worked at sdsu’s concert venues
during my last year studying there.
got paid to attend concerts and help.
ushering, tickets, etc.

one of the many shows i saw was
maverick city music and kirk franklin.
pretty much exactly the same set as above.
transcendent experience, smiled incessantly.
he got me good on the whole special guest thing.
thought i’d include it here.

discovered through:

oddly,
i don’t like freestyle rapping,
but i like improv, and i love scatting.
the liberty, the boundlessness.

this paired with discovering vocalese,
the act of adding words to the tune
of an existing jazz solo performance.
such intricate melodies you have to
lyrically finesse your way through.

i thought i’d do vocalese, in reverse.
find an existing text,
improvise a solo with it.

the first candidate was
a letter albert einstein sent
to president franklin roosevelt.
bit too long, bit too dry.

i thought it was overdue
for ultra to return to the realm
of twisted remorseless humor,
so i scatted someone’s suicide note.

Virginia Woolf - Suicide Letter — Genius

Virginia Woolf's final note to her husband Leonard, likely drafted on March 25, 1941. You can browse condolence letters to Leonard from some of the couple's notable friends, including T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Virginia's onetime lover Vita Sackville-West, here.

first take, only take.
as is jazz tradition.

not another teenhood classic.

The Adventures of Duane & BrandO (Music) - TV Tropes — TV Tropes

The Adventures of Duane & BrandO is a Michigan based videogame rap cover band, consisting of members Duane Zuwala and Brandon Lackey, under the not-really-pseudonyms 8Bit Duane and The Amazing BrandO. This description, while accurate, fails to convey the mindblowingly fun rhymes and craftsmanship put in to every song.

Brando - The Legend Behind the Adventures of Duane and Brando | Interview — Wrightly So!

Hello everyone! It has been another bit of time since we last had an article, but after a bit of organizing, we are proud to say that we are providing content every week for at least the next 3 months! So what better way to start than with an incredible interview!

Bris - Panhandling — Genius

Panhandling Lyrics: (Damn, Zay, how you do that shit?) / Ayy / Ayy / Ayy / The suckers killed Ant, Pop, and Bub, that shit really hurt / EBK send shots on every block, I got the city turnt / Have my

blaring this for the longest.
gone too soon.

Rising Sacramento Rapper Bris Killed At 24 — Grammy

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