why was his apartment raided in the first place and what good does it do to destroy musical instruments? to take the instrument out of the case is a very deliberate act – you have to be aware of what you’re doing. what good did it do to destroy this man’s creative livelihood, when he’s trying to make best of the situation. he could leave town like so many others, but he’s brave, more brave than I would be, and he decides to stay and play on. And his reward consists of raids on his home and death threats?

YOU HUMANS AND YOUR WAR TACTICS FUCKING CONFUSE ME!

Related websites:
655,000 died since beginning of war (BBC)

Liberation, today

Monday, January 8th, 2007

the NYTimes today published a Critics’ Choice review of Talib Kweli and Madlib’s “Liberation” EP, in the Arts section, page E3.

I blogged about this downloadable album nearly a week ago! Booya NYTimes!

Sure I didn’t put it as eloquently as Jon Pareles, but then again I haven’t been paid even a penny for all my research!

And get this, if you follow the NYTimes review to the published web link, rappcats.com, you’ll find the album is currently offline. No doubt too many requests overloaded their servers and their bandwith skyrocketed! Which is a GREAT notion, that too many people want to listen to progressive hip-hop! It’s just a shame the NYTimes was slow to the plate.

This reminds me I need to install a torrent tracker on my website. Then I could host this album. Then again, all it takes is a simple search online.

Liberation, online

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Now here are two artists who understand the ability of technology to spread their message. Hip-hop artists Madlib and Talib ‘My name is in the middle of Equality’ Kweli have available, online, a completely free 9-song EP. “Liberation” is available as a downloadable zip file to ‘burn a CD’; the cover and album art is also all available – ‘print & cut it up’!!

Oh, and it’s fucking good: “Cause when I gotta intervene I help to free the populace”. Thank you Talib, Madlib, BlackSmith and rappcats.com. WORD!