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Just Bang It
As many of you know, A-Trak has been destroying it since he bought his first pair of turntables with his Bar Mitzvah money. He (and Nick Catchdubs) started one of the best up-and-coming labels out there, Fool’s Gold, with Kid Sister, Kid Cudi, Jokers of The Scene, Treasure Fingers, and other great selectas. So, I came across (mad thanks to Pelski) a non-ripped, full HQ version of his over-hyped, but still absolutely fire, collabo with Laidback Luke. Drop it in your sets, guilt-free, this fall.
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Electric Mayhem
It has been noted that I take a negative stance on many things. I mean, I don’t consider myself an angry person, normally. But I’ve been rolling stag for a couple months – can you blame a guy?
Here’s something that I can’t really hate on. My boy DJ Electric Mayhem called me up the other night, said he was floating through space or some shit, and then sent me this: Electric Mayhem – Why Not? mix. Astronomical, to say the least, and it’s got a bunch of tracks that have been blowing up my summer playlists. If you’re in Ithaca, you can catch him here every Friday night.
Oh, and dude’s also a modern day Ansel Adams on acid.
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Relevance
I was thinking about how things are becoming less and less relevant in the age of the internet and the population’s ability to publish whatever they want. The internet – where appearance is everything. Move on from one idea to the next. ADD culture. Meaningfulness is scarce these days. Would you change your lifestyle so that you can get the most out of life? Anyway, This guy poses the question well.
For those of you in Ithaca this weekend, you can experience something meaningful. You can connect with other people. You can have a blast. You can do whatever the fuck you want. Musefest is going down from 8/22-8/24 just west of town. Good music from the likes of Jsan, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Jimkata, The Rozatones, et. al. See you hippies there.
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“Mo’ money less problems”
One upside of the man fencing off the gorge is that there are much fewer people down there. Now I can get some sun on my white ass without frightening the natives. I nursed my hangover this afternoon under the sun in the deep pool that is my sweet new spot:
I don’t feel like spinning tonight, but i’ll probably play these funky niblets:
Cutty Lark – Get Caught
South City Allstars – SCA vs. Curtis Mayfield
Ghostface Killah – Charlie Brown (DJ Mehdi Remix)
And, because she’s just so damn cute:
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Tags: funk, gorges, Ruby
Word of the Day
Lackadaisical – [lack-uh-DAY-zih-kuhl], adjective: Lacking spirit or liveliness; showing lack of interest; listless.
Today, I am stagnant. I miss the beach. Exhaustion has set in big time, so I edited and listened to a mix I recorded on Saturday. It’s some good, funky grooves. I enjoy a bourbon on the rocks with it, and suggest you do the same.
DJ Fuzzy Duck – Music To Lounge By
I also just found this Clipse remix floating around and wish I had it in time for that mix, so here it is for your enjoyment.
The Clipse – Fast Piano (Studio Remix)
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She gave me headphones
So, you can afford a $300 iPod, but not the FM transmitter for $25 dollars. I’ve been seeing people wear headphones while driving a lot these days. If one of these cybernetic cumquats violates my right-of-way, her noise-cancelling earsperms might be used for asphyxiation. Fuck that shit.
Unless, of course, they were listening to this sweetness:
SymbolOne – Love Juice (Danger Remix)
It’s a song that causes me to forget I’m driving on terra firma and blast off into space. Play it loud.
[Thanks to Pelski]
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Tags: Danger, Dumb People, SymbolOne
Save The Gorges
Cornell, this one is for you. Take a good look:
This is the entrance to the always popular swimming hole in Fall Creek behind Fiji and Chi Psi as I saw it today on a walk. Without notice, the Cornell University administration has decided to permanently fence off access to this part of the gorge. This section of Fall Creek, where countless members of the Cornell community bathe throughout Ithaca’s hot summer, is known to some as a dangerous place to swim. Navin Parthasarathy, a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, drowned here in August, 2006. The university’s response? Post signs warning people of potential dangers in the gorge. On June 12 this year, Douglas Lowe ‘11 drowned when he was pulled under the swift current. It took rescuers nearly 4 hours to find his body.
My friends, my dog, and I swim at this spot nearly every week during the summer. Someone drowns here nearly every year – a fact which the entire community is aware of. I know swimming here is dangerous. Why do I do it? It’s fun and refreshing. Is it worth drowning for? No, but I’m confident in my ability to swim and try not to do anything stupid, like jumping from the ledge 25 ft. above the surface of the water. Swimming in the gorges is illegal, but it’s one of the few things that defines spending a summer in Ithaca.
So, why wait until now to close the gorge?
Listen, buddy. People can only go so far in telling others what they can and cannot choose to do. I believe most people are capable of rational thought. Merely being aware of the fact that swimming here is dangerous is enough information to allow people make their own decisions. In this age of shrinking civil liberties, it’s interesting that an institution of higher education and a (supposed) proponent of free thought would impose itself upon our own free will.
The City of Ithaca has not fenced off entrances to the gorge along Six Mile Creek; a stream with swimming spots that are not without their own share of hazards and injury. On July 8 of this year, a young man was seriously injured during an aborted jump from the abandoned water-pumping building above the swimming hole at First Dam. Maybe they have put up fences in the past, but those fences do not stand today. Why? Because we don’t give a fuck. We climb them. We walk around them. We tear them down.
Okay, I’ve gone on without saying much of anything for long enough. Prz Skrtn, I believe you have my stapler.
Ben Harper – Burn One Down (Live)
Bob Marley – Get Up Stand Up
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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Tags: Cornell, douchebaggery, Fall Creek, gorges
