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DHL (not the shipping company)

            Last week Frank Ocean performed at a club and released basically 3 new songs. He had released something like 3 singles in 2017 and appeared on a few albums but not much has been heard since he released Blonde and Endless back in 2016. I'm pretty pumped for a new album because blonde and endless are probably two of my favorite albums, Channel Orange is good, but it doesn’t reach the emotional peaks of Blonde or Endless and doesn’t have the same level of innovation and avant-garde structure of his most recent releases. He released formally one song, DHL, and at the club event, there were a few remixes of two other possible songs, Dear April, and Cayendo.             Either way, almost any update from Frank is nice. In 2016 he finished his contract with Def Jam by releasing Endless and then one day later he released Blonde under his own label boys don’t cry. Beca...

trains trains and automo-trains

I want to get way more trains in America. Trains are the way of the future and we need to start moving towards a car-less society soon. Cars are huge polluters and moving more towards public and mass transit systems is the way of the future. Not only are the issues with the environment but also with future cities. La is notorious for having awful traffic despite having tons of 6 lane highways, not to mention street parking as an aesthetic looks terrible. In fact, there are 200 square miles of parking spaces in LA. 200. That's massive. Cities designed around cars, which are like all American cities, run into this problem. If you think of a big city you automatically think of the sound of cars honking and the congested and hard to navigate streets. American cities aren't designed for pedestrians, they are designed for cars.   There is no easy solution to this problem without bulldozing a lot of cites which is not going to work very well and is going to hurt poor people disp...