http://kanyewest.com/

Kanye West had a vision of what he knew his music should be and thats exactly what he did on his new album. He has come up with his own signature sound that would be very hard to emulate. The rap music that we are used to hearing is so one dimensional , there are the lyrics over a beat just track after track. I have been listening to the album since thanksgiving and i still can't completely wrap my head around it. The one thing that I know for sure is that it is one hell of an album. Most albums are 50% killer 50% filler it is so rare that every song on the album is worth listening to multiple times. The album varies from what we expect from Kayne with old school samples integrated into his beats (see devil in a new dress) to something new like runaway which is a fusion in between 808 and Heartbreak and Graduation.

Jay and Nick

What a friendship, one is a man with everything he wants but is missing the one thing he needs. The other does not know the lap of such luxury first hand but experiences it second hand. There has been so much talk of people being fake in this time it is almost weaved into the culture of the time. Each feeds off the other which is the realest relationship that exists. It is so natural a good example is the whale and the little fish that eat the plankton and parasites off of its hide. Without the feeders the whale would probably die from all of the parasites and scum on its back, without the whale the feeders would not be able to live and would die because of starvation. The same is true of jay and nick. Nick gets to live the highlife and become accepted into the elitist circle and in exchange all he has to do is try to get him reconnected with the love of his life. Which oddly enough would sound a lot harder than it actually is, GO FIGURE. Neither has to sacrifice very much if at all, I wish I had a friend like Jay Gatsby. Gatsby could control the entire situation around him if that was what he wanted to. He could you use his mob like connections to have Tom terminated and then when Daisy is not doing too well trying to support herself and not go into tremendous debt this stranger could step in and solve all of her problems and through time it would turn out it was her long lost lover. There is no way nick is really being used in such a horrible way because after all Gatsby could be reunited without him.

Winter Poem

Winter is the grim reaper of the seasons, the executioner of green and the mother of gray.

We pretend to love for the holidays and that sense of rebirth in the new year.

Really we're just surrounded by the passing of the seasons, from life to death.

From our fat summer existence, holding on, clinging to the memories of the warmth we felt not so long ago.

But yet the summer breeze is dissolved, the orange leaves are starting to decay and all that is left is the cold prison of winter.

But no reason to be afraid, there is that glimmer right over the rooftops, it is the golden light of spring.

That glimpse is what we live for, our only inspiration to survive this season of death and despair.

Slowly counting our days; the days to the warmth and rejuvenation of summer.

Even when is seems that it will never end it begins to warm.

The thaw starts from the toes and works it way up and by the time it gets to our heads and we fully realize it, that glimpse of spring is no longer a glimpse, but our reality.