Off the wall??? Miles Melman, Raisin Bran advocate

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Kelloggs, Miles Melman, Raisin Bran

I hate to post this, but this is a great ad campaign idea.

Love – Art – Zaki Ibrahim

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Zaki Ibrahim

Peachtree Road Race (Day) Playlist

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4th of July, Atlanta, DMX, Jay-Z, Left Eye, Method Man, OutKast, Peachtree Road Race, Piedmont Park, Rage Against The Machine, Redman, W Hotel

Pre race travel / Walking:

1. Oh My God – Jay-Z

2. Suffer – Staind

3. Year Of The Boomerang – Rage Against The Machine

4. Flip Flop Rock – Outkast

5. Notorious Thugs – Biggie feat Bone Thugs

6. The Way I Are (Timbaland vs Nephew) feat Keri Hilson & D.O.E.

7. City Lights – Redman/Methond Man

8. What You Know About – 50 Cent

9. Mamacita – Outkast feat Masada & Witch Doctor

10. Hey Papi – Jay-Z feat Amil & Memphis Bleek

11. I Don’t Need You – Trick Daddy feat trina

12. X Gon’ Give It To Ya – DMX

13. Letter to B.I.G. – Raekwon

14. Phone Tap – The Firm Feat NORE & Nature

15. Deep Cover – Dr. Dre feat Snoop Doggy Dogg (yes I said it)

16. Watch Yo Nuggets – Redman

17. Diesel – Wu-Tang Clan

18. My President Is Black (DC Mix) Young Jeezy feat Jay-Z

19. We Could Take It Outside – Busta Rhymes feat Flipmode Squad

20. Jockin’ Jay-Z – Jay-Z

21. Shot Down – DMX feat 50 Cent & Jadakiss

 

Blue Lines Blog – Issue #1

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Björk, blog, Cassandra Wilson, Joi Gilliam, music, OutKast, Pearl Jam, Tori Amos

Writing and music…

                Music was very influential and easily supplemented the mood as I made the attempts to relate both the mood of the characters and paint the scene.  When I initially began this project in ’98, my main soundtrack was Joi Gilliam’s (http://joilicious-online.org/home.php ) 1994 The Pendulum Vibe and the sampler of the unreleased classic Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome (damn Rowdy and Freeworld records).  But as I continued to write, there were times that simply hearing a song at a specific time, or for the first time spurred me to write.  While on a 1999 road trip somewhere between Fargo, ND and Spokane, WA, a friend played the song “Jóga” by Björk in his car cassette player (yes, remember those) and I, for the first time, heard this song and grabbed any piece of paper around me in the car to start writing anything to add to my manuscript.  It was the powerful effect that hearing the song for the first time inspired me to write.  Much to the chagrin of the driver, I repeated the song several times until I was told that they did not want to dislike the song and that we had to move on.  Similarly, upon making the return trip, we were listening to local L.A. radio as we took I-10 to return to Atlanta just before I ended up in some place called Blythe (where we had to order some Domino’s Pizza, and eat it on a bench in front of the store in an empty shopping center, when Mary J. Blige’s “Sincerity” feat DMX and Nas was played.  Whoa… I was taken by this song, and the message was of the concept of love, at the very heart, a very central theme in my manuscript.

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