words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Monday, November 24, 2003
hip hop is the new folk music. the genius about folk music is that the best music comes from people sitting around you. the music is simple, easy, and can be sung by anyone. it's a people-friendly music, homegrown, everywhere music. the more i listen to hip hop music, on cds and the radio, i notice it's the same idea. people sing it as their own, the disc jockeys rap their intros, they affect a voice, a persona that can hold their own against the stars. hip hop is for anyone who wants to try it. movies have even portrayed it, people rapping back at each other in competitions, spitting as it were, involving themselves in the music because it means something to them, and they want to make it themselves. I love the energy of it, the excitement that we're all part of hip hop, if we choose to be.
of course, i look at myself and feel i'm so far from being a part of hip hop that it's laughable. and yet, i love it, respect it for more than what it seems. just like any genre, you have to really search to find the good stuff, but it's definitely out there, people like the Roots, Q-Tip, Blackalicious, Cody ChestnuTT. and also like folk music, the artists draw on the past, they assimilate old songs into their own, making the ideas new again, pressing against social issues, acknowleding their forefathers. i can't wait to see what ten more years will bring.
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