U-Turn

So yesterday my brother FINALLY decided to buy Mac Os X Leopard for our Mac. Having a gift card and some "hook-ups" we got it for a good price, right off the bat I knew I wasn't going to have trouble with it. Getting home I immediately pop it in the DVD drive and start to install it. Going through the whole process without anything happening around half way into the installation the computer tells me I have to restart the installation and computer. I thought to myself "No biggie", maybe by restarting it it's going to start working just fine. Well, didn't really go my way. Turning on the computer I'm lead to the opening screen, like usual, for a much longer than I expected. And THAT'S when I knew I had a problem. I called the Apple guy and he told me the only way I can get it fixed is if I go to the Apple store in La Encatada, which is a trillion miles away. Having all this problems with the Mac led me to go to my last resort, my PC. I didn't want too, but I had too. I can't live without the interwebz. My question is WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE PROBLEMS WHEN I GET NEW TECH. TOYS??? First iPod, I broke the screen like in 3 months. That was a horrible dark day. Second iPod, I take care of it like it was part of my soul, turns out it can really work with the PC...AND Mac that I have. I just want to listen to my iPod...is that to much to ask?

Lets get away from the baddies.


As some people know, I'm a record/vinyl collector. When I saw this I simply just feel in love. Artist Jean Shin created this masterpiece called "Sound Wave". It puts more appreciation into the aesthetics of vinyls. Located in NYC's Museum of Art.


Q-Tip has finally released his artwork and tracklist for his new album I've been emancipating about "The Renaissance".
1. Johnny Is Dead
2. Won’t Trade
3. Gettin’ Up
4. Offishal
5. You
6. Fight/Love
7. ManWomanBoogie
8. Move
9. Dance On Glass
10. Life Is Betta
11. Believe
12. Shaka
Only waiting till it comes out so I can do my little album review.



Loop-Analysis is a production dou I'm in that my friend Nick started. Basically its two guys with an MPC(in the near future), a lot of vinyls, love for sample based Hip-Hop, and love for music. Around 3 years ago I started to realize Hip-Hop was sounding crappier and crappier and you know what they say, "If you can't beat them, join them". Not really. We are going to do Hip-Hop music that sounds like...HIP-HOP MUSIC. Nothing with 1000bpm (beat per minute) hi-hats, lame synth melodys, saying "yeah, I get money!" on every track, basslines that make crappy sound systems rattle, its simple going to be Hip-Hop as we know and fell in love with. Were going to be realeasing shirts, stickers, we have wallpapers for you computer, banners, and soon an album. So check us out at myspace.com/loopanalysis.




That all for today. Didn't blog as much because I'm bummed about my Mac but as soon as I get it fixed I'll let you guys know. For now, I'm just waiting. Not for my Mac, I haven't even send it to the Apple store. I'm waiting for...another thing. Get well.

The Office Season Premier (Season 5)

YES!
It's finally here!
No more re-runs!



I'm sure as hell going to be following it this season. And seeing from the first episode (the video I posted) it looks like its going to have alot of twist and turns. But what I see it still looks like the same ol' Office.

Fun Fact: Today is Googles b-day. Why do I care? Because google is way better than Yahoo.

Tricia, I hope your doing good.

Set Of Opinion

On Wednesday we were told to read an speech called "Ain't I A Woman?" by Sojourner Truth in Mr. Reitz's class. Seeing from the title I thought it was going to be about some womens rights stuff and oddly enough was I right. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not a old-aged male from the 1800's that believe that women have small brains. No. I've been taught and I've been learned to believe that to women you have to be a gentleman. In a passage from "Ain't I A Woman?" it says "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere.", she answers by saying "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place! Ain't I a woman?". From my set of opinions, why do we help women on carriages, get over puddles, and have them be in the best places? Because were trying to be GENTLEMAN! Geez. My bad for trying to be nice. My bad for helping you not get dirty. Yes, today I got my argument argued by some one saying "Well, it seems as your portraying women as weak". Being always taught that women should be treated like a glass vase I see women as not weak but, something to treat with gentle hands. But of course, like I've said a million times in this blog, it is just my OPINION.

Trolling around the Internet makes you see some very ridiculous stuff. Well check this out.

A Swarovski Crystal incrusted Samsonite Black Label briefcase. It's a re-issue of 1920's styled trunks but...LOOK AT IT!...it's ridiculously stupid.

Today Lazarides Gallery London set up an exhibition in the East Coast of NYC. The group show titled The Outsiders consist of a theme of mockery. Mockery of pop culture. An experience that almost all the time turns out to be humorous. It feature work from Invader, David Choe, Mark Jenkins, Todd James, Mode 2, BAST, Zevs, and Ian Francis amongst many others.










My music choice for these recent days has been Madlibs Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite instrumental album. Like always, he does what he does best on his MPC. Only if you have love for hip-hop production will you be able to enjoy this album.


Even though this week has been a gloomy week I have to make it up for my self, and my surroundings, to have a good one this following week. This weekend seems to be like its going to be a long one, only way to resolve that is just to get through it. Tricia is feeling way better and I hope it stays like that. Get well.

Sleep Debt

Sleep. Marriam Webster defines it as-the natural periodic suspension of consciousness during which the powers of the body are restored. Or as I like to say, the only time of the day for yourself. Even though I learned in Mr. Reff's class that we don't "need" anything I still see it as an essential. With out sleep the body, mind, and spirit is weak. With a weak body, mind, and spirit the soul is weak. Also, it is known that with out sleep the immune system doesn't work like its suppose to. It is said that adults should get at least 8 hours of sleep. OK, lets see, the day only has 24 hours, say my day starts at 6:00AM. I get ready for school witch is 7:30AM-2:30PM. That is exactly 7 hours. Next on a usual day I have drumline practice from 3:00PM-4:00PM and after that we get something to eat. Having to come back for band practice we only have a few hours. Band practice is from 6:00PM-8:00PM. All that together is 5 hours, making it a total of 13 hours at school. Basically all of my day. Getting home I do homework, check myspace, blog, listen to some music, talk to mom, take a shower, and when I least know it its already 10:30PM. Leading me to go to sleep at 11:00PM almost everyday, only having 7 hours to sleep. DAMN!. Just an hour off. But hey, I have to say I'm pretty lucky because some people have it worst. So the cause of lack of sleep is time, but with out time what will we be, who will we be, or where will we be. No where.

Today is Tuesday witch means its Artist of the Week day. This weeks artist is James White from Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a mixed-media and graphic designer who has that kind 80's taste many Atari playing nerds would love. Take a look for yourself.












UK photographer Mike Stimpson recreates iconic pictures with Legos. Clever.





Last night Alexis said "I have no one to go to Hot Chip with". And I said "I ain't gots no dough". And she said "I'll pay" and I said "OK, only if I pay for Girl Talk when they come" and she said "Cool". So basically we ended up going. It was an awesome show, well except fot the opening act...Death Drums...who names themself that? Second performers were Vampire Weekend. I've heard of them but I wasnt familiar to their work. Seeing them live made me see how awesome they were. But when Hot Chip performed that was when it started going. Lights, synths, dance EVERYWHERE! Some cool college students were next to us and they were jammin' out. Seeing them I thought to myself "One day, I'm going to be a cool college student...". But overall, awesome.

And Tricia, I hope you come to school tomorrow...

lolgetalife

So today we got to use some MacBooks in BioTech. Being that I've advertise this blog so much some of my fellow class mates decided on visiting it. After taking a look at it they got mad because it didn't say nothing about 7th period. So since I'm always open on ideas for me to blog about I guess I'll talk about 7th period. 7th period starts by me leaving Mr. Reffs class all the way in the T-buildings. I make my way into the main building only to be left looking for Tricia in a pool of school driven high school students. For me, its not even half way to my day. Finding Tricia I say hi and see if she wants to hang out after school. Almost all the time the answer is, yes. I proceed inside the class greeting myself to Dr. Lettes and some of my fellow classmates. I sit in my group shared with Izamar, Daniel (or as I like to say "Green Eyes"), and Chris. Immediately we start conversing. With Izamar the conversation is almost always about swimming and her little crushes(don't worry I wont say nothing), with Daniel it's always about girls and oddly enough...sex, and with Chris it's about how "weird" I'am and about Taco Bell. Our class work that day may consist on practice labs and how to convert milliliters into even smaller liters making the class period go fairly fast. For most, ending the day. For me, just ending my school day. Leaving the class room only to find a gift awaiting for me.

Ed Bangers Records will be hosting a special engagement for Justice's Universe fil "A Cross The Universe" at the New York venue Webster Hall. This event is being held to celebrate the release of their new DVD and acts like Justice, Busy P, Sabastian, and So Me will be performing. All I got to say is I'm getting the DVD and if anybody I willing to join and pay me a trip to New York, that will be awesome.

(The picture was a little explicit, I had to fix it a little.)

So trolling around the internet today I found this:

The first big screen T.V., to bad their not cool anymore.

George Micheals, one of my favorite artist of all time, has yet again gotten himself arrested in a public bathroom. Most of you maybe know the incident that happened to him in a Beverly Hills public bathroom a few years ago. I'am not saying nothing but it involved soliciting sex to an undercover cop. YIKES!. Well this time he got caught with grade A and C drugs in an underground loo. An underground club for you that don't have a clue what that is. All I got to say to him is "pick a closet or another kind of closed rooms to do your dirty deeds next time".

Here seen in the 1980's, when looking girly was cool.

That is all for today. Kind of a random post if you ask me, But anyways, this week is going to be a busy week so if I don't blog some days DON'T WORRY, i'll always try to squeeze in time. And I hope I get a good grade in Mr. Reitz process analysis essay.

OptimusPrimeRib

Today is the end of a very uneventful weekend. Mostly because I didn't hang out with a little special someone but, that's another story. Also, watching CNN today I found out that the first Presidential Debate is going to be on Friday. I'm sure as hell going to be watching it. In my opinion the #1 topic is most likely going to be surprisingly not the "war against terrorism" but the economy. Why?. Because Wall Street dropping 500 points on Monday has left a big scar in the conversations of many Americans. Us middle to lower class AMERICANS. Or as I like to say, The People. And Barack Obama, he is for The People.

KAWS has again stolen the art spotlight today by opening his "Saturated" gallery. Taking place in the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami his acrylic based artwork captures the spirit of loveable characters SpongeBob and The Smurfs, adding his own little twist and his signature "X's" over their eyes.

















Designer Ricardo Garza Marcos designed a light cube that gives a geometrical pattern of light depending on the array the user chooses to.



Architects Arquitectura X Adrian Moreno Nunez and Maria Semaniago Ponce have created a house called the "X House". Basically a big rectangular looking box with a lot of windows. The kind of house you may be scared to walk around naked in but it's in the middle of no where so your like "ehh...what the heck". Its location-La Tola, Valle De Tumbaco, Quito, Ecuador.















Earlier today I downloaded Raphael Saadiq's album "The Way I See It". An album that re-recognizes rhythm and blues. For every song he tried to not imitate but recreate music by The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Al Green, and The Four Tops. Some musical groups that I enjoy and love. And maybe the reason why I'm falling in love with this album song by song. Great album cover to. Gives you that old dirty vinyl feeling that passionate music lovers simply love.

And my favorite song right now is called "Sometimes". A Sam Cookes influenced song that Saadiq says is "the story of my mother and grandmother who have always been such an inspiration to me through this journey. It felt right to close out the record this way". But listening close to it around 20 times today I very much relate to this song. If you really know me, listening to this song, you may see why.