Oh Yeah, Happy New Year.

Oh hai, happy 2012 and all that. Here is a post about my New Years. This is the first time in my adult life that I had taken NYE off from work. Months ago LEY commanded and threatened with severe bodily harm (not really) that I take off from work and head up her way to spend NYE with her and her roomate Jack. So that's just what I did. Saturday afternoon I made my way up there (shockingly with no traffic) and was greeted with LEY's face, gifts and food (she know a way to a girls heart) After eating and previewing one of the greatest mixtapes of all time (my homemade 'LEY's Gangsta A$$ Mixtape' my xmas gift to her) we got done up and put on our sickening outfits. LEY was clearly the star of the night as I dubbed her "Champagne Showers" (and if she ever wants to become and exotic dancer that would be a great stage name, your welcome). Jack rushed in from work and got ready and we all headed out into the night. We spent our New Year's Eve at a gay club by the name of Town Danceboutique in DC which was fab. The evening started out with a drag show which was a bit 'meh' BUT Tatiana from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 2 was there as Town is her home club to perform at. Of course she performed to Britney but it was cool to see her. The legendary Shi-Queeta-Lee was also there (we first saw her this past summer at Nellie's Sports Bar and she. was. EVERYTHING) and a fierce queen by the name of Ba*Naka. After the Drag show the DJs played a list of the top 10 songs of the year with "Party Rock Anthem" being number 1 of course and then the countdown into the New Year. Not too long after that we decided to leave. It was such a great night, I loved the vibe of DC that night and the weather was perfect and I had such great company, best night ever! Annnnnd here are come the pics.





Me and Miss Shi-Queeta-Lee!!!

#latepass The Weakend

I am FINALLY getting to blog about what a fab weekend I had last week (july 4th weekend) but before I had this awesome weekend I had to get there first. Now the trip from Hampton to Fairfax is about 3 hours which is fairly short, and now that they have risen the speed limit from 65 to 70 I could comfortably do 73 to 74 without getting hassled. Only one problem, it was July 4th weekend. Remind me to never, ever, ever ever ever, travel on July 4th weekend again. Its partially my fault I guess. I wanted to head out earlier but my job messed my check up and it didnt get squared away till that morning, so all the errands I had to do got pushed back thus me not leaving till about noon, bad move. I thought maybe all the traffic would be headed towards Hampton Roads cause of the beaches and what not but there was traffic every effing where. The only time I wasn't in traffic was when I was on 295 which was about for 15 minutes. Traffic+ Sweltering high noon temps=not cool, literally. Finally by around 4 o clockish I arrived in Fairfax and into the arms of my heterosexual lifemate LEY. After some wine, convo, internet surfing and Korean BBQ (super yum) we made our way to the theater to see Transformers 3 which by the way AMAZING! The last like 30 minutes of the film my mouth was agape, easily the best movie of the franchise. However the highlight of the night was when we walked back to her car in an almost empty parking lot, opened all the windows and blasted the following song:

We had a two person rave in a town center parking lot in Fairfax it.was.awesome.
The next day which was sunday LEY, her fabulous roomate Jack and myself got dolled up and headed into DC to U st where Nellie's Sports Bar holds their weekly "Drag Brunch" featuring the Lady Boys of Drag City DC. Free Mimosas, great food, and these Divas lip syching for their lives! This girl was in heaven! After all that it was time for me to go home. The ride was way more enjoyable then the ride there, I got home around 10p then had to go into work at 2 am. It was a great weekend that I needed badly. I can't wait for a chance to make it up there again...............................................................................
Everyday I'm Shuffling.
Here are some pics and video from our sunday, funday.


*I love ^this picture of Ashley, she looks so purty!

Last Weakend.

Last weekend I headed up to the greater DC area. My BFF LEY lives in Fairfax and I went up there to attend the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. I dont want to give you some long fleshed out version but I'll just say it was a cool event but a not so confortable experience. The beginning was cool walking around DC taking photos taking in the sites, then as we made our way towards the Capitol for the rally it was bonanzas. You think that being outside there is plenty of room to move and breathe but no. Standing up for hours staring at jumbotron is not that fun. BUT I am happy that I went, looking back it was fun and it's always good seeing and spending time with my homegirl, and I met a bunch of cool people. Hooray. Here are some pictures.

The 'Unity' Slide

This weekend I hung out with the Garguilo's(my aunt rhonda, her husband uncle chris aka white dad and my cousins) for a bit. They were having a 'surprise' birthday party for Aunt Ricki(their aunt but I call her aunt Ricki too, an aunt is an aunt) who turned 60 and is fab! Anyways the wine was flowing and all of a sudden the electric slide came on and we had to teach the white people how to do it HA. You see the electric slide brings all types of people together. Thats why I miss dance battles, if you got a problem, just dance it out! Anyways here's some video of them dancin. Its Electric boogie woogie woogie.

The Great Hangover Tour. Great Indeed.

Ok so for a while now I was looking forward to going to see the great hangover tour featuring Asher Roth and Kid Cudi, but due to lack of finances I was not able to buy tickets. My homie from way back from the WVRU days now works at Z104 and got me and my brother the hook up to a meet and greet monday. So we make our way out to Va Beach ( in record time i might add) in the hopes of meeting Kid Cudi. So we get there and wait in the room where all this is happening and long story short Kid Cudi decided not to show for reason unknown. NOT COOL. So because of this the locals favorite Shaggy got record exec to give us free tickets. VERY COOL. So by the time all this ended it 3p and doors to the norva would not open till 6:30 so not wanting to go all the way back to hampton just to drive back to norfolk my brother and I needed to kill some time. We killed about 2 hours with an hour and a half to go. So we wound up just posting outside of the Norva. We saw Kid Cudi pass by a few times but he did not stop for pics or anything. He and I had an exchage of a head nod and a 'What up!?", that makes him slightly less of a douche SLIGHT, and he's really hot :sigh: but short, I cant do nothing with that HA! Anyways the doors open and the show begins. From the start this show is designed as a HIP-HOP show with the warm-up dj playing hip-hop classics. Something that my brother and I enjoyed very much. First up was 88 keys which we saw outside as well. Me and brother exchanged a "Stay Up" with 88 making him our new favorite. His set was solid very basic he went through much of his album The Death of Adam and was very entertaining and funny doing so.
Next up was B.O.B. which we were surprised/happy that he was performing that night. We were under the impression only 88 keys was going to be there. His set was great! This dude is super super talented, very impressed. After him Asher Roth came out. I am not an Asher fan by any means but this kid put on an awesome performance. Dude they danced to "Candy Rain"! I have a video floating around hampton somewhere of me singing and dancing to that song *Note to self: find that video and destroy it!* Anyways he had a great set and his set also marked the beginning of trees floating in the air. After that Cudi took his sweet a$$ time getting to the stage. My brother was hating on him the whole time. He lost a lot of respect for the Kid that day, resulting in him not wanting to buy his album when it comes out. I dont blame him, I see where he's coming from but...I cant give up on Kid Cudi like that, cause regardless of douchbagness that took place, I am a fan of the music ya know? So he finally comes out and I have to say the light is bonkers very very cool. He played a lot of the mixtape stuff and some cuts from the upcoming album which I dug. But from the records he did perform I can tell this album is going to be a downer which I dont mind, just dont know how people are going to dig it. So the highlight of the show was when Kid Cudi performed "Make Her Say" and he friggin brought out Kanye West!!!! The Norva went BUCK. To have an artist like Kanye in a club venue like the Norva is mind blowing to say the least, absolute classic moment. After that he performed "Day N Nite" to which me and my brother left to avoid the stampede of getting out. When we went to go leave, who was at the merch booth? 88 keys! He was real cool, daped him up had a small convo and took a pic, great guy. So overall I give the show a B+. It went smoothly until Cudi decided to take some sweet time but made up for it huge by bringing Kanye out. And although showing up for the meet and greet was soooo not cool, im quite sure he has some good reason like he did not want to deal with people that day cause you know sometimes you dont feel like dealing. I wish I can completely write him off but its not this often that I really believe in a person's music, I feel like a battered girlfriend lol 'But guuurl I luh him and he luh me too, he just got a funny way of showin it'. Plus he's hot uggggh.

When We Reminisce Over You My Gah...

So in college I used to have a radio show named "Hoodmetal". It was my life, my release therapy. I created the term which in one word encapsuled everything that the show and my music tastes were about. From that show spawned the "Urban Metal Music Festival" which also inhabited what my whole MO was about. Man I miss doing that show so much. I am doing nothing like that now, I am so unfulfilled at this place, but there has to be something better waiting in the wings for me. I have worked to hard and continue to work hard my whole life not for something better to be in the works. Anyways visit the Hoodmetal page that has clips from years ago, I go there erry once in a while and have nostalgia, also here is a video from UMMF.

Sunday Gold: Musical 3!

So I just wanted to dump off some more videos from the Santigold show last sunday. Mostly for me so I can see them without having to break out the camera. These vids are not long, or great in quality, but they're mine so they're awesome. Up first a lil lil lil bit of "Lights Out"
And then...somebody made it rain and the intro to "Get it Up"


And that's about it for the videos, a nice to relive that show, it was a good one, the next show im looking forward too is Kid Cudi/ Asher Roth (without the asher roth part) just found out that 88 Keys will be opening niiiiice.

Sunday Gold: Electric Bugaloo

Alright so here we go, Im finally getting around to tell you about the Sanitgold show on sunday. As I have previously posted on my way into work early sunday morning I heard about on the radio and I immediately flipped out and checked my bank account to make sure I had enough fundz which I did. Got off of work and purchased the tickets. Enough of that let's get to the show. Up first in the line up was this chick Amanda Blank, she's from Philly and her musical style reminds me of Peaches, I enjoyed much, she was bad a$$. Up next was Trouble Andrew whom I have heard because of the cameo on Santi's song "I'm A Lady" turns out this is actually fiance. He has been snowboarding for a while and turned to music. I REALLY liked his set, on twitter I think I said something along the lines of "Santigold update #2 trouble andrew was dope like stoner skater snowboarder thug music i dug." So yeah, I enjoyed it so much I brought the album after the show was over and me likey, my brother bought a Trouble Andrew shirt too, so I guess he likey as well. I love this dudes swagger.





Alright so after what seemed like an extrrrreeemely long wait Santigold finally came out, here's the video of her coming out and my screaming like a teeny bopper, have your barf bag next to you, its shaky.
So she performed every single song from her debut record and some including songs from a mixtape which I didnt know about and a Cure cover. Turns out she had the stomach flu!!! And she still came on stage and put on an absolutely amazing show. The best part of the night however was my brother going on stage and dancing with her during "Creator", ohhh that made his life!! In this vid watch the kid in the green shirt that's my brova Tyrone aka Kid Nyva aka Popjaye
So overall it was an excellent show from top to bottom. Even Santigold was surprised how cool and diverse the crowd, I guess cause it's the 'south' but this is a special area and she needs to come here again!




And. I'm. Done.

Sunday Gold

So I promised to post about the Santigold show that I went to on sunday, but like the bonehead I am I forgot my camera with fuzzy pictures and shaky videos at home. I dont feel right writing about the show without the pics so as soon as I get home from work I'm going to put my camera in my bag so I wont forget it, and will do the full write up tomorrow. But to wet you pallet a bit I would just say it was AMAZING, smack yo gums on that till tomorrow.
Note: I know the tag says SanTOgold, and she now goes by SanTIgold, but the tag is pre-existing and I dont feel like going back and changing them just yet so yeah.

The Weakend

So this weekend was a long sleepless, yet good one. I took Jason along with me, gawd bless Jason. We got to radford with a few hours to spare before the show, so we did what anyone would, we got drunk in the hotel room. Went to the show, it was a good show, im really happy and honored that these kids were as passionate as I was and still am about the music festival. It was definitely more different than any of the previous ones but its under new management so duh. My favorite band of the night was Aside Oceans, myspace that, they're pretty good. Afterwards Jason and I made our way to the mac and Jason looked brain dead,lolers. I ran into a creature they call Carl, long story short im pregnant with triplets, thanks Carl. The following morning we drove back, my friggin change oil light came on, im all like WTF, i changed my oil feb 27th im its not even the mileage to get it changed yet. ::sighs:: So now im at work I think some pictures were taken but I left my camera in another bag so ill post them tomor.

And im done.

Road Trip!

So Im going back to Raddy this weekend, yes again! This time im bringing my bodyguard Jason "Razorblade" and we are going to attend the Urban Metal Music Festival. UMMF started out as a music business project back at radford when I was a MB major. My friend Chidi and I who also was an MB major and worked at the campus radio station put together this concert where virginia based hip-hop and hard rock acts would perform together on the RU campus. I was very pleased to know that after my graduation last year they will still be putting it on, I am a proud parent. This is the fourth installment and Im going up there to support. These kids have been grinding hard and they have all types of sponsors and raffles and what not, man, its beautiful. For more info check out the facebook page

Can't wait till summers at the White House: Electric Bugaloo.

So in a previous post I explained why I couldnt wait cause its going down in DC erry weekend on Pennysylvania Ave. Get your go-go bands rehearsed and ready to go.....go? Anyways the Obama's much like the rest of the nation comes up with any excuse to live in the celebration and pop arbor mist. Today they are having a St Paddy's party no excuse me parties. Homie dont play when it come to his partying.
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The Weakend

So friday was my day of birth and I turned 24 woohoo. I dont feel 24 but I dont know how a 24 year old is sposed to feel cause I never been 24 so I digress. My mom bought me this sweet a$$ cake as shown above, and it was yummy. So the big plan for the night was me and a couple of people to go out to this place called Jillian's which is basically like Dave and Buster video games and booze equals yes. As always with plans and what you would like to happen they never really follow through. So me and a couple of people just turned into my cousin Alexis and I, which is fine I just wish some more people would have came out. Anyways we went to Jillian's and it was really fun. We ate had some drinks (the bartender gave me a free drink yay!) and afterwards we played some games. At one point we played this one like interactive bowling game and when choosing levels I was a dumb dumb and chose the expert level eventually we got the jist of the game.


So around 12:15ish Alexis and I made our way to the Wave for some dancing, some being the operative word here. We went in I got a drank, we danced for like 5 mins, we sat around talked for bout 10 mins then left, we were there like 20 mins. So we went back to hampton and said our goodbye's cause she left to Connecticut yesterday with her BF.Saturday me and the rents went out to dinner for the bdezzy but my brother wasnt there cause he was hanging out with his friend. I got back home and he got me a gift! Check out these babies!


Nike Low Dunks Black with powdered blue stitching and check with the gray stripe on the back and a splash of purple on the tongue. These babies are bonanzas! Now I guess I have to be nice to him lol, no im a nice sister, sure I have a mean streak, but im the older sister im supposed to have a mean streak!
So all in all it is always good to see another birthday cause we all know its a crazy world, I wish more people would have came out but whatever it is what it is.

And im done.

The Weakend

So friday began on a total downer. I had a dentist appointment and long story short I have to get my wisdom tooth pulled but first I have to get blood pressure down cause I have hypertension stage 1 woo hoo! So yeah not a very good start to the day. A little bit after that I dropped my brother off at school and made my way to va beach to go to the torrid store cause I got a $10 birfday card from them, they're so nice. So I didnt really see anything in the store that I wanted, I think I will shop Torrid online for now on but I got a pair of pants and some drawls. Then I went to Up Against The Wall which is like super trendy it scared me, I felt like I didnt belong in there but I got a t-shirt. Then I made my way back to hampton running into the wonderful hampton roads traffic of course. After I picked up my brother we went to walmart and I got me a digital camera. All of these things were birthday gifts to myself as well as retail therapy cause I needed it. Later on in the late evening I met up with my cousin and her bf and a friend of theirs cause she is moving to CT next week so yeah it was a good time.

It was a like a friggin class reunion for me, I walked up in one spot and saw one of my best friends Troy from them on out it was good times. Got back home round 2am. And that's about it. Your Welcome.

It's been a long, I shouldnt have left you.

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So yeah hi there. It's been a pretty action packed weekend and I am still recovering from the lack of sleep. So I went to radford on thursday evening and it was pretty full throttle the whole time. I had a nice abdc text session with LEY and afterwards I went to karokee at macado's and saw some of my people's. I sung The Bravery's "An Honest Mistake", yeah Im cool like that. Afterwards around 2 am I went and hung out with my homie Sunshine for a bit and went back to PBR's(Pamela, Brandi and Rachel) the place I was crashing at around 3. The next day I went and hung out on campus for a bit caught with some folks. Visited WVRU, saw the new performing arts building and hung out in the lounge. That evening Mu Phi Epsilon had our formal rush where we dress real nice and eat. After that played Apples to Apples and watched Katt Williams clips till the early morn. On saturday was the tri-fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha, Mu Phi) formal. Like usual people were pretty lame but also like usual there were people (myself included) who are all about the party and having a good time. It was cool. I got back from that around 1 am, fell asleep around 2 and got up at 5 to drive back home and go straight to work. Worked 10a-6p and had to come back in 2a-10a, so yeah pretty chockfull of stuff. Like always its nice to go back to raddy and see everybody and its nice to leave too. So that was my weekend. Your Welcome.

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Radford University.
I am leaving for radford in a few hours to hang out with mah peeps. Got some mu phi stuff going down as well as the tri-fraternity dance on saturday night. The only thing that is dampering my excitement is me not knowing when im going to work on sunday so im sitting on pins and needles. Anyways its going to be fun. Wish me well on my journey to the mountain. I checked the weather, apparently its 6 degress up there! 6 degrees! Global warming!? Anyways all of you have a great safe and fun weekend. Maybe ill blog from raddy since i dont go to school so I have down time.

And im done.

The Weakend

So on friday I was planning on going out to Richmond to see my boys Frontside and The Avengers perform. During the day I had the urge to buy some sneakers. In paticular I wanted high top black and red checkered vans. So I go in the mall see these suede black and 'brilliant magenta' Nike SB's so I got those instead

Yeah they're sexay.
So around 8:30 at night I headed out to Richmond. I got there in about an hour and it took me damn near an hour to find the place. Mapquest is shady as hell son. So I get there and it was like this small japanese restaurant and stuff. It was nice seeing all my peoples reppin Beat it Up all day. Frontside and the Avengers killed it for sure, they did it so hard chicks start the fightin, no really. So around 2 in the morn I drove back home. Was it worth driving to Richmond for a few hours? Yes and no. Yes to see and support my people's no to driving to and from Richmond. If I would have crashed overnight there it would have been better. But it was a friday, that's what friday night are made for eh? I tried, keyword tried to take pics of them performing but yeah, i failed.

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.

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!

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 <_>.