Back to the Grind

Awww... almost 3 for 3. K, maybe not. But props as always to friends fam and new folks who came on out to dance and welcome Captain P's Gumbo Funk EP into the greater world (ie outside of 877 Park Place). And of course extra thanks to Tierso and Caps & Jones, who, swear to god, are seriously a party in themselves (Will got them white girls on lock!) Good times good times.

But yup, we'll be posting up a page for Gumbo Funk soon for folks to preview snippets and cop a copy. Also will be posting up ix's 2nd mix for Via in the Loose Tape section within the week, and what else what else... new splash pages for the summer also coming to keep things a smidgen fresh. And when we finally get some time, possibleye will start working on the online ordering stuff so as we can relieve ourselves of some of this backstock. Should leave our (ixley's) hands full for a minute.

This may be old news, but... wait, what? Time Mag is as Hip as Any Tagger, You Hear? (via Gawker)

Brother Urn chimes in from his deathbed in DC:

Jeff Chang's excellent commencement speech delivered to the 2005 class of UCLA's Asian American Studies program (definitely don't have to be Asian to be inspired by this). Don't remember much about our commencement cept for clowning Charlie as we watched him fall asleep on stage. Yyyyyyeah Gallatin. Oh and then also being stupid hot in Washington Square (I think I took the Hippocratic Oath somewhere in there too. Who needs med school when you've got blanket all-university graduations?)

From Dantrification: Blacks and Jews, Part One and Part Two. I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna say it... challah! yuk yuk.

And the bullshit site of the year goes to: EX Ministries.

Aaron's commentary:
I tried to post up on their bulletin board, but it said that my message would have to be "approved by the site" or something like that. Fat chance of that happening. But yeah, well recycled from the days of KISS and Black Sabbath, here's another Minister waging war on Devil Music...in this case, Hip hop..though he also includes tirades against Indie Arie, Jill Scott, and Alicia Keys, amongst many. It'd be laughable if it weren't so fucking sad and especially if he didn't have a whole churchful of youth actually believing his garbage.

Finally, catchdubs is throwing up his Saul Williams mixtape for kids to download and fileshare to their hearts' content. Someone find us a Safari-compatible video for Black Stacey please. We liked List of Demands, and admittedly, got a little gossipy when we saw Suheir all up in it. Silly poets.