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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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Reading doesn’t have to be so serious
I recently finished reading Heat 2, the sequel/prequel novel to the classic 1995 Michael Mann film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer. It’s classic cops and robbers: lots of gun fights, espionage, double-crossing, just like the movie. I just read it for fun, nothing else. Didn’t learn a thing, just enjoyed myself.…
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The Wayfinders
The Wayfinders is a collection of brilliant stories about different ways of living from the perspective of people and cultures that have been around for centuries. Some of those cultures are still surviving, most are on the brink of being lost, and many are long gone. The stated goal of these stories is not to…
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Blood, sweat, and chrome
I finished reading Blood, Sweat, and Chrome by Kyle Buchanan last week, which documents the wild story of the roughly twenty-year journey it took to create the movie Mad Max: Fury Road, released in 2015. It’s said that the film is one of the greatest action films ever and one of the best movies of…
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Open
I remember seeing Andre Agassi on TV as a kid. I used to watch Wimbledon regularly during the summers. Since Wimbledon takes place in the UK, it was on in the mornings in the US, and during our long summer vacations, I always seemed to have time to watch. I’ve never followed tennis closely, but…
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On owning your decisions
“Bitterness always comes to those who look back on a life of choices imposed upon them from the outside. And you may not make all the right decisions, but if you own those decisions, they all become the right ones because together they become the path of your own creation and you become the architect…
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Cooking creativity
I’ve gotten into this groove with cooking in the last month or so. I’m cooking dinner basically every night, while part-time working and full-time Dad-ing, and I’m not stressed about it. Not only that, I’m actually making (and I’m totally being objective here) good food. Like real food not from a box. I’m thinking that…
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Self-expression is a basic human need and you are doing it all the time
One of the challenges with my shift to working part-time and being a full-time Dad has certainly been the lack of “me” time, but that didn’t really explain the gap I’ve been struggling to cover since shifting my hours and days around. While reading Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte though, I came across…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
