Category: Thoughts

Review: Kanye West – Graduation

Kanye West - Graduation album cover
Don’t ask how, but I’ve acquired a copy of the new Kanye West – Graduation album. It doesn’t technically drop until September 11th, but I’ve got a copy. What kind of douche bag drops an album on 9/11? Oh wait, Kanye and this guy. Anyways, I’ve listened to it for a while, and my general feeling is that the album is garbage. The lyrics are pretty good (for Kanye at least), but the music behind the lyrics is mostly crap.
The two exceptions to an otherwise subpar and uninspired album would be the single on the radio “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” and the previously unreleased “Everything I am”. Save your money, and buy the upcoming Army of the Pharaohs album that drops September 25th.
p.s. I tag this post as “hip hop”, but I use that term very loosely when it comes to this album…
Rating: (based on the “retail” album)
[xrr rating=3/5]

Review: Talib Kweli – Ear Drum

Talib Kweli Ear Drum
Chilling here in ATL (Atlanta) listening to the advance of Talib Kweli’s Ear Drum. Barnes and Noble has Ear Drum’s release date at July 24th, but I don’t think that’s correct. Anyways, so far I am definitely impressed with the album. Here is a pretty good early preview of Ear Drum.
Early rating: (based on the advanced album, things could still change for the retail:
6/20 Update: I have acquired a copy of the retail album, and after plenty of listening I have updated my rating from a 4.5 to a 4.0
8/30 Update: I have updated my rating of this album. It’s DEFINITELY grown on me. I love this album.
Rating: (based on the “retail” album I have acquired)
[xrr rating=4.5/5]

Images That Changed The World

Images That Changed The World:

Some people might be offended or upset by these images but this isn’t my intentions I just want it to be thought provoking and enlightening, and for people to talk about the past and to never forget, because we need to learn from past events other wise we will keep repeating history.

That’s a lofty statement, but it’s true. I’ll be honest, the 9/11 “The Falling Man” image almost made me cry. It’s a heartbreaking post, but it’s worthwhile to read through the entire thing.

America's Best Colleges 2008

America’s Best Colleges 2008: National Universities:

To rank colleges and universities, U.S. News first assigns schools to a group of their peers, based on the basic categories developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2006.

I kind of figured Vassar would have made this list, but rumor has it they asked not to be included because they disagreed with the way USNews was “grading” schools. Who knows, interesting list anyways. Note: apparently Vassar is #11 for liberal arts colleges.

Talib Kweli – Hot Thing Video

This is a great song, very chill, very smooth, and with a great beat. The video for the song also happens to be great as well. It’s done in the style of those HP commercials (I think it’s HP at least) where the person is manipulating digital photos in real life…just watch the video to see what I mean.

Interesting Links: 8.5.07

  • The Best Geek Quotes, Sayings, and Phrases: #1 – There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
  • HARLEM-13-GIGAPIXELS.COM: 13 gigapixel image taken in Harlem, New York City
  • a Grayspace Poster Gallery: This gallery mostly consists of Polish posters designed since 1940
  • FileHamster: FileHamster is a version tracking application for developers, graphic artists and other content creators that frequently modify existing files.
  • Blueprint: A CSS Framework: Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

Yet again, this is what happens when I don’t have time to blog during the week. The Geek quotes are funny, the Harlem image is pretty cool, the Polish posters are interesting to look at, FileHamster looks very useful during my upcoming college semester, and Blueprint…well, I don’t know how I feel about that one just yet.

My Loved Tracks

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