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Shaheen Ariefdien

A time comes when silence is betrayal - Rev. Martin Luther King

About Me

long story..when I have more time I'll share it with ya

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

others, especially Others

Music:

For this month: For this month: Abdullah to Amir, Black Noise to Blk Sonshine, Chaka to Chuck, Dludlu to Devious, EWF to EPMD, Fela to Freestyle Fellowship, George to Godessa, Hotep to Hiero, Issy to Invincible, James to Jonzi, Kraftwerk to Kane, Letta to Lonnie, Miles to Mos, Nina to Nas, Ornette to Oshea, Prince to Pharoah, Quincy to Q-Bert, Robbie to Rakim, Sibongile to Saafir, Temptations to Tumi, U-Roy to Ultra-Mag, Vaughn to Vadim, Wajeed to Wu, Xecutioners to Xplastas, Youssou to Yancey, Zappa to Zapp etc ...etc

Movies:

For this month: Airplane to Apocalypse Now, Bad Boy Bubby to Battle of Algiers (peace out to Nagwa for hooking this one up), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon to Caligula, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb to Drunken Master, Enter the Dragon to Evil Dead, Full Metal Jacket to Fish Called Wanda, Gummo to Goodfellas, Hero to Heat, Inside Man to Identity, Juice to Jacobs Ladder, Krush Groove to Knocked Up, Life and Debt to Lives of Others, Matrix to Monty Python (virtually all of 'em), Ninja Scrolls to New York Doll, Once Upon A Time in China to Once Were Warriors, Paradise Now to Pink Panther (Peter Sellers version), Quills to Quiet American, Reservoir Dogs to Ronin, Star Wars to Scarface, True Romance to Team America , Usual Suspects to Untouchables, V is for Vendetta to The Village, Wild Style to The Warriors, Xorcist to X-Men, Yellowbeard to Young Frankenstein, Zoolander to Zatoichi ...etc

Books:

For this month: The Alchemist to Assata, Bearing Witness to Biology as Ideology, Can't Stop Won't Stop to Catch 22, Death Without Weeping to Da Juice, Elusive Culture to Expectations of Modernity, Five Percenter Rap to Fanon’s Warning, Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA to God Knows, History of Sexuality (vol. 1) to How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I Write What I Like to In Search of Respect, Jacaranda Time to Jamesonian Unconscious, The Killing of an Imam to King Lear, Limits to Change to Latinos Inc: The Making and Marketing of a People, Malcolm X (Autobiography) to Manufacturing Consent, New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone to Never Drank the Kool-aid, One Hundred Years of Solitude to Of Revelation and Revolution, Pedagogy of the Oppressed to The Prince, QURAN to (A) Question of Palestine, Rakim Told Me to Rhythm and Resistance, Season of Migration to the North to Siddartha, Total Chaos to Things Fall Apart, Wisdom of the Idiots to Wretched of the Earth, Yes Yes Y’all, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Heroes:

moms and pops

My Blog

Please ignore any ignorant postings from this account

Peoples, My apologies if you received any inappropriate messages from me. It just came to my attention I've been hacked. I need to figure out a way to protect myself. Peace
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:26:00 PST

free online copy of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet

http://www.kahlil.org/prophetpf
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:58:00 PST

Pharoahe 's Desire's got me pulling faces

I rarely plug stuff, but I copped a copy of Pharoahe's Desire over the weekend and it has been on repeat since. During the 80s in South Africa it was difficult getting hold of the good shit when we we...
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:33:00 PST

question regarding hiphop and learning

peace fam, I'm working on a piece (of writing) on hiphop and education....when you have the time (and energy) please hit me up a with things you think you learnt through  hiphop. The list could ...
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:02:00 PST

visit my friend's booth at ArtExpo in NYC

Hey fam, If you are in the NYC area and you have the time , please check out my friend Joan Spence's booth at artexpo. You're invited to visit Spence Gallery in Booth 1449 Artexpo New York 2007, Marc...
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:39:00 PST

pretty good alternative news link

pretty interesting articles, audio and video links http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:40:00 PST

check out jeff chang's new book 'total chaos: the art and aesthetics of hiphop'

Peace fam, Peep this book, because Jeff Chang is a genius. Also, a little someone has a co-written piece in it ;-) http://www.totalchaoshiphop.com/tc/...
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:11:00 PST

free online version of 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'

http://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/how-eur ope/index.htm...
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:47:00 PST

your thoughts on hiphop

if you had a single priority / concern as someone involved with hip hop... what is it? wat is uppermost in ur mind when it comes to hip hop?...
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:07:00 PST

Why the US is hell-bent on supporting Israel, Part 1

http://www.newjerseysolidarity.org/alawda/july2006/israel-lo bby.shtml Does the Tail Wag the Dog? Why the US is hell-bent on supporting "Israel", Part 1 by Bill Cecil Here's a bit of Palestinian histor...
Posted by Shaheen Ariefdien on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:07:00 PST