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About Me

I am a nerd.
Yeah, I said it.
I'm also a music fanatic, and I spend way too much time analyzing it for my own good. I'm incurably silly with a tendency to be an asshole as well. I'm not afraid to poke fun @ myself, and I will not hesitate to clown on you (or anyone else) if the occasion calls for it.
I'm easily amused, and I will hold a convo with anyone who can maintain a halfway decent one that doesn't involve phrases like "Oh I LOVE Tyler Perry," or "I voted for Bush." If you've got some insightful words to drop or just wanna politick about whatever, I'm open to listen.
I'm not on Myspace to find my soulmate. Or even for casual dating. No, I'm serious.. I really don't care about having a huge friend list. More than anything, I'm interested in building up the repertoire of music artists that I love and networking.
If you send a note asking a question that could easily be answered by just taking a sec to glance over my page, chances are I'm not going to answer. Seriously...if you can't (or won't) take a minute to look at my profile and employ just a little deductive reasoning, then I can't (and won't) take the time to answer redundant questions. I don't even have that much written on here, I have lots of pretty pictures! But where there ARE words, let me stress that READING IS FUNDAMENTAL.
Yup...

My Interests

journalism, music, breakdancing/b-boys, music, dj's/turntablism, music, activism, music, graf art, music, harassing/tackling Wes, music, poetry, music, writing, music, leaning towards militancy the majority of the time, music, theater, music, daydreaming, music, sarcasm, music, wit, music, satire, music, Black Power, music, human rights, music, equality, music, women's rights, and um...MUSIC. And being fierce...

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Movies:

Television:

When I actually watch TV, I try to catch these shows:

Jeopardy, Family Guy, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, The Simpsons, American Dad, Extreme Makeover-Home Edition, Emeril Live, The Daily Show, Miami Ink/LA Ink, Anderson Cooper 360, The Colbert Report, Bad Girls Club, CSI: Miami, The Girls Next Door, To Catch a Predator, Intervention, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Monk, random PBS/TLC/Discovery Channel specials...

Books:

"I have many...leather-bound books. My home smells of...rich mahogany!"
Â© Ron Burgundy
Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book
Hip Hop Files: Photographs, 1979-1984
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture
Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts
Black Beauty: A History and a Celebration
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Much Ado About Nothing
A Midsummer Night's Dream (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Hamlet (New Folger Library Shakespeare)
Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection
Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper
A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
A Raisin in the Sun
100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (Texas Pan American Series)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) powered by frazy.com

Heroes:

My parents, my grandparents, Angela Davis, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Aaron McGruder, Emeril Lagasse, William Shakespeare, Malcolm X, The Original Black Panthers, Pablo Neruda, Kat Von D, Anderson Cooper, Sergio Mendes, Prince...

anybody who's striving to make a positive impact on their community or the world at large...

My Blog

Earthquake?

Apparently I slept through an earthquake this morning.Wes came into my room around 4:30 a.m. asking "Did you feel that?" *opens one eye, looks at clock* "Feel what?""I think we just had an earthquake....
Posted by Flash & Flare on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:32:00 PST

Underbelly

A Year in the Life of Bellydancer Princess Farhana So...yeah, I need to see this. ...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:42:00 PST

Words: Spoken vs. Written

I want to be able to adequately express myself verbally, particularly in a confrontation. I've always expressed myself better in writing, but I can't stop and write a damn note in the middle of every ...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:19:00 PST

Presumptions

There is this woman who sits near the women's restroom on the floor where I work. I see her everyday more or less, and I started noticing that she was starting to gain some weight. She's fairly young ...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:01:00 PST

Absolut vodka pulls ad showing California in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The distillers of Sweden’s Absolut vodka have withdrawn an advertisement run in Mexico that angered many U.S. citizens by idealizing an early 19th century map showing chu...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:40:00 PST

This is just...

...sad. I yanked this from Starr, and I have the same sentiments in terms of not having any words and actually feeling embarrassed after watching this: Where I am lacking in words, I will bor...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:13:00 PST

Twitter

I finally started using it even though I signed up like 3 months ago. So...yeah. Twitter me. Thanks....
Posted by Flash & Flare on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:41:00 PST

Holy Badass

Meet Sofia Boutella...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:52:00 PST

Bulging Brides

From WE tv, because apparently "Bridezillas" wasn’t inane enough:http://www.wetv.com/shows/bulging-brides/From BlogHer: There’s a new kid on the reality TV show block and it’s name i...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:00 PST

What is love? Baby dont hurt me...

Such a winner. ...
Posted by Flash & Flare on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:26:00 PST