Interesting Thursday....

I hate cold weather. I particularly hate cold weather when I've gotten used to warm weather. At least I wasn't the only one in a foul mood today. Our evening started off rather slowly. The wife and I decided to attend the First Thursdays Downtown Art Walk like we usually do, only this time we were accompanied by her College roommate. I do love company and good company is even more fun, so we had a great time.

What always helps a great time is great wine. Paige Harvey's studio had some marvelous Australian wine from Alice White called Lexia. Wow. I'm sort of a red wine kind of guy, but this white wine was so sweet. Never let anyone tell you that bargain brand wines are bad. If you know what you are looking for you can find a nice $30, $40 or even $7 bottle of wine. Our visit at Paige Harvey's studio was great. I enjoy talking to her and this time we met her mother! That was so much fun. We also met her dog and after he took a moment to warm up to us he was as sweet as can be. Most of the other exhibits we managed to make it to were pretty much exactly the same as they were last month.

We were getting bored and I had escaped to my iPod as well as the pages of my Byers & Barre-Despond design book when my wife suggested we go to a gallery called "Context". I've never heard of this place before although she insists that we've talked about it several times. We arrive and I'm simply blown away. The very pieces I'm looking at in my B&B design book are in front of my eyes in living color. Amazing. Simply Amazing. I didn't know we had an antique/design furniture studio/gallery here in Atlanta. Not only do we have one, we have one of the nation's best. Here I am perusing Moco Loco and bonluxat once a week when I have this resource at my fingertips here in Downtown Atlanta. For shame. Marcel Breuer, the man who designed the very chair I was looking at in my Design book just happened to design the Atlanta Central Library we had just left and I could actually TOUCH one of his beautiful chairs. I was beside myself. One of the friendly curators, Jeff and I talked about furniture design and their work there for what seemed like forever but it must have just been about 20 minutes. I was so excited. I can't wait to go back. It will be VERY soon.

We closed the night at Beleeza in Midtown. Beleeza is a Brazilian restaurant located at Juniper and 8th street. We didn't order any food. I read a review from The Blissful Glutton that wasn't favorable and we didn't want to spend a great deal of money. I had a Sweetwater 420 and an Acerola Soda. Sam had a very nice Merlot but the name escapes me. What's nice is that the floor manager seemed to know his stuff. When I inquired about the wines he knew when they had been opened. I was tempted to try a Riesling but he said it was corked. They had opened it yesterday and put it in the fridge. Yeah...the fridge doesn't help much, from what I understand. So I passed and stood with the home team by having a local brew in 420. Anyway, we were there to take in the sound styling of one Mr. Mind. Bossa Nova was on the menu and the man didn't disappoint. I always enjoy hearing Mind 1 aka Mr. Mind do his thing, but especially when he gets to stretch out his talents abit and show us his musical palette. I thought about going to Compound tonight for the "This is the A" show, but I'm tired. Time for an early bed.

Upcoming mixtapes from Atlanta...

The Audubon Society

One of the best kept secrets in the ATL. You might have seen them around town. They just played the Earl this past Friday night with Collective Efforts, Supastition, Kaze, and Floyd Da Locsmif.

They've held it down at The Royal for F'in Socialites parties as well as at Django's. You can also catch them once a month over The Mark. Tune into their myspace page for updated information.

In either case, word on the street is that Mr. Mind and Variable are working on Volume 4 as we speak. That means two mixtapes from the NorthernArc fam (of which I am a proud member- no plugo)...Dj Unknown's "House of Brew's" mixtape is expected to hit late Summer/early Fall as well.

Until then?

DOWNLOAD Audubon Society Volumes 2 & 3 Right here...

Or you could always stream their podcasts for Volumes 1 through 3 On iTunes Keyword: Audubon Society.



Volume 2: "Mating Season"


TRACK LIST
01. Intro
02. Spank Rock - Touch Me
03. Frank n Dank - Lets Go
04. Busta Rhymes - I Love my Bitch
05. The Team - Hyphy Juice
06. E-40 - Tell Me When to Go Remix
07. Gnarles Barkley - The Last Time
08. Ozomatli - Who's to Blame?
09. B.I.G. & Buju Banton - Mr. Mind Mashup
10. Three Collar Dollar - Nosotros Pimpamos
11. SA-RA ft. Kweli - Feel the Bass
12. 50Cent/Pharoahe Monch - Agent Orange
13. The Clipse - Mr. Me Too
14. Camp-Lo - Bedrock
15. Piano Overlord - Stay Home
16. Goapele - Closer
17. Gift of Gab - Welcome Back
18. Abstract Truth - We Had a Thing
19. Special Ed - Got It Made
20. K-Solo - Fugitive
21. Mr. Mind interlude
22. Ludacris - Move (Audubon Remix)
23. Jaylib - Fuck Games
24. The Federation - Hyphy
25. Waajeed ft. Guilty Simpson - Get Up
26. Bubba Sparks - Ain't Life Grand
27. Fela Ransome Kuti - Let's Start
28. Masters at Work - Mawtilus
29. Sade - By Your Side (Cottonbelly remix)
30. Slum Village - Get Dis Money
31. Busta Rhymes - NY Shit
32. Madlib - Toe Fat (Ghettozone)
33. J*Davey - Might As Well
34. MIA - Galang Remix
35. T.I. - Why U Wanna
36. Mark Ronson ft. Alex Greenwald - Just
37. Mr. Mind ft. Intellekt - That Game


Volume 3: "A Society Affair"



Spoke to Spree Wilson late last week and the good word is that the Knives Out MC is working on a Mixtape with Dj Jamad of the Aphilliates.




Wow. Heard it might have some ill conceptual shit to knock us off our feet. I cannot wait to see what those brothers have in store for us.

Heard anything else about the Atlanta music scene latley? Hit me up and we can talk about it. I don't care if it's Rock, Reggae, Folk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Electronic or whatever...


This week we are going to talk about Daryl Reeves (since I didn't manage to last week), Clan Destined, Buff1, Days Ahead, and Snowden.