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End of Summer Playlist

Tags: antibalas afrobeat orchestra, Bad Brains, Behind the Wheel, bobby mickey, Capital Letters, Che Che Cole, Depeche Mode, Flash Delirium, Gentle Thoughts, Grind, Hearing Damage, Herbie Hancock, Herbie Mann, Jam on it, Les Sins, mad lib, MGMT, Mona Lisa, Neon Indian, Newcleus, orchestre polyrhythmo continuo, Pele, Se Ba Hao, Smoking My Ganja, Tame Impala, Terminally Chill, The Moment, Thom Yorke, Unity Dub, Young Warrior

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Categories Geeking Out On, Mick's Picks

Creepshow (For Craig D.)

3 Aug

Took the wrong turn

or maybe the right turn

on my way to Rick’s

over on 9th and Maine.

While I surveyed the block,

a silhouette

in an upstairs window caught my eye.

“Was this? Oh why yes it was!”

Indeed. A

slender figure disrobing–shimmying

out of some tight jeans with the lights on,

no blinds,

curtains open,

in front of a full length mirror.

What did I do to get so lucky?

Look at what the Gods laid on my plate

It would be disrespectful

not to at least take a second to watch the show.

For if God didn’t want me to look,

he wouldn’t have given her such a beautiful figure.

But a voice from out of the shadows

warned

“Look at yourself!

You are a black man

leaning against a tree on a dark night,

gaping at the window of a white woman in a red state.

Explain this so called good fortune to the Lawrence police.”

I begrudgingly relented.

I knew that voice was right.

Plus someone was waiting for me.

The second half of the Lakers game was certainly under way.

I looked around and made sure no figures were watching me from their windows–

dialing up the authorities out of neighborly concern.

I took one last look as she pranced around in her bra and underwear.

The show was over.

Life can be so unfair sometimes.

~Edward Austin Robertson

Tags: bobby mickey, Creepshow, Edward Austin Robertson

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Categories poetry

Gone Forever

3 Aug

One day you will wake up and see that everyone

you once knew

has passed on,

or changed

or went away.

Someday ”this” will all be over.

It makes every high five more thrilling,

every kiss sweeter,

every hug tighter,

every smile more genuine,

every handshake firmer,

and every conversation more invested.

Cherish the good and embrace the bad,

for it is all moment to moment.

~Edward Austin Robertson

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Categories poetry

Summer Holiday Travelogue Playlist

3 Aug

Tags: ASAP Rocky, bobby mickey, Giraffage, Jamie XX, Lika Morgan, Neon Indian, Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo, Radiohead, Summer Heart, The Dream, Time Zone, Tove Lo, Wild Nothing, youanddewan

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Categories Geeking Out On, summer holiday, Travelogues

Summer Holiday Days 61-65: The Sun, The Heat, and the Meat

3 Aug

Summer Holiday is officially over. If i drew a map and charted my path along North America, the map would like a Family Circus strip. I doubt I will ever get to do a trip like this in this kind of capacity. I’m not even sure that I want to. Next Summer will mark 10 years since I left Denton to explore the world outside the great Lone Star State, and I had zero plan other than to see what was out there. Maybe this trip was one last “throwback” to those days.

I can’t imagine not having experienced the things I have encountered these last 10 years. Had I taken the “safe” route and just found a good job in Dallas, there is no telling how dull I’d be today. This was the trip of a lifetime, and every week brought forth a new high. Any lows that I experienced were externally caused. The majority of my decisions this trip were good ones, and the regrettable ones are at least laughable. I can’t ask for much more than that with a trip of this magnitude that took a ridiculous amount of planning.