Anti Traditional Traditions are Important

So this is the most wonderful time of the year huh? Well not every one feels that way. More traffic of people who don't know how to drive. Annoying Christmas music, the urge to buy gifts even though rent is due the week after Christmas. Yeah good times. I have always took it upon myself to spread the Christmas Jeer. Birth of Jesus=Awesome, Christmas Holiday itself=Bleh, just give me the ham. Tradition #1: During my tenure as a college radio jock I came up with "Hoodmetal's Anti Xmas Songs", and it goes a little something like this. Tradition #2: A number of years ago during a visit at LEY's place she showed a beautiful piece of artwork from our favorite sewer turtles who was raised by a rat who happened to be a sensai. Tradition #3: There is a new tradition being introduced this year. It all started Thanksgiving Morning when I was watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (as I always do). Then Sharon Jones in all her classiness came floating down the street singing this composition of realness. Yesterday LEY reminded of me of this song and suggested I add it.

Happy Belated Birthday To...

MEEEE!!!
So I turnt 27 this past tuesday and little fanfare was had this birthday season. The weekend before I had to work, I had to work that day, and I have to work this weekend so no super celebratoryness for me, which is cool. I was never a big "hey its my birthday let's party!" kind of person. My brother and I went to see the movie Wanderlust at this place called CineBistro (which is a really cool place, but if you plan to go and eat there, prepare to drop some duckets). Wanderlust was actually a pretty funny movie, all thanks to the amazingness that is Paul Rudd! Afterwards we went to Walmart and I got myself some and cake and ice cream. The end. And for gifts my bestie LEY is getting us some tickets to see LMFAO in DC on June 25!! OH SNAP! That's going to be when I celebrate my birthday for reals. I also got myself a new laptop. It's a Samsung something or another, and I just discovered today that it has a webcam! Hopefully pretty soon I will start doing some BugzBlawg Vlogs. So yeah that's what's up. Ok bye.

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!!!

Get Into The Holladay Spurit.

This is our Xmas tree, we keeps it real.
So yeah we know that it is either the most wonderful, dreadful, annoying or toughest part of the year for everyone. This year is the first in a while since we've had a little bit of a xmas and I have to admit, I'm kind of excited. I'm just happy that I was able to buy my mom and my brother some things to open on Christmas morning. But for now let's continue an Xmas tradition that I started a few years ago. Hoodmetal's Anti Xmas songs, available for download for you cause I like you, a lot.

Happy Birthday To...

My awesome cousin Rachahd. She's "27" today. Her name (Rachahd Gargulio-Tosado) makes me hungry for some reason. It sounds like a chicken alfredo taco type dish no? Anyways, have an awesmazing day!

Birfday #Schwag

My day of birth was earlier this month and there was not much hoopla behind it, just had a nice dinner with my mother and brother and some cake and some vodka then I passed out. To me that signals a good time. And I dont expect gifts or anything I mean come on I'm 26. But my mother and my best friend LEY hooked me up with some amazing gifts. My Hello Kitty game got stepped up this year. POW!

My mom got me a tin Hello Kitty lunchbox that came in a HK tote, perfect for road trips, which I plan on taking a couple in the next few months!

I got another HK tote from LEY along with a pouch that looks like underwears, Hello Kitty lip gloss (which is perfect that there is 8 of them cause I stay losing em) and a blown up picture of all of us in front of the White House that was taken when we all went to the "Rally to Restore Fear/Sanity".
I loved these gifts so much and it was so amazing of them to get these for me. I was seriously not even thinking about getting birthday gifts.

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.

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

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...

Happy Birthday To...

My brother Tyrone. He was born on this day 22 years, and my life has been a living hell ever since JUST KIDDING! No really I hate to say this but my brother is like my best friend. People always talk about how we get along so well. I may be hard on him, but it's for his own good, I mean come on I'm the big sister. And whatever happens in your future I hope that you are successful, just remember, you can always come back home; where I will force you to make koolaid! (he makes really good koolaid) So earlier in the evening on the eve of his bornday we went to this exclusive restaurant where all the ballers go....Applebee's. Later that night we went out to Norfolk to the Wave. My homeboys Frontside aka Teleport Team was performing. Long story short the Wave effed them in the A, which makes sense since it's a gay bar. None the less we all had a good time and it's always good to see my boys. So here are some pictures from a celebration of life.

Happy Birthday! Right on CP Time

It's funny how my previous post is about the confederacy and here is a post saying a happy birthday to my bestie....3 days after her birthday YAY BLACK PEOPLE! Anyways I like to give a happy belated birthday to my heterosexual lifemate and frequent guest blogger Ashley H. aka LEY! Ive known LEY since my freshman year at Radford, she was a music business major who played the flute and worked at the college radio station. JUST LIKE ME! I always thought she was cool but we became really close when I randomly decided to one day join Mu Phi Epsilon which she was in as well. She became my "Big" and we would hang out all the time. LEY is truly the white version of me but cooler and slender-er. I love her dearly and am very greatful that she is in my life. Alright enough of that sappy sh!t. In honor of her b-day I'm going to get her pregnant

My 25th Burr! Day

Last Saturday I turnt (yes turnt) 25, go me. The celebration started the night before at Red Lobsters ( yes Lobsters) cause we classy like that. It was my Grandmother, mother, brother and myself. It was nice, I got me some Lobster tails honey!



Bright and early on my actual birfday I visited some Dominicans to get my scalp burned and Vietnamese to get hair ripped from my eyebrow region, then I brought me these babies:

I like to call them the "Mu Phi's" in honor of Mu Phi Epsilon, Purple and Black, yeah buddy.
So after all that saturday evening I prepared myself to go to Norfolk for the Crowd Control Tour feat. Donnis, Izza Kizza, 88Keys, and Kidz in the Hall. This was my birthday suit:

So we finally get to Norfolk to see the show. And this is the summary of the show in so many words: About 50 people showed up but every performer put on a show as if it was sold out, I was upset not many people showed, but I had a good time. The best part of the night was meeting Double 0, the producer, DJ and brains behind Kidz in the Hall. He was very cool, and very hot, lawd. So here are some pictures to wrap this post up.




All in all it was a cool birthday, yay.

Oh Yeah Happy New Year

Yeah I know its Jan 2 shut up! Well what did I do for New Year's? I woke up and got ready for work, yay me. But its 2010 and Im ready to get this year started. As you know last year was not a good one and I am highly optimistic about this one. I am *still* looking for another job. In fact a few days before xmas I got a job 'assignment' from the temp agency that I joined a while ago. Its for a specified education center at the college of william and mary doing office stuff. I was there for the 2 days before xmas and much to my surprise I actually enjoyed. I enjoy doing stuff, you know like busy work so your not counting every single second and being a secretary I guess, who woulda knew? I think I enjoy the fact thats its a 'regular' job being the hours are 8:30-4:30 M-F. Its in Willimasburg which is on the Peninsula which means I dont have to go through a bridge and a tunnel everyday. Im quite sure the pay is good as of right now im getting paid .28 cents more there as a temp than I do at the radio job. I hope that this works out for me and the powers that be see me fit for this posish. Only time will tell, hurry up and wait. Only bad thing is for now im working 2 jobs radio from 1a-6a then the temp job 8:30a-4:30p which leaves not a lot of time for sleep in between jobs so, yeah that sucks. I will grit and bear it for a while. So yeah new year, new attitude, I need some new hair, Ill work on that. So here's to you 2010, dont f*ck this up!

Oh Yeah Happy Thanksgiving

So yeah today is thanksgiving and I am reporting to you from work, go me. Well its not that bad. I get off at 1 and I'm going over to the Garguilo's to eat, then going home and going back to sleep, so I can come back to work. This will be the first thanksgiving without Dad so its gonna be tough, hopefully there won't be any 'moments', im not in the mood, I just wanna eat. This year I was responsible for making the mac and cheese, I've litteraly been training for this for months, now all of my training will be put to the test, I hope it came out good, my blackness is at stake here. We all know t-giving is about spending time with loved ones and gorging yourself, but let's not forget about those who arent with their fams right now and are oversees fighting this war. I give them so much love and accolades cause I KNOW I'm not that brave, my heart goes out to them. So have fun today kids. As a bonus I picked this up from All Things Fresh its a thanksgiving song in the form of the song "Forever" from Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds morning show here you go enjoy!

Hey.

Well hello there, remember me? Yeah its been a while, but I really have nothing to blog about, and if I do it will be border line emo, and who needs that? So its november now, man the year goes by fast. This is my first full year out of school and it just goes by really fast. Like seasons are just seasons, holidays are just another day, it kind of sucks actually. I can litteraly feel youth slip away and me no likey. This past weekend was Halloween. How many times does Halloween fall on a weekend? Not a lot actually like twice a decade i think. So becuz it falls on a weekend this is when your supposed to go all out and crazy. That is unless your me. ON friday I went out to the wave in my costume as a NUN for the 3rd year in a row. I thought it was going to be epic, turned out to be eh-pic(ha). When I got there it was fun, the dj was playing some good stuff then they switched dj's on me. This dj played club remixes of EVERYTHING, he played club mixes of club mixes, hated it. Then I hung out with my friend but I had to kind of hang with her friends. Are you ever in a situation when you love your friend but you just dont mesh with her friends? Yeah that's another post. Then on the actual day of halloween, I went to bed bath and beyond. That was actually quite fun, which is scary.

Summer 2009

^^^This is the face I give summer of 2009
Well today is Labor day which marks the end of the summer season. The summer of 2009 will go down in infamy both in pop culture and in my personal life. The biggest i guess event or occurance in my life this summer was the passing of my father something that took us all by surprise and something that we will never believe. We (my mother, brother and I) try to look at it as he went in peace without pain, he lead quite the life, and will forever be missed. This summer also marked the passing of many Ed Mcmahan, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Kronkite, DJ AM and sooo many others, too many to count it seems. Alright so that's the bad stuff, let's focus on the good stuff. I didnt do too much because of my job. Summer's arent what they used to be, after you graduate summer is just another season as opposed to THE season, know what I mean? I did attend some really cool concerts including Santigold and The Great Hangover Tour. At the end of the day the Summer of 2009 can bite me, I am not sad to see it go AT ALL. Besides autumn is my FAAAVORITE season. The weather is getting cooler, the colors are changing. I have a weakness for pumpkin patches and I dont know this season just warms my soul. Hopefully this season will bring better things. But the Summer of 2009 gets a grade of F---- that's four minuses.

Oh yeah Happy Memorial Day (weekend)

This is Lee Chavis Phoebus High School Class of '03 killed in action while in Iraq 2006 RIP homie Read his obit here

So I associate Memorial Day as the kick off to the summer cook out season. However let's not forget what the holiday is about. Its about our brothers and sisters in the armed forces of past and present who put their lives on the line everyday so that we can be free. Sure we all have our quips about this country and its inner workings at times, but you have to realize that we are so lucky to have the freedoms that we have. So as you drink yo Budweiser pour a little out for our fallen homies.

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.