los links!!!

youre most who you are when no one else is around.

that being said. my favorite commercial. bing search engine. man cannot filter through los links. too many. overabundant if you will. girlfriend is irritated. she wants to do stuff. then man on white horse swoops in and asks her on date. prince of persia is playing, that crappy flick with jake gyllenhal. she rides away on white horse with man. angered exboyfriend yells, "LOS LINKS!!!!!" end of commercial.

yes. i swear to scream los links in moments of exasperated desperation.

hes got bing. and apparently he can book flights in this version.
LOs LiNKS!!!!!!

kush and orange juice

a great combo. throw some of those snyder's sourdough pretzels in there and your golden. get that sweet and salty thing going on. i ate my parents through house and home in high school with this mean trifecta.
this is also the name of wiz khalifa's latest mixtape. a pittsburgh rhyme slayer who loves his dank. talks about it all the time. how much he pays. the color. smell. hes made the claim- puff pass nigga, puff grass til i pass out - in years past. i have no doubt he does.

get at a beat:

Still Blazin

(and yes, im blazin' watching the celts put away orlando)

distant relatives

duet dropped this week. distant relatives. i guess what they mean is somehow they are connected by the african continent. regardless of this loose affiliation, this album will surely provide the soundtrack for many a car ride this summer. if you care, their fathers are jazz musician olu daru and rastafari's finest. enviable bloodlines equal thumpers and good vibes.

check out a track below:
Patience

mr arlen specter

deep in the throes of a highly contested democratic primary, sen. arlen specter defended his vigor the old fashioned way. by implying that those who cast doubt on his abilities must be 'smoking the dutch cleanser.' after some thorough research, it appears as though the dutch cleanser he speaks of is actually weed. on the other hand my specter, it appears as though you may be the one smoking the 'dutch cleanser.'

follow link to see the video:
smoking dutch cleanser

shannon brown got springs

so im sitting in west palm with my brother watching the lakers/suns game last nite. all in all, somewhat underwhelming, except for perhaps the illest missed dunk ive seen in a long long time. he posterizes jrich, even with the miss. then walks away knowing hes the man.

check the vid here:
Youtube

casual

i had a buddy named dave while i was in college out in boulder. one day, as we ripped bongs, he told us he was going to live in a tree in the redwood forest. we all replied with the same stoney cool. he came back months later. his name was now casual. yes. casual. he had bought what very well may have been the first lesbaru distributed in the states. it looked a hellava lot like the delorean from back to the future. space age dash. something out of an x-wing fighter for a steering wheel. no lies. it lacked the time travel abilities but hell. we cant have it all.

anyway. i downloaded this new delorean disc subiza. check out a track:
Stay Close

it has a reminiscent sound. heres something off burial's '07 album untrue:
Burial - Raver

maybe its just me.

the virgin suicides

"The room seemed full of a sweet viscous liquid, a honey nearly light as air, which he breathed in. Time slowed down, and in his left ear the ringing of the cosmic Om started up clear as a telephone...Every second is eternal...She was the still point of the turning world."

im not sure how i overlooked jeffrey eugenides' 1993 narrative for all these years. i think perhaps it had a decidedly female-centric audience in my own head. i couldnt be emasculated by reading some chick novel. i got over my personal stigma and plowed through this novel yesterday as i sat like a poached egg in pine needles next to a plus-sized latina grubbing out on what appeared to be a mayonnaise wrap. she washed down the hydrogenated oil with corn syrupy coca cola goodness. all i could think was, "her body is a unique temple."

eugenides' novel focuses on the suicides of the five Lisbon daughters, as told through the eyes of the neighborhood boys who pine for their attention. the first person plural, or perhaps the greek chorus although eugenides himself attributes this correlation to his decidedly greek-sounding last name. without delving too deeply into the plotline - one of the Lisbon daughters attempts suicide by stuffing her head and torso into the household oven. i must say, kudos for ingenuity but thumbs down for effectiveness. you shouldve stuck to the noose.

read an excerpt here:
the virgin suicides

high violet

sitting here sucking dense, morning florida air. the national's high violet resonates through my being as the sun rises over breaking chop. down below, the elderly rise. their leathery limbs are trained to follow. it is a canvas of gilded gold. masking a dark, pewter reality. i am after all, in west palm.

get at this:
Terrible Love

read a review of the national's high violet here:
pitchfork

bad water pressure

New scene.
Jerry's apartment. Kramer walks in, his trademark 'high hair' is flat.
Kramer: Jerry? Jerry!
Jerry walks in from the back room, his hair is also flat.
Kramer: Wha, you too?
Jerry: Yeah!
Kramer: These showers are horrible. There's no pressure, I can't get the
shampoo out of my hair.
Jerry: Me either.
Kramer: If I don't have a good shower I am not myself. I feel weak and
ineffectual. I'm not Kramer.
Jerry: You? What about me? I got the Tonight Show tonight. I'm gonna have to
shower in the dressing room.
Kramer (leaving): Aw.
Jerry: Where are you going?
Kramer: I gotta find another shower.

New scene.

Hallway outside Newman's apartment. Kramer knocks on Newman's door. Newman
answers, with flat hair.
Kramer: They got you too?
Newman: This stuff is awful! I'm not Newman!
Kramer backs away then runs down the hall.

New scene.

Elaine's office, Kramer rushes in.
Kramer: Oh, Elaine. Yeah.
Elaine: Kramer, you look terrible.
Kramer: Look, I need the keys to your apartment, I gotta take a shower.
Elaine: What's wrong with your shower?
Kramer: There's no water pressure.
Elaine: Why don't you just go see Jerry?
Just as Kramer is about to answer, Mr. Peterman walks past Elaine's open office
door and pauses.
Kramer: Jerry's got nothing. Newman's got nothing. You're the only one I know
who's got the good stuff, and I need it bad, baby, cause I feel like I got bugs
crawling up my skin. Now you gotta help me out.

west philadelphia born and raised

dr dog's shame shame is a album worth listening to. mystical harmonizing. music meant for cooking eggs in the morning. drinking a hot mug of tea and reading the paper on the couch. while the sun glistens off your glass coffee table sporting last nights beer rings.

check the track below:
dr._dog-shame_shame

chanel resort

chanel's resort collection debuted in st tropez. lagerfeld wore a killer purple suit jacket and purple clown tie. black slacks. andre leon tally showed up in a green cape-thing. i wouldnt recommend the above attire for your next trip to the islands though.

link to slideshow at nymag:
chanel resort collection

gonjasufi

via wiki:
Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks) is a rapper, singer, disc jockey and yoga teacher from San Diego, California and currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has been releasing music since the early 1990s among the San Diego Hip Hop scene, notably with the Masters of the Universe crew. Ecks gained notice from Warp Records in 2008 after an appearance on Californian musician Flying Lotus' album Los Angeles, where he sings on the track "Testament". His Warp debut album, A Sufi And A Killer was released on March 8, 2010.

i downloaded this guys album at the recommendation of pitchfork a couple months back. breezed through and didnt give it much cred. put the disc in the cd player today and its inherent value was realized. i did this with bon iver's for emma...years back and its become one of my all-time favorites. check the track below.

read on:
interview with pitchfork
warp.net-gonjasufi
sufisays

listen on:
Candylane

food inc

people often say ignorance is bliss. for some perhaps....get enlightened to the realities of our nation's food supply. we need to initiate a revolution in both suppliers' and consumers' mindsets.

via foodincmovie.com -

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

for more:
Food Inc

speaking of happiness

i encourage you to download the track below.

Riceboy Sleeps - Happiness

gross national happiness

via my uncle. a truly righteous soul. i may argue against the validity of the above map. your call?

- www.gnhusa.org -
"Gross National Happiness USA envisions a sustainable future, based on the use of a comprehensive set of social progress indicators that reflects our American values and truly supports life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

check out for more info:
gross national happiness - american project

rondo

i was on this guy when he was a wee tike in kentucky with tubby smith. i knew he would mature into a wonderful point guard. his numbers the other night were ridiculous. put him in some good company. wilt and oscar i believe. the celts need him to continue to step up in order to counter lebron's beastness. hopefully his play with infuse some vitality into his gray haired teammates. celts in seven?

floridian pipe maker

i know this guys is playing ping pong. deal with it. it homogenizes the account. i was heckled by a floridian pipe maker the other day. he wore a panama hat. of sorts. he lured me in with fantastical stores of a tobacco shop. apparently it was not open to the public. unorthodox business model.

he threatened to call the sheriff during our second meeting. im pretty sure old saybrook is sheriff-le$$. needless to say, kickin' in saloon doors is cool. its better is a sheriff-le$$ town.

my brother loved dr. quinn medicine woman. a.) he knew jane seymour was hot before me (not believable) b.) he wanted to wife sully (or whatever he was named)...on a scantron, i bubble b.)

liquid mountaineering

walk/run on water?

follow the link below:
walk on water

frightened rabbit

april was a sad month. i jumped on these scots awhile back when they released midnight organ fight. recorded some of that album in bridgeport, ct ironically. new disc a couple months back. winter of mixed drinks. i swam in whiskey all winter. no mixer. i probably listened to this track like 50 times last month. it resonated deep within my soul and provided a blissful blanket.

download here:
Foot Shooter

pink panthers

couple of points to be made here. one. i always deemed the new yorker to be presumptuous, in the most arrogant sort of way. i probably hated on people who read this publication for the last ten years. recently, i realized the error of my ways. the new yorker is a fine periodical. two. track down the article below. an exhaustive piece on eastern european diamond thieves. an interesting study in human nature.

for more:
Pink Panther Abstract

giada

last night we spoke of the mixed nuts at union square cafe. they serve them during happy hour. a thorough blend baked with hints of rosemary. giada recommends them. mark commented on the number of nuts giada could fit in her mouth. based on the above photo, i would think quite a few.

also of note: id love to wife this up. and. mark noted that he would be cracking skulls. manana.

real housewives of the upper east side

via my nanny friend, overheard in the park.

"every once in a while, ill allow myself a sourdough pretzel."

"oh nooo honey. no sourdough for me."

she said it with a mexican accent. i wouldnt call it bad. id call it theatrical. and perfect.

kiwis

cred to my boy apeman. kiwis mad world. check it.

link:
kiwi mad world

cuz weezy's my boy. and the old girl never let me down.

preemptive mothers day.

read on:
weezy talks cita

this is happening

it wasnt long ago i found myself taking in a sunrise on the bowery listening to the new lcd soundsystem disc. this is happening. we pumped this shit. hard. much to the chagrin of the blonde bicycle man that lived upstairs. shirts were not present despite cold temps. tequila was.

download this disc. dance yrself clean gets it started right. 55 delancey holla at me. photo cred.

cop it here:
Dance Yrself Clean

alex prager

my girl paige got me on this photographer. i took one of her favorites. reinterpreted through spraypaints and acrylics.



for more:alex prager photography

kombucha

started brewing this at home a few months back. an old friend got me started. just bottled up a goji berry kombucha, batch one. drinking this probiotic blend will aid in digestive health and restore immune system vitality, amongst countless other documented benefits. get at me if you want cultures and guidance to brew in your own home.

read more here:
benefits of kombucha

big bambu

caught this in the times a couple weeks back. the met's rooftop installations are always worth a view, not to mention they serve you cocktails up there while you take in an epic nyc view. props to my boys on the installation crew.

(via nytimes)

ON a recent summerlike morning, men in T-shirts and women in bikini tops were busily working to the loud strains of Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. Some looked like tightrope walkers, delicately balancing on horizontal poles in bare feet; others could be seen shinnying up vertical poles like monkeys, securing intersections with colored nylon ropes; and still others were building teepeelike configurations on the ground.

But this wasn’t a circus tent-raising; it was the scene on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Supervised by artists and built by about a dozen rock climbers, an installation in the form of a labyrinthine jungle of bamboo was rising some 25 feet in the air.

The Met has long been a place where the flowerings of different centuries and cultures quietly coexist, an orderly home of Apollonian calm. But the installation, “Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop,” is a startling departure. Where once there were uninterrupted vistas of the city’s skyline and Central Park, there are now thickets and elevated walkways winding through them.

follow to read the rest:
big bambu

fresh

my uncle turned me on to this. i encourage you to check it out.

fresh the movie

youre gonna want to catch this live.

read this review from major lazer's show at wmc miami. download guns dont kill people...lazers do.

(via miami new times)

Major Lazer
Ultra Music Festival at Bicentennial Park, Miami
Saturday, March 27, 2009

Better than: Ninety-nine percent of the acts at Ultra.

Making fun, party music is a difficult thing to do. No, seriously. You can either go the obviously route and create straight-up track about partying (i.e. most of LMFAO's catalog), but where's the fun in that? Part of an artists responsibility to their craft is pushing the limits and introducing new sounds.

That's perhaps why when Major Lazor -- Switch and Diplo -- released their debut, Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do, I was instantly floored. I even picked it and its summer anthem "Pon De Floor" as the best thing released in 2009. But in the end it is simply just party music, but with a huge twist. Switch and Diplo mix traditional dancehall and Jamaican riddims with electro beats. It shouldn't work but it does.

As a live performance, Major Lazer works even better. Switch and Diplo take the backseat allowing MC/dancer Skerrit Bwoy and his female counterpart to literally steal the show. Major Lazer's album includes a long list of contributors include Santigold, Nina Sky, Amanda Blank, Vybz Kartel, Mr. Lexx, and more. None of them were missed on Saturday as Skerrit Bwoy and backtracks took care of most of the vocals.

Switch and Diplo's role was purely as conductors of the Major Lazer vehicle. They never stepped from behind the decks. Still, they mashed up tracks such as "Hold the Line" and "Keep It Goin' Louder," along with popular dance song's like Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction," which surprisingly makes for a great dancehall track.

The obivous crowd pleaser was "Pon De Floor," which everyone in the crowd raised their foam laser gun hands (provided by Major Lazer, of course), and dance furiously to the beat of the song.

You can accuse Switch and Diplo, two white men, of appropriating another aspect of black culture, but if you had witnessed the live show Saturday, you would have seen two men glady taking a step back while giving a Jamaican staple a new twist. Yes, this is dancehall for hipsters, but it's fun.

get at a track:
major_lazer-when_you_hear_the_bassline_feat_ms._thing

wilhelm reich

“I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge.”

— Wilhelm Reich, Archives of the Orgone Institute
In the 1930s, Wilhelm Reich, M.D.—an Austrian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and scientist—discovered a powerful, new biological energy, and for the next two decades devoted his life to the investigation of its laws and properties. Reich confirmed the existence of this energy in the human body, verified its presence in the atmosphere, developed instrumentation to observe and collect it, and harnessed it for a variety of purposes from cancer treatment to motor power to weather experimentation.

Reich called his discovery “orgone energy.” But, sadly, it was a discovery that the world was not ready for.


talked of this man tonite wearing magic hats. plunge further.

the town that food saved

older article offering an inspirational look at the local economies of hardwick, vt. perhaps a model for us all?

read on:
hardwick revival

die antwoord

via wiki:
Die Antwoord (Afrikaans: "The Answer") is a Zef-Rap act from Cape Town, South Africa consisting of three members, Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek. The band self-identifies as a mélange of several diverse cultures all mixed into one.

check $o$, enter the ninja, $copie. these guys love $$$.

get at this:
Die Antwoord - orinoco ninja flow (wedding dj's remix

the great oom

a look at Pierre Arnold Bernard, a small-town Iowan who brought yoga to the American masses. check out the excerpt below.

the great oom excerpt