Shake The Dust (doc)

Shake the Dust / The Making Of from Loose Luggage on Vimeo.

Ran into this mini-doc preview. Looks awesome.... Right now I'm less than a week away from Manifesto... and the office is crazy. My personal life is a little bonkers. Preparing to go abroad.. Trying to stack my little bits and pieces of pesos... Trying to have meaningful conversations with people to brew some ideas and write some shit. lol... and really make it legendary.

But I think the best part out of this whole thing is that I'm doing what I love.. in every way. and Somehow I've managed to do exactly what I wanted to do. ...lol.. I spent my saturday with a friend we walked everywhere laughed at our quiet yet loud state of singleness while walking along the waterfront lol.. (#loafofbread) ...goals, drives ambitions & purpose. It was dope. ... then we ended it off with ice cream by little Italy. 

I love the vibe and the approach of this doc because it explores communities that I don't think have been approached in terms of hiphop and youth within their culture. ..Well at least in terms of what is presented in the Media. ...Yemen, Haiti, Kampala.. :) ... #yes. One day, I sincerely hope that I'll be able to do something like this... not a hiphop doc but rather a documentary that's well rounded and shows something that hasn't really been shown before. I have a map of ideas that I want to explore through film and social media. I've shared this idea with a selected few and I blessed to have witnessed excitement in their faces and smiles when they heard my idea. ...I just hope that it happens. lol.. I hope that I somehow find the time, financial means and network to make it happen though... (In God's name I pray.... amen lol)

#highfive for creativity
#highfive for spreading love through HipHop. 

Peace & Love.

(StrnFrt)

so there's this book..

So there's this book... it really makes me smile.
Every time I think about it, I get less stressed... Every time I skim through paragraphs of the author's intro chapter, I smile internally to myself, and consciously try to stop myself from continuing to read it. ...Because I want to make sure that my setting is perfect before I fully take it in.

Active Child: 'Hanging On' by Ragged Words

I want to make sure I'm listening to the ideas as much as I am hearing them in my mind, and reading them with my eyes. I won't tell you the name of the book... but I will say that it is about the historical analysis of black style and black identity and how styling black diasporic identity has framed us into being who we (black diaspora) are today ...the dynamic between stories of fashioning freedom in black bodies out of ambiguity of peculiar styling and the effects it has had in the world. ... In framing our own perceptions and understanding of black identity.

This book is it.
I can feel it.

because I haven't posted anything in a while...

...... ^^^ my feelings EXACTLY ^^^

dear everyone who ever reads this thing lol... I'm coming back with a vengeance. ... I promise..
I'll probably be posting videos I like instead of actual content until my fire is back again.

I promise. :)

Mellow Vibes... no content

Mellow vibes...today. I feel like I owe it to myself to write an article that's more critical than what I've been posting lately... but hey..it's my blog so (come at me bruhh)... anyway, 1st day at work today. Nothing too exciting... *shoulder-shrug* ...




So last night, someone posted a link about 10 Myths about Introverts I posted it on my tumblr as soon as I found it... ... I need this book in my life. ...Simply based on the excerpt I felt a sense of peace. Like sanity finally hit some part of my conscious. ...like "yooooo!!!!! yeeeeehhh there are people like this tooo?!!?!?! (insert grin)" ... so if anyone out there wants to bless my brain with some knowledge :)

Yakoto - Baby Blues [pinboardblog.com] by PinBoardBlog.com

Oh if you're new to my blog. Show some love. Leave a word a smile .. anything. lol.. I tend to find random videos on the interweb. Today's post has no content. If you're still reading.... ...(I probably think you're dopamine :) lol )



mmmm... I'm usually not too big on pushing myshit on here but...
I also write here:

LeBeat & LaCréole
Manifesto

Twitter: @YazzyTaughtMe ... @Manifesto_Fest

old lady & book & ttc

The story below was meant to be publish a while back, but for some reason I never got around to it. Appologies.

"yesterday on the train ride home from work, I saw an old woman whose 'race' I couldn't quite decipher find a seat accross from me at a subway stop that shall remain un-named. lol... Her face was folded and patterned in wrinkles that held a million words... she had in her hands, a few bags, some plastic some cloth. Either way I couldn't quite make-out the contents that filled them.

She glanced around for what seemed like a second before she eagerly reached out in one of the bags a book that read something along the lines of "The book of Catholic jokes"... She opened the book and I could see her eyes quickly skim through the first couple of pages and she turned one page after the other (probably skimming the prefaces and intros)... and I saw the faint prelude of what seemed like a half-cracked smirk when she landed on the first page where the book began. ... It was cool to watch that moment.

.... of course she didn't know I was staring at her.. but I was. lol... I saw her eyes dance accross what I assumed to be words, phrases and ideas and then I saw her smile. It seemed like every joke she read was funnier to her than the next one. Almost like she could relate or was hugging the memory of her youth, the memory of something past and the possible irony that may have found itself hidden in between the sentences she found.

... her smile would get bigger as she read on. At one point I noticed that she must've ran into a joke that was super funny because she was smiling really widely then looked up to see if anyone was looking at her ...lol. (it was adorable).. we exchanged glances, as her eyes skimmed around her surroundings then she returned to her book.

It was the most heartwarming sight I'd ever seen on the TTC in a while. ... oooooorrr Maybe I was reading too much into it.... LOL."

^^

(Strange Fruit)
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lost in thoughts

"you wonder why children hide in adult bodies... lie under light-color-eyed contact lenses...learn to fetishize the size of their asses...and simultaneously hate their lips" - somewhere on the interweb.

I haven't done a music post in some time. Thought I'd do it up today lol...

Kids these days. ... I hope that I never loose my sense of wonder, and my appreciation for little things about people. ... speaking of kids these days, just ran into this group called Kids these days, which are pretty awesome! check 'em out. :)

Prototypes

[First Meeting]

With butterfly fluttered heartbeats and the way your words dance across your lips and pop-locked my mind into a freeze so ill...
you said hi to me,
...words stood still into my conscious, and I held my breath in awe of you.
...I fumbled with a reply only loud enough for you to hear. ..."hi" .. :)

Next To Me (feat. Roy Hargrove) by Jack Kovacs

Disclaimer: ^ this didn't really happen, as poetically. lol... Somewhere in my 22yrs of life, I think I may have ran into my real-life prototype... but it was MUCH MUCH more awkward then poetically suggested. lol.

p'tite soeur

[Random epiphany: I have as many girly shoes as I have sneakers... My friend lists are 50% men, 50% women...lol. I realized this a few days ago. lol... I think it's sort of cool. This could mean that I'm either growing up or that I've reached some sort of balance.... either way I'm rolling it out.]

The other day, I managed to write something solid. I was inspired after listening to a spoken word piece by liza gara on Atmosphere's mixtape: "change of atmosphere"... :) ... (this song just does something to me)... Considering the fact that I've been feeling sort of home-sick for the past little bit, it's been nice to have my little sister around to talk to... walk around the city and be cute lol.


(in honour of my little sister coming to visit me, I had to post up this gem ^^)

Since I'm sort of waiting for life to kick-in full gear... I was thinking I should take the time to practice what I like. Writing and sketching and blogging... I can only write when I'm inspired... so I'll be looking for inspiration and be up in this more often.

I think in the midst of my hustle to finish school, I grew accustomed to early mornings. I wouldn't push it and say that I am now officially a morning person, but there's something really cool about being able to wake up early stretch, workout, meditate, pray, think, write... when no one else is up yet... give your spirit breakfast... let go of unwanted things in your mind, and feed your mind with good thoughts. ... I've been noticing that I feel more self-aware and my body feels good for the whole day... lol. So that's sorta cool.

A Conversation With: Asiyami Gold from Tamarcus Brown on Vimeo.

oh... and random love shout to anyone reading this... or the random souls around the world who care enough to bookmark/favourite/share/follow my strange fruit .... &read my ideas lol...(I see you)... Be a blessing to someone today/tonight :)

(strange fruit)

I was thinking, Hypothetically ...I mean..

Let's say I was one of those ladies who liked to talk and vent about all those "haters" I got, and profanity spilling out of my tongue every two seconds, the drama that followed my ever so exciting life would probe me to say something along the lines of: "F-U haters" ... I would follow it with a picture like this:

*dead*

LOOOOOL!!!!! I literally laughed out loud while pointing at my laptop screen, when i saw this pic. I DARE you not to laugh.. don't judge me... I know I know, the poor kid looks devastated, and his feet are positioned in a way that suggests that his next step will land him face to the floor,...hahaah... (God bless his heart).

But this picture deserves a frame and an award. It is priceless.

Ohh yeah...
Twitter: @YazzyTaughtMe

(Strange Fruit)

This is exactly how I felt after completing my music project.

Guess who just got some groceries in her fridge. YES. Yours truly, and so I'm a little less cranky than I was on my last post lol. Life is a little better, I'm getting better, and I'm glad.

I want to write more... but lately I've been feeling pretty uninspired.

Is it possible to not be good at meeting people, and 'socializing like everyone else. I just found a quote somewhere by John Lennon who said that "time wasted doing something you enjoy was not wasted". What does that even mean? something about it seems a little abstract if you ask me lol. ...the I'm just busy on my grizzly, grinding..


Mine - Story of a Sacred Mountain
Uploaded by shootingpeople. - Full seasons and entire episodes online.

This is me, after 192 hours of writting my music journal. That's a week straight of waking up, going on my computer listening to songs over and over again, analyzing it, researching it, thinking about it, reacting to it, and writting it. When I go hard on my work, I go hard, ask anyone.



I managed to reached up to 140 songs. The minimum for this project is 150 songs. And I had the fortunate realization when I got to my 80th song, that a few of my previous analyses were not very solid, so I gotta go back and fix it before I leave for Ottawa. So let's just say I have a few more days to go on this until it's over.

On a lighter note...Today for the first time in those 192 hours, I went outside. I walked outside... and I smelt fresh air, and felt the ground. I felt the snowflakes fall on my head, my nose, and my eyelashes. I don't think I ever appreciated the feeling of just being outside in the cold as much as I did just then. ....... it was glorious

Who wakes up to George Clinton's Atomic Dog and Michelle Branch feat. Carlos Santana's the game of love. I do.. I swear this music journal has consumed me. :-/ ... (I know the Michelle branch & Carlos Santana have nothing to do with anything, just felt nostalgic listening to it, and had to bring it back, if it wasn't for my roomates all being asleep I would've probably blasted out of my speakers instead of my headphones) ... *shrug*
but I digress.

Melaniegone by grapejuicy

Anyway, just ran into this new video from India Arie, sort of like a promo thing to let fans know that she's coming out with a new material in the spring of 2011. It's featuring Idan Raichel, an Israeli singer/songwriter. Check it out







I've been replaying this video, over and over again. Adele is amazing!

I've been working on my music project, and it's taking forever, but at least I'm actually enjoying going through it. A part of me can't understand how come this is homework, yet another part of me completely gets it (it can be a little tedious). But still ... I'm loving it.






ViolinGreen - apple juice kid - miles remixes by killingenelneima

Just ran into this video of a lecture that was given by Professor Micheal Erick Dyson and Lupe. They are talking about the future of Hip-Hop... thought it was cool :)

The Future of Hip-Hop ft. Lupe Fiasco from Entertainment U. on Vimeo.

On another tip, this morning I revisted one of my favorite albums: Timeless by Sergio Mendes. There's something about his tracks that I love, even if for the most part, since I don't speak portuguese, I don't understand, but I love it! :) ... here's the french version

Les Eaux de Mars (Waters of March) Sergio Mendes feat. Zap Mama by Flávio Assub

I think I'm going to post some more sergio mendes