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April 17, 2007
Tuesday
That's Nash up there, buggin out in Greenpoint after Danny Briere's game-winning goal last night. Him and Dusk were watchin together, and before the game each sent me some choice text messages which I will reproduce here for posterity:
Dusk:
Tonite the red heart will shine in the eyes of the bounding buffalo leaping between two crossed sabres in whom we the faithful trust forever for the eternal silvery glory of our lord stanley.
Nash:
Tonight as we focus our prayers on the men on the gilded ice we must take time to honor the true meaning of the age-old sword we know as a sabre: a weapon as powerful on offense as it is on defense.
Fuckin a. Down here in Philly, me and Swede and Nick were equally fuckin loud. The Yuengling/"powering" combo was apparently a success, and now I must repeat it.
Still ragged and jetlagged, and I just began my "walk-to-and-from-work-since-my-car-is-busted" regimen, but there's a lot to talk about.
1. One more hockey note: How bout them New York Islanders fans, huh? Real class acts. One of em screamed "Rangers Suck Cock" loud enough to be picked up by the TV broadcast during the moment of silence for the VT victims, and a Sabres suck chant broke out during the Anthem. Fuck all that, man. Here's a bottle captured mid-flight towards Ryan Miller's head late in the third.
Between the debris-throwing and reports of Buffalo fans in attendance getting serenaded by chants of "upstate tra-ash," sounds like Isles fans is some lil bitchez. Guess what tho? Me and the NHL say the refs got it right. See you tomorrow night.
2. Today has been a strange day all over, a horrible, reeling kind of day. I felt physically ill yesterday afternoon after returning home from a week gone to hear about the VT tragedy. I am not and never will be numb to these horrific shootings; but goddamn I hate reliving such similar, awfully familiar nightmares again and again.
The gunman's writings are disturbing in retrospect, for damn sure. But as I wrote elsewhere, I'm worried that the combination of the release of these plays and the horror of yesterday morning will have the unfortunate effect of increasing monitoring of creative writing of students of all ages. I'm no expert, but I imagine there is a fine, oft times imperceptible line between serial "cries for help" expressed in creative writing and otherwise harmless explorations of anger and violence. When entrusted to the blunt, nervous hands of school administrators and perhaps understandably anxious teachers, I fear that some students may be clumsily invited/coerced to "talk" about "their problems" - or much worse - all because they wrote a story with violent themes. I remember a few weeks after Columbine, a friend of mine was suspended from Buffalo's Hutchinson Technical High School for drawing a picture of a battleaxe on his binder. No kidding.
3. In happier news, P-Murder and The Rub in New York next weekend. Not this weekend coming up but the one after. See you there. Speakin of P-Murder, our mixtape with them may be online soon; I'll keep you posted. And The Rub has been compiling a pretty fuckin incredible "History of Hip-Hop" mix series over here for Brooklyn Radio. Check for it.
4. Happy Birthday to my man Sean Mattison! Wish I was down in Buenos Aires celebratin with ya, homie.
5. Thanks to longtime reader and eversmart writer Geoff Litwack for the shout! One of the oldest Friends of el Stencillon; very pleased he enjoyed the mini hip-hop mix posted a few entries back.
6. I forgot to post this last month, but here's an old mix I made back in March 2003 entitled, appropriately enough, "Where Were You in March 2003?" I made this right after coming back from New Zealand, right after graduating from college (a semester early! holler), right after the war started, right before making Bouillabaisse and moving to Ave C with Nash and Monchy. Right before law school started. Check it out and lemme know what you think of this old archival footage...
<---- stay classy, Buffalo! hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Posted by caps at April 17, 2007 06:16 PM