Also my family and I are talking a trip to Europe in 18 days. London, Brussels, Bruges, and Paris. I know it’s too much for just over a week but I wanted them to experience as much magic and beauty as

Strange. As Americans we pride ourselves in our knowledge of geography. Although looking back I I did fail “the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of English empire and American hegemony” in the

are you guys trolling or is this real? Without the US, Iran would still be Persia and a whole lot of other bad shit would have never happened, like the Taliban for example.

Yesterday, in a conversation with someone about immigrant communities in Los Angeles, I asked what is the difference between "Iranian" and "Persian". They're interchangeable, apparently. 

This is a weird question. I never even thought about "how". I just got interested in something and followed it. Digging is one part of it, for sure, but also just following the things that you like ab

and then there's Equatorial Guinea, that some might know from Dogs of War

and then there's Equatorial Guinea, that some might know from Dogs of War

Yesterday in line at Costco I said out loud “hey! You think Ecuador means equator?” And my wife called me a moron but I never noticed it before. 

in other words he sampled somebody and didnt pay a thing for it. Which I guess is obvious but it always went over my head and now that I realized what he meant I think it’s hilarious. 

Reminds me of Rita Lee's "Lança Perfume" and the Doobies' "What A Fool Believes"

Telling Brazilians that Marina Lima's "Doida De Rachar" is a cover of Donald Fagen's "Maxine".  Turns out Marina > Dan in the land of the Samba Kings.

I may as well download all this Lambada game somewhere.  Lambada was based on a traditional Andean folk melody, which was given the pan flute treatment in a 1981 recording: 

“The song changed everything for me,” Ayers said. “It’s still the last song of my show. People always join in and it’s been sampled over 100 times, by everyone from Dr Dre to Pharrell Williams. It see

I last saw Roy Ayers back in Toronto in 2006 with Jean Carne, Bobbi Humphrey, Jon Lucien and Lonnie Liston Smith and I believe Wayne Henderson rocked it as well. Bobbi did like a 10 min version of Hel

He had Dennis Davis on drums from Stevie Wonder's band and Zach Breaux on guitar.  They smashed it and were gracious with their time afterwards, loads of jokes and stories.

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the oscars are whatever, but so glad that Flow actually won for best animated film!  saw it with my kids, and really enjoyed it.  it's a nice little story that's quite profound and realized to perfect

Thanks man! many years ago I had actually saved a bunch of threads (as pages, to grab images etc) back in the day, and somehow never got that one. its so good hahaha

My father and I saw her at the Hollywood Bowl opening for James Brown, shortly before he passed away.