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Music is sound displayed through the permanence of soul. As often as the sound of a generation will alter, there will be decades of musical history which have shaped the music we hear today. I use the term 'Japanese' to define a style measured through rhythm and melody. Some may say everything can be defined as electro-pop. I define the everything and the ether surrounding it as jazz-funk. With the classicism of flamenco and street sense of hiphop.

Balance your justice

Because life is taxing.

The idea that both sides of a dispute are heard before coming to a conclusion, and both sides coming to a justifiable result, is an obvious way of avoiding the riots of hate that frequent this world.

To accept the hatred in its raw form, as to say it being a result from one's effect on another, can be a tough gig for the hardheaded who have spent many times exerting their influence when no-one else is really hearing it.

It could be a while...

When a critic speaks up against a crowd of believers, the critic will be offset with critics firing back the heat. People wandering around expecting to find a place to dump their frustrations can also expect it to be thrown right back in their face.

As we grow to accept this form of natural justice, we may find ourselves keeping it together and maintaining the levels of karma to a reasonable standard. Or might we say, even raise the bar.

Libations for Adam Yauch, Boddhisatva and HipHop contemporary. Raising the bar since 1987.
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Dissecting Exploitation from Economics

We've been doing it since we stopped building our own hydropower stations and paving our own streets. Without money, puppets of state and declarers of war, there is still an underlying mentality of getting around our business with inexpensive and lazy methods.

Exploitation is what comes to mind when, in its raw form, a person is being manipulated into doing what they don't have any intention of doing. Be it for survival or achieving greater goals.

When someone asks you if you want to be famous, it may be best to take the stomach's suggestion and tell them to walk the other way. They may be sufficient in experience and knowledge to help, but it is also for that same reason to move along. You don't want to lose your own sense of self for the sake of prostitution under a more generalised definition.

All's well when everyone is friendly, up to the point where things get suspiciously unsavoury and intimate.

Those well trained in the art of manipulation will know they have sacrificed many a positive human trait in order to get what they want regardless of the incapacity of those required to do as such. Still, one can't be surprised upon the realisation that the streamlined manufacturing machine that is society was what made the exploitation today as rife as it is.

With all our communication and technology advancements, we somehow didn't find the time to nurture that part of us that lets things grow on their own terms.

Maybe we need to take control more than we like to admit, and some would argue its the wrong idea to take control in the first place. Just to make sure we are growing on our own terms every once in a while, without the indoctrine of inbuilt influence, is what pieces us back together.
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Smoke in the Foyer

The fresh smell of roasting coffee and breakfast fryups is stirring up the troops. Another day of toil and trouble is all to be expected, yet it might be the day for a bit of extra on the side - get drunk and engage in profound conversation with strangers or however one may want to release and unwind.

Could it be... Friday?

As one sits back and contemplates smoking a cigarette over the reception desk while asking out the receptionist, it becomes notable that the dream sequence from the night before hasn't quite been shaken off.

Following one's nose to the coffee and soaking up the atmosphere with a broad scope of the area and the people confined to it, the physical greets the return of the regular mindstate with a hearty good morning. Despite the after effects of the previous evening's night cap (3 straight rum shots), the physical decides to smarten up and agree.

"Tis good and all captain, would you like a cigarette?"

Taking the coffee to the fresh breeze of the backyard, the mind and physical become one. Soul is lurking all over the place, like a frog looking for a princess to kiss. Unfortunately frogs are a hell of a lot easier to keep in the one place. Shall we call it a Lion that doesn't know the difference between predator and prey.

We'll catch him one day.
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To leave a trail

We all do it.

What was happening then won't happen again, but the scars and vinegar provided leave a presence we thought might have been left behind. Some things are harder to shake off than one may initially predict


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Securely Ambitious

All too often, we come to a point where we have decided to bow to the master for the last time. The flighty will make a rough decision and scan the classifieds before moving laterally. The aspirational will determine exactly when they've had enough of a position - maybe observe the movements of the workplace ladder - and figure at that point they will have gotten what they wanted from the job.

This being the accepted norm of the day, due to economic climate and ease of communication etc, has allowed for a large chunk of everyday folks to move on and play the market as their personality fits


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How I became a Moderate

In one's adjustment to a new environment, there will inevitably be the sense of disappointment upon realising the quirks of the place that are by products of the reasoning to moving there in the first place.

Tolerance is a big one. Knowing you'll fit in easily enough without having to sacrifice your lifestyle and personality in the process. And tolerance can often be a conundrum of a word, standing alone


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Pedestrian in Paris

Adrien Brody has managed to convert from po-faced bromancer to frustrated conceptual, and it was all captured on film within the confines of two cities - Paris today, and Paris 1920's.

Hemmingway and the late Fitzgerald managed to draw him in to the city he really wanted to see, through one of those teleporter taxi cabs that come around only once every 24 hours, precisely midnight. It seemed to be Hemmingway who had the greatest effect on his visual persona, with analyses and criticism not quite confined to his world-weary speech


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Feminism and Modernity

They sometimes collude, they sometimes crash.

A traditionally religious woman may have more of a hold on feminism than a born against Christian, if only for the fact she would refuse to collude. Ain't havin no daughters in short shorts and face-my-underwear media attention


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Worker's Pride

Every so often, we find ourselves in a predicament whereby we are asked to give a critical opinion of a person providing a service which we have been using. Some may give a big tick and trust they will keep their job, others will determine them unworthy of their position and hope to see them in the queue at the dole office.

Most commonly, cause for complaint will come from a sense of distance to the worker, allowing for lack of real contact and means of communication between the client and service provider. The idea of keeping professional boundaries is one that will be considered by all workers, as to determine how far is too far, and how close is too close for comfort


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Pocket Ashtrays

So I says to my local shopkeeper, "The usual."

Says the shopkeeper, in a fit of defiance, "But cigarettes are bad for you."

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