Just when I thought Ohio couldn't get more obnoxious... they have convinced me even more to never visit the state. I don't care if they do have one of the dopest amusement parks!
So check it: Kings Island has this annual Halloween display but the 2009 edition, well lets just say folk are doing acrobatics in their caskets. Who would have thought that a tasteless and might I say half ass display of recently deceased celebrities such a Steve McNair, Farah Fawcett, MJ, Billy Mays, etc wouldn't lead to it being classified as controversial, canceling the display all together. The insensitivity, disrespect, and so on never ceases to amaze me!!!
I mean seriously what the hell is this?! These masterminds won't be satisfied until the ghosts of these celebrities go "thriller" on them...
NOW THAT WOULD BE A DISPLAY!
Read this mess here
So my homie Legs suggested that I check out this documentary entitled "The Providence Effect". She's fully aware of my passion for stellar urban education where the youth (mainly our minorities), reap all the benefits on a long term basis. I took her word that I would love it and checked it out.
Legs was right, I definitely enjoyed this film. What I most admired was that the president of Providence St. Mel located in Chicago's Westside, Paul J. Adams III, argued that all schools should have these similar ideologies. Instilling into students' minds during elementary school the importance of attending college and not only during 11th and 12th grade as well as teaching rigorous yet beneficial academics should not be seen as innovative, it needs to be mandatory! These students by the completion of high school are all accepted into college, and many go on to attend Ivy League and/or First Tier institutions. How impressive is that?!
The school's history since 1971 was very interesting. From its struggle to remain open to creating a branch of charter schools throughout Chicago, this school's academic and disciplinary ideologies has gotten many with a eye for education's attention.
The film was great, however I wish during the segments in which we saw the teachers in action, they featured a Language Arts course since that is my field. Also since 100% of the students are being accepted into college, I wanted hear from the guidance counselor and college advisor on their involvement and process. Other than that, I was impressed with what I saw and I recommend seeing it.
PS--- What is going on in the CHI right now?!!?!??!?!
So check it!!!
Hip-Hop heads, theatre enthusiasts, all conscious folk who will be in NYC anytime from Oct.1-17 PLEASE hit up some of these events!!! I went to some last year and they blew me away, inspiring me to take my ode to script and music to another level. This is one of the rare occasions where my financially challenged soul didn't complain about spending money to attend several of these dope shows, cuz honestly I definitely got my money's worth.
I better see or find out some of you were in attendance
-PeAcE
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So the best friend tells me that Rap Snacks now has a pork rind and cracklin line with Choppa City from Da Band being the spokesperson (this was from 2005 mind you but still...)
Sincerest apologies for not being in any form of existence the entire month of August. Once my job was over July 31st, a job that consisted primarily of nepotism and bleached sugar coated prejudice, I needed solace so badly that I just screamed to hell with everything!
Not entirely...
First week... relaxed in Myrtle Beach with family that I was never completely close to until the death of my Nana back in June. I actually appreciated the time spent with them because now we are inseparable and I just needed to form those special bonds with family for a change rather than my crew. I shared some poetry (rare experience) and I felt very warm that they support my talents.
Second week... crashed at my cousin's mansion like crib. I felt like a kid from the projects who ain't never been nowhere! I was so taken aback by not only the home but the strong durable work ethic all my older cousins possess that got them to where they are are. I have been encouraged even more to emulate my kin!
Third and Fourth week... I honestly think I can say that I have officially seen every episode of the Golden Girls at least 100 times. The life of a sloth I have come to realize is not the life for me. I felt like a gigantic fat ass who was a slave to junk food and the remote!!! This voluntary exile was pathetic and I knew I could get away with it now only because I won't be able to do it again until December.
Present Day... Now I am in the never ending process of regaining intelligence and awareness of the realities surrounding my post grad life.
Grad school begins Sept. 8- Peace and Love to the undergrad chapter in Queens... Say Hello to Brooklyn!
So ya'll know I try to stay above ground when it comes to the latest music so I going to close out by releasing this lil video I stumbled upon about an hr ago
- PeAcE
NAS & DAMIAN "JR GONG" MARLEY DISTANT RELATIVES preview from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.
You can't knock the lego... You just can't!!!
Wu-Tang Lego: Da Mystery of Chessboxin' from davo on Vimeo.
New Kweli and Hi-Tek... I can dig it (even more so when the album drops)
Talib Kweli + Hi Tek-Reflection Eternal -Back Again-Vid Premiere
And you thought that I wasn't going to consider my boo's album a full serving of scrumptious melodic nourishment? Please!
Dig it- This is part one of the Black Summers' Night trilogy. This particular album, Black, delves into relationship/intimacy deferred (i.e. frigid shoulders, misplaced love, desolation, etc). Anyone who has ever been down these avenues and streets could definitely identify with the dude's scripted pain, frustration, and subtle perplexity accompanied with the soulful, jazzy, and bluesy instrumentation.
Tracks I'm Diggin:
1. Bad Habits
2. Cold
3. Fistful of Tears
4. Playing Possum:
Check it out... and purchase the album that comes with the DVD. 23 minutes of behind the lyric and beat commentary that gets you hooked onto this album bait even more (in my opinion).
-PeAcE
I'm mad late with this post due to preoccupation at work and social outings, but I gotta shout out my supposed uncle M.J.
If I had a dollar the amount of times someone joked about me being kin to Michael because of our shared last name...
I COULD AFFORD MY VERY OWN NEVERLAND RANCH!!!!
NUFF SAID!
PS- Thriller was cool I give you that... BUT Off The Wall and Bad were the best hands down!
‘I was in London the night of Jimi’s death and together with some old friends ...we went round to Monika’s hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth ...then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe. ‘I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive. That son of a bitch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I’d lose everything.’
So dig it. A former assistant to James Marshall Hendrix, James "Tappy" Wright, claims in his "tell all this ish now" book enitled Rock Roadie that Jimi's manager, Michael Jeffrey, drunkenly confessed to murdering the musician. The year was 1971, one year following the Sept. 1970 death of Hendrix and two years prior to the tragic 1973 death of Jeffrey in a plane crash.
First of all why didn't Tappy speak up in '71 if this confession was indeed valid evidence in unconvering the hints of mystery surrounding Hendrix's cause of death? Second of all, I don't know about ya'll but why is that many of these legendary musicians' deaths go hand in hand with skepticism and one's own outlandlish beliefs? Jim Morrison never had an autopsy, and plenty of folk think that dude is alive. Not to mention, Pac and Elvis are chillin WHO KNOWS WHERE...SUPPOSEDLY!
Third of all, mad people seem to let greed for green overcome their lives especially when it comes to one's life insurance, so if this really did happen, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised... but I ain't buying it until proven otherwise!!!
(Courtesy of URB and NME)
I don't know about the rest of the world, but this has to be one of the best sitcoms of the 20th century. I have been an avid watcher and enthusiast since I was a kid when I didn't get half of the suggestive punchlines and subject matters. However, over time I find myself cracking up more and more whenever it's on the tube. I talk about men with my crew and I LOVE CHEESECAKE!!! Call me old, who cares! The show is amazing!
(oh please believe St. John's '09 grads came in pretty deep!)
I am supposed to be typing up these two essays for my Social Action class but I'll get back to my regularly scheduled program in a bit.
The presence of this issue is beyond ahead of its time and place... You don't even see this discussion on television today... but then again "sitcoms" of this generation are in the form of stank/scripted/stupid "reality tv"
Enjoy!
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"Bicycles: because love requires trust and balance."- Nikki Giovanni
Buttoned my car...and drove my
coat home...in the rain...
after loving you
I goed on red...and stopped on
green...floating somewhere in between...
being here and being there...
after loving you
I rolled my bed...turned down
my hair...slightly
confused but...I don't care...
Laid out my teeth...and gargled my
gown...then I stood
...and laid me down...
88 Keys feat. Kanye West "Stay Up (Viagra)"
This video is so obnoxious but I'm feelin it!
Wow this problem is on pandemic status that it has a hip-hop video?! haha
Check it out
-PeAcE
video via Senor Kaos' Blog
The film is simply wonderful... catch on youtube when you can if you have not seen it yet!
(click on the billboard to visit the webpage)
(photo via Evan Shaner)
I had no business being up mad late last night after 3:00 A.M. but that's what happens when you decide to take a "nap" at 10 P.M. and wake up wired at 12:30 A.M. instead of sleeping the entire night!!!
Anyway, during the hours in which the adrenaline was pumping, I was perusing imeem listening to some slow jams, old school treats. I had to in order to drown out the ignorance that was coming out of that wack mf plies mouth blasting from my roommate's speakers in the living room. I'm not even going to get into that dude so let's just move on....
OK, I found this track by Billy Paul entitled, "Let the Dollar Circulate", and immediately it has been added to the soundtrack of my life, the 2009 installment.
(politicians talkin' crazy, unemployment pandemic, late rent payments, interest rate increase, utility, gasoline, and meat prices at an all time high... this was 75' so not a thing has changed!)
Listen to this funky track. I bet everyone can relate!!!
Please let the dollar circulate!!!
-PeAcE
