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May 20, 2010

Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” Inspiration?

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Then, for extra credit, peep the excellent 2009 video clip that Erykah admitted “inspired” it, Matt & Kim’s “Lessons Learned”:

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more [Musing on The Window Seat Video] – “Our choices are limited to our options.”

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Black women’s bodies are ALL through rap videos, but their voices are muted. Interchangeable, silent bodies are how American Black women are presented to the world, globally, in music videos, by and large.

Think about it like this. If you watch Beyonce’s

Video Phone you may feel interested in the costumes and the dance moves. However, watching Window Seat you feel propelled forward. #blackgirlsarefromthefuture. Full stop. You sit there wantig to know what happens next. The distinction is the level of both intimacy and vulnerability that one performance has that the other lacks.

As I watched Erykah Badu, I thought of all the semi-nude and might as well be nude women in rap videos whose names we will never know, and if we don’t know their names, why should we care about them and who they are.

And don’t give me that “no one is putting a gun up to their head” to be in a video shit. People Love saying that, but d boys that sell crack “just need to feed they daughter.” Miss me with those. Our choices are limited to our options.

“Our choices are limited to our options.” – TRU DAT!

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LOVED this take on Erykah Badu’s Window Seat

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What’s so dope about Erykah’s shows is the motley audience she attracts.  I’ve been to Badu concerts with my mama, my white homegirl, Rachel, and the homie Maegs (a crunchy role model if there ever was one).  And we’re all there for different reasons.  Some are waiting for “Tyrone.”  Others want Badu the revolutionary.  Many more wait for Badu to articulate their heart break with a cappella version of “Green Eyes.”  Everybody, on some level, fucks with Badu, but how many of us have learned to fuck with all of Badu?   We are reluctant to accept her evolution–hence the tattoo.  Yes, we love “Window Seat,” but don’t we hate “Jump up in the Air” just because Weezy was on it, and not because his verse was lightweight disappointing?

Above all, the assassination at the end of “Window Seat” reminds me of Badu’s generation of soul singers, their survival, and our roles in their symbolic, public deaths: Maxwell (he didn’t disappear for all those years just because he wanted a vacation, I’m sure), D’Angelo, Lauryn.  Near that pantheon is Dave Chappelle, and perhaps to a lesser extent Aaron McGruder.  What Badu’s video harkens, for me at least, is some of her peers’ efforts to fully express their artistry, themselves as individuals.  That, of course, is an implicit suicide mission, resulting in public assassination and their subsequent disappearance.  (What happens if the puppet decides to cut its own strings?)  The public, then, is left with nothing to do but masticate on conspiracy theories.  We endlessly speculate on the how’s and why’s of Lauryn’s mental state and D’Angelo’s junkie status.  And in the process of investing in this myth (of the neo-soul, conscious icon) we kill them, and their humanity…softly.

Maybe Erykah is magical.  She survives.  She time travels.  She dies; we witness her rebirth.  She endures in ways her peers haven’t without, in my understanding of her, compromising in the way that others do.  (Will the real Common please stand up?)  It’s fascinating to watch an artist maintain her integrity in public.  Makes me want to jump up in the air–and stay there.

loved that last line – “fascinating to watch an artist maintain her integrity in public.” America, and indeed mankind, usually can’t deal with that shit.

Groupthink and Mob Mentality INDEED!

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January 6, 2010

College Beach Volleyball in Nebraska? Only with Tara Mueller!!

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Mueller and her partner didn’t make it out of the Huntington AVP qualifier, lasting only 39 minutes, but long enough for the photog to snap shots that will now send Tara into blogosphere stardom.

I love athletes :)

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November 19, 2009

Google Images Bookmarklet



 

A cool little script I cobbled together for making Google Images thumbnails link directly to the image instead of going to the split-frame of the page it came from. I did it partly because the CustomizeGoogle extension to Firefox seems to have lost this feature and partly so I can use it on other browsers as well. It’s spaghetti code (for javascript), but it’ll do.

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Helpful when looking up pictures of Megan Fo… I mean the Green Bay Packers! :)

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September 24, 2009

Olivia Munn Animated Gifs

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August 25, 2009

I Approve of This Message

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National “Go Topless” Day, Are women’s constitutional right’s of equality, being compromised? – iReport.com

A weekend of parades Venice Beach California part II.

A Topless Day Parade was held to celebrate National Go-Topless Day in Venice Beach. “Free your breast, Free your mind” was chanted as people marched from Navy St. down the Venice boardwalk to Muscle Beach. The demonstrators believe it is a woman’s constitutional right to equality, to be topless. Women are free in other countries to make this choice without consequences, attention or humiliation.

and I stand shoulder to shoulder with my bare breasted sistas in the fight for equality

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May 25, 2009

Good Fat vs Bad Fat

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unfortunately I’m more the latter than the former.

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May 7, 2009

Oy! Jenna von Oy

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Seems to have done very well in the booty department!

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April 15, 2009

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L’il Kim Wardrobe Malfunction

So I heard that L’il Kim had a wardrobe malfunction on DWTS and set about to find it on the internets. What I found was someone who was obviously doing a bad job impersonating her:

Is this the same Kim that was Junior Mafia singing “grab your dicks if you love hip hop?”

the funniest part is her trying to figure out which 1950’s character to be? I suppose no sheriffs, dogs, or water hoses were available LOL

oh – and no malfunction visible. Not that there’s a lack of other instances :)


Jamie vs Miley – Oh Shit!

that’s Emmy winning Jamie Fox!

a.k.a. Crazy George from Roc


Gawd, what happened to Lindsey Lohan

Lindsay Lohan’s eHarmony Profile from Lindsay Lohan

taking the Tara Reid / Nicole Richie / Kimberly Drummond diet

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