I wish Elizabeth was running instead of this duplicitous chump.
Archive for July, 2007
Almost.
Check out the bearded Frenchman in the first video. He looks like he’s straight out of Braveheart. Something tells me he’s not the least bit intimidated.
Whenever I see that one of my favorite black artists in the music industry is being reviewed in the LA Weekly, I think the following to myself, “Thank you Earnest Hardy.” 9 times out of 10, he’s the guy responsible for it.
This week’s issue finds Mr. Hardy devoting some ink to Donnie’s new CD, The Daily News. While so many black artists have busied themselves perfecting their neo-soul posturing, Donnie has just been about the business–black church terminology alert!–of just making good soul music. No neo involved.
A few pages later, Matthew Fleischer has a much too brief Q&A with Femi Kuti. I’ve written about how much of a badass his father, Fela was. I can’t think of a tougher act to follow. Femi is doing his thing at The House of Blues this Friday night. Alas, I will be busying playing the role of LA hipster and doing a set at The People You’ll Like at The Fusion Cafe downtown.
Femi performs “Black Man Know Your Self.”
Honestly…my one and only prom experience was so awful, I don’t even like thinking about it. There’s no way I’d get gussied up for this, but if I wasn’t performing twice this Saturday, I would definitely be in the house.
Usually the wife and I are all over any chance to see The SoftLightes. But for me to go I would have to sandwich it in between doing a semi-corporate gig in Playa Del Rey and then doing a set at The Tomorrow Show.
It’s a shame. This one looks like it might get out of hand.
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Jul
Wolfpack or Tarheels?
Young Locke has already made up his mind.
via YouTuber RhettandLink
09
Jul
Maybe hip-hop isn’t dead
In 2000, Alex White Plume and his family had a great idea. After attempts to raise alfalfa, barley and corn on the tough soil of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge reservation, they decided to give industrial hemp a try.
Hemp is not marijuana.
Hemp has less than 1% THC, has over 25,000 uses, and is a hearty and relatively easy crop to grow. Buying hemp products in the US is totally and completely legal. Growing hemp, however, is not.
The White Plumes figured that, since their reservation is sovereign land, they would be able to grow hemp without the intrusion of the government. The DEA had other ideas.
Read more about their struggle in this NY Times article, and check out the website for the PBS series P.O.V, and the filmmakers own site.
Bonus hilarious video. Bush tries, in vain, to define sovereignty. What an idiot.
