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About Me

...it's in the music.

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My Interests

"LiFe...its not about how many breaths U take...It's about the moments in LiFe that take your breath away!

I'd like to meet:

People with positive energy,that embrace life!

Music:

I find it truly amazing how music can take you through time ... Bringing back memories... That krackin' party on "campus...that first kiss, that first heartbreak...that first...??? U fill in the memory... Music that takes you waaaay back in the day! Music...that makes your SOUL...GLO!Music...the soundtrack to my life...be it deep lyrics over a tight beat or a soft instrumental groove between a melodic interlude...it's always there....When did I fall in love with Hip Hop?DAY 1...and with everything DJ Marley Marl and DJ Red Alert put down...back in the day!What's spinnin' now?Everything funky!...and of course, nuthin' like a funky jam session! YA DIG!

Movies:

Brown Sugar, Love and Basketball, Love Jones, Let's Do it Again, The Breakfast Club, West Side Story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Terminator II, Hustle n' Flow, and ... The Matrix "...Anything is possible...where you go from here, I leave up to you"

Television:

Can't watch without thinking about editing!

Books:

Tuesday's with Morrie (A must read at some time in your life...) A Raisin in the Sun, poetry of Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni and Maya Angelou.

Heroes:

One who endures and survives the struggle."If U don't know WHO you are...U won't know where you're going...."

My Blog

FOCUSED?

"Stop focusing on what was and what should have been....focus on what U want and the good that is to come! "Ari J
Posted by Ari J ↑ on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:19:00 PST

R U Grown!

Girl vs. Grown....Girls leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans. Grown women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits in.Girls want to cont...
Posted by Ari J ↑ on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:02:00 PST

Happiness....

Happiness, depends upon ourselves....~Aristotle~
Posted by Ari J ↑ on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:58:00 PST

Boxizim...

Never let anybody put U in a box...Never let'em define who U are...or who U R not!It starts with the smaller things,Don't let'em clip your wings..See, first it starts with what U eat,then what U wear....
Posted by Ari J ↑ on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:48:00 PST

Visual Check

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are". Anais Nin
Posted by Ari J ↑ on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:44:00 PST

Hip Hop Awards...Where is the love?

Last night Baby Girl and I attended the BET Hip Hop Awards. I have always tried to drop a lil of what I know about music, especially hip hop to my kids.... making sure they appreciate the talen...
Posted by Ari J ↑ on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:53:00 PST

What's Your Addiction...

What's your addiction....??? We all have our vices...don't lie! Some don't cost a thing...except your heart... and your peace of mind.....Are U addicted to pain? It's one of the less obvious addi...
Posted by Ari J ↑ on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:10:00 PST