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Sunday, May 5, 2013

noname215

I’m writing this without looking at the photo. I feel guilty looking at it because of my wallpaper. It’s a picture of my new girlfriend, my current girlfriend, and hopefully, my last girlfriend. Where are you? “I’m in Fayetteville.” Why are you in Fayetteville? You’re supposed to be out of town. “Plans changed. I had to come back and take care of some things here.” Where is my car? “I have your car. Your car is with me.” My car is supposed to be sitting in front of my house. “Don’t worry, I don’t want your. . . I have to go.” Why, what are you doing? “Working. I’m tired, I’m doing 14 hour shifts, I don’t have time to get into all of this.” Why are you working? ”What do you mean why am I working? I saw an opportunity to make double back my money, and so I took it. I have to bust my ass for a couple weeks, but it should be worth it.”
    She never wanted to work before. There’s nothing I can do about it from here. I’m on vacation, like my Aunt said: enjoy it, worry about whatever is going on whenever you get home. My aunt said someone broke into the house. She sent me photos of the broken window. The glass looked thin, but dangerously sharp. She probably had someone else break in for her. I can’t see her braving the broken glass on the climb through. She probably had A.J. do it. A.J. - the kid who is probably driving around town in my car now. I never really liked that kid. Anyway, Ive got a plane to catch. I love Vegas. Sin is so beautiful. I mean, where else can you go, in 2007, and be handed pornography while walking down the street, and for free?
    What the-hell is this? There’s a bright orange and white biohazard box on the wall for syringes. Wow. There are so many people here using needles, they had to say eff it, let’s just make a safe way to get rid of these. Too many Otto the trashmans have poked themselves in the arm, or imagine, in between the fingers while taking the trash out. “I might have AIDS! Oh my God, what if I’ve got AIDS now!!!...”  I wonder if these are in all the public bathrooms? Of course not, that would be impossible. Let me check my email again. Nope, still no ticket information. Amazing. I’m the guy that walks on the flat riding escalators. People act like it hurts them physically to move over when I say “excuse me.”
    I get to the ticket counter. I love these uniforms that airlines use- the most unreasonable blues. She asks for my license. I hand it to her. I tell her I don’t have my itinerary. She looks mildly disappointed. She is used to this, she doesn’t want to hear my reason why I sense. I ask her to lookup my ticket information. She asks for my phone number. My phone number is catchy, but it has three 4’s in a row, I always have to repeat it. She doesn’t find anything. I give it a second. I work a similar job back home, so I know sometimes these things don’t pop up right away. She tries another search- she finds something, but I can tell it’s not what I want. I give her a flight number-she sees it on her screen, but tells me that flight belongs to a plane going to Phoenix. I verify the name the flight is under, and her birthdate: 6/25/58, and she tells me the ticket was purchased last month. Last month? Why would she give  me the flight number to another flight? I remember one of Yolanda’s trips being to Phoenix, something about meeting someone there. In and out in a day, ridiculous heat, the normal things people say about Phoenix. There are no other flights under that name? I can search by the card, do you have the card number? Oh you don’t have the card #?” She has given all that she is going to, and probably has already given me too much according to policy. She knows I could flip out and press this more, or I could walk away. She’s hoping that I just walk away and say something that  she can nod her head and smile to. I was going to walk away, but then I remember the line, how fast it can go from empty to full. I ask about the next flight, then the next two. The next flight is at 3AM. That gives me less than four hours. The flight after next is at 6. And how much is that one, I ask? “$1600.” $1600? It went from $316 to $1600 something dollars. She nods knowingly. I want to ask who would pay this kind of money for a plane ticket, but I don’t ask. The next morning I see who would; a white man in a suit with a headset on. He doesn’t take the plugs out of his ears while he checks in. He looks mildly irritated with the vacationers in front of him. Across from them I sit, close enough to hear them complain about waiting in line, but not so close that they would notice me staring. I’m jealous that they were able to enjoy the rest of the weekend before heading home for work on Monday. I spent the night there. I made phone calls. I had a list of people I knew would help me that I didn’t want to have to explain my stranded situation to. I was still thinking if Yolanda and I stay together, they would surely remember this. This would be an unforgettable piece of evidence that marrying this woman was probably not a good idea, and for some reason, I hadnt ruled that out as a possible future yet. There are some people you just get used to them being around.
It was 9AM back home. My people would be getting up soon. Jason or someone else would call me back.
    I took the picture with a Nokia 6102. I took a lot of photos of her with this camera, but this was always my favorite. It’s so simple and elegant, almost professional.  The low resolution compresses the pixels to make her skin look golden, more flawless than it really was. You can’t tell her age in this, or see her face. There were others, almost as ambiguous, not as attractive. They were my old wallpapers - in the same place where my current girlfriend exists now.
 noname215

Fall semester 2012 MediaWriting for Naomi McCormack

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Smoke & Mirrrras

update to http://bit.ly/MO9Cpn

Friday, June 1, 2012

Authority

Nghz don't believe what i'm sayin until they hear a wht person say it, and wht ppl don't believe what i'm sayin until they hear a ngh from the hood say it.

How many examples must these ppl be given for them to understand that there are those of us that have, & still do, walk through both worlds? And not be binary about it, the world outside The U.S. as well.

I am
No Sorbórnne-trained sociologist, but i am observant. I notice the intersections of class, subculture, race, sexuality, capitalism, anti-intellectualism, psychological shisms, societal pathologies, ebbs & flows of the populist rhythm. I am a poet. Does this dilute my (lowercase t)ruth? When i share these words & thoughts, why am
I usually not being walked w/ down a dialectic, yellow brick road? A river of discourse with discursive tributaries? I'm beginning to suspect that i cannot chg the way i am heard here, but alas! speaking no other language, or having no other passport will grant me access to Zion.

Thursday, May 17, 2012


BloodfireBlood NationA virus that gestated in wolves two thousand years ago. The first to be infected was Genghis Khan. It causes the symptoms usually associated with vampirism,photosensitivity and invincibility. The entire nation of Russia is infected, except for a few feral children. The virus can cause extreme mutation, for example the snake's tail present in the Khan's head scientist.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

No Entry Lady of Fire Naked to Mine

Friday, April 20, 2012


Because  of  the dominance  of white
people
in
philosophy
in the United
States,  she
frequently
is forced to travel to white worlds  and wants  to
preserve
a
small
space
that is
relatively
free of white
people
and  the issues  of race  and
racism  that their presence  inevitably  (though
not
necessarily  deliberately)  pro
duces.

White World-Traveling
Author(s): SHANNON SULLIVAN
Reviewed work(s):
Source: The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2004), pp. 300-304
Published by: Penn State University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25670530 .
Accessed: 20/04/2012 17:14

Friday, April 6, 2012

"One also might take the example of Tupac Shakur as a man whose life and works
expose the possibilites for self-transformation through creating something of a crisis in
the identity-fixing function of the performative. Born in Brooklyn to a mother who was a Black Panther, Shakur
attented the Baltimore
School for the Arts, where
he was recognized as having
incredible talent. His career
as a “gangsta rapper” was
coupled with his poetry writing,
for example, and his outstanding
performances in various
movies. Shakur’s position within the symbolic does not
reduce to that of some “angry black man,” which, as one who
grew up in poverty and various ghettos, current power structures seem
to demand. Rather, Shakur made his position within the symbolic order
tremble; he was arrested for assault and sexual misconduct while at the same
time heavily involved in large works of charity, and continuing to practice his art.
Through resistance of power via his questioning of his own social identity, Shakur’s
life points the way towards a means of actively recreating the self through one’s own
practices."
Thinking Otherly.John Hartmann meteorite.
http://www.meteoritejournal.com/pdfs/2.Thinking.Otherly.pdf
http://www.meteoritejournal.com/index.html

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Solution
All this time I have been doing just that; reporting on what the problem is. I havent spent much time researching or developing my argument on what we need to do. Solutions to the problem
I think we need to get back to the essence” These auteurs were all on drugs and successful and went out of their minds.” Quote from documentary. Black Panthers fell apart because got // the Party crumbled internally lost its ideals the counterculture movement became cool and when posing took over work stopped getting done // the essence’  is // the solution is to respond by living, harder than previously // to make more films // to travel to affect change in some form // to start the Greenpeace or whatver .org you think is needed // organize the work that you originally felt inspired to do // I believe the problem is that we’re all staying in the theatre too long // we ought to run out as soon as we have it // instead of waiting for the popcorn and milk duds to settle in our stomach // even the theatres take on this passive theme by making them look like hotels // in the movies, after kids got out of the movies or couple they would then continue their evening  walking around town // the locations of theatres prove the lack of response expected from preempted by the owners // they are no longer built in areas that require any walking. You get back in your car and drive away. Theatres in the past before LOEWS & Carmike’s monopoly were traditionally in the heart of the city. The phrase was “we’re going into to town to catch a show” Now the phrase has to be changed to “we’re going out to the ‘X’ shopping center to go to LOEWS”  or // the drive-in which was more interactive. There were opportunities to get into fights in the concession line or meet a girl on the way to the bathroom. Nowadays theatres have security guards and cameras pointed at you as soon as you enter the parking lot. I’m not saying that theatres are the main cause of the lack of response amongst audiences, I’m highlighting that even the environment in which you are introduced to them has become overtly restrictive.  Many films are watched for the first time on bootleg DVD copies, which add …, although
We need not to re-watch it or analyze it more but get out and live and by doing so will understand the messages of the films more deeply during the time of the experience
Approx: Dec. 7, 2010

Monday, January 16, 2012

"no best of both worlds im the worst of both dreams as i bleed.
Its a war out here, customized for the sun to die
unless you ride the high horse with butterflies
and bright stars, imagine heaven just for a second.
I wanna bathe in light, i want the answers to my questions.
I see a small percentage of good left in this winter wasteland,"
greazy duz-it

Sunday, October 30, 2011




These kids came into town from Michigan for a wedding. They decided to checkout Mac Miller's old job spot, a deli shown in one his videos, to take pics, eat sandwiches, & snag souvenirs.



The place was ready with t-shirts for sale.

Monday, September 5, 2011

The most common hallmark of the left’s magical thinking is a failure to recognize that Congress is a separate, coequal branch of government consisting of members whose goals may differ from the president’s.

What the Left Doesn’t Understand About Obama


Saturday, August 6, 2011


Monday, July 4, 2011






Watch the full episode. See more ART:21.


My professor Lori Hepner showed this to us in class (Integrative Arts) back in the Fall semester. I referenced the race question proposed by Ali the other night in a conversation at the bar.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Saturday, May 28, 2011


'"People always wonder where great artists get their ideas. For Woody Allen, it's the middle drawer of his bedroom dresser. For years it was a rumpled brown grocery bag in the back of his closet. But now this unassuming drawer is where he stores decades of stray jokes scribbled on the backs of matchbooks and half-formed movie premises written on scraps of yellowing hotel stationery. ''There's a lot of funny stuff in there,'' says Allen. ''When I finish a picture, I empty the drawer onto my bed. Some of the ideas are tantalizing and I know there's something there, but I just can't crack them. And there are some where I go, 'What was I thinking?' Most are just great beginnings that don't go anywhere.'''

This reminded me of the box i have, with scrawled on Bob Evan's placemats from '99, that Shaun Lamb watched me sift through during the writing & recording of SFTSF.

'"Nostalgia is an unhealthy trap that's very seductive,'' says Allen. ''The problem is, life is a very cruel, tragic, and unsatisfying experience and you always think that another time in the past would have been ideal for you. For example, if I think back to belle-epoque Paris, it's like Gigi, with beautiful costumes and carriages and great wine. The reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.'''

- Rediscovering Woody

This reminded me the daily strain i have staying in the present, as they say. I'm constantly mentally revisitimg these different 'eras' of my life, making them a bigger deal than they were, romanticizing them, and forgetting about the day-to-day mediocrity and outright brokeness! I think that is why i like Twitter so much; i can go back and see exactly what was on my mind, whether banal or poignant, w/ a timestamp. Commercial over:$)


Sunday, May 22, 2011

Rhetoric; Last Quiz


From Evernote:
1. What did Weaver mean when he said that all language is sermonic
All acts of communication take a point of view and attempt to persuade. Similar to a sermon it is trying to cause conviction.

2. What are the four types of arguments Weaver described
Argument from definition
Argument from relationship or similitude
Argument from cause and effect
Argument from authority or testimony

3. Give an ex of the type of evidence you would use for one of the four types of argument you listed in #2
Argument from relationship or similitude: "How do you take care of this tree?" Re:"Just like you would an apple tree." "Oh ok."

4. What was described in class as Foucault's primary contribution to our understanding of rhetoric?
rules of exclusion

5. What claim made by Burke does your answer to #4 help to explain
'a way of seeing is a way of not seeing'


Location:School




This was a real flyer for an event people really went to. smh. Who was the 'Celebrity Guest'? Naked women & Benjamins?

Monday, May 16, 2011

Excerpts of an audio brainstorm 5/10/11

power up the power truck
they think i pulled out the thesaurus for the chorus
The Marlon Deans the Jimmy Brandos
Judge Ito eatin Fritos
Tommy
concubines and constables
im such a connosieur
the Polish and the goats
the great
babbaloo Erykah Badu brain molecules
automania
delusions of grandeur feel like im movin like Barry Sanders
electro conic ponic for
correcto chronic fur
honest manic piranha store
manic piranha war
and once they know your style ...
sniffin up petunias @ family reunions
manitoba
met a bunch of kin
chewin on a bunch of chickenless fat
zappa chobba
apsa asparagus pappia labia
retribution is the sound
slurber dirk
this is the nervous shirt i wear when im nervous

Friday, May 13, 2011

Scheme ant worker anatomy-de
By Scheme_ant_worker_anatomy-en.svg: Mariana Ruiz (User:LadyofHats)derivative work: Matt (Scheme_ant_worker_anatomy-en.svg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This morning i woke up with ants crawling on the three walls around me. No, my room does not only have three walls, but i didnt see any ants over there on the fourth. Ants were just mentioned in the Daily Bread too. Just killed another one! Ants aren't like roaches, you'll brag about how many you have in your house, nobody says "Yo check out these pics of the roaches underneath my couch" Everytime i tell that joke i always have to clarify that i'm just jokin (#MitchHedberg reference) i do not have roaches underneath my couch. Not that there's anything wrong with that (#Seinfeld) if you do ,but I dont. ANYWAY FEELIN RATHER LOQUACIOUS EVER SINCE I KINDA LEARNED TO TYPE. with a Tyler the Creator mixed with Sherman Carpenter love for capital letters.
I began to think about the psychic trails they leave for each other to travel on and i saw their similarity/metaphor of it to blogging. People blog trails of where they've been so that others can find a way to the same places they were feeding. The Interweb is so big. We're ants on the Interweb. It's huge. Porn sites are the traps. Don't get wrapped in a cocoon.
So it turns out that they're not psychic trails, but pheromones instead. By that time I had already scanned that new pic you see up top, so we're gonna stay with referring to them as psychic trails. Not just because i'm lazy, but because it sounds cooler.
Peace; LIQUID BONEZ

"Communication
Ants communicate with each other using pheromones.[58] These chemical signals are more developed in ants than in other hymenopteran groups. Like other insects, ants perceive smells with their long, thin and mobile antennae. The paired antennae provide information about the direction and intensity of scents. Since most ants live on the ground, they use the soil surface to leave pheromone trails that can be followed by other ants. In species that forage in groups, a forager that finds food marks a trail on the way back to the colony; this trail is followed by other ants, these ants then reinforce the trail when they head back with food to the colony. When the food source is exhausted, no new trails are marked by returning ants and the scent slowly dissipates. This behaviour helps ants deal with changes in their environment. For instance, when an established path to a food source is blocked by an obstacle, the foragers leave the path to explore new routes. If an ant is successful, it leaves a new trail marking the shortest route on its return. Successful trails are followed by more ants, reinforcing better routes and gradually finding the best path.[59]

Ants use pheromones for more than just making trails. A crushed ant emits an alarm pheromone that sends nearby ants into an attack frenzy and attracts more ants from further away. Several ant species even use "propaganda pheromones" to confuse enemy ants and make them fight among themselves.[60] Pheromones are produced by a wide range of structures including Dufour's glands, poison glands and glands on the hindgut, pygidium, rectum, sternum and hind tibia.[56] Pheromones are also exchanged mixed with food and passed by trophallaxis, transferring information within the colony.[61] This allows other ants to detect what task group (e.g., foraging or nest maintenance) other colony members belong to.[62] In ant species with queen castes, workers begin to raise new queens in the colony when the dominant queen stops producing a specific pheromone.[63]

Some ants produce sounds by stridulation, using the gaster segments and their mandibles. Sounds may be used to communicate with colony members or with other species.[64][65]" Ant Wiki

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Just because it's awesome

 

Thursday, November 18, 2010

There's Something About Tracks Done While on Tour


Thursday, September 30, 2010

Integrative Arts Class Project | Gender Self Portrait




This is a class/book assignment from A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life pg. 62. The class is different than what I thought it was going to be but is still turning out to be interesting. It has given me a lesson in adapting my expectations and enjoying the uniqueness of the setting I’m currently in.
 I chose this photo for two main reasons. The first being, that in it my gender is not made obvious. This reminded me of how often, especially the further back you go back into my life, I would be mistaken for girl. I could see why after looking back on pictures, home videos, and hearing recordings of myself and family member’s imitations of my high-pitched voice. I believe that subconsciously, this was the part of the reason why as soon I discovered that I could grow a full beard, I decided to keep it the majority of the time.
The second reason was that it is an accurate emotive depiction of my psychological state. Brought to mind being in class during elementary school, the teacher would want to re-establish order, so she would turn off the lights and tell us all “Alright, heads down on desks!” I discovered that I actually enjoyed these little breaks and usually wanted to keep my head down after she had turned the lights back on and was urging us onto the next activity. I liked the physical sensation of having my arms pressed on my eyeballs and then the twinkling lights I would see when I opened them. I also enjoyed the mental sensation of burrowing deep into The Blankness and dwelling there for an unknown amount of time. I have the desire to go back there. I’m now realizing being pulled out of it by someone else an authority figure nonetheless, was/is an important element in the formula.

Monday, September 27, 2010

West Coast Rap is Microsoft

Disagree to some degree

West coast Rap is Microsoft- if you were in the right place and knew to invest at the right time your stock just exploded.

Dr Dre is Bill Gates – stole everything    

New York is IBM. They're always laying people off. Look how often NY rappers get laid off. They mostly make microchips now, which are like rhyme schemes. NY rappers designed all the rhyme schemes used in almost every platform.

Compton was Silicon Valley. The dot com implosion took place when Pac died; the West was blackballed and fell off.

Then what is the South?

The South is video game consoles. Outkast is Neo-Geo. They were so exotic no one actually had one; 499-$699. On another level, reminder that Japan was better than us, like Outkast is. Outkast is the reminder to all mainstream rappers that all the excuses they use to materialize & dumb-down their music in order to sell are bullshit. Just like Neo-Geo was to the other systems "Oh we can't do that yet, the technology is not ready. Bullshit, why was Neo-Geo doing it then? You just wanted to milk us Americans for a few more years on that level.

No Limit was Sega Genesis. The graphics (lyrics) were not as advanced but endearing. Rugged - you could beat the shit out of a Sega console & cartridge. Often we'd wear the track listing right off the sides of Priority cassettes from pulling them the in & out of our walkmans.

50 Cent is Xbox. "50 used our accent to get rich" – Killer Mike

Playstation was the '99 Cash Money. Young Money is PS3.

Eminem is Windows. Eminem is Jet Li at the end of The One.

"Jay-Z is the Jesse Jackson of Hip Hop" Yeah cuz his whole validation is "I was friends w/ Big" like JJ's was "I was w/ MLK when he died"

#RapTheory


  

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Family Tree Assignment

From the book A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life that we use in my Integrative Arts class

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Elena Dee


Went to watch 7718 and crew perform @ The Fallout Shelter in Aliquippa, Pa. Struck up convo with the bartender about a pile of notebooks on the corner of the bar. Turned out she's an accomplished photographer aggressively following her passion of photographing bands. Noticed a coincidence when i went back and watched this video last night; the band i ask about @ 3:43 is the same band that rented my practice room before me. They etched their name on the door. #PulpFiction

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Beastie 5179002-R1-040-18A

Saturday, September 4, 2010

ANOTHER JEWEL FROM SBX


what's dope about the video is not that he used the filter/effect, it's that he carried the concept to it's end. He worked in all of his signatures that if you've had the pleasure of seeing him live would recognize such as the gold megaphone, the chains, the iRobot-ish jerky dance moves, and even the texture/grainyness reminds me of the style he has in his paintings. I think i like this better than all of his other videos. i'm biased tho b/c i'm a big psychadelic head

Thursday, August 12, 2010

100_8916


100_8916, originally uploaded by liquidbonez.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010


Compilation of a couple trips to the ArtistImageResource on the Northside of Pgh. Eyeless Face's Album release party featuring Black 13 Crue & Dreg-N (not sure which is playing 2nd) & an Open House w/ the Shindiggaz preparing for a show in the next room.

Monday, August 9, 2010

The Lost Notebook


Some may already have this, but not in a nifty, long Soundcloud stream like this. (teehee!) This was my Spoken Word Project from my CoffeeScene days in NC.

Why? Pt II

slept on song from slept on album

the youtube comments are crazy too;
bLuDcLoT06http - what if kids from 13 and under copped wu tang albums
JulianRamos1995 - What if Wayne died when he shot himself
theDolphino1123 - Mos Def already did this on "Mr.Nigga" just not with the constant name dropping...still a good song
rell27 - What If there was no haters on YouTube??
allerketballer - Jadakiss the illumanati gave michael jackson that skin disorder because they wanted him to song satinic songs, he rufused (Wow, Ed.)
thizizmuzik - what if...there wasnt no black on black crime???

Friday, August 6, 2010

WHOARFROST @ THE SHOP

Incredibly dope, young, smart band played show with last month.

WHOARFROST
2010-07-12 The Shop, Pittsburgh, PA
Jon Lipscomb: Guitar, Vox
Timmy Shaw: Bass
Ethan Snyder: Drums

100_8614

this guy


i attached a video camera to a television to test out the picture then recorded the screen using my point & shoot camera.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

iPAB Sneak Peek



This is Villain151, a close friend and P.A.B. brotha (see 05:55/09:20 of The Origin surname Sisco.) I shot this video a long time ago, i think it was back in October but i didn't post it anywhere because so many people say they are coming out with an album and never follow through. He's not one of those people but i had to make sure, just in case (tee-hee.) I actually heard most of the finished album a couple weeks ago and it's dope. It's funny to go back to this video & hear them in raw form. Kind of like hearing a composer 'la-la-la' a melody to you. 

It'll be a double disc;
disc 1
1. u could b perfect
2. been a long time
3. I'm finished
4. on smash
5. love birds
6. go 2 war
7. imPerfection At it's Best
8. our city
9. oh my people
10. creep up on ya
11. thugz science-fiction
12. G.U.N.S

disc 2
1. holler
2. young buck
3. endless time 2
4. eastside story
5. Pittsburgh famous
6. n the morning
7. stay strong
8. world spinnin
9. OT
10. on tour
11. when I'm gone interlude
12. when I'm gone

precluded by the obligatory mixtape.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Jack Wilson


talks about working on his mixtapes & living in pittsburgh, while pretty girls loiter in the background. the one we talk about mostly is available here. His newest is below.
<a href="http://jackwilsonmc.bandcamp.com/album/fame-ep">P&amp;LE by Jack Wilson</a>f

Thursday, July 22, 2010

milk this cow 100_8088



100_7983

milk str8 from the cow 100_7928

Monday, July 19, 2010

Brown Angel @ Gooski's


I left my notebook in this little room next to what i later found out was the woman's bathroom. I stepped away and stood on a chair to see over the crowd and film this video while enjoying the music. My handmade paper notebook from Nepal was stacked in between some flyers on the bottom and my cd's on top. Someone presumably stole it b/c the flyers & cds were both still there & it wasn't. I was pissed. I walked around with a flashlight & my friend & i even made an announcement asking for it back after this band was done. Wolf Eyes played after them but i was so pissed i didn't document the awesome-ness which is they.

Friday, July 16, 2010

MR. Brink Disturbed Mixtape Favs



              Trk#1: Only the extremely confident (or arrogant) dare to even talk over a 50 CENT beat. Few succeed at rappin to it like Brink does here. Try it sometime. It’ll give you a better appreciation for what 50 does becuz you’ll realize how stupid you sound.
             Trk#2 His quik ode to the most faithful of haircuts
             Trk#6 Another beat i’m amazed he pulled off becuz many a mixtaper has tried and failed miserably. i also love that there is almost no Young Chris-wheezy-voice imitating going on. Even though there are countless ‘tapes’ coming out everyday, it’s rare to hear someone approach these instrumentals with their own style. They are usually rapped over with a generic style or with that which is used by the original artist. 9/ten times it’s impossible to use someone’s style better than they have on their own beat, yet people still try. It makes more sense to instead, rap how you normally rap, only better, due to the inspiration you’ve received from the previous rapper killing it and/or the overwhelming energy of the beat you feel inclined to ‘add-on’ to.
             Trk#7 “Layaway Shopper” the ironic wit of this one woulda hit more if i had a blog back when he actually put this out.
             Trk#14 “Show Me Where He Live” – This is the type of music you put on repeat and do push-ups to ... while on house arrest.
Brink has always been a snake-ass ngh. Now he’s got the mouthpiece to match it, during this era his extra-curricular activities began to catch up with him. This is the Brink i was hearing about while i was gone. Darker, desperate, & even more moody than before.
            Trk#15 repeated for psychoanalysis.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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Sunday, June 20, 2010


an oldie but goodie - GOOGLE HER! here i'll do it for you

Expensive Cheap Tickets


Sometimes i just want to touch people at random. Am i alone?

If i could fly i would pee in the clouds.

I've never used drugs in another country.

I love the way black women fan themselves in church.

There's a difference between locking yourself in

a room & being locked in a room (speaking of rooms)

planes ought to have daycares

"mind your step" repeated every 8 to 9 secs in Dutch accent

Friday, June 18, 2010

Greazy Duz It & Jack Wilson "SMOKE & MIRRORS"

    i love the momentum of this track. No slowing down just full speed ahead slaying. reminds me of '97 Mentality

           

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

<a href="http://artistbaron.bandcamp.com/track/show-me-your-l0ve-millie-forte-feat-baron">SHOW ME YOUR L0VE Millie Forte feat. Baron by baron.</a>
i love artists with noticeably heavy PriNce influences

Thursday, May 20, 2010

BROKEN ROPE [ ____ TIGER TRAP______ ]

Broken Rope Tiger Trap album cover
There was once a time when i was able to catch Big Pun's 'riddled two middle men from Little Italy that didnt do diddly' line on the first pass. But due to general laziness, paired w/ years of listening to familiar voice tones, predictable rhyme patterns, & cadences those skills are long gone. So until my ears regain their physical fitness my favorite tracks from Broken Rope's new tiger trap will be the slower ones. I smooshed trks #3-6 together here.

I'm not going to put any quotables here because there are so many, it would be disrespectful to the ones i would leave out. My only suggestion to BR would be to invest in whatever mic Cam'Ron uses :)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010



This show was part of Unblurred, held in these amazing lofts that had balconies w/ garage doors. Some installation pics *. The Slime-O-Tron was in the next room.





This is a conversation i had with two of the members of Pseudo Slang; Emcee Sick & Dj Form, after their show at Modern Formations on Friday, July 31, 2009. 
babysteps
fatbeats

Friday, April 23, 2010



There were a lot of rappers in the crowd and we all just kinda stood there with our mouths open because this was all freestyle. Somehow the year '1986' came up and i think dos said he & his dj have doing it since way back then. This guy KID_A yelled out "that's the year i was born!" Awe-inspiring. Reminds me of when i listen to Kool G Rap i think; "after 20 years maybe, just maybe, i'll be able to kill it like this"

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Talk to Strangers

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Do What They Don't Do ||| Video

YouTube - Do What They Don't Do

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Trogpite - 50th & Harrison Show

Trogpite's last Pgh show, at least for awhile. He has since relocated to Vermont. It was hosted at an incredible house http://flic.kr/p/7A3KPD on the corner of 50th & Harrison in Lawrenceville. On vocals is Chrisecjohns, whom i approached afterwards based upon his animated performance. We linked up a couple days later and did some freestyling in his mother's minivan. It felt like old times, headphones on, passerbys leering.
  Trogpite - 50th & Harrison Show

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

CD Sales' Peak & Demise

 reposted from

(In La Bamba voice) in the year 2000 my music career began. no wonder i had the audacity to think we were gonna get on.
cd sales were at their peak.
My group was riding the coat-tails of a successful industry and we all thought it was gonna keep on keepin on this way. "The Game, it'll always be there. I can jump in and jump out." Little did we know that we only had about 5 years to make it through that portal before it closed.
Would we have done any less lolly-gagging? I'd like to think so.
<a href="http://candyglock.com/track/the-follow-through-convo">THE 'FOLLOW-THROUGH' CONVO by LIQUID BONEZ &amp; SHAUN LAMB</a>

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

naeem oba


i clicked on this guy because his name is African, while spamming on myspace
he's not boring
which is why he has some ammo in the anti-pop-rap argument(war).
he takes Ice-T's side, as many others quietly did during that whole YouTube fiasco, and cleverly weaves the names of the most popular targets into the chorus. he made me consider putting my mic down.
he actually keeps you engaged.
he embodies the beautiful, yet bleak beats with a realistic feeling of hope.
he's current, not nostalgic.
he samples all the stuff you planned to
and does it better than you would have.
(i.e. Usual Suspects on Go Hard)
He's working on an album based on 1984, which is an idea Greazy-Duz-It (of the Shindiggaz) has been working on for the last couple months also.
"do not confuse concious and softness" -Yeah

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

SBX Love And Life


Ben performs in his videos harder than most people do at their shows.
My favorite song from his new album A.O.B. is "U Got It"
      03 - U Got It
His album is available for purchase on itunes http://bit.ly/9eCVn4

Vodkasimilak- Dutch Rollin Rebel feat. LIQUID BONEZ

Vodkasimilak- Dutch Rollin Rebel feat. LIQUID BONEZ Good lookin to The Shindiggaz for invitin me up to The Red Chamber and always pushing me out of my comfort zone. Woulda never eff'd w/ a Three Six vocal sampled beat until hearing the way Therm flipped it. Dutch put me on a whole new base to explore.

my verse;
been @ place this more than once
Kurt Cobain shotgun bust
Yellow tape, lots of Blood
Membrane, skull chunks
wipin white powder off ya face
from the dry gloves
dead wgt move the legs
gurney bang rug stained
Family make Arrangements
havin him cremated
who care what the coroner say
to me it look like foul-play
was he on any other medications?
sign your name
Basquiat brushstrokes
Ozzy Oz runny nose
anesthesiologist
Kanye's Mom's cartilage
20 notts down in the sea of garbages
we be in the Hospitals
The Staff & The Serpent
afta blew my brains out cuz
i don't give a shat
Dogs in the backyard
barkin for protection
motion sensors in the ceiling
this about detection
in-school suspension
endure dissension
Goth kids, gnostics, & atheists w/ weapons
goons w/ the head-dress
moons pimp the bitchez
Tennessee, Memphis - Amarillo, Texas
in the meth-labs down in Tulsa w/
the Mexicans
Should i be a vice-cop
Jamie Foxx, why not?
Philip Michael Thomas
i am Negrodamus
pls send my writin to
Michael Eric Dyson &
i'll hold my head high
sittin in confinement