What Am I Collecting?
Feb 24, 2010 Clutter
I understand the value of collecting things. While one can share his or her collection, the feeling you get from collecting cannot be shared. Collecting involves research, resources, maintenance, time, space, and care. The amount of people in the world that might understand willingly paying these costs are few. Some collections are passive, they sit on the wall, in books, or in plastic, waiting to be admired. Others are safe to touch and use like one’s music collection or even supermarket coupons.
The value of one’s collection comes from two sources, how much it means to you and how much others will pay for it. There are of course those who collect things that no one else would want and there are others that fight and pay high price for highly coveted items. Lastly there are those things we collect indirectly like magazines, newspapers, tickets stubs, ink pens and the like. What are we to do with those? If they have no value to you and none to anyone else then you are still paying the collection cost to maintain them. One of the biggest costs is space. Another is the cost of not maintaining that collection. Collections can collect dust. As I look around my home at all the things that fill it up I wonder. What am I collecting that has no real value to me and how much is it costing me to keep it?
Tags: Clutter
New Music Monday
Feb 22, 2010 Uncategorized
It’s another new music Monday. Feed your mp3 player. You know it’s hungry.
Silhouette Brown – Constant Questions- Ras Kass – The Endangered Lyricist Mixtape
- Gonja Sufi – EP
- Erykah Badu – Jump Up In The Air and Stay There f/ Lil Wayne and Bilal
- Janelle Monae – Tight Rope feat. Big Boi
- Common – The People (Original Version)
- Devin The Dude – What I Be On
- Nas & Damian Marley – Strong Will Continue
- Emilio Rojas, Scheme, Astonish – Helluva Year (prod. Dario)
- Jaguar Wright – And Your Point Is?
- UKSoul.org Mixtape
- Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
The J Dilla Tribute Continues
Much is being done to pay tribute to and celebrate the life and work of J Dilla. It seems that while he contributed to a lot of artists prior to his passing, a considerable amount of good new music and collaborations have come into being after. The following is a clip from an upcoming DVD called ‘Timeless’. It features Dwele singing his song ‘Angel’ backed up by The Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra. Enjoy!
FULL SCREEN
The Sounds of VTech / Angel Feat. Dwele 
Storm Fade
Feb 15, 2010 Games
I spent most of this past weekend visiting an old friend, actually a video game. It’s called City of Heroes and I got back into it mainly because I found someone else that’s into it too. It’s a multi-player online game with a monthly fee so lately I haven’t found any personal friends willing to pay. Still, there are people online to play with and that works well enough.
Anyway I’m back playing the game and I’m addicted and dedicating an embarrassing amount of hours to it. While I have many, the main character I’ve been playing is named Storm Fade. He’s an assassin that strikes from the shadows. An that, my friends, is how I spent my weekend. If you’re interested and would like to try out the game, send me your email address and I’ll send you a link for a free two week trial. We’re fighting on the Guardian server.
Tags: Games
My New Favorite Web Show
Feb 13, 2010 Video
I used to love Yo! MTV Raps back in the day with Dr. Dre and Ed Lover. I knew they moved on to radio and other things but Ed Lover has this new online show called C’mon Son and it’s great. Here’s the latest episode. Oh, there’s some profanity in it so if that offends you, keep pushin’.
Tags: Video
