The store intercom paged Jesse in Grocery to come to aisle 11. I strolled up to the aisle to see my kid uncle Joe with an unfamiliar face that would soon become a new friend. Joe introduced me to Chris, a nomadic vivacious human being who radiated joy. Providence would have its way as Chris and his friend Jacob needed a ride to Seattle and my dad and I were headed to Seattle the next day to celebrate my Grandma’s 76th birthday. Arrangements were made, we picked them up along with there two baby pit-bulls, Marley dog and Halla at 7am on October 30th and headed north towards the Emerald City. They immediately blessed us with some doughnuts and it turned out to be an extraordinary drive and a beautiful connection was made by the grace of God as I innerviewed them and then they turned it around and innerviewed my pops and I. Unfortunately my tape recorder didn’t record the first half of the innerview so we only got about a third of the conversation that took place. They are beautiful people, nomadic travelers who live simple lives of faith. After my short encounter with them I jotted a short depiction in my journal ; Chris is a brooklyn born bundle of brio brillantly broken but blessed to bless and Jacob is some soft-hearted seattle sunshine soothing the states singing songs for every season of the soul. We join in with Chris and Jacob as they as talking about a recent story they lived when they were getting a ride in a van and they encountered a hurting girl…
November 7, 2007
October 14, 2007
Inner Views with Qwel part II
emajyn- …so with the season album concept the motif seems to be this thing of change. Like what is change? The seasons change, you talk a lot about change…
Qwel- Change is like first cousins with suffering. Change is the painful thing that we all… see we are conscious of growing, the tree isn’t conscious of growing, but the side effect of being conscious of growing is pain. Man you want your muscles to grow bigger you have to pop your muscles so they grow back bigger, you want your hair to grow thicker you have to shave, kill it and it grows. That is one of things that we’ve neglected with all our science is like pain is the physical sensation of change to some extent. Because our free will makes us so intelligent we’ve made ourselves unwise. No serious there are two different intelligences. There’s reading books, but wisdom is like if you touch a burnt cigarette you won’t do that again. You don’t have to remember it and show it off to your fucking F. Scott Fitzgerald friends. You know it forever, youknowwhatImsayin. But we know F. Scott Fitzgerald and we know so many of these other details that we the lose the big scheme of things a lot and shit. I dunno man… we just neglected that sensation I think.
emajyn- I think its on your track asceticism, you talk about at the end when your done rhyming one thing that will be a conduit of change is this thing that we live forever.
October 12, 2007
Inner Views with Qwel Part I
The sense of liberation after conquering a fear makes me feel alive. With that said Saturday October 6th I hopped off some public transportation and rolled solo into Berbati’s Pan to here some quality hip hop (state of mind, Grey Matters, Grouch, Qwel, and Sandpeople). I had my mini tape recorder in my pocket with hopes to interview one of my favorite rappers but wondering if I had the umph to pull it off. Well most of the time it doesn’t hurts to ask, so after detaching from my fear emotion I went for it and the following is the outcome of a little conversation I had with Qwel of Typical Cats. Who according to some is the best rapper in hip hop right now. Check him out for yourself. http://www.myspace.com/qwe1
(Before you dip into this interview please know that Qwel uses raw language. Its funny how when you type a tape recorded conversation you lose an aspect of communication that took place. You can’t sense my nervous energy or Qwel’s sincerity in what he says. I tried to type it like I heard it to capture the inner views of Qwel. Enjoy.)
