I Miss You Man: Hoodmetal

*oddly enough im wearing that sweatshirt right now*
All this talk about National Metal Day has me thinking about and missing my old college radio show "HoodMetal". It was this concoction I came up with when I finally earned my "Extensions" spot on WVRU. On the HoodMetal Show I just played all the things that I loved ranging from Hip Hop and R&B all the way to Metal and any and everything between. That show paved the way for the Urban Metal Music Festival and now I'm here, working at a corporate radio station bored, miserable, wasting my time and talent. But let's not talk about that. Let's talk about the days of innocence, when I really thought I could actually have a future in this business they call show. Here is the HoodMetal Soundclick page which is still alive, active, and full of awkwardness. If you ever get bored you should listen to it and laugh at me.

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.

What!?

The picture you see above is a 'throwback' to my days at WVRU, the campus radio station located in Porterfield Hall. Porterfield is connected to Powell Hall. These two buildings are the Visual and Performing arts buildings,the place where I spent my collegiate life. Buildings that I thought I knew everything about, well I was wrong. Recently the Board of Visitors decided to strip Powell Hall of its name. Of course it caused concern for my fellow music majors who inhabit this building, but then I was directed to an article posted by my boo boo Carl. Turns out the namesake of the building was one of Virginia's leading white supremacist. WTF!? Obviously this is shocking, all the years that I spent in that building and didnt know the story of the person whom it was named after. However; despite all that, nothing including a building named after a white supremacist, can take away all of the memories, friends, songs, laughs, practice sessions, quizzes, exams, and an oral exam that brought me tears that I had in that building. Powell Hall is being stripped and now it will all be known as Porterfield, which is fine by me. Might I interject a suggestion and put my bid in for Tylia Hall or maybe Lucretia Building. No? Fine. Read the whole article here

Love and Marriage

This past weekend I was in radford to see my friend get married. Her and I have been friends since freshman year, we're both in Mu Phi and we were room mates our last year in school. Its really interesting to see a person i guess you can say go from one phase into another, its what scientist call 'growing up', I should try that. Anyways it was a beautuful ceremony you can tell they really loved each other, ive been to a few weddings and sometimes you really can't tell, sure they're happy in the moment, but being happy with each other is whole 'nother thing. So of course being at a wedding gets all the single ladies the thinking about marriage, me included in some sense. I dont see myself taking the plunge. Being almost 25 never been on a date or been in a relationship love or marriage is a figment of my imagination. I hear people talk about it but to me it is intangible its like Bigfoot. Yeah love is like Bigfoot, people make claims about it all the time, you see its foot prints, every once in a while someone comes with 'evidence' showing its real but its a hoax. Now I would like to end this post on a high note. I have not totally abandoned the idea that this thing exists. Im sure it does, I know it does, I saw it this weekend. Maybe someday someone will come along and be my Bigfoot, till then I rather enjoy being by myself. You have to love yourself before any one else can.

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.

Music Major Ish.

So for those that dont know, I was a music major in kawledge. Some people may think that it is pretty easy cause all you is play music and stuff, but ohhh noooo it so much more to it than that. Check out this little doc that recent RU grad and super fantastic drummer Amanda put together as one of her final projects at good ol Radford U.
PS. Love Chapter 2 haha, it features my 'grandbaby' Rach.

What's going on in Raddy

So Radford University my alma mater has made national headlines for what may be the first time ever for such an undesirable event. There was a fatal shooting near the campus and let me tell you the city is the campus, yeah its that small. So because of this Radford did the right thing and shut everything down. As of 2:55am the shut down was lifted and the campus was deemed secure. The conclusion is the shooter and the victim were not students and it was not a 'random act of violence'. Rumors are it was a drug deal gone wrong, I believe it. I am thankful that all the students are safe and the RU police jumped into action right away, good for them. Hopefully they catch this person before the parties tonight, cause its a friday in Radford, its going down.

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

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

This past weekend I went to my alma mater Radford to see Nichole's senior recital which was EXCELLENT by the way. Got see all my Mu Phi people's as well as a lot of my old school mates, it felt really good/weird to be there. It was like I was back in Radford but I didnt have to go to class or anything, I kind of felt like a schlep. I also went back to visit my old boss Jon at WVRU it was really great seeing him and I also saw my old radio co-horts as well. They were giving me updates about the radio club that we started again last year and things are going extremely well for them, that makes me happy. They already have the date and venue booked for the Urban Metal Music Festival which was something that I helped started a few years ago, but enough about me hehe. Anyways it was a really nice visit and I need to go back more often. Oh and I also ran into my old friend Wes who used to be in this band Dragonsaur and I use to go their shows a lot, it was really great seeing him.

Hittin the road

Photo Source: Tylia L Jones Esquire BA, MD, PhD, MMA, MPE, OPP (yours truly)
So I have the next couple of days off and Im heading back to my alma mater Radford University. I'm going to raddy beucause my Mu Phi Epsilon fraternity sister and of course friend Nichole is having her senior recital tonight. She is a vocal major with a fantastic and rich alto voice, she is a hard worker and I know she's going to kill tonight. I havent been back to radford since I graduated so I look forward to seeing errybody. Only sucky thing is the weather, here in virginy its windy and raining and who wants to drive 4 hours in weather like that!? Whatevs, so wish me luck on my road trip you guys have a great sexy fun and safe weekend, ill catch you on the sun or the mon, peace.