I bought some old National Geographic Magazines from this used book shop in Burbank a couple weeks ago, and I was flipping through and reading some quotes from the issues and I found one at first that I didn't think much of and didn't seem relevant to myself, but the more I read it and repeated it, the more it gave me some insight into my own thinking and how I need to be even more cognizant of others' unseen pressures, and parts of their story, and their personal history.
The quote was underneath a picture of elk in plains of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The quote: We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams...as "wild". Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness". -Luther Standing Bear, Ogala Chief.
It's funny cause since I was young and I wasn't raised involved too much with nature or the boyscouts or anything like that I didn't, I had almost a fear of nature when I was younger, that it was wild and that anything could be out there, man eating animals, crazy serial killers, etc. But as I've gotten older I've come to really value the peace of nature, the wonder of it all as a whole and thriving population, the stillness, the lack of preoccupation, the serenity, just seeing life in its most natural uncontrived state of life.
Seeing both sides of a subject and being able to know what it feels like to be on both sides is interesting to me, cause I for one, constantly lose sight of how I use to feel on certain subjects, because of being caught in the current place of my thinking on topics. In a way allowing that to happen creates a definite level of voluntary ignorance, to shut out knowledge of past situations and attitudes that I could at one point in my life identify with.
I need to use that and apply that to my daily life and dealings with people. People are built each uniquely based on their own personal journeys and experiences, and I need to factor those in and be empathetic to those, even if they may not be of my knowledge. I need to work on the fact that just because I don't share the same view on a subject any longer means I should disregard that concept or those who see it that way, and I def need to be more proactive on my end these ends of finding out others' stories, and understanding people's paths, because anything less would be an unfair judgment on my part.
For guys that are already really sick, its crazy to think that The Twelves still sound like they're upping their sound with anything new to me that I hear from them. They are on point pretty much on any remix I listen to of theirs. I need an album from them, or catch them spinning or just more and more tracks for me to enjoy, cause these cats are the shiizzzzz! P.L.P
peep more of his stuff. up and coming. P.L.P
and a little Jay-z Radiohead mashup
first listening to this track on hypem, it felt like reminiscing through a montage of sentimental thoughts in my head with a slight haze of attempting to recollect some patchwork scenes. Then I watched this video and it was exactly like the picture it had painted in my head! ridonk son. P.L.P
I've always pondered about the whole MMA versus Boxing discussion and which is a better form of fighting, or who would kick who's butt. I love boxing and it's something my dad raised us up watching, and I am now even more passionate with Pacman's MJ like revolutionizing of it's importance to Filipinos abroad and even mainstream audiences. But I do believe that MMA is in practical use of fighting and self defense is far more effective than boxing because of it's diverse ways to attack and being able to take things to the ground if need be. Yet with that being said I still don't find it as exhilarating, and as beautiful as the sweet science when it is practiced with perfect rhythm and flow(i.e -Pacman). If you're wondering how MMA fighters would do as boxers, check out Anderson Silva sparring at Wilcard Gym, and by the looks of it this guy is a world class boxer, with his movement, combinations, and footwork.
via - nowboxing.com
August 25 is the date Aaliyah passed and I remember exactly where I was when I heard Aaliyah died, at the 94.9 Summer Comedy Jam at Shoreline Amphitheater. She was one of the few female singers that I was straight in love with. I remember having a real sadness after she passed, and just got the feeling that she was a dope soul. Some videos in tribute of her, crazzzzzy beautiful!
two totally different remixes and completely different than the original, of British rapper, Example's track watch the sun come up.
New flavor from Lyrics Born Feat Lateef the Truthspeaker, the more i listen, the more i dig. P.L.P!
Lyrics Born - "Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart" feat. Lateef The Truthspeaker. from World's Fair on Vimeo.
It's been almost a week and 7 months since Dad passed away, and not ever a day or even a good part of my day ever passes without me thinking about Pops and everything I miss about him, but over time, I have tried my best to turn into a positive motivation for me to step it up and try to reach things I wouldn't have been able to had I not had to go home and for those months and see Pop's live his final but without a doubt finest days.
But talking today with Mom, I still see how no matter how deep my sense of loss it will never ever compare to the lonliness Mom feels on the daily. She really does feel that a piece of her is gone, and she understands the reality of it, and the fact that no matter how much she just wants the piece of mind of having Dad's presence in the other room, or someone to sleep next to she can't.
because of those things I feel guilty. I feel guilty for feeling like I'm striving and feeling everything but lonliness these days, but I know it is something I try to avoid as much as possible, something that I fear now that I feel like will be inevitable and comes with age. But I am blessed to have some of the most supportive and uplifting people around me, that keep me focused on the goals ahead and the solidarity they show in knowing that I can accomplish. Maybe in time I can find the answers or a solution so that she no longer feels her loss with such enormous magnitude. But at times I know that it just might never be, because their love was of the truest and purest kind I've know or been witness to, and I have to find my comfort in the beauty of that fact.
Mr. Omaro aka Omabu.blogspot.com found this site, and this is what I'm talking about right here. I've seen people talk about how much life sucks at the moment and ending it witht the FML, and sometimes I find em funny, and sometimes I feel like that expression has given people a crutch to complain. I know, i know, way to over analyze Ray, but I'm a believer in that your constant thoughts and words that you project will eventually manifest themselves into the actions of your life, it's reinforcement and motivation. So GMH, givesmehope.com is something that after I read for 5 minutes gave me a sense of optimism and an excitement for myself to make more of my day, and I gotta pass it on. ch ch check it! P.L.P
This right here is for the dance boogie bug up inside you, I can just picture myself jumpin up and down at EDC or Hard, feeling the music for sure! Kylie Minogue still is a heater as well!
I'm not necessarily a fan of J-pop, but this MSTRKRFT remix is pretty sick. ch check it. P.L.P
Time has a intriguing article about the music, skate, and graffiti scene in Iran. It talks about how the level of music and ability is comparable to that of the west, but if they're arrested the ending result of their expression could be execution. I wonder if maybe in some way, these high stakes make their even more pure than other artists with complete freedom of speech, where they may pay with their life, yet they produce it completely with those repercussions in mind.
if you wanna read from the site instead of here Time Article: Tehran's Rebels
THIS CAT IS SIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK. Mike Song just got back from Europe and told me to peep Daniel Merriweather, and his track "Change" featuring Wale is the BUSINESS! Just listen and enjoy and be compelled to bob your head, tap your feet, or just break out into dance! And check out "I think I'm in Love" Riduculous, this cat's got so much flavor, and his beats are straight hits! Also a collabo with Adele called, "Water and a Flame".
Please do yourself a favor and look him up, I haven't heard this type keen sense for musicality in a long, long time, as Kyle said, "Your reaction to him is kinda like the first time you heard John Legend". Spot On, P.L.P!
The plot according to Wikipedia -
Aliens made first contact with Earth twenty-eight years prior to the beginning of the film, after which humanity waited for either a hostile attack or for giant advances in technology, though neither came. Instead, the aliens that arrived were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them. Patience over the alien situation ran out and control over them was contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU stands to receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' advanced weaponry work.
MNU, thus far, has failed in making the alien weaponry work, for activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA. Tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), through playing around with an alien device, contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable, for he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Van der Merwe becomes ostracized and friendless and comes to hide in District 9.
While on the run from MNU, Wikus is forced to seek refuge in the run down shack of an alien called Christopher Johnson, the same alien attempting to distill fuel from scavenged space ship parts scattered around District 9. Although initially hostile towards Wikus, Christopher eventually agrees to assist him reverse the transformation. Christopher can undo the mutation if he were able to get Wikus inside the mother ship hovering over Johannesburg. Ironically, to do so requires the contents of the alien device Wikus confiscated and accidentally sprayed himself with earlier in the film.
Wikus manages to steal some alien weaponry and with Christopher's help they launch an assault on MNU and successfully retrieve the fuel sample required to power a shuttle up to the mother ship. Wikus and Christopher return to District 9 and Christopher admits the process involved to cure Wikus could take up to three years to complete. Furious, Wikus knocks Christopher unconscious and powers up the ship himself. The military target Wikus and destroy one of the shuttles engines, causing it to crash land inside District 9. A battle between the military and a local group of thugs begins to rage, both groups wish to control Wikus (the military want to dissect him to gain an understanding of how to use alien technology and the thugs believe if they eat his alien arm they will gain his power). Christopher's son Little CJ gains control of a mechanized battle suit from inside the crashed shuttle and helps free Wikus. Wikus then commandeers the battle suit and defends Christopher as the mother ship uses a tractor beam to lift it on board.
As the shuttle docks with the mother ship, Wikus is shot in the back and the suit ejects him after taking critical damage. Wikus drags himself away from the general following him, but is unavoidably caught. Just before the trigger is pulled, four aliens burst out of the surrounding slums and attack Wikus' attacker, dismembering him.
The film concludes with news broadcasts on the humans view on what happened and an interview with Wikus' wife reveals a small metal rose was left on her doorstep (one of Wikus' trademarks, he strongly believed a gift is worth more if it was made personally). She concludes it couldn't possibly be Wikus, no one has heard from him since he was last seen crawling from the mangled battle suit. An alien is then seen standing in a junk yard inside District 9, fashioning a small metal rose out of scrap metal, implying Wikus' transformation is complete
The fictional District 9 is located in what is actually Katlehong, a township in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The brothaman Mike Song, is one of the most creative, imaginative, and enthusiastic minds I know. Just talking to him and getting his ideas on life, get me excited and gets my mind running through the possibilities of the world. Whenever I witness him ideating, I can see so much that he sets no boundaries to the things that he envisions, and it's something I look up to him for. So I feel as though tutting to Wii music, is about as Mike mothaeffin Song as it gets. One of the things that Mike said to me once that I always keep close in my mind whenever I'm writing or making stuff and I start to get self conscious,
"The talents that I have aren't mine, they were given to me by God, and I'm just the channel to share them with other people."
It's amazing how much easier it is to accomplish things when you realize that usually the purpose of something is larger than yourself. So whenever there's a moment for me of I wonder what people will think, there's now a get over yourself moment of reinforcement that allows me to take myself out of the equation, and focus on the production. P.L.P
I'll just let you watch it. But Yowza...Yowza again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBJzZts4qZo
Pretty interesting stuff. Paul James, a personal trainer and even underwear model, decided to pack on 90lbs(40kg) in order to better understand his overweight clients and as you will "walk a mile in their shoes". Interesting, because it seems that he completely underestimated the psychological and mental effects of putting all that weight, even having symptoms of depression. ch check it. P.L.P
On the new Fight Night 4 soundtrack Amplive of Zion I Crew remixes Tokyo Police Club's "Baskervilles", and it is by far one of my favorite pre-fight songs for my created boxer, Lightweight Contender Ray "Hound Dog" Ricafort. The remix has Aesop Rock on it and Yak Ballz each droppin verses, and you can check out the process of making the remix w/ Amplive, then you can see the finished project. peep it! P.L.P
I heard it on one of the RTN interviews and I know that this is a widely used saying, but I think it rings true more and more as I'm exposed to more in life, and I feel like I have the complete freedom to pursue any interests of knowledge or curiosity in my life.
"The more I learn in life, The more I realize how little I know"
Especially with the technological age we live in, the resources available to us, and the application of them at our fingertips is incomprehensible. At times I feel overwhelmed with what it is I wanna learn about, and trying to reel it in to just a couple things that I can focus on.
For me, the highest priority out of the bajillion in my head:
-Storytelling (really wanna work on this)
-Mental Retention of what I learn
-Continuation the music consumption and sharing
-Audio recording
-Writing (lyrics, and shorts or bits)
-Boxing (It's been getting addicting!)
-Singing, voice, letting it rip w/out self consciousness.
and prob the one that can be the most impactful on other lives:
-The expansion of the Indie Department here at RTN and how it can become more relevant to more students lives, and how to make a broader more lasting impact.
It's crazy out there, find what's you out there, and go hard for it, put your head down and put in some solid work without focusing on your progress so much as just focusing on putting in work, and when you finally bring your head up, I think you'll be amazed by the scenery you will have just created for yourself. P.L.P
It's called Wapakman, and is supposed to be a action/comedy/sci fi flick a la Kung Fu Hustle a bit. It was supposed to have to have Batista from the WWE and Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, but I guess due to scheduling conflicts Scherzinger dropped out. I really hope for Manny's sake that this movie is legit or at the very least not a flop. I'm keeping my fingers crossed but the villains just in the trailer already seem a bit sketch, but I'll stay hopeful!
Crazy article from Time. Makes me think that we really will at some point in the future have some sort of struggle over control of the Earth, ok maybe not that severe in our lifetime, but watching these makes me think that it's not out of the realm of possibility.
check out the rest of the article and see the other insane robots the Japanese have come up with!
The article link with the rest of the robotos!
Saw this on the Ball Don't Lie Blog on Yahoo Sports, Cav's shooting guard Delonte West bustin KFC Frees!
Oh man, pretty hilarious, tell me you haven't felt at one point or another in your life what Seth Rogen goes through with Megan Fox, for me it's been many a time! You can see the mental processes happening in Seth Rogen's head in the lead up, to Megan Fox coming out, to the head reach for the kiss, to the "ohhh crap im getting rejected", to the time for recovery phase, that all occurs in about a second.
