j.scales: healerartist on the move...

About Me

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once upon a time, in a land far, far away...there was a little star, high above the heavens...the star lost its balance, and fell to the earth's surface, landing somewhere on the continent of what is now considered north america...upon entering the earth's atmosphere, this star changed its form, quite a few times, actually... time passed...continents shifted, and the star changed its form...kingdoms & living creatures rose and fell... and the star changed its form again...then one day, when the sky turned a misty shade of lavender... the little star that fell to earth became a woman, blessed with melanin and song...the beings of the continent called her......j.scales

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/9/2005
Band Website: jscales.biz
Band Members: j.scales- vocals, bass guitar, percussion, keys; all sequencing, programming...other "members" are added as the spirit guides...
Influences: ANY MUSIC WITH SINCERITY, including billie holiday, erykah badu, sweet honey in the rock,(especially songs published by ysaye maria barnwell, bernice johnson reagon, & michelle lanchester,) krs-one, led zepplin, jaco pastorius, james jamerson, bootsy, p-funk, outkast, joni mitchell, prince, tracy chapman, nikki giovanni, mc lyte, sheila chandra, dj shadow...burt bacharach, leon pendarvis, roberta flack, diane warren, quincy jones, barbra streisand, barry manilow...joplin, (both janis & scott), rachmaninoff...ANY LIFE EXPERIENCES, including sadness, heartbreak, disappointment; joy, lovahs old& new, self-discovery, anger, release, revelation, su-preeeme gladness, breath& uh...breathing, life&...uh...living, beautiful people struggling against horrid demons, overcoming obstacles, getting unstuck...ANY OF MY PEOPLE, my first nations brothers and sisters, my grandmammas & grandaddies from the motherland, my cousins with or without melanin, in varying degrees,...interplanetary ancestral beings of infinite wisdom, the mayans, the dogon..."space people...universal love"AND OF COURSE, THE MOST RECENT ANCESTORS, audrey frazier, alice jones, rev. a.n. gibson, daisy edwards...bill roberson, guidance counselor...prince jones, wanda alston, keter betts, shirley horn, rosa parks, coretta scott king...octavia butler, gordon parks, ossie davis, james brown...prem deben, scotty beats, mamadi nayasuma, tracey battle, casey thompson (alto section leader for mccdc gospel choir), carlton, the young & energetic usher at mccdc; cheryl spector, activist&friend...sakia gunn...lafayette, teeny & jon-dell...and the list goes on...ashe'...
Sounds Like: some yin&yang-type-a-bidness...grievin&celebratin...someb ody's mama&daddy havin an argument but then...uh...makin love when it's all said&done...can i git a WITness up in heah, up in heah?!...hahaHAAAA!!!... :D
Record Label: 2spirit records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

what?!...high priestess of homohop?!!!

{first post: 12july07}what's this all about?glad you're curious.thanks!&I'll tell you.basically,i, j.scales, have spent much of my life struggling & striving & wrestling with :understanding myselflovi...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:10:00 PST

"accidental" poem for a priestess on the path...you know who you are :)

been burnin an occasional coconut candle, and feelin the clarity that it brings, wearin white... breathin deep, &sometimes inside i sing. ~namaste'... j.scales :...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:45:00 PST

first OUT black lesbian mayor...ELECTED monday night!

her name is denise simmons, and the city is cambridge, massachusetts! here...check this out: www.victoryfund.org so uh... what do y'all think about THAT? holla. ~j.scales...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:51:00 PST

shirli hughes dont sing no blues!!! :)

{original post: 18nov07} who is this woman, this"Shirli Hughes"?all EYE know isshedon't sing no blues, shevocalizes/harmonizes/writes/directs/&arranges&what?!y eah, chile, &ALL for the lo...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:11:00 PST

problematic privilege...part 2

okay...so this is something that i wrote,around 7:30am yesterday,just before i read the new comments...which were quite insightful, by the way,so this blog is just slightly out of "real time" order......
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:13:00 PST

problematic privilege/pale-faced penis...and other nonsense that nags my invisible negro-ness

the other possible subtitle of this blog...which wouldn't fit in the box...is:"kiss my cookies!"/swap THIS!now...let me be totally honest with you.(what's new, right?..lol.)i already have about 11 pag...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:43:00 PST

reflections on LOVE...

"This is my command: love each other."~John 15:17whoa&flippin through the scriptchasjust now,i realized that&love is NOT an option;it's a command.a command&?WHAT?!hmmmm&i'll have to remember that,whe...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:08:00 PST

excerpt from, "to be young, gifted, &black", my 7part poem...here’s part IV, "as a negro"

IV.as a negro, i must prove my worth, foras a negro, i am brown from birth.as a negro, i am sometimes hated, andas a negro, i am often debated.as a negro, i pay my bills;as a negro, i have mad skills...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:24:00 PST

repotting my plant...yay! :)

hey y'all&ya know,i've never really considered myselfmuch of a "green thumb";in the past, any plant that spent more than 3 weeks in my presence was doomed for sure!lol.but today, i realized that the p...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:37:00 PST

"when i die"...a poem, from just now...about a thought thats been rollin around in mah head...

when i diei want alla my ex-girlfriends&lovahs,on house right,in the first 3rows&then the men i've been with?&in one row behind them,just so thateveryone knows!(ain't no sense in gossip, y'all&cuz...
Posted by j.scales: healerartist on the move... on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:11:00 PST