Long time no see website. There’s a lot of stuff to catch up on.
Back on the 10th I did a show at The High Dive with my new music friends Kirby Krackle. The show was a blast and I wanna thank the guys of KK and everyone at the show for the love and support. There was a really great environment at that gig. We’ll for sure have to do some more of those in the near future. If you weren’t there (or you’ve never been to one of my shows) my good Seattle friend Jarod recorded it and it is available now over at the Internet Archive.
A few weeks ago one of my new favorite MCs dropped a free album. Don’t you love it when that happens?
K.Flay has dropped Mashed Potatoes free on her website and it is worth even the 8 hours it would take to download on dial-up. Thankfully you have the real internet so you’ll be able to groove to it in minutes. K.Flay takes popular, banging commercial beats and remixes them and the proceeds to remix the concept and content of these songs to suit her style. The album top to bottom is a complete success. Mashed Potatoes has, in my opinion, the 4 best opening tracks to an album possible. My only complaint with the album in general is that I want each track to be a verse longer. I don’t want it to stop. My favorite track is “CRAZYtown”, Flay’s take on pharmaceuticals set to Gnarls Barkley’s mega-successful “Crazy.” Her breakdown of oddly common mental illnesses and our American need to suppress them, all the while questioning if it’s really that wrong to feel the way we were built to feel, really speaks to Flay’s ability as a writer and a performer. K.Flay is a triple threat. She’s a great writer, performer, and producer. If I could program even the shittiest of beats I would feel like a king. K.Flay is set to surpass everyone. Thankfully for my type she is in no way branding her music as nerdcore or anything similar. It’s just really good. Plus this shit is $Free.99 so get it right now and understand what I’m talking about.
On a personal note, I started going to school again. Yeah. I know. It didn’t work out long ago, but as I’ve aged and become more wise I’ve decided I’d be an adult about the whole thing and give it an honest shot. By, like, actually going to classes and whatnot. If I fall behind on anything, blame it on that.
ThyBoyd, creator of a bunch of Grammar Club and Beefy fan vids on YouTube, has started a fun game of The Adventures of Beef Thompson in the forums. You should give that a looky-look.
I think that’s all for now. Love you.
