Let the sun shine
Hmmm. It's been a while. Your girl has been at home sick. And not the kind of sick where you curl up on the couch watching Oprah and eating cereal and feeling slightly guilty for doing absolutely nothing in the middle of the day. Nope, it was the kind of sick where you are stuck in your bed, dazed and confused, staring at the ceiling, unable to do anything but obsess. Not a good look for me, I can assure you. At least my bro and Jac were around to make food deliveries and come make tea and fend off the cabin fever vibe I had going on.
Anyway...it's beautiful and sunny in Vancouver and I feel better and now I have a few things to say. First and foremost:
If you are in Van City, watch for Spectrum Events' upcoming Jay Dee Tribute event. Also from SE: here's a link to Benji B's tribute show on BBC radio.
In other news...
Jon Stewart on the Cheney hunting fiasco.
Is the net about to get hijacked by corporate giants? The Nation seems to think so.
Here's my take on Daddy Yankee.
Shout out to Emcee Escher and his crew, who are using hip-hop as an educational tool. As he puts it, they are "trying to reach the kids that are falling asleep in class." They've dubbed the project SAT prep for the iPod generation. I really got a kick out of the track "Adventures of Carlito" (in the Sample CD/Workbook section): "One day Carlito took his dog for a walk/ambling through Central Park in New York/he heard some guy making some scurrilous remarks/vulgar words and curses, not sounding very smart." Can you spot the SAT vocab?
Here's some old articles that I dug up during book research:
Hip-Hop in Nairobi (shout out to Gidi Gidi Maji Maji!).
Hip-Hop in the Middle East. That tired old global hip-hip refrain rears its ugly head:
"..hip-hop has replaced reggae as the international music of dissent, resistance and alienation, even if its US counterpart has, in the main, lost its political edge and dwells more these days on the vain and vacuous rather than 'fighting the power'. " Booooooooooooooooooo.
Anyway...it's beautiful and sunny in Vancouver and I feel better and now I have a few things to say. First and foremost:
If you are in Van City, watch for Spectrum Events' upcoming Jay Dee Tribute event. Also from SE: here's a link to Benji B's tribute show on BBC radio.
In other news...
Jon Stewart on the Cheney hunting fiasco.
Is the net about to get hijacked by corporate giants? The Nation seems to think so.
Here's my take on Daddy Yankee.
Shout out to Emcee Escher and his crew, who are using hip-hop as an educational tool. As he puts it, they are "trying to reach the kids that are falling asleep in class." They've dubbed the project SAT prep for the iPod generation. I really got a kick out of the track "Adventures of Carlito" (in the Sample CD/Workbook section): "One day Carlito took his dog for a walk/ambling through Central Park in New York/he heard some guy making some scurrilous remarks/vulgar words and curses, not sounding very smart." Can you spot the SAT vocab?
Here's some old articles that I dug up during book research:
Hip-Hop in Nairobi (shout out to Gidi Gidi Maji Maji!).
Hip-Hop in the Middle East. That tired old global hip-hip refrain rears its ugly head:
"..hip-hop has replaced reggae as the international music of dissent, resistance and alienation, even if its US counterpart has, in the main, lost its political edge and dwells more these days on the vain and vacuous rather than 'fighting the power'. " Booooooooooooooooooo.
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