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People seem to think I'm smart. I'm not that smart, just observant. My relationship with insomnia is the longest one I've ever had. The second longest is with writing. I'm currently working on a record, tentatively titled 2:22. I think it's going to be pretty good. My good friend sean the pawn will probably be handling most of the production, but I'm definitely open to working with other folks. Before I put that out I'd like to give away some free music, so expect a five or six song EP before the end of Winter.
I think too many rappers forget that they're people when they go into rapper mode. They dress, talk, act, walk, rap, perform, etc. like cookie cutter versions of whatever sort of rapper they're trying to be instead of just being themselves. Most aspiring big pond rappers want to be some hybrid of Jay-Z and Tupac or Biggie or Lil' Wayne or 50 cent or whoever had a hot single last summer. And most small to moderately-sized pond rappers want to be Pharoahe Monch, Slug, Del or Aesop Rock. And the in-between pond, revolutionary, self-righteous rappers want to be Mos Def. I’m just me. I try my best to be honest and uphold a certain level of integrity in all things I do. If you're a decent person it shows in whatever you do. And if you're an asshole, then that's what shows. I'm somewhere in between depending on my mood and how well I know you. Don't worry, even when I'm mean it's usually out of love. If people like me and what I do, cool. If not, that's cool too. I'm a writer, so I'll always write whether people buy the end product or not.
No insult or offense to any of the artists mentioned in the previous paragraph. Their names were simply used as references. I like and respect them all on some level or another. Even Mos Def, I guess.
I am a hopeful cynic. Equally obsessed with symmetry and asymmetry. I identify with one and want for the other. I'm not right all of the time, just often enough that you can round up to always. Sometimes I think men will be obsolete by the end of the century. Sometimes I think it won't take that long. I am often frustrated, angered even, by homogeneous groups of people. The odds of that happening are greatly increased when those groups are composed of white males and/or white liberals, two groups who often fail to realize how condescending they can be. My favorite books and movies are usually about men with commitment issues, like High Fidelity and The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One day I'm going to actually finish Atlas Shrugged. For every book five books I start reading I only finish one. I'm not proud of that fact. I'm a work in progress. At some point before that progress ends I'd like to live in London and Minneapolis for a few years. They're my second and third favorite cities behind Chicago.
I don't really celebrate holidays. Just a few birthdays, tennis tournaments, basketball season and shoe release dates. I'm mostly just trying to fill the void between the aforementioned events with some productivity. I'd like to exchange some of my current bad habits for good ones and new bad ones that aren't so bad. I've considered part-time smoking, but I can't afford it. I currently smoke somewhere between fifteen and twenty-five cigarettes a year.
At some point in the not-so-distant future I'd really like to work on a big collaborative project between myself and a bunch of other artists. And by artists I don't just mean rappers and producers. I want to do something really cool and unexpected like make an animated opera or build a mech. Maybe we can brainstorm over a game of badminton or get the ball rolling with a conversation about Shannyn Sossamon being awesome, but needing to get better roles.
p.s. - I think robots are cool, but not the kind that try to send me porn on myspace. No thank you.