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Thin Black Duke

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About Me

Also known as Kevin Andre Elliott, poet, lover of words, Blogger, DJ, rock star, grad student, toll booth evader, and sexy motherfucker.And please, oh please, don't try to add me to your friends list in a random attempt to get more friends and thus look that much more cool. Your popularity contests bore me. If I don't know who you are or you aren't at least a friend of a friend of a friend, I'm going to ignore you, so don't even bother.

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My Interests

Music of all stripes, Literature, but especially Poetry, Blogging, Politics, Education, Dancing your ass off, Video Games, Djing, Record Collecting, Not Being Broke

I'd like to meet:

You. All of you. Step into my world.

Music:

That which rocks and/or makes me want to shake my ass... My Bloody Valentine, Sly & The Family Stone, Replacements, Bad Brains, John Coltane, Birthday Party, Gang of Four, Biggie Smalls, Magnetic Fields, PJ Harvey, New Pornographers, The Who, Flaming Lips, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Tribe Called Quest, Minutemen, Unrest, The Coup, Spiritualized...

Movies:

Cooley High, Car Wash, The 400 Blows, The Godfather, The Colors Trilogy, The Wiz, Amelie

Television:

Lately, on that which is on HBO, TVLand, Comedy Central or the Cartoon Network.

Books:

Leaves of Grass, The Complete Emily Dickinson, The Complete Hart Crane, All Things Melvin Tolson, The Complete Sterling Brown, The Invisible Man, Moby Dick, Sula, Absalom! Absalom!, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ulysses...

Heroes:

You all rule.

My Blog

Arthur Lee, R.I.P.

I'm late on this one, but Arthur Lee passed on Thursday from Leukemia. He was the founder of one of the greatest, if not also most overlooked 60s psychedelic bands, Love. Their 1968 album, Forever Cha...
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:05:00 PST

The Last Nigga on Earth, Starring Tom Hanks

Naro% at Ghetto Gold, while breaking it down about Dave Chappelle, reminded me of one of the funniest people on the planet, Paul Mooney. So, I have to steal from my peoples and post this vid myself. H...
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:45:00 PST

We Are The Ones

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Posted by Thin Black Duke on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:47:00 PST

On the Need for Space

I've been disturbed lately by the reaction to one of Nubian's recent posts addressing the tendency of well-meaning White folk to try and derail the conversation at hand and make it their own. What dis...
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:58:00 PST

More Syd

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Posted by Thin Black Duke on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:19:00 PST

Goodbye, Syd

R.I.P. Syd Barrett. 
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:48:00 PST

Lightening my Mood

I can always count on Ahistoricality to provide me with a fun internet quiz to take. Your results:You are Iron ManIron Man 100_TD>Spider-Man 90_TD>Green Lantern 85_TD>Catwoman 80_TD>The Flash 75_TD>Hu...
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:44:00 PST

Blogs are Down

Both Slant Truth and Taking Place are down right now. Yeah, I've hit a rough patch. It sucks. I hope to have Taking Place back up sometime this evening. All is well. Times are just hard right now.To t...
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:15:00 PST

Afro Punk and Black Heavy Metal

I wish I were in NYC this weekend for the Brooklyn Academy of Musics 2nd annual Afro Punk Weekend.This Fourth of July, forget the fireworks and celebrate true independence with the second annual Afro-...
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:06:00 PST

Spanish Rules!

I think I mentioned earlier that I'm taking a Spanish class this summer. I'm having so much fun! It's been a while since I've been in a language class (so far, I've gotten French, German, and Latin un...
Posted by Thin Black Duke on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:11:00 PST