Currently Listening:
Luca Brasi 2 - Kevin Gates
Lese Majesty - Shabazz Palaces
Black Messiah - D'Angelo & The Vanguard
Reflections - Gil Scott-Heron
Golden Skies - Mono/Poly
Conversation Peace - Stevie Wonder
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Currently Watching:
Arsenal Football Club
Crash Course World History 2
Blade Runner
Rick and Morty
Archer
Dune
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Currently Reading:
The Long Valley - John Steinbeck Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story - D.T. Max Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzo Photos of Manzanar - Ansel Adams Showa 1926-1939 - Shigeru Mizuki
Dweez hasn’t stopped listening to Hotter Than July since July. “It was hot, unnaturally so. You dig? The kind of heat that changes your mood and your attitude. A nondiscriminating hope-to-God-some-cold-beer’s-waiting-that-I-can-bathe-in hot. Like a combination microwave and a dame with big tits on Spanish Fly rubbing up against you like she wants to melt you […]
One year ago, Dweez joined Audiopharmacy on the first three days of the Indonesia portion of their U.S. Government sponsored Pacific tour. As the debate rages on about “America’s Hip-Hop Foreign Policy,” here is the view from the ground. The band splits into two taxis and journeys to the outskirts of Jakarta. The drivers get […]
| Off the Books #4: Henry Rollins — Occupants | March 27, 2014 |
Dweez may embed impersonations of the authors discussed within each post. I lived in Spain, Brazil, and China during the last decade. I spent nights in Maputo and Malmö camped on stranger’s couches. I rode buses to Bahia and Bordeaux crunched between uncouth passengers. I visited the Khmer Rouge torture chambers in Cambodia and saw […]
| Off the Books: Questlove’s “Mo’ Meta Blues” | February 24, 2014 |
Dweez has no hard and fast rules but tends to read things only once. Until recently, I didn’t get vinyl. For all the evil it’s wrought on our attention spans, I am a champion of the ones and zeros. They’ve enabled my iTunes collection to swell and I change residential time zones enough for vinyl […]
| Off the Books: M.K. Asante’s “Buck” | January 30, 2014 |
Dweez’s go-to phone greeting remains “How ya living on your block?” “I spot the crew, standing where they always stand, between the liquor store and the corner store, next to the Fern Rock Apartments fence, under the train tracks, and across the street from Rock Steady, this bugged ngh who sits on a crate all […]
| Off The Books: Signifying Rappers by David Foster Wallace & Mark Costello | September 24, 2013 |
Dweez confesses that he initially pavlovs from the Zeppelin “Kashmere” sample not from the original or the Schoolly D song but from Puff Daddy’s “Come With Me” off the Godzilla soundtrack. “Rap’s here-and-now is always here-and-now: a music without a future tense can’t but be immortal.” – David Foster Wallace (Page 144). I’d tried to […]
