Great video/song from Common Sense feat. Wil.I.Am and featuring Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Serena Williams [who I guess is currently dating Common] and Kerry Washington who is in the video and also directed it. Kerry Washington is an actress and has been in films such as The Last Kind of Scotland, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

I’ve had this song in my head ever since the last time I watched Lost in Translation, so I had to look it up and seem to have been listening to it for the past hour over and over.

So I slept. I’ve been pretty non-digital ever since things that I was really into started going digital, such as Serato and digital slr’s are concerned, and recently I’ve fallen for both.

As a long time Dj who would lug 3-4 crates to every place I played, along with my turntables and speakers, I finally broke down about 6 months ago and bought Scratch Live. I hated on it for a long time saying that it was just making it easier for non-dj’s to become dj’s, and since it allows you to pull any genre of music up at the click of a button and categorize the songs in order of bpm, I thought it was cheating as well. I only say it’s cheating because when I would play strictly records I would have to know the song in my head before I played it, then actually locate that record in my crates, which sometimes took a while, or I would never find it and find something else to play. But once I found the record, if it wasn’t at a good enough bpm to match the song that was currently playing, I’d have to go back and find something else. This was very frustrating at times, but at the same time made me a well-rounded dj. And now that I have a prosthetic piece in my left arm I am not able to carry crates of records like I used to, so Scratch Live gives me another excuse to use it.

As far as the digital slr camera is concerned, I have always been into photography and have been shooting photos for fun and for class assignments since high school, and have always loved processing and developing my own photos, but it too is also a pain. What you can do now with digital slr cameras would take you hours to do with a 35mm slr. Meaning, I can take tons of photos with the digi and see them right away, adjust the iso and shutter speed so that the image is perfect. Then if I need to make any other adjustments, there is Adobe Photoshop. With a non-digital 35mm slr I would have to know what film to use depending on what the lighting conditions are where I would be taking the photo, I would have to manually focus the camera, [as opposed to the auto focus with a digital slr] and the steps of actually seeing what a shot on the camera takes roughly 20-30 min of developing the film, and then looking at the negatives to see which photo you want to print, then going into a darkroom and setting everything up in there. Although that is a lot of work, it’s very gratifying to see your work slowly show up on the photo paper you spend $30.00 a box for!

I’m still a partial purist regarding both of these hobbies because I still buy records and transfer them digitally, and still have my 35mm slr, which I will probably sell and not make much off of it due to digital taking over.

Well even though the Procussions are no longer a group, they still will always have a great sound and it’s unfortunate they are no longer together. A good friend of mine and also a good friend of “The Pro’s” just showed me this video last night and I immediately liked the song and the video.