Get Busy...

Anyone ever heard of Ryan Francis Henriques? Exactly. You haven't. Except.. you have.  He has made major contributions to the musical community worldwide, including donations to less fortunate areas to fund local arts programs, hosting free concerts that tens of thousands attend in order to raise awareness about major medical issues, and even promotes the growth of positive political relations between the U.S. and touristic destinations such as Haiti, the Caribbean, and Jamaica.  Believe it or not, you've probably all shared an awkward 8th grade dance to one or more of his songs. If you're not aware of the trials and tribulations of this great man, you better hookup your ipod, get on your torrent download sites, and get busy 


Yesterday I was at in the library at my school. Yes, I said THE library... I don't go to some giant mega university with 4-5 libraries that all breakdown by majors and historians and whatnot... My school has ONE library, and it has been gunman free all year so I think we win.  As I'm leaving, I notice that they have a large section of book racks labeled "FREE BOOKS!"  and I become intrigued.  FREE SHIT RULES!  I'm bumming through the selection and it's mostly shitty accounts of old business programs and books on theater and costumes that have never been checked out.  A girl next to me managed to snag a book entitled "The History of Black Actors" and I became SUPER JEALOUS!! Until I got to flip through it with her and realize it stopped at like the 1960's, so I settled down. Anything claiming to be about BLACK ACTORS and not even mention the DMW Powerhouse is fucking bullshit. (Denzel, Morgan, and Will).  BUT! I managed to grab two pretty neat pieces of library history.  One was a Clint Eastwood movie.  Haven't seen anything of his except Gran Torino, but if all of his movies are anything like that, I'm in!

I also found this super weird/creepy book.  It doesn't have a title, just a skull and crossbones on the front.  The whole book just has cartoon drawings of 'death' coming to reap the souls of different people accompanied by a little caption on the left page. It doesn't make much sense, but I'm convinced it's cursed.  After checking it out this morning, I got in the shower and got soap in my eyes.

Death and the Swooning Maiden
"Poor Girl! I wonder what frightened her!"

I gotta get back to booking this tour and studying.  School is coming at me fast and I gotta get prepped for all the crazy things I got going on out of the books.  Stay in school kids!  If you wanna give me a CD, find me in person tomorrow. I'll be at Riverfest down in San Marcos seeing the Yin Yang Twinz.   BYE!!....ay ay ya ya ya.