Friday, May 26, 2006

How evil are you?


How evil are you?
Originally uploaded by snailsone.
Turns out I'm not evil at all...Take the quiz...

What! I'm Listening to (part 2):

Found an interesting Australian hiphop group called Def Wish Cast...1Tym and CB Mass are pretty good Korean hiphop...Beanfield is pretty good lounge music...Checking out DJ Swingsett and Thunderball for electronica...Oh yeah, and Thievery Corporation...Los Zafiros is good chill out Cuban music...On the R&B/Soul tip, I've been listening to Teddy Pendergrass...Le Tigre and Ladybug Transistor are also in rotation...

Thursday, May 25, 2006

FEMA...not water under the bridge...

Jason Smith sent me this link on New Orleans...This proves that the flooding actually occured DURING the storm...

Update: U.S. Army Corps of engineers took responsibility for the poorly outdated levees...

Friday, May 19, 2006

Geektacular

Found this site on road sign math...Pretty geeky...Beats out singing "99 Bottles of Beer on the wall"...

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Aply 's Masters Show


Aply 's Masters Show
Originally uploaded by snailsone.


My buddy Andy AKA Aply graduated from SVA...He

designed urban bike gear for his masters show...

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Back to my roots...

I just got the opportunity to go to Korea in June or July...I have been there four times...Last time I was there was over 13 years ago...My Mom's got an apartment in Seoul...Things have definitely changed or so I've been told...I have heard from people like Bom5 and Ink that hiphop has swept the country and they would both live there...When I was there last, I was in a missionary program (though I'm not exactly religious and was bordering on agnosticism then) that turned out to be an activist organization educating our group on the four major activist movements: the students' movement (was about 10% of the student population), the teachers' movement, the farmers' movement and finally the urban dwellers' movement...We met family members of victims of the demonstrations and self-immolations, learned traditional instruments (I played the drums), worked in the fields (I passed out from heat exhaustion in the tobacco fields), hung out at brothels observing the prostitutes and GI's...South Korea was the first place that had a suicuide hotline specifically for farmers because all the women left and moved to the cities where they worked in sweatshops for not such a better life...The farmers were given a bunch of US cows by the government in an effort to appease them when they were unable to sell their products in the market because the government had imported products from other countries...They demonstrated and got ripped up the riot police...The next time they demonstrated, the farmers got wise and put the cows amongst the people so the police could not use tear gas and water cannons...The last time I was in Korea, I learned a lot about the massacre that occurred in Dongduchun just ten years before I had stayed there when I was 13...Women, children...it was awful...Anyways, I love their subway...

Update: Okay, so I was skeptical, but Drunken Tiger and Seo Tai-Ji are worth listening to...

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Places I Would Donate to:

If I could was well off enough to give money, be philanthropic, I would donate to the Akil fund for Dream's (Mike Mendones Francisco's) surviving son...

and Katrina victims in the form of Tourdelee, a fund set up by Lee Quinones when he biked from NYC to Miami...

Monday, May 01, 2006

The Orishas y La Bruja at Irving Plaza...

I used Ticketmaster's e-ticket delivery and printed my ticket which they scanned at the door...The opening act was actually pretty good too...La Bruja performing with DJ Precision of the X-ecutioners....Without an elaborate set of lights in the audience, the lighting and smoke for the Orishas was pretty cool...It was a great show...It's so good to see a group with a horn and drums and a dj...Made me wish my Spanish was better...Made me also miss Cuba with all the flags flying...I was expecting a bigger crowd, but I was happy it wasn't that packed...