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Hottest track of 2010, and it’s only JANUARY!
Not gonna lie.. I am Loving the state of music right now. Things generally haven’t been this dope since the 60’s, and here we are, at only the beginning of an exciting new era where honest creative energy, and strait dopeness, prevails. To the artists who keep things interesting..Thank You!
Here’s a little Flying Lotus for you. Never fails to explode my mind’
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Judge sentences graffiti vandal to eight years
A habitual graffiti vandal gave a tearful plea for probation Friday but instead got eight years behind bars.
Sebastion Perez, 18, pleaded guilty to three graffiti charges along with possession of marijuana, all state jail felonies.
State District Judge Marisela Saldaña sentenced him to the maximum two years in a state jail on each count. He broke into loud sobs when the judge announced her decision to stack the sentences.
Perez had told the judge that for months he had gone out with friends night after night, smoking marijuana and then spray-painting.
“Spraying became a habit for me,” he said. “I stopped when I saw it was getting me no where.”
He told her it was all behind him and that if put on probation he would finish high school, help clean up graffiti and find a job.
He wore a white cross around his neck and tears streamed down his face as his mother testified about his younger brother’s holiday wish — to have him back home.
But the judge was not convinced. At one point, she started to read aloud the names of the people whose properties were spray-painted. She stopped in frustration after about more than two dozen names and stared at Perez.
“You were a busy, busy, busy young man,” she said. “Why do you pick on innocent people who have done nothing to you?”
Police said Perez went on a spray-painting spree that lasted from March to August along South Padre Island Drive.
His targets included a vacant car dealership, a pediatric clinic, a medical imaging facility. He also left his mark on fences, homes, garages, traffic signs, and telephone boxes in what amounted to more than $7,300 in damages, police said.
Perez’s attorney, Stephen Giovannini told the judge state jail would do his client no good. He suggested Perez be made to pay restitution and submit to drug treatment.
“He’s crying because he’s remorseful. He’s repentant,” he said. “He really is sorry.”
Prosecutor Joe Mike Peña pointed out Perez already had a chance to turn his life around and violated his pretrial supervision.
Deanna McQueen, the department’s graffiti coordinator, said the sentence should send a strong message to other would-be vandals.
“It was a good day for the graffiti task force and for the citizens of Corpus Christi,” she said.
This is fucking silly, 8 fucking years, please.
This is some bullshit .. There are other criminals out doing some actual harm to the world and some kid gets 8 years .. Justice .. I think not
This is the jam
Cosmogramma
The Los Angeles beat-mangler Flying Lotus is a busy, busy man. Even if he hasn’t released a proper album since 2008’s Los Angeles, he’s cranked out an avalanche of remixes, collaborations, and other odds and ends over the past few years, and he’s not exactly slowing down in 2010. On Christmas day, FlyLo announced on the Brainfeeder site that he’s got another album in the works:Cosmogramma, due April 20 from Warp. It can’t be a coincidence that this guy’s album release date is 4/20, can it?
via Pitchfork
Alice Coltrane in Bombay
