Big ass head
Check out this photo.
Maciej Jewtuszko got big ass head don’t he? Looks like they photoshopped it.
Dude is a professional fighter and can no doubt kick my ass, I’m just sayin though…
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Words I Like: Agonizing
Agonize is a cool word. But you gotta use it sparingly.
“I was really agonizing about whether I wanted peanut butter & jelly or a turkey sandwich for lunch. It was a tough choice, ’cause I really like turkey…but I already had it on Monday..ugggh, so agonizing!”
People might start to resent you for unjustly breaking out agonize like that. It’s almost like the kids who used to pull the fire alarm in middle school all the time; it got your attention, but once you realized it was fake you were kinda pissed.
I’m not sure if you can even drop agonize until after you’re done agonizing. You can’t really say “I’m agonizing over my fantasy football picks.” You gotta say “I was agonizing over my fantasy picks last week but and I totally kicked yalls ass anyways. I’m the man! Whoooohooo!!”
I like the word painstaking.
The Adventures of Blueprint: Episode 2 – What happened to the radio?
Peep the next episode…
direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY5GpSpzT5g
Adventures in Counter-Culture on Tuesday, April 5th
Buy “Radio-Inactive” now on iTunes: Explicit | Clean | Instrumental or from Amazon
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Blueprint spring tour dates with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
03.01 – Eugene, OR @ Wow Hall
03.03 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
03.04 – Bellingham, WA @ Whatcom C.C.
03.05 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Market
03.07 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord
03.08 – Los Angeles, CA @ Viper RoomWhite Light Black Rain
I’m pretty late with this but last week I discovered the beauty of renting DVDs from the public library. I’ve had friends tell me about it, but I was always too preoccupied with the books to pay any attention to the movies. Well, last week that ended as I rented a handful of documentaries.I’ve been reading a bunch about documentaries, but more from a technical perspective–I would like to actually make a documentary one day, so reading about the science and method behind their creation is fascinating to me. But I digress.
This blog isn’t about me making documentaries, this blog is about the documentary White Light Black Rain.
Song Lyrics: “Next Generation”
“I’m sayin’, a lotta things change
fades and slang change, clothes and chains change
Back in the day bangin Slick Rick and Dana Dane
Airbrushed jacks, fat laces, name plates
Gold done come and gone, now the platinum chains hang
they deep with white tees, all rockin the same thang
Gazelles and finger-waves to dreads and stunna shades
went from G-Rap and Kane to Kanye and Lil Wayne
I was a shorty then, I couldn’t even stay up late
Still caught the bug when David Bowie sang of “fame”
Went from Reganomics, pro-black in ’88
to Dre and The Chronic, red and blue, the gang bang
The Adventures of Blueprint: Episode 1 – “The story of Radio-Inactive”
For those interested in the events that inspired the song “radio-inactive”, please peep:
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9deqW9VcX5I
Shepard Albertson strikes again…
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A Perfect New Year
If you had to guess off the top of your head, how many days of your life would you classify as perfect?
If you’re like most people it would be a very short list. I would bet most people would list their wedding day or the birth of a child as the only perfect days they’ve ever experienced. It’s not that we don’t try, Lord knows we do, it’s just that perfection is extremely difficult to achieve. Look no further than how seldom a Major League Baseball pitcher pitches a perfect game, or how rare it is for an NFL team to have a perfect season and win the Superbowl.
Perfection is hard to achieve.
Yet, as hard as perfection is to achieve, there’s one day every year that a lot of us think we can pull it off–New Years. And subsequently there’s one day of the year that I hear the most people express their disappointment with–New Years.
My directorial debut: Latimore Platz “10 Stone” music video
A couple weeks back I mentioned I was directing a music video.Well, here it is. My directorial debut:
Download Latimore Platz free EP here: http://www.divshare.com/direct/13124250-8ad.zip
Here’s some notes about the video and a summary of some of the lessons I learned:Quote of the week – Jimmy Carter
“In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God–too many of us now, tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things, and consuming things, does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose ” – President Jimmy Carter (1975 Address to Nation)Word is Blog
Blueprint “Radio-Inactive” video & single
“Radio-inactive” is the first official single from the forthcoming Blueprint album Adventures in Counter-Culture, to be released April 5th, 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKdnDS9KtM
Shot, edited, & directed by Bangland Media
Buy it now at iTunes: Explicit | Clean | Instrumental
Critically acclaimed mc/producer and Soul Position frontman Blueprint, returns with his highly anticipated sophomore solo release Adventures in Counter-Culture. Experimenting with synths, keyboards, and drum machines, Adventures in Counter-Culture touches on Blueprint’s cynicism with the world, his disdain for pop culture, the state of politics and an apathetic, uninspired society. The album encompasses every facet of music Blueprint knows. It blurs genre lines and connects his hip hop pedigree with his early days in the church choir, to the R&B bands he was a part of in high school, to his new found interest in rock and electronic music.
After a five year musical journey, Blueprint has emerged with his greatest effort to date. A culmination of self discovery and societal critique, Adventures in Counter-Culture is just that. The adventure begins March 1st, 2011.
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Blueprint “Radio-inactive” video teaser
The countdown to Adventures in Counter-Culture has officially began…
“Radio-inactive” video teaser:
Single and video debut Monday December 20th.
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I’m gonna direct & shoot a music video
There’s a scene from the movie Clockers that always stuck with me. It’s when the main character Strike tells the little kid Tyrone that “everybody needs a hobby”, then reveal his expert knowledge of trains and an elaborate train-set that he keeps hidden away in an apartment that none of the thugs he sells drugs with know about.
I never really thought about it much until I was trying to stop drinking and realize that like Tyrone I didn’t have any hobby. Kinda hard to stop drinking when you don’t have shit else to do with your time, you know? Music was my hobby until it became my job, and since then I never found anything to replace it with. So six months ago I started reading anything I could get my hands on. While I didn’t have any specific topic in mind, my hope was that something would jump out to me and peak my interest, and from there I would dig deeper into the subject. I settled on video and documentaries.
Christmas Sale
From now until the day after Christmas we’re having a 20% off sale in the store. All you have to do is enter “20OFF” in the cart in the discount code field, and you’re good to go.
Happy Holidays!
Soul Position sweatshirt available
Black Soul Position “Harley Davidson Logo” crew neck with FREE Blueprint CD (Choose size and cd title in checkout). Only have a few of these available now in limited quantities. Meaning, if you want one you should get it now.
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