Sunday, November 28, 2004

betchapollygollywaaaaaaaaahhhh

while driving around town with my pops digesting the holiday turkey, i popped in this mix cd my homegirl tat made for me a while back. it was full of a whole bunch of lowrider old school shit. some stylistics, o'jays, chi-lites...etc. so i'm grooving to it, and then here comes my dad singing, "la la la la la means....i love you!"

i remember when i was a youngin, my dad had a couple stylistics tapes in the volvo that we'd listen to when he was tired of listening to peter, paul and mary and some rockin' 50's comp he owned.

so i guess i shouldn't have been surprised that he was jamming to those grooves too.

i guess the thing that hit me, was that the man sitting shotgun singing that chi-lite classic is the same guy who listens to celine dion and filipino star in a million ballads.

is there some point in all our lives where we just outgrow our music? my dad's transformation seems like such a radical change to me that i fear growing old and listening to smooth jazz. shoot... i can picture myself being one of those old timers going, "ya'll don't know what good music is..."

yeah...that'll be me.

sleepwalking

i've been picking up a lot of cd's that i've slept on....

"the score"-fugees
mos def and talib kweli are black star

and....

VOODOO! don't ask me how i slept on voodoo. i'm actually listening to that shit right now. the liner notes are mindblowing. there's a quote that goes...

thou art god

art is the bridge between self and that higher being.

incredible.

10:25 PM
------ Monday, November 22, 2004

stuff i took down from marc bamuthi joseph's visit to usf

most of these are little one line dittys that i thought were profound in the moment. i just feel like putting em up.

-american culture=american wealth

-we improvise truths around false structures

-i know you must move cause of the way you move me

-race is a fallacy (social construction). we're not really fighting racism, we're fighting classism. classism is disguised as race.

-the only way to transcend race is to transcend yrself. be in this world, but not of it.

-we in the bay area can be comfortable activists. we never have to step out of our comfort zones.

-public education is meant to preserve a status quo.

-at some point, someone has to be willing to take a risk, then progress can be made.

-at 2 years old, he's uncapable of being emotionally false.

-i never feel like an american until i leave this country.

9:57 PM
------ Wednesday, November 03, 2004

*breathe, stretch, shake, let it go*

muhfugga muhfugga

9:00 PM
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