Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

A little more than a year ago, i had this movie on repeat, day and night.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
~A portion ofEloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

Time to REWIND

Just a recap of what has been going on in my mind and life...

What the flipper purify?

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I can relate to these post secret pics.

Actually, i do wear my hair like bobby dylan...

I wish I had a dog....his/her name = Bailey...Bailey Burton.

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According to my lb, B. Hancock, the Iphone changed his life..."Honestly, after i got it, i couldn't believe how i lived without it...the got this facebook app..."

cool...funny things is tho...unless they can fix the bugs (i.e. heating up and causing the back plate to crack, and not working on the 3 g network "properly") via a patch or firmware update, they will probably release a new one in 6 months.

And although the iphone is (EXTREMELY) tempting and the fact that my cell phone contract has expired, i'm still holding out for the reason(s) listed above...

besides i wanna see how hancock's iphone EXPERIENCE pans out...lol...

does anyone have one?

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The Smashing Pumpkins concert was GREAT!!!!!

next concerts up, click names to see if they are coming to your city:
-Common & N.E.R.D. (ticket = bought)
-Musiq - haven't bought my ticket yet...anyone tryna go?
-Coldplay - tickets are crazy expensive $130+ (wtf!)...still thinking...hmmm...
-Mogwai (ticket = bought)
-Tegan & Sara (ticket = bought)
-Young Jeezy - kinda skeptical on this, not sure if i will like the crowd that this concert will attract. I'm sure it will be a great concert tho...he rock'd at (NC A&T) 05' homecoming concerto....

speaking of young jeezy, I heard good things about his new album, the recession...looking forward to the album...oh yeah my president is black too (hopefully)

heard game's new album (L.A.X.) in its entirety on the radio yesterday day (big ups to the beat 103')...i was actually surprised to find myself bobbing my head in the care...

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Speaking of music, just tryna promote one of the best music mags out...

Download the new fader mag vol. 54 here



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I know its August but...


Actually here is my pre-Christmas list:
-1952 Fender Telecaster Reissue (Made In Japan)
-Macbook Pro (17")
-Nikon F3 35 mm camera
-Obama as presidente!
-3 weeks in Tokyo

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niki said she would leave me for John Mayer, Will Smith, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and another lame a$$ dude (can't remember his name)

my list:
-nia long - been lovin' her since 91' (boyz in the hood)
-stacy dash
-scarlett johasson
-halle berry
-zoe kravitz

now this all star line up could win some Gold Medals...yessir!

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speaking of niki...she has been feeling a little under the weather...send her your love and get well wishes!



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Anyone else enjoying the Olympics?



I am, I'll be kinda sad when it is over this sunday...

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"what boobie gon do?"
~Boobie Miles in Friday Night Lights

peace out!

a poets inspiration

"I am a spoken word artist who doesn't believe in self-commendation. I let others designate me as artistic. I write as an expression of perception, not necessarily truth."
~black man unanimous

new blogger...my friend, devon...check out his blog here

there is also a link under my friends list on the right hand side...

great stuff!

Bonnie Gene....and barack's progress d.i.y. posters

yeah it's clear who i am rootin' for...i've mentioned or left hints in previous post...



i was at work today...doing the usually, providing tech. support and saving one computer every 16 and 1/2 mins (according to my boss, this is the supposed time it is suppose to take us to solve/fix a computer). so i was on the phone with a 68 yr old lady named Bonnie Gene Wilson from Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). Surprisingly (not really) it was her first time using a computer and she needed help installing windows vista on her computer...by the way this is out the scope of my job description...but i felt sorry for her b/c she was completely lost and i wanted to help her.

so after i painstakingly walked her through the set up and while vista is loading, we started talking about the upcoming presidential election. it was interesting to here her views on America, the election and it candidates. so to summarize her comments:

Hillary (Billary) = doesn't like besides she said the Clinton's (bill) had their turn, so...
Barack = although she doesn't know much about him she likes (especially his wife, Michelle) and McCain = doesn't trust, dislikes the most....actually, i take that back, she hates bush the most...lol...

so just outta curiosity i asked her who Canada's Prime Minister was...and she couldn't tell me. it was kinda funny that she knew more about and paid more attention to american politics than her own country's. there is nothing wrong with that i guess...but it makes you wonder...and she goes on to say that the rest of Canada feels the same...tired/hate bush and want change.

even though she lives in another country, she is still concerned as much as we are about changing the current mentality/mindset, politics, and well-being of the ppl and the good ol' u.s. of a.

after we got done talking about politics and vista was done loading, she suckered me in w/ her "helpless old lady voice" helping her play a peom cd that she had...she wanted to here this one particular poem from Alice in Wonderland called "The Mouse's tale "...

interesting call huh?

oh yeah click here for the link to the 8.5″ x 11″ barack's progress d.i.y. poster created by artist Shepard Fairey. color it, use it as a stencil for a shirt, post it everywhere, etc...

man the young Senator is really picking up momentum, having won the Mississippi primary yesterday evening...big up's to Mississippi!

missing piece...

there are only a few books that i remember reading or looking at in my lifetime...sad i know, i'm not much of a reader...when i was younger i remember coming across a book of poems called where the sidewalk ends by shel silverstein. i am not sure what made me think about this at work today but i guess i was thinking about how, at times, it sucks being an adult and then started thinking of a time when things were "easier"...my childhood.

every time i think of this book, i think of my childhood and my childhood friend, richard...we were like brothers...and i associate our friendship with a lot of things, b/c in part he introduced me to them, such as; basketball, drawing, nickelodeon, legos, playboy magazine's (lol)...and i guess shel silverstein as well.

honestly, i couldn't tell you a single poem from the book but the one thing i distinctively remember are the drawings in the book...especially the cover. they are nothing special but i guess its one of those things that you come across and you don't think it has any relevance to you (and it might not at that time) but one day you may find yourself at your job that you don't like (hate) and something triggers it...

its funny how these books were labeled as children books...but once you take a closer look and read between the lines the poems/stories have a much deeper meaning. My personal favorite of his books are The Giving Tree and The Missing Piece Meets the Big O (my fav of his). like Where The Sidewalk Ends, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O is a book that i aimlessly came across a while back and now makes a lot of sense to me.

click here for a link to read the book.




yeah i know another post w/ a sad, sappy tone...i apologize...i'll try to do better...

i am standing at a crossroad...

“You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”
-anthony robbins

lost in translation

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These days which, like yourself,
Seem empty and effaced
Have avid roots that delve
To work deep in the waste.
But nothing's lost. Or else: all is translation
And every bit of us is lost in it...
And in that loss a self-effacing tree,
Color of context, imperceptibly
Rustling with its angel, turns the waste
To shade and fiber, milk and memory.
~james merrill

fiona apple's rendition of across the universe by the beatles



Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.