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TIE-REEK!

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About Me

Love to have real convos with real folks. I love building mentally. I'm a snowboarding fiend. It's almost as expensive as being a cokehead and there is more powder involved. I have two shorties and an ex-wife. How can things just get better and better? When i think i can't love those two kids more they do something that stuns me into true adoration. What else? I'm an avid reader and i love to learn. I'm real to the point of insanity. I have a t-shirt that says "i'm not your black friend." Come on does it get realer than that? I love getting the youth to learn and become passionate about their future. I was a high school classroom teacher, but now i have an out of classroom position. The job has its drawbacks because i have to deal with fakes ones a lot more and i don't get to interact with students as much. But i still try to kick knowledge in the kids' heads even if i have to dent up their dome in the process. I'm lucky enough to have shaped many kids who are all proceeding to take the life lessons i have given them and doing laps around my slow ass. Oh i love music so much it is absurd. I wouldn't be who i am today good and bad if it wasn't for hip-hop. I probably wouldn't be a college graduate, if it wasn't for KRS and PE, but i probably wouldnt overuse words like son and shook and gangsta if it wasn't for Mobb Deep and DJ Quik. Even i disgust myself sometimes with how sickeningly deep my passion is for this music. Sometimes i forget what i have learned and i forget to unlearn what i need to forget to be a better person. That means i have to start from the beginning a lot. i need lots of alone time. i am finding that a lot people can't really deal with that. i am truly my own best friend. i go hard at stuff that i am just learning about. Then other times i make inertia look fast. i am becoming a lot of things i never thought i would, like jaded and tending towards nostalgia, but that's only cuz everything new is wack and everything old is dope. That is except for new art that uses the previously mentioned notion as a guiding principle. i evolve to stay the same. i say things that seem deep but are stupid, but i also say stuff that seems dumb and is actually profound. i am horrified by the direction our society seems to be heading in and the things that used to give me solace don't get me very high anymore. Just when i think it ain't worth it i learn something new that i never realized in quite that way before and my feet don't touch the ground for a week.

My Interests

Music. Snowboarding. Saltwater fishing. Reading. Chilling with my shorties(kids not women). Art shows(if you all know any dope ones coming up let me know).

I'd like to meet:

People who are real and down with the stuff i'm down with or down with other stuff that i should be down with but im not yet dig! (i just typed dig how lame is that)...oh and some feminists(are there any left?)

Music:


Movies:

THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR. CITY OF GOD. TSOTSI. GODFATHER. FRIDAY. MONDAYS IN THE SUN. THE APARTMENT. WINGED MIGRATION. THE PROTECTOR. THE THAI WARRIOR. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS. COOLEY HIGH. DEERHUNTER. THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR. AN AFFAIR OF LOVE. HEAD ON.THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING. SUPERFLY.BLACK CAESAR. THE MALTESE FALCON. LE SAMOURAI. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS. (truly revolutionary good lookin B). LET'S DO IT AGAIN. UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT. STRANGER THAN FICTION. PUNCH DRUNK LOVE. FIGHTER IN THE WIND. HUSTLE AND FLOW(yeah i said it). BETTER OFF DEAD. DODGEBALL. KNOCKED UP. THE BIG LEBOWSKI. IL POSTINO. LIE WITH ME. RAGING BULL. OFFICE SPACE. HEAVEN. GARDEN STATE. FOXY BROWN. MENACE II SOCIETY. SEX AND LUCIA. SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT.CROOOKLYN.DO THE RIGHT THING(FUCK IT PRETTY MUCH ANY SPIKE LEE JOINT...even the ones i hate are only in comparison to his other films and not the rest of cinema...i still love his shit).

Television:

THE WIRE. (WHY HASNT THIS SHOW CHANGED THE WORLD YET?) LOST. THE COSBY SHOW. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. THE BOONDOCKS. SEINFELD. THE BERNIE MAC SHOW. EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS. ENTOURAGE. SCRUBS. SOPRANOS.

Books:

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. THINGS FALL APART. ROOTS. MIDDLE PASSAGE. MALCOLM X. CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP. DARK TOWN STRUTTERS. JOHN HENRY DAYS. HARRIET JACOBS. TRAGIC MAGIC. SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS. THE KITCHEN GOD'S WIFE. INVISBLE MAN. WHITE BOY SHUFFLE. MERCY MERCY ME. THE CANTERBURY TALES. TAR BABY. RIVEN ROCK. LOVE MEDICINE. THE BOURNE IDENTITY. HARRY POTTER. HIP HOP AMERICA. DREAMER. BEL CANTO. THE CORRECTIONS. DIFFERENT SEASONS.And also my Pops...http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/phuyett/mbembe.html

Heroes:

My moms and a close second is my pops. I would love to really break that down but you have to do the knowledge at some other point.

My Blog

for real y’all this is the freshest...

thing i have ever come across on the internet...   www.soulgen.com     yall better get down before it blows up without you!...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:16:00 PST

review number 3

BLU and EXILE&BELOW THE HEAVENS         Yo what's up everybody!  This is starting to get fun.  I am trying to give you the straight dope on the music, sharpen my writing...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:26:00 PST

trip this...

ok this is pretty ill...Count Bass read my review and put a link to it on his page...i tried to trick him into revealing one of the samples that i couldnt figure out, but he didn't budge.  H...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:22:00 PST

is it winter yet!

damn i love this video! Right Byron? uhoh...tarik done learned how to embed...its on!cant wait to ride this year it is gonna be serious!...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:43:00 PST

review 2

COUNT BASS D&DWIGHT SPITZ Hip-Hop is suffering from what I like to call the SHY D rules.  When I was coming up, I was pretty heavy into a lot of southern rap.  M.C. ADE and Posse, 2 Live Cr...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:54:00 PST

just heard the new common...

yuck it sucks...being nice i give it a tag...damn i think im gonna throw on resurrection...or better yet no id or dilla...cuz he needs some real beats like when he used to spit heat to their stuff &nb...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:48:00 PST

things that make me happy!

looking forward to another snowboarding season!   passing on a female that i know doesn't have long term potential   seeing my youngest daughter in her gymnastics class   seeing my olde...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:14:00 PST

first review...

LITTLE BROTHER&THE LISTENING I thought this one would be easy but I have been sitting here looking at my blank monitor for a few before even typing this.  I feel like I must put some disclaimer...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:49:00 PST

Ts rating system for albums...

Reviews of actual live albums will be coming shortly.  i just wanted to do something to keep myself writing.  i know that i can commit to doing this routinely.  Yo so if you are re...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:56:00 PST

i love the way...

Black people say things...   How many times has one expression or phrase flipped your whole day around?  Black language is such a paradox: It is insanely ingenius and yet so ignorant It is a...
Posted by TIE-REEK! on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:43:00 PST