NY NY 2016

Trust yourself, man.

This is probably going to be alright.

A year ...

... came and it went. Lions, lambs, etc.

NYRez: Be more courteous, be more competent, be more collaborative.

Kay Thx.
-Kay T

HEY WHAT'S GOOD...

...2014?

It's that new new. i meant to post about all of my favorite things before i up and left NYC and up and arrived in Chicago. i'm sorry, ok man? i'm sorry.

If you haven't noticed, or you're new, or you're not new and picking up on repeating themes in highly inconsistent bloggery just isn't your thing, i post my new year's resolution every year.

Hey kt, your randomly mentally generated resolution is:

There's room for improvement.

Ham and black-eyed peas and collared greens for you and yours and

-feliz año kevo
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amazing ...

... just when i think i can't do anything and that my productivity has been completely derailed and i think to myself "what the hell do i even believe in?" i manage to answer an e-mail.

the secret key to productivity turns out to be the thought "what the hell do i even believe in?"

you're welcome everybody.

-kevficient, yo

Why I should ...

... be happy more than I am sad.

I put this question to my little brother on Sunday. He gave me a list of five reasons:

1. "You keep meeting nice people and they keep coming into the family."
2. "You just adopted a nice dog and she likes you."
3. "Mommy and daddy love you."
4. "You still have fun with your friends, at least sometimes."
5. "You have food on your plate."

That's a really good list. I'm really glad he made it for me.

- kevbro

Questlove is someone I never thought much about...

...silly me.

"The other day I heard the new 2 Chainz record," says [Rich] Nichols [The Roots' longtime manager] in Mo' Meta Blues [Questlove's soon to be published memoi]. " And it's a fucking object lesson in thematic narrowness, one dumbass idea repeated over and over again. There's a song called 'Crack!' and then a song called 'Dope Peddler,' right next to each other. Then a little alter there's a song called 'I Luv Dem Strippers.' I'm not knocking 2 Chainz, but what kind of market elevates him like that, at the expense of everything else?"*

What a nice, articulate synopsis of one of the most problematic elements of popular hip-hop music. I think that is a book I would like to read.

It's still my birthday and I still don't know what to do.

-Twenty-kevin

* From Jenna Sauers, A Vibe Called Quest, in The Village Voice (2013).

This is a poem . . .

. . . composed entirely of quotes by one of my favorite professional basketball players (original here). At first I was just amused because, well, it's amusing. But then I read it a few times and now I can admit to myself that I think it's kind of beautiful. Maybe you will too:

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Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion, by Jeff Parker (A Poem Assembled from Metta World Peace (aka Ron Artest) Quotes)

I don’t shake substitutions’ hands.
I lose my feet.
I’d like to thank my psychiatrist.

I felt something,
But I didn’t know it was an actual head.
I knew somebody suffered something at that point.
There were a lot of emotions in that game.
I can’t worry about that.

I have to try to get the ball.
Kobe passed me the ball.
Kobe never passed me the ball.
And I could hear Phil Jackson–
He’s the Zen master,
So you can just hear him in your head.
Saying, “Don’t shoot don’t shoot!”
And bam! I shot it.

I was lying down when I got hit with a liquid,
Ice and glass on my chest and on my face.
Nobody ever just threw anything at me
With the exception of a few times.

After that, it was self-defense.
I’ll take the blame for that. It’s my fault.
Stunned. So stunned. It’s stunning.
Erratic fire, erratic passion.

We maximize it by playing together,
Loving each other,
Caring for each other.
Kind of like the Care Bears.
You know the Care Bears?
They care for each other.

I partied in July hard.
You got to party.
You can’t just be a boring guy for 12 months, right?
You got to party hard in July.

Why are you staring at me, daughter?
Did you throw that?
Jack, you think we going to get in trouble?
Let me see
How I can answer your question
Without giving you a good quote.


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I still think Ron Artest, who is now Metta World Peace, is a very good basketball player. I also think he is a very good, if troubled, person.

-kevin world peace

Dear ...

... Dope Jams on Myrtle.

i'm sad to see you close even though i hardly even know you, man.

vinyl and
cds and
black magik

for always.

xo xo
-dope kev

2013 ...

... means it's time for the fourth post of the year.

Here's my resolution:

They can't hold you.

Auld lang syne,
-kevoasting with champagne

Love, ...

... and Duty, and Charity, and Patriotism

This is ...

... the best rap song I have heard in two years:

Damage

-kevo monche

Thought this was pretty important

Thanks for reading.

-kevmet

Envisioning utopia

Would the world be a better place ...

If Aerosmith ...

Had never existed?

Yes. i think so, yes.

A Blums

Just real quick.

I think I'm gonna go back in on this, even though I'm pretty sure I should have the real me on the internet LESS rather than MORE. I'm trying to be a legitimate business here.

 But whatever. To the rankings! (These are my top 3 of the year of what has been, for me, pretty limited listening).

1) Easily and by far Boys and Girls by the Alabama Shakes. I accidentally found some of their youtube videos last year by accident and now they're famous or something. Holy shit. So. Good.

 2) It's not unlikely that a mixtape will be in my top three each year in the foreseeable future. This year, it's an Untitled EP by Hodgy Beats. I don't really know anything about him. But the production is GOOOOOOOD.

 3) Recent discovery (ummm...and it was released in June 2008, but this is tops of MY year, not the world's year or...something), but man do I like Wagonwheel Blues by the War on Drugs. Rock and Roll's not dead. Or. Rock and Roll wasn't dead 4 years ago!

First time I've mentioned this on the internet, but I make a mix and send it by mail to people every year for free. If you want one, leave a comment and I'll send you one.

 Ruch Move
-Keverano

I can haz kebin meme?

-mr. kevin goes to washington

New Years 2012

Hey. It's been a while.

I have a resolution for 2012:

Calm down. Everything's probably ok.

That's it.
-kevinewyear

Stuck...

...on 202.

I started this thing as a log of travels.

Then I just sort of figured it was a way to inspire writing.

Then it took a turn for the youtube (read: worst).

Then I just sort of let it sit here, vacuum packed in the internet. The infinite echo-chamber. Someday someone will find it and fire me from my job.

I think i stopped writing primarily because i was too busy. By "busy" i don't know that i mean actually with too many things to do. Instead, my mind's eye tended to visualize all of the things i could be doing and i got freaked out and this went to the bottom of some totally nebulous to-do list (dig up the garden, buy a bookshelf, learn to write journal articles, finish the white paper you promised a professor in Georgia, bench press 200 pounds) of things that would never get done.

If it seems like a pretty dumb reason to abandon something that i was reasonably committed to, it is.

-kt

In an effort...

...to have my most recent letter to space not be weird and self-helpey:

My favorite song in a while.



whitelongsleeveoxford,
-ktee

Nothing easy...

...is worth doing.

Get up. Dust yourself off.

Tomorrow is day one.

-kt

Apparently, this...

...is how my uncle thinks I live.

I got this video from him in a Facebook message with the salutation "Big city nights kev!!!!"



To be fair, my life is mostly flying Vs, Japan, and girl butts.

Awesome.

-Kev Metal

P.S. 200 posts, WHAT!?!?