You know as a 25 year old struggling college graduate, I often ask myself "was it all worth it". You know going to school getting good (enough) grades throughout all my education. Doing what my parents wanted me to do. Doing the right things. Only to end up at a dead end job that I hate getting paid $9 an hour. Sometimes I do think I took the wrong life path. What I should have done instead of studying and working on my craft of mediocre flute playing was be a HO. Ho's are having the BEST MILLENNIUM EVER! From video girls being paid and adorned for their ASSets, to Superhead becoming a best selling author TWICE! To Ashley Dupree being a columnist in the New York Post. To Michelle McGee popping in any media venue that'll have her. To Amber Rose being paid to appear in the club, stand there and pout. To Kat Stacks' name even being mentioned in my blog. The point is HO's making dough. You can't be mad at that. Who needs an education when you have a loose vagina! I curse my mother for raising me to be an intelligent, strong, independent woman HOW DARE SHE! So in 2010 let the ho-ing commence. I am going to work on my new reality show pitch. Implanting a webcam directly in a groupies caslupus as Chelsea Lately would say. Crossing fingers!
On days like these you feel like doing something. Even if its just driving around with your windows down bumping some tunage. I would like to possibly contribute to your spring and summertime soundtrack with some of my favorites for the sunshine season. Im going to start off with Top Ranking Mixtape by Diplo and Santigold. This came out last year and it has a lot of Santi remixes most with a reggae/dub twist. The whole mixtape thumps. It was for a time available for free but that link is now dead, but you can buy it here, its hot fiyah.
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
So the current governor of Va Republican Bob McDonnell has decided to re-establish the celebration of Confederate History Month this April. Much to the shagrin of the hundreds of thousands of african americans whom live in Virginia. As a black person I should be downright appalled right? Yes it is quite disturbing to commission the celebration of a group of people who supported the enslaving of black folk. However it does not surprise me. No matter how integrated Virginia has become this is still the south and the confederacy is a part of its history. So I somewhat understand what McDeezy is trying to do, although it may have some behind the scenes workings such as certain groups will be happy about this and this will keep him in their good graces thus keeping him in office for a while. I believe if Mickey D's would have did this differently with a bit more sensitivity towards the african american community and the images that the word 'Confederate' bring up it would have went over...aw hell Negroes will still be mad! Read more about hurr
Here goes another gem from the greatest wordsmith since Langston Hughes. No one can put important issues as eloquently as Dr. Carter. Our song bird is currently reppin D Block on Ricker's Isle. I personally think it is a plot by the government to keep Lil Wayne's freshest dropplets of knowledge from getting to the people. Enough of my conspiracy theories...Here is Lil Wayne's take on the proper ways to handle a firearm, which obviously didnt work for him *kanye shrug*. Man Suck My Clip, Swallow my bullets, and dont you spit UGGGGGHHHHH~Steady Mobbin.
This upcoming week on Rupaul's Drag Race the Queens get to create their drag mother's. There is nothing like old queens, I love it. Sweet Jessus take me away!
Hello all! It’s been awhile, but I’m back with yet another recap of ABDC. We’ve got a lot to cover so let’s get started.
Last time we wrapped up the lousy Music Video Challenge and headed for the Lady Gaga Challenge. This entire season has held a bunch of firsts for the show and this week proved to be no exception. Because of a glitch in the phone votes, all of the previous week’s votes were thrown out so no one would be eliminated that week. However, the judges would grant the crew with the best performance of the night immunity against the following week’s DOUBLE elimination. I was sadly disappointed only in the fact that this meant that Saltare (who royally screwed up the week before) would not be eliminated. In the end it was a great challenge and the crews did well, specifically Blueprint’s performance to “Bad Romance”. They knocked it out of the park and were granted immunity.
The Disco Challenge It seemed at first that this would be really cheesy, but proved to be pretty intense. Each crew had to mix the seventies vibe with a signature dance from the era as well as add one lift to the performance. Unfortunately, the votes from last week were piss poor. In the first safe/bottom reveal it was against Saltare and Static Noyze, with SN being sent to the bottom three. WTF!? Even more shocking was the fact that Jungle Boogie and Heavy Impact were also sent to the bottom three, but Hype 5-0 was safe. Again, WTF?
Blueprint – Decent job, but nothing stood out
Saltare – messed up again in the ropes and on one of their lifts
Poreotix - Rocked the stage! More importantly, JC mentioned that since the regionals he has been slowly losing interest, but this performance won him back.
Hype 5-0 – meh
Heavy Impact – They did an awesome job, however they did perform like it would be (and was) their last
Static Noyze – It was kinda obvious that they would be sent home. Enrique, the crew member who threw out his back earlier in the competition, started having problems again and did not dance in their final routine. I will note that the lift in their routine was outstanding!
Jungle Boogie – Performed a solid number that saved them from elimination. I was completely amazed when I saw Roqi, their lone female member, do the lift instead of one of the guys.
The Usher Challenge I was really excited about this one and for the life of me cannot understand why or how this was never a challenge in the previous seasons.
Jungle Boogie – First safe crew (no surprise) and had to incorporate glides to “Love in this Club”. JC had some negative feedback right off the bat, whereas Lil Mama and Omarion praised the crew for rep’n the ATL. I will back up JC on this, they are halfway through the competition and the bar has to be raised and the judging has to be a bit stricter. None the less, the freeze frame peel out was awesome and JB received a standing-O from the audience.
Poreotix – Looked to top last week’s stellar routine and stay in JC’s good graces while having to perform a portion of their performance to “Yeah” in reverse. What can I say… THEY KILLED IT!
Hype 5-0 – Had to use roller sneakers for their number to “You Don’t Have to Call”. All in all they had some good and intricate moments and a decent performance.
Blueprint – Back in the bottom two, AGAIN. They had “Hey Daddy” with their challenge to incorporate a freaky hand segment similar to that in the video. They did a good job and pulled of their challenge well. I really feel bad for this crew though, they are constantly in the bottom. They are the cleanest crew on the show and have a lot of versatility. However, they really don’t have many stand out “moments” in their performances and because they are from Canada they don’t have much of a fan base. Maybe it’s because we’re America (fuck yeah!) and we still have a grudge from losing the hockey game at the Olympics. Regardless of the reasons, this crew does not deserve to be in the bottom every damn week. (side note: “These colors don’t run…they DANCE!” - T. Jones)
Saltare – Had to add a fight segment into their routine of “Caught Up”. Despite the judges noting on some small intricacies I failed to catch in the performance, it was overall stagnant. Clearly, Blueprint was the hands down victor and Saltare was sent home! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
Now we have come to the finally four: Poreotix, Jungle Boogie, Blueprint, and Hype 5-0. Unfortunately next week is the Magic Challenge (did they not learn anything when they had the “Illusion Challenge” in season 3?). All that I can predict is that Poreotix will be the first safe crew, everything else is up in the air. Blueprint is a good crew, but they never get the votes and Jungle Boogie is a personal fav of mine, but Hype 5-0 has this rapidly growing fan base that popped up overnight. It’s anybody’s game now! See ya next week!
