This album is so fucking good.  Some say that I excessively nostalgize early-to-mid 90's hip hop, but how can you not when it sounds this good?  Y'know, when people make entire albums about hustling today, it sounds disingenuous and tired, but Smoothe always sounds hungry and honest.  And every song makes mention of Saratoga Ave.  I wonder what it' ( Read more... )

Minnesota: I'm out (and I give some great measure less than a fuck, though I wish I had my $55 app fee back)
UC Santa Cruz: I'm in.  With fully funded tuition, and hopefully a full stipend.  More importantly, I am still shaking after having spoken with Angela Davis.

After 3/4 of a month's worth of success with my non-smoking resolution, I'm getting ready to implement part two of my big plan, which is to actually start visiting the gym on a regular basis.  The problem is, as broke as I am, it's been borderline impossible to find a gym that I can afford. but it seems I've lucked out.  Apparently Columbia Alumni ( Read more... )

I'm officially giving the DC people until January 15th until I kick into real-time job search mode again.  What seemed like a relatively sure job prospect has progressively dwindled into an iota of possibility with which I'm still grappling.  It's a weird, ugly purgatory I'm in: full-time employment is pretty much out of the question unless it's on ( Read more... )

The ones no one got ( Read more... )

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play
Step 3: Post and let everyone guess what song the lines come from
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly
Don't cheat.

1. Seems I gave cats, eight DATs, the way they make tracks
2. Holden wrecks and ( Read more... )

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happy birthday eob.

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Three apps done, three to go.