Monday, 3/12/12

Some folks, seeking communion and transcendence, go to church. Others go hear hip-hop.

Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) & Talib Kweli
Live, Paris, 3/9/12

More? Here. And here. And here. And here. And here.

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lagniappe

reading table

[I]t has been only in the past decade that we appear to have entered an aura-free universe in which all eras coexist at once—a state of possibly permanent atemporality given to us courtesy of the Internet. No particular era now dominates. We live in a post-era era without forms of its own powerful enough to brand the times. The zeitgeist of 2012 is that we have a lot of zeit but not much geist.

—Douglas Coupland, New York Times Book Review (on-line, 3/8/12; print, 3/11/12)