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Best films to jam to before heading to the Caribbean (Pt. 1)
By Brandon Kim on 07/01/2009
Filed under: The refrain
I'm not the most well traveled person but I have been all around the Caribbean, several times even. Jamaica more times than I can recall accurately, Grand Cayman, Cozumel (I think that counts), even Haiti. Cruised around Fidel's Cuba trying to spy on Guantanamo Bay with some binoculars my 5 year old nephew picked out. I still don't know if I was trying to spy on the Cubans or Americans who have shacked up in their bay because the whole thing is confused, it plays with my steel sense of nationalism. How is it that we have a facility in... MORE »
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Major Lazer
By Brandon Kim on 06/17/2009
Filed under: Revolutions Per Minute
I left the country for the millennial New Years Eve with my 2 roommates at the time, and headed for the cliff side Caribbean town of Negril, Jamaica. (We didn't believe in the Y2K end of the world scenario, only the psychos who we thought would be murdering people in the streets because they believed it). We awoke each morning to the caress of sea breeze through open windows and hiked down a mountain road to buy healthy breakfasts of little tropical bananas and fried ackee fruit, true wonder foods. We met locals and explored jungle paths with them, spelunked... MORE »
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