Now I've seen the errors of my ways, said goodbye to all my happy days

Have you ever heard a song and been mesmerized by the beat, chorus, or sample. Of course you have, unless you are one of those weirdos who doesn't like music. Well lately I have been completely obsessed with the song below and the eerie chorus sample. I love trying to search out and find the original song to see who it was. I always wonder when and how people come across these relatively obscure songs. I have done my fair share of diggin' for beats when I lived in SF and had access to great record stores. These days since Amoeba is not a 10 minute bus ride away, I am stuck using the interwebs. Lyric search is the best way to do this. But it does take away the random finds that you come across just by looking. This one took a minute to find since it's super obscure. It's from a band called Atomic Rooster. They were a "prog" rock group from the late 70's - early 80's. Ginger Baker actually played drums for them at one point in time. The song is called "Never to Lose", and the chorus sampled is super eerie and works absolutely perfect for the song. The song is called Death or Retirement by Psycho Realm member Sick Jacken with help from Tooker TKO, 2Mex from Shapeshifters and B-Real from Cypress Hill. Basically it is a song about graff life. Listen and let me know what you think.




As per usual I have another clip for you. Today it is for a flick coming out of NYC called Empire. This had me at the start when they decided to use the Cro-Mags as the song. Peep it and go ride in traffic!

Bomb Hills

So here I sit on my break from class. It is a slightly cool, rainy winter morning in So Cal. I just finished presenting my latest project. This one was a personal artist statement done in InDesign (makes sense as this is an InDesign class). I think it came out pretty well. I do plan on posting some of my work up here in the near future.
Belated Happy New Year's to those of you who check in on this blog. So far I have had a pretty nice 2010. School is going well, we are already getting packed up for our big move back to Philly, and I have been skating again. Man, the 1st couple times back on the board were rough. Timing, balance, confidence all shot to hell. But as I kept going they have slowly started to come back. I was even able to get some letters on Blake (RedRoom!) in S.K.A.T.E. Then I ran out of flatground tricks. Never had the deepest bag but some of them are coming back...Also I have been out riding my bike again regularly. Nice to feel as motivated as I do these days. Oh yeah back to running the ankle brace as well...ah to be old.
In other random news, I reconnected with some long lost friends from SF State, thanks to the magic that is Facebook. It was rad to know they are still out there alive and well. What up Keith, Rawls and Cree!

Here are a few things that have me motivated to get out.

Kyle Nicholson - Philly's young street star.



Faust - handstyles for days. Reminds me that I need stickers.



Massan - MASH SF's resident smooth operator. Also has a dope photo blog. Check and then go bomb a hill.