It is true, Nick Diaz is truly one of the more enigmatic fighters today, if not the most. Diaz is one who shuns the spotlight, because of its reliance on marketing versus him being a representative of the pure sport, doing it for the love. Socially awkward and regarded as a someone with antisocial, dark tendencies, it can be said that Diaz definitely Celebrates the Difference in his own way.

Is the quality of Countdown getting to be the same as 24/7? We will only have to see.

“Nick would take on anybody, anything, at any time. If he didn’t get the best of you, tomorrow you’d better be ready to do it again. He had some behavior problems, and also he had some gang problems. Gangs were trying to recruit him because he had a reputation of being tough and the gangs wanted to have him join up.” Tom Domench, Diaz’s 7th grade teacher. Sure, Tom, gang violence is a serious obstacle to overcome, but is it “fire alarm” serious?

“It’s an interesting connundrum that Nick is in, cause he truly doesn’t enjoy hurting people. He doesn’t want to be the guy that’s beating up other people. He doesn’t think it’s fun, but he does know that that’s his job, to win fights.” Cesar Gracie. We’ve heard from Diaz’s teachers, now where the fuck is his guidance counselor? It just sounds like he went into this whole ‘professional fighter’ gig without all of the relevant facts.

Zansky from Brazil showing of his mixed media skills from paper to oil painting and various color schemes.

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Jimmy Castor is really one of the unsung heroes of a generation that defined the funky rhythms that is now heavily akin to sampling of hip hop. However, Jimmy Castor’s work is to be praised individualistically in its purest form without regard for who chose to pay tribute to it or not. It’s a true shame that this year and 2011 has been riddled with the passing away of so many great artists including Gil-Scott Heron, Heavy-D, as well as Guru.

Castor who passed away Monday in Henderson, Las Vegas, passed from cancer at the age of 64. Truly, it was Jimmy with his iconoclastic approach to music, one of a kind persona, swinging rhythm and hard to ignore voice that probably drew inspiration from groups such as Funkadelic. The Bboy community will always appreciate his incredible contributions to the music with “Its Just Begun”, and “When”, which to me are as important to original breaks as “Apache”.

Civil Salutes Jimmy as an artist who really chose to Celebrate The Difference, in fusing Latin, funk and many genres into his own unique mixture.

Moi rockn’ Disbelief on stage. Tomorrows Bad Seeds killing it like always…

Rocking the Civil pin packs. =)

Karen Civil is one of those really doing it, being on top of her social media game, she provides a relevant insiders look into the hip hop, entertainment and music industry.

I had a chance to catch up and meet with her at Gaby’s, getting her thoughts on Civil and the industry. In addition to covering the music industry, Karen has also helped bring awareness to stars like Drake, Nicki Minaj before the advent of their popularity.

Also Karen is a supporter of Civil Clothing, be on the lookout for Karen Civil and Civil Clothing later this year. =)

Kabob combo with Garlic sauce, chicken, roasted and grilled onion and tomato, basmati rice.

Happy Birthday Martin Luther king…always knew how to Celebrate the Difference.