Things are going to get easier.

Distance: 4 miles
Duration: 39:43
Pace: 9:56

"New" music from De La. Our reliance on streaming services means that we do not have ready access to all of our twelve inches, extended remixes and B-sides. I am grateful that De La Soul has continued to roll out non-LP tracks from the past

1989 Playlist

Freedom of Speak (We Got Three Minutes) (164 BPM) - De La Soul

Eye Know - De La Soul

Sin - Nine Inch Nails

Never Enough - Jesus Jones

This & That -Michael Penn

Ladies First - Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love

Veronica - Elvis Costello

The Feelings Begin - Peter Gabriel

Doin’ Our Own Dang - Jungle Brothers

Buddy (Native Tongue Decision) - De La Soul ft. Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, Monie Love

Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 59°
Climate: sunny & beautiful
Mood: good

I do have to say my knees really hurt right now.

Stretches: yes
Water: ope

Breakfast: vitamins

Lunch: lasagna, fresh fruit, Greek yogurt, granola

Happy Hour: Cherry Coke Zero
Dinner: French onion soup, salad

Dark Room: ginger ale

Baseline: 185 lbs.
Weight: 183 lbs. (-1.0)

Goal: 180 lbs.

Upper body: TBA

Sit-Ups: 20

Anybody in the audience ever get hit by a car?

Nineteen Eighty-Nine was the best year in music history. And that's it. Bent over the floor of the Little Theatre (now the Hahne Black Box) at school, making the life-size cutout figures for the stage production of Breaking Point, listening to Disintegration, Spike, Oranges & Lemons and Three Feet High & Rising.

And Paul's Boutique hadn't even come out yet.

Distance: 4 miles

Duration: 41:34
Pace: 10:23

Route: Forest Hill Park Loop (Extended Mix) 

Temperature: 53°
Climate: partly cloudy & nice

Pavement: mostly dry with patchy snow
Mood: all right

I considered running without breakfast, which is foolish. This is what I am talking about. It is very hard to lose with without depriving yourself, and I do not wish to do that. That wasn't the goal. Eat better, exercise better, live better. That is all.

 

1989 Playlist - or - "Three Feet High & Rising" by De La Soul

The Magic Number

Change in Speak

Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)

Ghetto Thang

Eye Know

Tread Water

Potholes in My Lawn

Say No Go

Plug Tunin' (Last Chance to Comprehend)

Buddy (featuring Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip)

Me Myself and I

Been waiting for this one, and it did not disappoint. Would be better under sunny skies, but I'll take what I can get.

The album is mostly in tact, despite all the copyright business. They cut a sample from Eddie Murphy's first stand up album from "The Magic Number" and "Cool Breeze On the Rocks" was impossible with two dozen samples so they just dumped it. I cut tracks without steady beats from my playlist anyway (see above).

 
Stretches: yes 
Abdominals: 90 sec. 
Water: yes

Breakfast: coffee w/oat cream, raising bran w/fresh strawberry, banana & soy milk

Lunch: Lemon spinach & orzo soup w/chicken, Caesar salad & buttered bread, raspberry fizzy water 

Dinner: tofu & greens stir fry over rice, fizzy water

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 187.5 lbs. (-1.0)

Goal: 190 lbs.

Do you want to take a break?

Say what you want about Spotify. The fact is, that is how folks received and consume music, certainly the young people. And if its' not on Spotify, you can't hear it. And because of copyright issues, De La Soul's first six albums have been unavailable for streaming.

My son has all my De La Soul CDs. I still have the cassettes and vinyl in the attic. We hear tracks on The Current. Otherwise they are absent, or they have been. Until today.

I can't tell you how important De La was in my young adulthood. I'm going to listen the shit out of these records.

Distance: 3.75 miles

Duration: 40:23
Pace: 10:46

Route: Forest Hill Loop

Temperature: 39°
Climate: overcast & cool

Pavement: dry
Mood: driven

1991 Playlist - or - "De La Soul Is Dead" by De La Soul

Oodles of O's

Talkin' Bout Hey Love

Pease Porridge

A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"

Bitties in the BK Lounge

My Brother's a Basehead

Let, Let Me In

Afro Connections at a Hi 5 (In the Eyes of the Hoodlum)

Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)

Pass the Plugs

For Dave.

What was 1991? The year I received my BFA, got my first job in arts education. The summer we spent on Coventry. Moving into the larger Cleveland theater community. Got engaged for the first time. And this album was released on May 14, when I was still in Los Angeles.

 
Stretches: yes
Abdominals: 90 sec. 
Water: yes

It is true. When you pull back from eating whenever you want to, your imagination always drifts back to food. For someone as well fed as I, that's kind of shameful.

Breakfast: coffee w/almond cream, raisin bran w/banana, strawberry & soy

Coffee Break: coffee w/almond milk, apple slices

Lunch: salad w/roasted sweet potato, tomatoes, fake bacon, balsamic vinaigrette

Headache Remedy: Cherry Coke Zero

Dinner: Mac & Cheese 1 C., cauliflower "wings" & sauce

The sun makes such a difference. Same temperature, but I had to walk a little, I wore long pants (I have been in shorts) and gloves. It may snow, but it will also remain mild the next several days. Winter weather is important, right now I am glad I can build up endurance in mild temps.

Baseline: 195 lbs.

Current: 192.5 lbs. (-0.5)

Goal: 190 lbs.