Not Drugs – Art, Graffiti, Music and Culture for the Almost Grown-Up

If you haven’t heard about the PS22 chorus then I want you to check out this new website. It’s called www.youtube.com. They’re a fifth grade chorus from the NYC who became a web phenomenon last year and parleyed that into several TV appearances and this opportunity to perform for Beyonce and Gaga. This years class has proven to be just as talented. Here they are with Matisyahu. Real dope!

Like the grease from the very burger or the potato chip that he was chompin’ and pushin’ back in the day, JA had seeped into and saturated the folds of our delicious brains as this guy before Seinfeld. Not too far of a stretch from the role to come… You can say what you like about the man, but you cannot deny his talent.

Enjoy:

So if you know anything worth knowing about this here internet then you’re well aware of the very cool, very viral video that Ok Go made a ways back. You know the one where they’re all dancing on treadmills.  But you may not have seen there next crazy video aptly titled WTF?.  As someone who’s into graphics and shit I’m real down with that second one.  But no matter what your flavor is you’re gonna be dazzled by their latest music vid.  I won’t even spout shit about it, just check it:

It’s called District B-13.  Yeah, it’s French but don’t hold that against it because it’s sick as shit.  The big hook is that the main hero is played by this dude David Belle who apparently founded parkour. That and it was written by Luc Besson, the dude who gave the world Fifth Element and all three Transporter movies.  The sequel, District 13 Ultimatum, comes out on DVD next month.  So if you like action, or parkour or just sweet movies then peep this shit!

It’s 6:30am. I awoke to my phone’s buzz. I don’t have to be in work til 11am, and normally I’d roll back other and ignore any advancements my phone makes towards me until I was ready to participate in the day. But I was curious as to what was poppin’ off at such an early hour. So I checked my phone, it’s a text from my boss: “The store’s closed. Have a good snow day.”

Snow Day? Do we have those in the real world?

Three years ago, while I was still an undergrad, the college I attended had it’s first snow day in over 30 years. All buildings closed; no classes, no anything. As a college student, when something like that happens, there’s only one way to cope: hammered. You drink all day while giddy-ing up in the snow, then you take a nap and get a second wind when you arise for part 2. It’s the only way to deal with a shut down of that sort. But is it suitable to relive those times now?

When I was 9, snow days were as close to Heaven as I thought I'd come.

It’s 10am now, and I’ve ate a homemade breakfast and will soon shovel my sidewalk. After that, I may read my book, watch a movie, or write more for you to enjoy on your, possible, snow day. Is this what a snow day has come to? Am I okay with it? We’ll see how this day plans out.

Until I return, watch this video (over and over and over again) of Stephen Curry (from the Golden State Warriors) completely ruin Birdman (aka Chris Anderson of the Denver Nuggets) with this shot that occurred last night.

Dwb.

I don’t know if its the grungy I just got out of prison; fuck the world; this is my girlfriend/sister, yeah she was exposed to high levels of radiation SO WHAT??! feel that the Afrikaner group, Die Antwoord have going on about them, or the secondhand bootleg beats underneath, but I think I might like them.

Zef Side

Maybe it’s their artful use of primordial dwarfism?

Enter the Ninja

Nothing is timeless anymore.  Everything is new and souped-up and slick.  Rugged will not exist in the 2010s.  And that’s something that truly saddens me.  You, more than likely, saw this yesterday:

This is Apple’s new iPad…or as I like to call it: The absolute end of print anything.  We’re not going to need magazines soon, because they’ll all be digital. (Half of them are already headed that way, anyway.)  However, print journalism is not the only thing dieing out.  In a few years, kids are not going to have to lug books home to and from school.  There texts will be right there…on the iPad.  You won’t need to purchase that copy of The Great Gatsby or The Cather in The Rye anymore…or borrow it from a friend. (I straight up split both of those books with my locker partner in high school.)

Why?  Because you’ll have it right on your iPad.  And perhaps it will be easier…I mean, it will definitely be easier.

But not the same.

There’s something timeless about holding a book.  Putting it down and picking up.

There’s something timeless about lugging a shitload of books to school during finals week.  That was half the work, man.

There’s something timeless and picking up a magazine in the grocery store or on the street corner…whether your a devout reader or it just catches your eye.  And that feeling…that timelessness…is about to roll out  Peace.  Hasta.  What-have-you.

Thank you, Steve Jobs…for forcing to me to evolve faster than I wanted to.

On the other hand, the combination of new and timeless is kind of dope.  I definitely want to cop these Wooden Turntables I’ve been staring at for at least an hour.

Stay up, kids.

As number of systems owned increases, average yearly salary at age 34 increases.
As number of systems owned increases, number of times laid per sophomore year of high school decreases.
As number of systems owned increases, number of times laid per life increases.
As number of systems owned increases, likelihood of finding gold stuck to the bottom of your shoe increases .0097% per 8/11ths of game console.

I’ve had 15, how about you?

I like eerie shit.  Stuff that makes part of you say, “This is soooo cool”, but also makes part of you shudder.  It’s a weird balance, I know.  Dig on this video I spotted while at work today:

Download all of Gil Scott-Heron if you can.  Or, ahem, you know, drop by your record store and cop some of it.  I know, I know…who goes to record stores anymore?

I do.  Get off the computer, ya’ robot. (But if you’re on your computer, check out ND.  Shameless, I know.)

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