the long awaited 5th album from Minneapolis-based indie-rapper Atmosphere (Slug on rhymes, Ant on beats) I have it coming in the mail some time this week. Atmosphere is the premier underground act right now--their style is raw, creative, gritty, articulate and honest
In other news...
I have been reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the U.S" again. This book altered the cousre of my life in 11th grade AP US history. As we are learning about Colonial American history in Sean's classes this month, i thought it would be nice to get some perspective. Particularly on Columbus, whose holiday is coming up, and the Puritans, who influenced faith and politics in this country so much, but whose deeds back in the day were less than shining.
i was fortunate in college to have taken a class on Medieval Spain and Morocco, in which we read Columbus' journals, but from the perspective of what was going on in Spain rather than in America. It is interesting to interpret the meaning of Columbus' actions in terms of the expulsion of the Muslims and Jews from Spain and the establishment of the first Christian nation-state in Spain.
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