via//chicago

np: "Bring the Noise" - Public Enemy
i haven't listened to this album in years. i remember a full year in junior high when i would listen to this and "Fear of A Black Planet" over and over on my walkman. it was the first real hip-hop i got into, after Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince. unlike most of the stuff from that era, this doesn't sound that dated. just goes to show how much of an awesome album this was. amazing to see how far they fell off though... "Greatest Misses" was the last album that i really liked, but the "He Got Game" soundtrack was halfway decent.
so i spent the last two days down at my alma mater at a career fair trying to find new recruits for our firm. it was so weird being back in the architecture building after three years away from it. all these memories just came totally flooding back, nostalgia major. walking across campus to get my boss' van, i had this really strong feeling of actually missing being down there. i can't exactly tell you why, but it was there. i guess i really loved being down there or something, things seemed so much simpler when i was down there. but like most things, it only looks good in retrospect. i'm sure if i was back in the full swing of class stresses i wouldn't be enjoying it half as much. oh well... it was also interesting to see the portfolio's of the students, seeing how they did some of the exact projects i worked on during my undergrad design classes. you can really see how much the computer technology has affected design. makes me wish i had spent more time learning 3-D rendering programs, they had some really cool looking stuff. we talked to several people that seemed like they would be great additions to the firm, hopefully one of them will pan out.
i'm going out with K again tomorrow night, so thats enough to put me in a really good mood tonight. anyway, enough random rambling, back to Chuck and Flava...