Thievery Corporation: Sweet Tides

I caught this video on t.v. at about 2:00 am today. The imagery of it was so fresh to me I thought I'd share it. When I was watching it I was on the phone so the t.v. was on mute, but the song isnt that bad. I think scenic road trips in vintage cars are priceless.

Quote Of The Day

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Lil' Wayne GQ Interview

From the outside, it seems like you’ve had a pretty incredible year this year. Kind of a breakthrough year. Does it feel that way to you?

Of course it was the biggest year of my life. Obviously. The VMAs were the biggest moment. That was the craziest, because I didn’t expect to do none of those things. Didn’t even contemplate once taking an award home. That was just over the mountain.
The payoff was sweet, of course, but the whole year has been mostly consumed with hard work. Everything that everyone see and notice, those things happen one day, one week, those things happen whenever. But I work every single day. I work every single hour. That’s what my year has been like. Work.

What about your album?

That was good. But there’s more to be done. People got to understand there’s no peak on record selling, there’s no limit, so you never reach your goal, you’re never satisfied.
And I expected to sell that much. Because I worked that goddamn hard. And it sounded that goddamn good. And that much better than everyone else’s.

So one of those working days, what’s it like? Your typical day.

A typical day for me? (To his road manager) Can I have a lighter? (Lights a blunt.) I get up, and if I’m not on the road or doing something like a photo shoot, I’m in the studio. I get up and eat breakfast, I have a great chef. The homies usually come over. We eat breakfast and shit.
My chef makes the same thing every day, just the full breakfast, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, sometimes waffles, fruit. Make sure that there’s everything you’re supposed to get.

You ever think about what happens when your record doesn’t open on top? Like where do you think you’ll be in ten years?

Nowhere. I don’t. That’s stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they’re lying to themselves first, so you know they’re lying to you.
[A Lakers highlight comes on the flat-screen in the kitchen of his bus] Lakers my team. Cuz they got this creature on their team that’s unexplainably great, by name of Kobe Bryant. That’s just, just unreal. Until they don’t have him, I don’t understand why anyone else even play basketball.

[Then a LeBron highlight comes on the television] LeBron’s great, he gonna be better, because he’s younger, of course. That’s not even talent with LeBron, that’s magic. He may as well go on and tell everyone that he 35 years old, get it over with. He plays like a total man. He ain’t from Akron, he from Jupiter somewhere. Playing like that.


Read The Entire Interview Here

M21 Flat Panel TV

Introducing the M21 Flat Panel TV. A retrofit flat TV console to house both flat-panel plasmas and LCDs, the M21 is made from solid and veneer hardwoods. I kinda dig the retro look of this, since flat-screens didn't exist when this would've been manufactured. The speakers on the bottom set it off.

Barack and Michelle: The 1st Dance

Beyonce was holding back tears as she sang Etta James' classic "At Last". Man I cant even lie...this got to be some of the most beautiful shit I ever seen.

Fuckin' Comcast

I've been a bit busy moving....and I've been having internet issues....so bear with me, I'll be back to blogging in the next few days :)

Somali rapper K'Naan explains Somali pirates

If you follow world news (or even if you don't) you may have heard about pirates in Somalia hijacking ships at sea. Normally they rob the ships and hold the crew for ransom. I must admit, I was kinda wondering what that was all about. You don't really hear about too many real-life pirates in this day and age. Somali rapper K'Naan explains why this long stretch of east African coastline got so gully.

Quote Of The Day

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."

Whitney Young
US civil rights leader (1921 - 1971)

Number (N)ine-New Era Fitted

These have to be the dopest hats I've seen all year. Hi-end Japanese brand Number (N)ine decided to do a collaboration with New Era and it came out incredible. Featuring a checkered flag print pattern, the caps will retail for ¥13,650 (Approx. $151 USD), available at both Number (N)ine Tokyo locations.

Hollywood Nights

Me, J.P. (on the far left), and some Dj we met at some party in the Hollywood hills. I don't know who took this but I found it in my email today. It looks like I hadn't got much sleep. I guess that's supposed to be my cool look. LoL

Nike Shoe Ad feat. Mike Epps, Kobe & DJ A.M.

Dj A.M. got those Air Yeezy's on. The Air Yeezy is Kanye West's collaborative shoe with Nike. They're slated to drop in March 2009. There's a picture of 3 of the colors below.

Pic Of The Day

They must've really been getting seriously ignored to even have the time to write out all that shit. They even underlined it in mustard. It's actually pretty neat to be written from a ketchup bottle. They get an "A" for penmanship AND creativity.