October Spotify Playlist - Hip Hop

I'm publishing my October playlist by the skin of its teeth... better late than never ay?

This month is dedicated to hip hop. I moved to London in May 2006 and when i arrived fresh off the welsh boat i knew little-to-nothing about the genre (apart from what i'd heard on MTV or at my local cheesy club) being here has opened my ear pipes to so many wonderful artists, producers and DJs I wonder how I ever coped before.

i'm on a constant quest to find new (and old) material so get in touch if you hear anything that makes your head nod.

Here are just a few tracks i can listen to on repeat. I could have gone on forever with this list; it was so much fun to make i had to stop myself at 15 tracks. I'll definately be revisiting my top rated iTunes to create a few more hip hop favourites playlists from Spotify.

It's a damn shame that one of my all time favourite albums wasn't available on Spotify: Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity because this track definately would've got pride of place:




Anyway - back to the matter at hand... this month's track list.
E N J O Y !

1. Da Royce 5'9" - Boom
2. Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
4. Black Star - Definition
5. Common - I Used to Love H.E.R
6. Q-Tip - Let's Ride
7. Onyx - Slam
8. The Pharcyde - Runnin'
9. Pete Rock & C.L Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
10. Slum Village & Phat Kat - Zoom
11. Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours
12. Gang Starr - Mass Appeal
13. J Dilla - Lightworks
14. The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??!
15. Lootpack - Hityawitdat

The tree pee

I live by 2 rules in life:

1) Don't take your shoes off on a night out
2) Don't pee in the street

i reckon if you live by those 2 rules, you'll be taken home to mother. i recently embarked on a tirip to Spain with my bints when one hoonage fuelled night ended with me crossing my legs and running on the spot on the beach.

now in hindsight, i think doing my tinkle in the sea would've been acceptable here since it was 4am and no children were present, but instead i spotted a nice looking tree. it was on a hill and its branches splayed outwards, covering the trunk with the long foliage. like a big leafy umbrella.... perfect.

i'm no expert at this (as i mentioned - i don't usually partake in such unladylike behaviour) so i thought i'd hold onto the branch that was just above waist height to keep my balance while i drained the main.

as proceeding were drawing to a close i heard the girls scuttling up the hill with the camera to try and catch me in the act so i quickly pulled up my shorts and ran out into the open with a huge smug grin on my face having got away with my cardinal sin. the flash shone brightly and the photo turned out great - we got on with our night... skinny dipping and the like.

5 more days passed, we flew back to london and Brizzie decides to add the holiday snaps to facebook.... the flash on her camera revealed the horrifying truth of the fateful tree pee episode.

...in my rush to relieve myself, i neglected to notice the sleeping homeless man under my tree of choice. The jury's still out on whether i didnt wake him, or he just remained calm our of fear/pleasure. Either way, September 2009 i inadvertantly partook in my first water sports.


epic outdoor peeing FAIL. Another reason why i'm a massive idiot hole.

NEW - monthly spotify playlists

I couldn't live without music and can pretty much listen to any genre apart from techno and death metal. A blog by Turn off the Radio has inspired me to create a monthly Spotify playlist, inspired by different genres, moods, topics and artists... pretty much whatever is floating my boat at the time.

I'm hoping this'll be a good way of keeping tabs on my favourite songs and giving them some kind of categorisation so i dont get lost in an abyss of "top rated" tracks.

The first one on the books is my electro indie pop playlist.... aka - a bit of anything that isnt urban or rock.

ENJOY!


TRACKLIST:

1. Jump in the Pool - Friendly fires
2. Daft Punk Is Playng At My House - LCD Soundsystem
3. Homecoming - Teenagers
4. Computer Camp Love - Datarock
5. Ice Cream - New Young Pony Club
6. Helicopter - Bloc Party
7. Something Bells - Daedelus
8. Too Fake - Hockey
9. Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT
10. Over and Over - Hot Chip

...and if you dont have Spotify - shame on you!
get it here

Auto Tune-tastic

I wonder how much longer i'll find novelty 808 effects amusing? i have 2 current faves...

nice eyelashes for free

Free mini (40g) Benefit Bad Gal Lash mascara with Glamour magazine - July edition.

Free is still my favourite price

cheesy r&b FAIL

so you're up for a bit of late night calling, whispering sweet nothings and perhaps some "kissing through the phone" with the fella in gawdy jeans and hideous jewellery that you met on saturday night outside bagel king.

you begin to dial... it starts ringing.... weeee!

...oh wait... this isn't soulja boy. this is a 54 year old married man from Oldham. "Sorry to have bothered you Mr. Mately, i wanted some illicit phone sex with an 18 year old r&b character, tell your wife i meant no offense".

Grimey 2 week challenge 50% complete

the shirt is now kicking up a bit of a stink, but i'm still focused.



Only 4 more days til this bad boy is mine.... I hear we're having a heat wave this week, which is a shame because I'll have to sit under the aircon to avoid any BO problems. No lunchtime sunbathing for me.

The things I do for garms.

i heart nutty

If i had a tame squirrel that thought i was his mum i'd be complete

check this out

the grimey 2 week challenge

before Christmas, i accompanied Timmus to Topman where i helped him pick out some delightful garms. it was basically just 5 lumberjack shirts - size small.
my favourite one was grey and he has subsequently seldom worn it. I offered Timmus £15 for this shirt as i've always wanted one.

He said no.

after much pleading, he offered to give me the shirt in exchange for several things:

1) drink a pot of soy sauce
2) eat a packet of Sag Aloo spice mix
nb: if i vomited after #2 Ian Kaye said i would have to eat it again
4) eat a pot of Nivea soft moisturising cream
5) let him cut my hair

i rejected these and offered to wear the said garm for a week solid without washing it.

He said yes.

then he changed his mind before we shook on it and said i had to wear it for 2 weeks. i reckon i can do this... so here i go. (its a real nice shirt)

and if ya don't know... look it up, MISTER!

being the work shirking net crawling geek i like to be, I've seen many of these but here's a Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something

Free is my favourite price

If you know about dubstep then you undoubtedly know about Croydon's finest: Plastician. Here's a link to his May mix 2009... its FREE peoples so get downloading! are you stupid in the face?

Resolutions

I have many. probably too many and therefore am doomed to fail. Lets pretend otherwise for a minute; just listen up...


1. REFUSAL TO SUCCUMB TO THE PRE-MIDDLE AGED SPREAD
it happens to the best of us but there's no way I'm replacing all my jeans because Matthew wants to go for a gin after work every day. i WILL go to the gym and get my 6 pack back.

Target = my H&M Madonna skinnies



2. SPRING CLEAN MY LIFE
so i hoard things... what wrong with that? Shut up, I'll tell you what's wrong with it - my bedroom looks like a student halls of residence hovel. yes i know its boring but I'm going to buy some proper storage goddammit because Joanne was quite right in saying that its simply unacceptable to have a Hula Hoops box on top of my wardrobe filled with old work documents circa 2006, some magnetic rocks, a wind up snail and a disused ant farm.

Target = something that resembles a 29 year old woman's boudoir.





3. GO TO JAPAN
My esteemed colleague Robert is teaching English in Japan until September and i'm determined to visit him, taking Matthew with me. I'm in horrendous debt but see this as a once in a lifetime opportunity not to be passed up. I'm still paying for an extremely frivolous and spontaneous trip to Mexico last year so this will require some hardcore saving. No credit cards will be harmed in the funding of this trip.





4. DRAW MORE
I drew one portrait in 2008. It was a picture of Tiger Woods for Kash as a Valentine's gift to her boyf. This is not good enough. As a result of this creative juice absence, I've completely lost my mojo and even my handwriting looks shit.
The first portrait i draw will be of Sarah and Tayte - a present I'd promised for her birthday in August 2008. (must put "no more procrastinating" in my list of resolutions)