I'm ending the year by traveling back in time.
3,000 years.

Atlanta Civic Center

November 15, 2008 - May 2009

streetlights [chaseology.com] from chase. on Vimeo.
2009 was a hell of a year.
it brought so much change.
i can only imagine what's to come.
this video is a blip.
an arbitrary 3 minute project.
me and my friends promenading through Atlanta.

I like to play Connect Four. I enjoy observing people while
they play and beat me. I'm not sure what it is about board games,
video games, and even some card games---I suck. I still enjoying
playing but not for the sport. Since I always insist on being black,
I enjoy the smug smirk people get when they plunk down their 4th
strategically placed red checker. I must admit initially it disturbed
me that I couldn't win a game designed for children ages seven and up.
I guess it's one of those things. Still, it pickles me tink when people
beat me and bask in their moment of mental superiority.

Hustler Watch: Kid Cudi from Eighty81 on Vimeo.
i saw this on onsmash & kanye's blog.

This song reminds me of my first two years of college.
Living in the dorms, frolicking freely, being a semi-adult.

I'm huge fan of DJ SPK! You should be too!
This is her first OFFICIAL mixtape.
I love it! A LOT.
Download her Mixtape in 5...4...3...2...
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In lieu of some cliche holiday themed vocabulary term I choose something a little more poignant. We all know a thing or two about "sexting" & hooking up doesn't matter if you are bitterly divorced, recently dumped, single or cheating on your significant others. What with it being Christmas Eve, most of the holiday hoes are horny and scouring their phones for someone to warm up their crotch tonight. Good Lick, I mean LUCK.

Sexting

This has been a great year in music.
Personally, I've had some astonishing music related experiences this year.
Some were amazing, some orgasmic, some unbelievable, some fantastic.
With Chester French, Janelle Monae, Kanye and a slew of other artist releasing albums
next year, I'm sure 2009 will be teeming with talent.
I've compiled a list my favorite albums this year.
They are rank in order based on awesomeness.
The top ten are the best (of course).
"If it ain't on here, I ain't trying to hear it."

1. Solange Knowles - Sol-Angel and the Hadley Street Dreams
2. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
3. Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak
4. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
5. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
6. Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro
7. Santogold - Santogold
8. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
9. Janelle Monae - Metropolis The Chase Suite
10. Lady Gaga - The Fame
11. Kanye West - Graduation
12. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
13. Britney Spears - Circus
14. Proton - Red & Purple Vol. 1
15. Lloyd - Lessons In Love
16. N.E.R.D - Seeing Sounds
17. Madonna - Hard Candy
18. Wale - Mixtape About Nothing
19. Lil Wayne - The Carter III
20. The Killers - Day & Age
21. Beck - Modern Guilt
22. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
23. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
24. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale EP
25. Michelle Williams - Unexpected
26. John Legend - Evolver
27. Grace Jones - Hurricane
28. Keane - Perfect Symmetry
29. Lenny Kravitz - It's Time For A Love Revolution
30. Portishead - Third
31. Colin Munroe - Colin Munroe is the Unsung Hero

MERRY HOLIDAYS PEOPLE!

I'd been meaning to go to Lenny's Bar for a while. I missed tons of Janelle Monae shows there thinking
it was in Decatur when it's actually on Decatur street. Go figure, yeah so I went last night to "Down & Dirty."
I'd planned on going with people but that kind of fell through.I was torn because I didn't want to go stag.
But since you only live once, I decided to trek there by myself, because not going & sitting in my apt. for another night
was not in the cards. I made my way through the hood that is my block and hopped on the first thing smoking east of 5 Points.
Getting there was easy as pie, for all my fellow MARTA patrons take eastbound to King Memorial and walk a few blocks.
Yea, so Lenny's is a nice, low key, diverse, eclectic spot. There's pool, booze, regular people, and no pretense.
I eased in, since I was flying solo I didn't want to look like I was out of place, LOL. I made my waynear the stage and
grabbed a seat. I sat there and jammed for a minute, the DJ was dope. He had skills I remember he mixed the new
Common record with this super old school beat, it was love. I got myself a rum and coke and just kind of fucked around
for a bit. I saw this random girl I knew from some class a million years ago, and talked to a few strangers.
I only stayed for an hour because I knew I was riding the train home and I didn't know exactly what time the
hoodlums hit the streets to rob dirt poor unsuspecting kids like myself. I enjoyed my brief little foray into Lenny's world.
I'll definitely make my way back up that way. If you're in the downtown area, just wanna go someone where no-body knows
your name and their probably too into their drink and the music to care, check out Lenny's Bar on Decatur St.

[feet] chaseology.com from chase. on Vimeo.

I'll be there, will you?
Also you gotta love ATLANTA ART!
Dosa Kim!

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Lindsay Lohan should replace the Wendy's Girl.

The Drifters - White Christmas [click to hear/download]
is my absolute favorite Christmas Song.
I think it's because Home Alone is one of my favorite Christmas movies.
Sidenote: I want a black Christmas tree!

Lil Balloon from Sébastien Abes on Vimeo.
the colors are brilliant, i love this.

I produced this for Dominique. She is the dopest make-up artist in all the land.
Sadly as a guy I can't take advantage of her services but all you ladies should.
She can get it DONE.

I love Common, I worship Common after all is there a anybody in this wretched world who doesn't. I own most of his albums. He always delivers and he always do so in his own way. I like this album a lot. I think he did his thing in the studio with The Neptunes. I will say that I'm not sure if I like it as much as his last album----that album was amazing. But yeah...
Below: Common's 8th studio album track by track.

Universal Mind Control - The beat is hypnotic (clearly The Neptunes can't lose).
The moment I heard this record I had high expectations for this record.

Punk Drunk Love - This is a decent track. I don't love it, don't hate it. I may dig it in the future.
I feel like Kanye was just thrown in.

Make My Day - The BEST SONG ON THIS RECORD if only because I think Ceelo is king.
But no, this song is a smash.

Sex 4 Sugar - This track is okay...
The rhymes are kinda weak to me...Common is better than this.
Then again what do I know...No actually, I stand by my comment.
He is much better than this.

Announcement - This could possibly be my new shit.
I love this one. Heard it before and I loved it then.

Gladiator - This song sounds like the Common of albums past.
The production is meaty and the rhymes are effortless.

Changes - You gotta do an Obama record! LOL.
I don't know...to me it is a little cheesy.

Inhale - I like it.

What A World - FUCK YES! Chester French!
This is my second favorite track. D.A. & Max funk it up.

Everywhere - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I think is is incredible. Insanely good.

Billionaire Boys Club Bow Tie & Martini Full Zip Hoodie

The good people over @ FRESH.i.AM.net [Tunde] wanted me to share something with you all.
Tunde designed the cover for Prince Presto's The Glamour.
YOU GOTTA CHECK IT OUT. I just listened to some of it. INSANE.
Listen for yourself.

Beyonce'd (verb) -
To ruthlessly steal an idea/concept/song/outfit/career/theme or prop from another artist.
see link for references.

Andrew: Hey did you see that new Duffy video?
Lance: Yeah, it was pretty good. It's crazy how she totally beyonce'd Amy Winehouse's career.
Andrew: No she didn't! It's not like she handed her the crack pipe!
Lance: Didn't she Drew, didn't she.

To Wake A Cat. from chase. on Vimeo.

Insanely good performances.
The video screens, his energy, the music, the lyrics.
Insanely good.

Janelle Monae is so much more talented than Rihanna.
That is all.

Australian electro-pop singer and former child actor Sam Sparro enjoyed a global smash this year with Black and Gold, a whole world away from his first paid gig in a McDonald's advert. He talks about success, mixtapes, styling himself and Pat Kenny being a plank.

Where did you get the idea to do an online mixtape entitled Songs Not Bombs?

Actually, it's quite a funny one. I read that I had done a mixtape called Songs Not Bombs and I hadn't, so I thought I might as well. It was a nice opportunity to mix up a load of my favourites tunes both new and old -- so you've got MIA, Klaxons, The Gossip, Roísín Murphy and old classics from Soul II Soul and Visage.

So are a lot of other things that are written and said about you happen to be untrue?

I'd say between 40-50pc of what's printed is inaccurate. There tends to be so much cut and paste in journalism. I've read that my dad is a baptist minister and my mum used to be Miss Finland.

My father was a gospel recording artist but his tastes were very diverse. My grandfather is a well-know jazz musician and played with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr in a television orchestra. My grandmother seems to check my Myspace page every day, which is funny!

You've taken full control of all your artwork and videos. Is this proving to be rewarding or demanding?

I love the creative side of it. Creating graphics and making videos is so much fun and extremely rewarding. It's the plus side of the job. I love the singing, dressing up and having fun. The endless travelling can be a drag, and so can endlessly talking about myself! While I like a lot of things about touring, it's not a normal way to live. Some people go on the road and never come back -- look at the likes of Axl Rose! You go a bit loopy, so it's good to get back to reality.

Yeah, because I was just making stuff for myself in my bedroom, so to have played on radio all around the world is amazing.

I never expected it to take off the way it has, but it's so exciting. I want my music to take people out of their own life a bit and make them feel happy and feel that they're more than what they think they are, whatever that is. The world is not as ordinary as people want you to think it is.

If the music can make you forget about your stupid job and your bills and your relationship problems for half an hour, I'm happy with that.

Do you intend to act again or do you harbour any other creative ambitions?

I'd like to do get round to some side projects and release other music under different aliases. I'd also like to do some filming again, but on the other side of the camera and do something that isn't too fluffy.

Day & Nite (Crookers Remix)

SPINNING IN A CHAIR. [music by: Proton] from chase. on Vimeo.

Sooner Or Later - Behind The Scenes

Ryan Leslie is here for a recording session (and our interview) wearing a Diesel jacket and YSL shoes so shiny-black they justify keeping his Gucci sunglasses on. And though the 30-year-old singer and producer won't leave this room for eight hours (today he's working on songs for Jennifer Lopez), he's in the middle of a show. “When this thing is on, which it always is, I'm on stage." The "thing" Leslie is referring to is a video camera -- Leslie films his every waking moment. He wants to set an example, one that encompasses not only producing and performing, but "my shortcomings, my faults, my obsessive behavior." The edited footage is posted on YouTube, where you can see him crafting all the tracks that will appear on his forthcoming debut self-titled LP, due out in February.

Leslie's inexhaustible energy has always needed big outlets. He went to Harvard at age 15 after scoring a 1600 on the SATs. While studying, he also taught himself music production. After graduation, he discovered and steered the career of model-turned-Bad Boy Records chanteuse Cassie, and the women and breakups that ensued fuel most of his new album. Take "I.R.I.N.A," a song Leslie says is about post-breakup depression. The "Irina" of that song is model Irina Sheik, just one of several models Leslie's been linked to. But he bristles at the idea of filming these much-filmed women: "Oh ... no!" He smiles. "We don't film after the date is over."
[source]

The first time that I probably realized, 'OK, this is not a stereotypical black girl moment,' I was in the fourth grade... I went to a record store and bought all these Alanis Morissette and Fiona Apple records," recalls Solange Knowles with a laugh. "I remember coming home and blasting them in my room, and my mother being like, 'That's devil worship music!'"

Knowles is tucked sweetly, if sickly, into the corner of a banquette in the restaurant of a W Hotel in Manhattan, nursing a mean cold or flu -- "I don't even want to tell you what I think I have, because you'll be like, 'Let me sit back'" -- but every bit the professional, she has shown up for the fight, ready to answer whatever questions I might have in an effort to further promote her new record, SoL-AngeL & the Hadley St. Dreams, with the aim of not merely getting people to buy it, but to understand it... and to understand her.

Sipping chamomile tea, wearing a white Armani sweater draped over her impossibly small shoulders, Armani velour jeans and shiny white patent leather jazz shoes, she looks something like a beautiful, frail bird whose wings have been flapping much too fast of late. Far from the vibrant soul-queen persona she affects in videos and public appearances (and the accompanying pictures here), today Solange is decidedly subdued and the lips are un-glossed -- not for nothing, neither. In the past two weeks, she's jetted from Paris to New York to Bermuda and back to New York, performing, doing photo shoots and press, filming a video, and being a mom to her 4-year-old son, Julez. "The problem is that I haven't had just one night or day to really just rest," she says, the need for rest practically pulsating from her body. Knowles insists, though, that after this interview, and another performance the next day, she's going to take a break. When I ask her why she works herself so hard, she explains, "I come from a family of workaholics. Both of my parents have hustler spirits. So whenever you grow up in that kind of household, you know, it's just a hustler spirit -- work, work, work. It's hard to know anything else." .... For the Full Article Click Here. 

"c'M0N 0N my 0WN"[Chester French]
source.

I used to love this song and I still do. How could you not like this damn song.