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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
FINALE posted on 5/25/2004 10:43:49 AM by agentCB
DRAMA posted on 5/20/2004 09:55:41 AM by agentCB
CHECK IT posted on 5/18/2004 12:36:23 PM by agentCB
SO IT BEGINS... posted on 5/16/2004 11:45:31 PM by agentCB
YOU posted on 5/12/2004 11:18:01 PM by agentCB
BURN OUT posted on 5/04/2004 10:29:24 AM by agentCB
ODE TO THE HUSTLE posted on 5/01/2004 10:14:06 PM by agentCB
saturday was the grand finale to 3.5 years of graduate school. in the afternoon the extended family came up, aunties, uncles, cousins, etc... very lovely. they came bringin balloons, leis, envelopes and a fuckin ipod!!!
did i ever tell ya'll how dope my family is?
we ate at this chinese buffet place (third time in a week, due to all the grad parties we had 2 to go.) and had our own little room in the corner. we were hella loud up in there.
graduation time came and i walked, saw my classmates for one last time. (well most of them anyway, i'll be in touch with a select few). i had a video camera with me so i have footage of my own graduation. i got the idea for it at my undergraduate ceremony. my mom was filming my graduation after recovering form carpal tunnel syndrome on both of her wrists.
it's safe to say that the video came out a little jerky.
but what really got my attention was that the video was from far away. so i thought, "i wish i brought a video camera. it would be cool to see a graduation from the graduate's perspective." little did i know at the time that i would be in pursuit of a master's degree.
a good half and hour of me fuckin around at my graduation is taking up 7GBs of space on my ibook. i'm in the process of editing it.
if ya'll behave i'll put a link up here when i'm done.
after graduation came the afterparty and it was splendid. friends nice and liquored up. good music happening, and best of all, i was AWAKE for the whole time!
i chose not to drink too much because i had 2 keep the party in check, but i had fun regardless just playing host and making my rounds with everyone. playing drums is easier when you're not inebriated.
special thanks to all those who came out 2 celebrate with me, esp. those who drove from far away. extra special shot out for chantizzle for hooking it up at the bar and snayk eyz for dj'ing.
until the doctorate... hahah
Thursday, May 20, 2004
i know most of sacramento is down because of the kings, but here's more important shit to deal with
stupidity in it's rawest form.
this is why terrorists attack us in the first place. besides the fact that we exploit, terrorize and oppress other countries. on top of it all, we are arrogant, ignorant and doggonit, even downright snooty
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
ok, to your left is my new music section. i uploaded my first remix from jigga's black album. don't forget 2 leave feedback when u dl it.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
picked up jay-z's black album acapellas yesterday. made my first remix last night. i remixed "justify my thug". when i get some dsl action up in here, i'll post the remix. until then i'll have 2 bump it in my headphones.
for this song, i sampled an old beat i made on my keyboard a few years ago and stuck it in reason. i chopped the hell out of it. i've spent the last 3 hours re-working on it. but the more i hear it, the more i don't like it. then again, i'm my worst critic.
i've decided to remix most (if not all) of jay-z's album. i'm gonna have a hard time remixing "change clothes" because i love that beat and i don't think there can be a better one for that song. i may have the same problem with "encore" because i like that beat too.
anyway, i got tired of hearing the beat bore holes into my ear drums so i switched to one of my songs.
i've been trying to change the chorus to my song "can't u tell" for the past 2 months now. tweety & parmesan have been waiting for me to finish the song already. i don't like the hook because it sounds pathetic. not because it isn't sound, but pathetic because it's almost pleading. i don't want 2 give away the chorus on here so maybe if u email me i can share the hook with u...
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
You think u’re seein the best of me?
When I see you from behind
Tryin to pickpocket the rest of me?
Shit…
You think I give a damn about
What you preachin’
How I should walk and talk like you
even think like you?
Hell...
Well guess what… I do
Yet I still got my problems
And I'm nowhere near solvin’ them
I’m not like you
I was coerced to emulate you
Talk like u, learn like you,
Even eat the same foods as you
Ooh yes I said it,
Hell no I don’t regret it
Cuz now I’m left to fend for myself
When it was you yourself
Who took me off the shelf
Because yes,
I AM different from U
And that’s the truth…
And that’s the truth…
And that’s the truth…
And that’s the truth…
So here I am brown
Bitter, broken down
And regardless
I still can fly
With my family on my side
Love on the rise
& a new understandin of you
Keepin me sane inside
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
i think i figured out why i haven't reacted to the fact that i have finished my master's program (besides the fact that i still have to finish my field study hours).
i'm pretty much mentally gone right now.
i don't really care about anything. i think i need a vacation. somewhere far away and as opposite to caring about people as you can get. (my profession of "caring" is starting to get to me... haha) hell, i want to go somewhere where people will try to hurt you as you walk down the street. how's that for opposite of caring.
ok well maybe not that extreme. but i do need to get the fuck outta sacto for a minute. hell maybe even out of northern california in its entirety. this is something that not even a weekend visit to the bay will appease.
right now, all i want to do is play basketball, bike ride, hang out, and make beats. i don't care about people anymore. haha let's hope this goes away or my master's in counseling will be a big fuckin waste.
now i will get back to work caring for people. bleh. haha
Saturday, May 01, 2004
my car battery died today while at a restaurant with some friends. tried to jump it but the thing was straight up dead like jack tripper.
so i called the "A-triple" to hook it up. unfortunately, this has become a ritual as of late. i've become accustomed to the whole procedure. i even have good conversations with the drivers.
like today for example, take the mexican cat who helped me this evening. he's been working with a tow company for a month now...
and can't stand it...
this evening i was educated in the fine art of tow truck driver exploitation. homeboy was laid-off at his last job at an airport car company or something... so now he's working 7am-4am. yes you read that correctly, a 21 hour day. for 8 bucks an hour.
fuck.
and get this, after 6pm, tow truck drivers get paid on commission. so if you don't bust your ass to get cars, you won't get paid shit from 6pm til whenever you're supposed to be off.
so homeboy works 4 days a week and usually from 7am-3am. the first question they asked him at the interview was "do you have any kids?" so you know they want to lock down their employees.
it's a decent living, but damn is it a hard life. imagine being in a truck for most of the day and night. i would not want to do that.
makes my job easy in comparison.
