Another Sunday Morning…

11 01 2009

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Theres….Something quiet, something personal and introspective about weekend mornings.  Saturdays are either dazed attempts at piecing together friday night or a flirtatious procrastination with whomever decided to stay after the party ended.  But sunday mornings are by nature almost peaceful.  Put on the tv watch re-runs over a cup of coffee, or perhaps curl up with a book you’ve already read a couple times.  It safe to say that nothing real gets done, but thats when it all comes together.  What have I learned this week?  Who have I met that will change my life?

Not to be cheesy, but I should borrow a line from the movie, “Stranger Than Fiction.” which I saw last night, and enjoyed immensely.  How can we tell which moments in our lives are the significant ones?  It’s difficult, no doubt, to determine which courses of action to pursue at the end of the week, but perhaps that’s what sunday mornings are all about.  It’s the perfect time when life affords you a much needed breath of air, and a chance to remember the smile of a girl you just met, or have known very long, or just give you a moment to listen to the silence that a hard week can bring.  You know, the little things.

So as this Sunday morning draws to a close, and becomes afternoon, I hope you’ve spent it well.  Maybe you finished another chapter in your memoirs, or visited the neighborhood bakery with your family, or sent a cute text message to a love interest, or curled your toes and enjoyed a cup of tea with someone, or made some calls to relatives, or went for a drive down to the lake even though it was cold simply because you could.

Anyway, here’s to another week gone, hopefully some life’s lessons’s learned, and so on.

Posting some fun music soon,

F.F.





Ffffound! Invite Request

4 12 2008

This is my plea.  I would really, really, like a Ffffound! invite.  If you still have yours, I would love it.  Thanks

bcourtright@mail.bradley.edu

–Frosty Fresh





Threadless Holiday Sale

2 12 2008

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Threadless, one of my personal favorite T-shirt outlets, is having it’s Annual Holiday Sale going on right now.  Threadless is a 24/7 365 T-shirt design contest where artists can submit their designs to be printed and sold through the Threadless site and in Threadless stores.  The result can be some pretty unique artwork–not your average graphic tees.  I already own 7 or 8 Threadless shirts, but with sales of hundreds of designs at $15, $10, and $5 bucks a pop, the number is sure to rise.  Check out all the designs Threadless has to offer.

–Frosty





Real Fresh Re-Vamp, Jigga style

24 11 2008

Jiggasaurus Rex reporting for duty.

Unfortunately I have no idea what I have been doing for the past few months, but one thing is clear, I have not  been posting. Thus leaving my dear friend Mr. Fresh in charge, (the place looks nice by the way). Since the beginning of the school year, many, many absurd, and crazy things have happened to me, and one time this really awesome taxi driver, but that’s neither here nor there. Anyways, because of my generally unhealthy and ridiculous lifestyle, I do not have time to post daily like originally intended. Frosty however, is keeping you all up to date on, everything.

Therefore, I have made an “executive” decision to create a link to a separate RealFresh page devoted mainly to the ridiculous events, people, and things in general, that happen to me (mainly on weekends and Wednesdays). The page will be aptly named “Jigga”, I will try to post weekly, and no names will be dropped for the safety of my friends identities ( just nicknames). I also invite Frosty to post on this page as well, as it is mainly his blog. Although we created it together, in my absence he has taken the wheel. I expect him to post primarily on the main page, however if he has something really awesome, gross, etc. go right ahead.

I love you all deeply

Regards

~Jigga





Onondaga, Early December

24 11 2008

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This September marked the passing of one of my favorite poets, Hayden Carruth.  Among many honors and awards, Carruth was the winner of the Pulitzer prize and the National Book Award for his collection of poems called “Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey.”  He was also the poetry editor at Harpers.  Carruth wrote with cultural awareness, criticized political matters, and also vividly depicted over his sixty years-worth of writings, the people and places in Northern Vermont, where he lived for many years.  His style is infused with subtle rhythmes influenced by jazz and the blues.  Some of his most celebrated works are written about lonliness, insanity and death.  This poem, titled “Onondaga, Early December” is one of those.

Onondaga, Early December

lights in the twilight,
lights of Solvay over the expanse of frozen snow-covered
lake,
orange lights of the refineries,
yellow and green and red lights of the neon along the
strip,
lights as if undersea, the argon just coming to exist,
all lights in the cold moisture of the grounded wind
staggering across the lake at twilight
are blurred, are meaningless, they call, together,
with a sound unintelligible and of no interest;
but in the slate sky above the imagined horizon
like an old lantern left long ago on top of a heap of slag
the evening star alone is bright and clear
and alone responds to this knowledge of death too soon
that comes in the loneliness of twilight and dying wind,
the loneliness of decayed and useless and ragged fear
and the soundless cry for a thing that has no name. . . .

As the year begins to draw to a close, I can’t help but take comfort in the silence that the cold night brings.

Thanks to Joe Mezzanini for the photograph.

–Brooks





RealFresh Re-vamp

23 11 2008

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It’s not winter yet, even though the thermometer here in the midwest would lead you to believe otherwise.  It’s Autumn, and as the leaves fall around campus and hopefully in your own neighborhood in a nice autumn-y way, I can’t help but think this is a time for change.  Out with the old, in with the new.  For me, it’s time to expand what this blog can be for you, and for me.

I was thinking the other day about how many interesting things flow through my mind each and every day, and the number can sometimes be astounding.  I’m a creative individual, always trying to expand the boundaries of what interests me, and so when I want to express that variety, I should be able to.

Up until this point, Real Fresh hasn’t really let me do that.  Early on, I started limiting myself to hip-hop culture based posts, and so if I wanted to talk about my own life, I couldn’t.  I hate the idea of having more than one blog, especially when this one has so many good older posts.  From now on, Real Fresh will be more than hip hop, even though I love writing about it.  I need to branch out.  Expect more frequent posts about a greater variety of things, including daily ruminations in my mind, the thoughts de jour, and so on so forth.  I’m going to talk about older albums from many genres that you may have missed, explore different topics of academia perhaps that I am exposed to in my studies at school or in life.  Basically, this is my blog, and it’s going to start looking that way a lot more in the weeks to come.  I hope you still enjoy reading as much as I enjoy posting.

Yours,

Frosty Fresh





De La Soul-”Me, Myself and I” Video

10 09 2008

I’m on sort of an old school binge right now and I’m lovin’ it.  That post about Wild Style totally got me in the mood for some good classic hip-hop (I even got Style Wars on my Netflix!)  This track is a no-brainer.  Hands down one of the most recognizable hooks and beats ever.  The track is off De La’s hit record “3 Feet High and Rising,” which was released way back in 1989(!)  Wow.  What a throwback.  Enjoy!

–Frosty Fresh





Bape Sta White/Blue Star

6 08 2008

Fresh off the line for the new 2008 Bape Fall/Autumn Collection, These kicks are made with leather and have a blue Bathing Ape patterned star.  They remind me that I have needs.  I would take Bapes over Dunks any day, and I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone who wouldn’t agree with me.  >>More Pics after the Jump HERE





Justice Dior Homme Spring/Summer ‘09 Mix AND Daft Punk Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer ‘08 Mix

31 07 2008

It’s not everyday I have to type a title that long, but I couldn’t really leave a word out because I want everybody to have these tracks and listen to them as soon as possible.  I’m not going to pretend that I was the first to find this news either, but after it trickled through the blogosphere, it’s here.  Justice, the French electro-pop sensation that dropped their debut album known as “Cross” last fall, has made a track for the Dior Homme high fashion label for their Spring/Summer show next year.  For those of you who listened to hits like “DVNO” and “Phantom II” over and over and over again like I did, you will understand how ridiculously exciting this is.  Well, I didn’t leave you hanging, I did a little searching and I found the full track for download.


Justice Dior Homme Mix

Peep the Video  It’s probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.  After the Jump are Parts One and Two of the fashion show Here.





Make a Muxtape

27 07 2008

Yes, I spelled that correctly.  Muxtape is a real cool website where you can upload up to 12 of your favorite songs to share with your friends, or, if you don’t have friends, you can share it with me.  A few features make this pretty fresh.  Using sliders you can customize a colored bar that heads your mixtape or appears in the random active mixtape array on the main page.  I made one as an example, filled with some of my summer favs, which you can check out here

–Frosty Fresh