currents

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So I'm a few days behind. I'll blame the fact that it's Spring Break for me and I am enjoying the luxury of never turning on my laptop. But as we get closer to the weekend... I gotta.
So here I am, avoiding work! Naturally.

I'm currently in the middle of writing/developing/dreaming up a poetry in rap unit themed around power so I've been listening to the king of swagger (Ye) a lot and it took me down the dark path of Beyonce's Lemonade (I fucking love some of that album and despise the rest) followed quickly by Cudi and then Watch the Throne. Oh, the way we were...

"I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'go Kanye. Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye."

'Nuff said.

Anyhow, forgive my sin of Ariana Grande. I know not what I do on these long days without a thirteen year-old telling me I'm trash.

xoxo
--ffh

10. thank u next - ariana grande
9. MAKEherSAY - connor gilbert
8. sorry - beyonce (tell 'em boy bye)
7. formation - beyonce
6. hold up - beyonce
5. a$ap forever - a$sap rocky, moby
4. feel the love - rudimental ft childish gambino
3. dreamers - k flay
2. 7 rings - ariana grande
1. molotov - kira puru

'... i can't find a fuck to give imma let this whole thing burn. be useful now, hold me drink time for you to watch and learn (hands off). keep your hands off boy... '
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currents

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I fucked up my knee playing recreational volleyball today. Again. This is a sign from the heavens that I should just stop.

I also have a mild vein-infection from an IV I had earlier this week. This was after the student LPN tried to start my IV four times in the other arm. I've got 4 poke holes in one arm and a gross infection in the other. I look like an inept intravenous drug user.

So as of today I cannot: bend my knee or go upstairs without considerable pain and have a gross bump/bruise on the back of my hand that hurts if you so much as look at it. Typing is... a process.

So far, being 31 can suck a donkey wiener. One week in and I'm 100% over it.

Also, I just learned that Outkast's Hey Ya is not the happy song it sounds like.
I have, apparently, never listened to the lyrics, but I assure you that a thread on Reddit told me that it's about a "meaningless relationship without any actual feelings, and that most people would rather be unhappy in such relationships out of fear of being alone. It is a subtle reference to loveless marriages, because the marital bond and tradition prevents people from doing the right thing." (Credit to r/Phtpnk). If you listen closely, Andre 3000 says, "y'all don't hear me, y'all just wanna dance" (Credit to r/flyingpenguin36). The more you know!

Anyhow, the currents today since clearly this week has not been kind to me. It's a small miracle I'm alive, to be honest.

xoxo
-- ffh

10. deafening red - clarence clairty & SHADI
9. get low - lil jon & the ying yang twins
8. bury a friend - billie eilish
7. silver springs - fleetwood mac
6. role models - walker & royce, OnCue
5. waterfalls - TLC
4. country grammar (hot shit) - nelly
3.about you - g flip
2. mr la di da di - the baker boys
1. bellyache - billie eilish


'... where's my mind. maybe it's in the gutter, where I left my lover. what an expensive fate. my v is for vendetta, i thought that i'd feel better but now i got a bellyache...'
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currents

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I think this is the longest streak I've had on this blog in years. If that's not growth, I don't know what is. I think I've earned a break (hahahah).

I just watched Billie Eilish on Hot Ones and I'm a smitten kitten. I don't get it, but there it is. Plus... Hot Ones is among the best interview based shows out there. Kudos for the intelligent writing, concept and follow through. Never change.

I bet he smells like Backwoods and Doritos. 
The nerd rap is strong with this one (P.S.: what the fuck is nerd rap, exactly? Is this what Watsky is?). I would apologize but... No. While I fuck with that giant nerd with the hair I just want to wash (he-who-shall-not-be-named-just-referred-to-as-Skeeze aka Post Malone) more than I care to admit or will ever admit to, I like the quick quips and silver tongues elsewhere. Plus, is Post actually rap, or just a cautionary tale for the generation that grew up alongside the internet, not with it? "Millennials: this is what happens when you leave a kid in front of an x-box or computer screen. They're like gremlins when they get wet." I guess we'll never know as long as he keeps telling the impressionable youth of today that you can be both a gamer and a pill junkie rapper and redefining success. 

Don't get me wrong-- Austin is great. He's exploited the industry for whatever it was worth and I applaud him. I've been known to bump rockstar more than a few times so I like him well enough and respect his abilities. I just don't appreciate my lovely grade seven goblins knowing all the words. "I been fuckin' hoes and poppin' pillies man I feel just like a rockstar" is a curious phrase from a twelve-year old's mouth.

Old person rant over. Mostly. I am turning 31 Monday... Best be getting in my practice now.

Anyhow, the top 10 as of the last week.

xoxo
-- ffh

10. spooky language - the palmer squares
9. no complaints no conversation - watsky
8. song about you - mike posner
7. rosana - wax
6. single and famous - mc lars k.flay
5. no interruption - hoodie allen
4. light work - prof
3. better not - louis the child & wafia
2. bury your friends - billie eilish
1. fast talk - houses

'... maybe heaven is a ghetto with not bad blocks. shangrila dealers at the bus stop. and maybe god is just a cop that we can fast talk. so if you're guilty and you know it put your hands up 'cause karma's just different word for bad luck. what if death is just another pair of handcuffs? then we better run. "What up?" 
"Hey what's up man?" 
"Just thinkin' in my head that I'm going to be thirty-two years old tomorrow and I feel half alive and half completely dead."'
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lesson planning: an ode

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or alternatively, "songs that make me hate thinking of differentiation a little less." teachers are humans, too. this teacher needs some grooves to think straight, so she thought she'd share her current jammy jams. is it too uncool to call them eargasms? am i dating myself?

this list is a no holds barred look at the fact that i'm over thirty and am desperately holding on to my middle school/high school days. i can distinctly remember hanging out in my parents basement, blasting a bootlegged copy of nelly's hot in herrr and dancing like some ratchet hoes well before the concept of being ratchet existed. ahh, the aughts-- what a wonderful time to have existed alongside pre-meltdown britney, slutty xtina, nelly and a generationally confused will smith. anyone remember gettin' jiggy with it? 

of course you do. it's only a masterpiece. 

anyways, put these on blast, but not in the way you air dirty laundry. i found most of these songs in a throwback party playlist on spotify but i've added some of my own choices because i personally cannot abide by having whitney houston anywhere. 

xoxo
-- ffh

blame it on the boogie - the jacksons
gettin' jiggy with it - will smith
rockafella skank - fatboy slim
smack my bitch up - the prodigy 
larger than life - backstreet boys 
call on me - eric prydz (side note: i have vivid memories of this music video being played on loop at a club. jesus i'm old)
better off alone - alice dj
gold digger - kanye west (my love of kanye runs long and deep)
thong song - sisqo (anyone know what happened to sisqo???)
every time we touch - cascada
around the world (la la la la la) - a touch of class & pete knoemann
bootylicious - destiny's child
bye bye bye - *nsync
sandstorm - darude
we like to party (the vengabus) - the vengaboys
it's gonna be me - *nsync
dirrty - christina aguilera & redman
space jam - quad city dj's
country grammar (hot shit) - nelly
hootnanny - bubba sparxxx
work it - missy elliiot
a milli - lil wayne
get low - lil john, ying yang twins & the east side boyz
get ur freak on - missy elliot
temperature - sean paul 
without me - eminem
stacey's mom - fountains of wayne
i believe in a thing called love - the darkness
butterfly - crazy town
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