Thursday, October 30, 2003
...Another late night, hopefully the last of them (for a while at least). I quit at Atlanta Bread Company,but I'm going to be baking from the 14-17th of Nov. straight, so I'll need some divine intervention to get through that. A lot of opportunities are opening up elsewhere though, I'm going to go record for a guy named Bobby tomorrow, and before that, I have a rehearsal with a really (REALLY) phenomenal steel pan player who, hopefully I'll have the honor and opportunity to play with at the end of the year. I am looking forward to having my schedule open up, get some time to myself, I need to write, I need to compose, I need to practice, and I need to sleep. So apologies for cuttin this short, but I got a date with The Sandman's daughter. Tout le monde, adorez votre vie!
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Aight cha'll! Welcome back again! I have here a lil sumpin that just kinda came to me. I live maybe 20 minutes away from the beach (For those of you who don't know , I hail from Ft. Lauderdale!) and I never take the time out of a mostly-fulfilled life to really go and just appreciate. So I did Friday morning. I brought my little black book with me just in case anything came up, and something did. So here it is, its not great, but I don't think its awful either, just a small little testament to life on a whole. Investigate it and tell me what you think:
I've reconnected/ I'm ready to be perfected
But I'm living till the end, not dying like I expect it
Some of us are living to die, I was once dying to live
But I kissed death goodbye cuz now I'm willing to give
That which is often never taken hold of by some owners themselves
And so they live in suicide and in the end, die on the shelves
Of Eternity 7 as stories never explored
From cover to cover always connected, though themselves they ignore
Never in selflessness
Living in lack of Self is more Self less
I live selfishly lovin every moment feeling myself less
Feeling Life more, feeling more life-like, feeling more like life might fill itself with my life
Instead of me feeling like I'm just filling my life, y'know cuz "That's Life"
And so here's mine before you, just another seed in the soil
Thirsting for water to sprout roots, hungry for space I wanna uncoil
These limbs of futures and feel the sun's light on my leaves
If I am to have them....
I feel the sun's rays in my soul
That means I must have one....
To sell if so proves my sole wish
Or sole option left to keep my family enriched
You see you only get one Life, one wish, and there's a million 9-5's
And like you, I'm just a seed, but we're more than just seeds
We are alive
Aight, what you think? That's it for now, let's live in the meantime......
Oh yeah, the "Eternity 7" reference is from an ill piece by my main the Auspex. This is an official reminder to myself to post that when I get a chance Till the next mediocre entry
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I've reconnected/ I'm ready to be perfected
But I'm living till the end, not dying like I expect it
Some of us are living to die, I was once dying to live
But I kissed death goodbye cuz now I'm willing to give
That which is often never taken hold of by some owners themselves
And so they live in suicide and in the end, die on the shelves
Of Eternity 7 as stories never explored
From cover to cover always connected, though themselves they ignore
Never in selflessness
Living in lack of Self is more Self less
I live selfishly lovin every moment feeling myself less
Feeling Life more, feeling more life-like, feeling more like life might fill itself with my life
Instead of me feeling like I'm just filling my life, y'know cuz "That's Life"
And so here's mine before you, just another seed in the soil
Thirsting for water to sprout roots, hungry for space I wanna uncoil
These limbs of futures and feel the sun's light on my leaves
If I am to have them....
I feel the sun's rays in my soul
That means I must have one....
To sell if so proves my sole wish
Or sole option left to keep my family enriched
You see you only get one Life, one wish, and there's a million 9-5's
And like you, I'm just a seed, but we're more than just seeds
We are alive
Aight, what you think? That's it for now, let's live in the meantime......
Oh yeah, the "Eternity 7" reference is from an ill piece by my main the Auspex. This is an official reminder to myself to post that when I get a chance
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Alright so the changes continue in abundance.... I'm in the middle of a very tense job search right now. In about another week or so, I stop working one of my current post at a costume shop for the Halloween season, so I'm trying to solidify something by Nov. 1st. On top of that, I think I've reached my limit at Atlanta Bread Company. Even though I only work two days out of the week there, I think I've come to the completion of my self-induced stress overload. Either that, or its a bold-faced lie and I'll be five times as stressed come November when I don't have a job at all, and a new semester of college (and rising college costs!) staring me down in the near-future. Aside from that, things are starting to fall into place for me to make this transition over to music (finally!!!). I've even been offered a chance to record with an older gentleman from the school.
Hip-Hop is blowing up in a major way on the local front -strike that!- actually its probably been blowing up, but in my crippling schedule and self-induced busyness frenzies, I've been too hectic to notice it. I've been to one particular function that blew my mind; it was in North Miami at the beginning of the month and there's another one coming up next Saturday (definitely looking forward to...) It was an open mike type of gathering, my Hurricane fam put me up on. Poets, M.C.'s, singers, Breakers, y'know all-inclusive. They even had a live band. Let me move on before I start (continue) rambling. KRS-ONE is rumored to be making an appearance in Gainesville mid-November for a big cultural event there. Aesop Rock is swooping through Miami soon also.
Alright, this is getting long and I'm getting bored with myself. Be on the lookout though, I think I'm going to post the poem I've got set for the next open mike session (not that I'll see much feedback....)! Abrupt Salutations
Hip-Hop is blowing up in a major way on the local front -strike that!- actually its probably been blowing up, but in my crippling schedule and self-induced busyness frenzies, I've been too hectic to notice it. I've been to one particular function that blew my mind; it was in North Miami at the beginning of the month and there's another one coming up next Saturday (definitely looking forward to...) It was an open mike type of gathering, my Hurricane fam put me up on. Poets, M.C.'s, singers, Breakers, y'know all-inclusive. They even had a live band. Let me move on before I start (continue) rambling. KRS-ONE is rumored to be making an appearance in Gainesville mid-November for a big cultural event there. Aesop Rock is swooping through Miami soon also.
Alright, this is getting long and I'm getting bored with myself. Be on the lookout though, I think I'm going to post the poem I've got set for the next open mike session (not that I'll see much feedback....)! Abrupt Salutations
Monday, October 20, 2003
What's up world? I got off work early today (I only had to work till 11 tonight!), and I've been making observations for the past week or so of the midnight sky. Almost every night, when I've gotten home, I'll steal a look up as I'm getting out of the car, and it has been absolutely radiant. There aren't a lot of stars, but all of the ones that are out are twinkling. Aesthetically, its nice enough, but scientifically its amazing! They could all be solar systems going nova. I mean think about it, we could be watching like 17 galaxies collapse at the same time, even more, they could've collapsed thousands of years ago, and we're just seeing them now in our corner of the infinite. Its expansive, we make all this fuss over human potential and our accomplishments, and we probably barely register as a blip in the universal fabric. Who knows what came before us, or what's out there with us now, or what will be left when we're gone? I need to start reading through my Discover magazines again...I've always tried to imagine things like what if our world and our whole reality is simply like a proton, one element of one atom in a larger universe/ reality. If it wasn't for the math, I'd be a quantum physicist....Holla
P.S. all the bass-heads need to check out www.jacop.net and scope one of our suns gone nova. The light still shines bright though!
P.S. all the bass-heads need to check out www.jacop.net and scope one of our suns gone nova. The light still shines bright though!
Sunday, October 19, 2003
Alright time to regroup! I started writing myself this whole ill introduction welcoming myself to the online community, but it got to be too long so......this is my official first entry. Welcome to it ya'll. Friends, fam, passers-by, this is one of my worlds, hope you enjoy (whatever). Check it, this is just a spot for me to vent, explore, expand, and connect all at the same time. I'll probably post some verses every now and then, or little snippets that'll have to get worked out later, and just any other little thoughts that happen to float through the mindscape. (ie. What does it say about being a slave to a greater force, in a system where athletes make more than ten times as much as the man whose supposed to be in charge of the whole system itself?) Ya feel? Just some wonderings and mental wanderings. And let me get this out now, EVERYBODY go check www.infinitekarma.com, don't ask me why, go check it and find out for yourself(ves)! Aight so that's my intro! Now I'm a try posting it and see what becomes.......HOLLA!
