Saturday, February 26, 2005

Across 110th Street

Well today is saturday, only this time I'm not sure of what I can and cannot do. Right now I'm just listening to Bobby Womack, admiring my new cable modem, thinking about fixing my "new blog". Thursday wasn't as fun as I intended it to be, all thanks to my spanish teacher.
So what do I plan on doing today? (Well since I have no idea what the terms of my punishment are).. I think I'll plan on going out.. but not out, out.
One thing I'm definately doing is playing guitar with David. I saw the black history show at my school. It was amazing. I don't know how to describe it. I guess I "could" say it was amazing, which it was. I felt they demoralized every song, except for the Jimi Hendrix bit. So what am I going to do about this? I'm going to play every song they demoralized on guitar, and find out if playing them was "so hard" they couldn't play so well. That and I always wanted to play "Fly Away", and some Jimi Hendrix anyway.
Last year's black history show I felt was way better. This year had to many fat black women dancing, low mics, and poor sound management. (I'm smiling right now thinking about who was in charge)..
I should've performed. I'm not saying I would've made it that much better, but at least I would've done "some justice" to Bob Marley's "Redemption Song". And they had some of the crappiest power points ever made. Maybe a better thing to say would be why the fuck did they use power point in the first place. And the pictures they used were the worst. (Sadly, this year no one represented Biggie, but then again Biggie isn't exectly material for high school)..
And these gentlemen I knew, who went to perform some songs from "The Temptations" set a new standard for their music. "My Girl", and some other song I never heard before, we're both performed in such a raw state. The whole time being sung out of tempo, and a constant "hogging" of the microphone. It was quite a comedic performance. Thankfully, in their second song they turned to the audience to sing it for them, (maybe they didn't know the words to "My Girl")..
On a sidenote, during the transition of each act (when they would blackout to the two ladies whom no one heard correctly), their would be these "garbage drummers", who wore garbage bags and glowsticks giving a "Blue Man Group" feel to the whole show. Someone told me "Look D*****, they're wearing garbage bags! Just like in Africa!" Needless to say, that comment was uncalled for.. (but fuck it I laughed anyway).
Well time to start the day.. (I downloaded "Across 110th Street" in commeration of Black History month.. very "funky" song from the "blaxploitation era".. hats off to you if you know who Bobby Womack is..)
Pam Grier for life y'all..

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

niice "blog" thingy..journal w/e u wanna call it.

dunno..its da same as xanga and LJ..da writin part..but w.e

payCE! =P

2:49 PM EST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lalala...hi!!!! testing...testing

10:28 PM EST  

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