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Anyone got the mp3 of Nas' "Nas is Like"? -
Happy Birthday Mixtape
For Tess...surprisingly heavy with can-con ( Read more... ) -
antiTHESIS afterparty playlist
Something for everyone ( Read more... ) -
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
An abstract I've put together for the conference I'm helping to organize....The title of the conference is Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and it's on piracy (new, old, etc ( Read more... ) -
ENGL 221 Recap
Music, film or pop culture referred to during my 20+ hours of lectures this semester ( Read more... ) -
Future Travel Plans
So, I'm going to Malaysia in August to (a) visit my brother (who's doing fieldwork in KL), (b) see my mom (who's going to visit him) and (c) present at the International Convention of Asia Scholars 5. The first two more than the last probably but Arjun Appadurai is giving the keynote for ICAS5 too ( Read more... ) -
Bangers and Mash, Cambridge Edition
My officemate/friend/"mate" Nick is going off to Cambridge to do his PhD in Old English (aka Anglo-Saxon) Literature and here's the mix I made for him. There's a couple things (Roots, especially) that I don't really like that much anymore but he's still into....also, excuse the Dilla-overload at the end ( Read more... ) -
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I've purchased a ticket for a ball game at the House That Ruth Built, Yankee Stadium! Section Tier 1, Row M, Seat 9! You can't understand how excited this makes me as it's been a dream of mine to see a game from either Fenway or Yankee Stadium since I was a little kid. With Yankee Stadium closing after 2008, this will probably be my only chance ( Read more... ) -
DJ KILLA-JEWEL
yes, i "really want to cut with" her. -
I heard she messin with a famous rapper / I'm not gonna say his name, he might go home and smack her
Holy fuck!
So, I just geeked out when I found out I'll be presenting on the same panel as Oliver Wang aka O-DUB from the mighty Soul Sides blog, probably the most prominent if not best rap blogger ever. He's also apparently an academic at CSU Long Beach in Sociology and he's talking about Joe Baataan. I'm on first and my paper's on Charles ( Read more... )