The Intelligent Fly Guy

ARVO ARRIVER


Skyzoo: Get It Done Ft. Torae (Produced by DJ Premier)
From 12" (Unknown/White Label, 2007)

I have copies of The 3 Day High and The City's Favorite: The Mixtape neither of which caused perturbation.
Skyzoo, who open for Black Milk at Pianos last Thursday, March 8, 2007, for the NYC Popular Demand record release party, in a hybrid conjunction word is "dumb-nice". His witticism, doubtlessness, effortlessness, fluent voice and painless delivery make this 22 year a welcome.
I first read about this song in latest issue of XXL . ...From words to music...


According to Skyzoo courtesy of Baller Status:

My rhyme style is a little bit of everything because I do get lyrical, but not to the point where it will get over your head. People think being real lyrical makes you nice, but it doesn't. You definitely need to know how to rap and have some type of lyrics, but being a complex MC doesn't make you nice because a lot of people aren't going to understand you. You have to be able to relate to everyone. I'm definitely lyrical, but not to the point that every word I say has ten syllables in it. I'm lyrical, but I have a lot of swagger and flows because I do make a good amount of commercial joints. I'm not some dark depressed rapper. Like, that's not me. I'm a little bit of everything. You'll get "feel good" joints from me, club joints, joints that will make you want to spend time with your girl. My style is a little bit of everything like a pot of gumbo. You get a little bit of this, a little bit of that and it fills you up real quick.

What separates me from the rest is and I'll start it off with the fact that whenever I hear an interview on the radio or see one on TV, the first thing people say is, "Yo, I got something for everybody," and I hate that! A lot of people say that, but nine out of ten of them don't really have something for everybody. If everyone can relate to your album, then how come when we cop it, there's one chick joint, one party joint and a joint about shooting up the block? That doesn't relate to everybody. Just because you have three different topics, doesn't mean it relates to everybody. It relates to people when they're having a bad day or going through something with their girl and then they may feel what you're saying. But, that's what separates me from everyone because I put money down on the fact that I have something for EVERYBODY -- guaranteed! And the other thing is I'm just being me. I don't talk about shooting up your block and I move pounds of coke a day because I don't do that. I'm around people that do that, so if I speak about it, it's from my bird's eye view and I'll give you insight to what I see, but I won't glorify it because that's not what I'm about. I'm all about putting real music out there.

Time

LEITMOTIF FOR WAKING

Two years ago, when Congress passed a law to extend daylight saving time by a month, the move seemed a harmless step that would let the nation burn a little less fossil fuel and enjoy a bit more sunshine.

The change took effect Sunday, daylight saving time began three weeks earlier (and ends a week later, on the first Sunday in November). This puts the United States out of sync with the rest of the world for longer than usual this spring, almost certainly disrupting not only computers but also the business and travel schedules of companies, workers and travelers. Most of Europe goes to daylight saving time March 25, two weeks after America, while most of Asia, Africa and South America do not observe daylight saving time at all.

The daylight-time shift, according to technology executives and analysts, amounts to a “mini-Y2K.” That is a reference to the rush in the late 1990s to change old software, which was unable to recognize dates in the new millennium, 2000 and beyond.

The fear was that computers would go haywire, and there were warnings of planes falling from the skies and electronic commerce grinding to a halt. Billions of dollars were invested to fix the so-called millennium bug, and there was no wave of computer-related disasters.

This time, with extended daylight saving time, the problem is subtler. The potential pitfall is a disruption of business, if the clocks inside all kinds of hardware and software systems do not sync up as they are programmed to do. In a business world that is increasingly computerized and networked, there could be effects on everything from programmed stock trading to just-in-time manufacturing to meeting schedules.

For consumers, the greatest potential impact will be on e-mail and calendar programs like Microsoft Outlook, used to schedule dentist visits, soccer practices, evening entertainment and other appointments.

The latest Windows operating system, Vista, is not affected, and for those running Windows XP Service Pack 2, online software updates have been pushed out automatically to correct the problem. Microsoft and Apple are also making software patches and instructions available on their Web sites.

For the roughly 7,000 public companies in the United States, Mr. Hammond estimates the total cost of making computer fixes to deal with the daylight saving time shift at more than $350 million.

The energy savings from extending daylight time are not great, but could mount, according to studies. A report last year by the Energy Department projected savings in electricity at four-tenths of a percent each day of extended daylight savings time — or three one-hundredths of a percent of annual electricity use. Daylight saving time modestly reduces evening electricity use.

Still, tiny savings each year could add up in the long run. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a nonprofit group, estimates that the cumulative benefit through 2020 of longer daylight saving time would be a saving of $4.4 billion and 10.8 million metric tons less carbon spewed into the air.

The 2005 energy bill gives Congress the option of repealing the daylight saving time extension, if energy savings are not achieved.

For full article: Time Change a ‘Mini-Y2K’ in Tech Terms

A leitmotif (IPA pronunciation: [laɪt məʊ tɪəf]) (also leitmotiv; lit. "leading motif") is a recurring musical theme, associated within a particular piece of music with a particular person, place or idea. The word has also been used by extension to mean any sort of recurring theme, whether in music, literature, or the life of a fictional character or a real person.

Although usually a short melody, it can also be a chord progression or even a simple rhythm. Leitmotifs can help to bind a work together into a coherent whole, and also enable the composer to relate a story without the use of words, or to add an extra level to an already present story.

The word is usually used when talking about dramatic works, especially operas, although leitmotifs are also used in other musical genres, such as instrumental pieces, cinema, and video game music.

The word itself has a mixed etymology, as a further meaning to the German word Motiv was borrowed in the 18th century from the French motif, meaning "motive" or "theme", while the German word Motiv itself can be traced back to the 16th century, meaning only "motive" (cf. Latin motivus). Prefixing it with leit- (coming from the German leiten, "to lead"), produces Leitmotiv (German plural: Leitmotive), meaning "leading motif".

Leitmotifs are very common in movie scores; a well known example is the Star Wars Imperial March associated with Darth Vader and his previous self, Anakin Skywalker, in the Star Wars series of films composed by John Williams. Themes for the characters Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Emperor Palpatine, and Yoda also recur throughout the movies. John Williams also composed music for Jaws and the Indiana Jones films that uses leitmotifs. Lara's Theme in the film Dr. Zhivago is another example of this.

Insipid Idiom

BENIGN ADAGES


The late Fred Berry demonstrates today's benign adage: TGIF:

TGIF is a popular acronym for the phrase Thank God It's Friday (alternatively: Thank Goodness It's Friday). Starting in America, it has become a common expression of relief at the end of the work week and anticipation of relaxing or partying over the weekend. The phrase was further popularized by the 1978 movie starring Donna Summer, Thank God It's Friday. The phrase has also become common for advertising and promotional materials. On college campuses beginning in the 1970s, the phrase (sometimes shortened to "TG") became associated with Friday afternoon beer parties, usually held outdoors.

Nickname Rerun & Penguin
Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Mini biography For a while in the seventies, Fred Berry was one of the biggest stars on American television. The former dancer, who became a star in the sitcom "What's Happening" ballooned until his weight became a threat to his health. He battled with food, drink, drugs and women, marrying 6 times to 4 women in total. Diabetes was diagnosed, he lost more than 100 pounds and turned to religion. Born in St Louis, Missouri in 1951, Berry danced with "The Lockers" but it was the sitcom deal in 1976 that gave him his big break. The series ran for three seasons. After it was cancelled Berry struggled with personal problems and with the search for another star vehicle. The series was popular through reruns and a further series ("What's Happening Now") was picked up in 1985 and ran for three years, after which Berry gave up acting for religion. He returned to the screen in 1998 in the action movie "In The Hood" and his final role was a cameo in "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star" in 2003. Berry died on October 21st 2003 aged 52.

*Idiom
*Insipid

eLibrary

COROLLARY SCIENCE


I post threads of variant interest on the playahata hataboard. Yet the lion's-share are dedicated to the sciences. Below list an e-archive for current post.
NYTimes e-articles are only available for a week, thereafter they are only available online for purchase. Where applicable, I have threaded the e-articles to immortalize them without cost:

Study Uncovers Memory Aid: A Scent During Sleep
No Sleep Means No New Brain Cells
Moths Elude Spiders by Mimicking Them, Study Says
Why Is The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order?
Readers' Q & A With Wikipedia Founder
It Seems the Fertility Clock Ticks for Men, Too
'Doomsday' Vault Design Unveiled
Diabetes Repair 'Occurs In Womb'
Can Humanity Survive? Want To Bet On It?
World Scientists Near Consensus On Warming
*Boss Hog
How About A Bot For A Boss?
'Anti-Aids Gel' Trial Is Stopped
Flying Dinos Had Bi-plane Design
South Africa: Call For Deadly TB Isolation Move
Alzheimer's Vaccine 'In A Patch'
Strict Vegan Ethics, Frosted With Hedonism
Do You Believe In Magic?
The Voices in My Head Say ‘Buy It!’ Why Argue?
Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers
The Only Unexpected Abnormal Sound
Japan Marine Park Captures Rare Shark On Film
The Warming of Greenland
'Altruistic' Brain Region Found
Defence Cell Genetics Unscrambled
Teenage Pregnancy Myth Dismissed
Skull Is First Fossil Proof of Human Migration Theory, Study
"Weirdest" Animals to Get Conservation Attention
Seaweed Anti-Obesity Tablet Hope
Magic Mirrors: Social Retailing™
Longevity Gene Keeps Mind Sharp
Body's Own 'Cannabis' Helps Pain
Repeat After Us: I Will Stop Eating Candy in 2007
The DNA So Dangerous It Does Not Exist
Robot Mother Helps South Koreans Prepare For Birth
You Are What You Eat: 2006 and the Politics of Food

*Heavily recommended reading

World Peace

SUNRISE SIMPER

Continuing the theme...

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.
Welcome to the world of PBS:

Malapropism

FORENOON TENDER


Juelz Santana's Rap City freestyle of March 7, 2007, as much of what the Dipset does, is guffaw-worthy albeit by default (i.e. happenstance - though they apparently have a rap-comedian monopoly) or willfully. Nevertheless, JS's use of "athletes feet" versus "athletes foot" is a malapropism (or my perception of one). JS repeating, "ya stinking it up like athletes feet" three times has made my day - let it enrich your life as well.

Main Entry: mal·a·prop·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈma-lə-ˌprä-ˌpi-zəm\
Function: noun
Etymology: Mrs. Malaprop, character noted for her misuse of words in R. B. Sheridan's comedy The Rivals (1775)
Date: 1849
1 : the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase; especially: the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context
2 : MALAPROP
— mal·a·prop·ist \-ˌprä-pist\ noun

Per Wikipedia:
Athlete's foot or tinea pedis is a fungal infection of the skin of the foot, usually between the toes, caused by parasitic fungi.
Athlete's foot is a layman's description of a skin fungal infection. Fungal infections of the skin are called dermatophytosis. Dermatophytes may be spread from other humans (anthropophilic), animals (zoophilic) or may come from the soil (geophilic).

Precious

ARVO ARRIVER


James Yancey/ Jay Dee/ J Dilla: She'll Be Afraid, Silent Giant and 'Sup
From: Unknown (Unknown)

: WOO-HAH!! Got You All In Check Ft. Rampage The Last Boy Scout
(The Jay Dee Other Shit Remix)
From: Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check/Everything Remains Raw CD Maxi-Single (Elektra, Feb. 27, 1996)

A: "There's nothing more precious than my Coogi's..."
Fast-forward to R.J. Rice Studios commercial where spray-painted graffiti lists groups who've procured Rice's services - one such group was Slum Village who were introduced to Jay Dee by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest.
Busta Rhymes: Woo-Hah!! Maxi-Single introduced me to the late Jay Dee: Hip Hop's Shy Giant. On this work J Dilla remixed both: "WOO-HAH!! Got You All In Check - The Jay Dee Bounce Remix" (the remix instrumental is also included on the maxi-single) and "WOO-HAH!! Got You All In Check - The Jay Dee Other Shit Remix featuring Rampage The Last Boy Scout" (my favorite of the two).
When artistry sways me to interest I, commonly, inherently delve into the entire body of work of said artist. As foretold, habitually, I systematized my "Jay Dee", as was his foremost moniker, assemblage.
My collection includes several instrumental shorts that I have never heard before be they offered by Detroit sources (Waajeed/Bling47 or otherwise), audioblogs or radio: local, foreign (including BBC 1Xtra's: Benji B nor Gilles Peterson) or pirated (although such offering(s) could have escaped me - however; my doubt is elephantine).
As a consequence of never having a reference for these songs (three (3) of thirty-four (34) previously unreleased songs - oddly all starting with "S") I have named them arbitrarily - as slapdash (no offense intended as I too am guilty) as did DJ O-Dub - such nomenclature is inadvertently artificial. In advance I apologize for any perceived adulteration of J Dilla's music.

*Arvo - afternoon (Australian)
*Arvo arriver - afternoon shorts
*James Yancey/ Jay Dee/ J Dilla (1974-2006)

With all of the events happening around the world to celebrate the life and music of J Dilla, Stone Throws interviewed a few people who knew and worked with him. Stone Throws will be releasing these in a series. Part 1:

Boney M Daddy Cool | Forenoon Tender

A three minute + twenty-nine second lesson for father's amiss in the art of "cool"
*Forenoon tender - deft aurorean post. 

Black Enough Obama?

CITATION REGURGITATION

Image courtesy Poplicks

I found the below portion of a Rolling Stone article titled: 'Destiny's Child' rigorously poignant. The precedent point in the article was with Obama's preliminary polls wherein women, nearly all of them white, responded more intensely and warmly than did men.

"There is an amazing candid moment in Obama's autobiography when he writes of his childhood discomfort at the way his mother would sexualize African-American men. "More than once," he recalls, "my mother would point out: 'Harry Belafonte is the best looking man on the planet.'"
What the focus groups his advisers conducted revealed was that Obama's political career now depends, in some measure, upon a tamer version of this same feeling, on the complicated dynamics of how white women respond to a charismatic black man."

Rolling Stone
rollingstone.com
Issue 1020
February 22, 2007
National Affairs
Destiny's Child
Words by Ben Wallce-Wells

*Citation regurgitation - this is the first of many quoted illustrations