Being an ex-Cali representative, we knew we had a nice Underground Hip-Hop and poetry scene featuring guys like Mantis, Orko, Bennie Heron, Jahsun, but we rarely gave credence to people outside of San Diego. It wasn’t disrespect, it was just a real focus on our work. Now that I’m 2000 miles away, and older, I’m…
Food, food, food, and food… I think if you’ve visited the site before you realize that the Memphis Hi-Lites section should actually be called ‘Where to eat in Memphis’. While I have written about Autozone Park and Beale Street, those are pretty much known locales for enjoying Memphis. What Memphis has in abundance is what…
Okay, my attempt at an elegant title is killed immediately by the word cockroaches. I was going for an allusion to Steinbeck just to kind of be a little literary, lol. Anyway, as usual my Friday nights are not filled with what you call coolness. Since I’m a dad we very rarely get out of…
Alright as you know, or probably don’t since I don’t get as much traffic as I should, I only post a Get To Know when I have a fit of inspiration. Consider this a straight up conniption fit. It’s hard for me to get excited about Hip-Hop lately. Obviously we all lose it with another…
Originally posted this in May of 2010, I wrote this because I had been digging Dwele for a while. Although I knew many people wouldn’t see this post I wrote it because I feel that great artists deserve whatever search engine info that can be put out there. A couple of days ago, Jan 2015, I…
The third book in Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series, Dexter in the Dark, takes a detour from the first and second novels. Upon being introduced to the dark hero Dexter, I found myself drawn to the simplistic nature of his horrible, handsome, hidden desire to murder. This created a paradox and an unsettling feeling for me. I…
https://amzn.to/3MSyKzJ Comedians can tell you that you smell like ass, and they can be brutally honest in doing so, and you will smile and say, “Man they sure are funny!” I mean it is the one job where honesty is expected and can be tolerated. Often the words of a comedian will be used in…
Dan Brown is not a good writer. He’s a freaking great writer. Okay, this is argumentative since many feel that contemporary fiction is often too simple and will not have the longevity of the Classics. The thing about this frame of thought is that the Classics were once contemporary. I’ve read several of the popular…
What exactly makes a Memphis Hi-Lite? The first thing is that the location has to be in Memphis, obviously. The second? Well, it has to be a location that either provides an upscale atmosphere, or the perfect atmosphere for either date night or family night. The final attribute? The location has to grant the visitor…
(Originally posted in 2010 revised for MLK Day 2015) On January 1st, I dropped a trailer for the film Night Catches Us. I didn’t know a lot about the film, but I knew that Kerry Washington and Anthony Mackie were the lead actors and to me this meant that it was a movie worth my…
This is just a quick post to thank everyone who visits the site and has supported ARCH this year. I had one of the best years as a startup due to Kickstarter. I still have a very difficult road in regard to moving ARCH forward as a brand and in 2015 my work will be…
https://amzn.to/3wGJtHI The Walking Dead on AMC is my favorite show since the X-Files. I’ve watched each season with anticipation and when the last season ended a few weeks back, I went into withdrawals. Yep, those kind of withdrawals. The ones that only a person hooked on something like pizza would understand. I needed a fix…
https://amzn.to/3sVNKot This is one of the few times that I get to write the word Honky and not feel kind of funny about writing it. Therefore, I am going to write the word Honky every few words simply to establish that using the word Honky does not make me George Jefferson. For those of you…
Typically, I have a lot to say when I write a Get To Know. I’m inspired and I have a need for you to know what I’m feeling when I’ve heard or seen something that is so necessary… that I am at a loss for words. I’m not at a loss: Buy everything by Gregory…
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I Will Follow written and directed by Ava Du Vernay allows me to place my professorial hat on in creating an analysis. The title is an allusion to a song written and performed by Bono and U2 on their first album. The song itself is significant because of why it was written, and the relevance…
This question is one that brings to memory, for most people, the first day of school. I recall primarily happy narratives when someone asks me this today. It almost seems that I can’t remember anything really bad occurring during summer break. Well, if you don’t count the bowl cut and the jogging suit my mom…
(Written in 2011) What is Rework? Rework is a book on rethinking what it is to be a small businessperson. The book was written by the founders of 37signals. Real quick, what I just did by inserting their link into this blog post has helped to increase their SEO. Why is this important in a…
This is my first movie review. I’m not proclaiming to be Siskel or Ebert. I may be more like one of the guys in the balcony on The Muppet show; nevertheless, a spur of the moment date with my wife led us to the movies where we watched the much-anticipated Beyond the Lights directed by…
I have finally reached the fifth installment in the Dexter Series. Last week my wife showed me a gif on Tumblr. In this rotating gif a man was dragging himself from his living room sofa with his legs laying behind him like a wounded seal. The man’s face was a twisted canvas of satisfaction and…
I posted this picture during the Kickstarter campaign to show me working out by using a Kinect game to shadowbox. I’m posting it now because it perfectly represents the next step I’m taking in the development of ARCH as a brand and developing my own brand. If you aren’t aware I also operate a blogging…
