If it isn’t clear, Homer & Part Time Monk are two different entities. While Homer (the living one) is responsible for the creative development, academic enterprise and research into this project (as well as managing, vaccuming, taking out the trash, and going to school), Part Time Monk is responsible solely for the beats. The Element and entity Part Time Monk is contained in Homer, and Homer is contained in Homer L. Twigg IV. Now that everything’s clear, the beats.
| Book I | Book IX | Book XVII |
| Book II | Book X | Book XVIII |
| Book III | Book XI | Book XIX |
| Book IV | Book XII | Book XX |
| Book V | Book XIII | Book XXI |
| Book VI | Book XIV | Book XXII |
| Book VII | Book XV | Book XXIII |
| Book VIII | Book XVI | Book XXIV |
The beats featured above have individual books assigned to them. These are by no means final; they are subject to change. What is important is that there are 24, and that at the end of the day they all correspond in mood, tempo and composition to the contents of the book. For example, Odysseus going down to talk with the dead is going to have a different groove to it than Telemachus talking with Nestor.
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hey dude what’s up? I love this it’s really fresh. I was at your house and your brother patrick played some for me, can I get this on a cd anywhere or download it from anywhere? Thanks, Brad
Hermeneutical question: Do you think that Jay Z prefers Fitzgerald, Lattimore, or Fagles?
hells yea!
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loving the vibe! really chilled out, emotional, harmonic and epic. i listened before i read and i had the immediate impression of listening to a score to a play or movie i would like.
cheers from london
oh and i spontaniously laid the ms jackson outkast accapella on top of book 2 only to discover that other outkast rmx. they seem to go well with your beats.
try aesop rock maybe…
Im a film maker and was bouncing around the digital net when I landed here. When I hear music…I see things…its a bond I have had with music since childhood…I have read the classic you have based this off and you have done something akin to magic. I would be honored to have your music lace my hip hop story…if that is not possible, I still would like people who watch my film to know that hip hop can transcend boundries like these tracks have done. Godbless and thank you for showing me hip hop continues to grow as we all grow…it is a reflection of us all. I was born 1972. This music continues to relate to my world…from the streets..to college hallways..to corporate break rooms…to family room dinners…and back to the streets again…
This is why I love hip hop…to be moved in your spirit by sounds and drums links me to a time beyond my flesh and gives me flashes of tribal fires…lonely nights as a child with nothing but a boom box…backwards and forward as a man child constantly developing with thousands of brothas and sisters all marching to a hip hop drum
Inspiring and inviting. I’m hooked.
Would love to speak with Homer L. Twigg IV, as I’m another filmmaker currently producing a documentary with themes corresponding with the Odyssey….would love to incorporate a few of your tracks into my musical score.