Getting into a groove

This is going to be a short post. Later tonight I have my first ever paying gig as a DJ. Once in Paris I got a beer and a shot for winning a one man ipod battle which was nothing like this:



Anyways tonight will be similar to the above video since its the 41st high school reunion of some Atlanta area high school (I sure hope it's a mixed class or I won't get to play "say it Loud"). A gig is a gig though so no complaining, instead I thought I'd just drop in with some good links and pics:

An article about the continuing politicization of higher education:

http://patrickdeneen.blogspot.com/2009/07/end-of-education.html

Newly discovered reactionary blog:

http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/

Yet another argument for "Chapelle Show" as voice of a generation:



Currently Reading:



My new pickup line:

In Search of

So in case you haven't noticed, and you have, because you're me, because no one else reads this blog. Since its inception my blog has been searching for meaning, music is important, so is my shitty poetry, so are bicycles, who can keep track. So here's the scoop:

I read a lot of blogs. That selection probably says as much about my blogging interests as anything else up to this point. So I'm going to aggregate for a while, throwing my own shit in when I feel like it. So today's an image party.

So This Happened

I don't know if I've mentioned it before on this site but one of my chief hobby-like preoccupations is cycling and over the last year I've moved from road cycling to primarily fixed gear city and path riding while trying to nail some of the tricks that they talk about here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/nyregion/12bikes.html?scp=3&sq=fixed%20gear&st=cse

A full-fledged multimedia feature by the nytimes on fixed gear freestyling. I've spent more time than I'd often like to admit watching bike-trick videos, and from what I can tell it doesn't get much better than this guy though:



Though I'm not sure what this guy has against roads, I can't argue with his use of "Funeral" by Band of Horses, gives a timeless quality to the video.

Fear not though, this blog will not turn into another fixed gear bike blog, though I might as well take a second to shout out the best of the bunch:

Bike Snob NYC
NoBrakesATL
Trick Track
Tarck (go to the forums)

For now I'm a lonely fixer in the suburbs, don't see many of our kind around these parts.

The Biggest Ship

If we were to imagine for a second that Port Sonic was a real port somewhere that all the world's sound artists came to on their vessels in search of community and each other, whose ship could possibly be larger than the King's? Obviously not Paul McCartney, MJ bought his songs out from under him! Jagger, please his solo album didn't even go gold, "Invincible" (Jackson's last release of original material) went 9X Platinum, how many acts have done that since then? Who else would come in on a California King sized yacht? Madonna? Bowie? Dylan?? Ah now we're getting somewhere, Jackson's death seems to have earned him the title of all-time greatest entertainer, possibly putting his name in a pantheon populated by the likes of Shakespeare, Muhammad Ali, Beethoven, and any other geniuses that you can think of. But I still think that Dylan is the all-time greatest songwriter. However Jackson wrote songs too and did much much more for way more people. These past couple days have been incredible for music fans around the world and for the next few days Port Sonic will be one man's homage to the most famous man in the world, Mr. Michael Jackson.