CharlieHipHop

The Olympics simply must be the Coolest Thing Ever™. Where else are you going to get a bunch of the world's top athletes together? Where else are you going to get a competition between nations that doesn't involve bombs or bare-knuckled economic brawling? What better excuse could there be for staying up late on a school night? Come on. This is as good as it gets in the current low-evolved, selfish state of human evolution!

The good Lord willin', what you hear here will end up being the lineup of Flush, currently the greatest band on this planet or the next. Where is that place where Sid Vicious meets Jerry Garcia and where Chuck D meets Johnny Cash? We haven't quite found it yet, but we're getting closer all the time.

The ultra-silly Spinal Tap-esque intro makes this one worth the price of admission.

I know I promised powerful vox this week, but the best laid plans of mice and men... anyway, it's pretty dope.

Dear Diary,

Back on the block, my man Longshot used to say something that puzzled me. He'd say, "Music is a weapon, bro', the weapon of the future."

Being a naive hippy-punk-country boy, I didn't get it. To my way of thinking, music was just a diversion, a frivolity, an enhancer of enjoyment and an emotional mnemonic. If it's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to, it's alright by me. What's all this stuff about weaponry? Leave that to the haters.

This song is quite beautiful, and it's engineered to what you might call "commercial standards" which is kind of a good thing, I guess, although I prefer experimenting.

Lyrical tweaking needed in the second verse, and the third verse was freestyled.

Nobody will hear it in the future if nobody hears it now, so you kind of have to disregard the comment at the end. Enjoy.

one dude, one guitar, one take, one timeless song ™

Recorded with:

my trusty Washburn

and

the good 'ol Zoom H4.

The markets were up sharply today. It means nothing. I stand by my previous gloomy financial predictions. Things are totally screwed up and we're headed for a time of intense, painful change. All change is painful, but it's also necessary and good. I have personally experienced major life changes on several occasions, and they've always turned out for the best because I've always planned and prepared for all contingencies and known going in that the change would entail discomfort.

Is pornography bad? That question is not rhetorical.

A recent LTE got the gears turning on this subject. I don't really even remember the writer's main point (something about the evil of pornography) but two words did stick. The writer of the letter said pornography "dehumanized" and "objectified" people.

Dehumanizing... Really? In what way? If there's one thing people love to do, it's get their rocks off. Wouldn't denying them that pleasure be more dehumanizing than encouraging it?

Hello, Hip-Hop?... Yeah, Rock 'n' Roll called... he says he wants his attitude back.

This was the very first recording of this song. There will be others, oh yes. Toyed with the idea of adding a wailing guitar solo (you'll know where) but decided to keep it pure. Also did another mixdown that sounds much cleaner (EQ-ed to accentuate vocals, no fancy panning or echoing or anything like that) than this one, but I like this one.

Turn this shit up if you know what's good for you.

Recorded with:

my trusty Washburn

and

And the bleed continues...

(Make sure to read the comment after the post.)

Check this out. How much did this cost? While these paranoids are worrying about multiple simultaneous hacker attacks, the dollar is collapsing, severe weather events are becoming more intense and more numerous, and the Constitution is being rolled up and placed in toilet paper dispensers everywhere.

From the article linked above:

To some extent, music and math have always been one and the same. The first time some caveman counted to four, he probably beat it out on a hollow log so that he could remember it, and both music and math were born. These days, the caveman is gone from music, though. A computer beats the log in perfect time.