Oh Yeah Happy New Year's (eve, day, wahtever)

So I do have the intention of posting this long drawn out post of a wrap-up of the year 2008 and what 2009 will hopefully bring including the music and movies of this expiring year. I just really dont feel like doing that right now. I do work tomorrow, yes on the first day of the new year, the national day of hangover's I am working. Dick Clark would not approve. So I will have a hunk of time on my hand's and I will do that post. I don't have any real plans tonight, I have to wake up @4:30 in the morning tomorrow so I plan on renting a movie buying some ice cream and just hanging out at home till I fall asleep. I was actually invited to this huge throwdown on some military base but I can't go. Besides I never gone out for NYE, for some reason I feel uneasy about being out in public on a night like that. So i'll just stay home and watch tv, it's a tradition, I like tradition's. But for the rest of you that will be venturing into the night please Please PLEASE be safe. It goes without saying DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE, its not fuggin worth it kids. And im done.

Men that I love

Aziz Ansari, an indian dude raised in south carolina. He is a stand-up comedian and you may recognize him from the unfortunately short lived MTV series "Human Giant" he's funny, he's smart, has great taste in music and yes I would smash that. Here is a youtubey of his stand up enjoy.

Eat shit die: Electric bugaloo

So remember how a while ago all the blog were posting a clip of some concert where Kanye but a fan on blast and told him to "Eat shit die" autotune style? Well I found this clip that makes the whole thing make a little more sense. Sure im late, but im not absent. ESD!

Down but not out Jammie

This was my sooong back in the day. If you don't know I am closet Dipset(RIP) fan and this was when Cam came back skinny with hey Ma and all that. So this Down and Out with Camron and Kanye.

Tops

So you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to...i think. What can you tell I dont know. But while looking on my iTunes playlist thingy I clicked on 25 most played. This is the top 25. What does this say about me? Oh yeah that's right, I'm awesome, although I do have my guilty pleasures peep #25
25.Three 6 Mafia-Lollipop-48 times
Why?: I dont know, my brother makes fun of me cause I like this song. I mean who else can use a Micheal Myers sample!?
24. Hit it Hard-Peaches-48 times
Why?:Because it's Peaches, I would one day love to have vulgar bravado and be adored by millions.
23. Bat For Lashes-Horse and I-48 times
Why?: Because I have a sensitive side.
22. Peaches-Boys Wanna Be Her-49 times
Why?: Peep reason for #24
21. M.I.A.-Bamboo Banga-49 times
Why?: It's a great introduction into her album, this song goes hard, when they play it at the Wave, psh game over.
20. Jeff Buckley-Vancouver-49 times
Why?: Jeff makes my soul cry. When I listen to songs I have pictures and or videos playing in my head and when this song plays it kind of looks like Red Hot Chili Peppers "Scar Tissue" or Smashing Pumpkins "Today". Just riding around in the desert with the top down wind in your hair and crooning, so yeah.
19. M.I.A-Paper Planes-50 times
Why?: Come on.
18. Gnarls Barkley-Blind Mary-50 times
Why?: Um I really don't know why, I just like the song. I didnt know that I listened to it that much though.
17. Gnarls Barkley-Run (im a natural disaster)-51 times
Why?: Refer to #18.
16. Bat for Lashes-Sarah-51 times
Why?: It's a cool song, I like subtlety of the organ(i believe) and the horns towards the end.
15. M.I.A-Boyz-53 times
Why?: Boyz? How many, how many?
14. Bat for Lashes-What's a Girl to do?-53 times
Why?: This song and video made me buy the Fur and Gold album, it's a good song.
13. Jeff Buckley-Everybody here Wants You-53 times
Why?: Jeff made incredibly sexay songs, and this in my opinion is his sexiest. It also sounds like a song Prince could have made in his Diamonds and Pearls days.
12. Chemical Brothers-Do it Again-55 times
Why?: Because I am closet raver. I wish I could go to a rave, they don't really have raves now a days do they?
11. Saul Williams-NiggyTardust-57 times
Why?: Saul is wonderful chunk of dark coco, this song is like the dark coco version of "Hollaback Girl" not musically though, it's a total attitude song "When I say Niggy you say nothing. Niggy.nothing. Shut Up!.
10. Lupe Fiasco-Gold Watch-57 times
Why?: To me it feels like early to mid 90's back packer song, I don't know, I like the strings in the background during the chorus.
9. M.I.A.-Bingo-58 times
Why?: This is from her first album anything she does is dripping with incredible swagger and this is no exception.
8. Saul Williams-Black History Month-59 times
7. N*E*R*D-Everyone NOse-59 times
6. Gnarles Barkely-No Time Soon-59 times
Why?: It sounds like a cryptic love song, I dont know I dig it.
5. M.I.A.-XR2-63 times
4. Calvin Harris-Neon Rocks-63 times
3. Madonna-Heart Beat-65 times
2. Peaches-Downtown-86 times
1. Gnarles Barkley-Whatever-115 times

Scratch Notorious this is going to be EPIC

So as you should know the auto-bio of BIG is coming out Jan 16 of next year. Now there are many debates about who was better Biggie or Tupac, well there really is no argument. If you ask an east coast cat who's better more than likely it'll be Biggie, west coast dude's answer will more than likely be 'pac. But for any hip-hop head this is a HUGE deal and I can't wait to see it. This is going to be like Selena, I mean we all know how it ends but seeing everything before then is going to be a trip. My brother and I was like I hope they do like a midnight screening that they do for other lame ass movies like Harry Potter and Pirates of the Carribean. This is a big friggin deal.

The Weakend

So I only had one day off this week so I had to make friday night count, I like to think I did. I started off the evening by going out with mah cuzins RDGT and Alexis at some bar in Newport News with the name Firkin in it. Afterwards I was going to go home cause my bestie Shelainey did not get back to me about hitting up the Wave. At the last minute I decided to risk my life and text and drive at the same time and she answered back she was going so I turned around and got back on the interstate. Indie night at the Wave is turning into my fav night, it used to be 80's night but that night can be so predictable sometimes, well cause it's 80's night duh, I digress. As always good tunes, strong drinks, great people, lots of dancing, good times. This time I decided to go home cause I was tired cause I got off at work at 1pm and haven't slept so I was pooped. I got home snuggled in my bed and watched tv. TV got a little more exciting for me recently cause as one of my xmas gifts my mom got me a cable box so now I got movie channels, and music video channels that plays music videos! Imagine that! So I went to sleep while watching Chris Rock's "Kill the Messenger" which what I saw before I dozed off was hilarious. So yeah that was my weekend. Short sweet to the point.

I woke up with this song in my head Jammie

No I literally woke up with this song in my head, and apparently the best way to get a song out of your head is to listen to it again. I think I just made it worse.

Whatever Happened to?....

Orgy!? No not that you sick bastards (me included) the band Orgy.

I was all about some Orgy back hi skool. Orgy reminds me one of one my besties Garcia, he loooved them, I wonder if he still likes them as much.Anyways Orgy is a synth-industrial band from Cali they were signed to Korn's Elementree record label for a minute and became popular from their cover of "Blue Monday". I remember one time I was supposed to see them on Papa Roach's "Raid the Nation" tour back in the day but apparently there were all sick from mono so I couldnt see them (sad face). So after some exhaustive and extensive research I discovered that the band is in fact still together but busy working on side projects but hopefully will be making some orgy-full music someday soon, Im looking forward to it.Here is a video of them performing "Opticon" from the Vapor Transmission album on the show Farmclub, OMG do you remember that show!Hosted by that ball headed dude ummm Matt Pinfield? Jeez sooo long ago!

Joyous Kwanzaa my Peoples

Today begins the first day of Kwanzaa, or as I like to call it the black Hannakuh(i probably spelled that wrong, I apologize to my jewish peeps). Its the celebration of african roots, implemented as an alternative or addition to the christmas celebration. One day soon I would like to full out celebrate Kwanzaa, I have in the past but not like full out know what I mean? Every day of the Kwanz is a different principle. Today's principle is Umoja which is Unity(no Rick James) in Swahili. It means...well what do you think it means, Unity dammit! So unite with your people and let the good times roll, it is friday.

May You Purr In Peace.

Im quite sure you have heard the unfortunate news already that legend Eartha Kitt passed away on Christmas from colon cancer, she was 81. She kept kicking though, she was in the Hampton Roads area in like october performing, she lived life to the fullest as it should be lived. If you do not know who Eartha Kitt is google it I dont have time for you! Matter of fact google it, print it out, go to time out and read it,shame on you. But I am quite sure everybody is familiar with her in some form or fashion. I will leave you with some of Eartha's greatest work. Her role from Boomerang. Maarrrcus Darling.

Christmas Wrap-Up

So I worked xmas morning till 1 in the afternoon then I got home and my family and I opened our gifts. We were all pretty excited cause we did not have a christmas last year so yeah excitement. I was more excited than anything to give my mom her gift which was a red microwave that she has been dying for so she was very happy to get that. Me I made out pretty well, I got a cell phone case, a new robe, some slipper socks, and this...

Little Big Planet! My brother got it for me. My gift to him were tickets to the N*E*R*D show in november. I first played LBP last week at a friend of a friend's house and I loved it. It's cute, its challenging the soundtrack is trippy the levels are out of control, its my new addiction. So after we all opened our gifts we lounged around for a while, I played the game then we all went to the chinese buffet for a traditional christmas din din. All in all it was a nice christmas, not too much fuss real chill, short sweet to the point.

My Gift to You

Instead of watching A Charlie Brown Christmas or Miracle on 54th(?)st or Its A Wonderful Life or Look Who's Talkin Now or countless other pieces of propaganda from the ABC family channel or Hallmark channel make watching A Huey Freeman Christmas your family's tradition. No your welcome.
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Oh yeah Merry Christmas

It is 7:13am and I am at work for christmas, yay me, whatever at least I get time and a half, well time and a half that will be taken out in taxes. Yeah im a winner, enough about me. Let's not forget what today is really about "the reason for the season" if you will. The birth of our lord Jesus Christ, if that what you believe. There are many theories and stories and myths and blah blah blah. I am not the most religious person in the world but I do know that a man was on this earth and died for our sins and I am thankful everyday to be alive etc. On a day like this let's not forget our brother and sisters overseas fighting for our freedom and risking their lives every second of every day. They are the ones who are not with their fams right now so please keep them in your thoughts. Special shout-out to one of my best best best friends in the whole entire galaxy a man whom I love with all my heart and them some Brandon Stith who is in Iraq right now. I dont know if your going to read this but I love you B and you know this man! So I can't wait to get home and see what I got, this is the first xmas my family has had in a while, during a recession too! Well hope you enjoy your day and dont forget to get me that Hello Kitty guitar, spanks.

The Gorrilaz is soooo myspace

So according to the ever present Myspace, the Gorillaz is the most popular artist on the site. This piece of info boggles me because they have not came out with any new material. They did release the D Sides album of unreleased materials late last year but it was not counted as a new studio album. But i aint mad at it. I love the Gorillaz and hope they come out with some stuff soon, they are the baddest cartoon band in the biznass next to Josie and the Pussycats then Jem followed Zack attack. Grant it Zack Attack are humans not cartoons, but they might as well be.To check out more on this story courtesy of NME go right chea So here's the Gorillaz "Rock it" from the joint that dropped last november.

Bahot Gahtdama!

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So I know this is like so yesterday but I just had to post, he is a bad mama jamma, he is so bad he made me say mama jamma. So apparently people are all in a tizzy in both good and bad ways about this picture. Some are saying that a president shouldnt be seen like that, I mean helloooo he's on vacation in friggin Hawaii! And he can walk around shirtless all he wants he's a hot piece. And i'm done. Go here to some more semi-nude politician meat.

Let's get into the holiday spirit!

Viva la revolution por Jesus. These santa's are in Tempe, Arizona covering up traffic cameras at red lights, I say do that on mercury blvd(hampton,va) their intentions are good, well to me at least.

Jammie for the Sizzurp Slurpers

So when I first heard this song/saw this video I thought it was funny, catchy, dare I say "fun" song. This was long before the country as a whole knew about that "purp" for those of you not up on the lingo, shame on you, stay in time out, first let me explain to the best of my knowledge. Purp, Sizzurp whatevs is basically cough syrup mixed with (fill in blank here). I personally hate drinking cough syrup when I have to more or less drinking it for recreation but I digress. So if you listen to this song he's like professing his love for the purple drank, also like breaking down the history, it amazes me for some reason. It is also a little bit disturbing cause a little while ago we lost Big Mo from a heartattack and codine was found in his system at the time of his death. I mean this dude was obsessed with syrup he even named his album City of Syrup and he was also a part of the Screwed up Click most notably found by DJ Screw who died from Syrup years and years ago, but he himself continued until his death a while ago. Wow, purp must be like that. Oh well here's the video to "Purple Stuff" and rest in peace Big Mo in that big city of syrup in the sky.

Camp Lo Poppin Champagne!?

When I was on world star hip-hop and saw the title to this video my first thought was "ugh no not camp lo!" then I watched the video and I still dont know what to make of it.
But I mean it's Camp Lo and they really can't do no wrong in my book.

If you dont know who Camp Lo is maybe this will jog your memory.

And if that doesn't help you, you have no hope. Go to time out.

Hallelujah wont go away

On this week's chart in the UK Lenard Cohen's "Hallelujah" will be number 1 in part or in whole thanks to the singing competition "The X Factor" which is like American Idol. Oddly enough Jeff Buckley's rendition of the song got a spike on the iTunes list earlier this year thanks to that pot head kid on this year's American Idol. Why does this song repeatedly enter the charts and people's cerebrum? Cause it's an amazing song that's why! I am more familiar with the Jeff Buckley version when I apprehended a copy of Grace some years ago. Jeff makes my darkened soul cry. But overall it is an amazing heart wrenching beautimus song and will forever be around and all that stuff. To check out more on this story go here

The Weakend

Smurf and or Smurfed (n) pronounced (sm-er-ph-ed) to be heavily intoxicated. On friday I hit up my favorite spot the The Wave on Colley St in Norfolk, its a gay club but people of all preferences hit up the spot because its a cool alternative club with the best music. On friday's it "Indie Night" where danceable indie rock is played. Its usually pretty empty on indie night cause the big night at the wave is their 80's night on thursday's. This week it was a loot of kids there it was real fun though. Afterwards we went the after hours spot and played "Little Big Planet" on PS3 for hours,I went to the 24 hour Burger King on the way home, I didnt get in till after 5 and destroyed french toast sticks like it stole something, it was fun. Partying on a budget, ITS A RECESSION GOING ON!

A Jammie for da beepas

I didnt even know they had a video for this song. This is Fam-Lay with "The Beeper Song". Fam-lay is from Nofolk and signed to the Neptunes' label startrak. He has been signed to Startrak since Startrak was Startrak and he has still not dropped an official studio album yet! I mean I love the Neptunes and the music that Startrak artists come out with when they do come out but as a label Startrak needs to get it together. I understand you know the grassroots hood campaign and Fam-Lay is getting paid since he tours with N*E*R*D, but he needs to come out with an album already. Startrak let's get it together please! Love, Tylia.

Maury makes the world go round the ups and downs are carousels

I am quite sure at one time or another Maury Povich was a respected journalist. Well I still respect him. He is single handedly changing people's lives every day. He makes my life worth living. If it was not for his show I wouldn't be able to tell a woman from a really good tranny. I can see how people were once geeks and now they're chic. I can also see people's dreams come true, and people's lives come to a crashing halt simultaneously. I've been on youtube scouring for paternity test results. The prime example of someone's best day and someone's worst. Look at this square white dude finding out a bit of news and watch him turn into a black woman, yes from square white to a sista gurl.

It all comes crashing...

DOWN! the new N*E*R*D vid enjoy

Oh no you shouldnt have!

So I dont care how old you are, how tomboyish you are, how butch you are, if you have a vagina, you have a sore spot for Sanrio and Hello Kitty. The first time I walked into the Sanrio store in Norfolk I literally eeked yes eeked not to be confused with gleeked which is gross. Anyways flowers and daises and rainbows and unicorns shot out of my anus, seriously. I was in the store for an hour just walking around in amazement and this is a small store but there is just too much adorobaleness going on, its too much. So the last time I went to the store my mom was with me and she said pick out something I wanted and she will get it for me for xmas. She really doesnt have to but...wait she does! Anyways I want some things not for the holiday but just in general. This is a jedi mind trick in which i trick you into getting these things for me, ia it working!? Yeah didnt think so.
1)Kuromi wallet,she's like the rockstar of Sanrio. I already have the miniature version of this wallet but I still want this one, Im not greedy.

2)Hello Kitty Digital Camera, I mean COME ON!

3)The Grand Dame of them all the HK geetar!


All photos courtesy of sanrio.com

Sweet

The Presets are going to tour in north america in the spring and I want to go the DC show on april 1 WHO'S GOIN WITH ME!???? Don't know who The Presets are? They rock your face off while dancing till your butt cheeks melt into one....cheek. YEah that's right!
Check out all the dates here.

Facebook does it again!

Facebook a place where you find your friends, spy on your enemies or people that you perviously and stupidly hooked up with. Let people know who your dating and when you guys broke up. Where you worked and for how long. You can send hugs, kisses, plants, pokes, bumper stickers, flair, drinks high fives, karate chops, legal documents, vampires...wait legal documents!? Yep that's right. In the words of one our great philosphiers Trevor George Smith Jr. (google it) IT AINT SAFE NO MORE! Wooo ha facebook got you all in check.
In what may be a world first, lawyers from Canberra law firm Meyer Vandenberg persuaded a judge in the Australian Capital Territory's Supreme Court to allow them to serve the documents over the internet after repeatedly failing to serve the papers in person.

Lawyer Mark McCormack came up with the Facebook plan after it became clear that the couple did not want to be found.

No word yet on whether these people received and what they're status says. I will think something along the lines of "I fought the law and law won...f%ck" That's just a guess. Check out the full story here

Jammie for the Recession

So I love me some Prince, like really, who doesn't love Prince. I prefer late 70's to early 90's Prince, before he became the symbol then he just lost me. I tried to like the new stuff that Prince have put out over the past few years but he really has not grabbed me. By the way I want the deluxe edition of the Purple Rain DVD or the soundtrack of Purple Rain ON VINYL for Kwanazamas, thanks. Anyways I was listening to my iPod on my way from work the other morning and this song popped up, it has always been my jam but I really listened to it in a new sense. Even this song was made over a decade ago it is VERY relevant to what's going on right now. This is "Money Don't Matter Tonight" from the Diamonds and Pearls album.The video is a double whammo cause it was directed by the great Spike Lee.

Prince - New Music - More Music Videos

Incredibad

So the guys from the lonely island troupe have come a long way. Jorma and Akiva are writers on SNL and Andy is a big shot in the SNL cast as well as a writer. All of the musical talents they have blessed us with for some time now will now come in the form of a comedy album the name of the album is Icredibad and is slated for release in feburary. I for one am severely looking forward to this i've been a fan of these three dudes for a minute now.To read more about this via Rolling Stone here ya go. Here is one of my favorite songs of theirs.

Are you ADHD!?

So for those that don't know a few weeks ago I went to the N*E*R*D show at Old Dominion University (norfolk,va) and a while ago I saw this video on NERD's official youtube channel so I figured i'd post it here. This will give you a taste of how INSANE the show was, they opened the show with "Anti-Matter" and kids went bonkers, me included, imagine standing in the front of this whole thing and being smooshed..yeah it was awesome <_>.

Wont you come over love Jammie

This is the Estelle joint with Sean-a Paul durty eh. This is the jammie love the reggae feel of it, the only reasons sunday's make me happy is because of the reggae show on the hip-hop and r&b radio station round here. I've always equated sunday's with reggae cause even when I was younger and my parents would do like house work or whatever (cause I think sunday is the international day for cleaning your house) and my dad will always play reggae, not dancehall, reggae reggae know what im saying? So anyways enjoy the jammie.

Sneak peek

Here is a behind the scenes video for N*E*R*D's next single "Sooner or Later" which is one of my favorite songs off of Seeing Sounds. The video is being based off of the stock market which is really clever cause even though one can assume the song is about a failed relationship it really works for this situations as well, plus all the boys look HAWT! Enjoy <_>
Sooner Or Later - Behind The Scenes

For the record, I luh you

So every year VH1 puts on these hip hop honors award shows which I always look forward to. I just always found it weird that VH1 would put on something like this since they never play hip hop videos but I appreciate the idea. So the last show was in october and I liked the Issac Hayes tribute since of course we all know Mr Issac passed away this year. I really liked Estelle's rendition of the Mary J song and of course Cee-lo, gaht I love that man and friggin Mos Def I lurve him too so just enjoy this clip its pretty epic...to me anyways

Isaac Hayes Tribute Live at VH1 Hip Hop Honors 200… - MyVideo

El fin de semana

What did I do this weekend? The best thing anyone can do. Sleep! I slept my whole days off and I dont regret it one bit. Sure I wanted to go out and have a few drinks, I mean who doesn't erry once in a while, but I did the next best thing, scratch that I did the best thing. Sleep! I got off from work on thursday and I went to Sleep! I wanted to make plans to go to 80's night, that fell through so I went back to Sleep! I woke up the next morning took my mom to work, sat around watched tv, I picked my mom up back from work, we made some margaritas then I fell to Sleep! I woke up the next day took my mom to target to pick up some things got a sweater and this sweet hat...

After that I went home and went to Sleep! Yeah it was awesome. Now im back at work booooo, I can't wait till I go home so I can go to you guessed it. Sleep!

Aww Man...REALLY!

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So as I have blogged about before I was supposed to go see Nine Inch Nails in Charlottesville at the beginning of November but due to me being broke I couldnt go. So no it turns out it may be the last time NIN is going to tour...I think.
"The shows we have announced in 2009, and any more that may be announced, will be a completely different approach with some different personnel, and will likely be the last for the foreseeable future."

Well that's great ::smacks self on forehead:: Check out the full story courtesy NME.com here.

Recant

So previously a number of posts ago I wrote about Kanye West being a douchebag, well I didnt write Kanye being a douchebag but I wrote about someone else writing about about why Kanye is a douchebag thus me linking the story thus agreeing with this person. Well I Tylia recant my assumed agreenessness of someone calling Kanye a douchbag. Here's the thing, I've always admired Kanye's vision and talent I have enjoyed his first 3 albums I think he's a great musician. I was never a fan of Kanye the person because at times he just seemed unlikeable like he seemed to wound up. After reading this article that I spotted over at his blog I have a new respect for him now. Especially after I got 808's and Heartbreaks which I LOVE, such a great album. Not a great rap album, not a great hip-hop album, not a great pop album, just a great album. Period. So that's that I'm sorry Kanye I'm the douchebag, hardbody. So I leave you with a live video performance of my favorite song off the new album "Paranoid"

ITS MY 100TH POST!!!

Its a celebration biznatches! Its my 100th blog post yay for me! Im pretty excited I started this blog in september and I want to thank all 4 people who have at least once read this abyss of self depracative and mindless shadoobie hope you've enjoyed it and continue to. I dont know how deep I would take this whole blog thing. I admire people who do this hardcore. People like Perez, Michael K, Fresh, Dallas Penn, Shabooty etc etc, I would hope to one decade be a percentage of what they're blogs are, just something people like to come to just to waste time so yeah sweet.

Yesterday

Yesterday was my mom's 45th bday yesterday and when I got off of work i ran home and made my mom a cake. After it was made and ghettorically decorated by moi, my brother and I went to her job and surprised her. I wanted to do something special cause 1) she's my mom and she's my mom 2) cause its 45 and half way towards 50 which is hilarious and 3) she had a stroke about a month ago and we are lucky she is still yelling at us about cleaning our rooms.So yeah its all about the little things kids. Even if its not your moms birthday or anything make her breakfast or treat her to a lunch sometimes. Mother's do a lot for the kids as you should know and dammit she deserves it!Spank you very much

OH. MY.GAHT

This is quite possibly the hottest video ive seen EVUR! Andy, Jorma AND Akiva is in this piece, this will also double fo a jammie.

John Lennon Day

Today marks the death anniversary of John Lennon. I am not much of a Beatles head (SACRILEDGE I know) but I do know that Lennon is one of the greatest songwriters of all time till some douche bag chose to take that away from us. So this kit-kat is for you Mr Lennon may you rest in peace and love.

Revolution Jammie

Esthero is a bad chick son she's been around for a good minute some white chick from canada with some street cred( i think) check out the song from the "Slam" soundtrack with her and Goodie Mob. Anyways this jammie came out a number of years ago its a call to arms for all the real musicians in the industry.I used to play this song a lot when I had my radio show back at school ::sighs:: ah the good ol days. This is "We R in Need of a Musical Revolution"

LONG LIVE TURBO!!

so when I was a kid Breakin' 2:Electric Bugaloo used to come on allll the time, I watched it front to back every single time. How can you not!? So I need the DVD and soundtrack under my tree for kwanzaa, thanks! Here is my favorite scene from that movie I sitting here watching it still trying to figure out how they did this. It's probably something relatively easy like Jamoraqui's "Virtual Insanity" you know? But who cares this will forever be awesome.

After doing some exhaustive and extensive (read:wikipedia, and research done in 5 mins) I found out that Michael "Shrimp" Chambers aka Turbo is now working at Disney World as break dancing Mickey. I NEED to see that.

Industry, Charity, Faith Jammie

When it comes to movies I only like a few kinds: Gangsta movies,spike lee movies, comedies and musicals(but im very picky on that one). So im not into romantic comedies unless they are the only thing on cable at that moment, and chick flicks. Sometimes however there are just movies that just grab you. Maybe cause you used to watch it all the time as a kid so it holds a special place in your heart. That is the case with Beaches. This movie along with Steel Magnolias are like the ultimate chick flicks. Maybe I liked Beaches so much cause it had music in it, eh I dont know.Bette is bad ass biotch, definite GC. Anyways here is one of my favorite parts from the movie "Oh Industry"

Keep yo Iris on that Virus.

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So while at work I stumbled upon this article talking about a new virus on facebook called Koobace, sounds cute right? Apparently it can do some real gaht damage to your comp.This is how it spreads:
Koobface spreads by sending notes to friends of someone whose PC has been infected. The messages, with subject headers like, "You look just awesome in this new movie," direct recipients to a website where they are asked to download what it claims is an update of Adobe Systems Inc's Flash player.

If they download the software, users end up with an infected computer, which then takes users to contaminated sites when they try to use search engines from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Live.com, according McAfee.
So be careful kids and look out for that. Check out the full article here

AIC Jammie

In my opinion when it comes to the 'grunge' movement of the early 90's there were the big 4: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. Now your music novices will run off at the mouth about how there were so many other bands from that era that never got their shine on and will name drop bands like Mudhoney or what not but hey for the sake of this post let's not go there k? So within the big 4 of that era I believe it was split into 2 groups. The people who idolized Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and the kids who loved Alice in Chains and Soundgarden. I am one the kids who love AIC and Soundgarden. Grant that I was pretty late during this whole thing cause I was like 7 while this was occuring and I came too around the time Soundgarden broke up (which broke my heart by the way) So I look back in history and this is how I see it. AIC was just awesome and gritty and Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell should make the list of great vocal/guitar duos such as Mick and Keith, Steven and Joe etc. Their harmonies were on point. Plus Layne was hot with an amazing voice and unfortunately the voice was silenced in 2002 due to a drug overdose. Why do hot dudes always die so young? So here is one of my favorites if not my favorite Alice in Chains song "Grind"

What's the difference!?

So the other day my mother and I somehow stumbled upon the subject of heterosexual 'relations' (I dont like saying the 'S' word) vs homosexual 'relations'. Not in great detail but she was just talking about if a female was involved with a male who plays for both teams she should be careful when he cheats with men. I brought up the argument of what is the difference whether he cheats with men than if he cheated with a woman, its all the same diseases. Then she came back with well its more dangerous with a man. This boggled my mind that she would make one more dangerous than the other. If someone is not protected when having relations with either gender it will be just as bad. My mother is an open minded person, some of the people she was close to growing up were homosexual males including her voice teacher and one of her best friends. This best friend whom she made my Godfather. My godfather who was one of the first wave of homosexuals to die from AIDS in the 80's. A disease that was known as gay disease which we all now know is not true. Maybe thats why she sees it as more dangerous because she know gay men whom have perished from this epidemic but not straight men or women, maybe thats it. As a lover of all people(well except for douche bags and whores) specially mah gays ,lezzies and bi-bi-bi's I just say everyone be safe, you already know the drill protect yourself yada yada.

Sheep!

So I'm following the herd and signed up on twitter today, I am still a little bit confused as to exactly what it is. Is it like a combo of aim +text messaging? I really dont know. Apparently a lot of people are all about it and I am one for always going with sheep of social networking. So look me up on twitter here and introduce me to this world.

Your Dad My Boyfriend Whatever.

So this is one of my favorite digital shorts starring Jonah Hill whom I heart enormously.

M.I.A. is manly.

Maybe this will explain why I have a massive girl crush on her you can read the new article on Maya where she talks about her baby daddy and the male energy that is inside her (grr). I LOVE YOU M.I.A.!*ahem* Sorry I lost myself a little bit there ha.
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Did you know?

Apparently Bone Thugz and Harmony re-reunited? I know it was what 2 yrs ago when Lazy, Krazy and Wish came out with that song with Akon. Now Flesh is out of county from doing an 11 yr bid and Bizzy is back! That is all I care about Bizzy coming back. Bizzy bone is the only bone that matters! So they had a show in LA on monday and they performed all the jams like this one.(skip to around :45)

Anyways I mean like I said before the only reason I am even a tad bit excited is because Bizzy bone is back, I mean this man is so deep and so talented as demonstrated here.

Guilty pleasure Jammie

So I don't know if you have heard this song, and if you have I dont know how you feel about it, I feel like I should hate it but its darn catchy. This dude Kevin Rudolph is actually signed to Cash Money...yeah so yeah check it out.

Soul wrenching Jammie

This is a great video, that banter between the two is clever because they are saying what is being read in between the lines of the normal break-up bs, plus JORMA IS IN IT!

Primetime Jammie

This is the video for Daft Punk's "Primetime of Your Life" from the album Human After All. I know there is some like deep-rooted meaning behind the video about what is considered beauty or conformity or acceptance or whatever, the video is pretty warped though, the first time I saw it I was a little..freaked out I guess, but its a great video and the video going with the song just gives it this overall creepy or uncomfortable affect. In other words its pretty friggin sweet.

GLASSJAW!!!

Ok so I remember up on a late night years ago and seeing the video for "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss" and falling in love. Glassjaw is...Glassjaw. If you dont know about them look it up kid. Glassjaw has not released anything really since their last album Worship and Tribute which I worshipped and tributed in high school, I lived by this album. My bff and I everytime we go out together we have to end the night by singing to "Ape Dos Mil" its a tradition. Anyways the lead singer Darryl Palumbo have been off doing many other projects like Head Automatica whom I also love as well as launching the ultra cool chic hipster underground musician artist collective known as Cardboard City, I wish I was in Carboard City it just sound so cool to be a part of. So yeah I just saw this on Glassjaw.net and had to share it with you guys its something new "You think you're John f@cking Lennon", so does this mean new GJ stuff coming out!? Jeez I hope so
edit: it seems that #1 glassjaw.net no longer have the song posted and #2 divshare seems to be on the outs as well. Glassjaw.net says if you go to glassjaw.com you'll eventually hear it, kind of shady if you ask me son.

The Weakend

On friday I hung out with my favorite person we went out to eat at the Red Lawbstas, gurl i aint neva beens there befo. Twas pretty tasty though. After that we had a destination in newport news but the designation was closed, bummer. So one of our frendz Queen Utz was in Hampton at Saddle Ridge where it was country line dancing night!*crickets* It was interesting to see people dance in formation SHEEP!Anyways it was an adventure it was great seeing Queen Utz and next time she's in town we're taking our mothers, yes my mom loves country music. So it was a a nice night and now im back to work, back to the same routine, boooooo.

Umm you need to play this!

So I was cruising on the internets and I came across this blog via Dallas Penn by the name of Unemployed and Blogging and this person posted a link to quite possibly the greatest game of all time!. Ok maybe not but it is pretty bad ass and addicting so check it out

The above picture is the wrong "super" but you get the point

Deoxyribonucleic Jammie

This is Saul Williams, if you dont know who that is google it betches I dont even need to get into it, ok maybe I will a little bit. Mr Williams is a poet, actor, musician, activist, educator, a nice dish of deep chocolate, you get the point. His third album was solely produced by Trent Reznor which makes it double the sexay. Anyways The Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust is a fantastic album that was up for download when it first dropped last year, I think they have that have on CD now. So hear is a track from that album "DNA"

The Weakend

There is no relavancy between this picture and the blog at hand, I just wanted to use it >_<

So how was your national eat-drink-poop-sleep day? Mine was nice, I got off of work picked up my g-ma, went home, ate, watched "This Christmas" with the fam, then went to sleep, damn near perfect day. What would have made it perfect? If I didnt have to wake up at 3 in the morning and come to work thats what. So today is friday and its absolutely gorgeous outside. I plan on going on a "hot date" with one of my favorite people in the world tonight. Thing is whether its an actual date or just going out to eat with one of your favorite specimens, there is a difference as you prolly know. I remember once a few years ago I met with a friend to grab something to eat and what turned to just eating some grub kind of felt like a date, well to me at least, I mean I am a girl and we do read into things a little much sometimes. So after that it was 2 years of awkwardness and nothing happened. Nothing. Okay moving on. Either way it should be fun and afterwards I want to go Va beach to what I like to call "the fun fun shop" read into that what you will ladies. So I only have one day off this week which im not too happy about but hey in the words of Rev. Run
Whaadayagonnado!!.
So yeah that's what I plan to do tonight. What ever you guys do be safe, errybody have a fun and sexay weekend.

Church!

For many years the debate of Jesus' ethnicity has been challenged. If you look towards history no matter what you exactly believe the ethnicity is, I think we can all respectively agree that at least he did not have blonde eyes and blue hair (edit: holy crap that is totally wrong but we'll go with it). I personally think Jesus is puerto rican. The maker of "Boondocks" does not seem to agree with me.

Oh Yeah..Happy thanksgiving

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Today is a day where families get together on their day off and eat lots of food and laugh and have a good time. That's unless your me then you have to work 5a-1p then go home go straight to sleep and come back to work tonight, oh so thankful I am! But you have fun and stuff while I go off and be miserable also known as being me. Actually I take that back it could be worse I mean I could native american, they got chopped and screwed big time, I'm sorry guys shout-outs to my NA's

Kickin it old School

Just....watch it please.

And this will begin a tradition.

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You know your whole life around this time of the year on the radio you hear 300 inversions of the same xmas/holiday songs. For me every year my grandmother breaks out her Mariah Carey christmas album she loves that shat, I think she prolly has Tony Benet to. A number of years ago Death Row records released a christmas album with the memorable Nate Dogg laced track "Santa Clause is coming straight to the Ghetto" and another great heatwarming xmas tune is the song with Salt and Peppa, Keith Murray ONYX(!) and others where stickyfingers proclaims about his improverished upbringing "If I wasnt a boy, I'd have nothing to play with" or something like that. Now we have another hood holiday classic that we will nestle in our hearts for generations of welfare babies to come. This is Jim Jones a man that I hate to love with just tidbit of what's to come of his contribution to the "most wonderful time of the year"

The Jheri Curl in detail

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No Ladies you are not dreaming, that IS Stoney Jackson of 227 fame, aint he sexay! When I am curious about things I like to research them in vivid detail (read: go to wikipedia). Because I want to know the orgins, who exactly is responsible the rise and ultimately the decline of these passages of time. The Jheri Curl came to power in the late 70's and maintained its reign through the 80's. Its name came from its creator whose name was you guessed it! Jheri. Jheri Redding was actually a famed hair stylist who came up with his own concoctions in his kitchen and founded many hair product companies including Nexxus (hmm betcha didnt know that ha!)The Jheri Curl was popular among the african-american and latino communities like so


Want to know what else I found out at the wonderful world of wikipedia!? That there was actually a gang called "The Jheri Curls" yeah no shat. It was actually a dominican gang of brothers who made mad dolo on the cocaina and was immensely feared by their Washington Heights community (Manhattan, NY), Yes even with a name like "The Jheri Curls" wow. And here are their fotografias fuego!

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I encourage you all to go out and learn as much as possible about the marvels of the Jheri Curl I will bid you ado with the classic Jheri Curl moment.

Do you have any douche inside you? Would you like some

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This will go into the "I hate that I love you" file. Kanye West is another man that I hate to love. I have absolute respect for this man music and musicianship. You can NOT deny this man's talent, but I can't stand his personality it erks. I totally get about believing in yourself cause aint the end of the day that all you have, yourself. But I think we can all agree that he takes it quite off the deep end sometimes. So searching across the internets I came across this little ditty. Maybe you will find this a nice read.

Makin love Jammie

Under the INfluence of Giants "Mama's Room" this song reminds me of my heterosexual lifemate LEY, so I'm going to dedicate this to her.

You so anti-dontnothingmatta

Original photo from bbcicecream.com/blog through crappy microsoft painting skills I made a circle and line of my brother and me behinf the girl in the white shirt.
Yes the N.E.R.D. concert on thursday was carazeeee, so here is the run down in detail. I worked early thursday morn 1a-10a, got off of work then took my brother to school around 11:30 picked up something to eat (my only meal of the day,not a good idea, more on that later)So I tried to get some rest between 12 and 3:30 but that didnt happen at all. Around 4 went to go get my brother from school and we headed off to norfolk. Luckily we didnt run into traffic, I was actually amazed. Got to ODU at around 5ish got my will call tickets and we proceed to stand in line for 2 hours, we were pretty much in the front prolly 10-12 people in front of us. It could of been worse I guess, it was 51 degrees cold but not soo cold? So yeah in the meantime in between time we striked up convos with some of the people in the line then of course as time marched on people's friends come along and get in the line in front of us, that includes some of my brother's friends from school. I love how people purposely go and try to find a famiiar face so they can strike up a bs conversation with them and ease themselves into the line. So finally the doors open up and my brother and I race inside to get on the floor. We were right in front I mean there was just a group of people in front of us so we were good...for a while. The same thing that happens outside with the line happens inside, people see their friends and they ease themselves to the front. Yeah I was miffed but I knew once N.E.R.D. came on they would were going to get pushed out of they way (and they did) So first a local ska/reggae band JackMove came on first, they were aiight thing is I like ska music and what not but after a while every song start to sound alike. After them R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan came on, I was not there to see her perform but I homegirl could sing mudflaps off, she converted me for sure. Then after what seemed like forever N.E.R.D. came on the and the crowd EXPLODED. There was so much VA 757 love in that place it was great. It was pretty exhausting though, if you've been to rock shows you know how crowded and hot it gets. You know the part when the crowd starts to sway and you feel like you are going to fall over, yeah not cool. Plus crowd surfing at a show were people in the audience are not familiar with crowd surfing could get ugly so I got kicked in the head a few times, but I'm used to that, it still sucks though. Overall the show was fantastic they played stuff from all 3 of their albums great energy throughout the show, and PHARRELL TOUCHED MY HAND EEEEK. So yeah awesome show >_< The show ended at 11 and I decided to head on over to 80's night at the Wave. In hindsight maybe that was not such a good idea. After my adrenaline went down after the show I started not to feel too hot. I was already tired from not getting any type of sleep and I only ate once that day and here I am going to drink and dance. I only had one drink but having any type of drink on an empty stomach and being tired on top of that, yeah not cool. But I toughed it out, I felt bad cause I wanted to be more fun, instead I was kind of a fun killer but I tried I danced, half sleep but I danced! So by 2a I drove back 'across the water' that was a rough ride I was prying my eyes open, walked in my house, walked in my room, immediately stripped then passed the hell out. It was a great night though PHARRELL TOUCHED MY HAND EEEEK! >_<

You've officially been blizzared and screwed

Here is a clip from this weekend's SNL with T-Pain, Luda and the illest cat out there Blizzy B!

When's the last time you heard this Jammie, Jammie

the Clipse's "When's the last time" from Lord Willin. That was a dope album. Funny story I had that album when it came out then during my freshman year of college it dissappeared, I am quite sure someone stole, I know who did it too, but that is water under the bridge now, but its still fouled up, I got you son.

Cause 2nite is the niiiite, when 2 become 1

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I NEED SOME LOVE LIKE I NEVER NEEDED LOVE BEFOOOORE! Ok ill stop. Yeah I know me and pharell will never get married and have kids just from having eye contact when I go to the show tonight BUT CAN A GIRL DREAM!! Fine then. So anywho I am vuurry excited about the N.E.R.D. show tonight in Nawfuk and yeah im just totally stocked. I haven't seem them in 7 yrs so this is loooong overdue. Did I ever tell you the story of how I met Pharrell when I was standing in line at the norva show in 2001? (voices answer back, yes Tylia you've told it a million times we know) Well just thought i'd share. I wish I can tell you that im going to take all these pictures but I cant, cause I dont have a cool digital camera like other kids. ITS A GAHT DAMN RECESSION GOING ON! So anyways yeah, sweet.

....And dont it feel good!? HEY!

So as I make my daily blog rounds I continue to come across grains of inspiration, this time from Dlisted. I already forgot what the post was about but he put a link to a video of Alison from intervention who hufs some sort of something and saying how it feels like she's "walking on sunshine". Well you know how on youtube there are related videos and i clicked on this right here, its really sad but I have a black heart so its kind of funny.

Pimp. This. Ride

I saw this picture over at Crunk and Disorderly aka my daily hit of crack cause i need it and this pic is...too much

Get outta my head Jammie

Labies and Gents Queens of the Stone Age "In My Head"

QOTSA is smooth like cool like chill, Josh Homme seems like a cool cat even though frien and fellow radio comrade Zach said he was a doucebag when he interviewed him once while working at 96X, yeah I can see that. Anyways I like them and I think they wrote this song to intentionally get it stuck in your head. Congrats fellas you accomplished your damn goal and I mean that with love >_<.

Composers Man

For those of you that don't know I majored in music when I went to college. I eventually in my life want to make music. I don't know if I want to actually compose music even though I probably can, I just want to make music. In music history you always about Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart yada yada yada. I mean of course those guys are cool cause they laid the groundwork for everyone that came after them but I always liked the point in the history class where we got to like the modern 20th century stuff. Like when I heard Charles Ives' "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" with text from the Vachel Lindsay poem of the same title, I almost cried. Everyone else thought it was the strangest song but for some reason it really got to me. It was so offbeat it was brilliant. So I like stuff like that. I am also a HUGE fan of Aaron Copland. He is not off his rocker like Ives was but he makes really great american orchestral music. My favorite is Billy the Kid where my favorite movement is the mexican dance and finale where about 45 seconds into the movement after this like festive lively opening it calms down and the strings come in ahhhh heaven. So yeah I also recently got into John Cage who is most famous for his piece "4'33" which is quite literally 4mins and 33sec of 'silence' not one note is played by the performer, they just sit there. The whole point of it is that there really isnt silence there is always some type of noise around you, be it your heart beating, the rhythmic pattern of someone beside you breathing etc.David Axelrod is another one who made like 'funk jazz' the song "Holy Thursday" was recently featured in Grand Theft Auto and also sampled on lil wayne's current cd. The song "the edge" also by Axelrod was sampled by Dr. Dre in the song "the next episode", yeah man hot sh!t.One day I would hope to make music of my own that is some how innovative if not inovative something that would move someone the way that some of these peoples music has moved me. So I will leave you with a Axelrod's "Holy Thursday" oddly enough with scenes from Super Fly that some genous on youtube spliced together, you know what it goes together so just enjoy it.

Hybrid Jammie

This is the Misfits with "Hybrid Moments". I am not much of a punk aficionado per say but I do appreciate the music and the attitude behind it, I mean punk not the Blink 182, Greenday stuff I'm talking about punk son. Anyways enjoy the video.

Questlove the new Max Weinberg?

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For those of you who don't know who Max Weinberg be he is the drummer on the Conan O'Brian show and also the drummer for the boss Bruce Springsteen and he was born in the USA...i think. So anyways The Roots will be the house band for Jimmy Fallon's new late night tv show when he takes Conan O'Brien spot and Conan takes Jay Leno's spot next year. So this mean that The Roots will no longer be doing extensive tours if no tours at all. That is really hard to imagine cause Roots have been on one long tour since like pshh '96? ?uestlove the Roots' drummer says
"I don't know if I want to be 40, on the road and single no more," he said. "And with the kids my group has now getting older ... it's harder for the guys to leave more than it was when the kids were two and three. And I can't even start to go on that path till a woman takes me seriously. And ain't no one taking a man serious who is in his own home for only three months out the year. I been in my crib since 2006 and I still ain't unpacked everything yet."
I think this is a really good look for the Roots, there is definitely no band on late night tv like them, and I am looking forward to see what Jimmy would do in Conan's spot. Those are quite literally some large shoes to fill for Jimmy 1) cause Conan is like 6+ feet tall 2) Cause Conan is awesome. I am however a little scared for Conan. I don't know if his type of humor will go over too well in the new time slot, even though its an hour earlier it's a completely different audience.
Story Source:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/19/roots-saturday-night-live-band

Chi from Deftones health update

I just seen this in a myspace bulletin:
Hello Friends,

My apologies for the delay in updates. Chi's condition remains the same - serious, but stable. He still lies in a coma, however his vitals (heart, lungs, and blood pressure) all exhibit very stable functions and doctors have begun removing much of the excess monitoring equipment. Chi remains strong in his fight to recover.


Man I really hope he pulls through, he's been in a coma for weeks now, lets all pray for him

Don't Judge, indulge

So what if this family is really really close. I mean shouldnt all families love each other as much as this family does?

Yeahhhhhhh

So my boy Jason and I at work always talk about when listening to Lil Wayne songs or just listen to him in general we just get get contact drunk and or high. Do you feel that way I mean seriously. When I hear Mrs Officer on the radio afterwards I wanna take a nap. Anyways my brother and I found a video a while ago worldstarhiphop.com with a Lil Wayne interview and...just watch it.

Meh

The word 'Meh' is actually in the dictionary now, first a black president now this somebody's dropping a log somewhere. It says that the expression was first popularized in 2001 from an episode of The Simpsons, I say o k a y. Anyways I just think its pretty awesome that 'meh' made it into the dictionary, someone tell spell check this cause as I type its still coming up red. To look at the complete story go here--->
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081117/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_new_word

Drools all over self

If you know me you know I love Nine Inch Nails, so I found myself at work looking on youtube for show clips from their current tour. Then I had to stop cause I got mad cause I was 'sposed to go see them in Charlottesville earlier this month but didnt cause ITS A GAHT DAMN RECESSION GOING ON! But anyways I decided to post a video of the song "Echoplex" from The Slip their last musical effort with new material and as you can see the drumbeat in the beginning is made from a touchscreen, sweet.

The Weakend

So on Saturday I made way up to Fredericksburg, VA to the University of Mary Washington to join my Mu Phi Epsilon brothers and sisters in celebrating Founders Day. Technically it is November 13 but since it fell on weekday we celebrated it yesterday. It was a wonderful event, it was very nice meeting new Mu Phi's and downtown Freddy's burg is beautiful specially this time of year. It was Radford University's chapter (my alumni) Alpha Zeta along with UMW's chapter Phi Psi and the DC alumni chapter it was really cool. It's always good to see all my Mu Phi peeps, you never really know how much you love and miss people until you go away so Yay Mu Phi! I didnt get much if any sleep really I drove back from F-burg at 9:30p got home around 11p didnt fall asleep till 1a and got up at 4a to be to work by 5a to work till 1p to wake up tonight @10:30p to be back at work at 1a-10a, did you get all that!? Sometimes things have to be sacrificed like my precious sleep to live yo life(ayyyyyy!)Anyways it was a lovely time when people upload pictures I will post them here, I cant till my Mu Phi collegiate sweater is ready it's going to be so hot, up next N.E.R.D on thusday, going to check my account right now to figure out my finances.
Update #1: Just brought the NERD tickets 2 for $61 damn my pockets are not happy, but I will be come thursday night.