January 2011
6 posts
Tokeo and C3PO of MUL
Tokeo and C3PO of the MUL crew have just finished another wicked piece in Chicago.
Note: All my Naptown heads, you can find one of Tokeo and C3PO’s pieces on the Southside near Fountain Square. This was done as part of the Subsurface Graffiti Expo in 2009.
A thousand plateaus
Between things does not designate a localizable relation going from one thing to the other and back again, but a perpendicular direction, a transversal movement that sweeps one and the other away, a stream without beginning or end that undermines its banks and picks up speed in the middle.
Deleuze & Guattari
Close to the morning, in the mouth of the sun
I was inspired today by a friend to write about one of my favourite songs, ‘Na boca do sol’. Unfortunately, he does not speak Portuguese; as the lyrics are one of best parts of the song, I took it upon myself to translate the lyrics for him.
Some may recognize this tune as sampled by the likes of DOOM and Madlib. I remember this tune from another singer, Célia. My first...
Happy New Year. Pick up your head and look...
Eighty-Eight Tuned Drums
Anybody’s music is made up a lot of things that are not musical. Music is an attitude, a group of symbols of a way of life, whether you’re conscious of it or not… And of course, it naturally reflects the social and economic and educational attitudes of the players. And that’s why the fools don’t think I play jazz.
Cecil Taylor