An Abundance of Katherines - Review.

The Mighty Underdogs - Want You Back - Droppin Science Fiction

I just finished a book by John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, and YO!!! Honestly one of the FRESHEST books I've ever read!

I know this doesn't play with the anagram theme from the book, and does lend itself more to the Paper Towns motif of numbering things (I read Paper Towns--another John Green book--second, fyi), but I'm just gonna number things I liked anyway.

01. amazing anagrams. at sparksflyup.com, there a great link page on learning how to anagram on point-ly.
02. this book is super funny, super sweet, super nerdy, but ultimately super super.
03. Hassan. lol! that guy is i swear, nearly every piece of his dialogue had me breaking the silence at the bookstore.
04. usage of math formulas: (spoiler alert!) I kinda saw what Lindsey contributed to the dumper/dumpee theorem coming a while ago.. but maybe it's because i took statistics and econometrics before and saw the whole "missing variables" a while ago.
05. dragging on: it did feel like it did sometimes, but the story self-propelled so nicely that I didn't give those old-people talks too much hesitance.

I'll reviewPaper Towns later, and more detailed than this one since I read it more recently.. until then,

Best Wishes!

Books are the ultimate Dumpees:
put them down and they'll wait for you forever;
pay attention to them and they always love you back.

5 Things To Eat Together.

DJ Flow - Foundation



Here's five food pairings that you should consider to enhance the chemical absorption of nutrients in your body.

01. potatoes + spinach: lets you absorb iron faster + better
02. oatmeal + strawberries: prevents likelihood of stroke & heart attacks
03. rosemary + beef: the rosemary actually kills off any cancer-causing beef traces in your body that may linger and lead to organ failure
04. red peppers + feta cheese/dressing: eating peppers and salads with cheese or any dressing accelerates the bloodstream absorption time and makes digestion easier.. ranch dressing please!
05. fish + broccoli + tomato: weird combination right? but this prevents heart cancer

(via Runner's World magazine.)

"Everyone gets a miracle."

Flow Day.

Foreign Exchange - If This Is Love - Leave It All Behind

Wish I made it out to this event, DJ Phatrick has been working his turntable magic with mastery as of late, would have loved to hear what mash-ups and remixes he came up with for his Jill Scott/Badu-filled evening! also, the flyer is really damned fresh! impressive!


This video makes me feel like i'm standing still and the world is accelerating all aronud me at all different speeds.. exhilerating.

4KHZ - Irregular FLow



Don't forget to cop DJ Flow's new Commencement mixtape for Dahlak, just enter your e-mail and it's yours HERE!



"Out of touch,wasting time..
Is this love?.."

Weary Wednesday.

Jazzyfatnastees - The Wound - The Once & Future


One thing I dislike about the BART train? When I get out of a club/bar from SF and board the train, the loud, chalk-board-screech-eliciting turbulence just escalates minor head throbbing to amplified headaches, and it becomes almost too easy to miss your stop!

I sometimes wish I lived in Japan 1nce again, where necessity is the mother of invention, as demonstrated in their subway system:



G4 TV's Attack of the Show did a whole episode exploring Tokyo, pretty dope stuff. you can watch them all HERE. I'd like to see a doc of the hip hop world in Japan sometime..

"...You worry about the wrong things, the wrong things..
..Anyway, they don't know you
Like I do, they'll never know you.."

Tuesday Throwback + Mixtape Marvelousness.

Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way (DJ Flow's Foundation Mix)



Remember Take Back TV in 2005? Seeing Mos, Ill-Lit, Goapele, Crown City Rockers, Kweli + countless others support CurrentTV's launch was surreal.. BIG UPS to G-kroosh + Chelsea for letting me experience a SF-only engagement like no other to come nor follow.. truly fresh.



DJ LeftOoO of BBC Worldwide Radio 1 has some excellent selection, and i'm beginning to feel his mixes more than good 'ol Giles' (sorry Mr. Peterson, LeftOoO has great sequencing sensibility). The selection on part 2 of his October 30th mix left me repeatedly referencing the track listing + there was none of that excessive name-drop transitional plugs, the like which make me forget a mixtape more than remember (it seems counter-intuitive for some, but for me, hearing the DJ's name a million times on a tape numbs out their name completely from my brain, whereas a well-conceived tape sans the 'D-d-d-d-DJ Echo-o-o-o' bombs will allow me to more securely cement the DJ's name into my brain). DOWNLOAD THE TAPE and peep the technique, you could learn a thing or two and inherit some great gems to your Serato library!

5ive Times The Fun.

today's entry is brought to you by the number 5 (five).

1. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five

Bringin' '61 back! That saxophone melody, the quintuple time and the somewhat haunting piano that pushes the rhythm section are a few reasons why this song became a jazz standard. Did you know that this song hit the Billboard Hot 100? If you've never known the title before, chances are you've already heard the song, even though it may be before your time.


2. Staple Design Commercial

I love jeffstaple's BLOG, I've got nothing but the highest love for someone that has people making fake commercial for them, for free! + you've got Jeru the Damaja's 'Wrath of the Math' bumpin in the b/g, what more can you possibly ask for? (this was the 5th youtube vid on my favorite list).


3. FruitionLV - Neon Leopard Jean Pants (5th item on FRTNLV's Shop Blog)

Fruition is a crazy store. Vintage streetwear from the 80's and 90's, revived and curated to make your shopper's dreams come true. I've bought a few Fruition pieces (like the nice Fruition x Stussy shirt pictured above) because, as their mantra states, "We Are The Future." These neon-yellow pants emit the same youthful, vibrant flavor that Fruition is acclaimed for, and I wouldn't mind rocking a men's pair (not too tight though!).



4. The Hundreds - 5th Anniversary Artist Design Series

The Hundreds is an LA-based clothing brand that entered their 5th anniversary this year and continues to bring out really nice basics and outerwear. I'm really picky about their stuff and usually go for the simpler, quieter designs, but they do flesh out the technicolor colors. Anyway, this is the fifth shirt of the series, done by Ususgrow. NICE.


5. Charles Cohen - Buchla Music Easel (the 5th (and probably freshest) Vimeo feature video i saw today)

I REALLY want to own this. via wikipedia: "First built in 1963, this synthesizer was composed of several "modules" that generated or modified a music event. Each box served a specific function: oscillator, filter, sample and hold, etc. This would have an effect on the pitch, timbre, amplitude and spacial location of the sound. The idea was to allow musicians and composers to create sounds suited to their own specifications."

I know this may seem like a nuisance to control + master, but the Charles Cohen video just makes my mouth water..i want to play it!



"Self Knowledge is never ending..
Music is my life."

Whose World Is This?

Nas - The World Is Yours

Damn... Common & Pharrell were pretty hard @ the 2008 BET Hip Hop Awards! I rarely watch anything on BET but their performance (& the cypher semi-circles that i blogged about on my OTHER BLOG) was worth more than the time i lost boycotting on BET, haha.



Bonus: Common & Pharrell - Announcement



"Beginning to let go,
Maintaining all that I know,
Continuing to inspire..."