What My World Sounds Like: Janelle Monae
December 8, 2007 | Filed Under Listen, Plain cool, What My World Sounds Like | 1 Comment
Janelle Monae’s Metropolis, Suite 1: The Chase
Can I say that I love Janelle Monae?!? She has this incredible, infectious energy that translates perfectly in sound. In addition to being talented, she’s ridiculously creative. Her debut album, Metropolis, will be released in 4 parts, with the first being available now. The concept album tells the tale of futuristic android Cindi Mayweather, who’s on the run for falling in love with a human.
My only gripe is the response Monae intended: it’s too short…I want more! Her sound is new, distinct, yet familiar at the same time. These songs cause me forget about the troubles with my knees and make me want to run…or do all sorts of wild dances (if you can call them that) with my eyes closed while I’m alone. For more information, go to JanelleMonae.com.
These kids ’round killin’ each other, they’ve lost they minds, they gone
They quittin’ school, making babies and can barely read
Some gone off to that war
Lord, have mercy on them
1, 2, 3, 4, your cousins is ’round here sellin’ dope
While they daddies, your uncles is walking ’round strung out
Babies with babies and they tears keep burning
While their dreams go down the drain now…While their dreams go down the drain now
Are we really living or just walking dead now?
(Are we walking dead now?)
Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels
The way we live
The way we die
What a tragedy, I’m so terrified
Daydreamers, please wake up
We can’t sleep no more…
Ask your neighbor
The winds have changed
It sees that they’ve abandoned us
The truth hurts and so does yesterday
What good is love if it burns bright and explodes in flames?
(I thought every living thing had love but uhh…)
Are we really living or just walking dead now?
(Are we walking dead now?)
Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels
The way we live
The way we die
What a tragedy, I’m so terrified
Daydreamers, please wake up
We can’t sleep no more…
And spending money on spinners, but won’t pay college loans
And all you gangers and bangers, rollin’ ace and taking lives in that smokey dark
Lord, have mercy on them
Teacher teacher, please reach those girls in them videos (live your life)
The little girls just broken queen, confusing bling for soul
Danger, there’s danger! When you take off your clothes…
All of your dreams go down the drain, girl…
Are we really living or just walking dead now?
(Are we walking dead now?)
Or dreaming of a hope riding the wings of angels
The way we live
The way we die
What a tragedy, I’m so terrified
Daydreamers, please wake up
We can’t sleep no more…
So down, now, we go, down underground…
We think that we can fly, but we never touch the sky
So, down, now, we go, down underground…
- Janelle Monae, “Sincerely, Jane”
Your new water filters
December 6, 2007 | Filed Under Do your research!, Learn something, Moment of Truth, Pay attention, Watch this | Leave a Comment
In light of the truth about tap water and fluoride, I’m switching my Brita faucet filter to an Aquasana faucet and shower filter. Until December 15th, Aquasana is offering both together for $159.Â
This action is in lieu of the larger initiatives I’d take if I had my own house. In that case, I’d get a whole house filter for about $1,000. Not bad for a filtration system that requires maintenance once every three years.
If you’re uncertain or skeptical about the dangers of fluoride in water, please see the videos below. In this 3-part interview with journalist Christopher Bryson who uncovered the secret history of fluoride in his book The Fluoride Deception.
In addition to using water filters which significantly reduce the amount of fluoride in water, you should start using natural toothpastes that contain no fluoride.
To learn more, contact FluorideAction.net.
Public Service Announcement:
December 6, 2007 | Filed Under Pay attention | 2 Comments
STOP COONING!
A coon is a black actor or actress, who takes roles that stereotypically portrays black people.
They think they’ve made it but they are slaves to the same images.Â
Soulja Boy
Lil’ Wayne
Wayne Brady
Ying Yang Twins
Lil’ John
Nick Cannon
Flava Flav and his female cohorts
Anthony Anderson
Tichina Arnold
Dipset
Mike Jones
R. Kelly
Keyshia Cole
50 Cent
Almost any “Young/Yung ____”
Paul Wall
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Bobby Brown
and Whitney
Ice T
The Wayans Family
Tyler Perry
Vivica Foxx
T-Pain
Puffy
Fantasia
“Birdman”
Lil’ Kim
Kimora Lee
Jessica Simpson & Britney Spears if they were urban
Chingy
Akon
Trey Songz
To Be Continued…
Gimme my money
December 5, 2007 | Filed Under Do your research!, Moment of Truth, Pay attention | Leave a Comment
FYI…starting January 1, 2008, Sprint will be removing 3 fees that currently cost customers $2 per month. Thing is…they’re adding two fees that will then cost an additional $0.95 per month.   They are “not required to collect these fees” meaning that you don’t have to pay them.Â
If you’re thinking, “It’s only a dollar. I’ll pay it,” think about how much money they’ll be collecting from fees you don’t have to pay with their hundreds of millions of clients. Rich get richer. Poor get poorer. I’m not assisting in widening the gap. They can pay their own administrative costs. So send $0.95 less each month. It’s okay; call Sprint.
If you feel inclined to pay an extra dollar, though, I’ll take it. I’m about to open my PayPal account.
* If I had a pellet gun…
December 5, 2007 | Filed Under Pay attention, Random, Thoughts | Leave a Comment
The places I’d go, the things I’d do, the people I’d shoot…
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1:
For starters, public cigarette smokers. They kill people. This is a fact and extremely public information, yet not the least bit discouraging enough for smokers. Thing is…they don’t just kill those that smoke; they’re more dangerous to non-smokers. Yet, still not discouraging enough.
It’s already bad enough that we live in a post-modern era where pollution is so much the norm that it’s not even discussed. It’s bad enough that there’s a trend towards urbanization so there are conglomerated converging energies everywhere, people stacked on top of people, and urban pollution. When I walk down the street, I don’t want to inhale your death sticks. Just because you have no will to live doesn’t mean that I don’t.
They’d get shot four times: twice in the mouth, one on each lip; and twice on the hands, one on each index finger. Maybe a bonus shot to the ear for associative pain purposes.
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 2:
Next, litterers. Who do they think they are? Somebody’s just supposed to clean up after them?Lazy pricks.
Two the forehead, one to the chest.
PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 3:
Then, loud people in quiet places. If you live in the city and catch public transportation, there’s nothing better than a quiet commute. The audacity of some people never ceases to amaze me though. It’ll be perfectly quiet on the train and then some completely rude person or people will broadcast their entire conversations for the whole car to hear. No consideration.
They’d get it in the cheeks. Shut up next time. Read a book. Use your inside voices.
This also goes for the people who have their headphones up so loud that people several feet away can sing along. No bueno.
I’m not encouraging violence, but…there seems to be a limit to the effectiveness of talking to people. The only people I really plan on shooting are smokers. Twice in the mouth, twice in the hands, or anywhere else I see fit. I’m even thinking about the throat for people who smoke around kids.
The moral of the story is…watch out. You don’t know where you’ll find me.
* This has been a random rant.
A thousand words…or maybe just three
December 4, 2007 | Filed Under Moment of Truth, Pay attention | 5 Comments
These say: “I hate myself.“
What’s funny (as in odd) is that it really ISN’T funny; it’s sad. I see so many girls, young ladies, and grown women hating themselves in the attempt to strive for an illusory perfection. I had an eating disorder for 13 years. YEARS!!! Half of my life spent hating myself (in varying degrees) wishing I was something I was unlikely to become…or at least remain. I got down to a size 3/4, but I’m not likely to return there and have no desire to.
It starts with something little and progresses. We’ve WATCHED Lil’ Kim transform herself into this, the so-called black Barbie. Thankfully, she ISN’T the black Barbie because little girls would be looking up to her as the model. Their eyes should be hazel, despite the fact that hers are contacts; their hair should be long and flowing, despite the fact that hers isn’t real; their lips should be naturally pursed, despite the fact that she had them “fixed†to look like that; their faces should be in such a proportion, despite the fact that she had a chin implant; their waists should be wittled tight, despite the fact that she’s had numerous liposuction procedures to get hers to wherever it is.
This isn’t the only person we’ve watched go through such a transformation: Michael Jackson, anyone? Now, he doesn’t even look human, let alone black or distinctly male anymore.
This post isn’t funny or harsh; it’s just truth. It’s what happens when one completely succumbs to the lies they’ve been told about superior and inferior beauty.
Love yourself. Anyone who makes you do the opposite is no friend of yours.
Connection
November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Do your research!, Moment of Truth, Pay attention, Rewritable words | 1 Comment
“Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.”
- R. D. Lang
“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free – to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel, and act…. The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression thatt hey are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”
- Aldous Huxley
“…the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.”
- Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Deliberately create problems, and then offer only those solutions which result in the expansion of government. Create conditions so frightful at home and abroad that the abandonment of personal liberties and national sovereignty will appear as a reasonable price for a return to domestic tranquility and world peace.”
- G. Edward Griffin
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights or publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward world government.”
- David Rockefeller
“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.”
- Carl Jung
All I need…
November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Health, Moment of Truth, Pay attention | 2 Comments
Two cheers for the truth! Love and fear. Everything is a derivative or aberration of one of the two. It’s insane how we–as a collective–don’t know, understand or recognize this truth. The fear and hate perpetuated in our society is the result of the absence of love or what we understand as love. I dislike/fear you because you don’t show me love and in your inability/masked unwillingness to do so you, in response, dislike/fear me because the energy I’m emitting isn’t one of love, but fear. It’s a cycle.
Deal with your stuff, that emotional toxicity that reeks from your being, doing, and saying. Stop projecting and exteriorizing. Release others from the shackles of your own insecurities. Be happy. Make the choice and don’t give your power away. We give our power away by reacting, by getting angry. It’s easy to pull a puppet’s strings unless the puppet ceases to be a puppet by not submitting to the movements of puppeteer’s desires…and how willfully we submit. Maintain.
Cheers.
“Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.”
- Vernon Howard
“Because these individuals themselves are not spiritually pure and clean and cannot rise up high to feel high. So their mentality is to push and artifically repress good people so they feel great. They’re not actually doing anything to spiritually progress and mature, but they are doing a lot to hold you down and that’s how they get their feeling of greatness. The petty tyrant in your neighborhood does the same thing. The bully in school does the same thing.”
- Michael Tsarion, 2012: The Future of Mankind
Simplify and Minimize
November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Consider this | Leave a Comment
Three Ways to Get Over Possession Addiction
Just a few things…
November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Learn something, Pay attention, Random | Leave a Comment
- What makes you unique? Most people are keen on what makes them like other people–great; but what makes you different?
- What can you do to put more love and care in your work today?
- How much do you free others from the tyranny of your needs and desires?
- Love and fear are the only two emotions; everything else is a derivative of one of the two. Which predominantly guides your mode of being?
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