The past few years, the majority of my volunteer work has been with the Screening Committee for the LA Film Festival. One of the films I advocated for last year was ‘G Funk’, which gathered most of the living legends of West Coast Hip Hop to talk about how they met each other, how […]
Tis the weekend! Back on my grind, so I pulled from my favorites. I was never the biggest Ne Yo fan, but have to give credit where it’s due. This is one of the better covers of one of my favorite MJ songs. Have a good one folks.
Pac emerging as a solo artist, and if I’m not mistaken, John’s first music video (if not, certainly very early in his directing career.) Enjoy!
I was trying to figure out why I feel so conflicted when I heard this song this morning so I looked up the video… ‘Oh yeah, Case is karaoking a Stevie Wonder classic…’ ‘Oh there’s Ja throwing up the W with Pauly Shore…’ ‘Is that Baron Davis meeting them outside the Viper Room?’ In […]
Well… We’re still here. Enjoy the day off everyone.
It’s the weekend! It’s also Mel Brooks’ birthday. Even if I’m not terribly focused on comedy in my art right now, I am focused on the world I live in. Mel Brooks remains one of the best to have done it. My personal favorite of his will always be ‘Blazing Saddles’ (of course), but […]
Today’s video is one of my theme songs, performed by one of the show biz greats. I’ve auditioned to play Sammy once; it’s still a dream part for me. May realistically be a little too far removed at the moment for what Paramount is setting up, but you never know… Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHvw5eP5zU
My Ramadan goal this year wasn’t as dramatic as the past few. I didn’t focus hard on improving my Arabic; I didn’t donate all my excess material stuff to Goodwill. I came into the holy month in awe that I’ve been able to live my life without destroying ‘my life.’ I’ve also been aware, […]
The official answer to it all is, ‘It is the will of Allah.’ If I go before I resurface next month, Surah 2, verse 286 should be on the front of the program: ‘Allah imposes not on any soul a duty beyond its scope.’ When my mind is quiet though, (which is often now), […]
One more song… This is darkly comic now, but in my deep dive of Malcolm’s life there was a 48 hour period last week where I was listening to the full audio of ‘Message to the Grassroots’, and ‘the Ballot or the Bullet’, then Kanye went public calling a slavery a choice and I […]
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