Saturday, 3 November 2018

Day 633


Aka Thursday 25th October 

Today I did a little work on my job applications, including doing a ‘verbal’ test, got a job rejection (but with some useful feedback), watched all four episodes of season two of ‘Hip-Hop Evolution’ and the first two episodes of ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’.


 Season two of ‘Hip-Hop Evolution’ covers, roughly, 1990 to 1995 and goes from 2 Live Crew, and their obscenity row, and Miami Bass, The Geto Boys, MC Hammer, KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions, Digital Underground, Native Tongues, including Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, Nas, Notorious B.I.G. and the Wu-Tang Clan. The team behind ‘Hip-Hop Evolution’ do a great job in covering the different aspects of hip-hop, not just sticking to the big names, but highlighting the pioneers who have been forgotten by the mainstream. 8/10.


 …'Mars Attacks' #1 arrived and I did the G2 crossword:


…which went a tad better as I only needed to cheat on a third of the clues (six out of 19), but at least I learnt that the ‘mist coming in from the sea’ is called ‘fret’, that a ‘large peppermint sweet’ is a ‘bullseye’, and re-learnt that ‘bronze’ is an ‘alloy of copper and tin’.

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