I first have to listen to every hip hop album ever made, but thanks.

I don't think so.

I'd never heard of her before today, but apparently Dorothy Ashby's music is sampled on a few hip hop songs including stuff by Pete Rock, Common, and Jay-Z.

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I've never been that fond of his solo stuff, but RIP Leon Russell.

Hip harp, you say?

Been listening to a lot of Staples Singers:
"People Get Ready"
When Will I Be Paid"

My hiphop knowledge is pretty limited outside the stuff I briefly listened to in high school: Methodman/Redman, Cash Money, some Busta Rhymes, OutKast, etc.

I'll have to check some of these out. I think I've only heard Illmatic and Donuts.

"Doin' Damage in My Native Language"

Yeah with Lucas I'd think he could keep Alexis in the middle, Lucas left, Walcott right, all interchanging a bit. I think Iwobi might benefit from a few games without the pressure of starting. I like Alexis in the middle, but wonder if Giroud (with Alexis wide) might be the better option at the moment.

I wondered if we might have been better off with Elneny in one of the midfield positions. It seems to me as if he can perform a somewhat similar role to Cazorla in making the midfield tick with his passing (though not, of course, at quite the same level). There just didn't seem to be much fluency to anything. I…

Oh and I just saw that Nacho scored his first goal tonight for Spain. He looks pretty excited about it from the pictures.

I realized when watching this particular episode that I had seen part of it at random, I think in rerun - Dec.1999 (the original airdate) seems a bit early.

That was a really good episode, Buffy.

I like the one where they make the tv show.

I saw The Duellists, Ridley Scott's 1977 debut film, this morning. Based on a Joseph Conrad short story, it follows the careers of two Napoleonic era French hussars, d'Hubert (Keith Carradine) and Feraud (Harvey Keitel), as they fight a series of duels beginning in 1800 and continuing until after Napoleon's second…

♫Trevorrow, Trevorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
By Trevorrow there'll be fun♫

What we all thought was just typical Davean madness was, in fact, Cassandran madness.

(S)he can have the blindfold tied around his/her mouth instead and just take it off when ever it becomes inconvenient.