Fives for 05
edpowers
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1)let a heatrock loose2)reality tv3)family & friends making major moves4)stay flyyyyyyyyy5)Dolphins finishing strongbonus: my kid is a genius ! 
1)richard pryor dies2)chappelle show dies3)Katrina4)hip hop music5)cigarettes still got me
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1. Got my grad school papers
2. My girl moved out to Philly
3. Filling the Expedit with goodies
4. Getting checked out at the doctors with a clean bill of health
5. Enjoying my first full-time job
Bonus: Reconnected with my pops on some, "I'm really lucky to have you in my life, but we need to communicate better" steez.
1. My girl and I broke up
2. There goes the NFL season...
3. Racism is still alive and well in this country
Looking forward to making more moves and whatever else '06 brings.
2.digi 002 Protools - Making music has never been quicker!
3.27 years of eating meat is gone - Vegetarian!
4.Quit Drinking Coffee - I dont have the jimmy leg no mo'
5.My family, my woman, my dog all alive and healthy
6.Quit smoking the greens
1.My boy Jr. tragically passing away in a construction site accident
2.after one year of living in new apartment the Super and I are still beefin (cops have been called 4 times)
3.Having to move AGAIN (taking apart the expedit unit) another real estate fee!
4.Breaking the sunroof of my car to get keys that I locked inside (See number 6. on above list).
Damn thats about it. Rough start but ending off on a nice note (minus living situation)
Job is secure
Playstation Warriors/Batman/Topspin
Mo' Rekkids
Mo' cookin.
My old roomate just passed
My wife and I separated
Philadelphia collapses
Katrina
Artest might tank the Pacers season
1. My Girl
2. Record Day(s)
3. That Jumanji Ganji
4. Amazing Job
5. Winter Break Partying/Gigs
Honorable Mention: records, my soulstrut folls, alcohol, minimal drama
1. Parentals
2. School
3. Car Troubles All Year
4. Government Fines (still paying off)
5. Everything On The News
Looking Towards Zero Six:
1. Actually Releasing Something
2. Getting/Moving Into A New Place
3. Getting A Raise
4. Finding Records
5. Finally Getting My Travel On
Here's a toast to my folls, trees, and women. Merry New Year.
1) my girlfriend
2) my job - super easy with almost no supervision and chill coworkers.
3) Richmond VA been here a year and I am starting to like it
4) completed a mix tape
5) records
1) Student motherfucking loans
2) car bullshit
3) landlord bullshit
4) family bullshit
5) GW's constant stream of deadly bullshit
2.scarlett johanson movies(ahhh.. suki suki)
3.not having bought records in four months
4.still having my sp1200 even while software tries to emulate the sound
5.ny giants winning season
1: Kauai for Two Weeks on Friday
2: Utah Pow Pow for 5 Days around NYE
3: Olympics in Torino after the New Year
4: My Health
5: My Family
BONUS 6: Getting amazing records everyday
Downtrodden:
I HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
Set Me free - Vanilla Fudge
crispy cold, blindingly bright, practically no wind winter days
lemon biscotti
70's ski jackets
little little kids with runny noses and that funny snowsuit waddle
the bad and the ugly[/b]
dirty slush and wet garbage
non-stop Christmas carols on oldies stations - practically the only radio I listen to and this time of the year is terrible
still no working speakers
and none of this matters too much because this is the hardest time of the year for people on the street and strays
horrible slience from Iraq regarding the four hostages
publishing my first academic paper on sound design (as an undergraduate no less)
my girl being the best snuggler i've ever dated
playing out in rva, dc, and beyond
wfmu fair
good friends and good finds
nay
health insurance is expensive because i have a weak ass stomach
school related stress
fighting with the lady
record shipping casualty
katrina
1. Selling and buying records on eBay.
2. Meeting new people.
3. Kauai trip over the summer.
4. Tutuoring 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders.
5. Latin.
Solitudo placet musis, urbs inimica poetis.
1)Washington DC area funk/hanging out with Joe Quarterman & Jackie Lee
2)Lebarge Che Francois
3)the girlfriend
4)vitamin water discovered
5)god this steel drums + funk band version of star wars is sick
sour
1)Friends that lost family members/were hurt
2)car broken into/tires slashed/stuff stolen
3)Katrina
4)credit card payments
5)the current administration
1. finally winning over a girl in 2005 who blew me off BIG time in 2004. That persistence thing does pay off.
2. Still making it by just working in a record store and DJing, things are tight $ wise, but I am happy.
3. Good record finds in the '05
4. DJing to the biggest crowds I have ever had the pleasure to DJ to
5. Friends are in great supply and better than ever
bad
1. my first entrepunurial venture failing and having a "hit" put out on me because of it.
2. weather sucked this year
3. the passing of some legends..Little Milton, R.L. Burnside, Pryor...
good wins 5-3
oh I wrote about it when it happened...we had this asshole partner we 86'd with a court order...he was none to pleased, especially when he was unsuccesful suing us for the store and he figured he could just strong arm us. he sent a bunch of dudes with baseball bats after me, luckily they were easily outsmarted and I was able to vacate where I was when they showed up minutes after I left...I am thinking asshole partner ran out of $ and could no longer afford to hire goons, but he has threatened my partner recently...scary, stupid shit to endure over a beer store.