And I'll be goddamned if y'all niggas waste mine
So, I have decided that Young Jeezy needs to be my life coach. I mean think of his songs and cameos. He is the truth. When I hear some Jeezy, I just want to go out an make something of myself. That something is not a fool. But for real, for serious though, I am going to leave you with some Jeezy bangers, and you tell me you do not want to go out and be the capitalist America taught you to be.
And let me just say that song number 3, Air Forces, I heard for the first time when I was in Miami with a dear friend. We were supposed to be going to the liquor store, on Collins. Needless to say, we ended up in Little Haiti with some niggas that smoke dirt as weed. They had Hennessey as well. We brought them back to our hotel room to chill for just a bit. We learned new slang. It was fun, the song changed my life. We heard in the car as the driver was drinking and telling us about his stint in New York. I have not thought about the whole scenario in a while. Believe me when I tell you, it was ridiculous. But safe.
Enjoy.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
All I can say is: SON, this shit is (insert 90's phrase for excellence)..
Just when you thought Biggie would be rolling over in his grave if someone tries one more fucking time to ressurrect his flawless, yet limited catalogue. I am moving to the UK, they know what the fuck is up. And with that I introduce Dan Black.
I told you.
www.myspace.com/danblacksound
I told you.
www.myspace.com/danblacksound
Monday, August 18, 2008
On another note
Kehinde Wiley's first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar, is on through October 29, 2008. Known for using young black men as subjects juxtaposing them with traditional eighteenth and nineteenth century European figure paintings, he, symbolically, grants the black man his proper place in history. This exhibition is a part of a greater series where Wiley relocates to different countries making himself accustomed to their art, history, and politics, as they are not inextricable of each other. This resonates in his works.
To see is to believe. The Studio Museum is free on Sundays, thanks to Target but, at any point if you find yourself on 125th street between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell, go inside... it is worth it.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Because I Love This Game
In the spirit of the fleeting summer, childhood, lawn games, and extreme matters of the heart (yes, I will acknowledge the pun), I offer this piece of entertainment.
Here's to the extreme and bizarre circumstances that is our existence.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Use the bathroom first...
You might wet yourself.
I am glad someone understands why Lil Wayne is not the greatest. He lacks versatility in his metaphors and platinum in a week a great MC does not make. Plus he is always talking about shit which means he probably has a messy sex life and if not, see the former.
More on this later
I am glad someone understands why Lil Wayne is not the greatest. He lacks versatility in his metaphors and platinum in a week a great MC does not make. Plus he is always talking about shit which means he probably has a messy sex life and if not, see the former.
Viva Italia:
So as anyone who has the time to read this blog knows, Vogue Italia has broken records with their groundbreaking all black issue. I am not going to lie, the adverts still have white models causing an initial disappointment, but hey, we knew this already or else they would not have to make a concerted effort to break down and hold a mirror to racial discrepencies in the fashion world.
The actual spreads are well executed and Toccara has won my heart as she serves in fur and lingerie. (Wait til I get some money and a man... it's a wrap for him)!
The only thing is that... I can not read Italian! There are too many letters! Constanants, vowels, just too much for me to take and project my limited knowledge of french and spanish on to, which sucks because great magazines delve on the intellectual moreso than say, VIBE or XXL, and DonDiva (my guilty pleasures). If anything I am glad that people can understand why I spend $10- $30 on a given magazine, the quality of the paper, the beauty of the shoots, the excellence of the model and of course the fucking clothes. I want to cry everytime I see a Cesare Pacciotti advert. 'Scuzzi for the tangent. *Ahem* But yea holler at the expensive habits, I have a few, the only cheap one is masturbation and that is not even a habit, it's boring.
If you have not already, go out and get it, it is like buying an Obama shirt, or bringing a cloth bag to the supermarket, it makes you feel like you have done something. We are not children anymore, but deep down inside, we need a bit of affirmation.
Say what you want, Naomi is the queen. If I looked this good after 20 years, I would throw tantrums and blackberrys at every fucking body. It's hard out here for a pimp.
The actual spreads are well executed and Toccara has won my heart as she serves in fur and lingerie. (Wait til I get some money and a man... it's a wrap for him)!
The only thing is that... I can not read Italian! There are too many letters! Constanants, vowels, just too much for me to take and project my limited knowledge of french and spanish on to, which sucks because great magazines delve on the intellectual moreso than say, VIBE or XXL, and DonDiva (my guilty pleasures). If anything I am glad that people can understand why I spend $10- $30 on a given magazine, the quality of the paper, the beauty of the shoots, the excellence of the model and of course the fucking clothes. I want to cry everytime I see a Cesare Pacciotti advert. 'Scuzzi for the tangent. *Ahem* But yea holler at the expensive habits, I have a few, the only cheap one is masturbation and that is not even a habit, it's boring.If you have not already, go out and get it, it is like buying an Obama shirt, or bringing a cloth bag to the supermarket, it makes you feel like you have done something. We are not children anymore, but deep down inside, we need a bit of affirmation.
Say what you want, Naomi is the queen. If I looked this good after 20 years, I would throw tantrums and blackberrys at every fucking body. It's hard out here for a pimp.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Trying to learn a Couple of Things About Myself Through Some Online Quizzes
so...
I was bored (read: procrastinating) on my Saturday job when I decided I was going to let a couple of personality quizzes tell me about my sexuality. For the record, at this time in my life I am old enough to know about my strengths and flaws, weaknesses and how I would like to spend the rest of my life. Things happen and I must adapt but that does not mean I do not have a concrete understanding on my life's trajectory. I say all of that to say it is my level of denial that will determine how I execute my life and not how I know I would like it to be.
Fine.
So, without giving up too much information about myself, I will say that the first quizzes I took were simple and probably made up by people with no background in sexuality research. What prompted me to begin this quest is beyond me. It is funny how many strokes of geniuses I have when I am actually supposed to be focusing on what is already on the table in front of me. I began to google 'sexuality quizzes'; I came out as a Straight Female (that's funny, hilarious, actually). I am like 'holler', that was easy. I took three different ones, with the same result and as a creature of intelligence it is not hard to answer simple questions to garner my desired result. They would say things like you are straight but if you were not you would still be normal. I am thinking to myself, wow, do people with real questions about their sexuality consult internet quizzes to ask those challenging questions? No, that should not be, ever.
In an attempt to delve deeper into this faux discovery I begin to google 'lesbian quizzes'. One said I was straight, the other said I was a lesbian. These quizzes are very narrow-minded and really do not provide the median area within which a lot of the population exist. By this time I know this is horse shit because I am just manipulating my answers because the minute scope of such quizzes are too small to even attempt to successfully identify the fluidity of a person's sexuality without the stigma of deviance and promiscuity often paired with it on both extremes.
I stumble across an effective survey that encompasses one's perception of their sexuality in the future as well as assessing their past and future (It is from the UK, go figure). Finally, something that will give me the answer I already know. A supplementary True/False survey was a bit more extensive but asked very time-specific questions about sexuality allowing the taker to actually analyze their real emotions as opposed to thinking about how the answer may directly effect the outcome after they press the submit button. AND at no point do you have to enter your gender as a means for analysis.
Was that vague enough? Here are my results:
Sequential bisexual.
Take the quiz
Basically it says I go between the two, not at the same time, but periodically, kind of like my mood swings. If you know me, are you surprised?
ha.
I was bored (read: procrastinating) on my Saturday job when I decided I was going to let a couple of personality quizzes tell me about my sexuality. For the record, at this time in my life I am old enough to know about my strengths and flaws, weaknesses and how I would like to spend the rest of my life. Things happen and I must adapt but that does not mean I do not have a concrete understanding on my life's trajectory. I say all of that to say it is my level of denial that will determine how I execute my life and not how I know I would like it to be.
Fine.
So, without giving up too much information about myself, I will say that the first quizzes I took were simple and probably made up by people with no background in sexuality research. What prompted me to begin this quest is beyond me. It is funny how many strokes of geniuses I have when I am actually supposed to be focusing on what is already on the table in front of me. I began to google 'sexuality quizzes'; I came out as a Straight Female (that's funny, hilarious, actually). I am like 'holler', that was easy. I took three different ones, with the same result and as a creature of intelligence it is not hard to answer simple questions to garner my desired result. They would say things like you are straight but if you were not you would still be normal. I am thinking to myself, wow, do people with real questions about their sexuality consult internet quizzes to ask those challenging questions? No, that should not be, ever.
In an attempt to delve deeper into this faux discovery I begin to google 'lesbian quizzes'. One said I was straight, the other said I was a lesbian. These quizzes are very narrow-minded and really do not provide the median area within which a lot of the population exist. By this time I know this is horse shit because I am just manipulating my answers because the minute scope of such quizzes are too small to even attempt to successfully identify the fluidity of a person's sexuality without the stigma of deviance and promiscuity often paired with it on both extremes.
I stumble across an effective survey that encompasses one's perception of their sexuality in the future as well as assessing their past and future (It is from the UK, go figure). Finally, something that will give me the answer I already know. A supplementary True/False survey was a bit more extensive but asked very time-specific questions about sexuality allowing the taker to actually analyze their real emotions as opposed to thinking about how the answer may directly effect the outcome after they press the submit button. AND at no point do you have to enter your gender as a means for analysis.
Was that vague enough? Here are my results:
The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality
According to my answers, it is likely that I identify asSequential bisexual.
Complete set of results
| Sequential bisexual: | 4 | |
| Concurrent bisexual: | 2 | |
| Heterosexual with some homosexuality: | 2 | |
| Homosexual: | 1 | |
| Asexual: | 0 | |
| Heterosexual: | 0 | |
| Homosexual with some heterosexuality: | 0 | |
| Past heterosexual, currently homosexual: | 0 | |
| Past homosexual, currently heterosexual: | 0 |
Information
The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality was devised by Larry Kurdek, B. Berkey and T. Perelman-Hall. It is an extension of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, recognising that sexual identities can change over time, people can identify with more than one sexual identity, and that asexuality is a valid sexual identity. The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality was published in the "Journal of Homosexuality" in 1990.Take the quiz
Basically it says I go between the two, not at the same time, but periodically, kind of like my mood swings. If you know me, are you surprised?
ha.
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