Not Bored in New York

I’m all business

but business isn’t always rapping. I’ve had lots of rap-related posts lately. Here’s some other stuff that’s pretty baller. Great concept, great execution:

Found me…

Me, rapping, sorry I can’t embed the video

So, somewhere deep in the annals of this blog are the lyrics to a song from 2005 (or 2004?). It just so happens that I recited a lot of those lyrics last night at the open mic I go to every Monday–you can access the archive anytime, or watch live on monday nights (ustream.tv/channel/illspokinn)–and I have the video here:

http://www.divshare.com/download/7160627-bdc

Everyone should probably see

‘Probably’ because I haven’t tracked it down and seen the whole thing yet.

Open Mike Eagle

I had never heard of him until today:

Some of the older posts

Particularly a lot of the ones from my first two years in new york city, are a real drag to read. I know it too.

Leaving this kid on the side of the highway too:

It is as if the past self is a puppeteer and thus the location of all of the prescient qualities, while the present self is the puppet and thus the object through which prescience acts, and through which the music is performed. Perhaps the future self is an Atlas of sorts, maintaining the space in which all of this temporal mixing occurs?

(I’m not too keen on the last sentence, but you know, gotta be felxible). The essay is coming along. Updates eventually.

Robert Beer

Wrote a great reference book about Tibetan Buddhist art.

…because…

We’ll Surely Make it.

Even if we Try.