I have got to get back into writing....

I haven't written in months, and my typing shows it. I have turned into a lazy turd and it ends today. I still have to finish cleaning my apartment, I have to cut out chinese food and I have to start working out. The latter two are musts. I'm starting to wear only yoga pants because they're the only thing I'm fitting into anymore and I NEED to lose weight. I have to get my gym membership crap sorted out and since I can actually afford to do it this week I should. I have to get dressed and get out of my apartment today if it's the last ting I do, and I need t ask my uncle what he did with the pot part of my crock pot. I wanna have soup and I can't because he's a rotten thief. I need coffee. I'm out to S'bux. There's a blog for another time. I should do a resolution blog too.

I'm learning

Hip hop is just not my thing
you know what I mean
I just don't like the mainstream
and I def don't like the themes
Ever since I was little I just wanted to sing
to clear my throat and throw my head back
and make the heavens feel like they're under attack
make up in beauty what I lack
I wanted to breathe life into the walking dead
make them pick themselves up and carry their heads
a little higher now but it's hip hop too
I guess I'm learning that Hip Hop is cool
it's about a higher mindset and talent to boot
it's about rhyming and getting a clue
figuring music in but it's about you
not just some silly game where guy talk about hoes
degrade everybody and wear stupid clothes
I finally understood there's more than rap
there's a whole sub-culture to add to that
fine arts, performance, music and dance
it's all done a job of keeping me in a trance
I do a lot of things now I wouldn't have known
even though it's all around me when I go home

fuckin grrrrrrrr

Do you ever get that feeling that you need to type and talk about absolutely freakin nothing? But you suddenly get the urge to type.... so I do. Good thing I have this blog here that just hangs out and waits for me to write in it. Thank you Kashi.

So yeah.... I'm at home and doing the looking for work thing... may i just say how FREAKING HARD IT IS FOR SOMEONE IN COLLEGE TO FIND A FLIPPING JOB???

Anyway... back to my originally scheduled programming....

I want to eat like a fat ass and I'm not allowed to. All you skinny as shit people who drink skim milk... fuck you all.

I think my anger round is over....

Gaah!

I need to get back o this posting train.... I forget so freakin often.

Anyway, Khalil and I have been workin on our Duet piece and I think it's coming pretty good so far.  There are a lot of things to adjust and address, fix, rhyme, choreograph... but it's getting there.  I think we both like what we're doing, but I'm having a little trouble getting the passion into it right now.  It's coming and it'll be awesome, never fear.  But I worry that too much slant rhyme might take away from the whole effect and what we're trying to say, especially since I get wordy sometimes.  I just always have to walk back through and strip down what I got and fix the rhyme scheme (and since I remember earlier versions it sometimes messes me up on memorization) but come the show it will be good.

It will be good.

It will be good.

It will be good.

Just gotta keep tellin myself that...

Group Projects

Hey all,
I know I haven't been writing very much and I won't say why here cuz Kashi will just call it out anyway.

But I just wanted to get it out there that I am so proud of my class. I know we weren't all performers before this class, but we have all come a long way. I am particularly proud of Ben and Dom.
Ben- You always seem a little sideways to me, which I usually like, but there is a time and a place, and I'm just glad that you stepped it up in your piece yesterday. It was fly and deep, nice job.
Dom, I told you before that you would get it, and I'm so glad that we were able to support you and show you that performance is not that scary. It's tough, but I think you got the bug now, and I hope you get to do more with it.

I probably should have said that yesterday, but oh well. Everyone was great, and major ups for our show later this month.

BTW, I saw a good marketing campaign walking from my friend's house this morning-- we can advertise on cars!! Just put a little flyer in the window or something (that DOESN'T look anything like a ticket) and let them know what's going on. I'm def in favor of A Hip Hop Study Break as a show title, but I know other people thought it sounded kinda lame.

That bes it for now, folks. See you in an hour with coffee, Kashi.

Midterm project

Midterm

Kristen Burgos, AKA Glenda Gryffindor, is a neo-rapper. She has very recently come into the rap game, when she started rhyming for a poetry class in 2007. Her piece, The Harry Potter Rap, has taken two genres and blended them into one interesting rap. The contents of her lyrics are both straight forward and thought provoking, and suggest that there are innumerable subjects to be discussed on a hip hop album. Since hip hop today tends to be a fusion of several different types of media, Glenda's rhymes construct the obvious Funky Detournement, from Ted Swedenburg's article about sampling, which discusses sampling from more popular music and ideas. She uses Harry Potter, which to many would be considered a "sell-out" novel, and constructs important parallels between it and Hip Hop. Glenda has the potential to be a true up and coming artist, if she continues to be as passionate about her live performances and lyrics. She could afford to put more thought into her video work if she truly wants to be able to make a name for herself in the hip hop game. Her performance on camera is unsure, and she needs to not articulate so much with her hands, she is clearly nervous but with more practice she has the potential for a promising career.