Etymological Background of the Day

In all honesty I think the etymology of words is so much cooler than just knowing the definition. I feel like understanding the root of a word, helps you understand the base reason for why it was chosen in English to signify whatever it's intended concept is, thereby making it much easier to FEEL the language and use it well. Instead of just memorizing fucking definitions.

So I decided to make an Etymologocal Background feature. I just got to think of a better name.

Without further ado:


integrity
mid-15c., "wholeness, perfect condition," from O.Fr. integrité, from L. integritatem (nom. integritas) "soundness, wholeness," from integer "whole" (see integer). Sense of "uncorrupted virtue" is from 1540s.

THE VOODOO EXPERIENCE

New Orleans, LA
Oct. 29-31















are you kidding me
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because sharing is caring

Lauryn Hill - Repercussions



Tabi Bonney - Nuthin' But a Hero

GETTING IT IN

I do love the blues

especially when they go "prREEEEEEEEEEEEE preeedededeeeeeeww"

My Terrible Friend/Pomplamoose

NYC

click here for complete set

Race Shmace, Whatever (an article I wrote for Saaret's site "The Root" -- link, along with the other perspective at the bottom)

The situation is this: Two friends of mine; one white male, one black female. One very incendiary word. And the black girl wasn't the one who said it.

I watched the following exchange with nervous curiosity, my eyes flitting back and forth as if the two were engaged in an intense game of ping-pong. My white male friend had been standing there talking like the rest of us, peppering his speech with "nigga this" and "nigga that" as he joked and laughed.

"I'm going to need you to refrain from using that word," my black female friend announced. With a short chuckle of confused acceptance, my white friend agreed. And I breathed a sigh of relief.

Aspirations

try this on

"Radiodread"
Karma Police Cover

SELECTIVE ATTENTION TEST

Part I



Part II

smarter than your average graphic designer

hardest watch ever. will pay alot of money to have this

SO COOL

Thom Yorke on PRINCIPLES

LISTEN for a bit (Thanks Rachel)

Quote of the Day (Thanks Rahima)

"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
- My boy Buddha

SON HOUSE - Death Letter Blues

SON HOUSE - Grinnin' in your Face

FULL CIRCLE

In line with the ironic fashion this universe normally chooses to operate, my first post - the one that started this damn blog to begin with - popped in my head.

The post where I struggled to rationalize my internal feelings towards art, and match it up with the rest of the world, and see where it fits. How it fits. I was trying so hard to find some kind of connection, some way that everything made some fucking sense.

But those were just words.

A thought that would have temporarily turned my world upside down dawned on me:

I STILL have no idea what it means to be an artist.

But maybe I'm growing up, because I don't give a damn.



DO YOUR THING, AND HAVE FUN or else its all a waste of time





p.s. This is Post 451 - i'm not smart enough to make the Farenheit 451 joke, but its out there.

risky business in the A

Big Boi - Shutterbugg

good friends are hard to come by

could the GOOD remix actually be making a comeback??

Janelle Monae feat B.o.B. and Lupe Fiasco - Tightrope (Wondamix)

FACEBOOK IS A STUPID IDIOT