I got my mind made up…

…I’m comin’ back to Barcelona.

hadn’t heard that one in a MINUTE.

OBESE RAPS

Scope out these “Fat raps” from Chip Tha Ripper, Curren$y (above, who has more free ill mixtapes online than you can download), and especially the heat brought by Big Sean (Mike Posner’s homie and a supa-dupa-fresh new Kanye artist):

Produced by flo-savvy Chuck English from The Cool Kids.

Tomorrow, we’re doin it real big at Broadbar. Think like a microwave before it cooks some popcorn: let’s get it popping.

Washyoo know about podcasts…The Mixtape Show

Do you use podcasts? They’re usually free, and you can take an audio recording of literally anything in the world on-the-go, to listen to on your computer, iPod, or whatever you’re using to jam out to your tunes these days. 

Podcasts can be pretty convenient:

Duke started using podcasts for classes a while ago. Some teachers record and post their lectures on the Duke section of iTunes U — if you miss a class, not only can you hear it exactly as it went down, you can make up your class while you’re on the C-1 bus, or even while you’re puttin up LB’s in the Wilson gym.

If you are good at planning ahead, you can have free entertainment on-the-go if you search online for downloadable podcasts.  I have to admit, I don’t usually download podcast shows. I don’t even listen to shows when they’re on the radio. However, I just poked around and found some pretty funny ones, like The Awful Show (click the listen button), that talks about (and only about) pretty much everything you can’t hear about on normal radio (sex, drugs, etc).

Personally, music podcasts are more appealing. You GOTTA check out The Mixtape Show, run by a black guy from Japan (called dex digital) who samples low-key hip-hop and soultronica and posts his new mixes every time he finishes them. As of now, he’s got 125 of them. His most recent mix repped all 90’s rap including Hieroglyphics, Geto Boyz, Ice Cube, and more.

He includes a short introduction with an anecdote at the beginning of each podcast before he bumps his new mix, and on his blog site, he lists all the songs he sampled from for each mix. If you click here, each of his new podcast mixes will be downloaded directly into your iTunes.

In a post coming soon, two homies from my journalism 2.0 class (Adam Spi-whack and J-ro aka Jerome B) and I will give you our own recorded one-time podcast. Get pumped like a tire.

GRANNIES WITH MOVES

Do you eat sushi when you party? We do. Free sushi tonight early at Broadbar (Aribau 191):

On another note, Party Time blog wants to know which granny makes you wanna party the most…

Start at 0:25:

iLL.gates + Bassnectar

stop what you’re doing…crank up your system.

hold on to your ears, bc they’re going to start partying like its 2010.

Unconventional Marketing 2.0 at El Periodico

Last week for our Journalism 2.0 class, we visited El Periodico, the most read newsaper in Catalonia. We spoke with the Director of Communications there, and it was interesting to hear about their duel use of online and printed news.

When El Periodico learns of breaking news, they often advertise the news immediately, but they withthold the dirty details of the story until the morning printed paper is released. For example, when El Periodico obtained very exclusive breaking news about the Barcelona football (soccer) team having spies on its very own vice presidents, they did not release the information immediately online. The team had already denied having the spies, but El Perodico was later able to obtain concrete documents between a spy and director-general Joan Oliver provng that the rumors were true.

Instead of publishing the items immediately, they posted in their online version of the paper something to this effect: “Tomorrow, we will have important exclusive news proving that the Barcelona football club used a spy on its own vice presidents.”

In this sense, El Periodico used its online newspaper not strictly as a source for news, but as a form of Marketing 2.0. You may have seen how De Lis Group markets their parties in Barcelona through Facebook so that people know where to go, when to go, and who is going to a party. In another example, you might Google “parties in Barcelona” and click on one of the advertisements listed on the right hand column of your search results page. Following the same trend of Marketing 2.0, El Periodico uses its online paper as a Marketing 2.0 method of advertising its own printed paper in the coming morning.

We’re ballin out like it’s Double OT…

The homeboys from De Lis Group came over one night a few weeks ago to pregame with us and then ball out at Opium like its double overtime. Kike, Pedro, and David brought a film crew with em and ended up with “Pregame Hard, Party Harder”:

((( PREGAME HARD , PARTY HARDER )))

Here’s another video they made that night at Opium, edited over a sick Biggie remix by Ratatat. Did you ball out this hard your Thursday before Halloween? Nuff said booch. 

BARCELONA: HALLOWEEN EDITION & PARTY FALL 2009 @ OPIUM MAR

Leaving for Paris in the morning. I packed a nice metro-lookin sweater that I’m gonna wear while I eat escargot.

Oktoberfest = the dope ish

Septemberfest? Novemberfest? Nawww, you gotta go to Oktoberfest. For those of you who don’t know about Oktoberfest, it’s the world’s biggest beer fair.

6 million people. 6,940,600 liters of beer are served in big mugs called Maßs.

I went twice to the biggest and most famous tent, Hofbräuhaus. It seats 6,896 inside, and 3,622 outside. If you go to Oktoberfest (doooo itt), don’t go to any other house. Free entry + best brewski in the world + the younger, more serious boozers from all of the world.

We kicked it with German biddies repping their traditional dresses. They call em dirndl:

Old ladies walk around selling pretzels and chicken.

The best part of the festival was dominating 5 or 6 Maßs then going on German rides, which are 239780243 times better than American rollercoasters. Ya can’t go on the good ones twice in a row without booting.

So many people gettin’ zooted in one place:

For music, here’s Milkman. You can download one of his entire albums for free on his website (click Music, then scroll to the bottom). He’s pretty dece. At least quit listening to that dern Girl Talk already.

Clearing Waters

Some bigtime homies have been working on a full-length film at Duke while I’ve been abroad in Spain. The two directors (and actors in the film), Micheal Burakow and Nick Hawthorne, are in my fraternity, and they released the movie’s trailer the other day.

The independent film is called Clearing Waters, and it stars Burakow as an adolescent pothead. Pumped to see the whole thing when it debuts at Griffith Theater at Duke on April 11th.

This is what I’ve been doing all night…

Homeboy Spiv-sack lent me his $300 Dr. Dre Monster headphones for the night:

1. Buy these headphones.

2. Download the new Bassnectar CD Cozza Frenzy. It has been pleasuring my eardrums since it came out in October this year. Just buy it on iTunes so you know you have stereo and the baller-est quality.

3. Bump it like a volleyball: