Tbagged...

IT IS UPON US!

posting this < 140 character post to get my fix. carry on.

Twitter is the LiveJournal slayer.

Wasmund's single malt, pot distilled.

This stuff is really stunning. It ain't cheap, but totally reasonable
next to high end scotch. Really delightfully complex. You can taste
the toasted wood the mix into the mash before pot distilling. Very
raw. Very nice.

A good friend of mine from high school and college was in a terrible accident today.  She was riding her bike down the street when she was hit by a fire truck as it collided with another fire truck.  What are the chances? 

She's an awesome person and a fellow livejournaler.  She's also one of the reasons I got into electronic music way back when in high school.  I remember she gave me this cassette tape of ragga jungle and jump up mixed by Odi back in '95-96 and i bumped it in my minivan all the time.  She drug me to some of the first raves I ever went to, and she turned me on to Dubtribe, which i think was probably one of the reasons I started playing records a few years later. 

I last saw her over the holidays when she threw a little reunion party for all the theatre people from our high school (and some from college). Jess got to meet her and the rest of the crew.  It was a blast. 

Please pray for her if you do that type of thing.  Or if you're like me, just send some love her way and keep her in your thoughts. 

Get well soon, Leigh. 

i think Twitter is starting to cut into folks' Livejournal time.

At house of blues on the strip.

It's literally the best cuts of belly fat served in spicy seasoned
oil. Fucking heaven.

Chicken feet, over the bridge noodles, and pork fat. The sweet and
sour fish came out right after I snapped this shot. We got a bunch of
cold stuff to go including lots of chicken feet. They're sort of
pickly brined and chewy and really surprisingly good. Restaurant is
put in the San Gabriel Valley east of town. Def worth the drive.
Especially since it's really closer to us than Santa monica.

Last night at El Casario. South American goodness.

TIMELESS II of IV: A SUITE FOR MA DUKES

Event Highlights! - Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

 

 

Common, Posdnous, Talib Kweli team up with Bilal, Dwele, Amp Fiddler and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and a40+ Orchestra to celebrate the lyrical emotionality of James Dewitt Yancey s (Dilla) music in front of sold out crowd in Los Angeles. 

 

 

 

for the audience that the series is aiming at, for the sheer level of creative challenge that Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Niño rose to to make this music work, to the sheer amount of love reverberating through the room last night...this was something that went beyond the music in honoring and celebrating Dilla.

Oliver Wang, Soul Sides

 

 

 

Suite For Ma Dukes Highlights

Monday Feb 23, 2009

 

 

There was magic brewing on the campus of Cal State Los Angeles this weekend the kind that puts a love spell on everyone who walks into its path. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and his 40-piece orchestra managed to set the entire Luckman Fine Arts Plaza afloat on Sunday night with Timeless: Suite for Ma Dukes, their gorgeous re-imagining of J Dilla s best known works. Surprise guests filtered in throughout the night, including Common, Talib Kweli and Posdnuous from De la Soul. Dilla s inspiring mother was a beacon throughout the performance, small in stature but mighty in spirit. 

 

If you listen closely to the music, the possibilities are endless

Ma Dukes (February 22nd, 2009.)

 

[photos by azul 213 for mochilla.com]

 

 

The energy onstage was infectious, and the audience was just as emotionally invested in the performance as the musicians. One could feel the grand swoops and shimmering intricacies of the music just by the motion of Atwood-Ferguson s hands. When Dwele came out to do  Angel,  he had to stand back in awe for several moments to take in the beauty of what he was about to sing over. 

 

In true Dilla fashion, one classic begets another, and we got to see that progression take place right before our eyes.Diana Moreira led us through the bossa nova lilt of Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa s  Saudade Vem Correndo, containing the famous hook Dilla sampled into the Pharcyde s  Runnin .  Minutes later, the orchestra changed tempo and transformed the bossa nova mood into Dilla s inspired jam with vocal contributions by Amp Fiddler, Bilal and Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra. Bilal then sang Reminesce and brought the crowd to the verge of rapture. 

 

The night rounded out when Posdnuous surprised everyone and did his verse of De la Soul s  Stakes is High,  and then brought on Talib Kweli to do Dove s verse. The chorus which included OhNo, Alchemist, Illa J, Frank Nitty, Rhettmatic, Ma Dukes, J Davey, Houseshoes sang out the refrain Love, Vibration  - eventually turning the mic over to the audience to sing along. An encore of Slum Village s  Fall in Love  left everyone with the sweet high that only falling in love can bring about. 

 

People will be talking about this majestic performance for years and blessed are the ones who were able to see it bloom firsthand. 

 

this is pretty sweet. 

Are you kidding me?

The Tyrconnell single malt Irish.

Another winner. Beautiful color that kinds makes you think of (and
taste) honey as you sip it. Very slightly smokey. Very little bite.
Almost too smooth but enough depth to stay interesting. And at under
40 bucks a damn good deal.

how Bruk/Broken Beat and Dubstep seem to be meeting in the middle?