#ego-trip

[immanuelfruhmann]

Ego-Trip

Je größer das Ego, desto geringer die Kompetenz.

Dr. Dr. Immanuel Fruhmann

– Center for Philosophy and Political Art –

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[der-narr]

1May2015

☮ ✿ ❀ SUMMER IS COMMING ☮ ✿ ❀  

:)

[rainbowtwo]

An Ego-Trip in the Right Direction

'Loving-kindness can be cultivated in the heart with great benefit to ourselves. Someone once said, quite rightly, "That's an ego-trip." It is. As long as we have an ego, every trip we're on is an ego-trip. But at least this is one trip in the right direction. This journey goes toward the ultimate destination - egolessness - because the more loving-kindness there is in the heart, the less ego. The more the ego diminishes, the more love can come from the heart. When other people are taken into the heart , the self has to step aside to make room. Others are benefiting by that as a matter of course, but that is a secondary consideration. The only person we can lead to liberation is our self. Everybody has to go alone, solitarily. Anyone who would like to come along is welcome. The band-wagon is big, and there aren't enough people on it yet.'

- Ayya Khema, Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path.

[myrecordcollections]

Kurtis Blow

Ego-Trip

@1984 Holland Pressing

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By the time Kurtis Blow recorded 1984's Ego Trip, the Harlem MC was no longer considered cutting-edge in hip-hop circles. Blow, who was at the height of his popularity around 1979-1981, had come to be regarded as old school --and in 1984, cutting-edge meant Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, the Fat Boys, the Beastie Boys, and Whodini. But even if Blow's rapping style was sounding somewhat dated in 1984, he still had impressive technique. Although uneven, Ego Trip has a lot going for it. Some of the material is excellent, especially the hit "Basketball" (which salutes the sport's big names), the skeletal "AJ Scratch," and the sociopolitical offerings "I Can't Take It No More" and "8 Million Stories" (which features Run-D.M.C. and puts an 1980s spin on the old TV series The Naked City). Other tracks, meanwhile, are decent but not great -- like Blow's previous LPs, Ego Trip isn't without filler. Hip-hop was becoming increasingly album-minded in 1984, but Blow had come out of an era in which singles dominated hip-hop and albums were the exception instead of the rule -- which may explain why his albums tended to be inconsistent. But Ego Trip has more plusses than minuses, and its best tracks are first-rate.

[early-morning-rain]

The bottom line for nurse Hickox

A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa before being briefly and controversially quarantined in New Jersey could be the focus of a new battle over state health policy as she returns to her home state of Maine. 

Kaci Hickox left a Newark hospital on Monday and was expected to arrive in the northern Maine town of Fort Kent early Tuesday. Maine health officials have already announced that Hickox is expected to comply with a 21-day voluntary in-home quarantine put in place by the state's governor, Paul LePage. 

However, one of Hickox's lawyers, Steve Hyman, said he expected her to remain in seclusion for only the "next day or so" while he works with Maine health officials. He said he believes the state should follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines that require only monitoring, not quarantine, for health care workers who show no symptoms after treating Ebola patients.

"She's a very good person who did very good work and deserves to be honored, not detained, for it," he said.

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And that's really the bottom line, isn't it?  She thinks she's a "very good person" who's done "very good work" and should be "honored, not detained, for it."  A 21-day quarantine to protect the people of New Jersey and Maine just doesn't support the ego-trip she's on.  What a self-serving idiot!

[viresqueacquiriteundo]

« Qu’ai-je fait de spécial ? Quoi de plus qu’un autre ? Simple troubadour, je pose des mots sur quelques notes » (Médailles, Shurik’n) ...

Relevant to my - oh so many - interests.

Article qui établit des liens entre rap et les "tenson" et "partimen" des troubadours. Enfin. 

(Ca fait un moment que je réfléchis à un cours là-dessus).

[guillermourdanibia]

Signals, calls and marches

Aquí pueden encontrar una entrevista con servidor. Sí, carezco de ningún interés, lo comparto. Ah, el dibujo que ilustra la entrada es de la talentosísima Clara Isis.

[jose-ariel-cuevas]

Me by Keoki. Classic techno.