1.26.2005
THAT'S WHEN I REACH FOR MY SPACE HEATER
An M.F. Doom bonus beat: "You just have to stay strong in those types of times, stay focused. I’m like this—failure ain’t even in my vocabulary. Even though I just used the word. You know what I mean."
Coincidentally, Doom's mask is the same one from Gladiator. Not the exact same one. You know what I mean.
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"Can you give me an example?"
"Sure. We're targeting verbs - you know, like He be or We was."
"Aaaah."
Overheard the other day at a cafe in Brooklyn. (I think they were teachers.)
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Back in Cambridge. Watching NESN's Red Sox Winter, an extreme act of closure-slash-catharsis consisting of the 1975, 1986 and 2004 World Series games in their entirety. I am in the 10th inning of Game 6 of 1986, waiting for "it" to happen. Vin Scully has just crowned Marty Barrett the NBC Player of the Game. Here is Kevin Mitchell, batting without any underpants on. (As legend has it, Mitchell was just chilling in the clubhouse, in the buff, waiting for the game to end, when he got called up to pinch-hit.) (A different legend has it that Mitchell beheaded his girlfriend's cat, but that was just Dwight Gooden talking that crack-aided nonsense.)
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Writing about music is fine but sometimes I forget how much I prefer talking about it. Free associations, air guitar and the shutdown logic of a vigorous nod. Reminded of this last week at Mama's, where I was reminded how much I love the Verve, and then again tonight, talking about the Strokes, Avril Lavigne and Domino Records with Peter Prescott, who works down the block. Somehow, when the drummer for Mission of Burma says he thinks something is derivative, you don't question it. You just nod vigorously.
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I used to do this in college, only it was in right-wing chatrooms and not sex ones. This is a lot funnier.
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Just as I was preparing to pour myself some Jameson, comb liner notes and lament the fate of Old Rappers, I came across something amusing on Ex's blog. Not only does D-Nice have a blog, he has a section of photographs labeled "Fruits and Vegetables." It's exactly what you think it is, but then not really.
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