Ski Weekend

It's been a grim couple of rainy days in Boston this week, with gale-force winds that have made umbrellas useless. It's been tough to get to work, to get home, to get anywhere, really. This could potentially make for a rather depressing week, however there is occasionally a silver lining to such stormy clouds, and this week is certainly one of those occasions. For this miserable rain is not rain at all a few hours north of here but 20-40" of that fluffy white stuff. And that should make for some killer skiing this weekend.

Sometimes, to get amped for a weekend of skiing, I'll watch a ski movie (or, this week, the Olympics). Whenever I do, I'm invariably struck by the melange of music that is featured. Not all of it's great, but you're usually able to discover at least one or two new bands that you've never heard before and want to hear more of. Take, for example, the hip-hop duo One Self, whose "Be Your Own" is featured as the opening track of Warren Miller's Higher Ground. With interesting beats and one of the smoothest female rhyme-spitters I've ever heard (Yarah Bravo), these guys are worth some further delving. Check out "Be Your Own" and "Bluebird", two tracks from One Self's 2005 debut Children of Possibility, and keep your fingers crossed that this snow doesn't turn to rain up north where it counts. Enjoy the weekend.

One Self - Be Your Own (YSI) (dropbox)
One Self - Bluebird (YSI) (dropbox)