1 down, three to go
I got one of my wisdom teeth pulled out today. My tounge is still getting used to the empty space my intelligence toof used to occupy. For some reason, this seems like it'll be a drastic change for me. My mouth already seems to close a little bit more properly. I can only imagine how it'll be in a couple weeks.
I've never really had any "real" dental work done before. Of course I have routine cleanings and checkups, but this was my first time going under...the clamp. I didn't know that there existed a dental tool world outside of: the water squirter, the mirror thing, the electronic toothbrush, the scraper thing, and the annoying ass spit sucker. I thought those were all the tools in the dentist's toolbelt. I was wrong. I heard my auntie (my dentist) ask for an "elevator". WHAT THE FUCK?! I see her come out with a variety of tools to poke and loosen my tooth. The all of a sudden she pulls out this big ass clamp and starts trying to jerk out my tooth. My head was hella jerking back and forth. Thank god I was numb, cause it sounded like something that could hurt if I wasn't. I could hear every sickening crunch of my tooth coming loose. I think the weirdest part was seeing blood go up the suction tube. I think I said out loud, "What the hell? I'm bleeding?!?!" Finally, out comes the clamp from my mouth holding on to a huge ass molar, root and all. Gangsta.
So in human sexuality, I learned about a concept called
limerance
crown city rockers - earthtones
If anyone has a copy of this album, please send it my way. If you haven't heard of them, peep www.crowncityrockers.com. On their site, listen to the loop of "No Sense". Kat Quano is a bad ass.
There's not much to say about Kat except that she's a bad ass. - Kat's Bio from crowncityrockers.com
Gangsta!
Speaking of Gangsta!...
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Thanks Mr. Ben Abaya for the piece.
young chickens ain't nothing to fuck with
So I went to Costco with my Mom today, and we came across a three pack of frozen Foster Farms Young Chickens. Fuck how I laughed hella hard when I saw them. I kind've imagined this gangsta rapping fowl that went by the name of "Young Chicken". I had way too much fun with this shit...
dj clue: new shit (echo) shit shit shit...young chicken (echo) ken ken ken...
young chicken:
yo my name is young chicken
spitting flows that be finger lickin
mothafarmers want beef
well i'm that other white meat
shitting on their toes and pecking at their feet
i'm that poultry that you don't wanna fuck with
shit, i be putting the colonel in his bucket
I jacked this from Joellene's xanga. It's a pretty dope survey. But of course it is just a way for music heads to be on some "I listen to cooler music than you" tip. Whatever. I think I spent way too much time filling this out though. =p
Jonathan's Soundtrack
OPENING CREDITS:
"Deep Concentration" - Gang Starr
WAKING UP SCENE:
"Invocation" - Common
"Groove Me" - King Floyd
"Wishful Thinking" - Vivian Green
"Flamenco Sketches" - Miles Davis
AVERAGE DAY:
"Definition" - Black Star
"Happiness" - Foreign Exchange
"Makeda" - Les Nubians
"For You" - Little Brother
FIRST DATE:
"Rock With You" - Michael Jackson
"Bonita Applebum" - A Tribe Called Quest
"Can We Talk?" - Tevin Campbell
"Brown Skin Lady" - Black Star
FALLING IN LOVE:
"Open Your Eyes" - Bobby Caldwell
"Three Miles Down" - Saves the Day
"Suzanne" - Weezer
BEING IN LOVE:
"Love and Happiness" - Al Green
"At Your Best" - Aaliyah
LOVE SCENE:
"In Love With You" - Erykah Badu and Stephen Marley
"Makes Me Whole" - Amel Larrieux
SEX SCENE:
Voodoo - D'Angelo
"Inside My Love" - Minnie Ripperton
HEARTBREAK SCENE:
"Another Lonely Day" - Ben Harper
"I Like It" - Far
"The Rain" - Murs
"El Scorcho" - Weezer
REBOUND SCENE:
"Whatever You Say" - Little Brother
"Look Good in Leather" - Cody ChesnuTT
LESSON LEARNING:
"Redemption Song" - Bob Marley
"Moment of Truth" - Gang Star
"Respiration" - Black Star
"Speaking of Tounges" - Spearhead
LIFE'S OKAY:
"Keep Livin'" - Jean Grae
"Be Alright" - Foreign Exchange
"Didn't Cha Know" - Erykah Badu
DRIVING SCENE:
"All Along the Watchtower" - Jimi Hendrix
"Midnight in a Perfect World" - DJ Shadow
"Take 5" - Dave Brubeck
FLASHBACK:
"So Into You" - Tamia
"I Love Your Smile" - Shanice
PARTY SCENE:
"Ms. Fat Booty" - Mos Def
"Bam Bam" - Sister Nancy
"Dance Tonight" - Lucy Pearl
CHILL SCENE:
"Umi Says" - Mos Def
"San Francisco Knights" - People Under the Stairs
"Got Til It's Gone" - Janet Jackson & Q-Tip
"Georgy Porgy" - Eric Benet & Faith Evans
REGRET SCENE:
"Where Is My Mind?" - The Pixies
"Be Quiet and Drive" - Deftones
SLOW DANCE:
"April In Paris" - Billie Holliday
"Tell Me" - Groove Theory
"Nobody" - Keith Sweat
"Cupid" - 112
"Miss You" - Aaliyah
HAPPY DANCE:
"Ditty" - Paperboy
"September" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"Love You Down" - INOJ
"Go Dumb" - Federation
LONG NIGHT ALONE:
"Roses From My Friends" - Ben Harper
"Green Eyes" - Erykah Badu
"Asleep" - The Smiths
GOODBYE:
"September" - Onelinedrawing
"Aeroplanes" - Onelinedrawing
CLOSING SONG:
"93 Til Infinity" - Souls of Mischief
put down the mic and rock and asthma inhaler
The moment i stepped foot back onto sacto soil i got jumped by asthma and seasonal allergies. The beating looks to continue as may comes to a close. Can we just skip the pollen and go straight to 100+ degree weather already? Luckly, my homies allegra, albuterol, and flow-nase got my back. You know how we do.
I swear I'ma pass out from all these short ass breaths I take. I never thought I'd enjoy yawning so much.
it's the world premiere...like minds crew! is so sincere...
Like Minds collective had their second straight session today. We were a little shorthanded but were still productive. I'm excited to be a part of this group of talented ass folks. Everyone has so much to offer, musicianship to lyricism and everything in between, that everything is coming along together smoothly. But being part of this crew has inspired me even more to pick up the pen and push it further. Hopefully I'll be able to churn out some good stuff.
1-800-ASK-TOWER
I was talking to someone on the phone while I was parked outside of the downtown Tower Records today. I had time to kill before I met up some friends at Willie's, so I ran inside to take a look at new goodies that were just released. I ended up running into one of my old coworkers from Tower Watt Avenue. He switched locations and works over at the Broadway store now. I'm taking it as a sign that I should go back to Watt Avenue part-time.
An interesting tidbit: Tower Records Watt Avenue is the first free standng Tower Records store.
From the Tower Website:
Tower Records Watt Avenue, the first store of the Tower Records chain, was opened in 1960. From the beginning, Watt Avenue has been at the forefront of record retailing, growing to over 14,000 square feet from its original 2,500 square feet.
Known as the "North Store" in its early days, this store has served as a testing ground for many of Tower Records/Video's innovative retailing concepts.
Located at the corner of Watt and El Camino in Sacramento, the Watt Avenue store is the place to go for your music and video needs with an inventory of over 75,000 CDs and 19,000 DVDs.
Cool. No really...
new school nostalgia
Okay I admit it! I LIKE AKON'S "LONELY"! I also happent to like that new Mariah Carey song, "We Belong Together". For some reason, it has the same effect that Aaliyah's "Miss You" has on me: A recent song that brings me back to middle school. I dunno how to explain it, but there's something about those songs that make me feel like I'm back in in 7th grade crushing on Angelica Ruiz or some shit. I enjoy songs like these though. I use them as study music. I think this song will revive Mariah's faltering career.
Me and Mariah, go back like babies with pacifiers.
hella saucy
You are when you just be.
-sacramento weather is kicking my ass. allergies up the wazoo! i'm suffering from watery eyes and a stuffy nose. someone grab me the allegra!
-freaks and geeks is hillarious. how the hell did i sleep on this show when it was on tv?
-i have to drive back to sf tomorrow to clear jury duty shit. baaaaaaah!
-likeminds in full effect summer 2k5
5 LOVE LANGUAGES
:Gary Chapman
--physical touch
--service
--words of affirmation
--quality time
--gifts
you probably have 1 or 2 that you usually speak.
the love language you like to hear = the love language you speak
the challenge: to love people in their own language.
coolin out to the smooth sounds of a bobby caldwell/common sense duet.
with eyes closed i feed those
urges to purge and flee those
distractions it's time to take action
and focus i ask you to notice
that the world around you knows this
i miss focus.
conversing last saturday night with nhuanh reminded me how sweet dialogue is. thanks for calling me out.
i love unspoken "i feel you/i got you"'s.
fuck it. =D
mmm...i'm hella feeling this
my heart aches with the pain of fond memories succumbed to unknown futures...
- j.ylarde
edit (5/19 11:24): yeah. i feel it. all i can do is turn my music up louder.
crash into me
at the suggestion of mr. verse the natural plus, i caught the flick crash with vince and jen tonight. i'm still trying to process the movie, among other things, so i think that the mr. verse the natural plus will suffice for now.
I peeped this new movie, "Crash", last night and I would highly encourage everyone to see it. The tag line is "When we are moving at the speed of life, we are bound to crash into one another". The basic premise is the day in the life of several characters from different races in L.A and how their lives connect and intersect. It's probably one of the most thought provoking and real examinations of race that I've ever seen in a film. The good thing is that it doesn't do it in a spoon fed or forced way. It subtley introduces and explores in depth the ideas of the grayness that exists between the black and white perspectives that we think we all hold(or think we hold) and the commonality in the human experience no matter what your background is. It left me thinking and talking long after I left the theater and I love movies that do that. It's the directorial debut of Paul Haggis, writer of "Million Dollar Baby" and he does a pretty nice job his first time out. All the actors were of some reknown and they all gave great performances. I was especially surprised by Ludacris' turn in a serious role. By the end of the movie I almost couldn't go back to seeing him jovial and jukin' in his videos. Makes me wonder how he really took that Bill O'Reilly situation a while back. I'd love to get into a good conversation with folks about this and many other topics that come up in the movie but its hard without you seeing it first. So go check it and holler back so we can break it down.
read more of verse here
it wouldn't have worked out anyway
fuck how i hella feel the need to write a song right now, but i figured out that someone already wrote the song i wanted to write. damn you ben harper. but preach on brutha, preach on.
the aileen asis appreciation post
this post is dedicated to the aileen. isn't she pretty? (she's on the right) she is jealous of the santa cruz weather. i like her because she flirts with me. fin.
the sun is out today...what to do? what to do?
nothing beats the streets of san francisco serenaded by the verbage of big pooh and phonte. beats by 9th.
jon: i need to touch home
danica: ;-)
my god...i've reached bopper status.
muthafuckin carlo...i didn't need to see this shit
haha...fuck how i hella feel it though. thanks brutha.
As we all know that the heart is the center of the body but it beats on the left. Maybe that's the reason why the heart is not always right.
"shorty on the lookout"-little brother
fast forward to 4:23 into the song. now that's the truth.
i really don't wanna hear that shit. please.
i'm too fly not to fly
-saul williams
so today i saw a log cabin that had "log cabin" written on the side of it
last night i went out with some usf folks to uc davis' pcn, finding history: revealing echoes. the story was one of three generations: a lolo, mother, and a son. the three shared the repeated history of failing to be with the one they love, living the rest of their lives in regret. the process continues in the life of the youngest daughter. i thought the pcn was pretty good. some parts were a bit corny, but overall it was a good show clocking in at a mere 4 hours.
i have a kasamahan meeting right now. i'll continue later.
study till infinity
shit to do:
-philippine history final project
-public speaking revisions
-sociology of sport final project (3000 words)
-writing 220 revisions
-substance abuse literature review (10 pages)
dry contacts
the imagination is a dangerous thing. here i sit 1:30 in the morning, fearing the worst. finding misery in others' pleasure. yeah that's me.
my timing sucks.
computer lab
it's times like these where i seem to lack motivation. it's something about the long, tedious, semester process that just slows me down. my body still isn't adjusted to five months of rigorous, non-stop schooling. i've got about a week or so left of school. final projects, paper revisions, and exams are waiting to jump me when i turn the corner. instead of beefing up bruce lee status, i'm wasting the day moping around and typing in weblogs and shit. if anything, at least san francisco doesn't have that beautiful may weather. if i had a choice to play out in the sun or go to class...well...haha.
but it's certain people that possess the ability to keep you going and move you forward. one of my biggest fears is regression, but with folks around i doubt that will be a problem.