CAN WE PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO FROTH IN SOME HUMAN EXCELLENCE?

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i dont want to talk i just want to be.
i want you to know me better and still not want to leave.
please.stop.

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Stuff White People Like

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this is beautiful.

i was having some stressful situations, and a friend showed me this video. please watch and share in the beauty of this world we all share.

este

This song is dedicated to this day.
This is the first day of my life.
I'm glad i didn't die before I met you.
Taking things on with bright eyes.

Were the world truely ours

I dont understand the applying of universal laws to a nonuniversal populous. honestly there are so many different kinds of human beings on this planet and to assume they are all the same in certain situations and to judge and repremand them as such is ineffective and to assume otherwise is rediculous. Im not saying that repremandment for hurtful crimes or otherwise is the wrong thing to do, but for less serious offenses or nonserious actions involving spiritual or lifestyle choices should NOT be punishable. Who is anyone to say that loving who you wish is wrong provided the feeling is mutual and you're not putting another's life or wellbeing in danger? Who is anyone to say that because you look a certain way you're automatically deemed "unprofessional" or that looking "unprofessional" is negative at all for that matter, so long as you're a responsible and capable human being? Who is anyone to keep you out of an artistic venue because you're underage, and who is anyone to define maturity or the having of good sense as an attribute that only people aged 21 and above can have? Honestly i understand that there are alot of dumbfucks in the world acting as bad seeds spoiling shit for everyone else, but why is there a need to label everything and everyone as if they all fall neatly into the same categories? Each and every person is, no matter how hard they try, different. Each individual has the potential to change so much over their lifespan and even over a few weeks, days, hours, minutes. I can only hope for a world that is more consious and accepting of the beauty of human possibilty.

okay i realize that last post was fuckin way too long but i mostly only posted it out of greediness and my lack of memory/ability to find cool things again once i've found it once/refusal to bookmark shit...

long story short here's today's shorter post, and it goes a little somethin li-lukuh-like this:

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BANKSY IN SWINDLE MAGAZINE

Stumbled across this when mr. kweli tweeted about it. Shout out to Banksy and the lucky lucky man who got the chance to speak with him.



BANKSY
By Shepard Fairey



One of the most inappropriate nicknames of all time, at least in my opinion, belonged to Ronald Reagan: “The Great Communicator,” who we’ve come to learn did a pretty shitty job of communicating the government’s problems and indiscretions. A nickname like that deserves a more righteous, honest owner—someone like BANKSY.

Most people think of art as a way of conveying emotions, as opposed to language, the means by which we express ideas. Whatever line there is distinguishing art and language, BANKSY paints over it to make it disappear, then stealthily repaints it in the unlikeliness of places. His works, whether he puts them on the streets, sells them in galleries, or hangs them in museums on the sly, are filled with imagery tweaked into metaphors that cross all language barriers. The images are brilliant and funny, yet so simple and accessible that even children can find the meaning in them: even if six-year-olds don’t know the first thing about culture wars, they have no trouble recognizing that something is amiss when they see a picture of the Mona Lisa holding a rocket launcher. A lot of artists can be neurotic, self-indulgent snobs using art for their own catharsis, but BANKSY distances himself from his work, using art to plant the feelings of discontent and distrust of authority that anyone can experience when he prompts them to ask themselves one gigantic question: Why is this wrong? If it makes people feel and think, he’s accomplished his goal.

BANKSY’s work embodies everything I like about art and nothing I dislike about it. His art is accessible rather than elitist, since he does it on the street; it has a powerful political message that’s conveyed with a sense of humor, which certainly makes the bitter pill easier to swallow; it’s pleasing to look at, because it’s technically very strong but not overly complex and intimidating; and he pulls it off in such a way that its presence in its context communicates not only his message but his dedication to effecting the change he promotes in that message, whether he’s defying Israeli hegemony by painting the separation wall in Palestine or bypassing the elitist review board of a museum by hanging his work himself. He definitely has his share of critics, who say that he burns too many bridges by rejecting countless opportunities to gain money or fame, but he simply has no interest in doing anything that falls outside his goal of making provocative, powerful artwork. He’s a good friend and a tremendous source of inspiration; he’s The Great Communicator of our time, and the most important living artist in the world.

How long are you going to remain anonymous, working through the medium itself and through your agent as a voice for you?

B: I have no interest in ever coming out. I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, “I want to be famous.” You ask them for what reason and they don’t know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. I’m not into fashion. The pictures generally look better than I do when we’re out on the street together. Plus, I obviously have issues with the cops. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

What got you into graffiti? I know that you did more traditional graffiti at one point.

B: I come from a relatively small city in southern England. When I was about 10 years old, a kid called 3D was painting the streets hard. I think he’d been to New York and was the first to bring spray painting back to Bristol. I grew up seeing spray paint on the streets way before I ever saw it in a magazine or on a computer. 3D quit painting and formed the band Massive Attack, which may have been good for him but was a big loss for the city. Graffiti was the thing we all loved at school – we all did it on the bus on the way home from school. Everyone was doing it.

What’s your definition of the word “graffiti”?

B: I love graffiti. I love the word. Some people get hung up over it, but I think they’re fighting a losing battle. Graffiti equals amazing to me. Every other type of art compared to graffiti is a step down—no two ways about it. If you operate outside of graffiti, you operate at a lower level. Other art has less to offer people, it means less, and it’s weaker. I make normal paintings if I have ideas that are too complex or offensive to go out on the street, but if I ever stopped being a graffiti writer I would be gutted. It would feel like being a basket weaver rather than being a proper artist.



Who are some of your favorite graffiti artists?

B: My favorite graffiti is done by people that aren’t in books. I’m really into the amateurs, the people who just come out of nowhere with a marker pen and write one funny thing for one night and then disappear.

“Street art” has been the cool buzzword, and artists have obtained instant credibility from these new fly-by-night galleries, skate companies wanting to do a new street art t-shirt series, whatever. All these people are picking artists that deserve to be picked and have really done work on the streets for 10 to 15 years, but then they also pick a lot of artists that have been doing something for four to six months and built themselves a nice little website. Where do you see yourself fit into that? If the pedestrians at these companies don’t really know who’s done what, how do you separate yourself from that?

B: Most graffiti writers arrive at a style by the need to work fast and quiet. If you arrived at a style by painstakingly drawing in your bedroom and touching up on Photoshop, then people can smell the difference from about five miles away.

How do you decide what commercial projects to work on?

B: I’ve done a few things to pay the bills, and I did the Blur album. It was a good record and it was quite a lot of money. I think that’s a really important distinction to make. If it’s something you actually believe in, doing something commercial doesn’t turn it to shit just because it’s commercial. Otherwise you’ve got to be a socialist rejecting capitalism altogether, because the idea that you can marry a quality product with a quality visual and be a part of that even though it’s capitalistic is sometimes a contradiction you can’t live with. But sometimes it’s perfectly symbiotic, like the Blur situation.



I’m sure you get offered jobs left and right. Are there things that you think about doing that you don’t do, or things that you wish you would’ve done?

B: I don’t do anything for anybody anymore, and I will never do a commercial job again. In some ways it’s a shame, cuz I’m sure I’d have had a good time doing posters for that frozen yogurt company in Hawaii and now I’d have friends I could go visit on the other side of the world. But it’s part of the job to shut the fuck up and not meet people. I never go to the openings of my shows, and I don’t read chat rooms or go on MySpace. All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I’m not sure how reliable he is.

I think there’s a lot to be said for the fine line between secondguessing yourself and respecting a dialogue with people whose opinions you trust, or even people that are great because they don’t know shit about art and you get the most honest reaction from them. Because so many artists, they worry about what trends are happening in art and design and street art, they read too many magazines, and they are too wrapped up in everything; they’re paralyzed.



What’s the most perfect non-traditional piece of art that you’ve seen that’s not currently hanging in a museum?

B: The most perfect piece of art I saw in recent times was during an anarchist demonstration in London a couple of years ago. Someone cut a strip of turf from the grass in front of Big Ben and put it on the head of the statue of Winston Churchill. Later, the demo turned into a riot, and photos of Winston with a grass Mohican were on the cover of every single British newspaper the next day. It was the most amazing bit of vandalism, because it was the perfect logo for this eco-punk movement that was trying to reclaim the streets, bring an end to global capitalism, and defend the right to sit in a park all day getting wasted on discount lager.

Your art is still free on the streets but costly in the galleries. What dictates that?

B: What I find is I don’t have much say in what things cost. Every time I sell things at a discount rate, most people put them on eBay and make more money than I charged them in the first place. The novelty with that soon wears off.

You were talking about how you want your books to be cheap because they show the work in the context of the street, as well as the installations in museums and other pranks, which are actually honest representations of your work. But then people want objects, so they’re going to want the canvases and things like that, and you’re just kind of accepting that people fetishize objects and are willing to pay a lot for the status of owning something that they can hang up.

B: I stenciled the door of an electrical block in south London and recently someone sawed it off and sold it at a famous auction house for £24,000, but in that same week Islington council power sprayed off eight of my new stencils on one road. What I’m finding is art is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, or willing to pay to not have to look at it.

The redistribution of the wealth then allows you to have that freedom to put work on the street without the pressure of having to sell a thousand cheap canvases – work that’s free and accessible. It really means that the art objects, the canvases, only really play into the people that think in an elitist way and have the money. So really, it kind of balances out. That’s an issue that a lot of artists have. They believe that their work should be accessible to a lot of people, and that actually is the opposite of the way the art world works.

B: The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little. Still, the plus side is it’s probably the easiest business in the world to walk into with no talent and make a few bucks.



The murals you did in Palestine, I would assume, involved personal risk. You’re there, and you could definitely get some people pissed off and put yourself in jeopardy.

B: Every graffiti writer should go there. They’re building the biggest wall in the world. I painted on the Palestinian side, and a lot of them weren’t sure about what I was doing. They didn’t understand why I wasn’t just writing “down with Israel” in big letters and painting pictures of the Israeli prime minister hanging from a rope. And maybe they had a point. The guy that I stayed with got five days with the “dirty bag” for waving a Palestinian flag out a window. The dirty bag is when Israeli security services get a sack, wipe their shit on it, and put the bag over your head while your hands are tied behind your back. I spat out my falafel as he was explaining that to me, but he just goes, “That’s nothing. My cousin got it for two weeks without a break.” It’s difficult to come home and hear people complaining about reruns on TV after that. It’s very hard for the locals to paint illegally over there. We certainly weren’t doing it under the cloak of darkness; you’d get shot. We were out in the middle of the day, making it very clear we were tourists. Twice, we had serious trouble with the army, but one time the Palestinian border patrol pulled up in an armored truck. The Israeli government makes a big fuss about how they own the wall, despite building it right through the farmland of Palestinians who have been there for generations, so the Palestinian border police don’t give a shit if you paint it or not. They parked between the road and us, gave us water, and just watched. It’s probably the only time I’m ever going to paint whilst being covered by a cop from a roof-mounted submachine gun.

Did they realize that it favored the Palestinian perspective?

B: I have sympathy for both sides in that conflict, and I did receive quite a bit of support from regular Israelis, but if the Israeli government had known we were going over there to do a sustained painting attack on their wall, there’s no way that we’d have been tolerated. They’re very paranoid. They don’t want the wall to be an issue in the West. On the Israeli side of the wall they bank it up with soil and plant flowers so you don’t even know its there. On the Palestinian side it’s just a fucking huge mass of concrete.

You’ve never really been busted to the point of potentially not being able to do street art, but that’s always a possibility. I could be wrong – you could be incredible and never get caught, but everybody gets caught at some point. What would you do if you were put in that position? Would you rent walls? Would you try to find legal walls? Would you still try to find ways to have work on the street and still maintain your anonymity to a degree, but keep it out there through more legal means? Would you move to another country? What would you do?

B: I’m always trying to move on. You’re not supposed to get dumber as you get older. You’re not supposed to just do the same old thing. You’re supposed to find a new way through and carry on. I invest back into the street bombing from selling shit. Recently, I’ve been pretending to be a construction manager and paying cash to get scaffolding put up against buildings, then I cover the scaffolding with plastic sheeting and stand behind it making large paintings in the middle of the city. I could never have done that a few years ago. Plus, I’m always interested in finding new places to hit up; it’s easier to break into zoos and museums than train lay-ups, because they haven’t had so much of a graffiti problem in the past. Ultimately, I just want to make the right piece at the right time in the right place. Anything that stands in the way of achieving that piece is the enemy, whether it’s your mum, the cops, someone telling you that you sold out, or someone saying, “Let’s just stay in tonight and get pizza.”

BANKSY will be showing some of his work in Los Angeles from September 15-18, 2006. For exact location and other details, check out www.banksy.co.uk

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currently in the process of:

1) comin out with a new shirt with a little help from this guy. For everyone who's seen the TITS shirt, just know that it was MY idea first. bastards.
here's a sneak peak:


2) Me & jfresh's baby, VeuxDo Magazine, is taking over the world. please take notice. I know i've been making alot of promises, but the first issue WILL be out asap. They'll be available on our website, or just hit me up & i'll hook you up. we doin it like baggies, the first one's free ;]
of course you all know, miss Nicki Minaj is on the cover. In case you forgot, it looks like this:


3) Pending interview with the beautiful and talented and frankly, my favorite female preformer ever, Erykah Badu B]
and fool she's coming back to town with mos def & her [newest] babydaddy.

I will try to get her some flowers this time. Here's a recap on how ridiculously close i was the last show a couple months back at warlfield:

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DJ NEIL ARMSTRONG - 2ORIGINAL


01. Diamond D. - Yo That's That Shit - George Benson
02. K.I.S.S. - 'Weather Report'
03. Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop, Billy Cobham, George Duke
04. Jay-Z - Who You Wit - Jeff Lorber
05. Ain't No Nigga - Four Tops
06. Take Over - Doors, David Bowie
07. Nas - The World Is Yours - Ahmad Jamal, T-La Rock
08. Ras Kass - Understandable Smooth - Aretha Franklin, Nas
09. Method Man - All I Need - Marvin Gaye
10. Method Man - Hall & Oates (Interpolation)
11. M.O.P. - How About Some Hardcore - Dells
12. Cold As Ice - Foreigner
13. Jay-Z - You Don't Know - Bobby Byrd
14. Smif N' Wesson - Wrekonize - Grover Washington Jr.
15. What You Won't Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
16. Grand Puba - I Like It - Debarge
17. LL Cool J - Who Do You Luv (Loungin) - Bernard Wright
18. Lovely Day - Bill Withers
19. AZ - Problems - Debarge
20. Common - The Light - Bobby Caldwell
21. Pharoah Monche - The Light - Wes Montgomery
22. Old School Intro - Steve Harvey, Kurtis Blow, KRS-One, Common, Nice & Smooth
23. KRS-One - MC's Act Like They Don't Know - Clifford Brown
24. Common - I Used To Love H.E.R. - George Benson
25. Resurrection (Large Pro Remix) - David Axelrod, Nice & Smooth
26. Resurrection - Ahmad Jamal
27. Nas - If I Ruled The World - Kurtis Blow, Whodini
28. Fugees - Fugeela - Teena Marie, Ramsey Lewis
29. Ready Or Not - Delphonics
30. Missy Elliot - Sock It To Me - Delphonics
31. Camron - What Means The World To You - Police
32. Oh Boy - Rose Royce
33. Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life - Annie (Broadway Play)
34. Company Flow - InfoKill - Flash Gordan (Soundtrack)
35. Siah and Yeshua DaPoed - Visualz - Grover Washington Jr.
36. Mr. Complex - Visualize - Ramsey Lewis
37. Artifacts - Come On Wit The Get Down - Galt Macdermot's First Natural Hair Band
38. Kool G Rap - Take Em To War - David Axelrod
39. IEmerge - ITF 2002 East Coast Champ - Take Em To War - Quick Interlude
40. Das Efx - Real Hip Hop - Norman Conners
41. Gang Starr - ? Remainz - Bob James
42. Kwami - The Rythm - Bob James
43. Notorious B.I.G. - Unbelievable - R.Kelly
44. Carl Thomas - Faith/The Firm - Emotional/ Phone Tap - Chris Barber's Jazz Band
45. Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize - Herb Alpert, Slick Rick
46. Slick Rick - Sittin' In My Car - GQ
47. Jeru The Damaja - The Bitches - The Crusaders
48. Pharcyde - Passin' Me By - Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Weather Report
49. Runnin' - Stan Getz
50. Large Professor - I Just Wanna Chill - Milt Jackson
51. De La Soul - Dinninit - Milt Jackson
52. Oooh - Lalo Schifrin (Bruce Lee - Enter The Dragon Soundtrack)
53. Dilated Peoples - Work The Angles - Joseph Koo/ Wang Fu Ling (Bruce Lee - The Big Boss Soundtrack), Thai restaurant prank
54. Tupac Shakur - I Ain't Mad At Ya - Debarge
55. Luniz - 5 On It - Club Nouveau
56. Warren G - Regulate - Michael McDonald
57. Snoop Dogg - G'z Up Hoez Down - Isaac Hayes
58. Masta Ace - Last Rights

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"oh life, how you slay me" ...dedicated to melie mel

its funny because the moment i decide i don't want a relationship so i can focus on myself and working and school and family and hobbies and all the other important things i neglect whilst im busy courting... i suddenly have nothing to do with my life, and find myself increasingly lonely in this cold cold world, surrounded by nothing but religion/culture theory books and invisible gadgets i've yet to purchase por que i still have no job despite all this newfound freetime sans school and a ladyfriend.

...in other news, i made a cafepress store. go buy some stuff & make me richer than currently am not.

lifey life

hey have you every had one of those lifesituations
where like the only people who want to talk to you
and keep you company
and hang out with you and be like the best friend in the world to you
happen to be so clingy and like way too nice and it makes you wonder if everysingle person who you've ever loved or been like hella nice to saw you as the poorlittlesapofaperson that you see in that one borderline annoying but still really genuinely well intentioned and thus lightweight admirable but still borderline annoying friend?
and then you're like fuck, i should start being more mean to people so they dont think i'm a pushover. but then once you start doing it your friends are like "why are you such an asshole to me now?" and you're like, fuck, i'm sorry, i was trying to be a tough guy but i guess i dont have that going for me.
and then you wonder what you do have going for you.
and then you're like fuck, my life sucks, even though it doesnt, and i dont have any friends except for this one person who's like in love with me who i dont want to be in love with me because they're cool but like not that cool, and all my best friends have lives which are equally as stressful/busy as mine except for they have jobs/responsibilities to take care of and thus have no time for me and my sulky no-job havin ass.
and then you can't sleep at night because not only all that shit that i just said, but the only girl you've ever loved is like way too distant and it would never work as things are now and even though you think about her all the time and would totally like marry the bitch if you could you have nothing to say to her or no reason to call her other than to be like hey, bitch, i still love you, and even then it's like whats the point because even if she loved you back which is doubtful you're still hella fuckin distant and all you want in life is a job that doesnt completely suck and that wont act hella nice to you and then never call you back or give you any hours but thats like damn near impossible given your intense level of laziness in life and the limited amount of jobs in the economy and its to the point where your mom is basically dressing you because she's the only one with money and refuses to buy anything you think is fucking awesome so prettymuch you're coming way to close to being a mini-her...?

no?

well that's cool coz i cant relate either.

haha... ... _sucks.

SO TELL ME WHY

GLORIA TREVI IS THE SHIT?













other than that,
my shoulder huwts from carrying so much weight on it.
oh oh and, this might be somewhat of a premature statement [seeing that its merely the premier month of summer] but... i'm done making plans. yall can handle that shit on your own. while i won't spit in the face of any plans you henceforth conspire --on the contrary, i will do my utmost to bring said plans to fruition! -- still: i REFUSE to do all the work. this is a two way street, buddies!

haha okay
--end venting segment.

in better news,
i'm almost done with my obligations a la escuela, y yo tengo hombre por una YOB, so s'il vous plait, dame una job. por que i need to make some monies.

that's all B)

adios mon cheries!

PROP 8: THE MUSICAL

jesus hath spoke!

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ATF RADIO FUNDRAISER ALBUM

FUNDRAISER ALBUM: A COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS & FREESTYLES



1.Myk Blauuw! & -M ja. K--Intro (Produced by Konkwest)
2. Myk Blauuw! & -M ja. K--We Got Fans, -M ja. K- Doesn't Have Game
3. Dahlak-Dahlak Digs ATF
4. Dahlak-Hip-Hop In Davis & His New Album
5. Dahlak-No On No Homo
6. Dahlak-Explaining Commencement
7. Dahlak-Old White Man (Live)
8. Tais-Myk Blauuw!'s A Young Langston Hughes & ATF Appreciation
9. Tais-Speaks on Righteous Movement
10. Tais-Speaks on the Warm Reception He's Recieved
11. Tais-Tais is Reminiscent of A "Young Kweli"
12. Tais-Chalk Freestyle (Live)
13. 5th Ave-The Blast Freestyle (Live)
14. 5th Ave-Explains the Delorean Project with Jon Reyes
15. 5th Ave-Chapter Seven (Live)
16. 5th Ave-Talks Boondocks Hip-Hop Pt. 1
17. 5th Ave-Wack MCs
18. 5th Ave-Sactown Girls (Live)
19. The Foulmouths-How the Foulmouths Started & Their New Project with Jon Reyes
20. The Foulmouths-Won't Do (Remix) (Live)
21. Random Abiladeze-Talks Boondocks Hip-Hop Pt.2
22. Random Abiladeze-Talks Boondocks Hip-Hop Pt.3
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25. Random Abiladeze-The Other Poets Accappella Verse (Live)
26. J.Good-Talks Boondocks Hip-Hop Pt.4
27. J.Good-How He Started His Career
28. J.Good-Freestyle (Live)
29. J.Good-Explains the Breakfast At Night Mixtape
30. J.Good-Fashion Do's & Don'ts
31. J.Good-Lost (Remix) (Live)
32. Myk Blauuw! & -M ja. K--Outro (Produced by Konkwest)

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ON CRAIGSLIST TODAY

2008 BIANCHI PISTA 59cm. INSTANT COOL POINTS** GET GIRLS** ADD INCHES - $500 (palo alto)

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Date: 2009-03-16, 12:48PM PDT


Pow! Look at this bike! It's a fixed gear bicycle (2 wheels)! It goes forward when you pedal! It's a 2008 Bianchi Pista track bike, 59cm green - in fantastic condition LOOK AT THE PICTURE. It has chopped Nitto flat bars with white Oury grips on the front part of the bike to make navigating rough and tough suburban streets a breeze. It has a Surly 17t cog to get you a shit ton of skid patches. It has tires on it that wont explode on you (this ain't no Ford explorer).

To tell the truth I have to sell this because the amount of attention I get from chicks while I'm riding this is getting annoying - Like, I know riding this bike makes me look cool, and that my skinny jeans don't leave much to the imagination in regards to the balls and ass area, but women are always running me off the road and calling me an "Asshole biker piece of shit" which is cute an all, I mean me and my ex-girlfriend used to yell at each other like that all the time - I'd be all, I love you and she'd be all, "You're a loser who rides a bike because you don't have a car and I can see how tiny your oily little dick is in those skinny jeans and it's pathetic" type of thing you know? I miss her....

SO, this bike is $500. And if you don't have the full $500 dollars I'm willing to let you make up the difference for the following goods: A decent digital camera, a good backpacking type backpack, solid gold AK-47, your (or your moms/wifes) junk gold, a nice steak dinner, letting me kick you in the balls, flat screen TVs, PSWii60 video game console, gainful employment, a cool laptop, a years supply of arm and hammer deodorant, a winning lotto ticket, baby tiger, teach me how to moonwalk, a bike of greater value OR other cool stuff.

Here's info on the bike:
Fork: Bianchi
Handlebar: Nitto
Stem: Bianchi aluminum
Headset: Cane Creek Threadless
Crankset: TruVativ Elita, 48 teeth
Rear cog: Surly 17t
Tires: 700 x 23c Continental Sport 1000
Rims: Alex

The bike hasn't been crashed or tricked in, just rubber to pavement, few paint scratches but the bike looks good. Drop me a line and take a look and pay me for it and then ride away.



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DUCT TAPE BIKE

Why the fuck would you do this to your bike. honestly.

AWWW, FRESHJIVE.

I'm mad that I think it's so cute to see little kids bein hella bad; knowin damn well they're gona grow up not know how to act, messin shit up for everyone else. Atleast they'll look good while they do it though, right?
Mass crack-degradation at its finest.

FLATLINERZ - T&A

Straight outta Fairfield, the Flatliners get it crackin. Watch out for them.

.....also watch out for me, I'm in the video. haha.


THA FLATLINERZ TNA MUSIC VIDEO from ANTHONY JACKSON on Vimeo.

Okay so today is me just re-posting other people's blogs that I myself have enjoyed & would like to further share with you in hopes that you bask in the same gloriousness that I did in times past.
Being a UC Davis (woop woop) student and a will-be AAU student (WOOP WOOP) I've aquired quite the taste for bicycles, trees, and other quiet joys, which is something I never thought would happen.

Enough self actualization, here's the wax:

"The fixed-gear's renaissance supposedly stems from West Indian immigrants in New York working as cycle couriers in the Eighties. They had used them at home because they were cheap and easy to maintain, and continued using them in the US. Their light frames and speed made them perfect for work. It's popularity spread throughout the courier community, finally crossing to the UK and other countries(The Observer, Sunday March 9 2008).


Take a look at this short film of 4.43 minutes of bike porn

Macaframa SF Track Bike Promo


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via BNN.

EXILE'S FUNKY WORM CHOP

Another day, another Exile MPC vid. This time he chops up The Ohio Players song "The Funky Worm." I'll stop posting them as soon as they get wack (read: never).

via okp.


Exile's raw, but I've always been a fan of originals. Without change, however, we'll never grow.

so beautiful

Seen this on my girl Ebony's online magazine called Hustlehard. I encourage yall to go check her out. Anyways I really appreciated the way they put this video together, from the fuzzy shots to the three minutes of silent movie-esque lead in. And though I'm a fan of vibrancy in color, the absence of it in this vid was especially pleasing. Hope you enjoy.

DEAR JOHN WITHERSPOON

"That bitch look like 9/11 a day later.. she look like 9/12. A tragedy."

HELLZ BELLZ spring 09 collection

The theme is "culture clash," because primal patterns are a brand new idea that nobody else has thought of.
If hellz didn't cost as much as all of my schoolbooks for an entire quarter and/or i valued impressing others with the latest urbancult fashions over that of intellect, I'd so buy the whole thing. All jokes aside though, it's damn wet. Props.

JUSTICES SEEM TO BE LEANING IN FAVOR OF PROP. 8

So, for one, I hope that people will stop being selfish bigots and realize that proposition 8 is about fairness, not malice.

"I want to be able to wipe away my sister's tears with a copy of the constitution that doesnt take away her right to say i do."
-Alvin Lau

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and now, for some news from cityhall:




Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, March 5, 2009

(03-05) 15:28 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court, which last year declared the right of gays and lesbians to marry, appeared ready today to uphold the voters' decision to overrule the court and restore the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

"There have been initiatives that have taken away rights from minorities by majority vote" and have been upheld, said Chief Justice Ronald George. "Isn't that the system we have to live with?"

George wrote the majority opinion in the court's 4-3 ruling in May striking down California's ban on same-sex marriages - which voters, in turn, reversed in November by approving Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being only between a man and a woman.

Another member of last year's majority, Justice Joyce Kennard, said the challenge to the Prop. 8's legality brought by advocates of same-sex marriage involved "a completely different issue" from the court's ruling that the marriage laws violated gays' and lesbians' rights to be treated equally and wed the partner of their choice.

"Here we are dealing with the power of the people, the inalienable right, to amend the Constitution," Kennard said. Speaking to a lawyer representing same-sex couples, she said that if advocates of same-sex marriage want to overturn the voters' decision, "you have the right to go to the people and present an initiative."

There were some indications of divisions among the justices on the validity of Prop. 8 during the hearing, which lasted more than three hours at the court's San Francisco headquarters. But on a separate issue, all seven appeared to agree that the 18,000 same-sex couples who married in California before Prop. 8 passed would remain legally wed.

"When the highest court of the state declares that same-sex couples have the right to marry ... how can one deny the validity of those marriages?" asked Justice Marvin Baxter, who dissented from the May ruling throwing out the opposite-sex-only marriage law.

Relying on that ruling, thousands of gays and lesbians "upended their lives, changed their property responsibilities with their spouses," said Justice Ming Chin, another dissenter from that decision. "Is it really fair to throw that out?"

If the justices' questions were any indication, the court will allow Prop. 8 to ban same-sex marriages as of Nov. 5, the day after it passed with 52 percent of the vote. A ruling is due within 90 days.

The initiative, sponsored by conservative religious groups, amended the state Constitution to declare that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." That was the language of a previous statute, approved by 61 percent of the voters in 2000, that the court struck down last year as a violation of the state Constitution.

Prop. 8 was challenged by two groups of same-sex couples - some married, some hoping to marry - and by a group of local governments led by the city of San Francisco. They argued that the measure, though drafted as an amendment to the Constitution, violated that document's core principle of equality and exceeded the voters' initiative powers.

"A guarantee of equality that is subject to exceptions by the majority is no guarantee at all," said Therese Stewart, San Francisco's chief deputy city attorney.

Opponents argued that Prop. 8 was not merely a constitutional amendment, which can be circulated as an initiative for voter approval, but was a revision of the Constitution, which requires approval from either two-thirds of the Legislature or delegates to a new state constitutional convention to reach the ballot.

Pressed to define the difference between an amendment and revision, Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, lawyer for one group of same-sex couples, said, "A majority can't take away a fundamental right only from members of a group historically subject to discrimination."

But George said voters had done just that in previous ballot measures that restricted school busing for integration and banned affirmative action based on race or sex in government programs.

Kennard said the right to life is at least as fundamental as the right to marry and noted that the court, after declaring the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972, had upheld an initiative passed later that year to overturn its ruling.

Minter countered that the death penalty didn't single out any particular group for different treatment. Justice Carlos Moreno, whose questioning suggested that he might vote to overturn Prop. 8, said the death penalty case "didn't deal with the elimination of constitutional personal rights."

Kenneth Starr, lawyer for Protect Marriage, the sponsor of the ballot measure, argued that Californians have a virtually unlimited power to amend their Constitution.

"Rights are in the power of the people," said Starr, the law dean at Pepperdine University and formerly the special prosecutor in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

He said past rulings have classified initiatives as constitutional revisions only if they would cause a "far-reaching change in the basic structure of government," like a 1990 ballot measure that would have eliminated California judges' authority to define constitutional protections for criminal defendants.

But Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar said no previous case had presented the question of whether an initiative could be used to take away fundamental rights. "This is new to us," she said.

Starr also argued that Prop. 8 was a modest measure that left the rights of same-sex couples undisturbed under California's domestic-partner laws and other statutes banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The initiative "does not erode any of the bundle of rights that this state has very generously provided," he said, but merely "restores the traditional definition of marriage."

Several justices seemed to agree. Kennard said the voters arguably "took away the label of marriage, but ... left intact most of what this court declared," including unprecedented constitutional protections for gays and lesbians.

But Minter said excluding same-sex couples from marriage goes beyond labels, and "puts those couples in a second-class status."

Christopher Krueger, a senior assistant in Attorney General Jerry Brown's office, also urged the court to overturn Prop. 8, saying the equality and individual liberty at the heart of last year's ruling were "inalienable rights" that should not be subject to a majority vote.

The court seemed unconvinced. Justice Carol Corrigan said Krueger appeared to be arguing that the people have a right to amend the Constitution "unless they do it in a way that this court doesn't like."

The lead case is Strauss vs. Horton, S168047.

E-mail Bob Egelko at begelko@sfchronicle.com.

via SF GATE.

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