To be honest, this is really sad. I could back a yacht into that huge space. Hilarious.

Browsing soundcloud this afternoon and here are a few tracks I’m diggin at the moment. Enjoy!

Christos Fourkis – Deeper (In Deep We Trust Smoothie Mix) by In Deep We Trust

Mymir by Sephirot

Yes Weekend (W10 Remix) by W10

Phat Elimar – Bongo (alternate mix) by PhunkE Records

Here is a nice treat. I’ve been hoping to get my hands on a new Treasure Fingers mix for a while so today must be my (and your) lucky day! Enjoy.

DOWNLOAD >> Treasure Fingers – Live at Muse (District Ignition / Snatch Rewired) in Washington DC

Direct from the source: Here’s a live set that was recorded last weekend in DC.
Sorry, no track listing right now. I’ll try to get to that soon. It’s 2 hours long, so the file is pretty big.

P.S. Big up to my good friends Le Principle for getting major play by the big man himself.

Amazing. Amazing. New York City.

World-famous street artist, Banksy, to release his first film titled Exit Through The Gift Shop, which he describes as the story of how one man set out to film the unfilmable – and failed, this Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival. Call me crazy, but I don’t see this hitting too many theaters outside the major metropolitan markets.

The suburbs tend to produce inverse spiritual cripples.
Suburbia is a flat world, in which the edges are clearly
defined and the mysterious ocean is rarely explored.
Every decision gets planned out, like the practice of
registering at retail stores for one’s wedding gifts.

Only tragedy truly surprises.

- David L. Goetz in Death By Suburb

I wish I could fall asleep right now and dream dreams like this. Beautiful.

More here: http://freezelight.ru

This guy is over the top. Some of my favorite quotes:

Looks like crap? It is crap!
This is THE most impressive business card I’ve ever seen. It’s mine.
Crowds guaranteed! You’re kidding!?!

truth and understanding
a proactive essence of being
not just a concept that resides only in thoughts
a tangible entity i know exists
a synergy of corporeal and spiritual unity
it blinds all which stand before it
awaken anew, enlightened
without question, without doubt
without quarrels of the mind or body
of these i have none.
a question arises, what comes next?
act upon it or let it go
act upon it or let it go

I have learned that an age in which politicians talk about peace is an age in which everybody expects war: the great men of the earth would not talk of peace so much if they did not secretly believe it possible, with one more war, to annihilate their enemies forever. Always, “after just one more war” it will dawn, the new era of love: but first everybody who is hated must be eliminated. For hate, you see, is the mother of their kind of love.

Unfortunately the love that is to be born out of hate will never be born. Hatred is sterile; it breeds nothing but the image of its own empty fury, its own nothingness. Love cannot come of emptiness. It is full of reality. Hatred destroys the real being of man in fighting the fiction which it calls “the enemy.” For man is concrete and alive, but “the enemy” is a subjective abstraction. A society that kills real men in order to deliver itself from the phantasm of a paranoid delusion is already possessed by the demon of destructiveness because it has made itself incapable of love. It refuses, a priori, to love. It is dedicated not to concrete relations of man with man, but only to abstractions about politics, economics, psychology, and even, sometimes, religion.

- Thomas Merton

This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately:

Some of the most beautiful shoes I’ve come across lately, and I couldn’t agree more with their company bio (other than referring to myself as “generic”):

Originally founded in 1997 in a NYC loft by Kevin Carney, the generic man collection came about in 2006, as Brandon Day and Kevin Carney began what they call “a case study in adultism”, a journey to define what it means to be an “adult” these days. Through a process of research, experience and discussion ‘the generic man’ lifestyle of the “Newdult” took shape.

The Newdult is tiring of streetwear and the high price of luxury. In response, ‘the generic man’ has created thoughtfully priced luxury for this new modern adult.

The generic man doesn’t need branding and logos to make him feel confident or stylish. He understands the significance of quality construction and clean, simple, refined lines. The generic man is confident enough in himself to accept simplicity.

View more here: http://thegenericman.com
Buy online here (on sale this Wed): Gilt Groupe

Last night I read Mark Twain’s short story, How I Edited An Agricultural Paper, to my lovely girlfriend, Bethany, before hitting the sack. It’s been a long time since I’ve just sat back and enjoyed reading a little humor, but after the fact I was reminded at just how accurate this man was, and still is. If you don’t relate to the passage below, you might just be a son of a cauliflower yourself:

I tell you I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man’s having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper. You turnip! Who write the dramatic critiques for the second-rate papers? Why, a parcel of promoted shoemakers and apprentice apothecaries, who know just as much about good acting as I do about good farming and no more. Who review the books? People who never wrote one. Who do up the heavy leaders on finance? Parties who have had the largest opportunities for knowing nothing about it. Who criticize the Indian campaigns? Gentlemen who do not know a war-whoop from a wigwam, and who never have had to run a foot-race with a tomahawk, or pluck arrows out of the several members of their families to build the evening camp-fire with. Who write the temperance appeals, and clamor about the flowing bowl? Folks who will never draw another sober breath till they do it in the grave. Who edit the agricultural papers, you–yam? Men, as a general thing, who fail in the poetry line, yellow-colored novel line, sensation, drama line, city-editor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a temporary reprieve from the poorhouse. You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands. Heaven knows if I had but been ignorant instead of cultivated, and impudent instead of diffident, I could have made a name for myself in this cold, selfish world.

Read the full short-story here.

Would you like a Coke, Brock? No thanks, but my phone will have one…

The concept is using a bio battery to replace the traditional battery to create a pollution free environment. Bio battery is an ecologically friendly energy [that] generates electricity from carbohydrates (currently sugar) and utilizes enzymes as the catalyst. By using bio battery as the power source of the phone, it only needs a pack of sugary drink and it generates water and oxygen while the battery dies out.

Bio battery has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium batteries and it could be fully biodegradable. Meanwhile, it brings a whole new perception to batteries and afternoon tea.

Read more here.