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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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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.

It is worth a thought, as to whether it is more annoying being a "What a wonderful world" or a "Respect what I take seriously." The former will be taken light of and laughed at by the power hungry. The latter will be taken seriously and receive patronizing grins from those with power.

And these patronizing grins are more common than ever before. Every business with a bit of weight to the name will have a PR squad googling their name on a daily basis. So when you lightly mention a big business owner in the new media, it will be duly noted with a slight pantsing such as changing your usercode to 'tinyman' or 'minime'.

Regardless, there are fickle few who find pantsings funny, either as a pedestrian or unwanting participant. Still, ego is as ego does, and one must zip it and move along. And if the mention is in the public interest, one might even receive a hint of the respect you thought you had earned one or two decades ago.

One mustn't be jocular towards wolves with clenched teeth. Regardless of your frustration towards them.

In the film Midnight in Paris, the main character comes out of the artistic transformation intact - although having to start life new with his groundings now more left of centre.

True to reality and only half way hollywood? Good enough for me.
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Diversifying the Gene Pool

It seems that this is the millennium of the human race becoming more of a mish-mash. As we come to see the world as something much smaller and conquerable than we had in the past, global citizens will raise the bar as border patrols lower theirs.

Attraction is a key element in the process, and is at work as we speak. The natural progress of civilisation has found the majority of the population to be more inclined to not just the opposite sex, but also other skin tones and eye-hair colour through wanting more than what is seen in the ever present window to society that is the mirror, as well as the mirror that society projects onto us.

But of course, the diversification of our genes is not the only fusion taking place. With a mass of resources at our fingertips, from local street press to the internet, as writers and researchers we are being inspired to action from a diverse range of opinions and scientific facts that are affecting our political and religious traditions.

And from such a rich source, writing as we know it will go through expanding and detracting phases, as the filters of self-knowledge and determination allow for the leaders of the realm to shed light on their area of expertise. There will be a majority that will fizz out from memory with time, as well as those who can cruise along and fit into the culture where they may.

Another blending of styles, perhaps more obvious, involves music and all its current and past forms. While it will always be commonplace for people to be strict with their genre and only want to appeal to its specific audience, there will be those who wish to expand their creations beyond whatever classifications are available today.

Admittedly, I am one of these people. Heres a photo from a recent venture into flamenco-jazz with a collaboration of muso's. Me sitting in the front.

Flamenco jazz


Point in case, not putting all your eggs in one basket is advice for not just our finances. Inspiration can come from many places. Let it shine through.
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Fumando Meu Cafe

It comes in various forms - percolated, instant, espresso, milked up. Provided there is an environment for coffee beans to grow, people all over the earth will be consuming the black drink in which a whole civilization could be based on.

Maybe, instead of could be, I should say is


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Passing the buck, bucking the trend and trendy as f**k

Good news people of the earth! My music (under my pseudonym, Alex Mewton) is finally available on itunes for the world to download and do with it whatever they choose. Its just the Smoke My Piano single for now, but the more financially viable it is the further we shall go...

But I refuse to celebrate with some showcasing of music to come. Instead, I have decided to display music that deserves the airplay far more than the radio lets on. Sure that may include me, but anyway


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And why, for that matter, go to Canada?

So here we are, in the middle of Beijing, observing the incomprehendible. It's a map of the city, and although its partly in English, the street names all look the same on this grid.

On the other side of the intersection, a university. I can't tell you which one, but there seemed to be one or two in the area


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Roy Ayers

I bought this skateboard video back in early high school: Trilogy - World Industries/Blind/101. It had some songs in it that I had never heard before, along with the artists. Problem was the credits at the end of the video were too blurred to read who the artists were. Regardless, it was a strong and innovative movie for its time (1996).

So Roy Ayers plays at Sydney's The Basement (2005). I check out his credentials on the net, and find out he has some seriously classic music in his repertoire. As an added bonus, some of the songs I check out are familiar and evocative of more youthful and carefree days


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Mess wid Chow Yun-Fat: Ear Drums Splat

John Woo mastered the art of the action flick in the early eighties. He borrowed heavily from the themes and sense of celebrity of Hollywood, while giving the finger to the US in general. All this while expressing the lives of Hong Kong secret agents getting deep into the criminal world.

The original, 'A Better Tomorrow", has a heavy influence from artists ranging from Quinten Tarantino to Wu-Tang Clan. It involves some serious business going down in the Hong Kong underworld, as three brothers attempt to go straight and uphold the law at the same time. The line is blurred between what's legal and illegal


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A Dream, Complex and Significant

A dream of any real value happens about once a year for me. Last years was simple: I got shot by a helicopter on a hill in a park (grassy knoll?). This year's seems a bit more complex.

Started off on a bicycle, travelling nowhere in particular. I think La Perouse was mentioned, but I was feeling more inner-city (nothing new here). Next thing I know I'm on a bus heading home


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The Travelling Interviewee

Welcome, fellow students and teachers. Shall we begin?

"Its okay, I'll be packing heat


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