Hey check this guy out!!!!

I just wanted to take some time to call attention to a great friend of mine and his art. If you like stencils and/or absolutely phenomenal street art you should definitely check him out. Even if that stuff isn't your cup of tea I'm sure you'll find something he's done you really dig. The URL is www.virb.com/dontfront. Try it, you might like it.

Poetry Slam Stuff

So one if my friends started talking about getting a poetry slam/spoken word performance together and it got me really excited. So much so that I came home and wrote this. Its still a work in progress and I might add some more stanzas to it later. Its about when people use the institutions they uphold to express and exercise superiority over others. I'm calling it "Righteous Men" for now.

A true righteous man does all he can
and writes his knowledge in the sand
but the wind sometimes blows those words away
and manipulates what they try to say

So stomp your feet and clap your hands
Let's rid ours lives of some "righteous men"

For instance, city water must make some people
sick in the head or so I think
'Cause why you gotta beat the boy with a night stick
when you know hes got the money to pay for that drink
You can't just go start breaking jaws
With wild assumptions of motivation and cause
Don't give a man a gun who doesn't know his laws
He's a mangy cat who needs to clip his claws

So stomp your feet and clap your hands
Let's rid ourselves of some "righteous men"

Some people find truth in being called Christian
but the Father Son and Ghost is now a three-party system
Same goes to those who stretch and twist the words of Qur’an
as false hope rains down on their countrymen
If you find faith in people's words
and you see the light
And all that red-lettered promise
helps you sleep at night
Embrace your faith, but cautiously
'Cause I fear that you just might
Find your once "reliable source"
ain't exactly right

So stomp your feet and clap your hands
Lets rid ours lives some "righteous men"

So don't name no blame without no cause
Don't expect life's road to end with Oz
Pray in every pew, cuff every hand
but you still won't make a true righteous man

First June Post!

This new song isn't really the best thing lyrics-wise I've written but I like it anyway. It's about losing your friends through the success they have. The song just sort of says no matter how admired you get you should never forget where you come from. It's called Gravitas.

Don't forget this place you left behind
Sorry we didn't fit in your niche, mix with your kind
But I know you need this now
something real to talk about
And I'll be here to talk it out
If you'll just bring yourself down

Some people are blessed with all the answers
Some people lose their fight with social cancer
Digging out of the debris
Never where they want to be
But we'll figure all that shit out
If you'll just bring yourself down

I'll listen every time you talk
give every statement thought
Intertwine your words, your nouns and verbs
and stick them in my head
We'll make a fire from every spark
and never grow apart
All I'm asking for is time

And I know you need it too
It's just something we must do
But all you want will be found
If you'll just bring yourself down
If you'll just bring yourself down