Never Dilute your shit

It's that one girl from Elf... whats her name?

*originally posted on Deep-Fried Funk*


for awhile i was calling Zooey Deschanel: "that one girl from Elf." i know, i should get half-slapped for that one. but whatever! no need to slap me now cause i know my shit, okay?



its true. i enjoy her stale humor. but what gets me more so is her voice. whenever i listen to her group, She & Him, their music somehow always triggers that white part of me when i was a freshman in high school and was in love with indie music (& boys on skateboards). it brings me back to those days, hahaha.




and now that she has a new movie coming up with 3rd Rock From The Sun homeboy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, i reallyy reallyyy wanna watch it! it doesn't look like your typical love story. but it definitely kinda looks like your typical indie film love story. if that makes sense? add 500 days of Summer to my summer watching movie list. maybe it'll hold me down and get me ready for when Paper Hearts comes out.

Black belt Jones intro

Man I LOVE korny kung-fu movies, especially wiht black guys. Love the music too

FourSquare

Remember that popular game where 4 friends were confined in a box equally broken up into 4 other boxes? Well, I remember we had tricks like the famous CHERRY BOMB and black magic to knock you opponents out so YOU could reign supreme in your castle box...until the next kid would challenge you, or until break was over.

BUT lo and behold, this website has taken a familiar name and made it into this social thing: FOURSQUARE

The concept behind the website, well...hmmmmm think of it like this. You find a new place to go to in your city, a cool park, a new mexican restaurant, or a new alley way with cool graffiti, so you want to share it with everyone. Well that's what FOURSQUARE is about! You just tell people where to go and what to do.

But I find it copying the ideas of the facebook status and twitter thing, just with a twist. TO ME, its repetitive, but for the boring urban youth out there, this might a start to your new life of adventures as people give you clues and it your job to search for that treasure. FOR ME, I like to do things on my own time, when I want, and not have to rely on websites to tell me what to do, (though I do use going.com)

But give it a try, it can't hurt, let me RE-introduce to you FOURSQUARE

semi-Bucket list

OK people, COME AND GATHER around your computer(z) and let me share with you my mini-bucket list for SAN FRANCISCO in the month of July:

- Sugar Lounge's Happy Hour
They give FREE, yes everyone, FREE Food teriyaki chicken, tempura, quesadillas, chips & salsa, veggies, candy and more..
*377 Hayes St
(between Franklin St & Gough St)

- Make-out Room
Cuz I hear its WEIRD
*3225 22nd St
(between Bartlett St & Mission St)

- Bike across the Golden Gate Bridge

- Get drunk at Twin Peaks

- Go to a Salsa Class
Café Cocomo ( every Wednesday Nights, its $10 cover
*650 Indiana St San Francisco, CA

- Sunday July 19, 4pm
Cardboard Fighting League Tournament
Teams will compete for Championships. There will be judging on costume and tubes will be provided, but I want to bring my
own bad ass one ha.
* At Golden Gate Park, near USF

- Sunday July 19, 9am
AIDS walk
*Golden Gate PArk

-Sunday, July 26 2pm
Stern Grove Festival will have the Bay Area's Lyrics Born + other local HipHop artists
* Stern Grive Park

- Saturday August 1, 8pm
Free showing of "Pretty in Pink"
*Dolores Park

Mayer Hawthorne

alright, if you haven't heard of this man you are truly missing out.

i originally heard about this musician through a friend of mine two months ago. he sent me this track called, "I Wish It Would Rain." after i heard it, i was like "who the fck is this?" i immediately thought of the sounds of Motown. but i was wrong. "I wish it would rain" wasn't some old school shit, this song was an original created by a genius named: Mayer Hawthorne.



since then he's been on rotation for me every day. and okay, i give myself a late pass for sharing this on Broke-Bandits just NOW. my bad for keepin' the goodies to myself. fckn Justin Timberlake's blog even beat me to it. (at least he's knows wassup though).



okay so... just think: if you somehow got the Temptations, the Four Tops, and the O'Jays all together and stuffed their voices into a white male from Detroit with no formal musical training, you'd get Mayer Hawthorne. sound appealing enough? lemme try that again... if you've been feenin' for a voice that strikes faithful to Motown, 60's r&b, soul etc, there's no doubt you'll easily find and fall in love with Mayer Hawthorne's projects - he's yo boy.



already with a heart-shaped 7'' released (cop it here), he's been getting decent reviews and a long line of folks awaiting his full record.




with his old-school-bow-tie-lovin-heartbreak-barbershop-quartet-charm goin' on... i've got his shit on lock. right now he's the only one keepin' my ears happy. with the music out today, i am finally thankful there's someone who can bring back a more honest and genuine sound to the airwaves.

and plus Questlove and my 12ft fam have been ravin bout him for awhile now. (peep Jon's post on him here).

no joke, don't sleep on this ya'll:
http://www.twitter.com/mayerhawthorne
http://www.myspace.com/mayerhawthorne

History, What's the point?

Ok everyone, remember way back in junior high/ high school during those boring World History or US History classes, on that first day our teachers told us why we study history: it was so that we didn't repeat it. Right? can I get a Allejuah or an AMEN.

Well everyone i hate to break it ya, but history has been repeating itself MANY times, it has just taken on a different form and manifested a different country/city. The back story to this is when i was reading the new today: on BBC news, they say a region of people from China called Uighurs were protesting against the Chinese police. Why? Well, to my understanding people, mostly the men, have been mysterely "dissaperaing," but the people of Uighur believe the government has been taking them. So in defiance the women of the town got together and this is what happens:

He says riot police - armed with rifles and tear gas - charged the women and surrounded them. But they sat on the ground in defiance of orders from policemen to disperse.

He says the protesters finally began leaving as the journalists were ushered away from the area.

But policemen were waiting in the side streets, he said, and it was unclear what had happened to the women.

Do you know waht this reminds me of?
Wel, I did a lot of studying in college about the Dirty War and 'Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo' in Argentina in the 1970's