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August 14, 2000 | 1:10pm:
Art Official Intelligence
I usually hate having to drive 1.5 hrs to visit my girlfriend...but the one thing about the drive that keeps me sane is my chance to listen to some new music for the whole trip. =)
For that short period of time, I can crank the music up as loud as I want...and zone out and concentrate on the lyrics and beats. By my self. No conversations, just me and the music. (I have about a 2 minute daily drive during the week, so I don't really get a chance to 'feel' the music, u know? And at home...well...my friends know that i'm usually online with ZDTV on the TV. heheh)
Anyways...this past weekend I listened to "Art Official Intelligence" from De La Soul. I've had this CD for a while but never really listened to it. Man. This has got to be one of the best albums i've heard in a long time. Notice that I said "album" and not "song". Yeah. The WHOLE album is good. From intro to outro...even the skits between songs were good. Lotta cameos which was cool, and it was good to just hear De La again after all these years. They brought the style back that most hip-hop nowadays is missin: Some jazzy, funky, native tongue, tricky lyrical type shit. It's the kinda music that just makes you throw your hands up and say "Oh shit!"
I swear...this album had me boppin my head mad hard and just smiling. (heheh...i probably looked like an idiot to all the people passing me on the turnpike - "Mommy look at that weird guy in that car! He's smiling to himself and moving his head back n forth!"). But hey...with an album this good, you can't help but smile. I was FEELIN it. Convinced yet? I hope so.
GO OUT AND BUY "ART OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" RIGHT NOW.
August 11, 2000 | 10:00am:
Fight Club Philosophy
After flipping through my new CRACK catalog yesterday...I remembered a dope quote from a movie I recently saw:
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"Like so many others, I had become a slave to the 'IKEA nesting instinct'.
If I saw something clever like a little coffee table in the shape of a yin-yang, I had to have it:
The KLIPSK personal office unit, the HOVATRACK home excerbike, or the YOHAN sofa with the string green stripe pattern, even the RISLAMPA wire lamps of environmentally friendly unbleached paper.
I'd flip through catalogs and wonder: "What kind of dining set defines me as a person?"
I had it all... even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections - Proof that they were crafted by the honest, simple, hardworking, indigenous peoples of... wherever.
We used to read pornography...now it was the HORCHA collection." -- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
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So what does this mean? For those of you that have seen the movie...don't worry. I'm not gonna start a boxing club in the basement of my apartment, nor am I going to blow up the buildings of the major credit card companies.
It doesn't really mean anything...it's actually just a cool dialogue that describes how we as a people are so attached to material things...and if we use these things to define ourselves, we lose touch of who we really are.
At least... that's what I think it means. Ah who cares. It was a cool movie. heheh.
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