Slice of Pie

This is Marshall McLuhan. He wrote The Medium is the Massage in 1967.

This is Norman Mailer. He wrote The White Negro in 1957.

Beats are from a middle-class background and have been downwardly mobile. Negroes are more likely to be from a working-class background and to have been upwardly mobile. Beats avoid employment while middle-class Negroes seek it. For the black bourgeoisie jobs are seen as an important means of obtaining status and a means to bigger and better conspicuous consumption. A French sociologist has even called this group "colored babbits." Popular mythology suggests that beats will not work, and statements like the following support this: "Me earn money? Never. All you earn the government takes and what you got left? I'll tell you. What the little boy urinated at, that's what. The hole in the fence, man, that's what you got left."

In 1968, they had a live discussion on American national television.

Edit: Google Video wants to come between you and your treats. Don't let it.

No matter what you conclude after you have encountered to these two brains, you will have learned important lessons. Knowledge is a treat! Go get yourself some Pie, bo!

mixtape

i've ordered a hercules steel controller, with the intention of starting a clubnight in manc and to try to weedle into djing circuits. this is what the beast looks like..



while thinking about this, n what sort of shit i'd be doing, i prepared a mixtape, but of the un-mixed variety:

Violent/Soulful/Fresh Beats Vol.1 Download Here

maybe vol.2 will have some of my own beats on it, and mixed like a mother on the hercules. sweeeeeet.


Hip Hop + Jazz

in the meenwhile, have a listen to this crazy thing, Antipop Consortium v Mathew Shipp. (i ain't gunna link this album, but i'm gunna help you find it here )



it is pure pudding to show jazz and hip hop, together. obv the two genres are seperate entities in some respects, but the middle ground/cross over zone is rly interesting.

i'll be posting more about this area. stuff about Ras G, Sex Mob, Gang Starr and about the general movement in the late 80's which led to hip hop as we know it.

(did you know; miles davis was one of the first people to have scracthing on a record)

bye 4 now x

peshwari naan

living on a budget is a burden. but i splashed out on some peshwari naan bread and i'm happy for it. why did i splash out? to treat myself.

currently compiling thoughts and evidence to write a blog about how hip hop and jazz do and should feed off each other

a quickie

Nosaj Thing Remix of the xx - Islands

+

House Shoes + Flying Lotus. The Do Over EP

two lovely treats, x

joy fantastic

two important things i feel have happened in my slice of music,

1) she dressed in her best, a new song from everyones favourite and highly hyped man joy orbison, has revealed itself. i had doubts about him, wondered if he was 'hot air' or just 'an accessible burial', but this is a pure slice of confirmation cake that a) he is good and b) he is here to stay for longer than hyph mngo would allow.

here is the pudding, proof;



"that's a bad tune. that is emotional electronic music for the dance floor"
- some goon saying it how it is, ruining it for us all.

2) hudson mowhawke, warp's glaswegian king has been announced to play at manchester's fine hoya:hoya clubnight, for five pounds. this has me excited, as does hoya:hoya in general, it's pretty much the idyllic ideal. deal.


FILMS

i got my filthy mitts on this fine dvd;


read all about it

the medium of 'short film' is underrated i think. it seems to be an area where the creative control of directors is still the main purpose. these aint products for sure. abstractions, bits of dialog, normal story narrative, visually pleasing, think pieces. they all highlight different aspects of film. i recommend it yall

happytwentyten x

Koan: A Parable

Buddha told a parable in sutra:

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

Source

Deoxy will change your brain.

Remember when you were a child and you wanted the best bike? Just seems like all of a sudden cultured people are allowed to drool over 'material things' like silly clothes. I just want to put sticks in the spokes of every cyclist I see on one of these beautiful beautiful bikes.

Source

Sent this Tweet last night, steaming drunk.

Probably the best / worst thing I'll ever say.

festive treats

Four films to help you relate to the wu tang clan/further you in life lessons;

The thirty-sixth chamber of shaolin,

Shaolin and Wu-Tang,

Eight diagram pole fighter,

The five deadly venoms.

I also came across this incredible sounding film, Russian Ark, by Aleksandr Sokurov. Alex, what an ambitious man 'yu' are. It has like 1000 actors, 3 live orchestras and 300 years of history and its all shot one fucking long take/the longest single shot in history. Pure fruity madness. It's probably rly famous and like 'masterpiece' status.

While we are on period pieces, why not verb Kubrick's relatively little known (despite winning 4 oscars) 'Barry Lyndon', which will soak up some long wintery hours with its sheer scale in all dimensions.

Citizen Kane is on telly on christmas day, if you like.

For some cheery festive music, Soil and Pimp Sessions. Self proclaimed 'Death Jazz'. It's so good I decided to buy this as my Dad's cimbz present. Just bear witness to this album cover;

Now witness the fitness;

Admittedly, they're the type of thing that you may enjoy on jools or glasto and then forget about, but i think they deserve more attention. just like Polar Bear do - (check pee bear's new track 'peepers' which is about "people with cheeky eyes" according to their drummer and king of the world Seb Rochford.

so thats it,

"merry fucking christmas" - Now Wave, 09

porn

no culture to give you in this post, no real treat.

wish i had these shoes. absolute candy on my eyes...

this dog knows it too, absolute model of the year

funny.

tap dat foot boi.