I’m feeling pretty under the weather. Plus, I’m swamped with real work. Plus, my mother in law is in the next room. I wanted to live song blog the entire vice presidential debate but I didn’t feel much up to it. So, I freestyled (made up) one verse as I recorded, with the security portion […]
Category: freestyles
Live Blonging Verizon
I did a live song blogging event at Verizon today for their employee appreciation week. Verizon’s theme for the day was “Diversity Energizes.” We built a song together over the course of 6 sessions. As usual, we recorded a live bridge with the audience and I took relevant topics to freestyle the verses. Verse 1 […]
Imagining a Naked Crowd: Live Freestyling the Debate
There’s this saying that if you are nervous about public speaking you should picture the crowd naked. I think the idea is that you will be put at ease by the imagined foolishness of the unclothed audience compared to your relative and clothed normalcy. Depending on the quality of your imagination, however, it seems like […]
Back Off Holiday
Busy weekend. Getting sort of late. Just decided to do an unadvisable three minute freestyle. If it sounds like nonsense, that’s a direct reflection on your upbringing and education not my ability. Because, trust me, in the words of Alexander Graham Bell, “this will be one of the most important freestyles you’ve heard in the […]
Behind the Blong
I’m about as excited for today’s installment as almost anything I’ve done in quite a while. And, that’s saying something because I watched an entire Family Ties marathon just last weekend. Remember the poignant amphetamine episode? It’s like the sitcom Pietà. It happened inadvertently last night, while driving to Charleston. So, I necessarily have to […]
TED Talks
By some miracle of modern cinema, my man Bobby, was able to edit together the video from my TEDx performance, which in fact had a pretty significant technical intermission. Plus, he had to splice in audio for portions of the presentation that weren’t originally captured by the house P.A. Really thankful. I still have regrets […]
Everybody is Listening In
TEDxGreenville gets busy on a live track. Thanks to Wise, Bolick, and von Frank. Oh and Happy Anniversary to my wife! Written and recorded by the TEDxGreenville community live on stage. Freestyle verse and other vocals performed by the ipoetlaureate and crowd. Music produced by Juicebox Jackson. [wpaudio url=”https://thefreshjunket.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ecc00-ted-talks2.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”TED Talks“] [Post Mortem: The […]
Keeping it Lorax Real
Seriously, who knew that the best two freestylers in the fam, were my 5 and 6 year old daughters?? I mean they’ve been around it a good bit, but this all started today. Like never done it before. I was spitting a little over beats on my phone in the mini-van on the way to […]
Above-the-Fold Freestyle Feature [Take 2]
This is always a punt of sorts. To do a freestyle instead of a song. But, I feel like my relative consistency has bought me at least some goodwill, right? Plus, I think the freestyle feature keeps things interesting, and people seem to like it for the novelty. It’s just one more variation on […]
Above-the-Fold Freestyle Feature [Take 1]
My earliest visions for this site, included news freestyles. For those who don’t know, a freestyle is an unwritten, unrehearsed rap. Entirely extemporaneous. [There is some debate over the etymology of the word “freestyle,” however. Among the first east coast emcess, the term originally referred to a topicless, albeit prepared, verse. “Off the top” or […]
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