November 2009
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October 2009
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Grill Cheese, Pull Pork, Beer, & Hip-Hop
Last night I went to The Common to eat some grub & listen to the sounds of DJ Sonny Grimezz and DJ $hortee for Eazy Duz It Thursdays. Classic hip-hop beats, funk, reggae, & anything in between.
There was tons to choose from: goat cheese to flatbread to popcorn with truffle butter to edamame to meatloaf sliders to tandoori skewers. I decided on grilled cheese sandwiches that had a side...
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Cypher
Cypher - A freestyle rap with three or more rappers; one after the other. Interrupting another man will break that cypher. There is a set order to who hits next (pass it to the left my friends).
This Cypher includes Mos Def, Black Thought, Eminem, Krs-One, Wale, & Joe Budden, and many others during the past BET Hip-Hop Awards. There has to be more of these to keep those new comers on their...
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There's One In All Of Us...
I finally watch the only movie I wanted to watch this entire year tonight. Where The WIld Things Are was everything I expected and MORE! Spike Jonze took the right direction on being simplistic to each situation that was going on in the movie. He made us really think about what was really going on with each individual “Monsters” a.k.a. Max’s different emotions throughout the...
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More Trees x Karimoku x Medicom Toys
Eugene just posted up on Hypebeast about the newest wooden 400% BE@RBRICK with more trees team and furniture company Karimoku. This 400% is one of the nicer looking wooden BE@RBRICK than previous releases. They are donating 5% of sales to forest re-planting foundations. I really really really hope I can get my hands on one…
source: Hypebeast
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Sick Day
Today I woke up and seriously thought… “Holy Shit I have H1N1!” but in reality I just had a day cold which BTW is gone already. I missed school, missed out my entire morning due to sleeping, and my day basically. When I did wake up around 1ish I was hella hungry and made myself some soup and tea. I made MaMa soup with bok choy & sue choy and added some spices to my liking....
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“The photography is merely a souvenir of that experience. I’m making it everyday,...”
– Shawn Mortensen
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illest
Just ordered 2 of each color & sizing of Fatlace™ “illest” safari print stickers that owner Mark (@fatlace) created. I can not wait till they get here! Order yours before they sell out once agian HERE! I also ordered a “illest” licences plate holder for my EG.
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WatchA documentation of J.cole by Karen Civil. Part two video HERE! Be sure to see J. cole in the future and if your interested in him, get his latest mixtape “The Warm Up” HERE!
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The Acoustic TGG
Last night The Greater Good killed it with their acoustic set at the Ivory Club new location which is actually really nice & the food is was decent. This was their first acoustic set that shows more of their artists side with Joey Dats on the piano, Etikid on the mic, and DJ Senh on the tables with two guests. If you missed out, you missed out on a great performance from these guys. Here are...
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Hella Flush™
Hella Flush: This occurs when using a low offset wheel on a lowered car and make it “flush” with the cars fender/body angle by changing the camber, caster, & toe.
NOW to get the Fatlace™ - Hella Flush™ approval you need to make your car look like this…
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TGG x Ivory Club
The boys from The Greater Good & Cara Albo will doing an live acoustic performance at the Ivory Club this Thursday on October 22/09 starting at 8pm. TGG will be performing “Skeletons”, “Celebertiy Status”, and some other exclusives. To get advanced tickets head down by Foosh to secure your entrance or at the door for $10. After party at The Common for “Eazy Duz...
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4x5 Setups
Today I took shots for school for my critic & image process class with the classic 4x5 View Camera. First I cooked up some sunny side up eggs & bacon with a croissant and a cup of coffee. It was like anytime I have taken a photo of my food… but this time its with a HUGE large format camera instead of my Canon 50D. The second setup was with my OF dissected buddies urning to be the...
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Blind Faith & Hell Is For Heros
Triumvir has released their Autumn line on October 16th and a few days before the release Brandon, brand director, did a write up on his vision for the upcoming season of their A/W 09’. One of the reasons why Triumvir is one of my top independent brands is that they inform their cliental on their reasonings for their ideas/visions on each season… and this season is no different. The...
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Love FOB Parents
Mom: HOY!
My Brother: Yes mom...
Mom: Pass me the Butas Butas...
My Brother: You mean the strainer?
Mom: Yes...The Butas Butas!
Me & My Brother: HAHAHAHAHA!
Butas means Hole in Tagalog BTW
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Eazy Duz It Thursdays
Lydia (DJ $hortee) & Rohan (DJ Sonny Grimezz) moved their Thursday nights to The Common on Jasper Ave & 124st. They will be spinning classic beats from Hip-Hop to Breaks to Reggae to House to Soul to Funk and everything in between! Come try the new menu & $4.50 hi-balls and Kokanee. Come support!
Here are some photo’s from last week:
“Your colors too bright…
I might wear black four years straight…”
– Jay Z
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SALE!
The shop will be having a sale on EVERYTHING from clothes, shoes, denim, toys, records & accessories. This will be happening this weekend of October 15th - 18th.
- 20% OFF REGULAR PRICED ITEMS
- ADDITIONAL 20% OFF SALE ITEMS
Come save some doe & get bundled up for winter!
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Club or Restaurant?
For my friends birthday, he decided to go to The Cactus Club. I thought they wanted to go to a club I hate clubs in Edmonton BUT it was just a restaurant. Tonight was my first time and I was fairly pleased overall. The enviroment feels like a Joeys/Earls, the food selection was very similar aswell, & the servers…wowzers. haha I had the BBQ Duck Club Sandwich which was decent. The bread...
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Mr. Carter
Photo courtesy of Paul Swanson (@paul_swanson_)
The one and only Jay-Z graced our presents last night at Rexal Place for his Blueprint 3 tour. Not only Jay-Z was here… but N.E.R.D., Wale, and J.cole opened up the show & a surprise appearance of Memphis Bleek being Jiggas right hand man on stage while he performed. This was my favourite concert I went to thus far. If you missed out or...
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Seeing is BELIEVE'n
Once again Believe Audio put on a show at Halo for this Thanksgiving long weekend. It was tech-house all night long, everyone in the building dancing, tons of ladies especially ASIANS equals a good night. Every event gets bigger and bigger either be at The Common, Halo, or another club… PLUS its my FAM who are throwing these parties! If you did miss out…SEE‘n is BELIEVE‘n!
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“People told me slow my road I’m screaming out fuck that,
Imma do just...”
– Kid Cudi