February 2012
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“I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other....”
– Erykah Badu
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“of all the churning random hearts
under the sun
eventually fading into night,...”
– The Shins, ‘Sea Legs’
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Set Yo Self Free
Love letter, Jimi-Hendrix-style:
“little girl,
happiness is within you… so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow— like the sweet flower you are… I know the answer— just spread your wings and set yourself FREE
love to you forever Jimi Hendrix”
(via co.design, natalie)
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“The present epoch will perhaps be, above all, the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment, I believe, when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time, than that of a network that connects points and intersects with...
Veintidos
As I turn 22, I feel kind of old (I’m “in my twenties”!), but life feels right, and even-keel. I went shopping on Friday with some money Mom & Dad sent me, and I only bought practical, neutral items of clothing that would “last me a long time.” And Natalie (my roommate) told me yesterday that I’m emotionally stable, which is a new phenomenon. In some ways,...
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Effective Rebellion
An excerpt from David Brooks’ NYT opinion piece, How to Fight the Man. Read the whole thing — it’s short! This is good advice politically, theologically, ideologically.
“For generations people have been told: Think for yourself; come up with your own independent worldview. [But] unless your name is Nietzsche, that’s probably a bad idea. Very few people have the genius...
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January 2012
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Love Generation
(photo by Chris Burkard)
Love Generation by Bob Sinclar feat. Gary Pine
why must the children play in the streets/ with broken hearts and faded dreams peace and love to everyone that you meet/ don’t you worry, it could be so sweet
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Screen to Shining Screen
Quick reviews of documentaries I been likin’ lately
Hip-Hop Colony: The African Hip-Hop Explosion. Of course I loved this documentary, if only because it satisfied my longing for Swahili/Sheng for 1.5 happy hours. I absolutely loved its narrative arc — hip-hop’s arrival in East Africa and subsequent transformation, plus all the exclusive bedroom-footage of Kenyan homeboyz...
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Peace Train
Peace Train by Cat Stevens now I’ve been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come and I believe it could be, something good has begun oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one and I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come
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Musically Expressed Ideas About Music
“It was while acting as a participant-observer at clubs in Boston and on the blogosphere that I began to notice the subtle pedagogical power of particular forms of musical performance – in particular, DJ-mixing and mashup production, both of which are based on the art of juxtaposition, whether sequential or simultaneous – to shape one’s sense of the ways that musical style articulates, in a...
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“listen to the ground, there is movement all around / there is something...”
– The Bee Gees, ‘Night Fever’
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“Technology giveth and technology taketh away. No business model, art form, or practice has the inherent right to exist; it has to fit in with the social, technological, and market realities of its day. The world is poorer because short stories and poems have fallen out of favor, but legislating poetry back into the market would be insane. Successful poets today write songs, just as successful...
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street-smart in SF
Step 1: pick up two, slightly worn office chairs in the financial district — with wheels
Step 2: and you got yourselves a ride
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Reasonable Economics →
A really great article by Jake Romero (a student at Portland State), ‘The Trouble with Principles, or, How Not to Lose Friends & Alienate People When Learning Economics.’
‘Free market’ reforms generally improve aggregate outcomes while increasing inequality, so that poverty increases even as overall wealth does. Basic economic analysis treats distribution as a...
December 2011
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“‘Electronic dance music is still something that you have to find,’ Raddon says. ’It’s not on the radio, it’s not on TV. These people really had to search me out.’ And the sense of shared community this engenders cannot be overstated. Ten years ago, the dance music scene was finely sliced into such an interminable array of genre divisions that it became a joke: aquatic techno-funk,...
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Muzik ya Pwani
Been writing a little for Africa.com this semester, treatin’ one of my favorite topics: the Mombasa muzik scene. Articles online here and here!
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS... →
“There was a lot of snickering in media circles, even by me, when I heard the protesters talking about how Liberty Square was offering a model for a new society, with free food and health care and so on. Obviously, a bunch of kids taking donations and giving away free food is not a long-term model for a new economic system.
But now, I get it. People want to go someplace for at least five...
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November 2011
14 posts
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“If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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“Awake in bed with a knife to my throat, I wonder if gravity can do what my will...”
– Some DJ-kid from my Globalization class (Harvard kids can be cool too).
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“What in me is dark,
Illumine; what is low, raise and support.”
– Milton, Paradise Lost
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Cause love’s such an old fashioned word And love dares you to care For the people on the edge of the night And love dares us to change our way Of caring about ourselves This is our last dance This is ourselves under pressure
-David Bowie
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October 2011
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“The American media environment is now being shaped by two seemingly contradictory trends: on the one hand, new media technologies have lowered production and distribution costs, expanded the range of available delivery channels, and enabled consumers to archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate media content in powerful new ways. At the same time, there has been an alarming...
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“You can’t leave, cause your heart is there/ But you can’t stay,...”
– Sly and The Family Stone, ‘Family Affair’
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“We are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made/ Forged in the fires of...”
– Rich Mullins
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This is pretty true to the original, but I love...