My friend Thomas moved to NYC and one of the first things missed and searched out with a purpose was Chik-Fil-A (also Arby’s). Also the busiest drive through I’ve ever seen at a location in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
While we’re on the subject of fast food, let me show you the present that has passed you by. I’m done with saying something is the future if it already exists, I hear this all the time in reference to things that change with popular culture like music, architecture, fashion, auto design. If you can put your hands on it now, what’s going to come out of that is the future.
The Ghetto Big Mac is a sign of the times and a harbinger of innovation. Respect to these dude’s ladies for enduring what could only have been cataclysmic.
the biggest interlog celebrity i’ve made acquaintance with is dallas. dude is so strong on his grits that he’s always lookin to help other younglings get their wheels turning and grow the conscious, keyboard whitmans into stronger members of this online fam-lay.
as his old school vibrations got me thinking about the times as a young jit, running the mean streets of suburban ft. lauderdale, but not without origination in miramar. see, you don’t know what’s really goin on at the time of growing up because it’s normal for you. if you’re poor and all you’re friends are, it’s not likely that a 6 year old is going to realize that in fact everyone is poor and what that means.
i grew up till i was 8 in i think a 2/1 or 2/1.5 townhouse and shared a room with my brother. it wasn’t a bad neighborhood in perspective of the folks that lived there, but we had a winn-dixie right across the street in a strip mall that you can only find in south florida. winn-dixie generally meant that you lived in a hole part of town and my mom, growing up in lakeland stuck to publix and almost nothing else. never wanted for nothing that i can think of, but if you can remember having breakfast for dinner regularly, we’re just diff’rent leaves on the same tree.
back to the lecture at hand, perfection is perfected so i’ma let em understand.
i rocked a first look at my 80s reparte on forever freestyle and committed my undying love to the sound. it felt good to get that out, mostly because younger heads such as myself weren’t doing it big in 87, but the radio i kept above my bed and the skating ring keep us in the mix.
it struck a chord (ooooh big pun, rip (n. khaled looking like an ass like joey did holding that umbrella)) with dp dot com and he sent me a swank 80s mix. complete with a blondie kickoff and moving through synth pop, was a swell set of 17 tracks. i fired off my salvo back, bringing light back to the following:
blondie – rapture
midnight star – freakazoid
royksopp – follow my ruin
aim – cold water music (the most underrated cd in my recent life)
herbie hancock – rockit
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others more
if anyone that reads this wants to mixtape swap, email me:evan@nerditry dot com and let’s get it goin. privacy is key, your info is safe and this may be a blast. some lucky winner could get a couple dvds full of music (i need a secondary mp3 hard drive, least 160gb if you can spare).
were the words written to me a week ago by dallas penn in reference to keeping up on the work you commit to. at first i understood what he meant, but realized i wasn’t listening. the only way people will know about me is if i promote myself and to do that, i’ve got to have the multimedia available.
normally, this isn’t one of my strong points and creating nerditry i’ve been more able to focus and contenticize the space. as important as making sure you’re producing is keeping up with contacts. today, i received an email from a sports/publishing contact who i hadn’t heard from in a while. we hadn’t spoken in at least 6 months (prolly more) and out of the ether (n. Nas, RIP Jay-Z pre black album) comes an email asking if i was interested in doing some work for his magazine. i’ve done some work in the past for the other party that the magazine is going to cover and after confirmation that yes, of course! i could be in miami saturday morning for an event.
well, i’ll be interviewing one of my favorite athletes on a sports topic near to my heart and feel like this is a proper step in an illuminated direction.
