It’s strange reading your blog lately – you seem to be in such a different world, such a different state of mind than me. It’s kind of a nostalgic, vacationing vibe, like there’s infinite time to think about that tiny leaf on the end of a fern frond – no, not the littlest one at the end (all proud because of its important location) but the fifth one in on the left, ignored for no good reason by everyone else throughout history. But it’s not your writing – everything seems different, skewed, changing, because I have few consistent relationships with people.

I adore and cherish each long letter I recieve. Somehow they always seem a labor of love. Every one of them. From one of my oldest and dearest friends, I thought it was too great not to reflect on it a bit…as he so eloquently called out my navel gazing.

New mix up on Muxtape & also available for download at Zshare.
Cover art stolen from BK’s flickr stream.

Panama | Brooklyn Zoo – Ol Dirty Bastard
Cye | Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers – Chubb Rock, OC, Jeru The Damaja
OJ | Jockin’ Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh) – Jay-Z
Eyejammy | We Live In Brooklyn, Baby – Roy Ayers
Ouxu | BK Anthem – Foxy Brown
Jen | Brooklyn Sky – Digable Planets
BK | Brooklyn – Mos Def
Sam | Murda, Murda - Jay-Z feat. Memphis Bleek & Geda K
Liz | Hello Brooklyn – Jay-Z feat. Lil Wayne
George | The Boogie Man Song – Mos Def
Marcia | The Stoop – Little Jackie

This week we tip our hat in honor of Boom’s big move to NYC (if she doesn’t move to Brooklyn I’ve threatened to disown her and remove this post). Our internet-friendship began a little before her trip to Paris in January and picked up a lot of steam right after mine (she’s been the first person I talked to on a daily for months now), being that I was an internet-friendship-virgin I couldn’t believe how perfectly it translated into real life.

Lets just say her couch has seen more than its fair share of me these past two weeks.

I knew this mix was going to be heavy on the hip hop tip but I hadn’t picked a song by Monday. When I played the first track on the Little Jackie album I immediately thought of how much fun its going to be when she has her very on stoop for us to play own.

First off, Miss Boom came to town. We filled the past ten days with stoop sitting, brunching and lunching, a few nights on the town, getting to know new people, dressing similarly (by accident of course) and lots of vegging out (post 4th of July). It was the first time we’d actually hung out in depth and it was an absolutely amazing time. With a little bit of luck we’ll have her up here in a few months permanently.

Next, I gave Vespa driving a go, with hilarious and painful results. Needless to say, I took it down fairly quickly.

I spent a day getting to know my new neighbor Megan a little better which was one of my favorite lazy brooklyn days this summer. We traveled from bed-stuy to brooklyn heights and back. She’s the type of person that brightens any room.

Finally, the bk and blazey bbq stoop party which was all the fun you’d ever want and more. Boom and I posted up in our previous stoop spot where we spent most of the party. I got to talk to a bunch of people I’d seen around the way but never gotten to a chance to really engage. AND as an added bonus there was a little reunion with two of my oldest New York friends from college (AKA part of the “william street dorm crew). The lovely Whitney and JD (dizzal or dilla to those who know him), who I only see once every four or five months but love like a brother nonetheless (him and his adorable girlfriend, Krystal, might be hosting a little post party mh birthday bbq at their place in willy-b saturday which of course everyone is invited to).

viva la summer.