I like this one word title thing I'm trying out. It makes me feel cool, which is all that counts...but really I just don't wanna sit around and think of what to title these posts.
Oh, and yes I go from posting Spring/Summer clothes to Fall, because I don't trust the weather. I really wouldn't be surprised if I saw 30 feet of snow outside AGAIN.
But, this is short and relatively to the point. MofM (Man of Moods) released their F/W 2010 preview, and I want this hoodie. It just looks complex, and it'll give me a challenge getting dressed in the morning haha. But knowing my luck it'll probably keep me as warm as an ice cube.
Pre-order it at Glaice. Yes, the site is in a foreign language. No, I don't know why. Just pre-order one for me. :) I'll be your best friend for life. Or until I want something else.
The title of the post makes me want to go back to Universal Studios and ride The Incredible Hulk but I'll be waiting for my bank to be mroe legit and less strained before we make moves like that. However, me and my boys will be making cross-country moves in a city near you this summer...but i digress.
Back to the point.
I have about 3 colors that I stick with wearing, and neon-type green isn't one of them. But the Spring 10 Nike Auto Flight's are on point. Enough black to keep me from feeling like I dipped my feet in skittles, and enough green to make me feel like I'm doing something interesting with my size ginormous feet. Now, the style isn't exactly groundbreaking, and to be honest they look like a lot of other Nike's (the Delta Forces come to mind first) but I'm not looking to wear Andy Warhol on my feet, I just want a cool color. I'm so laidback I might fall over. But you get the point.
The retail is around $90. I can certainly live with that.
I'm all for hometown pride, and I like my DC fitted's just fine, but I think this is a little too much. And it's grey leather. Think Honda Accord leather. I don't want that on my feet.
But since people now are trying to be so 'individualistic' then maybe they'll like this. Only 12 pairs of these Vans Vault will be sold Mon, Apr 5 2010 at Commonwealth in NW DC. So yeah, I guess it's kind of a collectors item. I'll pass on this treasure.
Yea, I've been slacking. Oh well. I have a mound of mixtapes and cd's to review, but I haven't really given the time to listen to any of it. I know, it's a problem. I suck at time managment.
So, main question. Tumblr or Blogger? I'm thinking its time for a move...
...is just as annoying today. The one time the DMV decides to be at the front of the news for something interesting, it clearly would only be because of this insane blizzard. I'm closing my windows until further notice. Sigh.
I'm kind of over blogging at the moment. There's not shit happening worth blogging about. And I mean stuff that I'm interested in, so I don't need any hippie or some extremist coming to remind me that trees are dying or something like that. I need music...good music, because these throwbacks are getting old and I hate listening to my own damn ipod. Oh well, I just want to plan my summer already and go to a beach. And I'm sitting here listening to a wave of teen, white girl pop on the radio. It's officially time to move the hell on now.
Odd title post I'm sure, but this particular post is about Chris Brown, who I really don't have strong feelings towards, positive or negative anyway haha. I do think he's a little too pretentious and a little too lacking in the good music department, but I digress. Nine times out of ten, I actually enjoy some of his outfits, and his recent photo ops in Milan this week for Men's Fashion Week have been for the most part pretty nice. He still looks like a damn fool in a lot of them, but I wasn't expecting David Beckham or Diddy to show up. It is what it is.
I love this hood/slacks combination. The shades are dope too, plus its in my favorite color...black haha
I cannot stand scarves of any kind, and I'd rather freeze to death honestly then wear one. But for him I guess this works. I was just interested in the trench for some reason.
Rumor has it that Breezy is reportedly trying to potentially establish a clothing line of his own in the future. As long as it's not some Bathing Apes or some Ed Hardy regurgitation, I'll hold off judgement
I just had to make that the title, because the guy from American Idol (Larry Platt) is just too funny. Rarely do I do fashion posts, esp involving females, because the clothes I'm obviously not wearing and aren't interested in. HOWEVER, Christina Aguilera and "Ms. Berry, Ms. Berry...she's fine" (I had to..the moment set itself up ) Halle Berry shut the damn room down last night at the 61st Annual Golden Globes held at the Beverly Hilton last night in Los Angeles.
Christina wore a sexy Spring 2010 Versace gown, and as much as I liked slutty Christina, she looked so maturely gorgeous here it was insane.
Halle Berry reminded most red-blooded men (and some women) why she's just the most beautiful thing in life. She presented last night wearing a black Kaufman Franco gown. And now I'm done posting about women's dresses. Weird.
I'm sitting her surrounded my laptop, my blackberries, my ipod, my television and I feel secure. The planets feel aligned and my world appears to be calm. Then I realized that these objects have made up too much of who I am. If I leave the house without one or the other I'll feel lost, or incomplete. I'm not anti social or anything, and I can, and do leave some of them behind (I had to exaggerate to get the point across), but I wonder what will our society be years down the road. Is human contact no longer satisfactory to entertainment? Can we talk without "LOL" or "LMAO"? I'm a product of my generation, through and through, but I hate to think about what life would be like when everything we need comes with a battery and an adapter? Maybe life will just be put on hold while we recharge our personalities.
I decided to do a typical decade-end list of all my favorite things in music, and I can't fit half of the albums that have become anthemic or epic for me over the past 10 years, so I decided to put a random list up of albums I liked. There's no specific order, just how they came to me. Clearly my sound has evolved over 10 years, but the music is all still real to me. What's the next 10 years going to be like?
Time off from the blogosphere equals reflection and jumping back into the hustle of daily life. I need inspiration, if we're gonna be real. Things that make me reevaluate everything around me just a little bit more.
I bleed because I feel....and I live because I embrace the pain
"Hurt" Dirty Money ft. Drake. It's Diddy, and he's not exactly the reincarnation of Tupac, but this song just kind of hit the right emotions at the right time. Love lost isn't an atypical thing to sing about, but the idea of loving someone more than you love yourself and letting it drain you was just a powerful ass concept that I couldn't get past. And the fact that the song has Dawn Richard (who has one of the most beautiful vocal tones I've heard in a while), Drake (yes, the hype for his official debut is still on one-hundred), and a dope instrumental combo (piano and drums, doesn't get better). It's a song that has to stay on repeat not just because it's dope, but because the vibe is on a deep level.
Kudos Dirty Money.
"Beautiful Bliss" Wale To keep it real, I could've chosen a bunch of different Wale songs for this, because he's just that legit, but 'Beautiful Bliss' doesn't deal with love, loss, or pain, but it creates a desire for success. Basically, it's a story of what life is like at the top, and how good it feels to have busted your ass to get there. I most definitely can get with it. I do this for me and myself, and damn it feels tight. And Melanie Fiona and J.Cole go in on their parts of the songAttention Deficit is a painfully underrated album.
"Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"- Alicia Keys Co-written by the hip-hop prince of the moment, Drake, 'Un-Thinkable' is one of the standout tracks from Alicia's new album The Element of Freedom. It has to be a single, but the good songs never are, which is good, because sometimes the best stuff should stay hidden. Love is revisited again, but this time, it's not a fairytale. It addresses the uncertainty of falling in love,being hurt, and failing at it all, but being ready for the challenge. Vulnerability is not a bad thing, and Drake and Alicia knocked it out with this one.
Wieden_+Kennedy (one of my favorite ad agencies for a reason) have released one of the few commercial campaigns that I even pay attention to, much less attach any emotional meaning too. Americana pride, personal declarations, whatever you get out of it, it's interesting to me at least.
We were going to a blogcast of this, but life gets in the way. Anyway we move on.
I'm mad for a few reasons. Kanye-snubbed. Whitney-snubbed. Beyonce-Overhyped. Maxwell-not hyped enough. And I have a few other issues really.
Female Pop Vocal- I don't think B. Spears is the greatest vocalist, but she dominated these categories when she first came out (at least with consistent nominations), but when she actually puts out decent music she doesn't get recognized?
Best New Artist- I don't care about Academy policies, like it or not, GaGa should've been nominated. And if Drake can get 2 rap nods, why not a BNA nod?
R&B Categories- Whitney should've been all up and through these categories (Album, Female), but as usual Beyonce's money gets her places she doesn't need to be. Good (albeit EXTRA surprising) look for Pleasure P (aka Marcus Cooper) on his 3 grammy nods. Did not see that happening. Brandy should've been nominated. Anyone who is smart knows she'll never win, but she definitely had material worth being nominated for.
Country- Carrie's "Carnival Ride" should've been nominated as an album, not just for "Just a Dream", but I can deal with that.
Rap- Kanye will go postal, and I actually think he has a right to. 808s was a lot better than half of the rap albums out now, despite it's leaning to emo-rock sound.
I'm sure there are other things that I could argue about, but I don't have the energy to review all the nominations. Maybe later.
Usher has somewhat fallen off of the musical recently. His last album "Here I Stand" wasn't exactly a commercial hit, and somewhere along the lines marriage, fatherhood and divorce shifted his focus.
Well thankfully he's back. The official single off of his upcoming album "Monster" is entitled Papers, but a new track just leaked named Rockband. Yes, like the game.
But guess what? The song is hot. Granted Usher is moving in a more pop-oriented direction for this album, but the RedOne produced song is slick, uptempo, and classic Usher that keeps people on the dance floor. Plus he mentions the Rolling Stones in the song, so that's automatic cool points for him.
Next up is Wale, who's track is Letter featuring John Mayer. I don't know what to say other than I love it.
I will admit I'm a huge Wale fan, so maybe I'm a little bit biased, but his music is the truth. Lyrically he's real, raw and honest, and outside of a few artists in the game now, that sort of reality is sorely lacking. Hip-hop as a culture has been suffering from a over saturation and infatuation with money, girls, and fame, but Wale, Kid Cudi and others are finally bringing back the heart of what hip-hop used to be.
I could type out all of the lyrics and reiterate what is so amazing about this track, but the song will speak for itself. His album "Attention:Deficit" hits stores Nov. 10
Yes, the one and only Lupe Fiasco recorded a bonus track for the Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack and it's definitely more rock than Lupe is known for, but it still goes in hard because lyrically he's a beast.
Leona Lewis has just jumped up miles in my 'potential wifey' category. This is a promo picture for her upcoming sophmore album Echo, in stores November 17.
Amerie is back on the scene with her latest album "In Love and War" set for release November 3 through Columbia Records. She was never one of my favorite artists, but her sound for this new album has been really appealing and different, and I just might be a little excited for it.
The promo single "Why R U" was a perfect throwback song, with a stylistically on point video, but since she isn't one of R&B's 'chosen' ones, the song hit a dead end on radio. The official single "Heard Em' All" isn't exactly my style, but it's definitely catchy and proves that she deserves a slot at the top of the charts. My favorite leak from this era is her remake of the Mint Condition classic "Pretty Brown Eyes" featuring Trey Songz. It's smooth and their voices harmonize nicely together. Plus anything Mint Condition is a plus in my book. It's not the best remake by any means, but she does a very adequate and fun job on her version.
When you've achieved the kind of international success Mariah Carey has in her almost 20 year career, failure is no longer an option for new musical material. She's had her fair share of commercial bombs (Glitter, obviously), and more than her share of commercial highs, (Butterfly, The Emancipation of Mimi)so for her twelfth studio album "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel", she certainly produces a winner. Mariah shared the executive production duties of this album with the golden boys of the moment The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, and arguably for the first time in a while produces a slick,cohesive contemporary album without sacrificing her "Mariah" personality.
I'm not a fan of long drawn out, but Mariah finds herself at her most intriguing when she's not flipping through vocal hoops and restrains herself and let's the music speak for itself. "Ribbon", "Candy Bling", and the much hyped "H.A.T.E.U" find Mariah going into her emotional journal and just reminiscing on life. One of the things that I enjoy about this album is that there are songs for people miss the early poppy, doo-wop Mariah ("It's a Wrap", "Angels Cry"), but she did what I hate that so many artists often do. She turns the strongest songs on the album into interludes. "Languishing" could've easily been one of a her strongest songs ever, but instead we get the condensed version.
All of the comments aside, marriage and maturity seem to agree with Mrs. Cannon, and this is a very nice conceptual album to add to her catalog of musical tricks. Definitely a solid effort.
My Picks Betcha Gon Know Languishing Candy Bling More Than Just Friends H.A.T.E.U
The College Dropout
The Fray
19
FutureSex/LoveSounds
Riot!
Confessions
Diary of Alicia Keys
Stripped
The Black Album
Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Aaliyah
In This Skin
Breakaway
8701
Attention Deficit
Blackout
My December
So Far Gone
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