Warped Family Memories

A few minutes ago I started humming a tune. The tune was to Level 3 (8:23 of the vid above) of the original XMen game on Sega Genesis. I immediately started laughing because this game was a favorite among my father, brother and myself. I distinctly remember we were living in Brooklyn at the time and I would wake up in the middle of the night and my dad would be in our room playing this game. He was really good at it too. Another thing that my dad was good at was making up random songs. He came up with a little ditty that went to the music of level 3. The lyrics went along with the bass line, and it went a little something like this:

Come eat my doo doo,
You know you like,
You know you like it, come on and try it.
It just taste like candy and cookies,
I'd bet you would like it, come on and try it.

And then I would come in with the main melody line:

Eat my poooooo
You know it taste so gooooood.
Eat my poooo
You knooow it taaaste sooo goooood.

Yeah, I'm serious, this is the song that my father and my 9 year old self came up with. Now you probably can figure out where my weirdness comes from. He was quite the character, the apple doesn't fall far from the weird tree.

Vlog 2

this is my new vlog (with 'nifty' editing included) ranging on topics such as getting older, confessing love in musical form and chicken.


Postal Script: I have uploaded my 2 vlogs so far on my Youtube page so yeah check it out.

YMCMWTF?

So news broke not too long ago that the band Limp Bizkit, pioneers of "rap rock", hated by many, loved by others, has just signed to Cash Money Records. Cash Money has become a clusterf*&k of artists over the past few years with a few head scratching people to their roster of artists. Now let's just be clear that I was a huge fan of Limp Bizkit. The album Significant Other was the first album that I walked to the mall and purchased myself, so they have a special place in my heart. But...come on man. The whole Cash Money/Young Money enterprise is just doing the most right now. They literally have 500 people signed to the label and only like 4 or 5 people have released albums under that umbrella. I am personally annoyed when labels just sign and sign and sign people but the execution rate is just horrible. If your not Wayne, Birdman, Drake or Nicki Minaj, don't expect to have your jank released. If you actually DO make an album and have it come out, don't expect it to be promoted. In the end have to give it YMCMB because it's just so random and zany and I of all people appreciate random and zany. So in honor of LB getting signed to the greatest show on earth, here are some other people I hope get's signed to Cash Money. (as originally conceptualized on my twitter feed.)

Domino-At the height of the "G-Funk" in the early 90s Domino hit us with what is a minor hit, but definitely a ghetto classic. His brand up of Gangster azz R&B would be refreshing on the scene today.


Skee Lo-Mr. Lo had a pretty decent hit on his hands with "I Wish". This song relates to everyone cause don't we all wish we were a little bit something? I like to think that he is the pre cursor to "emo rap" because of his brutal honesty about his self image and his feelings. If there was no Skee Lo, there would be no Drake so it would be fitting to put the self aware emo rap pioneer on the YMCMB line up.


Adina Howard (on twitter I called her Anita Howard, oops)-this feisty lady laid it all out on the table and let her male conterpart know exactly how it is with her hit "Freak like Me". Since Nicki Minaj got all pop-py and is not nasty as she used to be let Adina be the freak nasty lady with a nice harmony behind it.


Semisonic-we all know the great song "Closing Time", it's timeless, it's for some reason getting more play in movie trailers now that it did when it came out in the 90s. Why should Cash Money sign them? Why not? They've signed damn near everybody else.



Lou Bega-I think Lou has a few Mambo's left in him.

Rammstein-because it would be funny. I bet Wayne is a Rammstein fan on the low.

Jammie

You've prolly never heard of Jackie Chain, even if you never heard of him you have to give him credit for an incredibly catchy rap name. Anyways he is a half white half asian rapper from Alabama and a few years ago every body and their mama put their own 16 to his song "Rollin" and he is about to put out a project with Nick Catchdubs the co-founder of the hipster friendly boutique label Fools Gold. I don't know why I like this song, it's called "Molly" and he's looking for her, hard. But Molly is not a girl, its a thing. "Molly" is the nickname for MDMA which is the drug found in Ecstasy so I guess "Molly" is the purest form of Ecstasy...so wait, is it about a girl? Im so befuddled right now. I feel like I'm on Molly, I think I found her!

Deep Thoughts

I don't really know why but I have been watching a lot of "Man V. Food" on the travel channel lately. Mostly because its the only mildly entertaining program on at the time and then I just can't turn the channel. Watching the show makes my stomach hurt and make me feel like I have bad gas, but the host Adam Richman, can be quite the charmer. I feel bad for him though when he does the food challenges. If I was having a food challenge I would not want people around cheering me on, I would them to shut up, but if they weren't cheering they'll be sitting around looking at me like I was slob so, yeah I get it. I also read that to offset all the food that Adam eats, he works out twice a day during tapings >_> really? Fine I'll take your word for it Adam. And if your wondering, yes I would have a smooshing session with Adam Richman covered in bacon. Your Welcome.

Subtraction

The other day while I was paying bills I was budgeting the chicken scraps that my job calls a "paycheck". It came me subtracting 508-395, and I completely froze. I totally forgot how to manually subtract. I was bewildered, I was bothered, I was impatient and used the calculator on my phone. Even afterwards I was thinking about it, how could I forget how to subtract? You learn that in what 2nd grade? Then it dawned on me, you make the 0 a 10 and subtract 1 from the column to the left. Phew, for 5 minutes I forgot how to subtract, it was kind of funny. End of story.

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

Bugz Blawg Random Word of the Day

Nomenclature:
–noun
1.
a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
2.
the names or terms comprising a set or system.

Use today in your general conversation. Or better yet, use it in the club. I.e "Hey I saw you across the room, and I couldnt leave here tonight without getting your Nomenclature" No it is not the manner in which is used but always interjecting new vocab makes you look smart.

Deep Thoughts

So far 2010 has been about 2 things to me. No its not important things like manned natural disasters (i.e. caving coal mines and exploding oil rigs) its about homewreckers and redemptions. This year we started off with the tale tails of Tiger. He and 15 and counting extra marital affairs flooded pop culture for far too long. All these women came out of the wood work to tattle on Tigers wood work...ha. Not too long after that Jessie James had a few dames of his own. Next it was the celebrity ladies' turn in the homewrecking enclave. Note that the torrid stories of Alicia Keys and Fantasia date back to previous years but the lid really blew off this year. Alicia married Swizz Beats who was clearly married when they started dating and they have a baby on the way. Hey if you move yo feet you lose your seat, or your husband whatever. Fantasia's ordeal started last summer when she met some dude at verizon store, sure verizon can be romantic *kanye shrug*. And this summer that dude's wife filed a suit claiming she ruined the marriage by getting busy by some 3G phones, 3G phones are pretty sexy no? So in closing on this topic, ho's are good for business. Next we have some pop culture redemption. Chris Brown went upside Rihanna's head last year during Grammy weekend and needless to say the road back from that town is still uphill for him. BUT early in the summer at the BET awards during his rousing and emotional rendition of a Michael Jackson tribute the road back to good graces just got a teenie weenie bit brighter. Also exactly one year ago Kanye West got hounded for saying what everyone else was thinking at last year's MTV VMA's but it was a bit harsh and uncalled for, blame it on the Henny. However; at last night's VMA's the last scene of the show was a standing ovation and a crowd chanting his name after a ABSOLUTELY KILLER performance in my opinion. Just an hour previous Taylor Swift gave a sophmoric, pitchy, underwhelming and melodramatic performance of a song she wrote about an incident that made her a household name. After her performance was a rousing ~3,000 person golf clap. Kanye Wins. In closing on this topic, as long as you can tapdance or rap, you negroes will be otay. Those are my extremely deep thoughts.

Last Night's Dream

I have these crazy crazy dreams. Like real vivid cinematic dreams with camera angles, dialogue, plot, soundtrack and even credits in the end (if i dream all the way to the end) Last night's dream was no different. Ok so I dont know how it started but this is what I remember from it: It starts at a TJ Maxx like department store, one security guard comes in with this huge sheet cake. He speaks to another security guard and they disappear from sight. All of a sudden HEIDI MONTAG pops into the scene having an argument with an older man, presumably her boyfriend(in the movie). All of a sudden these goonish looking men come into the department store. One of these guys sticks his hand in the sheet cake the security guard bought in minutes before and pulls out a bayonet (!?) obviously there was a commotion so the security guards ran out from where ever they were (maybe a sexual encounter?) So the one security guard dude (obviously the other guard was in on the scheme) tries to subdue bayonet guy and gets bayonet-ed from the bottom of his jaw out of his mouth (yikes) So HEIDI MONTAG this whole time did not know what was going on cause she was yapping her mouth but all of sudden realized someone got bayonet-ed(?) So now the bad guys start taking hostages. A female accomplice takes Heidi and her bickering boyfriend towards the back of the store where there is an exit. This female accomplice to the bad guys sucks cause Heidi of all people manages to make her way out the store. So now the camera angle switches to Heidi's view. One of the goons chase after her, but the goon stops short in their tracks cause there is a parole officers complex right next to the store(WTF?) So Heidi thinking she is safe make her way to the parole office but it's Memorial Day so the offices are closed. The last scene before I woke up was her running into a bodega to make a call to 911, but I think the goon caught up to her.
What a random a$$ dream right? I don't know where any of that came from, I have issues.

Love ODB style

Love, is a burning flame, and ODB has been burnt, more specifically by gonorrhea, twice. I dont know where this is going but let's just say Russell Jones has a way with the ladies.

Bitch, don't talk about bitches I'm fucking them
Please no fat bitches I'm fucking slim
Unless it's one of those nights I'm stroking my shit
I don't care 'bout how I'm fucking it
How much it costs, big fat...crackhead?
Ain't trying to hear all those words you said
Five minutes, bitch (ahhhh) and I came
Fuck your name, and from where you came

I don't give a fuck, bitch! I will kill you!
You Shaquita! You Belinda! You too Passion...BITCH!
Russell Tyrone Jones

On to the Next Conspiracy theory

Jay Hov has people really going nutzo over his new video for "On to the Next One"(the comments over at Miss Info's site is oddly insightful but ridiculous). I guess for some time people believed Jay Z was a satan worshipper? Now all these Illumanati and Freemasonry theories. I really dont have the mental capacity, or care in the world to look up these thingy's. Yes the imagery in this video does bring up questions but honestly and taking a lazy blogger's approach I dont care. Is Jay Z worshipping the devil, who cares, does he believe in the occult? Who cares. On December 21 2012 is he going to morph into a robot like MJ in Moonwalker and tell us the end is here? Probably not, but that would awesome. At the end of the day I personally like the look of the video, its different, its artistic, the song isnt too bad either, repetitive yes, but if it came on in a club will I dance to it? Yes. Ill dance throwing up the devil horns and stealing the nearest girls lipstick and writing triple 6's across my forehead. On to the next one.

ABC's of Me..

So the future father of my Zebra Children tagged me in a note on facebook by the name of ABC's of Me'. I thought this would be cool to do on my blog instead of facebook cause...I wanted to, Im a rebel like that...heh. So here it goes.
ABC About You Questions:

A - AVAILABLE: to do what exactly?
B - BIRTHDAY: March 6
C - CRUSHING ON: Right now I hate to say it but....Drake :hides in shame:
D - DRINK YOU LAST HAD: Woo Woo its a shot
E - EASIEST PERSON TO TALK TO: Myself
F - FAVORITE SONG: it changes all the time
G - GUMMY BEARS OR GUMMY WORMS: Neither
H - HOMETOWN: Bronx, Castle Hill Projects what up!
I - IN LOVE WITH: person, place or thing? Either one dont know the answer.
J - JUGGLE: boobs
K - KILLED SOMEONE: maybe...
L - LONGEST CAR RIDE: Radford VA to Lake Charles LA 15 hrs and I had to drive 14 of em, long story.
M- MILKSHAKE FLAVOR: chocolate
N - NUMBER OF SIBLINGS: one, well technically two, but we wont go there.
O - ONE WISH: Happiness
P - PERSON YOU CALLED LAST: Umm my mom :checks call log: I was wrong my brother
Q- QUICKIE: What is that?
R- REASON TO SMILE: Fresh Prince and or Cosby Show
S - SONG YOU LAST HEARD: Kid Cudi "My World"
T - TIME YOU WOKE UP: 11:30pm tuesday
U - UNDERWEAR COLOR/PATTERN: Um pink and black zebra stripes, exotic I know
V - VEGETABLE(S): Broccoli con queso
W - WORST HABIT: eating then sleeping
X - X-RAYS YOU'VE HAD: One when I was 9, skating accident, wait no i got my wisdom tooth taken out in march so then too.
Y – YOYOS ARE: OYOY spelled backwards
Z - ZODIAC SIGN: Piecies ( i think i spelled that wrong, yes I spelled my own zodiac wrong, possibly)

Random Questions About You:

Spell your name without vowels: Tl Jns
What color do you wear most?: Black
Least favorite color?: White cause im a slob and it gets dirty easy, but I love white people :)
What are you listening to?: tv
Are you happy with your life right now?: far from it
What is your favorite class in school?: Im not in school anymore and even if I was I would not have a favorite class, I was never a huge fan of school, I just did cause I had too, doesnt seem to paying off too much right now, but I digress
Are you outgoing?: eh sometimes
Favorite pair of shoes?:depends on the day nike's chucks, vans, take your pick
Where do you wish you were right now?: NYC

THE CANS:

Can you dance?: I dont dance I boogie
Can you tie a cherry stem with your mouth?: nah, never really use my mouth for much...[pause]
Can you whistle?: YA, im a flute player!
Write with both hands?: no, im just a lefty
can you walk with your toes curled?: uh never tried

THE DO'S:

Do you believe there is life on other planets?: to think we are the only living beings in the galaxy would be idiotic
Do you believe in miracles?: Small ones yes
Do you believe in magic?: Eh I dunno
Love at first sight?: :sigh: well a few years ago I have to say when i met this paticular person I think I did, but do I really believe in it? I dont think I do but anything with love and romance Im a total pessimist, thats how I roll.
Do you believe in Satan?: Im the devil, I love metal.
Do you believe in Santa?: Well at one time I did, didnt we all, Santa is one of the many lies a parent will tell their child, that's why people become mass murderers.
Do you know how to swim?: You know what they say about black people, but I do know how to swim.
Do you like roller coasters?: I used to.
Do you think you could handle the stuff they eat on those reality shows?: Hail to the naw.

THE HAVES:

Have you ever been on a plane?: When I was like 3
Have you ever asked someone out?: Kind of but I dont think they really took me seriously.
Have you ever been to the ocean?: I live in hampton roads...
Have you ever painted your nails?:At one time its been over a decade
THE WHATS:

What is the temperature outside? fall like
What radio station do you listen to?: I work in radio so I dont listen to the radio in my downtime, I click on the iPod
What was the last restaurant you ate at?: Macados in radford
What was the last thing you bought?: 2 pints of Ben and Jer's Half baked and toilet tissue, ha.
What was the last thing on TV you watched?: Chelsea Lately before i went to work

THE WHOS:

Who was the last person you IM'd? AIM is sooo 2 years ago
Who was the last person you took a picture of?: Umm TIM!
Who was the last person you said I love you to?: Mom

CRYING SECTION:

Ever really cried your heart out?: Oh yeah
Ever cried yourself to sleep?: As a child
Ever cried on your friend's shoulder?: No I dont like crying in front of people.
Ever cried over the opposite sex?: Psst nah
Do you cry when you get an injury?: No.
Do certain songs make you cry?:Umm Kate Bush's "A Womans Work", Donny Hathaway "Someday we'll all be free"
LOVE SECTION.

How many times have you had your heart broken?:I never been in a relationship but coming to the realization that a person you like doesnt like hurts a bit and that has happened a lot, man i sound pitiful.
What is your current hair color?: Uh black and fading pink dye
Current piercings?: lip, guaged ears
Have any tattoos?: no
Eye color?: dark brown

IN A BOY/GIRL:

Favorite eye color: anything but bloodshot red or yellow.
Short or long hair: doent matter
Height?: equal to or taller than me im 5'8
Best clothing: non smelly

HAVE YOU EVER:

Been to jail: nah
Mooned someone: unfortuntely no
Ran away from home: thought about it in my tweens
Laughed so hard you cried: not really.
Cried in school: In HS when my good friend Max died senior year :(
Thrown up in a store: Eww no
Is there something really stupid that you still laugh at today?: In 10th grade some dude dared me to snort powder from a pixie stick, that's how I wound with the name "Crazy Bugz" and that dude became one of my best friends.
THIS OR THAT:

Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
McDonald's or Burger King: Burger King, but I try to avoid both of them.
Single or Group Dates: At this point any date would be great. That rhymed.
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate
Strawberries or Blueberries: Blueberries
Meat or Veggies: Meat with veggies
TV or Movie: A movie on TV
Guitar or Drums: Guitar and simulated drumming i.e. rock band
Adidas or Nike: Nike, support Dallas Penn dont fux with Adidas!
Chinese or Mexican: Men or food? Chinese food,mexican men, I like latinos :)
Cheerios or Corn Flakes: Frosted flakes they're grrreat!
Cake or Pie: I love cake like a fat kid loves...cake.
MTV or VH1: Ive given up on MTV, VH1 has the better reality shows IMO and they still do a lot of musical programming like Behind the Music so VH1 for the win.


I hope you enjoyed this, cause it took a long time to fill this out. Maybe you learned a bit more about me, maybe you didnt, maybe you could care less, if so, you are mean and deserve a time out!·

The Mid 20s Crisis.

What is a Mid 20s Crisis? It is different things for different people in their mid 20s. My crisis began shortly before I graduated from college almost 2 years ago. I started to get high anxiety not really having any plans, not having any money, just not knowing what's going to happen. Some people may thrive on the unknown, but im not one of them. So ever since then ive been going through this 'crisis' and just when it seems things are letting up and a little bit of sunshine is coming in something else happens and the crisis continues. In the vein of being a 'crisis' hopefully this too shall pass or will it become the Late 20s Crisis? We shall see...