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Feast on your life
Someone shared the poem Love After Love by Derek Wolcott with me recently, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot. I love how it invites the speaker to reconnect with themselves and celebrate their life. Suitable for reconciling both major life events or simply a new week. Power in verse.
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The dub version
The recent release of a (fantastic) dub version of Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s excellent 2022 album, Reset in Dub (along with last year’s Life is Dub from Foals) made me wonder what constitutes dub music. I’m a huge reggae fan, and have enjoyed dub music for years, but I never knew what the technical…
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Dilla Time and 50 Years of Hip-Hop
Hip-hop turned 50 years old this year (August 11, 1973, is considered it’s birthday). My relationship with hip-hop started 30 years ago, but, like Common says, it’s the (longest) love of my life. There has been a lot going on to celebrate hip-hop this year. Here are some of my favorites.
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First day of school
The new school year started today. The kids were saying they weren’t excited but you could see they really kind of were. It was nice to see them back with their friends, and really nice to have them out of the house again, just for a little bit.
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End of the trampoline era
Raising kids involves passing through a number of phases, from not walking to walking, to diapers to no diapers, and from can’t hurt themselves too bad to being constantly on the edge of breaking their neck. Well, today, we tried to curb that last phase a bit: we no longer own a trampoline.
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Music to rob banks too
Ritmo Machine is a collaboration between Cypress Hill’s percussionist Eric “Bobo” Correa and mix master Latin Bitman. I discovered it while listening to The Morning Show, with DJ John Richards describing it as “music to rob a bank to.” I can’t think of a better way to describe it; it’s that cool.
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Everything is inspiration
“Once I owned being an artist, I started to focus on ways to become better. After I did that, everything I took for granted began to take on a new significance: life, a beautiful day, a day on the water, the view from the top of a building, a kind word from someone, something I…
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Houses are famous for two 90%s
Remember our house renovation project? The one we thought would take four to six months? Yeah, it’s still ongoing. It’s been twenty months. We just had the landscaping done and, aside from tiling the front porch, there isn’t anything else to do. Or more accurately stated, there isn’t anything else we’re going to try to…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
