I’m listening to Biggie rapping, overlaid with an alternative song backbeat. It’s not allowed to finish before the next is sampled. Then the next. That 70’s disco beat Blondie with the church bell sounds, a techno beat, and the Doors vocal overlay. All of this in search of the Missy Elliot/Le Tigre smash up that was so absurdly pleasing to me. While I’m trying to write, pushing aside nagging thoughts of the Work work which I’m neglecting, and ever-alert since I’m on-call.

Now Missy & Le Tigre are on, and I’m smiling, but my shoulders still seem to have invisible strings jerking them closer to my ears.

I just read on CNN that the mayor of Jena released a statement that, at long last, “enough is enough”.  He reached this decision after John Mellencamp wrote a song lyric asking Jena to take down its nooses. Read the rest of this entry »