Blu is this cat one of my co-workers tuned me into. Pretty fresh. Like Talib, Roots, and early Common without being too derivative.
This is the Blue Scholars (no blue is not the theme). Anyway they hail from Seattle. Read about them a while ago, but better late than never right? Total 90’s underground hip-hop vibe. Reminds me of listening to music off of Napster in high school, when I first got into Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, Jurassic 5, and Atmosphere. (they won’t let me embed it)
Finally Here is M83, who I admittedly, and embarrassingly, heard about via Hipsterunoff. Anyway, I am now totally crushing on the girl in this first video. Something about enigmatic awk quiet girls with bangs. The video looks they way 16 candles or Pretty in Pink would look if John Hughes wen to Film school now and listened to a lot of emo in high school in Florida, but moved onto Jesus and the Mary Chain once he moved to California. Is it just me or does the second song sound like the killers or vis a vis.
1.) Accepted Students weekend makes me feel like a salesman sometimes. Other times it makes me realize why people get into the admissions job. Is it weird that admissions has made me think of this school as a business and a product? Hi, I am a prospective buyer (student) could you tell me where the marketing department (admissions) is? Yes I would love to see what you have in your show room (campus tour). Seriously though, it was the best time I have had at this job so far.
2.) Talking to high school students is pretty awesome cause they are still excited about life. They aren’t like seniors who have come to realize that the statistic showing the high percentage of graduates who go to graduate school is not a good thing, but rather a statistic that indicates that your undergraduate degree will not get you a job.
3.) If you saw a three paths on a campus and two of the paths led to a building and the middle path just led to grass what would you think? would you think the middle path symbolized the value of your education…leading you nowhere? Would you think that the middle path signified that the middle road leads no where and that a person is nothing without extreme well separated beliefs? Would you think that it reflected the schools low endowment and their inability to afford a complete third path? Or would you just take it to mean that the landscape architect was trying something different?
4.) People (3) are getting annoyed with me referencing them in my blog. Blogging is strange. While I take inspiration from my life, a lot of it is embellished for the sake of entertainment. Sometimes I speak truth. Sometimes I dont at all. Most of the time it is in the middle. Whatever. If you see something on here that offends you because you think it putting too much of your business out there, leave a comment and I will take it down. In any event it is interesting though to see how and when people get annoyed over issues of privacy. I mean people are ok with facebook pictures, rfid tags, and dinner table gossip, but posts that allude to them, but make no direct reference are no good. ok. Wait, did i do it again?
5.) I think the only time i would run off to vegas to have a shot gun wedding is if I met a woman who liked the same music as me (and didn’t just tolerate it), had bangs, laughed at my jokes, and stood up to me. (you see this is me embellishing/over-simplifying for entertainment).
6.) I am learning that my break from education has made me an even worse debater/dinner table discussion haver. I cannot form thoughts in any coherent manner. I think I am just going to stop talking until I go back to school.
