All of Akala's SB TV stuff is worth a listen. Really interesting guy.

Holy crap, I'd never heard this before. I only knew Lou Reed from Perfect Day and his Yeezus review.

Thanks for bring this album to my attention. I just starred it on Spotify.

Do you have any online to link to? No worries if not, I'm just curious.

Wow. It's fascinating how certain things just click with people in a way that makes that want to hold on to a subject for the rest of their lives.. Do you have a least favourite? I'm curious if there's a country that just sucks at flag-creation.

Anxiety is the simple answer, solely because I know it pretty well. People in my day to day life tend to think of me as a mellow guy; a girl at work has a photo of me with the definition of 'nonchalant' pinned next to it. Nope. I'm on seroxat after having anxiety attacks during my third year of university.

An example: the last thing I wrote was an interpretation of Telemachus as a worry-ridden man who watches his slaves talk to each other to calm his busy mind. Every day he walks across his grounds and becomes trapped in a bubble of liquid that seeps out through cracks in his skull. He drowns. It's a not-so-subtle metaphor for what the attacks felt like. It's very strange typing this out, as I don't normally talk about it except in very abstract terms.

Have you ever tried writing? I ask because the maps seem like a creative outlet.

I love your take on the English flag. Is this something you just one day decided to look into or was there a catalyst?

I write fiction sometimes. All of it is currently only for myself, i.e. private, more out of a lack of coherent material than a fear of rejection. I'm looking forward to when my brain finally puts out stories longer than 900 words; it's a running theme that I write something one night, like it, and then never touch it or look at it again. It's good for catharsis, but not for my long term aspirations of publication (right now I don't even have the dinner parties, just lots of Dominos pizza with my girlfriend). It's fun though, even if I'm not taking it as seriously as I could. I've made the decision to quit my job and do a Creative Writing MA next year to give myself a much needed push.

I also am a 23-year-old English man who loves hip-hop, especially cerebral tracks like Jay Electronica's 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. It's not THAT strange, especially considering how much Kanye and Jay-z (Kanye Stan here) dominate the pop culture over here in a lot of ways, but I often get confused looks when people see my Spotify.

I was really dissapointed by Earl Sweatshirt's album last year. Chum was a good track which worked with his monotone delivery, but it felt like he slept-walked for the rest of it.

Wolf was better out of Tyler's releases, for me. I liked Yonkers, but the tracks started to blend in to each other after a while.

Not a huge Odd Future fan, but at the very least they provide an interesting perspective in hip-hop.