Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Go Away Little Girl....
Friday, September 26, 2008
Apparently He's Not An *ANGY BLACK MAN* in this Movie....
Everybody loves a re-hashed Girl Group Record
Cousin: It's Solange's new stuff....
I have to hand it to things...whenever things get tough for a struggling female artist (more often than not those pegged in an R&B category), The smart female artist busts out Phil Spector's Baion beat (Amy Winehouse in 2006) or one of 3 Motown categories...
Duffy went for Martha & The Vandellas with "Mercy"
Also-ran Solange went here.....
Aww...Where Did Our Love Go? Aww...where did 45 years go...apparently nowhere because it's back...on the airwaves...just to make the world seem a bit crazier. It seems to add to the frenzy of dis-belief of all points of life anymore.
And to me it points that the evolution of American Culture probably ended with the Nixon Administration...and if it survived beyond that point, it died when Reagan told the populace that it was "Morning In America" again. So when things get tough, when we need innovation, we do a time warp to the 1960s...or some point before...
And as much as I love (and spetacularly failed) this resurgence (ok my plans aren't dead...I just have to reform them), I worry that whenever we find ourselves in a tight spot, or to prove ourselves (as artists and a collective populace) we fall back on our old school skills...mix them different ways...and sell ourselves on dreams we've already accomplished....dreams that have already faded
What is "I Decided" but a blend of "Heatwave" and "Baby Love" with a little "I Decided On a Whole New Plan"
What is a SUV hybrid from GM but an Oldsmobile Diesel V8 across the board
What is Identity politics, when we should really unite as one?
So next go around...let's not sample the beat...let's see if we can improve on the romantic vision of the past, but not use it exclusively....
(and word to everyone: Martha & The Vandellas "No More Tear-Stained Make-up" is my garage band cover...hands off)
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Can I have some 'dat Weed Jam to Go On My Biscuit? Thanks Brah!
Dafina: madness
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Money, Money Money, Monay!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
So White People Invented Clocks?
–Erykah Badu
Monday, January 07, 2008
Pure Cookie Coonery
But later in the afternoon I saw the most supreme act of Coonery so far in 2008...It might lead me to start the Coon chronicles...
I think my text message of astonishment to friends sums up what happened best...
"Why did a fool just ask me if a Chips Ahoy Cookie on the counter was my cookie, and when I said no he ate it...directly off the counter?"
Yes...mind you there were only 10 other Negroes in a place of about 300, basically, white men. And this fool had the nerve to eat
some random cookie that was just sitting there...on the counter...next to coatcheck...
I think it's gonna be a really long long shameful year of negrodom....
Like, really, if you're that desperate for a cookie...go steal a fresh one from Safeway or any chain store with a Bakery, they're equipped to deal with such shrinkage....don't embarass all black folks by eating random food, all proud...in a room full of 300 white people...
Friday, January 04, 2008
It's All About Hair!
So along with her line of LipChap, Saaphryi "Imma beatchu with FLOWERS" Windsor is selling you some weave..
Some "Indian" weave, at $278 a pack!
http://www.SAAPHYRI.com/
Not to be outdone Miss Patti "I take flight on stage and think I'm flying higher Higher HIGHER" has announced her own line of hair, in wig form to be sold thru Especially Yours.Com
http://www.especiallyyours.com/patti/empty_pl.asp?cid=14&mscssid=&adsrc=
I didn't know 2008 was gonna be the year of the African American Hair extension/accessory. According to the Chinese Zodiac its
supposed to be the Year of the Rat right? Maybe according to the Korean hair palaces both women frequent on Crenshaw Blvd it is year of the Weave/Wig.
"NO YOU LIKE?! $34 DOLLA FO OUN PAK!"
So, why do I find this, somewhat offensive. Well obviously Saaphryi is fleecing people with her celebrity, as if her weave is any better
than any place on Crenshaw, East 14th, LaSalle or 125th Street.
Patti LaBelle?
I have an exercise for you...Google Image Patti LaBelle...and see some of the wigs this heffa has worn since She was a BlueBelle back in '62. And she thinks she's an authority on "Stylish" wigs....Well..she can be, she's an expert just as much as Virgil Exner was on car styling after that 4th bottle of Vodka and the 1962 Chrysler lineup came out....
Hair madness...pure hair madness....