thursday night intermission

if not now, when?

Apr 19, 2024

welcome back to another intermission! as a refresher, this space will be more stripped down, more lowkey. these’ll be posts every other week in lieu of the traditional volumes we know and love

happy thursday y’all :)

last week was the anniversary of Run It Back’s soft launch!!

(official anniversary in June 👀)

way back during freshman year of the pandemic, i put myself out there and started something from scratch 🥹

i had an outlet amongst friends to exchange music but wanted something more. i wasn’t necessarily seeking validation (although when unsolicited, it’s great). i just wanted more space to express myself

i had dabbled a little bit with

Josh Yos

doing Village Resting Radio in the mid 2010s, so i knew how gratifying having that outlet felt. and while the world was about to hunker down for the long haul with the pandy, i decided to revisit that feeling

i had NO idea what i was doing when i first started lmao. but i wanted to try:

side note: one friend (who doesn’t listen to rap) said i had too much rap each week, so i took it as a challenge to keep the playlist as diverse as possible. and its only paid dividends since 🥰

Run It Back has changed so much year over year. i’m glad the platform and format have grown since! change is a constant so why not ride the wave and see where you land?

fast forward to today with basketball: we’ve been in Austin for close to 4 years now and it’s been hard to find a consistent basketball community

i’ve put myself out there and tried a bunch of different places but there was always something missing / getting in the way:

5am games 35 minutes away
court / hoops aren’t up to par
wayyy (WAYYY) too much iso ball and not enough team play

i finally found a good group here at the YMCA but since the year turned, we’re losing critical mass because the programming impedes on open play. so i took it upon myself to start a community from scratch

i’m bootstrapping my way to the first pickup run (which is in less than 2 weeks 👀). we’ll see how far this goes but i’m excited to go on this journey with friends

as the saying goes: faster alone, farther together. no matter what i do, i try to carry that energy throughout my life 🦦

- claudio / claud / @offballscreen

p.s. - shoutout to past me for including memes from day 1 😌. my goal was (and still is) if that you don’t like the writing or music, we can at least share a laugh 🤠

this week’s music ⤵️

Más Tiempo (Skepta & Jammer) DJ set in The Lab LDN

i love when artists branch out and try something new. had no idea Skepta was into house like that!! once he dropped the song at 22:00+ i had to Run It Back 😉

the youtube commenters agree…wait holy shit i literally just found out they released it officially via this comment: