aplantgrows

Francis and the Lights - WYN

2010-12-16T06:19:00.000-08:00

I really like it all, baby.

Bilal - Think it Over

2010-12-01T13:17:00.000-08:00

Tree of Life

2010-11-29T08:08:00.000-08:00

Finally.

J Dilla - Starz (Instrumental)

2010-11-26T12:42:00.001-08:00

Circa 2003. Simple n jean-e-yus.

How to Read the Air

2010-11-16T22:22:00.000-08:00

By acclaimed Ethiopian-American author Dinaw Mengestu. Nice guy, good book.

Eternia & Moss

2010-11-02T19:14:00.000-07:00

at HHC.

Jay Everyman

2010-11-02T19:05:00.000-07:00

Story 'bout Jay Elec at Manifesto.

K-OS - The Fourth Fugee

2010-11-02T19:01:00.000-07:00

Convo with Kevin on HHC.

Mississippi's Own

2010-11-02T18:57:00.000-07:00

Convo with Big K.R.I.T in Eye Weekly.

Kanye West - Runaway

2010-11-02T18:50:00.000-07:00

Nice visuals, incredible musicianship.

A Raisin in the Sun Review at swaymag.ca

2010-10-21T13:32:00.000-07:00

Repeat Raisin too much.

On T.Malick & Thin Red Line

2010-10-21T13:30:00.000-07:00

The impression of this collective struggle adds a poignant layer to the film itself. "Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces of the same man," muses Witt. Our war movies typically celebrate bands of brothers, but in The Thin Red Line, the unbreakable connections between the men are all the more deeply felt for being shown and intuited, rarely told. Bell murmurs tearful sounds that aren't quite words to Doll (Dash Mihok) as they embrace after a harrowing battle. Welsh (Penn) barrels straight into opposing fire to aid a doomed soldier. Witt goes on a selfless one-man mission to flush out the enemy. Of course there could be no "stars" of The Thin Red Line: The men move with a single body and speak with one voice; an injury to one pains them all. It's a film about a collective unconscious—and perhaps you could say it was made by one, too. The Thin Red Line was created by a man undoubtedly in search of a great cosmic truth—about war and nature and mankind and the whole damn thing—but it was also created by a company of men and women in search of the great cosmic Terrence Malick.

On the best director and one of the best movies ever.

Mos Def - Life is Good

2010-10-15T10:46:00.000-07:00

Only always.

Manifesto, Toronto, ON.

2010-09-27T13:47:00.000-07:00

All I got between securing interviews and taking in the show.

Big K.R.I.T - Children Of The World

2010-09-24T15:02:00.001-07:00

by Creative Control.

Black Keys - I'll Be Your Man

2010-09-20T08:33:00.000-07:00

Swagger Jackson's Revenge

2010-09-17T10:30:00.000-07:00

By Jay Electronica.

Jay Dee - Two Can Win/The Sylvers - Only One Can Win

2010-09-08T08:26:00.000-07:00

The late, great, inimitable James Yancey.

Neighborhood Nip in L.A.

2010-09-02T22:48:00.000-07:00

Slauson!

K-Os - Call Me

2010-09-02T12:56:00.000-07:00

Gospel.

Flying Lotus - Friday Night Funk

2010-08-31T13:01:00.000-07:00

Dilla-esque.

Cruz1 in Ossington

2010-08-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

Aug/2010.

Pakistan Floods

2010-08-26T08:18:00.001-07:00

Nipsey Hussle - New Money

2010-08-22T18:10:00.000-07:00

Bilal - Lord don't let it

2010-08-18T11:46:00.000-07:00

Sounds best on streetcars, Kensington market, college west coffee shops and book stores on winter evenings in 07/08.

1984

2010-08-16T15:52:00.000-07:00

"Presently they fell asleep for a little while. When Winston woke up the hands of the clock had crept round to nearly nine. He did not stir, because Julia was sleeping with her head in the crook of his arm. Most of her make-up had transferred itself to his own face or the bolster, but a light stain of rouge still
brought out the beauty of her cheekbone. A yellow ray from the sinking sun fell across the foot of the bed and lighted up the fireplace, where the water in the pan was boiling fast. Down in the yard the woman had stopped singing, but the faint shouts of children floated in from the street. He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary? Julia woke up, rubbed her eyes, and raised herself on her elbow to look at the oilstove."

Read.

Francis and the Lights - Strawberries

2010-08-16T13:41:00.000-07:00

But either way, you got to...

The Black Keys - Goodbye Babylon

2010-08-13T10:34:00.000-07:00

Chant down.

Francis and the Lights - A Modern Promise

2010-08-05T15:53:00.000-07:00

Robin who? Timberwhah? This is blue-eyed soul, no pretensions.

Caribana in Color 2010

2010-08-04T18:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/toronto%20notes/article/98271--caribana-in-pictures

Ethioritrean Faces: Lume

2010-08-04T17:33:00.000-07:00

Paper chaser. Cutthroat company man. Family man. Blackberry don. Conservative. Black republican. Engaged to be engaged. Excessive deodorant applicator.

Lume

Toronto, Canada.

Lauryn Hill - Repercussions

2010-07-25T12:06:00.000-07:00

BBC Welcome to Lagos Episode 1

2010-07-20T09:22:00.000-07:00

"Slenda, do you have oil in your village? Come to my arrreea, we have oil."

Stephen Marley - Mind Control

2010-07-11T00:17:00.000-07:00

Youzeeit.

BBC Birth of Israel

2010-07-10T23:55:00.000-07:00

Almost as big as the 'Pac/Biggie beef.

PBS American Masters - Sam Cooke

2010-07-10T11:20:00.001-07:00

The man behind the song in that scene just before Denzel gets assassinated in Malcolm X.

Artful Dodger feat Craig David - Re-Rewind

2010-07-08T11:06:00.001-07:00

Reminds me I used to live in Europe. Oohrope in Ethiospeak.

G8/G20 Toronto - Close Encounters

2010-07-07T00:06:00.000-07:00

Running from Big Brother is good cardio!

Peter Tosh - Why Must I Cry

2010-07-05T21:16:00.000-07:00

I'm sentimental like that.

Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones/Say Something

2010-07-05T00:12:00.000-07:00

You just lost one.

G8/G20 Toronto - Criticism of Police Violence

2010-07-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

Via NY Times. Click here.

G8/G20 Toronto - Smoke & Mirrors

2010-06-29T17:07:00.000-07:00

Who knew hipsters were that committed to social justice.

G8/G20 Toronto - Five-metre Rule

2010-06-29T16:33:00.000-07:00

Peek-a-boo.

G8/G20 Toronto - Windows & Intersections

2010-06-29T16:17:00.000-07:00

Bet the New World Order have never tried an Ice Cap.

G8/G20 Toronto - How Paul Martin & co conceived the G20

2010-06-29T15:12:00.000-07:00

"Paul Martin sat in Lawrence Summers' spacious office in the Greek-columned U.S. Treasury building in Washington, searching in vain for a piece of paper. With none in sight, the two men grabbed a brown manila envelope, put it on the table between them, and began sketching the framework of a new world order."

via Globe and Mail.

G8/G20 Toronto - Russia Today pt. 3

2010-06-28T14:38:00.000-07:00

Peaceful protesters being violently arrested, even had undercovers in soccer mom vans piling people in. Also the guy from the first RT video gets arrested.

G8/G20 Toronto - Protesters Infiltrated by Police?

2010-06-28T14:31:00.000-07:00

"It wouldn’t be the first time that cops had posed as protesters and deliberately staged violence in an effort to justify a heavy-handed police response.
We have documented numerous different occasions where the black bloc anarchists were completely infiltrated by the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown."

Via Infowars.

G8/G20 Toronto - Police Car Fire

2010-06-28T14:16:00.000-07:00

Illegally parked police car on fire near Spadina and Queen. Was a hot day.

G8/G20 Toronto - Russia Today pt. 2

2010-06-28T13:47:00.000-07:00

We paid for it, it's the least we get.

G8/G20 Toronto - Russia Today

2010-06-28T13:44:00.000-07:00

Democracy is Fair Play by Yared Shumete

2010-06-24T18:53:00.000-07:00

2010 Democracy Video Challenge Finalist.

Outkast - Aquemini

2010-06-24T18:47:00.000-07:00

The making of their timeless masterpiece.

dead prez - Revolutionary But Gangsta Grillz

2010-06-24T18:37:00.000-07:00

Soundtrack to G20 weekend in Toronto. Stellar mixtape. Download here.

Let's Go Ghana!

2010-06-19T21:11:00.000-07:00

Adabraca, Accra, 2009.

Cry Freedom (1987)

2010-06-14T23:43:00.001-07:00

South Africa of yesteryear.

Cotto: Road To The Bronx

2010-06-07T23:30:00.000-07:00

A true warrior.

Drake - Karaoke (Thank Me Later)

2010-06-07T15:34:00.000-07:00

I was only trying to get ahead.

Joseph Hill Culture - Humble African

2010-06-02T21:10:00.000-07:00

Damian Marley & Nas - Friends

2010-05-30T01:29:00.000-07:00

BK's Finest

2010-05-25T00:34:00.000-07:00

Nas & Damian Marley feat K'naan - Africa Must Wake Up

2010-05-19T00:37:00.000-07:00

Africa must wake up
The sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring
May a better day come
Yesterday we were Kings
Can you tell me young ones
Who are we today

Off Distant Relatives.

Toro Y Moi - Talamak

2010-05-18T21:38:00.000-07:00

Inspiring.

APG MTLiens

2010-05-17T22:13:00.000-07:00

Reggie Watts, Conan's Opening Act

2010-05-11T09:58:00.000-07:00

Talented.

African Voices - B.Geleta

2010-05-08T12:23:00.000-07:00

Part 2.
Part 3.

Drake - Find Your Love

2010-04-29T22:06:00.000-07:00

Soundtrack to late nights in cities I don't live in.

New YM CM

2010-04-18T11:39:00.000-07:00

Lil Wayne - Single

Lil Wayne |MTV Music

Drizzy, Bun B - Miss Me

Stillness is the Move

2010-04-16T12:53:00.000-07:00

by Dirty Projectors.

Solange cover.

Funky.

Beans, Jay and `Face Prod by K. West

2010-04-15T15:39:00.000-07:00

'planted my seed on unfertile land
Myrtle Park Marcy, Flushing & Nostrand, and
still I grew
Some How I knew that the sun'll shine through, and
touch my soul,
take hold of my hand,
look man a tree grows in Brooklyn.'

Classics.

Ethioritrean Faces: Bibi T

2010-04-14T21:40:00.000-07:00

Sometime Actress. Sometime singer. Socialite. Charmer. Insta-poser. Habitual holiday/birthday celebrator.

Bibi T
Ottawa, Canada.

A Moment with Haile Gerima

2010-04-14T13:49:00.000-07:00

Ethiopian filmmaker. Insightful interview.

"I don't think the artists are elected officials, like mayors or governments, to go around compromising a story of a people. I think telling the story in the most honest way and the way you feel it, helps people transcend into a very strong community capable of comprehending each other's complex realities. Otherwise you find an escapist world - people who simplify complex things in order to just get by, and then postpone and mortgage the future generation with all the problems."

Big Boi - Shutterbugg

2010-04-10T21:47:00.000-07:00

Do yourself a favor!

aplantgrows Shorts: Days to the Sun

2010-04-10T16:47:00.000-07:00

Vimeo.

Days to the Sun from Atkilt Geleta on Vimeo.

Blip.

The clouds over Accra are dense. Each day they are dark, yet somehow the sun manages to peek through. This is not symbolic, it is literal. It is as if the clouds have reason to cry, to shed their tears on the multitudes of black bodies beneath them. They choose to delay instead, choking on their mood and conceding the days to the sun.

Reflection Eternal - Love Speakeasy

2010-04-09T22:38:00.000-07:00

For that misty eyed choked up nostalgic soul stirring ethereal brown orange reflective flash graffiti on brick warmness while riding the train over the bridge into the city feeling. Maybe I've crossed a generational barrier, being 25 years young and all, but they don't make music like this anymore.

John Mayer - I Don't Trust Myself (with Lovin' You)

2010-04-07T22:27:00.000-07:00

National Art Gallery of Canada

2010-03-29T20:20:00.002-07:00

Cool place to visit.

Ethioritrean Faces: Tyo

2010-03-28T20:09:00.000-07:00

Cat lover. Fashion enthusiast. Accessory buyer. Wine connoisseur. Ice-cream cake baker. Stylist. Prefers MTL, likes TO. Tyo.

Tyo W
Many places, Canada.

Ethioritrean Faces: Nahom K

2010-03-28T17:09:00.000-07:00

Young. Restless. Friend. Lover. Fighter. Engineer. Former rap music fan, enjoys good quotes and cooking. All around passionate guy.

Nahom K
Ottawa, Canada.

Erykah Badu - Window Seat

2010-03-27T11:15:00.000-07:00

Floyd and Shane Face Off

2010-03-27T11:13:00.000-07:00

May 1st.

Obama eloquently...

2010-03-24T23:35:00.000-07:00

By Farrakhan.

By Tony Yayo. (Parental Discretion Advised)

Up in the Air

2010-03-24T17:38:00.000-07:00

Great film.

Ryan Leslie - When I think About Love

2010-03-23T21:11:00.000-07:00

Ryan Leslie x adidas Originals - "When I Think About Love" from Ryan Leslie on Vimeo.

"I ain't sure about commitment, but I could sure use the company"

The Story of Bottled Water

2010-03-23T21:05:00.000-07:00

K'naan - Wavin' Flag

2010-03-22T13:47:00.000-07:00

Win, win and win.

Drake - Fall for your Type

2010-03-22T12:32:00.000-07:00

Drake - Fall for your type.
Illustration via Karin + Raoul.

SXSW DOWNLOAD: HEALTH - In Heat (Javelin Remix)

2010-03-22T12:18:00.000-07:00

SXSW DOWNLOAD: HEALTH - In Heat (Javelin Remix)

Nipsey Hussle - The Hussle

2010-03-17T23:49:00.000-07:00

So 90's.
Off Bullets Ain’t Got No Names Vol.3.

Courtesy Adey

2010-03-16T21:24:00.000-07:00

Echoes my sentiments.

Hugh Hopper and Alan Gowen - Morning Order

2010-03-16T15:58:00.000-07:00

Sounds like this.

Pacquiao with trainer Freddie Roach

2010-03-16T15:45:00.000-07:00

Excellence.
via Maxboxing.

Spike Lee & Tyson

2010-03-16T01:28:00.000-07:00

A young, aspirational Mike Tyson and the dastardly, charming Don King with a flurry of quotables.

COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War on Black America

2010-03-15T22:51:00.000-07:00

The XX - Shelter

2010-03-11T22:06:00.001-08:00

No excess. Haunting. Greatness.

Ian kamau - Love It Here

2010-02-25T00:14:00.000-08:00

Great video showcasing Toronto.

Body Language - At A Glance (Toro y Moi Remix)

2010-02-24T21:49:00.000-08:00

Beautiful.

Federer in Ethiopia

2010-02-15T18:07:00.001-08:00

APG Ghana: Labadi

2010-02-10T00:59:00.000-08:00

Excuse the sound.

Once you go Ethiopian...

2010-01-31T23:24:00.000-08:00

Fox on Ethiopian food.

TIW 2nd Annual Client Show

2010-01-30T22:48:00.000-08:00

featuring work by APG.