Mixtape week
Mixtapes. The lost relic of days and media gone by. Remembered as those things that took hours to create taping songs off the radio or, if you were lucky enough to own a double deck, off borrowed tapes. It was the original music piracy, and while the ethos is gone the name remains. Reborn as a marketing tool to up [...]
Jean Talon market
The Jean Talon market here in Montreal, is one of many outdoor markets that are popular in the summer months. The most well know of which is the Atwater market. But while the Atwater is trendy and pricey.. the Jean talon market is much more of a neighborhood market (ie less tourist) .. it is as the wife calls it [...]
2009 BET Awards Cypher
Black thought kills it on this. 2009 BET Awards Cypher #3: Mos Def, Black Thought and Eminem. from Douglas Rogers on Vimeo.
2:30am
It’s 2:30am on a Tuesday morning. Even though the sun has been down for hours the heat hangs over the city like an unseen oppressive cloud. It’s 27 degrees 37 with the humidity. Some people argue that you can’t count the humidity but today they’d be wrong. The air is thicker, and stagnant. You don’t so much breath in the [...]
