I almost feel like apologizing for my lack of posts lately. But I’m not. Outside of my normal infinitely increasing responsibilities, I was out in the Tetons for a week with The Anxiety Sloth hiking, skinning, and riding and generally getting after it. After all that I just couldn’t be bothered. There were a whole lot of “I”s in that paragraph…  so obviously this is all about me. Minimally.

Minimal: Api – Logiketto (don lowed)

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Minimum: Trentemoller – Serenetti (Mathias Mesteno Remix) (don lowed)

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darling, you send me.

Makout : The Brothers Two – How To Make Love (don lowed)

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Makout : Syl Johnson – I Hear The Love Chimes (don lowed)

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Makout : Salsou Orchestra – Ooh I Love It (Love Break) (don lowed)

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Makout : Lou Donaldson – Whos Making Love (don lowed)

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Makout : Eric ‘Monty’ Morris – If I Didn’t Love You (don lowed)

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bombpop colors are the bomb

I tried madly to get a Fingerbanger out on Friday, and it wasn’t in my cards, fortune cookie, or horoscope. And so.

Makeout: Real Life – Send Me An Angel (89 Mix) (don lowed)

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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, and germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!

[ FOOL: O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry house is better than this
rain-water out o’ door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters’ blessing: here’s
a night pities neither wise man nor fool. ]

Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call’d you children,
You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That have with two pernicious daughters join’d
Your high engender’d battles ‘gainst a head
So old and white as this. O! O! ’tis foul!

— William Shakespeare {from King Lear}

I couldn’t make up my decision today. 1979 “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”, was a cover of McFadden & Whitehead’s title. “I’m Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)” was a cover of a song by Inner Life (originally sung by Jocelyn Brown)… Copy and Paste provided by P.tone.

Makeout: Risco Connection – Ain’t No Stopping Us Now (don lowed)

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Can’t get away. Citadels.

Makeout: Citadels – The Chemical Song (don lowed)

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I had a different song in my head this morning, but found this one instead.  Don’t worry about the little guy… he makes it across the road.

Makeout: Tortoise – Tin Cans & Twine (don lowed)

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Change. The shift of one state of being to another, typically in the conviction of an individual to adhere to a set of ideas or personal decisions. Conviction being typically static, and change being typically a movement. This contradiction is why change often doesn’t happen as quick as we would like. Often change happens only as we give up our beliefs that hold the most conviction, and in my experience these are the fears. Wouldn’t it be a monstrous shift if our deepest convictions were that of love and knowledge of self. Unlearn cynicism.

I’ve been a J-Live fan for a long time. I appreciate his atomic bomb approach to obliterating the stupidity upon which so much of hip hop and rap is built upon. As an (sometimes, all the time) educator, the passion to teach is self evident in his rhymes, probably only second to his passion to question the status quo. This is one of my favorite J-live songs. Force feeding information through the ear holes.

Makeout: J-Live – Schools In (don lowed)

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Pos being one of the best Emcees ever, and J-live being an equal educator… I’ve been meaning to post this song for a long time, but since Sean Sean threw me some Oddisee, I’ll throw this one back.  Thanks.

Makeout: J-Live – The Upgrade ( ft. Posdanous And Oddisee) (don lowed)

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I couldn’t find a picture of a walrus in my wallet, but I did find this picture of a shark with half a man for a tongue. A liminal being, like an underwater centaur. Quite ingenious, as he can grab fish with his hands and then haul them into the sharks belly to be cooked with some butter, lemons, and a delicious herb rub.

On the other side of this line, is the band Baby Walrus, made up of 3 men, are in fact sans a walrus appearance. Despite their stance on not looking the part of their name, they make good music… as if there is anything else to do in Nebraska.

Makeout: Baby Walrus – Ghostish (don lowed)

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Makeout: In-Crowd – Mango Walk (don lowed)

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