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Black Market Militia: ReviewPodcasters Across BordersPeople who DO want you hereImmortal Technique interviewed by XXLPodcast 115 - Soul Position, Mr Lif, Copywrite, P.O.S.
April 29, 2006

Tugging the heart strings

9/11, the movie.

April 27, 2006

Meet: Collectik.net

Meet Collectik: Love it, treasure it. Find the best audio and video on the web.

April 25, 2006

Please vote for my ChangeThis proposal!

I have a Manifesto proposal up at ChangeThis.com right now, titled Keeping It Real: Reaching Your Audience With An Authentic Voice. Please vote for it (and tell others to as well)!

April 24, 2006

RSS feed problems?

Is anyone having problems with the podcast RSS feeds? If you are, please comment or email me – I want to make sure everything’s cool.

Podcast 115 - Soul Position, Mr Lif, Copywrite, P.O.S.

Half an hour of hip-hop and nonsense. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] P.O.S. – “P.O.S. Is Ruining My Life” Copywrite – “Die Another Day” (download) Mr Lif – “I Phantom” (Emergency Rations EP) Soul Position – “Hand-Me-Downs” (Things Go Better With RJ and Al) Direct link or Subscribe All links are to information [...]

April 20, 2006

Giant hide and seek game

There is a gigantic hide and seek game going on in the Plateau Mont-Royal this Saturday afternoon. I don’t really have any details yet, but I’ll post them up here as soon as I do! Update! Carré St-Louis’ ice cream shoppe, 5 PM, tomorrow!!! Here’s a Google Map to the area. Email me beforehand!

April 17, 2006

Black Market Militia: Review

Black Market Militia was released a year ago, and it has remained a very slept-on album, even in independent circles. All the while, every set of ears within the vicitiny of a radio is bombarded, Clockwork Orange style, with sub-par hip-hop. Why? To be fair, at least Black Market Militia understands it is not speaking [...]

April 15, 2006

Understand Hip Hop Volume 1

Understanding a lot of hip-hop culture (and where it comes from) means understanding the Five Percent (or The Nation of Gods and Earths). Read Islam in the Mix: Lessons of the Five Percent. Among the commercially successful and critically hailed rappers who belong to the Nation of Gods and Earths are: Rakim (Allah) of Eric [...]

April 12, 2006

People who DO want you here

My friend Dave: My local bulk food store recently got firebombed, twice. They put up a sign asking “who doesn’t want us here?” So I put up a sign Friday saying “people who do want you here:” and signed my name, and left a couple of permanent markers there. Three hours later, the sign was [...]

Something old, something new

You may notice that the weblog design has changed a little bit over here; it’s been reversed, in fact. All this started last night with a lot of fiddling, and ended today with a great deal of help from Patrick, whose company A Taste of Blue is doing a great deal of good design work [...]

April 7, 2006

Immortal Technique interviewed by XXL

While I wouldn’t normally link to a mainstream hip-hop magazine, XXL did a great job this month: a two part interview with Immortal Technique. Everyone should be checking this out. (Part 1, Part 2.)

April 6, 2006

Podcasters Across Borders

In June, I’m going to be speaking at the Podcasters Across Borders conference in Kingston, Ontario. It will be the first podcasters’ conference to be located in Canada, and its participants will include a number of Canadian podcasters that were seminal to making its podcasting scene so vibrant and diverse. Check it out.

April 3, 2006

The CBC love me or something

Thanks to Matthew McKinnon who listed me as one among the ‘10 of the very best‘ blogs in English Canada. I just found out about you, Matthew, because you sent about 1,000,000 + 1 hits to my page. I’m absolutely flabbergasted. Thank you for the props, man. If you have been directed here via the [...]

April 2, 2006

What to do with your life

Good reading for a Sunday afternoon (via MarkTAW.com): “Should I work hard, be frugal & miserable now so I can enjoy life later, or should I enjoy life now, but work more & harder later?” Everyone faces these questions at some point in their life. What would you say if I told you there was [...]