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Common – Finding Forever
I would write an exhaustive review of this album if I had some time to, but I just wanted to say that although “The Game” is promoted as one of the singles on this album, it sounds nothing like the rest of the tracks on Finding Forever. The album itself is light-hearted and whimsical, [...]
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Danté LaSalle and Deckmaster D
This is an old article I wrote for Musiquitous (musiquitous.org). Hopefully that site will eventually get off the ground, but until it does, here’s the article.
I went to a show at a local venue in support of my favorite local nerdcore artists, expecting to spend some quality time singing along to classic tunes such [...]
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Stomp and Clap
Last night at Downtown Records, there was a hip-hop show. I was there with all the CS “gangsters” in support of my man MC Plus+, a Purdue CS grad student who is keeping it real for all the CS majors in the struggle. Not to show Plus+ any disrespect, but the best act [...]
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Summer and Shows
Last summer I saw these bands:
Reel Big Fish
Tom Petty
Travis Morrison
(wanted to see Tegan and Sara)
Petty was free and at an ampitheatre.
This summer I’ve seen:
Lupe Fiasco
Catch 22 (Summer of Ska)
Big D and the Kids Table (Summer of Ska)
Voodoo Glow Skulls (Summer of Ska)
The Mars Volta (Endfest)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Endfest)
(and might go see Ani DiFranco on [...]
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Pushing keyboard to monitor
I just want to drop a few words before I go to bed.
johnson
monkeys
choo-choo train
Now, a little rhyme:
I write, just to be lyrical
Not to be empirical
But, to be partly spiritual
Because the spirit is to me
The human spirit of the earth
So I think you ought to see
That this is really what’s it worth
Ezell’s chicken got Oprah fat
It’s [...]
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