Hood Rap

1.Eric B and Rakim-In the Ghetto

2.Spice 1-Welcome To The Ghetto

These West-Coast hood songs the are the flipside to Rakim. If you’re a scholar you’ll see the notable differences. The East Coast was more intellectual about the Ghetto experience, as opposed to these straight connective sincere West Coast tracks.

Death gives a shit about your color
But yet I see mo dead young brothas
I’m goin crazy out here
Seein 24 brothas die by the end of the year
And I still gotta deal with the 5-0
And I stopped sellin dope in 9-0
But if I came to it
I probably still do it
Put a nine in my draws get straight to it
I hope that I never see the day
That I get 20 years for a cake

3. Scarface - A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die

4. Havoc & Prodeje - Hood got me feelin the pain

5. Richie Rich - Do G’s Get To Go To Heaven?

6. Master P - Heaven For A Gangsta

7. Ice Cube-Today Was A Good Day

The Method Man Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAG2Q7Bik4

It’s not embarassing at all, but we did dance like that when it came out, for still a couple of years. Actually I still do it. That’s as close as we had as a “club” track back then. I’m not counting dancehall mind you (oh the sandwiched butterfly).

Satyajit Ray

How to catch the hushed stillness of dusk in a Bengali village when the wind drops and turns the ponds into sheets of glass, dappled by the leaves of Saluki and Shale, and the smoke from the ovens settles in wispy trails over the landscape and the plaintive blows on conch shells from homes far and near are joined by the chorus of crickets which rises as the light falls, until all one sees are the stars in the sky, and the stars that blink and swirl in the thickets.

Deeparture

Cantor’s Deeparture (2005) is as severely economical in its setup as it is intense in its poetic potential. It involves two unwitting players, a wolf and a deer, in perhaps the most unlikely and artificial environment in which they can find themselves—a white-cube gallery. The artist shot the animals in 16mm film with a seemingly unforgiving eye, structuring a series of taut close-ups from various angles into a seamlessly looping video. Confounding expectations, the “natural” predator-prey relationship does not play itself out here. Instead, both animals keep their distance from each other and appear in turn tense, confused, exhausted, and dejected, even oblivious. As viewers are gradually roped into emotional engagement with the ultimately unreadable animals, they’re led to wonder if these nonhuman players serve as a blank screen upon which human emotions and psychological attachments are projected.

Names I Had Forgotten

1. L’Roneous

On Kieslowski

The beginnings of this process are already evident in the ‘Decalogue’ films, whose poetic heroines are the epitome of excessive sensitivity and emotionality, moving about in a void, seeming to float above the ground.

his camera follows his protagonists closely, recording their minutest gestures, even the least significant among them. His cinema might be defined as contemplative seeing as the phases that are preparatory and introduce the mood are more numerous and longer than the actual action phases.

http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_kieslowski_krzysztof

Reminiscin’

Must’ve been another one of those Tuesdays when you were ready to lay out some dough and there wasn’t a damn thing worthy of picking up.

Sick Existential Insight

Nous sommes seuls dans l’amour que l’on porte à ceux que l’on aime.

Spirit of The Beehive

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040

Precious Images

Punctuate sequences with precious images. For instance, the painting scene in “Class Shoot #3″ could have had a close up of the brush smearing paint on the palette, instead of all the scale range coverage.

Find the cracks in reality and show them.