4.29.2009

Gza's Liquid Swords

Wu-Tang's the GZA breaks down one of my favorite albums of all time for Wax Poetics.

"It's the story of a shogun told through different narratives and scenarios. It's not a theme, but more like a thread throughout the album."

""Killah Hills"—This is another one of my favorites. It's a very special song as far as the album's concerned because it's long as hell and has no hook. It's up-tempo and is straight through. My cousin Life who did the hook on "Cold World" also did some singing on this too. This song has a lot of depth in terms of sound 'cause we used to layer weird shit over it.

For example, myself and Killah Priest were in the city one day with a portable ADAT recorder I just bought. We were just walking around, going to stores, buying water, juice, whatever, and just recording the random stuff, you know, just picking up sounds and shit. I think we recorded the Hells Angels riding by [us] too. RZA was in a restaurant talking to some guy, and we were banging forks on the tables, and we just recoded all those sounds too [laughs]. So we incorporated all that into the production.

As a song, it's a street story, but not told in a regular street way. I'm talking about slanging on the block, but not just your average street dealer. These were more sophisticated cats. Some of it came from a documentary I saw on the infamous Pablo Escobar. He was sending judges intimate photos of their wives and things like that. I think this is [probably] my first real Mafioso track. It's like a dense, short film."

white house flickr feed

The White House now has a flickr feed. an frickin' excellent Flickr feed.

4.27.2009

dc record fair

DC Record Fair May 9th at the Warehouse Next Door. 30 record dealers, 10 djs, full bar and kitchen! 10-4.

and now I'm late...

happy birthday, baby.

4.23.2009

marshmallows

Rhode Island: June, 2007.

4.22.2009

driving

sometime in 2002, somewhere.

4.21.2009

watching tv

Melanie watching tv. Rhode Island, 2001/2.

4.20.2009

Melanie turns 30 on Friday.

Which means, pictures of her all week! Old to new...this one is from 2000.

4.07.2009

kate's poems.

Today is my sister's birthday; happy birthday Kate! The real reason I am posting this is to link her poetry blog: Kateboarding. The name came from a cutout from a Skateboarding Magazine cover that I had removed the 'S' from, leaving Kateboarding.

Here is a poem I like of hers:

Movie Star Eggplant
I peeled the eggplant
wondering at its plump curvaceous form
yet firm in its voluptuousness,
confident in its curve,
unlike a woman in 21st century America.
This was no Kate Moss
of eggplants.
This was a Marilyn Monroe
with a decidedly purpliness
that was glamorous and old school.
I peeled the
purple skin as neatly, as tenderly
as one peels wet clothes
from a lover's body
when returning home
after caught in a thunderstorm.