Who sleeps anymore?

Since I haven't been able to fix my bookshelf lately and gather all my books (nerd alert!), I've been watching a few documentaries. Just this past weekend I watched "Beautiful Losers," documenting the lives of outcast artists who become famous. (FYI: I kinda deem it a hipster film, but more genuine than others I've seen, haha).

Now I've stumbled upon another documentary that I kinda wanna watch. It's titled "A Million In The Morning" following a man in New York who stays awake for 5 days straight. Crazy huh? I recently found out about this documentary through a Jay Electronica track inspired by the film posted somewhere on Tumblr. So I did my research and I literally just watched the YouTube vid and now I'm shaking my head. Awake for 123 hours?! DAMN.

"Filmed by Jason Goldwatch, the movie of the same name chronicles Gavin McInnes and other contestants as they try and beat the standing Guinness World Record of going 123 hours without sleep. Mr. Exhibit C-Note is no where to be found, though. Probably because they didn’t pony up the pennies for his presence." (via TSS)

Video treats

Despite MTV not playing music videos anymore and VH1 Soul being killed off thanks to Comcast *shakes angry fist*, I still watch music videos on a regular basis. In fact sometimes I rather watch music videos than watch regular TV. I find it's AMAZING to see what artists come up with for their songs. The imagination and the instilled visualization each artists dreams up equip audiences with a vision only he or she destined to create with the tune in mind.

But in more simpler terms: I'm a huge fan of aesthetics, but I'm an even bigger fan of storytelling. So if the artist can create a visual narrative to their music, I'm all for it.

Here are just a few (new & one old) videos (in no chronological order) that just came to mind. Enjoy!

Full Crate & Mar - She Was Fly from Full Crate on Vimeo.

Probably one of my all-time favorite videos that was played on VH1 Soul - R.I.P.

Sunday posts and Water

So before starting my blog i just want to tell my reader(s) that as of this day, I will start to write on this blog OFFICIALLY every sunday. So with Great Adu (sp?) here we go:

WELL before that I just to say that though it said spring on our calendar's last month...its coming....I can feel it. Like today, when i went to go buy some yerba maté I stumbled upon a nice park downtown had a nice warm breeze brush against my face and say families and people outside again enjoying the sun! but enough with that. Lets blog.

So bottled water....well let me tell you about my story with bottled water. Maybe it was my rebellious nature of a college student, or my question to everything in society with structure, but I was a Sophomore in college and I never once questioned about water... What do we know about the common H2O..that we all need right? If its a sugary brown drink, a sugary yellow/orange/red/clear COLD drink that can quinch our thirst on that hot summer day. I remember being in my college dorm, Phelan Hall, on the fifth floor and my neighbor who lived two doors down was filling his Dasani water bottle with fountain water.

My first thought, 'WTF, thats gross! I only drink that shitty water when im desperate' so I ask him, "Why don't you just buy a bottled water." He then tells me that TAP WATER from SAN FRANCISCO is actually one of the best to drink because not only is it clean since it is regulated by the state, so it has to, but its good for you because they put fluoride in it so it strengths your teeth.

hmmm...i said is this true? so I did my research and i can tell you now people. I AM A CONVERTER...I drink tap water....and Im still living and healthy

Let me ask you where along the lines in our history did tap water ever become....bad? Why did we stop drinking it?

here is a video to help convince you:



AND sometimes you have to say FUCK water!! GIMME BEER

Whats up with technology these days?!

So Ive been thinking about getting the Kindle from Amazon. For those of you who don't know what that is, its the electronic book that a person can store up to 1,500 books where books cost about $9.99, lightweight, and it has a 3G network so you can download books WHEREEVER you are?! Amazing huh.

The ability to store all these books in a 10 onces which is a pound and the ability to use the internet is......wow. But then I started to think about other things, other then its price. Working for an optometrist, ive learned a lot about how to keep your eyes healthy AND how to prevent worsening your prescription.

So im not one to bag on technology, heck Im all for it. if it makes your life easier and faster in basically no work to you, then why the fuck not right?! Well, i believe with the advancement of these new machines, its kind of a shove-and-pull effect, and let me explain:

Lets rewind to the 80's the good ol' glory days. where hip hop first began, style was...well colorful, and soon-to-be famous music was being made. I mean back then what was technology? A typewriter, the invention of the Pac Man game (imagine how BIG that was), the cassettes/walkman......who would of thought in 20yrs people would be able to store ALL their music into an Ipod or be able to order/get anything online with a laptop, or have an interactive game experience with the Wii AND even storing all your vinyls into a laptop instead of lugging milk creates?! cool huh? So technology has made everything FASTER..BETTER..STONGER..and has PUSHED us towards progressiveness and has let us to communicate with each other around the world.

But the Pull? hmm does anyone think about the consequences? Well I think there are a lot....which im not going to dwell in like: global warming (the big corporations are dumping their wastes into the environment), lack of exercise (more people just sitting around in front of a screen), AND EYE STRAIN

Here's a fact:
According to the American Eye-Q ® survey, nearly 46% of all Americans spend 5 or more hours per day using a computer or “smart phone”. Prolonged use of these devices may lead to symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) which include eye strain, dry eyes, headaches, blurred vision, fatigue, and loss of focus.

I mean when did a phone stop being JUST a phone?! Now having internet, music, and a camera on a phone is STANDARD.
-When did a playing console stop playing JUST video games ?! Now features like blu-ray and internet are expected.
-And 3-D movies are starting to become more and more popular!!
-Whats next?! I feel flying cars aren't too far away, heck in the next 20 we could be traveling from Earth to the moon like driving from The Bay to L.A.

Back to "The Pull." I guess why I am so irked is because I feel we will soon lose some skills along the way: like will DJ's in the future know how to scratch and play on solely vinyls? Does anyone out there know how to make a mixtape with cassettes? Will kids rely their research all on GOOGLE and the internet and stop going to the library and use books?.....I mean these aren't life threatening skills, and we probably won't need them BUT STILL!!! I just don't want us to have to rely on it TOO much, I mean what happens when your computer/laptop crashes with all your essays..information..pictures.music...we're fucked. And when our iPods break? get a new one I guess.

MY dad tells me: back when i was your age, we didn't even have boooks to study?! we had to copy everything down on our notebooks, *I laugh*, yea you guys are lucky you can get anything on the comptuer now.

And its good that I am reminded of where things once were in the "pre-historic" days; it humbles me a little and reminds me that there was once a "hard life. The life where Sam Goody still existed and sold singles, where all kids did was watch movies at the mall with their backpacks, and play outside until it was dark or they got hungry, where we used our imaginations to pretend to be Power Rangers ( or Ninja Turtles), and if you wanted porn you had to dig in your uncle/dad's "secret" box..haha

Like I said, I am not one to hate on technology, but I just feel people out there are excessively using it. Like everything else in life: MODERATION. LETS GET BACK OUT THERE PEOPLE. pick up an instrument and jam...get a ball and shoot it... call your friends and drink on the beach..shit man READ a BOOK.

That was my rant. NOW watch this, its the new Gorillaz video ft. Mos Def called "Stylo" click here.

"And all that you know goes right outta the window"

After J*DaVeY released this music video yesterday (4/1) I've probably re-blogged, re-tweeted, and re-posted this video several times already.... and I'm bout to do it again.

I could write a crapload of reasons why I like this video (one being I'm a huge fan of their projects), but that would take a while (and i'm thinking of just writing it all out when I get a chance later this evening, ha!). But to sum it all up right now the reason being why I'm feelin this song so much right now is the fact that the lyrics & notion of the song channel self identity in some way. And if ya'll know me right now or have seen the pieces I've been writing lately, I'm all bout THAT right now - it's the tip I'm on. So I'm not surprised that I've been listening to the lyrics so diligently and dissecting the shit out of it. But that's just me. Ya'll might get a different reaction out of it. But either way, I suggest ya'll check out this video. Don't sleep.

J Davey - "Outta The Window."

J*DaVeY "Outta the Window" from SOCKETUMi Iam on Vimeo.

Is it nothing but a game? If it is where are the rules? Cause I'm not sure how to play. Will I watch it all go passing by? Just blowing in the wind. Like everything I thought I knew before. I guess I'll just pretend. Be like everybody else.