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Friday, March 29, 2013

J Dilla



My inoculation to J Dilla was so unexpected that I wasn't prepared for what it did to me. Since then, I have tried to share these memories with anyone that is anybody who's within earshot.

Listen and be free.


Sunday, March 24, 2013

Read: March

The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating - David M. Buss
Ibsen: Four Major Plays - Volume I
Hamlet - William Shakespeare


Comments:
- I'll admit it: I like bugs. I also like people (...well, some of them). Strangely, Desire does a great job at combining both species' rationale in a way that doesn't sound overly scientific or unbelievable. If comparing human mating strategies to African weaverbirds or scorpion flies sounds a little far-fetched and implausible to you, just think about any given club on a Friday night.  Leks of men smiling, waiting, panting, displaying themselves for all the world to see...and the women who acquiesce willingly. Hmm...

- Play, plays, plays. It's springtime and I'm in the mood. Henrik Ibsen is by far on my top 10 - 20? - list of favorite playwrights. The man just gets it - women, men, crazy children, life.

- In my opinion, every young boy, adolescent and adult male should read Hamlet. It should be taught in schools and acted out in prisons. Why? Because there are no more Hamlet's out there - raw, organic, neither good or bad - and that makes me very, very sad.