August 2011
10 posts
Let me get this straight...
Sing like air is moving up from your diaphragm, get labeled a try-hard.
Sing in a baby’s voice tweaked by technology, get bashed for not trying hard enough.
There’s enough music to satisfy even the pickiest, so why does it seem like there is never any positive feedback about music? Don’t people ever get sick of hearing themselves be nit-picky?
I'm all about free speech and voicing opinions...
why does it seem that people get more joy out of airing who/what they think sucks and driving that point so far into the ground that they can fist-bump Satan?
For the Kids
I only vaguely have an idea about what post-secondary life, but I have already decided much of the remainder of my life will be dedicated to nurturing and cultivating the aspirations of children. Not babies, but children after that loveable preschool age and before teenage years. Just looking at the change of the landscape of television tells you a lot about the treatment of children. There has...
Another day, another name debate
I feel like name debates are just another one of those subjects people pick up when they want to blow out hot air. More than often they have the stink of elitism, trace amounts racism and traditionalism without purpose and usually end in moot points or nowhere. The old age sentiment that “they’ll never get a job” with a name like that is holding less water as corporations...
Where my girls at?
A slew of African-American male comics are breaking out in the comedy industry right. You have Jay Pharaoh stepping in and out of the spotlight on SNL with his impressions as sort black Darrell Hammond/Rich Little-styled comedian. You have Donald Glover, Affion Crockett and Brandon T. Jackson successfully jumping back and forth between stand-up, acting, and rapping. But in all of this not since...
Racialization of "Arrogance"
I just can’t wrap my head around confident, expressive, boisterous people of color are always being singled out and given a bad rap by the western media for being arrogant when there is no evidence. To me, it takes a degree of cold and calculating intent to be arrogant and not just fragrant self-confidence. If no ill will is directed at anyone then there is reason to come against these...
Curly Chaos Confessions
Stress just seems to loom around hair. I keep trying to tell myself it’s not all that serious but I can’t help but feeling that my hair is an extension of me. I pretend to be hard as stone but even after all these years, hair still seems to be getting the best of me.
Simple motives
I am under the impression that so many naturals go through that state of heightened pretentiousness...
I have the intense urge to name things
Just some that are off the top of my head:
Camille
Drew
Hugh (Huey)
Violet
Melanie
Hendryx
Jude
Geri
Minnie
The silence ends here
It’s been almost a month since I posted anything. I don’t want to be one of those people on perpetual reblog (no shame in it, it’s just not my thing). But some things need to come off my chest.
