Tom (Smuggler) Haddon from Black Sheep HDFC is on his way to Whittier Pres. Hosp.  His heart is causing him problems.  I would ask that everyone lift up Tommy and his family in prayer.

Tommy is a true Warrior for Christ. Thank You and God Bless You

P.S.  Recognize the Bike?  Marc Bogue, new SD Black Sheep just bought it and kept this cool bike in the Black Sheep famly.

irgendwie hoffe ich ja, dass das kein fake ist :D

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Dres talks about Rock The Bells, touring and how he was a part of one of the best era's in hip-hop.

More after the jump.

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How Black Sheep got signed - Red Alert; Chris Lighty was their original manager.

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"When Kool G Rap did the song 'Rikerz Island,' I was on Riker's Island." The art of "hustling"

I'm sure you're familiar with the term "black sheep", also known as "different from a group of others" and "a mammal of which produces black wool". But I mean the first definition, I'm not writing about actual sheep (the second definition, unless you need help). Well, I pretty much consider myself a black sheep in my family. The proof? Today was the family Barbaque.

My family is giant, I think that in a few years, I will be related to everyone on the face of the earth (not thinking about Adam and Eve). I think at least seven cousins were there, and all of them were in my aunt Debbie's pool. Oh joy. Wetness. I haven't been liking swimming in chlorine filled water for a while now, but I went in just for the sake of it. Mistake number one.

My family is very "active" shall we say? (I mean my cousins, not so much with the adults, well, most adults). Well, not even in my bathing suit yet, my cousin's friend who was there (don't know why, he's not family) almost threw me into the pool with my clothes on. Good thing I took my iPod out of my pocket. The only thing that kept me from falling in was I grabbed his shirt because I would be sure that IF I WENT IN, I'M TAKING HIM WITH ME! He pulled himself up, which, in turn saved me and my jeans.

Dunking, pushing and pulling, I'm surprised none of them died. After I almost drowned from a serious dunking, courtesy of my wild cousin (no one cared as long as I didn't start whining, which I didn't. I long ago learned that would be a futile attempt), I got out of the pool and certainly didn't get back in. I was already mad at one of them for tosing me into the pool and my top almost came off. So I for sure was not going near the pool any time soon.

While I listened to my cousins having fun, laughing, playing, I was reading a book of poems by Tennyson. Half of which I can't understand. But, I figure, I better start evaluating literary works like that young before I get into college with an English major. Yes, that's my life. Studying while every one else has fun. They're just... a little too rough. Black sheep cousin? For sure.

At least it wasn't a total loss, I got to see my cousin and his girlfriend's two kids, Jacob, eighteen months old, and Heidi, five months old. Jacob seemed to like me, and Heidi tolerated me 1/4 of the time and cried the others parts when I was with her. And there was some good food. There's the highlights for me.

Well, half of the family had cigarettes hanging out of their mouths and beers in their hands. What else is new? Though you'd think some would quit after grandma's lung cancer...

I kept to myself almost the whole entire time, either that or adults tried to get me to talk, conjuring awkward silent moments, or the ever so tiresome fight with cousin Kenny, and when I say fight I mean fight I'd don't mean argument. I'm the only cousin he does this with besides Kaysee. I don't care, when I grow up I'm out of here. I loathe family gatherings, not so much the older family, like aunt Mary, aunt Ovilla, uncle Dan, and other aunts and uncles. It's more of a cousin thing. The only thing I don't like about that is the hugging.

Hugging... ugh. Can't we settle for hand shake? I wish I was a boy, that would cut down the hugging by half, as the only people who hug the boys are the aunts. The uncles hand shake them. Sorry, but I'm not really a fan of hugging.

I think I wrote a bit too much this post. I should stop before I my blog starts looking like the complete Webster's dictionary.

Bye, reader. Thanks for reading.

her whole family worried. sally has always been the black sheep, and her only sibling, toni, was always the good girl, tho in their 30s there's not much difference between them to the outside observer.

they were raised army brats, with a dad who never fit the mold but insisted on  having his way, and a pretty but neurotic mother whom they've all since divorced.

neither of the girls turned out "normal". sally studied ballet the whole time she was growing up, and as she got to the time of her first professional audition, her mom threw her out of the house and turned her life upside down. so she turned to the entertainment world, and became other kinds of dancers.

then after suffering the inevitabilities of that life, she cleaned up, and started her own business teaching the tricks of the trade to newcomers and wannabes. it's a successful, but her family think it's ignoble.

toni was the tomboy, but that pleased her father, who flew bombing missions while the kids were growing up. he had a hardline political attitude, while their mother had a religious ferver caught from some tv ministry, and together they worked out impossible ambitions for their kids - sally was going to grow up to be barbie, and toni was going to be the first female top gun.

after high school, toni followed her tomboy tendencies, hung out with those kids who ride skateboards and do graffiti all day, and got a lot barren of tattoos. eventually she hooked up with one of them, and they opened a business selling supplies to all his loser friends. toni was the brains behind the business. the guy just wanted to hang out with his friends and get high. her dad was proud of her.

when sally got pregnant, toni felt like she'd been nailed thru the heart. she'd been trying to get pregnant for years, and really ached for a baby, and here was her bad-girl sister getting to have one. it wasn't fair.

their business was having trouble, the other guy who'd started it with them wanted to do things his way, and was trying to force them out of it. it must have been getting uncomfortable way off in the frozen north, where they were living. they moved down to the sunny south about the time sally announced she was having a baby.

we thought, how nice, to have her barren sister around while she was going thru pregnancy. sally was happy to have her. they didn't always see eye to eye, and her dad always supported toni's side, but they were all one big happy family. except for the mom, whom nobody ever wanted to talk to.

so there were toni and her guy, in an apartment in town, helping sally pick out baby clothes and furniture. they bought some for themselves, too, because the plan was for the baby to spend as much time with toni as with sally. toni had the time, what with not having the business to occupy her, and sally's business was getting publicity and increasing, especially with the glow of pregnancy making her that much more attractive and vivacious.

sally got bigger, and finally peeled like a grape, and out came mascott. i was there. he had a very large winkie for someone so small. sally's whole family was there. the babby daddy showed up late as always, sally's dad was there, and so was toni and her guy, all of them staring down sally's snatch to see the head crowning.

they took him home, and then it started. sally's dad was staying in the spare bedroom while she learned to cope, and he was one big string of criticism. she wasn't holding the baby right. she wasn't feeding him right. she wasn't changing him right. she wasn't a very good mother.

sally didn't want to  just kick him out. she needed him to leave her alone with little mascott, but she knew it must be hard on him, sitting in her living room all day listening to right-wing hate radio loud enough to drown out the baby einstein stuff she was trying to play for little mascott in her bedroom.

finally he left, and sally went back to work. at this point she began taking little mascott over to toni's and leave her to babysit while she went to run her business. sometimes she'd leave him with me when she had to go for quick errands.

things went on like this for some months. toni would keep mascott for days at a time, and then sally would take him for awhile, and they switched off regularly. the sisters were all about we can do this the whole time he's growing up. an extended family, yeah.

they would raise them as if each of the sisters were his mom, and they'd keep shuttling him back and forth between them, for longer periods, as he grew up. they could see him spending summers with one and the school year with the other.

still, sally experienced a lot of browbeating from her sister. toni always had cute new baby clothes that she hinted sally couldn't afford, and always tut-tutted at sally's high energy and dramatic ways, acting like she was the earth mother, and sally was too flighty to raise a baby. toni even told her, during a moment of doubt sally was having, that she was too fucked up to be a good mother, and she should just let toni raise little mascott, because toni could give him so much more of everything and sally's life  was such a bad example.

then toni and her guy started talking about how some production company back out in la, where he was from, was on the verge of starting filming on a reality tv show staring him. okay, we know nothing of the glamor of celebrity streetlife. glittery grit. they'll make a tv show about anything. what the fuck.

sally and toni discussed the idea of her and her guy moving back to la to do this show. sally thought it would be a great business move, and they should definitely do it.

and what about the baby?

sally saw no real reason not to adjust the distance between the two moms. it took 20 minutes to get the baby from one house to the other at this point, but what difference did any further move make? it would be just as much of a trek to get the baby if toni should move to charleston, or new orleans, as if she moved to la. so if they were going to move at all, it meant it didn't matter where they moved. not as long as it was two moms raising their baby.

suddenly the move to the west coast became a given, and they discussion moved to taking little mascott out to california with them.

all of a sudden he was going to be a featured part of the reality tv show. everybody agreed that having a baby as cute as mascott on any show would make the ratings skyrocket. hell, i'd watch it, and i hate tv.

soon the time came for them to pack up the u-haul and make the long trek out to california, thousands of miles. and bringing a baby, it was going to be slow, as well.

the production company had been going to start filming their reality show in the spring, while they still lived in georgia, and then they were going to film them moving to la with the baby, and then whatever. presumably it would end in divorce, like in all realty shows.

but the filming didn't happen while they were still here, and since i only ever talk to sally, i don't know that it's started yet, two months later.

before they left,  i had cautioned sally that she'd want to have a clear title on the baby, with something signed agreeing that mascott was just on loan to toni, and the final say on anything belonged with sally, his mother. you never know with women who can't have children.

sally treated it like a joke.

once they left, sally was busy shepherding her business thru a flooding crisis that closed the shop for nine days. she lost a lot of business. this incident sparked off a bitter war with her scumbag landlord. she was constantly coping with nasty text messages, and the landlord's accusations of her negligence and fault.

she heard from toni often at first, they talked about how little mascott was adapting, what he was eating. he was only 5 months old at this point. the plan was for toni to have him for two months, while they settled in and started filming. sally would have two months to get her business in order, and would then come out to la to get mascott.

soon after toni moved to california, she stopped hearing sally when they talked about mascott's future. lalalalala i can't hear you lalalala. then she got curt. then she stopped answering calls.

toni did, in a conversation i heard sally's side of, at times shouted all the way from the apartment and deck downstairs, i heard toni suggest to sally that she just stay in georgia and deal with her landlord, and let toni keep the baby for now. he was doing so well out in la, he really loved it, and everybody loved him, and he had so many nice things, and it was perfect.

i heard sally tell toni that whatever she might wish to the contrary for mascott, the final decision on every aspect of his life rested with sally as his mother, and that mascott would not be doing many of the things toni was dreaming of.

a week later, i also overheard toni telling sally in very strong terms that she should relinquish custody because toni was a better mother, and sally had too many problems to raise a child. the drugs, the alcohol, the jail time, the bad friends. and at least toni married her guy, while sally had slept with too many to keep track of. 

now, sally is high strung. she's also extremely energetic and driven. she's got her down moods, and they're very down, and her up moods, and they're very up. in her 20s she had her substance issues, and her adventures with the law. she went to rehab. she joined a church. she became a businesswoman. she grew up.

as a mother, she will probably be one of those whirlwinds who accomplish absolutely anything, from the eyes of her adoring little mascott. even her nervous breakdowns will be full of drama and excitement. she'll take little mascott to photo shoots if she has to, to radio interviews, when he's old enough he can run the cash register. he'll grow up studying his mother like the piece of work she is, and become, i don't know a famous stage director. or a fashion designer. or a heavy metal punk guitar player like his daddy. something not normal. and he'll succeed on his own terms.

in the meantime, sally was getting a little upset by the cold treatment.

toni had uttered fighting words. don't come out to la. we're going to get an injunction.

being the cosmopolitain girl she is, sally was out to dinner one night with two of the most successful criminal defense attorneysin town. they were really impressive. the cars, the bling, the names they dropped. they knew both sides of the fence, so if she needed any favors....

sally told them about her little mascott, and her sister's attemps to keep him from her.

here's what you do, they advised, advice worth $650 in the office. get on a plane tomorrow. call this number, these are ex-con friends of ours who owe us favors. they'll go with you to your sister's house,  you get your kid, and get back on the plane. do not talk to your family. tell nobody what you're fixing to do.

in the meantime, she'd been back and forth on the landlord issue. she'd called her own plumbers, who came out and certified that all previous work on the pipes had been substandard. she called code enforcement on the landlord's premises, and he'd been cited for a number of violations. he was now trying to bill her for the entire cost  of repairs to his plumbing. she was now refusing to pay rent for not only the time the store had been closed due to flooding, but also withholding rent going forward, as the lease was now in dispute. actually, she didn't have a lease. he had refused to renew the one-year lease she'd started with, and so she was a tenant at will, and he could jjust kick her out if she made trouble, like calling to report a busted pipe

sally had to arrange someone to take care of the shop, and had to get a lawyer to go to court for her against her landlord, who was asking for damages. but she got everything squared away, and flew out to california just last week. she scheduled the confrontation with her sister for last, and used her time wisely, promoting her business, and auditioning for some crazy tv show. she's a finalist.

when she got to toni's door on friday morning, with a policeman in tow to add authority to her request for her baby back, she was served with papers instead.

not even allowed to see her baby.

OVER A MONTH AGO, toni and her guy went to court in la and asked for an order of temporary custody, on the grounds that the baby had been abandoned by its mother. they were granted it, and a court date was set for this past monday.

sally got to la on friday. saturday, sunday, court. she could answer the allegations on monday, and fuck her.

i want to point out the sheer miracuity of the coincidence here. the court gave them a random hearing date according to the vagaries of their calendar. sally picked a day at random, including sdetouring for business and pleasure, to arrive JUST IN TIME TO GET A LAWYER in order to try to get her baby back. she just by hours missed being a no-show in court and them being given permanent custody. after that, they'd look at her records and history with much more scrutiny at her challenge to their order.

they had planned it for at least a month. it might have gone back to the beginning of the talk about moving out to la for a tv show. it might have gone as far back as when sally first announced she was pregnant, and the family's response was this is terrible how can we control it?

it was a conspiracy to commit perjury and kidnapping, in order to carry out a childish wish that sally should suffer at the hands of her sister, forever. their father supported toni, as he unfailingly does.

sally got a lawyer on the friday afternoon. in la. a woman who thought she probably had a case. sally called me for a character reference, and i wrote what i have put down here, except i didn't say how much of a skank toni is, how pitifully deluded, how spiteful and mean, how like the barren old lady she'll grow into, wrinkled tattoos and all.

sally ran around la like a madwoman all day friday. she checked into a hotel, she got a drug test, she drained her bank account to pay the lawyer.

on monday she walked in to get her baby back.

toni presented allegations.

in the preliminary hearing, the judge decided it was not necessary to inform sally about the legal procedings concerning her baby, because of toni's fear that sally would arrive and create a scene trying to take her baby back.

the papers were not served until this morning, when sally had been in california for a week, and two days after the court hearing. this was the first notice she would have had if she'd stayed here and tended to her business like her sister wanted her to.

toni alleged that sally authorized toni's custody of the baby when he was a newborn, and stated that sally was unable to provide for the baby, and had voluntarily given the baby to toni.

the papers state: "explain why appointing the person in 3 guardian would be best for this child:" answer: "mother has not taken an interest in the child. she has drug and alcoholic issues. she is unable to provide for him. he has been in our care since the age of two weeks. mother has signed power of attorney, medical consent and appointment of temporary guardian."

and then she wrote this as her sworn statement. perjury goes unpunished in this country. why wasn't this taped by court tv? what drama? what a reality show. think of the endorsements.

i scanned the public documents and blanked out the names to protect scumbags as our constitution allows.

i would have charged toni with perjury, kidnapping, and fleeing across state lines, theft by misrepresentation, and trying to work the system to evil ends. i'm not even sure their reality tv series wasn't just made up as the excuse to take the baby to a different state. in fact, in researching, i came across toni's and her guy's myspace pages, and i found an interview he gave back in 2002, where he mentions the reality tv idea that some firm that no longer sponsors him whipped up as a publicity thing. 2002 is a long time to be hot enough for your own reality tv show...

i can't hate her, tho. she's wreaked havoc on sally and little mascott, tho he won't remember except as some fantastic tale that makes up his mother's colorful personality. i pity toni. she is obviously driven crazy by her greed for what she wants and can't have. i know what's wrong with her. she's damaged her fertility by following that extreme diet she eats, avoiding fats and eating way too much soy. it fucks your hormones up.

you want to have a baby, you want to have some fat on you, so the baby fairy will look at you and see a childbearing woman, not a little stick bodied tattooed boy. so i sent her a book on fertility foods.

since plan a didn't work, she could try the diet. if that doesn't work, she could try another charm - adopt - then she'll get pregnant.

my guess is that toni is a poor sick deluded woman with a deafening biological clock, and under the stress of being forced out of her business, and finding her sister the favored one, she reverted to the childhood toni, which thought nothing of taking the doll away from her sister and keeping it because she deserved it more. 

i hope she hasn't commited suicide in the last two days since the baby she'd unlawfully taken was removed from her. it would be the waste of a perfectly good gift if she died. and the loss of someone i considered perfectly okay until she tried to snatch her sister's baby.

it's not so much that toni tried to shame her sister into giving her the baby. families use shame to control each other all the time. it's not that they all ganged up on sally. it's not that she was too unsuspecting - sally has always had bad judgment in her men, and often in her friends and her choice of actions. of course she can't trust her family - another bad decision. it's one of the things she's hear to explore in this life.

the part i find so heinous is the part where toni's guy and dad backed her audacity and encouraged her selfish desire to keep sally's doll, and that they all conspired for what looks like most of the time since sally got pregnant, to take control of her life once and for all, punish her irresponsibility by not allowing her to keep the baby, and drive her into a breakdown after which she can be hospitalized for her own good.

the really appalling part of this for me is that they thought the state would reward this behavior.

as for sally, at his moment she's out in las vegas making contacts and visiting friends, little mascott in her arms, and we'll be seeing her on the weekend, when she gets home.

at that point she'll be just in time to ward off another, perhaps final blow from the landlord.

and start the process of finding a new shop where she can run her business.

and raise her kid far from her family.

Dit nummer ging zoooooo ontzettend hard tijdens het Terschelling schoolreisje in 93/94 (samen met het album Bacdafucup van Onyx), geweldig!

The Flavor Unit MC's - Roll With The Flava

De MC's die je ziet langskomen;
Treach (Naughty by Nature), Chip Fu (Fu-Schnickens), Freddie Foxxx, Queen Latifah, Heavy D, D-Nice en Dres (Black Sheep).

Nog wat informatie over de Flavor Unit;

The Flavor Unit is a crew of emcees and DJs from New York City and Northern New Jersey. It is now known as the Unit. The original version of the crew centered around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. It was Mark's connections to Radio personalities Kool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout who gave the crew quick notoriety. It did not hurt that the original members all had skills and wrote streetwise lyrics. The 45 King eventually fell into serious drug abuse and Queen Latifah took over the name, and it became her umbrella organization. Flavor Unit Management is run by Queen Latifah, one of the original members of the Flavor Unit, and Shakim Compere. Past management clients were Monica, OutKast, and Faith Evans, Total, SWV, Almighty RSO (A group featuring Ray Dog, better known today as Benzino), Groove Theory, Monifah, Gina Thompson, LL Cool J, Zhané, Donell Jones, and Naughty By Nature.

 Kind of gives a whole new meaning to HOG!  I took this picture at Sturgis last week.  Now this guy is really serious about his HOG.  That got me thinking, how serious are we Black Sheep at ministering to our local HOG members?  I know I could stand to improve in that area myself.  Our primary mission focus is supposed to be our local HOG members.  Are we interacting with them, talking with them, riding with them?  I'd like to challenge all Black Sheep to make it a point to talk with at least two local HOG members this month who you currently do not know and see if the Holy Spirit opens doors for you.  I believe He will!

Ovvero: certe volte basta poco per ricominciare con il piede giusto.

Ovvero: è uscito un nuovo disco di Julian Cope

On this new track Raphael Saadiq looks to take it back to the doo-wop era in what I suspect is a deliberate and calculated move to prove that African American artists can still make good soul music. With a litany of artists from the UK and multi-racial bands making soul music reminiscent of a by-gone era, Saadiq probably figures he might as well throw his hat in the ring which is kind of ironic since he's been down this path before. Will he get the the notoriety and spins from radio stations that usually overlook black soul artists in favour of white artists who do the same type of music?

Saadiq was always ahead of the pack even in 1996 when he released "House of Music" with his band Tony Toni Tone. This album was filled with 60's inspired soul anthems such as "still a man" and "don't fall in love" to name a few. The album cover also recreated the look of a live recording session where the band is decked out in 60's inspired garb. At the time the record was released Maxwell and D'angelo were ushering in a new brand of soul that record companies would later coin "neo soul" in hopes a creating a new category or subgenre to repackage and sell soul/r&b music.

Hopefully Raphael gets the kind of attention I think he deserves but my gut feeling is saying otherwise. Unfortunately I don't think the media or mainstream public will be impressed when they hear a retro soul record from a blackman because they've come to expect that from black people - kinda like the black guy who can dunk. It's sad to say but if he was more "melanin deficient" I think he would garner more excitement and critical acclaim. I have a rather cynical view of the North American record buying market which Dres from Black Sheep broke down quite eloquently (using hiphop as an example) with his verse from the song "to whom it may concern" where he states the following.

"But movin right along to the Woodstock
Stop, remember when the band was on rock
Negro music, heh, seperated
It blew up and became rap
and you hated it
That's of course till you see
A motherfucker that, could be in your family
Drop lyrics then you hear it
With glee, then only thing it tells me
Is that you know a good thing
when you see it.
You run to get a ten
Cause you cannot be it
So, off the top off my head
I guess I keep it rollin
Till aaaaaaah... the rap gets stolen
Like so many other things called theft
And when it's gone what will be left
YOU sucker, dumb fucker don't turn blue
You know what?
Talkin' to you"

Noel Gallagher should have listened to this verse before sounding off...I'll let you interpret.

Below is a gift for reading this post - buy the record when it drops September 16.

Raphael Saadiq ft Stevie Wonder -Like it (Download)

Raphael's myspace

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Part Two

Part Three

So, we went to SiS (Schlaflos im Sattel) last weekend. I'm glad we did. It was great to see friends from throughout the world there. This little (only 400+ participants) is one of the best events this side of the Atlantic. Phaty, Keili and crew do a fantastic job and are to be commended for their efforts. THANKS GANG! What is also commendable is the efforts of the local people. They come out, volunteer, work hard, make food, serve drinks, etc. for 3+ days. I'm sure that they make a bunch of money from all of us, but it wouldn't be the event that it is without the participation of the people of Weidenthal.

Here are a few photos from the event. Many more here and here.

This ball was about 6' tall and had fake snow falling inside.

Toilet out of order. That's bad at a bike event!

Marty rocking a lap in partion BWR gear.

Me (sleeping whilst standing...I think).

My teammate Matthias coming in at the end of the race.

Another of Matthias

A beautiful singlespeed Gary Fisher Superfly

That's me there with all the colors on the lead-out lap.

Our friend David....always smiling

There's a lot of love going on (actually, it was after bike jousting).

Tattoos and piercings everywhere

Even belt-drive fixies could be found

Also, a Ti Independent Fabrication singlespeed it belongs to Ken who is really nice and fast... bastard!

Yup... clueless me before the start.

Marty hitting the Start/Finish at some point during the night.

Busted! Got to love the Dopers Suck socks I bought from Ken.

A great shot of Ed that I stole from Keili's photos. Thanks Keili.

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So.... after all those pics, it's probably time to write just a bit. We hit town on Friday, went for a ride with Ken and then had fun chatting with everyone we know and having a few drinks. We woke the next morning to a beautiful day, had breakfast, ate some lunch, chatted some more and then did a lap of the course. We watched a bit of the singlespeed race, watched the jousting, took lots of photos and generally relaxed.

The race started just before 21:00 and I did the first two laps. I felt surprisingly good. During the first lap I, somehow, caught up with Marty and tailed him up the long climb to the top of the mountain. It was really great to have teammates in like uniforms for a change. Most of the races that I go to I don't really know anyone and it's good to have people you know around. Anyway, I cranked out a couple of first laps and then Matthias went out. After that, Armin and then Christian. While they were out I had a shot of really good Scotch and some food up at the refreshment booth and headed back for a nap. I awoke about 2:00 after what amounted to an hours sleep and then waited. No one had awoken me and I didn't know that Christian had already done his two laps and then he rolled around after a break with food. He dropped the food and off he went for a third lap. Way to go man!

Then I hit the trail again and cranked out my fastest lap of the night. By then, there was a beautiful tracked worked in to even the most difficult parts of the course. Sadly, most of the way through my 3rd lap I ran across the ambulance picking up their second victim of the night. He'd fallen and broken his pelvis (OUCH!!!). The first had hurt himself but not too badly (Phaty informed me that both hurt guys have said that they'll be back again next year). Luckily, the worst injuries I received amounted to sore muscles and a small rash from Stinging Nettles wrapping around my arm on the previous days fun ride.

Another couple of comments. This race has to have a large majority of the 29'ers and singlespeeds from Germany if not the middle part of Europe in general. If you've got the time, cruise through a lot of the photos. There are some beauties there. Thanks again to everyone that had something to do with this race. It's the best!

My little Dinotte light performed well as did all my various Ergon products (BC2 pack, grips and gloves). I've mentioned it before and will again. I love Ergon! My Black Sheep is, finally, starting to act the way that I've always wanted it to. I might have been the week we spent together in Italy. Who knows? Anyway, if/when I get my seatpost I'll have a complete bike after nearly two years of waiting. Is it time to get a new one yet? :-)

This is a little pic of said seatpost if/when it ever comes.

A little home news. I'm applying for another job at the school doing the same job as I attempted to get the last time but at the school that I teach in nearly daily. Wish me luck. At 46 I suppose it's time that I attempt to grow up and have a 'real' job.

O.K., now that I've worn out your eyes and brain.... I'm signing off.

FYI - Ken... still working on the tagged Blog.

If you like Sean of the Dead then you will love this movie. Unlike the american's poor attempts with movies like Slither, the Kiwi contingent came up with a very funny and intensely ridiculous movie that raises alot of belly laughs and smiles throughout.

Nathan Meister was the hero Henry out to stop his brother's (Matthew Chamberlain as Oliver) evil plans for genetically modified sheep. The fact that he was terrified of sheep only proved to make it more funny. Disengage the brain, grab some popcorn and settle in for a delightfully un-Hollywood comedy that was both refreshing and sharp. Enjoy <3

Black Sheep Trailer

This one has Black Sheep and Posdnuos from De La Soul on it. It is unreal as is the backstory they provide. Go get it while the gettin's good.

Found a link to a demoey unreleased version of 'Scenario' by A Tribe Called Quest with verses from De La and Black Sheep. Pretty beast. Go here

Track of the day obviously

Found a link to a list of the greatest bald people ever. I feel hurt and excluded. For what it's worth, I started to lose my hair at the age of 17 and first noticed when a lad I know called Justin stated poking fun at the fact that he could see my scalp at any given point through my dracula meets aha haircut. I'll dig out a photo one o' these days. Shag it, the list....here ya go

p.s. Emmanuelle, the 'classic' saucy nudey flick is a pile o poo. It has less of a plot than Mulholland Drive (which actually rules). Anyway, saw it last night. total underwear. As I type I'm listening to Bobby Conn and The Glass Gypsies - The Homeland. Its also pretty pants. I like that new Fleet Foxes though.

ta me amach

mj

2 Reasons for this post.

1. 'bout to hear a classic track's unreleased version.
2. check out buddy's unibrow on the right!

So back to the unreleased version of Scenario. This is one of the original takes of ‘Scenario’ featuring the whole Native Tongues crew. When I saw this Shake's site, I had to share it.

Check it out.

A Tribe Called Quest feat. De La Soul, Black Sheep & L.O.N.S.
‘Scenario’ (Unreleased Version)

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Check out more versions here: unkut.com

Here's something to compare it with... just in case you forgot how the original LP Version went.

Listen/Download "Scenario" Unreleased

Wow. The download is from 2dopeboyz and original content & excerpts from Unkut:

Turns out there’s another version according to DJ Johnny Juice:

“This is NOT the version I had. Pos’ verse was waaaay better. Brown’s verse was different too. Mase was on it as well as Baby Chris Lighty. And no one did “What’s the Scenario” for a hook. This version must have been done after I bounced.”

Here’s Juice’s back-story about the very first take if you missed it previously:

A Tribe Called Quest was doing ‘Scenario’. It was me, Dinco, Busta, Jarobi was there – everybody was in that motherfucker – Dres from Black Sheep was there, both of ‘em, Chris Lighty, Mase and Pos from De La, all them motherfuckers rhymed on ‘Scenario’. Everybody rhymed on it but Q-Tip, and the best motherfucker on that shit was Posdnuos. He fuckin’ destroyed it, and he ain’t even like the beat! And after he finished rhyming, everybody went back and rewrote their rhymes!

We was at Unique Studio, that motherfucker finished rhyming, he came out and goes, ‘That shit was wack.’ That’s what Pos said. In the middle of his shit, everybody was like, ‘Damn, yo!’ That’s how nice that shit was. He made ‘em turn off all the samples, ‘cos they had like 15 samples in there. They had an ‘Engine Number 9′ sample, that shit by Wilson Pickett, they had four or five samples on there that came on for different people, and Pos didn’t like none of ‘em so he just rhymed to the drums, and that motherfucker destroyed it. That shit wasn’t even close.

Wow! It's not every day a track of this magnitude leaks. I'm talking classic, classic type shit, and there's an unreleased version!? What's even crazier is that there are even more versions out there. How is this possible? DJ Johnny Juice knows.

According to DJ Johnny Juice:

"A Tribe Called Quest was doing ‘Scenario’. It was me, Dinco, Busta, Jarobi was there – everybody was in that motherfucker – Dres from Black Sheep was there, both of ‘em, Chris Lighty, Mase and Pos from De La, all them motherfuckers rhymed on ‘Scenario’. Everybody rhymed on it but Q-Tip, and the best motherfucker on that shit was Posdnuos. He fuckin’ destroyed it, and he ain’t even like the beat! And after he finished rhyming, everybody went back and rewrote their rhymes!

We was at Unique Studio, that motherfucker finished rhyming, he came out and goes, ‘That shit was wack.’ That’s what Pos said. In the middle of his shit, everybody was like, ‘Damn, yo!’ That’s how nice that shit was. He made ‘em turn off all the samples, ‘cos they had like 15 samples in there. They had an ‘Engine Number 9′ sample, that shit by Wilson Pickett, they had four or five samples on there that came on for different people, and Pos didn’t like none of ‘em so he just rhymed to the drums, and that motherfucker destroyed it. That shit wasn’t even close."

Although nothing can test the original, it's nice to hear some fresh Tribe, and I'm pretty excited about other versions of this floating around.

A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario Unreleased Version (featuring De La Soul, Black Sheep and L.O.N.S.)