buzzin

i put together a mixtape for my drive upstate this weekend, upstate virginia that is. the opening track is the name of the post, which makes me really happy that it was a close enough bpm to mix in with the rest. of course all my mixtapes since i've gotten home have been old school to some degree, not having bought records in 2 years, but i'm talkin about 97/98 records. some 99 and maybe 00 slipped in there too, but mostly the former. the crazy thing was that in mixing them i immediately remembered the tracks i used to like to mix before or after, and how i'd drop or ease them in, all kinds of crazy references still packed away in my memory. and yet i have problems remembering names and locations of streets in richmond. i suppose that means that i love my music more than richmond. it's true.

richmond hasn't changed much. it's gotten a lil bigger, and that's counting while i was away at college too, since i spent most of each year not in richmond. i still love it insofar as it is the home that i was dreaming of while lost in rabat, and i still think it's cute. despite it being dangerous in the eyes of a lot of people. the big perspective change that i have undergone in respect to richmond, however, is realizing how conservative it really is. this has nothing to do with the recent elections. just in a general sense. going out to bars and talking to people. seeing people at social type things, seeing how they act, talk, react.

my plans for getting into grad school have been going through some rough seas, but i have made it from no clue zone to decent idea zone. everything is still up in the air, but i feel like it has moved closer in time. once new year's comes and goes, i will be trying to move out of richmond, into a job somewhere else. this will probably involve me needing couches to crash on, but maybe not.

lost is so good it gives me chills. i can't believe it's not hbo.

peace