(Warning: if you don't care at all about hip hop music or me ranting about the state of the music industry, skip to the bottom for a more interesting discussion of Halloween, it'll be fun.) Well, it's not really, since the weather's awesome, and it's still Oktober. But then again, I might be Santa for Halloween (and to make sense of me being the skinniest Santa ever, some girl should be my wife and keep telling me to "Eat...Eeeeeeat!"), so that sorta made me think of it. My parents are always complaining that I don't give them ideas for gifts, or not in time, or something, so here's a couple small ones to start with. Anyone else who likes music (well, hip hop music) should consider these too:
Blackalicious - The Craft
Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
These are three recently released hip hop albums. Blackalicious is probably my favorite group, already having two flawless albums out there, and being the best live act I've ever seen (3 times!) Danger Doom is a team-up of Danger Mouse, the guy who gave us the incredible Gray Album (the mash-up of The Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album), and M.F. Doom, from whom I've only heard a few things, but who puts out consistently praised, intelligent, interesting stuff. Atmosphere is one of the few hip hop groups that performs at the Warped Tour alongside hundreds of punk and rock bands, and of course they're cool too. If you want to check out
Now, I don't normally buy music anymore, but it's not just because I like to steal, it's mainly because I don't like when major labels steal from artists and force crappy music on us (don't believe me or know what I'm talking about? Go directly to www.downhillbattle.org and find out). Well, have no fear, these have all been run through the RIAA Radar (at www.riaaradar.com, conveniently) and they check out as safe--that means the album is released by an independent label, not a major label or affiliate. And that means nobody's getting ripped off and it's not supporting a horribly corrupt system. Doesn't that feel good?
Of course, if you're in the mood to steal some awesome hip hop anyway, you should check out the hard-hitting conspiracy-theorist Immortal Technique, who actually encourages it in one of his songs: "I made this to bump in your ride, or burn it off the internet, and bump it outside". Can't argue with that. Of course, it's very explicit, so you'd better not decide for yourself, you'd better contact your local senator and insist that they ban it, if you're reading this and you're under 18 or 21 or whatever the catch-all age should be.
Well, if you're not interested in music, you're probably dead! Just kidding, what I meant was you probably didn't enjoy that, and you probably didn't even make it this far. But if you did, how about telling me what your plans for Halloween are? Trick or Treating? Partying? Enjoying the one day you can wear your girlfriend's clothing without getting those strange looks in the subway? Germany isn't huge on Halloween (blasphemy!), but there are some big parties, at least one of which I'm sure I'll be going to. Oh, and they actually do it better than we do in America: we don't have CLASS the day after Halloween, since it's "All Saints Day"--I knew there was a reason we created Sainthood. Okay, that's all for now--talk to me, people.
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We will try to remember to write down the music you want for Christmas, after such a heavy handed hint :) We didn't get a chance to talk about your call to Brig. and Thorlef, did you find out about England and when will you see them again??? Gruesse und kuesse, Mutti XXXXOOOO
I'm going to the kickball end of season party, a big costume party on Sat night. might go on a bar crawl beforehand... betsy is visiting for the weekend so it'll be a nerdalicious good time.
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