Pic of the Day

Because the last post was so Emo, I needed a pick me up. It worked.

New Years Re(vo)solution

I really don't believe in resolutions, they are full of empty promises. I always hope that the next year will be better than the last. Its really hard sometimes to stay optimistic and happy when nothing really pans out the way its supposed to. Im not going to sit here and say "Im going to do this, this, and that" Cause I prolly won't. I try to make goals everyday: Wake up, go to work, go home, repeat. Although this year I am trying this new optimistic mantra thing. When I get frustrated I just constantly in my head go "optimism, optimism, optimism" and think of how things could be worse. Let's see if this crock of crap works, I hope it does. I am physically, mentally and emotionally tired. 2011 has got to be better than this.

Youtube Hero: Phil Wade

Mr Wade met wide acclaim after a video was posted of him (hilariously)imitating R&B singer Trey Songz.

Since then, him and his team has not only posted other hilarious videos


but also highlighting himself as a talent. That is why Phil Wade, you are a Youtube hero. Toast!

Jammie of the day

I posted this video on facebook a few weeks ago but I just had to put it on the blog cause I loved it so much. This song was bought to my attention by a coworker of mine and he found this live vid. Cyndi Lauper covered this Prince song for her debut album and BOTH versions are awesemazeballs.

Slept on Cinema

If you know me, you know I am not a fan of animated movies, although I still want to see Toy Story 3, AND Princess and the Frog was pretty BAWSE but besides the point I really just dont do animated movies. I don't care how cool it looks, or how cute the story is, unless I have nowhere else to go and nothing else to do, I will not watch an animated movie. Well sunday morning I had nowhere else to go and nothing to do so I watched Up. First off it starts as a TOTAL DOWNER. Killing off the wife right off the top of the movie!? How Disney of you! Anyways to make a long story short the movie Up is one of the most touching movies I have watched ever. I was really into this movie, it was great. And the only reason I titled this "Slept on Cinema" was because I was the one who slept on this movie. Even if your not a fan of animated films this movie was freaking amazing, you should watch it. The end.

Jammie of the Day

Everyday whilst driving into work I listen to my iPod on shuffle and right before taking the exit ramp off the highway "Pusherman" by the late great Curtis Mayfield came on.

Besides admiring how amazing Mr. Mayfield I also started thinking about Camron's first album Confessions of Fire and (to me) the stand out track "D-Rugs" which samples "Pusherman"

So....there you go.

Bugz Blawg 2010 Highlights

The only difference between 2009 and 2010 is that nobody died on me, which is a good thing. Although nothing super fantastic has happened let's try to be optimistic here shall we? Anyways SOME cool stuff happened. This year has been a great year for music, my music purchases included: Kidz in the Hall Land of Make Believe, Gorillaz Plasic Beach, Deftones Diamond Eyes,M.I.A. Maya, Curren$y's Pilot Talk, Pilot Talk 2, Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (check out my review) and N*E*R*D Nothing (check out that review too). And there were a lot more music that I wanted to get like Kid Cudi's new one, Janelle Monae and others, but you know, I'm broke. With all the great music that came out there were good concerts:
-I celebrated my 25th birthday with Kidz in the Hall and all the 10 people that showed up :-/
-About a week later, I spent the night with my future husband Mayer Hawthorne
-And in septemeber I got to live out my own teenage dream by finally seeing the Deftones!
Also this year I finally found a pumpkin patch to go to. Oh Yeah Pumpkin Patch Yeah!
This year I started putting together these mini mixtapes, something I hope to do more elaborately in the future, I'm tryna get my Cool DJ Red Alert/Funkmaster Flex/ Kid Capri on, but Hoodmetal style.
-Download BIU BBQ for a summer time feel (here)
-Download Plaza Roller Rink Class of '98-99 for some nostalgic skating jammies (here)
***Also***
-Download Popjaye [my little brother Tyrone's] song "Popularity 4 You" (here)
-AND get a head start for the holiday next year by downloading "Hoodmetal's Anti Xmas Song" (here)
So that's my year in a blog post. I am steadily working on my optimism, its hard when you feel like you deserve more than what's being dealt to you, but hey that's life no? So here's to hoping that 2011 will be a breakthrough year. I hope so cause apparently the world is going to end in 2012 *kanye shrug*

Cheeeeeeeese!

Let's discuss cheese products. I am currently at work munching on a bag off .99 crunch cheetos, then all of a sudden I had in inner debate with myself. I started thinking what cheese product is better? Cheetos or Cheez Doodles. Cheez Doodles hold a special place in my heart cause I grew up eating .25 bags of Cheez Doodles on the reg as a child in NYC, along with either a .50 soda (top pop pineapple flavored) or a "quarter water". Then moving down here to Virginia you can't really find Cheez Doodles anywhere unless you go to the really really hood spots, or the super redneck spots. For instance when I visit my Alma Mater Radford U I always stop at this one gas station before leaving town and load up on Cheez Doodles, this would be one of the super redneck spots, im not dissing them, they're lovely people, and they have Cheez Doodles yo! So since Cheez Doodles are hard to come by Cheetos is the move. So that brings us to the question. Which chesse product is the best? Cheetos or Cheez Doodles? *dun dun dun* Well here is my answer. BOTH. Puffy Cheetos are the biggidy business, crunchy Cheetos are iight. Crunchy Cheez Doodles is a super fun party in your mouth. Puffy Cheez Doodles is like chill movie night, still good, but you prefer the super fun party. So that's it, Puffy Cheetos and Crunchy Cheez Doodles, in the end we all win but your gums aren't too happy about it.
Let me know what you think.


Postal Script: I posed another life altering question earlier this year that I still need help on. Which is better, Bebe's Kids or Freaknik!? Click Here and Tell me what you think

Merry METALmas

Continuing in the immense holladay spirit, here is a variation on a classic as presented to me by the incomparable LEY. Enjoy yourself!

Holiday Spirit Part Tres

In what is becoming an unhealthy fascination with these kids, Odd Future, they have released a new song affectionately titled "F@ck This Christmas". And since I am have an ongoing theme of not being in commercial holiday spirit, I figured I'd post it on here. Check it out over at their blog

Jammie of the Day

Ok so its this group out called Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All or Odd Future for short. Its these bunch of teenagers from California who rap about rapping and killing people. Its basically hip hop horrorcore, I really dont get it, but I kinda dig it at the same time. This track is from the "leader" and main producer of the group Tyler the Creator, who barades people on his twitter and they all love it. Here's "VCR"

Here are some other videos, these kids are nuts!

10 10 10 Shabam. You've. Been. Served.

House Mother Jones from the House of Tarjay reporting to you live from the FH Halls of Fame. I'm here to give you kids your life back take heed! I have for a while now been very intrigued by vogue battles (I hope to not only one day attend them but become an MC at a ball) and there are some legendary divas. To me the most Legendary (or as Jujubee would say Legs and Dairy) would be Leiomy. Leiomy grabbed national attention as a part of Vogue Evolution on season 3 of ABDC, but she has been a part of and tearing up the Ballroom scene for a while now. Someone over on the Tube of Yous put together a compilation of Leiomy greatest vogue moments. Bask in the presence of greatness!

Jammie of the day

This is the latest video from Virginia legends Clipse. I feel that upon driving into the Hampton Roads area you should be given their first album Lord Willin like its a brochure telling you the sights you should see. Also Clipse+Pharrell+Kenna=Yes.

Also one half and older brother of the Clipse Malice aka Gene Thornton has a book coming out soon titled "Wretched, Pitiful,Poor, Blind and Naked" chronicling his awakening from God. He posts motion picture-esque excerpts from the book and man this stuff is moving. I am even moved to purchase and read this book myself and I NEVER read books. Check out an excerpt below.

Malice's Book Excerpt #1 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.

This Post is about "Nothing"

The album that is. Last month one of my favorite groups of all time dropped their 4th LP Nothing and I have to make a confession, for some odd reason I was not excited about it. I know SACRILEGE considering I am such a huge fan. I liked their single "Hot and Fun" and then "Party People" popped and I wasnt really into that song in particular. From then on out I kind of tuned out the project as a whole. I finally decided yesterday (since there was a $5 MP3 download available on amazon) to get the album. I take it home and start to listen to it and oddly enough "Party People" is the first song on the album, I listen for about a minute and I turn. The next song on the album is "Hypnotize You" I was hooked from the first second. And the album didnt let me go until the last song. I was so pleasantly surprised that this album (minus a song or two I'm looking at you "Party People" and "Victory") is really friggin good! In Search Of... set the standard, Fly or Die which in MY opinion is their best album took their writing, innovation and instrumentation to the next level. Seeing Sounds although a good project with some good songs was not a great album as a whole. However; I think that was the point with SS the fact that it was a collage of songs that was being...seen? But with Nothing I feel NERD is going back to FOD with this one. Very well crafted songs, a lot of instrumentation and the quirk that all of us NERD fans know and love. If you are not familiar with the stylings of NERD might I suggest you go back and listen to Fly or Die then pick this new album up, you will not be disappointed. And if you already are down with the movement, you already know what it is. The end.
Here is the video for "Hypnotize You" if you have a heart condition, prepare yourself. Pharrell you own my heart FOREVER!

Holiday Spirit: Part Deux

While working at the Radford U radio station WVRU I randomly made what has become a holiday classic for some. On a random cold saturday I was up in at the station studio just fooling around and I made "Hoodmetal's Anti X-mas Songs" just for the heck of it. It came out so good I impressed myself. After leaving school I lost my copy of it and spoke about it on facebook. Upon me waking up today at the crack of 3:30 in the afternoon. The Master himself my mentor JB left a link to the download of the song. Joy filled my heart. My black heart is filled with Xmas jeer. Rejoice!

Postal Script: You can download it here so you and your family can enjoy for years to come.

Holiday Spirit

With no longer being an adolescent plus having no money plus losing a parent, holidays are not the same. Very few things get me excited about the holidays. To me it has just become just another day in a long line of days which seems like the same day over and over again. I know dude downer. But this makes me very happy. It gives me that cozy warm feeling on the inside. ChestNUTS roasting...

Deep Thought.

-Facebook should have more options for the "relationship status". Mine says single. To me having my relationship status say single is a bit of understatement. The status of single applies that either a) you've been in a relationship before and your just not in one now and b)your out on the scene meeting and dating people, and for me neither of those are true. They should have more choices like "Nun" "Monk" "Asexual" "B!tch Please!" or "Don't even bother" now THAT is a status.

New Things That I Love

The new thing that I love is also more than likely the title of my future auto-biography. Sundance channel now has a new show titled "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys". A show depicting the relationships between heterosexual women and the gay men in their lives. I think its a cute show, well of course I would.But this show is more realistic and less "queeny" than say "A List: New York" (which I also loved) BTW I will no longer be calling myself a "fag hag" it sounds a bit harsh. I will now be referring myself as a "House Mother" just call me House Mother Jones from the House of Tarjay.

Major Jammie of the Day

In vein of the last post how about some throwback Kanye for Jammie of the day. This right here is "We Major" my favorite track from Late Registration this joint is pretty epic.

...Yeezy Taught Me...

**pixelated cover art FTW!**
Over the past two weeks I have intensely and repeatedly listened to Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and here is my take on it.
I have always had a love/hate with Kanye (as have a lot of people). I always respected his music and his vision but his attitude was always so off putting to me. My feelings changed for him however around the time 808s and Heartbreak came out. This had a lot to do with a change in his demeanor due to the tragic passing of his mother and him becoming more of a humble human being. Also the fact that I LOVED 808s because it was more than just rappity-rap. To clarify I am a hip hop head and always will be but I do love me some melodies. Anyways now getting to MBDTF. I do not get excited by music much these days but I was heavily anticipating this album. I have not been this excited about a record since Kid Cudi's Man On the Moon... album last year. And although more than half of the album have been floating around the internets for the better half of this year thanks to G.O.O.D. fridays and some good ol album leakage, this album did not disappoint. This album is the culmination of all Kanye's albums. It has the sped up sample straight hip hop vibe of College Dropout, the orchestration of Late Registration, the meticulous and grandiose production of Graduation, and the emotion of 808. All that packed into 13 songs with out sounding forced or getting boring. MBDTF (also known as my really obnoxiously long album title but i can get away with it cause this album is effing amazing) has the rare no skippage where you can start from "Dark Fantasy" and not stop until the last drum beat in "Who Will Survive In America". You can listen to individual album cuts but the record as a whole just melts from one track to another, the sequencing in my opinion is excellent. My favorite track has to be "Hell of A Life" and "Lost in the World" is seriously one of the best songs of all time. ALL TIME! It's emotional, its urgent but its also a bit jubilant. Conflicting emotions for the last song on the album which kind of feels like a cliffhanger or a deceptive cadence but it really is masterfully crafted song (although I have a bone to pick with the additional drums added to the final mix :-/) I guess what I'm trying to say is this album is quite the masterpiece and Kanye worked his tail off to make sure it was so. And for someone to truly put their all into something because they truly care for the music, how could you not love that!?

Pic of the Day

This picture was taken during my weekend in and around DC for the Restore Sanity/Fear March. In this picture is the lovely LEY, that fantastically awesome Sara and some random asian tourist who jumped in the picture. Just kidding! It's LEY's love slave Paul. I was joking the whole day that we looked like the Eracists. Look for yourselves.

Kiss My Converse

**First off hey, how YOU doin? I havent blogged in a bit, really didnt feel like it, its like that sometimes. Happy december. On with the blog post**
Randomly a few moments ago I thought "What happened to the supposed remake of Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon" well after a little bit of digging, and I do mean a little, I have not found anything. But I would like to share on who I think should be cast in the movie:
Leroy Green: Originally played by Taimak I think Leroy should be Chris Brown, I am not the only one, RZA has also stated that Chris would make a good Leroy. I also think Taylor Lautner would make a good Leroy too, sure Taylor is not black but Taimak was kinda racially ambiguous as I feel like Taylor is.




Laura Charles: Laura the host of the video dancing show "7th Heaven" was orginally played by former "nasty girl" Vanity. I think this role should go sort of a singer-sort of an actress-kinda model-diddy's china doll Cassie. Some people are saying the role should go to Rihanna, I vote no. Especially since it seems Chris is a shoe in for Leroy, that's just awkward.


Shonuff the Shogun of Harlem: The role of Shonuff was masterfully portrayed by Julius Carry (RIP) and Samuel L Jackson has already been confirmed to play Shonuff. THIS IS BRILLIANT! I could not have cast this part better myself! Although Busta Rhymes would have a genius fit as well as he displayed in his "Dangerous" video.



Eddie Arkadian: Eddie Arkadian was the bad guy who had a lot of money from peddling arcade gear and just wanted to put his girlfriend on the billboard charts...it didnt work. Originally played by some dude named Christopher Murney, I think Danny Devito would fit the bill and build of this character.


Angela Virraco: Angela was Eddie's girl, sweet and naive all she wanted was to be a pop star. This was played by Faith Prince, for this role, I dont know...maybe...Lady Gaga? Or prolly Kellie Pickler?




All the other parts are minor roles and can be filled with whomever. I really do hope this film is made soon. I wonder which one will come first. The remake of this movie or Dr Dre's "Detox" its almost like asking how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop. The world may never know.