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Oktober, Luv

Child of the B-Boy/B-Girl Generation

About Me

I live for my son, music - in all forms (but especially when I'm making it or beatin' it outta some waxx), love, laughter, and knowledge. these are the things that fuel me - but Lief grounds me. I'm a lady who enjoys good conversation, enjoys long walks - under any type of moon - on any kind of beach, and will withstand very, very, very short walks on the games .. Dig? I live for anything that involves traveling (i.e.: road trips, straight-cruising the ocean, digging my way through a dense jungle, smoke lodges, reservations, being beached, being outside in general - winter, summer, spring or fall. I'm just happy to be alive, damnit!) *shrugs shoulders* .. "sorry, I got carried away" ... *clears throat* ... I try not to judge, for I'm no one too judge anyone; I prefer to each his own and believe if we mesh then so be it - our paths were meant to cross. I'm an artist of many forms but, mainly, music. I came up spending saturdays in front of my moms stereo console (yea, I said console) listening to my dad's records, and while everyone else my age (around 12-15) was getting a** in the backseat of a car I was getting my musical education listening to anything that moved me. I discovered Marvin, E.W.F., Commodors, Rush, Led Zepplin, Stevie, Jimmy, Sugarhill Gang, Run & the guys, Police, Willie, Mozart (i love his operas), and Fleetwood Mac (just to name a few) in various backseats that my mom had through those years .... and ... yea .. well, I think that experience alone is just one of the reasons I'm neck-thick in music. I just can't hear my life without it. Can you feel me on that?Feel free to check some stuff out : http://www.revolutionarymusic.com/index.cfm?pageid=A19&a rtistID=12==== or at: ==== http://www.myspace.com/sistastroke (that ones coming out on Starlight Records early winter 2005 - keep your eyes out for it ;)Nice to meet you, and thanks for being interested enough to read this much .... Peace ;)
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My Interests

Life, love, and laughter ... I feel that we live to love. And love to live. What is life without love, new fresh breaths' of life, and laughter? Empty. Or so I would think. I don't have the balls, nor the interest, in finding out. ((((( Interests: ))))) Music Supervision, directing, conducting, writing scripts, a cure for ignorance, playing records with friends, gathering as much info as I can on stem cell research and diabetes, and any place on this earth with a view of massive sky space full of various versions of blankets of stars. Designing; everything from accessories to clothing to logo's to mixers, stylis', and next up: the STJ headphones series (seriously, all u DJ's will love these if any of you know of the "re-inforced" code I've been working with/on*. Anyway ... those are just some of my interests.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow Music Sluts are ALWAYS welcomed. As are people who are easy to get along with; and I welcome peeps who love to go deep into mental session over topics such as: politics, religion, science, the mental revolution [that mankind seems to be progressing through right now], just how fu*ed up this world really is! - and what we CAN do about it. Even if it is amoungst ourselves. Chilled, layed-back, knowledge-exhanging kinda personality's are always more than welcomed as well. No Hata's need apply. But I appreciate you tryin'. Thank you.

Music:

Come on now, are you serious? Jazz is the tree. Soul is the foundation in which it's roots cling to firmly. Without the two I don't know where I would be in my world. I'm a relentless beat junkie that is hopelessly addicted to the high of a great rhythm. Some say I'm a music lover - I say I'm a Slut de Musique, *wink* and proud of it. Music love ranges from Funk, Rock, Soul, R&B, House, Jungle, Reggae/Dancehall, Dub, Swing, Big Band Orchestras from 1920's - 1960's, Blues, Breakbeats, D&B, Soulful Techno (Gaitano!!), All Latin Jazz, Down-Tempo, and so many other genre's that it just gets mind-numbing.

Movies:

Also too many of them .... Current Fav: Motorcycle Diaries Permanant Favorities: High Fidelity, Ray, The Rose, Fight Club, Amadeus, Snatch, Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Empire Strikes Back, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Joy Luck Club, Matrix. I love Kung Fu movies, and came up on watching them every sunday afternoon. Enter The Dragon and Fists of Legends are still, to this day, two of my all-time fav's (though Wong Fei Hung series are slowly working their way into my nitch too). Drunken Master is a must, all Bruce Lee movies are a right of passage (I thought he was The Man growin up!), and has anyone here seen Mad Monkey?

Television:

JUST SAY "NO"!!! Too much T.V. will rot and DAMAGE your imagination!!! Listen to more music, or read! Reading feeds your head much more than TV could. Though I'll admit *hangs head*, I'm hopelessly addicted to Entourage & E.R.

Books:

Many of them. My favorite being Encyclopedia's, Fiction, some non-fiction, autobiographies, and other random flight material.Currently reading: "Devil In The White City" and "Contesting Castro" by Thomas G. Paterson (a very intereting look at the relationship between him and Che is in there), and Angels and Demons.Always Reading: "All You Need To Know About The Music Business" by Donald S. Passman (if u'r in music-don't get screwed! READ THIS BOOK!!).

Heroes:

My mother and my son ...

My Blog

Slow Dance | John Legend

Damn ... What a f*ckin song!!!!!!!  Reminds me of what a dance in the moonlight, while slow Motown Classics played on the car stereo, must have been like back when ....  Psshhhh .. Wish I co...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:46:00 PST

Music & Memories = Sweeter Love - for 2007!!!!

You know when you hear one of those songs that just takes you back?  Yea, I woke this morning with a nice memory of a sunrise I experienced on a mountain in Maine, back in 2000 (or maybe it ...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:18:00 PST

King Of Sorrow

Ahhhh, yea ... Thanks Sade ;-) King of Sorrow I'm crying everyone's tearsAnd there inside our private warI died the night beforeAnd all of these remnants of joy and disasterWhat am I suppose to doI w...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:50:00 PST

REVOLUTION ON THE RIVER ...

5:30 am, and we've just got home from the party ... feel me here .. what i felt tonight was a type of insane of a whole other degree.  it was real, it got dirty, it mos def got raw and then just ...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:07:00 PST

Feelin' Good - Nina Simone

Birds flying high, you know how I feelSun in the sky you know how I feelreeds driftin' on by you know how I feel(refrain:)x2It's a new dawnIt's a new dayIt's a new lifeFor meAnd I'm feeling goodFish i...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:50:00 PST

Music & Wine

This one's been on repeat in my mind for the last couple of days.  I'd like to thank the nice man who brought me back to this (thanks, babe), and thank the woman that wrote it ... heh .. Damn,Lis...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:27:00 PST

It's a Love Thing

[Verse 1: C.L. Smooth]You're beautiful, the way you wear that, share thatHave many ladies, but nothing can compare to that smileThat style that drives men wildThat ring could have Big Daddy walkin' do...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:24:00 PST

8 Minutes To Sunrise (feat. Jill Scott) Lyrics

This one's been on the mind all day ... I was sitting on the train last night on my way home from the park and, booooya, this kid caught on to the lyrics i was humming.  I was doing the jill part...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:25:00 PST

Can't Hide Love

(Skip Scarbrough)You want my love andyou can't denyyou know it's true, but you try to hideYou turn down love like it's really badYou can't give what you never hadWell bless your soul, you can fool a f...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:14:00 PST

Devotion

Devotion Lyrics (Maurice White & Philip Bailey)Thru devotion,blessed are the childrenPraise the teacher, that brings true love to manyyour devotion, opens all life's treasuresand deliverance, from...
Posted by Oktober, Luv on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:19:00 PST