Jan 29 2009
I’m Back
OK, the break is over. It’s time to get back to work. A couple of things are going to be changing though. This posting everyday shit is not flying anymore. I’m changing the format, and I’m basically gonna give you the Sportscenter edition, just the high lights. So today, you get three things.
First, I’ma put you on to something musically and educationally new and dope. The native people of Northern Europe are called the Sami, and they trace their lineage back to the original hunter-gatherers who first wandered into Europe. They also have an amazing musical tradition, and the Kanye West of Sami music is Mari Boine. Don’t believe me. Peep.
Second, I’ma give you something that I know you missed. Historical Weed Sessions.
Ganja Ultra Skunk (The mythology of skunk is already notorious. Skunk #1 was developed in the 1970’s right here in the Bay Area, and made famous in the coffeehouses in Amsterdaam, it is a combination of Chocolate Thai, Afghani Indica, and Mexican and Columbian Gold Sativas. Ultra Skunk is a further hybrid with Big Bud, another one of the original strains from the seed bank projects of the 80’s, and a Canibus Cup winner)
Location Pacifica State Beach (Where I’m headed as soon as I finish this column)
Participants
ZZ Packer (Not only a dope author and storyteller, she was born in Chicago, lived in Atlanta and Louisville, graduated from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 1999, (my sophomore year at that fine institution), lives in Pacifica, works with the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto, and won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction in 05. She could spin a yarn)
Carlos Santana (Raised in the Mission in SF. Just picture that beach, his guitar, that ganja. Can you say relaxation?)
Mel Blanc (Not only a funny looking guy, he was born in San Francisco. Plus he would have us all rolling with the voices he could do. Buggs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, Tweety, Yosimite Sam, Speedy Gonzalez, Tasmanian Devil, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, Barney Rubble, Fred’s Dogasaur Dino, Mr. Spacely, Captain Caveman, Woody Woodpecker, Heathcliff, and the king-pin pimp of the skunk world, Pepe Le Pew.)
Third, something everybody needs, some dope new Hip Hop. This is from Mick Boogie and U-N-I called Before the Love. It’s a warm up mixtape to U-N-I’s new album coming in March. Enjoy.
