OH YEAH...THIS HAPPENED...

VIDEO MUSIC REVIEW OF THE DAY....and possibly YEAR!!! Word up, this kid might have also reviewed "It's so Cold in the D" but I'm not 100% yet. This is him doing a music review of Keyshia Cole's new CD....................

HAY-DA-DIT!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

What I've learned from 2008

There is SO MUCH that I've learned during this fine year of 2008. Here's a list of things I've encountered which helped shape and mold me into the fine young woman that I am today.

- your Ex's DO end up having kids with other folks and you'll find out through MySpace (thanks MySpace....the ultimate relationship deal-breaker)

- Valentines Day can be celebrated during your lunch hour and you cannot go back into the office wasted thinking that you'll be able to function as if you're sober

- You're heart can be broken more than 1 time by the same person if you let it happen

- If you get dumped, don't go get wasted at the bar every night of the week with friends. Not only will you not be as productive as you once WERE, but you could also end up in the ER and loose your Gallbladder......(yes this happened).

- It can take up to 8 months of you aggressively looking for a new position before you actually land one that you want, even during a recession.

here comes the more uplifting things:

- YES WE CAN!!! You can watch someone you voted for (after loosing two elections to the dumbest man on earth), WIN AND BEGIN TO CHANGE THE WORLD YOU LIVE IN

- You can give as much as you can to those that need it more than you even when you're not rich in any shape or form, you're still doing better than almost ANYONE ELSE in the world. I can prove this theory because you're reading this at a computer......does everyone have access (even if it's not your own) to a computer??? NOT EVERYWHERE.

- You can learn from your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who will tell you the things that matter in the world and put you back in your place.

- You can find the strength to keep on doing what you do best and be the best person you can for yourself and whoever is close to you in your life....in the end, there's always hope and change. You'll get to live to see that happen in your life too.

My gift to you!!!

Happy Kwanzukkahmas!!!! I hope that this week treated you well, if it didn't, I'm sorry, fortunately for me it's not my fault. Maybe in the year 2009 you will have some better luck, in the meantime I have provided you with a gift for the eyes, ears and belly-laughter of the first episode of season two FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS....

If you don't know, now you knoooooooow

ENJOY!!!!

SEASON TWO EPISODE UNO

Mammas Boys....a MUST SEE!!!!

We won't discuss what happened at my Holiday Company party....but we WILL discuss this fantastic new show that I will faithfully watch every Monday night on NBC called (very appropriately), "MAMMAS BOYS"

holy crap what a waste of folks....and as usual fantastic entertainment for myself on a Monday night. They had a sneak peak this past Friday and I watched it for you,....but it "ended" with one of those crappy cliff hangers (TO BE CONTINUED...). I hate when they do that.

Let me just expose a little bit of what great things you'll see on this show; it's about three guys who are all basically poppin' out of the same tummy. Typical New Jersey style Jewish mothers...one is super Catholic and ridiculously raciest it's unbelievable....and every black girl on that show calls her out and one tries to fight her!!! It's simply magical I tell you.

Watch tonights episode with their FIRST elimination......it's CLASSY with a K, I promise :-)

GOT FASHION ON THE MIND?...ME TOO

forget the gifts and the holiday spirit, I've got FASHION on my mind and the only thing that's making me get through this day at the office (besides coffee) is the ability to watch endless amounts of CATWALK shows on youtube........

L.A.M.B

BETSEY JOHNSON

BCBG

Anna SUI

Omnialuo

Diane Von Furstenburg

Naeem Khan

You're welcome!

:-)

I LOVE ART!!!!

Art just makes me flat out happy, it makes me even happier when I see that there are SO MANY talented artists that I don't have to search hard for that are right in my own backyard. Lord knows I LOOOOOVE going to shows and fairs in Brooklyn and Manhattan, but lets me real, I just don't have the time all day to do that stuff.

BEST PART of my day today was learning about this place

ART IN DC

enjoy dem apples!

MORAL: surround yourself in art, it will inspire you and make you do things you don't regret ;-)

GREAT THINGS HAPPEN ON YOUTUBE

As usual, I'm sitting here watching something both special with a tash of hilarity....I think you'll find it just as amusing, THANKS YOUTUBE!!!! This is something that you and your friends WILL be sending around to eachother and singing as well as playing over and over again, as if it's a REAL song on the radio ;-)

ENJOY:

JIZZ IN MY PANTS (SNL)

Happy Tuesday to you and yours and youress (new word....you like?....tough)

WORD

WHY NEW YORK HATES ME & I HATE PARTS OF IT BACK...

So I went to NYC this weekend to catch up on my artistic side of life and learned a few things which I knew, but I didn't want to see for myself. Here they are in no particular order:

#1 When you go to a restaurant in NYC and they ask if you made reservations and you tell them no, DON'T EAT THERE. They will hassle you until you leave because you're "taking up space from other reserved customers". Was I not eating while I was sitting there? I can't tell you how hard it was not to cuss his bitch ass out and make a scene. I seriously have never dealt with anything on that level of rudeness and all that jazz in my entire life and I have worked in a super expensive nice restaurant in DC before and never heard ANY of my managers talk to ANY customer (regardless of if they've made a reservation or not) that way. Not only did the manager walk by me and my friends spot and ask us if our third party was coming yet every 2 seconds, he also made it CLEAR that they had other guests coming to the restuarant and he needed the table and we had X amount of time to order eat and leave. I SH** YOU NOT, here is the restaurant and I didn't get the managers name but I will NEVER go there again. Also side-note, when you eat there and they say SALMON, it literally means that they will only be serving you that one item on a HUGE empty plate and charge 4 times the amount that you should for that. I regreted that entire dinner "experience" and I will NEVER, I repeat NEVER go there again in my life. You'd think that if you payed a sh** load for your meal then at least the atmosphere and staff would be good to you, (well our server was awesome) but the manager needed to be hit across the face with a frying pan Indian style. NEVER GO TO: BAR STUZZICHINI

#2, Every guy in the city thinks that they're Kanye West or Pharrell Williams wearing those NERD ALERT fake "reading" glasses with the thick black frames. I can't WAIT for my kids in the future to look back at pictures and be like, "mommy...they didn't even need to wear glasses, so why are they wearing those big funny looking nerdy glasses mommy?" and I will proudly answer to my kid, "well honey, that's what mark-ass-buster-bammafied-sons-of-bitches wear when they feel that they have nothing to bring to the table except for some trend that everyone else is doing already. We also call them un-original-bammas sweety."

#3 tourists in NYC. Now I KNOW that I don't live in NYC so I can be considured a "tourist" as well....but lets face it, I'm talking about the ones that stand still in the middle of the sidewalk that will get "BLACK FRIDAY WALMARTED" all over the streets when I'm coming through. Lets repeat that shall we??? DON'T STOP ON BUSY SIDEWALKS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET WALKED OVER. I wanted to punch everyone and their moms in their corny mid-west-style "Christmas" sweaters and turtlenecks. I wanted to trouble them to a warm glass of "shut the hell up" but realized that I wasn't near any vendor that served warm liquids to cheerfully share with every tourist in the street near me at the moments I needed it most. I turned into a grumpy New Yorker as soon as my plane landed, it's kind of a tradition for me ;-)

#4 Brooklyn doesn't connect to other sections of Brooklyn on the subway....I thought that if you're in Brooklyn you can get to all sections of Brooklyn that you need to without hailing a cab.....WRONG. Apparently you have to go through Manhattan just to get back to another section of Brooklyn. This is frustraiting and takes up about 2 hours of your life just WAITING for the trains to come that you need at that moment. Not fun or cool.

#5 BUY A SUBWAY CARD....I "double-teamed" (as the NYC undercover COPS like to call it) with my friend and got caught. Now I have to pay a ticket that is about 14 times the amount it costs for a $7 card that gives you multiple rides to and from where ever you need to go in NYC. DUMB

I have a new found appreciation for DC and I'm not even kidding you. Not only is my apartment larger than a closet, but it also gets me into the city (in any section) in about 20 minutes. Now THAT'S BEAUTIFUL in my eyes.

WORD UP SON!

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COOL SH*T FRIDAY!!!!

Nothing to do here at work, I'm just counting down until 4:45pm when I dip-set and jet-set to NYC for the weekend. So in the meantime, let me share with you some music that you will need to check out in your life. (crafts are at the end of the links to check out)

Today's MORAL: MIX IT UP, DON'T BE TYPICAL

LILLY ALLEN (one new track from her up and coming album)




Aterciopelados



The 88



Belle and Sebastian



COMMON (Universal Mind Control)

CRAFTS:

BUSY-BEING.com

Little Paper Planes



MY Favorite Mirror



stuff

Strange Dish and ISH

There are so many strange things that I've discovered about this world and who has help make it what it is today. Not only was the news of the trampled WalMart worker on Black Friday strange to me, but so was this Flamming Lips music vid.

Chiggity check check check it oooooooout:

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds

Brothers Solomon dating tips

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

Today's DEEP THOUGHTS....by Semra

So I was thinking today about how strange my dreams at night have been (they involve subba diving and fighting in castles....don't ask), but aside from THAT, I was also thinking about great tag-team collab for music that hasn't been done yet, I know it could and would be FANTASTIC when it does happen.

GWEN STEFANI + PINK = glorious music in my ears

Also, on a side-note, we'll call her African Queen sent me something interesting for those that want to measure themselves when they're at "FULL CAPACITY". Yes this is real, and this is what money is going towards instead of third world countries that are in desperate need of survival items. It actually makes me wanna throw up a little bit when I really sit down and think of a marketing team at a conference table discussing this product. Here it is, what the WORLD has been waiting for:

WHAT SIZE ARE YOU CONDOMS

Britney Spears....just like the rest of us....ummmm

Last night was the premiere of Britney Spear's MTV doc called, "For The Record" Don't worry I watched it for you so you didn't have to. This doc was based on what her life has been like since she appeared at the MTV VMA's this past year. The doc itself in terms of shots and feelings it captures of her I thought reflected a different light than the high flashing lights that target her face in tabloids on the regular basis and make her look HORRIBLE. In the mind-set and season of "giving" I actually found myself feeling really badly for her. Not in that crazy way like that guy on YouTube who was crying about people bugging Britney Spears and all that jazz of psycho-ness, but in that, "she's just like every other clueless Southern girl I've met before in my life" kind of way. She admitted that her choices in who she trusted and hung out with were not the best for her OR her kids; she also discribed her life similar to Ground Hog day as in, waking up and feeling and seeing the world as a strange and scary place.

She wants to TRUST others in an UN-trusting kind of world. Everyone is suspect, and if you're a celebrity you get to live in a bubble because the photographers are HANDS DOWN CRAZY. To see them fighting eachother because they need to get that "ONE SHOT" that nobody else will get and they will be able to live off of it for the next 7 months simply AMAZES me. It's no different than seeing third world countries that fight for their food when the food supply that is donated gets dropped off in the sky. The way they scurry in between cracks of the streets and seep through the walls is truly a scavenger style life they choose to live. It really made me think to myself, "why is fame the way it is?" I don't believe that it has so much to do with the person as much as what they may represent. Which is simply based on ATTENTION....something all humans need in order to feel like they have meaning here. Everyone wants attention. Nobody in the world wants to feel like nobodies looking at them 24/7, the ones that DON'T are usually feeling that way because some sort of abuse took place in their lives which is understandable....Britney said while being interviewed that she didn't like to use the term "victim" when describing her in tabloids etc. Nobody wants to show weakness when they've got a spotlight projected onto them. Who would???

So my question is...why is everyone so pressed for Britney Spears??? Is it because she reps what society WISHES they could have? To me, she seems like that friend you might have (or have heard of), that you saw in ONE extreme and all you were doing was hoping that they would come back to who they were and stop being something that they're not. I think that she HAS gone through enough sh** in her life to make her finally realize the choices she's made HAVE a consiquence, I also know that she's NOT in much control of it because she doesn't shout out loud enough to have it. She needs to be a more demanding person like Madonna or something. THEN and only then, will she stop living in this bubble and make the bubble her BITCH.

WORD Britney, let me be your life coach mama...I will switch up the gears and put your mind back into the place that it should have been in, in the first place.