The iTunes Music Store is the world’s largest music retailer and its Hip-Hop/Rap page is the most popular genre homepage.

This is a significant milestone for Dopetracks.

–> The Dopetracks Blog Post
–> The Mixtape in The iTunes Music Store

I made a design for the Obama t-shirt contest. I made it while I was in Israel. It took about 10 minutes, but I think its pretty neat. Apparently, so do a few other hundred people apparently.

Do you want one? If I get enough votes, maybe they will send me some to give to my friends.

Step 1. Go to http://www.teesbythepeople.com/
Step 2. Find my design… its on page 2 or 3
Step 3. Give my design 5 stars.
Step 4. Tell all your friends
Step 5. Feel good that you helped a brother out.

Thank you!
Israel photos coming any day now.

Either war is obsolete. Or man is. - Bucky

So many brilliant minds.
So many dollars.
So much work.
So much creativity.
So much innovation.

For what?

To create brilliant, beautiful, killing machines.

This is Paul. To say he’s my best friend makes the whole thing sound too fucking cheesy. BFF makes me feel like I’m in High School. Paul is more than a friend. He is honest. He makes me laugh & cry. He inspires me and frustrates me. He may have been born 367 days after me, but it feels more like we were born in the same minute. He’s my Sagittariun brother from another… born of the same nerdy, boy-man, charming, creative, excited by the mundane, skeptic of the widely accepted, galactic fairy dust.

We are the wondertwins of pontification. We can talk about everything & nothing for hours.. and make that topic damn entertaining. From heady psychological dissection of human nature to the philosophy of crunchy drums and wobbly basslines to the art of the start.

Most of all.. he challenges me. Even when I don’t want a challenge. He’ll always pose a different viewpoint. It even makes my blood boil sometimes, but I appreciate it always. Challenging friends are good. He who wants a friend that lets you hear what you want to hear all the time is not wanting to face growth.

And that’s the end of that one.

Check out Paul’s fresh tumbl.

Every piece is exquisite.
Walking through the halls I could not help but feel at awe with what mankind is capable of creating. We are without a doubt creative beings. The French understand this very well.

Randomly ran into a big dance party. Parisian kids like to dance. The music was kind-of cheesy tho.

Lexi’s friend Jerome had a comedy performance. Her friends are very friendly. Comedy in French is hard to understand if you don’t speak the language. I only got the jokes that involved large sexual hand gestures.

Obligatory Eiffel Tower shots. It looks really nice at night. The lines are too long, though. We didn’t go up.

Gargoyles are funny and creepy and weird and beautiful.. and cool. I always thought their purpose was decorative and spiritual - to protect the church from evil spirits. But it seems that their main purpose is functional. A Gargoyle is nothing more than a water spout designed to direct rainwater away from the structure to protect is from water damage. Notre Dam has some badass Gargoyles.

There is a bakery every 10 meters. I think I will use bakery as my unit measure from now on. There’s a coffee shop every 2 bakeries. There is also a butcher every 4 bakeries. Every 5 bakeries or so… there is an intersection with cars. The cars are usually 1/4 to 1/2 bakery in size.

Still a bit disoriented… I fumbled out of Tuhin’s apartment and walked around the 19th Arrondissement for a few hours. There’s a beautiful little park here called Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It is kind-of a mini central park with sprawling hillside lawns littered with couples, families, and friends enjoying the sun. In the middle of the park is a small lake-ish thing with a fortress-esque rock that is topped by a little temple overlooking the city. There is a waterfall and stream that run through and around the rocks. The water trickles down steps where kids take off their shoes and play in the water.

Rooftop gardens and windowsill planers overflow with life. Paris is very green right now. I walk around holding back the urge to eat everything in sight.

I’m also very proud of the donations to just-one that came out of this. Thank you so much. These donations will go a long way in a place where the dollar is still ridiculously strong.