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Pan of Ice by Deja Earley
from the Winter 2011 issue of failbetter.com
we are all oxen with tobacco balls stuffed down our throats, if you catch my dift.
“Ab-Souls Outro” - Kendrick Lamar
just waited on all sorts of nyc folk for 12 hours & feelingslashneeding this:
“i’m not on the outside looking in i’m not on the inside looking out i’m in the dead fucking center looking around. you ever seen a new born baby kill a grown man? that’s an analogy for the way the world make me react.”
“you too are searching for answers. i’m not the next pop star. i’m not the next socially aware rapper. i am a human mother fucking being over dope ass instrumentation. kendrick lamar.”
p.s.
hanging out with old friends is not uninteresting.
“I’ll Take Care Of You” by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx
This is from the re-imagined version of Gil Scott-Heron’s “I’m New Here that Jamie xx did called “We’re New Here”. Drake & Rihanna ruined this beat. Oh well. This goes. R.I.P. Gil.
Poem Of The Day
The Teachers Are Loose by Erik Bloch
this poem is from anderbo.com. imagery is here. also. i just interviewed to teach here in nyc so i can also dig on the poem for that esoteric level. save travels & be sure to save all of your chicken bones.
36 Minutes of Music For Your Tuesday Life
This is a mix by Shlohmo. He did it for FACT Magazine. They run dope mixes by musicians on the come up. I vibe out pretty hard 9 minutes & 27 seconds into this when Shlohmo throws in the slowed down version of Nightmares by The Clipse feat. Bilal. (Thanks to Harlan for hipping me to this)
Song Of The Day
“Summertearz” by Little Dragon
this song is all sex
Poem Of The Day
TO BURN A WITCH, YOU MUST SUFFER HER DEVIANT WAYS by Lisa McCool-Grime
Remember those ‘choose your own adventure’ books as a child? Well, in Diagram 11.6, Lisa McCool-Grime throws one down, in poem form. This piece is mind boggling & really deserves to be in an exhibition rather than (as great as Diagram is) a literary journal. Go ahead, click the link. Melt your own brain.
If you aren’t familiar with Requited (requitedjournal.com), you should be. It’s a multi-disciplinarian arts journal of the dopest level. The editors not only scour the internet for great fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews, but also provide a platform for audio, video & visual artists as well. The sixth installment of Requited just hit the internet & I can’t get over this film from the Poyais Group called THE THING THAT HAPPENED. It’s directed by Olivia Robinson & Jesse Stiles & written by Jesse Ball, Thordis Bjornsdottir, Olivia Robinson, & Jesse Stiles (members of the Poyais Group).
