The PickPocket Chronicles

ALMOST FAMOUS (NY Giants Super Fan)

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:57:00 +0000

FACEBOOK vs. TWITTER

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:25:00 +0000

Come HOLLA at me ...

FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/TheBloKRecords or Facebook.com/ODotTwist

TWITTER: Twitter.com/TheBlokRecords

TWEET + FACEBOOK + INSTAGRAM = PICKPOCKET

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:52:00 +0000

FIND ME ON ALL THREE : @THEBLOKRECORDS

LIVE O.LIVER TWIST

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:36:00 +0000

LIVE O.LIVER TWIST VIDEO -----> FAN THE O.LIVER TWIST FAN PAGE ON FACEBOOK TO VIEW CONTENT!!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150274160143788

HELP WANTED -- O.LIVER TWIST BOOKING AGENT

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:05:00 +0000

Professional, working emcee/rapper seeks a professional, business minded individual to find gigs, book gigs, and manage gigs.

Don't have to be a professional booker, if you have a passion for music AND business and are looking to jump into the music business -- THIS IS THE POSITION FOR YOU!!!

This is a non-paying assignment, but if you book us paying gigs then you will earn a percentage of the amount we're paid.

... no pressure, let's discuss.

12.31.09: The Heist: Series of Events Pt. 2

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:30:00 +0000

THE HEIST: SERIES OF EVENTS PT. 2 -- Available Online, In Store, & By Mail

WE GON PARTY TONIGHT: Sonar Baltimore - O.Liver Twist LIVE!!!

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:25:00 +0000

Forget the NINE. Its all about the TEN!

BUY TICKETS NOW: O.Liver Twist LIVE at the FISH HEAD CANTINA

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:11:00 +0000

O.LIVER TWIST - THE PICKPOCKET
LIVE @ FISH HEAD CANTINA

Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 8:00pm
4802 Benson Avenue, Albutus/Halethorpe, MD 21227

CLICK THE BUY NOW BUTTON - RIGHT NOW!!!!!! ONLY $12

THE STAR KITTY VIXEN BIRTHDAY FILES

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:09:00 +0000

IF YOU TAKE NYQUIL AND NO DOZ AT THE SAME TIME, DO THEY CANCEL EACH OTHER OUT?

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:17:00 +0000

THE BLOK RECORDS LLC AND

MZERY LOVES COMPANY - THE ANTI ALL-GIRL BAND PRESENTS ...

NYQUIL & NO DOZ: THE MIXTAPE

FEATURING TRACKS FROM THE HOTTEST INDIE ARTISTS WE KNOW ...

Maintain by O.Liver Twist

Soul Recognize Soul by Mzery Loves Company

Poetry In Motion by Greenspan

The Dead Don't Seem To Care by Voodoo Pharmacology

Hardcore by Tislam The Great

MySpace by Odd Girl Out

Strapped by Dirt Platoon

Cloud City by WrittenHouse

Poor Man's Blues by Artherius Johnson

Where I'm From by Brown F.I.S.H.

Thief by O.Liver Twist

Satan Vs. The Lord [Love Me Hate Me] aka Liz Doesn't Like This Title But She Got Outvoted So That Settles That

------------> Download the ENTIRE NYQUIL & NO DOZ: THE MIXTAPE FREE. Click here!

O.Liver Twist: The PickPocket - Live @ BLACK HOLE

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:01:00 +0000

MUCH THANKS TO: SONJA AND MIKA OF SONIKA IMAGING ARTIST SERVICES FOR SHARING THEIR VIDEO FOOTAGE!

[CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT MZERY LOVES COMPANY's FOOTAGE]

ALOUD TO BE LOUD [Get It?]

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:52:00 +0000

THE HEIST AVAILABLE IN STORE AND ONLINE @ ODOTLIVERTWIST.COM

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:59:00 +0000

Listen to THE HEIST Online then Download Your Copy ASAP! http://ODOTLIVERTWIST.com

NEARLY KNOCK A NUCKA OUT.

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:38:00 +0000

ROCKN OUT ROCKTOBERFEST. O.Liver Twist with Mzery Loves Company

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:00 +0000

They said we couldn't perform cuz HIP HOP aint cool! They changed their minds, help us show ROCKTOBERFEST what MLC is all about! $12 tixs!

MZERY LOVES COMPANY - THE ANTI ALL-GIRL BAND IS BRINGING HIP HOP [Hip Rock & Soul, technically] to ROCKTOBERFEST--> http://bit.ly/2ykeAB

RT @Starkittyvixen: @MzeryLvsCompany I love y'all I miss y'all too street team will be on her best shit > We want u @ ROCKTOBERFEST! Grindn!

Help us ask ROCK and HIP HOP the eternal question: "Can't We All Just Get Along?" --> Check @mzerylvscompany -ROCKTOBERFEST! Sat.10/3!

Thxs Edword. Can't Stop.>He says "Hey Ladies. . . . saw you at Circus and Damn ya'll are awesome. . . please never stop. . . . easy ;)"

Check us out at ROCKTOBERFEST, Saturday, 10/3, 7pm. 525 Eastern Avenue, Essex, MD! @MzeryLVSCompany + ODot @theblokrecords!!

Check us out at ROCKTOBERFEST, Saturday, 10/3, 7pm. 525 Eastern Avenue, Essex, MD! @MzeryLVSCompany + ODot @theblokrecords!!

ROCKTOBERFEST TIXS. 10/3, 7p, MLC + ODOT! Buy Tixs TODAY. $12. HERE -----> http://bit.ly/1Y8XjW .... DO IT!! [Please]!

Buy ROCKTOBERFEST TIXS HERE -----> $12 ------> http://bit.ly/P1ZMA

'They' Didn't Want Hip Hop @ ROCKTOBERFEST! We beg to differ! Buy Tixs-----> http://bit.ly/yhXY3

RT @mzery: ROCK & HIPHOP? Cant we just get along! BUY Tixs for ROCKTOBERFEST ft @MzeryLVSCompany & O. @TheBlokRecords... http://lnk.ms/2T1nT

RT @TheBlokRecords: 'THE HEIST' by O.Liver Twist @theblokrecords ft. The Anti All-Girl Band @mzeryLVSCompany!->http://ODOTLIVERTWIST.com

This One Time ... At Bandcamp ... @MZERYLVSCOMPANY posted a song called 'Satan Vs. The Lord'. Listen ---> http://bit.ly/1ydB1F

ROCK OUT WIT YA COCK OUT! JAM OUT WIT YA CLAM OUT! Get ROCKTOBERFEST Tixs Rite HERE. Rite NOW! ---> http://lnk.ms/2T1nT

Freeze, somebody bring me back some money please ...

Did ya'l know we had a fan page? We didn't either. Sasha just told us ... Anyway ... Check it out ... http://facebook.com/antiallgirlband

Chilln w/@skairyan @starkittyvixen @theblokrecords & @mzerylvscompany @ 2424 Monument St,BMore. Come thru. Buy shit!

http://twitpic.com/k0ha7 - With the lovely Malacka Makeup @skairyan. Check her out www.SkaiRyanCosmetics.com

WHAT WE WERE DOING: Packn the rigs, fooln w/our instruments, deciding on wardrobe, general geekn.

WHAT WE ARE DOING: Confirming the set list, crackn jokes.

WHAT WE WILL BE DOIN: ROCKN OUT AT ROCKTOBERFEST. 9pm 525 Eastern Avenue, Essex, MD 21221 Tickets ---> http://bit.ly/1Y8XjW . Or at the door

RT @TheLadieClair If Rocktoberfest is a real event my band will be lighting the stage on fire! Be there! 10/3 $12/ Ha. A REAL event. Ha!

We say ... 'You Can Take My Wings / And Im STILL Gon Fly!' -[Wake Up by Mzery Loves Company] ...

Wondering if @mzery of @mzerylvscompany will let me become an ordained minister online & marry her whenever she gets married? Hmm.-sasha

Come fall in love with the girl at the ROCK SHOW! 525 Eastern Ave, Essex. @mzerylvscompany w/ @theblokrecords! Come thru!

http://twitpic.com/k6xgn - ... ODot @theblokrecords is probly thinkn ... 'This is what I get for tourn w/ chics.

Isnt this MD? Smells like Jersey. No offense NJ.

The crowd is hype @ ROCKTOBERFEST. Who knew? @Mzerylvscompany & @theblokrecords on next. Yea-Yea-YEAH!!

http://twitpic.com/k6y3i - ... Backstage...

http://twitpic.com/k6ygi - ... O. @theblokrecords b4 a show. (Looks like he's prayn but I dnt think he is

The band b4 us is called Devils Radio. Well alllllrite. Apparently its that type of party.

Y u should not drink if u cant hold ur liquor. This girl just went to the stage & balled up the setlist of the band thats on now! WTF!

#GeneralObservations ... Its hot as HELLO! on that stage under all those lites! AND a smoke machine? Whoa!

#GeneralObservations ... Theres nothin ANY of us-@theblokrecords @mzerylvscompany- would rather do ona Sat nite than CLOSE OUT THE SHOW!

#GeneralObservations ... People can certainly talk a lota shit from ALLLLLLLL the way ova there. Talk about ineffective communication.

#GeneralObservations ... Looks like Rock & HipHop CAN get along. Now Rocktoberfest ... I wan' my money. -sasha

#GeneralObservations ... Anybody who risks driving on dead tags to see MLC & ODOT in concert is a true GO HARD FAN! Awesome @onlinemlc

FOLLOW- @theblokrecords @mzerylvscompany @mzery @m2mgmt @ohreallypoet @onlinemlc @inthemixwithtre @skairyan!

GOOD SHOW TONITE FAM!!!! WE KILLED THEM AS USUAL!! I HAD A GREAT TIME! THE HEIST ONLINE AT ODOTLIVERTWIST.COM..GET URS! -o.twist

*Thanks to @InTheMixWithTre/http://dmvradio.com for being on photo-opp detail!

HIP-HOP & ROCK! Can't We All Just Get Along? The PickPocket says HELL YEA!

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:23:00 +0000

Rock with Mzery Loves Company and O.Liver Twist at ROCKTOBERFEST 2009 and help us answer the eternal question to HIP HOP & ROCK ... "Can't We All Just Get Along?"

BUY TICKETS HERE! DIRECTLY FROM US!

YOUR TICKETS WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU AT THE WILL CALL WINDOW!!

ROCKTOBEFEST
Saturday, October 3, 2009
7pm
SINIX

- MySpace Size Below -

MUSIC INDUSTRY = MASSIVE PAPERWORK.

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:36:00 +0000

O.LIVER TWIST ... 'RECOGNIZE' ft. Mzery Loves Company

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:08:00 +0000

THE HEIST

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:57:00 +0000

O.LIVER TWIST ... 'Go Hard' LIVE!

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:43:00 +0000

SEPTEMBER 2 - BE THERE!

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:27:00 +0000

AUGUST IN BMORE

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:06:00 +0000

SAVE THE DATE ... IN INK! 09.07.09

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:59:00 +0000

LEARN TO RECOGNIZE A THIEF IN THE KNIGHT.

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:48:00 +0000

This is called 'Thief in the Knight.' It is one of the many brainstorming pieces O.Liver is churning out of me at frenetic pace. Its a play on the Thief and Heist themes of course, but its also an homage to one of our favorite downtown activities: Chess. With a nod toward chivalry and the premise that even in the most unlikely of characters [thieves included] deep inside you may find the Knight [coming to save the day]. -SashaLawless

O.LIVER AGREES WITH STEPHEN HUNTER. GIVING YOUR FEET AN EXTRA JOB MAKES NO SENSE.

noreply@blogger.com (OfficialBloKRecords.com) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:09:00 +0000

Terror Comes in the Shape Of Summertime Footwear
By Stephen Hunter

Special to The Washington Post

Sunday, August 9, 2009

I know that the Viet Cong managed to win a war wearing flip-flops. I know that people fly in them, go to ballgames in them, get married in them, work, run and sword fight in them. Lindsay Davenport wore them on Letterman. People even shop in them.

But I have this problem: On my feet they don't flip . . . they don't flop . . . they flounder. Recently, I had an ordeal in a giant Lower Manhattan outlet store that was more like a barbarian convention than a retail site. Huns, Goths, Vikings, Mongols, Saxons, Tartars, even Kipchaks and Kambojas (everybody is somebody else's barbarian) by the thousands slithered, shoved, lugged, looted and pillaged their way through the place, competing for clothes at alleged if doubtful wholesale. The vast majority of this mob happily churned onward in the ubiquitous rubber-thonged footwear, utterly fearless and unconscious. You could hear the music of the flopping -- SNAP, POP, CRACK, SQUEAK -- as the rubber hit the road. It seemed never to occur to them that someone might step on their toes or they might stub those same toes or that their traction might yield, depositing them, with sundered tendons, into an undignified position.

I cannot even make it to the bathroom in them. Stairways are out of the question -- outside a horror. Driving? How can you drive in them? Slippage has to occur, and you'll kill yourself and all who are in the 7-Eleven into which you smash.

Running, fighting, even moving briskly as if an important destination lay ahead? All inconceivable.

In fact, my wife -- one of the world's great flip-floppers -- does an extremely amusing imitation of me in flagrante: Imagine a golem with concrete knees and cast-iron boots, stomping through petunias, all heavy metal, rivets and rust, crushing clumsily all that comes before. I'm just not a flip-flop kind of guy.

Where did they come from? Weren't they first called shower shoes? I seem to remember them in locker rooms first, or upstairs at the dorm. For a while they were more or less seen as a part of hippie culture, a first cousin to the sandal. They knew their place then.

Yet somehow, like the little guerrillas who waged war so efficiently they could defeat our guys in the cool rubberized jungle boots the Army began issuing about year three of the Vietnam War, the shower thong won out. It infiltrated, it insinuated, it seduced, it tunneled, it presumed. Now, kids wear them to the White House.

My problem is part psychological. I fear pain. Feet out in the world are terribly vulnerable. Look at them: little genius-level miracles of engineering, with their delicate web work of linkages and hydraulics, superbly flexible, able to propel a fellow out of a saber-tooth tiger's leap or to a mile-relay state championship. You'd risk them? Boy, I sure can't.

Another cool thing about feet: They look real good in shoes. Me, I like a big English brogue, pebble-grained, the color of old mahogany. Or those butterscotch-y Alden tasseled loafers, proportions perfect, tone rich and traditional. Or New Balance sneaks, festooned with weird glittery grommets, strange space-age exoskeletons and that brilliant "N" that announces itself to the world. Why risk the ability to wear such treasures by endangering your feet?

And part of it is biological, the genetic play of variation and inheritance in the birthing game. It so happens I have thin feet. No other part of me is thin, but the feet are like the talons of a sparrow, bony and fragile and the color of some dead creature's belly; moreover, veins and arteries seem locked in some kind of purple Laocoönesque struggle for dominance just under the delicate skin.
I cannot even bear to look at them, and showing them to the world seems sinful.

Thin feet mean the rubber thongs have no place against which to bind or adhere. The darned things -- particularly on a forward thrust of a step -- keep slipping off and suddenly I'm barefoot, a pretty frightening way to discover the true nature of the surface of the planet (it has a lot of sticky, protuberant things). To compensate for this slipping-off tendency, I flex my toes to provide some grippage. Big mistake, but I cannot order my body to do otherwise; it seems like natural self-preservation. And of course in just a little while, my calf muscles begin to cramp and ache. The thing turns quickly to ordeal, then to fatigue and finally torture.

"Relax your toes," my wife says.

"I can't," I say.

"You must achieve separation between heel and sole; for the system to work, it must both flip and flop."

"It hurts."

"You're a baby."

"Possibly true, but it still hurts."

A couple of methodologies have been employed. For example, I have tried to pin the heel of the flip-flop under the heel of my foot on each step, thereby freeing my toes of "slip-off anxiety," as I have named the syndrome, and figuring that they would accept the concept and relax of their own. Like many a theory, it looked good on paper but in reality, it didn't pan out. My toes act as if they've been taken over by a secret cabal with its own agenda.

Of course I'm not facing the real problem. It's not physical or biological or even psychological, it's conceptual. And that is, I don't believe in feet.

We live, you have certainly observed but perhaps not processed, in a foot-rich culture. Feet are everywhere. The naked foot, once as taboo as a breast or a set of buttocks, has become commonplace, particularly in the summer, and I have to ask: Is this really such a good thing?

Indeed yes, a young woman's well-tended feet, as displayed in flip-flops or sandals or peep-toe heels or even bare upon the floor or sand, can be a treat. Smooth, streamlined, dainty, they are part of a woman's beauty and so should be respected or adored, as part of the ancillary menu of sexual attributes. And I presume that many women would find a male athlete's foot -- muscular, square, speaking of power and determination -- an ancillary pleasure in their admiration of the male frame, as they do strong, big hands, ripped arms, good posture, broad shoulders and so forth.

But what a price we pay for this occasional shiver of pleasure. The feet that you see today, my own being No. 1 on the Public Enemies list: old feet, gnarly feet. Toes twisted like an adulterer's lies, nails as yellow as a Kansas wheat field announcing to the world the presence of a demon fungus. Tectonic ranges of ragged nails, some offering harbor to filth. (I'm making myself sick!) What about the opposite of skinny feet, those fat things, like huge, flat slugs?

Really, when you think of it, that thing we call civilization is in one sense the march of the shoe. The 300 years from 1600 to 1900 might be called the crusade of the shod against the unshod. Others may call it imperialism, colonialism, even genocidalism, but whatever, it was the hubris of the West that things went better if people wore shoes (and of course, it goes without saying, socks). You might call it the War of the Toeses: We industrialized nations of the world, in our search for markets, raw materials and obedience, had to get the little people in Buster Browns, dang it.

Thus, it's no surprise that the flip-flop profusion began in the counterculture. And so, like other insidious usurpers of the West -- rock-and-roll, sexuality, annoying concepts of freedom and self-expression, fluoridation of water -- they subversively wiggled their way into dominance, disguised under feel-good rubrics like "comfort" and "freedom."

And so now we have what we have, and we can never go back. But you won't ever find me joining in the mob. Oh, and what was I shopping for at that huge awful Lower Manhattan place?
Socks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/06/AR2009080604277_pf.html