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It just dawned on me that people don’t use the word endorse enough.  We talk about what we like or dislike, what we do or don’t do, but we never say the word endorse.  The only people who really use it are politicians and business leaders.  I think I’m gonna bring the word endorse back to the people.  Probably not in a song, but definitely in my everyday conversations.

“What do you think about my Earrings, Al?“

“I don’t endorse those. Put on a different pair”

That kinda shit.

It’s safe to say that using the word endorse makes you sound real official, like you really put some thought into your decision, when you probably didn’t.  That’s why I like endorse.

While I don’t typically get nervous on stage, I do experience a decent amount of anxiety about going on the road, which I’m set to do in 3 weeks. Most of this anxiety revolves around being as prepared as possible for everything. Making sure your stuff at home is handled (grass cut, mail held, bills paid, etc.), and the other part is making sure you’ve got merch to sell (CDs,t-shirts, etc).  To be honest I’m always kind of uneasy about the t-shirt part of it.  I’m no graphic designer and I don’t pretend to know what people respond to or want to see.  It goes without saying that while I do have a good amount of creative ideas, I feel much more comfortable about all things music-related.

At any rate, I have been working with a graphic designer on several designs; some for tour and some that will be sold exclusively on this site when I reopen the webstore in a couple weeks.  Instead of trying to guess what everybody likes, it seems to make more sense to just ask you all directly.  So, here’s five t-shirt designs.  Have look and let me know what your favorite three are. You can vote for three of the five.  This will help me a great deal, so thanks in advance for your help.

Tonight in Columbus, OH the life and music of Camu Tao will be celebrated at Skullys.  If you live in Columbus, you should try to make at out as this is a very worthy cause and event.  Here’s a description:

Join us Monday, August 16th to help celebrate the long awaited release of Camu Tao’s(RIP) solo album “KING OF HEARTS”. The night will be hosted by EL-P (Def Jux/Company Flow) who will be playing the album in it’s entirety starting at midnight (*album will also be for purchase). In addition, there will be early dj sets courtesy of Dj Carol, True Skillz, Pos2, Detox, Drastic & Scheme

We will be asking for a $5 suggested donation fo…r this event. ALL PROCEEDS will be going to the James Cancer Hospital.

 

Hope to see everybody out.

As many of you know, Mike Tyson is one of my favorite personalities in the world of sports and entertainment.  If he were on Facebook, I would send him a friend request.  If he were on Twitter, I would follow him.  It’s that deep.  Well, as a fan of MMA I stumbled on this new Mike Tyson interview where he talks about his favorite fighters in Mixed Martial Arts, his opinion on love, and gives his thoughts on the many meltdowns of Mel Gibson.  At one point Tyson says “and to think, I almost looked up to him…he could’ve been my guru“.  It’s hilarious and worth a listen.

In a few days it will be almost 3 months since I decided to try to stop drinking.

A lot of people have asked me if I’m ever going to drink again.  I always have a hard time answering that. Mostly because sobriety is a day-to-day thing.  Drinking was a day-to-day thing as well.  The problem wasn’t that I actually put drinking on the agenda, it was that I never put anything else worthy of my time on the agenda, so it was an easy victory for drinking.  So I’m not going to sit here and say that I will never drink again.  That would be self-righteous and complete bullshit.  But what i will say is that the bad taste in my mouth is still very fresh, and that makes it very difficult for me to consider it right now.  So in my attempts to make sure I never forget why I stopped drinking in the first place I’ve found it helpful to write down all the things I regret.  I figure if I write them down, then they become real, and if they’re real then I have to account for them.

Some of my regrets are small things that I don’t think anybody ever got too bent out of shape about, and others are things that definitely didn’t go over too well. But regardless of the results I still have a certain level of guilt about all of them.  So here is my list of regrets:

The other night I had a conversation with a cat about artists and song lyrics, and how few hip-hop guys have their lyrics available anymore. This is especially noticeable in this day and age where album packaging isn’t as important anymore.  Artists used to put time into making sure that the lyrics were printed inside the record sleeve or the cd insert, but nowadays that’s hardly the case.  Part of me wonders if this is caused by the popularity of downloading music and artists and labels giving up, or if the downloading is because the people see that the artists and labels gave up and find less value in the packaging?

Either way, I’m not sure.  But what the conversation made me think about was adding my own lyrics to this site, and if that’s something that people want to see or care about it.  My initial response was that as a fan i don’t necessarily go looking for lyrics but I’m always curious to read them, but then I realized that I have actually searched for the lyrics to songs by bands i really like in the past, and if I did it then  maybe it could be a cool thing to add to this site.

So let me know whats up.  Depending on the responses I might try to make it happen:

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Thanks for your input!