Haiti Appeal
Donations can be made via www.yele.org , (Due to much site traffic that link keeps going down, if it is, use this one: https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=23093) all contributions going toward aid for those affected by the earthquake, also if you are in the USA you can text the word Yele to 501501 to make an instant $5 donation.
As predicted, since I’ve returned to Uni my personal reading has more or less gone down the lav. I’ve been doing a bit though, a little bit. I literally just finished reading this collection of Prince Phillip stories and quotations and it may just be the best toilet book ever (You know what I mean, small, funny, the kind of thing you can dip into while the doodoo dips). He gets much bad press for making off-colour racial comments, many of them pretty bad, but after reading this book I can only think that, as he himself always says, they are in jest, misguided humour but not malicious in any way. Ive also come to the conclusion that he is a really intelligent man, def another addition to my fantasy dinner party guest list [||].
PEACE
Just a quick one. I just realised that my relationship with music has become a rather strange one. Ive written previously on my inability to remember track names, albums names, artist names, anything really that relates to a piece of music, but this is not why my relationship is strange. It used to be normal, I used to get joy and maybe even a little thrill from hearing about a new record dropping, then going to either buy the record or download the record. These days though that is rare, and this is because of iTunes.
Not because it makes music instantly accessible. But because my last laptop basically died and had to be reformatted. How can this effect my relationship with music? Well on that laptop I had thousands of songs, days and days of music, weeks of music, probably even months could go by before a song was repeated, for some too much music. But I loved being able to switch so easily between so many genres, it suited my eclectic musical tastes. I had hundreds of CD’s from my shelves and boxes copied on to it, and many more downloads, both legal and illegal. And almost instantly they were just gone. No longer a couple of clicks away.
Luckily, I had all the downloads backed up on to an external hardrive so set forth on a rather daunting task, rebuilding my iTunes library. I’m sure many of you have done this many times, but something clicked inside me and I became somewhat of an obsessive about it. I didn’t get too far before the laptop was in need of replacement, and this is kinda where the madness really began and why I currently have a strange relationship to music.
Instead of just adding all the music back on to the new laptop from the external hard drive I am going through the folders one by one and listening to every track in full before deciding whether I want to have it on my laptop or not. This is very time consuming, I started probably around 5 months ago and only have 1136 (extremely good) tracks on here. On top of this, when Im adding them to iTunes I now have the compulsion to fill in the Album, Album Artist, Year, Composer, and Group (I use this for the label the track was released on) information, where before unless I was adding an entire album I wouldnt bother with the details. Its a madness, I should be committed. And this is why my relationship is strange, because its like Im now seeing music as a business, Ive taken away some of the enjoyment of it, Im just trying to get through the folders, arghghgh. And as far as new music? It pisses me off now, because so much good stuff is coming out it’s delaying my rebuild like a box of Tetley delays a house build, haha.
My only consolation is that I will one day have the best iTunes library in existence.
PEACE
Once again, a bit of a crazy playlist due to someone who was supposed to be bringing all the music not bringing any at all… We did however manage to get in a lot of music so enjoy!
PLAYLIST
1 Cam’ron Feat. Juelz Santana – Oh Boy 2 Genesis Elijah – Tell You 3 De La Soul Feat. Chaka Khan – All Good 4 Cola – Seems Like 5 Cola – You 6 Cola – Maybe 7 B.o.B. – The Rain 8 Kendrick Lamar Feat. Jay Rock – I Do This 9 Smoggy – Stomach The Pain 10 Genesis Elijah – Do I Worry? 11 Bashy – Pass Out (Remix) 12 Wiley – Gangsters 13 Roll Deep – Babylon Burner 14 Jay Electronica – Exhibit C (Rob Viktum Remix) 15 N.W.A. – Express Yourself 16 Yelawolf Feat. Bun B – Good To Go 17 Lupe Fiasco Feat. Nikki Jean – HipHop Saved My Life 18 Beenie Man – Who Am I? (Sim Simma) 19 Chaka Demus & Pliers – Tease Me 20 Elephant Man – Egyptian Dance 21 Professor Green – Upper Clapton Dance (Skreamix) 22 Bear Man – Drinking Bear 23 All In One – I’ll Do Me, You Do You 24 Ghetts – Convo With A Cabbie 25 Nipsey Hussle Feat. Jay Rock, Tupac & June Summers – Army All By Myself 26 Skepta Feat. Giggs – Look Out 27 Vinnie Paz Feat. Clipse – Street Wars
PEACE
- I try my best not to fall asleep on planes, you never know who is waiting to inject you with a poisonous liquid.
- 99% of the time I have to sit with my back to the wall, preferably facing any entrances, for obvious reasons.
- I like to walk on the outside of the pavement, not because it is gentlemanly but because escape is easier.
PEACE
Skimming through Twitter on my ‘Berry travelling back to London yesterday, I saw the following Tweet from Nihal (Who, by the way has an awesome show on the BBC’s Asian network):
I couldn’t believe it, I may have even looked up and around me half expecting someone to know exactly what I had just read so I could exclaim my shock and anger. I was so shocked and angered that when I eventually got to a computer I had completely forgotten about it. Then I woke up this morning, once again angered by what I had read, and did a little Google’ing to find out the details. The story is as follows; 25 year old Shamso Miah of East London had popped in to the bank on his way home from the Mosque. Whilst queuing up he got into an altercation with a guy called Mohammed Furcan over who was first in the queue, Miah ended up punching Furcan once inside the bank and once outside the bank resulting in a broken jaw for Furcan. Then we come to his trial for the assault. The Judge is none other than Cherie Booth, wife of ex-PM Tony Blair. As the Tweet above says, she ended up suspending his sentence as he is a religious person who had not been in trouble before. The BBC website reports that she added “You are a religious man and you know this is not acceptable behaviour.”
In the words of Ed Lover “C’MON SON???!!!!!!” This is the most ridiculous thing ever. I can understand a suspended sentence for the fact that he had never been in trouble before (Or been caught as perhaps the case is), but adding on that it is being done because he is also a religious man? This article over on The Daily Mash sums the stupidness of the thing up pretty well, CLICK. After this verdict I am pretty sure that any fellow Athiest who stands, or has stood, before Booth will not receive a fair trial.
I’m not a religious person, I don’t believe in a higher being, but I live a life which probably encompasses some of the better elements of different religions. I don’t do things which will bring mental or physical harm upon others, I try to help people where I can, etc etc etc. And you know what, I wouldn’t break a man’s jaw over a queue in a bank, so to think that me not believing in something which has no proof of existence could affect me having a fair trial is disgusting. Truly disgusting.
PEACE
