At the insistence of my manager, the Evil Dr Paul Hitchman, of the Ancient Bavarian Hitchman Clan, I spent a short while this afternoon going through my Goggle Analytics pages, which lead me to a number of startling revelations, amongst them that the whole world and his wife came here on Sunday to find out if Wiley was dead or not (he’s not!), and…

…there’s another Adam Narkiewicz.

Another Adam Narkiewicz! With his own website! Two in one world! Who’d have thunk it?

He knew of me already - he’s linked to this site from his front page, amidst this foreign screed:

Być może trafiłeś(aś) tu w poszukiwaniu walijskiego rapera, który stwierdził, że woli się przedstawiać jako Akira the Don, a nie Adam Narkiewicz. W tym przypadku odsyłam Cię do jego oficjalnej strony internetowej.

I think I really  like this Adam Narkiewicz too.

He is Polish, but has the good grace to translate a small section of his website into English (”the English version of my website does not include some parts of its Polish counterpart because I had no reason to translate them all,” he writes, matter of factly). Evidently a considerate, and well reasoned individual.

But who is this other Adam Narkiewicz?

“My name is Adam Narkiewicz,” he writes, as proudly as the bearer of so noble a name might. “At present, I am a student of Warsaw School of Economics and Warsaw University. Furthermore, I enjoy informatics and always try to understand how the surrounding reality works.”

Cot dang! That’s what I do!

Wow!

Understanding how the surrounding realty works is evidently so important a task the universe deemed it necassary to put two of us down here, linked by one glorious name, to do that good work. At last I know my place in things!

So I thank you, other Adam. You have helped to reaffirm my existence, and its realitive import. From this day forth I stride forward with a refreshed sense of purpose. Nothing shall get me down now. Just knowing there’s another Adam Narkiewicz out there is enough.

(Anyone read that American Splendour strip about this stuff? Pre-internet, phonebook stuff. Amazing.)

Behold! I have written another one of my think pieces for The Quietus! Spurious Moz pic theirs not mines!

These, friends, are crucial times. What with agricultural soils being eroded at a rate 10 to 40 times that of soil formation, the ingestion and absorption of industrial toxicities contributing to an endocrine disruption that’s resulted in a 40% decline in sperm count in 50 years, energy and food being priced out of reach of the poor, demand for cheap and “green” biofuels devastating forests, and a plague of jellyfish that can only really be described as Biblical, wiping out Salmon farms and shit… well, we need all the smart science brains we’ve got working overtime to save our endangered asses.

This is why I am super-stoked like an Aussie on a pyre to learn - via the BBC, praise God - that Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University has deduced, from a study of a claimed 36,000 plus people, that there is “a link between music taste and personality”. Think of all the non-marketing related uses you could find for that information!

Read the rest here.

I have written another one of my think pieces for The Quietus, about the increasingly symbiotic relationship between Brands and Bands.

“Adverts always annoyed me,” says former Boo Radley Martin Carr, who until this year ran a strictly no-ads policy with regards to his songs. “I always wanted to create things that were opposite of what an advert was - not that I think they demean the song, I just didn’t wanna be in there with everyone else, trying to sell you something… now I’ve changed my mind, for the same reason. I’m doing it because I need the money. There’s been a huge sea change from when I was 20, there was a definite movement that wasn’t involved with major labels, wasn’t involved with advertising. That was an anathema. Now it’s accepted, nobody cares. I still feel regret about it, but I’ve got more important things to worry about. Having a kid and finding somewhere to live.”

Read it here.

Just because I’ve been dropping science over at Metal Hammer and The Quietus and Playlouder lately, don’t you go thinking I’m new to this writing stuff. No sir! I’ve been doing this since ‘98. I am officially Long in The Game.

With that in mind, I figured I should share some of my old joints with you. Today I’ma hit you off with a chat between me and The RZA, from ‘03. It was originally on PlayLouder, but I found it by accident at WuTangCorp, so there you go.

“All they got on TV is War and porno, nah-mean?”

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I have written another article for The Quietus. They pay me! Awesome huh? Check it:

Black Sky Thinking - Cutting the Beef

July 2nd, 2008 ·

As 50 Cent vainly attempts to flog another album on his label with a tired round of beefing, Adam Narkiewicz looks at how a new generation of rappers are re-introducing a spirit of community and collaboration to the genre.

Yes, that’s what I do. Read it here.