[culturite]

Shabazz Palaces - “The Mystery of Lonnie The Døn”

wild.

[culturite]

afro blue

[gracedchin]

[b-a-d-reputation]

[purplebuddhaproject]

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. - Bruce Lee

fresh new mantra // 

[aintsoprettynow]

I feel for the lonely, I sense their need, but I also feel that the lonely are for one another and that they should find each other and leave me alone.

Charles Bukowski (via lets-all-run-forever)

[poems-and-words]

[poems-and-words]

Book of the day: The People Look Like Flowers At Last by Charles Bukowski

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[dustedmagazine]

Miles Davis—Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

In this nation, corporations are people; it’s the law of the land. But what if corporations, while sentient, were something other than human? Suppose that the true face of Sony, which owns Columbia/Legacy (wait a minute — if corporations can own each other, isn’t that slavery?), is not some businessman in a suit, but that web-footed, golden-wigged, mutant-J. Edgar Hoover creature on the back of Miles Davis’s Live Evil? And suppose that every couple years that creature brings a limb down hard on the boardroom table and says, “I WILL have another Miles Davis boxed set!” Well, who wants to argue with the boss, especially when the boss looks like it might lob a sticky tongue at you, snag you like a slowpoke fly, and swallow you whole? Another boxed set we will have, and Miles Davis At Newport 1955-1975 is 2015’s Miles Davis box.

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[dapperjones]

Hard bopper Horace Silver was central to the evolution of modern jazz

Musicians often have curious minds, and the pianist and composer Horace Silver was no exception. An often overlooked musician in the public eye, Silver wrote some of the most performed jazz standards of…

[dapperjones]

In memory of the late, great Horace Silver it only seemed right for Gilles to do a tribute mix featuring some of his greatest works.

As one of the most prestigious American jazz musicians, Horace became close with Blue Note’s Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, going on to release a large body of work on the legendary label, over a 30 year period.

RIP Horace Silver.

Horace Silver – Senor Blues (Vocal Version) Horace Silver – Doin’ The Thing Intro The Horace Silver Quintet – The Baghdad Blues The Horace Silver Quintet – Let’s Get To The Nitty Gritty The Horace Silver Quintet – Song For My Father Horace Silver – The Sophisticated Hippie The Horace Silver Quintet – That Healin’ Feelin’ Horace Silver – In Pursuit Of The 27th Man Horace Silver – Time And Effort The Horace Silver Quintet & J.J. Johnson – The Cape Verdean Blues The Horace Silver Quintet –  Nica’s Dream Horace Silver – Psychedelic Sally Horace Silver – Togetherness Horace Silver – The Gods Of The Yoruba The Horace Silver Quintet – Ah! So Horace Silver – I’ve Had A Little Talk Horace Silver – The Outlaw The Horace Silver Quintet – Tokyo Blues The Horace Silver Quintet – The Jody Grind Horace Silver – Ecaroh

[gq]

You want to know what the world is about? No one knows what to think. If we could just embrace not knowing for a second, we might have a chance.

Garry Shandling, GQ, August 2011  

[ultralaser]

I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.

Douglas Adams - How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (1999)  (via boom-bap)

[wrong000000-deactivated20161223]

That I’m weird. Being called weird is a weird thing because… can you feel weird if you’re doing what you want to do? I don’t think so. Weird is when people aren’t doing what they are meant to do, you know, or aren’t doing anything creative or caring—- that is weird because that doesn’t benefit the whole, which in turn won’t benefit you, that’s fucking weird.

Richard D. James of Aphex Twin, in response to the question “What’s the oddest thing you’ve read about yourself" in Another Man magazine. 

[dapperjones]

(M.O.B_Music)

[black-culture]

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

[fyp-philosophy]

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

Plato (via boom-bap)

[marsnebelwald]

‘Making music’ is just making music and that’s where it ends. It ends where I listen back to it. 'Making records’ is taking the music you’ve made and putting it onto a CD and getting involved with all of the music industry side, which isn’t really anything to do with music at all. It’s all to do with career and stuff like that.

Richard D. James