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the adventures of … SO FAR #2

Patrick — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:03:28 +0000

A couple of months ago I put together a little review. Now, as I'm about to go back to school and pick up right where I left off with daily posts, I figure that perhaps it's time for another. I present to you the most popular posts thus far - after the jump:

the options #96

americanize me #42

shoot me #20, #21, #22, #23, #24

i've got a couple of things to do - i.e. moving - but, as i said, i'm returning to school. aside from finals week, school is where i am able to keep up a daily schedule easiest.

i hope everyone had a good summer.
see you again soon.

Inverse feature on Westsiiide.com

inversehiphop — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:29:55 +0000

Westsiiide is a new site that's aiming to be "Your Online Source for West Coast Underground Hip Hop." That's pretty much what we're in the business of making, so they reached out to us for a quick feature. They wrote a quick piece on us, threw up a link to So Far and the VIMBY video as well. Peep the feature here when you get a chance and stay tuned to Westsiiide for more coverage of the hip hop scene here on the left coast.

Inverse x VIMBY (video)

inversehiphop — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:09:51 +0000

Here's the long-awaited video from our interview/performance at VIMBY's Swinghouse Showcase a few weeks ago. We run through a couple of songs and talk a little bit about who we are and what we're about. Shoutout to VIMBY and to the homeys Paul Dateh and Yoel for jumping onstage with us!

[blip.tv ?posts_id=1106530&dest=-1]

Do me a favor and leave a comment on VIMBY's page if you're feelin it. Now who wants to guess my original rap name? Hahahaha....

Pvt varsities become attractive option

Abhay Kant — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:05:35 +0000

New Delhi: The third list brought out by almost all colleges late on Friday evening has led to speculation that private universities may have become an attractive option for students. The obvious reasons stated by university sources for the lack of adequate response are high cut-offs on one hand and withdrawals on the other. And, so far, no one would have believed that some students could head for private universities even before the admission process in Delhi University was closed.
‘‘Students these days can choose from a lot of courses being offered by private universities. If they don’t get the course or college of their preference in DU, they end up taking admission in one of the new-age courses in the universities in NCR,’’ said Suman Kumar Verma, joint dean, student welfare. He stressed that many students these days choose to spend more on a new course in a private university than take up any course they get through in DU.
Most colleges kept high cutoffs in the first list, which is a major reason for students not coming for admissions. Colleges like Hans Raj and Hindu received 130 applications for BCom (Hons) each from students scoring above 95%. What is surprising is that both the colleges have come out with a third cut-off list despite the fact that Hans Raj had 135 and Hindu had 40 seats for this course. ‘‘These seats did not fill up even in the second list. This is probably because students are also looking at other options. With more universities opening up in Noida, Ghaziabad and neighbouring areas, students may also find it easy to access them,’’ said Verma.
Meera Ramachandran, principal of Gargi College, where about 170 seats across many courses are still to be filled up, too feels private universities seem to be scoring over DU because of the better prospects of the courses being offered by them. ‘‘Today, DU colleges have much more competition from private universities. Students are looking for courses that can translate into a job as soon as they are completed. These private universities package their courses in such a way that students get attracted to them and perhaps this is why our seats have not yet got filled up,’’ she said.
For a few colleges, the third cut-off list is, however, only part of a strategy to avoid getting flooded by students at one go and does not indicate any competition. Lady Shri Ram College, for instance, had closed admissions after the first list last year but this year it has a third list for almost all courses except Psychology (Hons). ‘‘We did not want to over-admit students like last year. So the plan was to fill seats gradually. But as far as private universities are concerned, I don’t think they can match the brand value of DU. There is no competition as of now,’’ said Kanika Khandelwal, media coordinator, LSR.
neha .pushkarna @timesgroup .com

EYE ON DISTANT FUTURE: Many students believe private institutes offer courses that have better job prospects

LOOKING BEYOND: Even a college like LSR had to bring out a third list to fill seats in most courses

Inverse interview/feature in Jenesis Magazine

inversehiphop — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:32:42 +0000

We recently sat down with Jenesis Magazine to talk about songwriting, our inspirations and the very blog that you are reading right now. Click here to check it out on the Jenesis site - it's a digital magazine, so head to page 55 to read the interview. It's kinda hard to read, so I've uploaded it too, and you can peep it at the link below:

download the whole interview

Iashington - Keep on rolling!

iashington — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:50:08 +0000

There are almost 2 months until the beginning of the conference and things are going pretty sweet. There is a lot of work, research, promoting campaigns and Organizing Comitee meetings.

3rd Promo Mail is finished and it's ready to be sent to our contacts
We already have a list of accepted participants and this week we are going to make it public. Congratulations in advance :P
The Product Sheet is almost ready. There are going to be 2 months of intense selling campaign on the Corporate Department
We are working on the final format of the conference, themes of the sessions, configuring the Trip around Romania and the Global Village
We had an interesting Iashington Night where we gathered all our forces helped by the entire Local Comitee AIESEC Iasi in order to find and register to as many groups and forums that we could find to promote the event. We planned to have such a night every week until the start of the conference.
I promise to post a list of the speakers that will attend the conference. We have news!

Help Us Promote this Great Opportunity by posting the logo into your blogs and personal websites. Here is the code:

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.iashington.org/" style="border: 0px none ; margin: 0px;"><img src="http://www.iashington.org/logo_iashington.jpg" alt="Iashington" /></a>

Have a great week!

Inverse featured on Myspace...again!!!!

inversehiphop — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:12:24 +0000

It's a celebration, bitches!!! Check out Inverse's second Myspace feature (you may have to refresh a couple of times for our photo to pop up). This is a little different from the last time we were featured because this time we're on the front page as well, which means more exposure. You can also download the ENTIRE So Far collection for free from our page for the duration of the feature. Shoutouts to Myspace for recognizing. Word up!

Inverse is VIMBY's artist of the week (interview + feature)

inversehiphop — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:42:00 +0000

YEAAAAAAAHHHH son! Inverse is VIMBY's Artist of the Week. They’ve got a brief interview and links to download a few of our songs - click to check it out. Shoutout to the good folks at VIMBY for being incredibly supportive of all the local talent rising right now. They should have some video of us rocking their showcase last month up soon as well. Oh, and look for us on the front page of Myspace tomorrow....chea!!!

Norwegian Recycle - Overraskende god mashup

Arne Hassel — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:06:08 +0000

Dagbladet hadde nylig en sak titulert Mashup-Peter (24) mikser Madonna og og Justin, som omhandler mashup-artisten Peter Bull og hans prosjekt Norwegian Recycle. En kamerat jeg bodde med tidligere spilte en del kule mashup-sanger på fester, og minnene om disse lokket meg inn til Dagbladets IM-intervju av den norske artisten som for tiden studerer audio-enginering i Australia. Til å ha drevet med mashup i et halvt års tid har karen et imponerende talent, for det er lenge siden jeg har hørt så god mashup.

Nå skal jeg ikke på noen måte titulere meg som en hengiven og erfaren mashup-lytter. Det jeg har hørt er tidligere nevnte fest-sanger, samt et tilfeldig samlealbum i ny og ne (og selvfølgelig den imponerende Boulevard of Broken Songs av Party Ben). De tilfeldige samlealbumene, samt min generelle avsmak for hip-hop (hvis inntrykk jeg har er det mest populære å lage mashup av), gjorde at jeg aldri har holdt denne musikkformen særlig høyt i status, bortsett fra den generelle gleden av å synge med på kjente sanger mikset i hytt og pine (en glede som kjennes billig når man hører sangene dagen derpå).

Jeg har nå hørt gjennom Donkey Business og halvveis av So Far, samt flere enkeltutgivelser (alt kan lastes ned gratis gjennom torrenter lenket fra sidene), og det har gitt meg mersmak. Spesielt sterke syns jeg When Diddy's Gone (Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambiance, Eminem - When I'm Gone) og Runaway Dixie (Donkey Kong Country 2 - Forest Interlude, Ludacris feat. Mary J. Blige - Runaway Love) er, med Billie Jean Kong (Donkey Kong Country - Fear Factory, Michael Jackson - Billie Jean) og Lose Your Fantasy (Eminem - Lose Yourself, Final Fantasy 7 Soundtrack - Battle Theme) som to veldig festlige innslag (sistnevnte er litt vanskelig å svelge til tider, men hallo, karen har klart å mikse Battle Theme fra FF7!=D).

Lyst til å friske opp musikksmaken litt i sommer? Hør ut Norwegian Recycle=)

Om noen kan gi meg noen tips på andre mashup-artister som er verdt å høre på, gjerne tips meg i kommentarfeltet=)

Inverse "So Far" review @ Okayplayer

inversehiphop — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:35:09 +0000

Almost five full months since we dropped the free download link for So Far (The Collection) and it's still getting love. We're proud to say we just received a damn good review from Okayplayer - click here to check it out. I remember when they used to rate on a scale of five ?uestlove afros...what happened to that? Anyways, leave a comment on the review, send the link around, tell a friend, you know the drill. Remember the name.

For the snoozers:

click here to download So Far (The Collection)

Inverse interview @ Wake Your Daughter Up

inversehiphop — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:50:50 +0000

We have a brand new interview up over at one of the best hip hop blogs, Wake Your Daughter Up. Shoutout to the homey Soulclap and the entire WYDU staff for showing us love. Click here to peep the knowledge.

Inverse @ Feel Good Fusion (photos/video) + HUGE show tonight!!!

inversehiphop — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:14:37 +0000

We rocked a dope set on Friday night at Feel Good Fusion in Pasadena. The homey Yoel represented on keys and Noah King jumped on stage for "HipHopSoul." Of course we also had DJ Vocab on the wheels and Brandon Martin on guitar. DJ Revolution was also in the house and came up on stage with us towards the end of our performance. The show was fresh until some moron in the front row started randomly throwing sucker punches before jumping on stage and trying to hit Toby in the middle of our performance.....WTF? Not a good look for hip hop.

Anyways, check these photos and a nice video performance of "Spotlight" (with DJ Revolution scratching with us) below...my mic's hella low, but whatever.

Inverse - "Spotlight" live @ Feel Good Fusion (w/DJ Revolution)

We also filmed the entire evening for VIMBY, so look for that footage over there soon as well. Huge shouts to Gregthedude and Denkym for having us at Feel Good Fusion.

TONIGHT we are opening up for our homeys CunninLynguists & Substantial @ Knitting Factory...We're on at 9:45 or so...Flyer below...come through and bring some other human beings.

Nuloman #28: ”Tizana”

karakenio [Ze] — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:01:45 +0000

"Tizana"

La economía informal crece

Puedes ver todos mis trabajos: Aquí
Puedes ver todos los Nuloman: Aquí

School Busy

Niles — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:32:38 +0000

I have not lived as long as I intend to live, but I do know and understand one thing for certain: shit happens. Shit happens at a nearly constant rate. By "shit," I mean not some sort of general term with the usage to describe every aspect of every day of life. The shit that happens is the negative, or more accurately, the bothersome obstacles that rise before us. (Some people do feel that shit happens to them in every aspect of every day of life.) As a practicing optimist, and a young one at that, I don't believe in shit happening every day. Over the past few weeks, a lot of shit has been happening, but not every day. And it isn't any negative shit. Again, it's more bothersome than anything. I'm a teenager, thus, I have a busy life every once in a while. This sudden busy-ness (not business) has caused me to not get around to writing that "Mothers and Lovers: The Journey Westward" review. For now, just keep it in your head that it'll happen someday.

Musically, I've been practicing guitar chords when I have a chance, and that isn't often. I'm close to completing a new single from my solo project. It probably will not be released on IHAA, but it's still important to me and I have many interested friends. My guitar practice could be incorporated into the single, but who knows? I've had the guitar-work of "The Tugboat in Me" for inspiration. I don't know what will become of that since Tugboat is Heart Heart Julia anymore. Julia is a supposedly cool chick though. Is Heart Heart Julia in some correlation with [Heart Heart] Julia LaDense? I ought to ask her sometime. This is reminding me that I want to work on a sophomore album for Religion is the Falling Sky.

What are you reading?

Inverse on HipHopGame!

inversehiphop — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:01:10 +0000

Check out your boys over at HHG - they just put up a free DL of So Far. "So Far" (the song) is also up in the audio section (whatup Yoel!). Leave a comment or something.

Oh, and that Myspace feature is still up by the way - yessir!!

Inverse featured on Myspace

inversehiphop — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:03:43 +0000

We are featured artists on Myspace right now. What you know about over 50k plays in two days? Yeah son!!!!!!!!!! Click here to peep the page. Shoutouts to the folks at Myspace for the love.

Inverse interview @ HipHopRemix.com

inversehiphop — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:39:34 +0000

Your boys have a brand new interview up at HipHopRemix.com. We talk about how we got started, how we stand out from other artists, and how we hooked up with the CunninLynguists (pause.) Big shouts to Kevin Robinson for reaching out and asking some solid questions.

Click the cover below for your obligatory So Far reup. You can also now cop CDs at our Myspace page. The collection hits iTunes/Amazon/Rhapsody and other digital outlets this upcoming Tuesday, 4/1 as well. Finally...cheer.

Inverse - So Far (The Collection) [click cover to DL]

Boy, Do I Like My Mac...

John O — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:43:24 +0000

...so far.

I can't print out of my simultaneously purchased HPC6280 if I want to print from the "other" tray, the one that has the photo paper, and Apple sent me to HP and HP sent me back to Apple. I got nuthin'. I'm also having a hard time printing in grayscale, but I assume that could be The Man selling color cartridges, and I figure as a result I'll have to dig deep to figure that one out.

Other than those little issues, however, it seems to be a fabulous machine. More intuitive, more sensible in many ways, and a lot prettier and faster.

Computer life is good.

Inverse interview/feature @ Basementality

inversehiphop — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:39:47 +0000

We're big in Sweden. No, really.

Check out our new feature and interview with Swedish-based hip hop website Basementality here. They asked us about our music, our message, our marketing strategies and our views on the current hip hop scene. Our interviews are hotter. Holla!

Oh, and here's your So Far reup if you're still sleeping:

the adventures of ... SO FAR #1

Patrick — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:47:44 +0000

Here, for your viewing pleasure, are some of the most popular comics out of the first 52. These are mostly made up of earlier ones. Right below this post are the latest installments. Hopefully this gets you into it.

If not, I'll fight you.

GOOD LOOKIN OUT!!!!!

inversehiphop — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:51:19 +0000

A quick video message from us to you....We're at 4000 downloads in less than a month, and still going strong. Word.

Here's your re-up if you slept (click the cover):

I don’t have any birthplace

afsar2008 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:21:54 +0000

I am some limb or organ under a head of vacuum

From whence I was born, how I grew up,

Just at 47 how I blew up,

Since none of you told me anything ..

Every limb of God you butchered and divided up

Amongst yourselves, or robbed it perhaps,

Since all of you didn’t leave me anything ..

I am a shadow sans body,

A soul delivered in shame and

Thrown away over some wall.

I roam through country after country

I imagine that all countries are mine

Each hamlet each home, I imagine mine, but

Even a bee is unable to tell my address.

Somewhere here, saffron hands are cutting away

The piece of land under my feet.

From somewhere there, all the dust from demolished domes

Settles on my fluttering body, building up a tomb.

Covering up my eyes with eyelid blindfolds,

Someone is pilfering the cool flesh of my body.

I turn into a corpse unrecognizable to me,

I crash onto the bloody roads of Bombay.

It’s not clear who is crossing over me which way.

Truly, the resident of a vacuous world I am.

Everywhere, any time, a migrant I am.

Drowning half of me in darkness,

I imagine the other half is all brilliance – such delusion I am.

I jump into the inner spirals within myself

In order to murder the soul of time, each and every moment.

I won’t ask for half a kingdom or the state of Anga (1)

I don’t have a tongue to ask for my own torn nerves back (2)

Does the corpse have some land to hide in? But for the living,

A piece of land is enough, a shade over the head – this I proclaim.

The spot you stand on – that’s the most holy place.

Come, divide me by myself, I say,

Not by forty seven.

All my laughter, my cries

My insults, my doubts

My rapes and my murders

They’re all yours too! I say.

This is my mother’s womb-water! Don’t spit in it – I pray.

Oh my enemies who divide and rule!

No one can split me into two

No one can blast the pupils of my eyes.

*******************

Notes: (1) anga raajya: the kingdom of Anga. When Pandavas and Kauravas are displaying their prowess of martial skills, Karna steps up to challenge Arjuna. To prevent a conflict there and to insult Karna, Guru Drona asks Karna to reveal his ancestry. When Karna falls silent in shame, Duryodhana makes him the king of the Anga State on the spot.

(2) This incident too has some puranic reference, but I’m unable to recall at the moment.

Tr: Nasy

The Lake of Childhood

afsar2008 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:20:37 +0000

It used to be moist somewhat.
When little feet got tired running here
a cool touch used to caress, like mother's hand.
When I'd rush in, wind-like,
over bird houses of reed grass,
over tamarind trees brilliant with tender shoots,
along the thin paths stretching white among green fields,
and over the scaffolds rising in those fields,
two hands used to receive me
into a soothing embrace.
The sky, spreading wide its bulk
used to sprinkle moonlight pollen in bits and pieces
on to the long clusters of clouds.
Wherever the eyes roamed,
there a dream breathed full of life.

Someone preserved for me here,
an inexhaustible chest of words.
Someone else blew a thousand bamboo flutes
saturating the air, and left.

Same lake - now it reflects
a broken heart, in shattered pieces, why?

In its palms, I flew to far off places then.

In the evening, we'd arrive on breezy wings
walking in from a day-dream,
we'd land with the swagger of a dragonfly.
In the swirling bosom of the lake, we'd swim.
On its shores' green spread,
we'd drape our bodies to dry.
The clothes of outer world covering our bodies,
we'd toss onto thorn bushes.

On a pitch dark evening,
as a single darkness covered up heaven and earth,
a harvest of lamps flourished here.*
Little flowered boats, emerging from maidens' laps,
danced with shimmering heads.
The light of adolescence in our bodies
played hide and seek with the lake's reflections.
Then, that night here
blossomed like a lightning vine,
from the youthful curves' beauty of teenage.
How many infants' fresh imagination breathed on it!
How many youthful tender caresses teased its shores!
Then, it used to be moist here.
But, now it is arid
like a nightmare from the bosom of shattered earth
crying out in anguish ..

Tr: Nasy