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 […]