Salmoned-Colored Shirt Misprision

M-W word of the day: misprision /mis-PRIZH-un/
*2: misunderstanding, misinterpretation

Madvillain: Bolder Holder

Madvillain: Bolder Holder
Madvillainy 2: The Box (Stones Throw, Sept. 12, 2008) ($125.00 + Shipping)

+Madvillainy 2: The Box | Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix

Just Married II: Phrase No. 51

Enforcer

Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers: Doin’ What We Wanna
Atlantic/Bomba (Japan), 1970

Can you say, “eff that!!!”?

Nightmares

Dana Dane: Nightmares
12" (Profile, 1985)

Mobb Deep: Nightmares f. 50 Cent
DJ Whoo Kid + 50 Cent: Hate It Or Love It (G-Unit Radio Part 21) (2006) 


+Dana Dane: Official Site l MySpace
+Prodigy: NHIC 2

20 Things You Didn't Know About Sex

Discover: Living World: Sex & Gender: 20 Things You Didn't Know About Sex by Dean Christopher of March 19, 2008:

1 Life emerged on earth about 3.8 billion years ago, but sex did not evolve until more than 2 billion years later. Dirty limericks emerged only quite recently, geologically speaking.

2 Sex—what is it good for? Scientists are not sure, since asexual reproduction is a better evolutionary strategy in some important ways.

3 For those who refuse to commit to one strategy: The hermaphroditic earthworm Dendrobaena rubida has both male and female genitalia. If it cannot find a partner, the worm doubles up so that its female bits and male bits can go to town.

4 Although famously monogamous, female Adélie penguins slip away from their mates occasionally to couple with unattached males. They exact a fee (pdf) for such a dalliance—stones to bolster their nests—not unlike certain people.

5 Some talented penguin teasers can get a gift even without putting out. Again, not unlike certain people.

6 Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes.

7 How do we know this? German primatologist Dana Pfefferle watched a group of macaques, counting the females’ yells and the males’ pelvic thrusts. She says this work is “quite weird, but it’s science.”

8 Here in the US of A, that kind of stuff ends up on YouTube.

9 Because Barry White sounds terrible underwater: Fish can produce a variety of noises with their bones, teeth, and gas bladders. Grant Gilmore of Estuarine Coastal and Ocean Science Inc. says that male fish probably use some of these sounds to woo females.

10 The spiny anteater, an egg-laying mammal native to Australia and New Guinea, has a penis with four heads, but only two fit into the female at once.

11 The tiny male paper nautilus, an octopus, impregnates the much larger female by shooting his penis (a modified tentacle) into her—and leaving it there.

12 Homosexual behavior is found in at least 1,500 species of mammal, fish, reptile, bird, and even invertebrate.

13 My two dads: When a male goose courts another male goose, a female sometimes slips in and mates with both males. Later, the male partners share paternal duties.

14 Some seagulls practice lesbian mating, although the eggs that result from their liaisons are sterile.

15 Biologists at the University of California at San Francisco have found that male fruit flies exposed to high levels of alcohol become hypersexual and try to court practically anything with wings, including other male fruit flies. Eventually the revelry turns into a dysfunctional orgy, with “a chain of males chasing each other,” says one insect expert (subscription).

16 As the flies get increasingly tanked, their chance for mating success keeps dropping. This is one more reason why the fruit fly is a great model for studying humans.

17 Only a few vertebrates besides humans copulate face to face. Among those that sometimes do this: hamsters, beavers, and some primates, such as bonobos and orangutans.

18 French kissing is rarer still. The only other species known to do it as a prelude to mating is the white-fronted parrot. After the birds open their beaks and touch tongues, the male spews his lunch onto the female’s chest.

19 It is here that the mating habits of the white-fronted parrot and Homo sapiens diverge.

20 Size really does matter: People tend to choose mates of similar race, education level—and chubbiness. A recent British study indicates that obese people usually select partners with comparable levels of body fat.

Needed Calming

Needed this video: A Piece of the Action, ending credits, to calm me through laughter as it helped me keep my hands to myself while at the plantation this morning as I really wanted to share my pugnacious bellicosity. Effing supervisors…

+Video: First spotted at 4 Brothers Beat

Found in the Brain

Willie Hutch: Since I Found You Everything's Alright
From: Ode To My Lady (Motown, 1975)
Sharebee

Per NewScientist Source of ‘Optimism’ Found in the Brain as reported by Roxanne Khamsi on October 24, 2007 - 18:00:
Two regions of the brain linked to optimism have been discovered by researchers. The identification of the sites that signal positive thinking could shed light on the causes of depression, they say.

Per NYT: In Hollywood Hives, the Males Rule written by Natalie Angier:
In Hollywood’s animated family fare about animals, the overwhelming majority of characters are male, despite nature’s preferred sex ratio of roughly 50-50.

Wu-Tang Mofo

El Michels Affair: Bring The Ruckus (Live)
From: 7" Shaolin Series (Truth & Soul, 2006) (Item 436374)

El Michels Affair: Glaciers Of Ice f. Wu-Tang Clan (Live)
From: 7" Shaolin Series (Truth & Soul, 2006) (Item 411528)

Wu-Tang Revealed (trailer) has yet to receive an official release date, chronicles the Wu's experiences through behind the scenes clips, video shoots, performances and never before seen footage of the clan at the Wu Mansion in Los Angeles.

Wu-Tang Revealed was shot mostly by the Gza over a seven year period and is currently in the final stages of editing. It is set to be ready for several screenings over the next few months.

*Check Sandbox Automatic for: Wu-Tang Clan Video Anthology (Think Differently Music)

Insecurely in Comfort

Leon Ware: Comfort (aka Come Live With Me Angel) Ft. Minnie Riperton
From: Musical Massage (Gordy/Motown, 1976)

Paraphrased from Dusty Groove:

Leon Ware’s Musical Massage is arguably:

• LW's paramount record and
• One of the foremost Motown records of the 70's.

The record is a beautiful interlacement of balmy soul, recorded right on the heels of Marvin Gaye's I Want You album, which was conceived and written by LW, yet assumed by MG.
For this set, LW creates a auditory impression reminiscent of I Want You forging smooth keyboards with artful inferring of electro-funk, the amalgamation converges with LW’s sweetly warming (sounds like a job for Cam'ron's, "No Homo" verifier) vocals.
This original version of Comfort was also performed by MG on I Want You.

Look

Ray Bryant: Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)/You Are Everything (Comp. by Thom Bell & Linda Creed)
From: In The Cut (Cadet (Japan), 1974)

Rooming in off-campus housing while attending Howard University I lived with heterogeneously stratified house mates. One in particular was a parasite from South Carolina. He opened all of his retorts with, “Look, man….”
As usual the “rat” of ‘Pearls Before Swine’ and I are in accord.

Ray Bryant’s In The Cut album is very different from a lot of his other work, especially his late 60s sides for Cadet. This album features string and horn arrangements by Charles Stepney which at times are soulfully trippy yet periodically mellow. The songs are full of a majestically soulful approach that's always made Stepney a distinguished arranger. Ray also plays electric piano, dissimilar from the Fender Rhodes, on a number of songs. The collective tone is harder than his acoustic work, which provides a nice contrast to Stepney's orchestrations. Some of the songs appeal to soundtrack-esque sensibilities, in a style that makes one questions with what talent would Bryant have brought to film scores during this time.

*My review was a Dusty Groove interpolation
*Comp. - composed

The Surface

THESAURAL

Let me see...
I can fit you in on Monday at 3:00
Tuesdays is use days
And Wednesdays is friends days
And Thursdays is hers days
And Fridays is my days
And Saturdays is fun days
And Sundays the one day
I rest, give thanks and bless
Again on Monday I will be back

Jay-Z's 99 Problems of The Black Album (Def Jam, November 14, 2003) interpolates Ice T's 99 Problems of Home Invasion (Priority, March 23, 1993) adapting the song title and refrain "...Got 99 problems and a bitch ain't one... ...Hit me..."

9th Wonder explains how in 2003, he created one of the most fan-friendly trends - remixing entire albums. Problemo?

Jay-Z: 99 Problems (9th Wonder Remix)
From: Black Is Back (White Label?, 2004?)

Entry Word: problem

Function: noun
Text: 1 something that requires thought and skill for resolution problem of world hunger>
Synonyms case, knot, matter, trouble
Related Words issue, question; challenge; corner, fix, hole, hot water, jam, pickle, predicament, situation; glitch, hitch, snag; conundrum, enigma, mystery, puzzle, puzzlement, riddle; brainteaser, perplexer, poser, stumper
Antonyms answer, solution
2 an interrogative expression often used to test knowledge problems on the exam, but they were all challenging> -- see QUESTION 1
3 something that is a source of irritation problem in the evenings> -- see ANNOYANCE 3

*9th Wonder (b. Patrick Douthit, January 15, 1975) is a hip hop producer from Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

*Already know the island I'm from
And y'all don't want no problems with them

*Island I'm from: Manhattan: Harlem: Sugar Hill subdivision

I'd Go To Bat For You

Hip Hop made comic relative:
Ni**as gonna fuck around and get their balloon popped! (Ghostface Killah: Bulletproof Wallets (Intro))
I ain't a killer but don't push me, revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pu**y (2Pac: Hail Mary)
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge (Grandmaster Flash: The Message)

Incorrect Clones

SUNRISE SIMPER

Kitchen Table Round/Racial Profiling

ARVO ARRIVER

I am a big fan of Pearls Before Swine and won't belabor the introduction other than to say there is a obliquely "warm" place for biting sarcasm. However, that comfortable ("warm") place ostensibly only exist amongst true friends and drawn parodies.
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