R.I.P. Great Master of Beats. “Too fast to live, too young to die” is the motto for some… The good always die young. Soul is immortal, and in the afterlife we go into the internet to be enjoyed by all.

RESPECT, listen to Jay Dilla, Slum Village, … it just gets better with time, like a good wine. Jay Dilla was a hip hop visionary, he went to places where no man could go, may the beats live on, timeless tracks that flow like water off the brain when it rain. Instrumental or what have you, Jay Dilla is the Picasso of sound.

What more will the Burmese be able to endure in 2008? First the ‘bloody protests’ recently where monks and nuns were brutally murdered, and now the killer typhoon reaching estimated death toles up to 100,000 + people (and animals). Mother Earth is truly trying to tell us something, without sounding too typical I won’t try to decipher what the exact message is. The message is clear and simple:

(ORAL TRADITION) LOKAH SAMASTA SUKHINO BHAVANTU
May all beings everywhere be happy and free and may the thoughts, words and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all. -Sharon Gannon