ArtFradieu Week Part 1: ‘Southland’

  Kind of out of sorts; lost someone else who looked out for me when I was younger.  I’ll talk about that more later in the week. For now though, things fell kind of nicely this week as far as the timing of when certain things show up on television (and no I’m not referring […]

So I Won’t Have to Keep Answering These…

  This weekend went beyond my expectations so we’ll delay the music for a day.  I’d say from Christmas to now I’ve seen 80 to 90 percent of the people I care about, and certain questions keep coming up repeatedly.  So here’s a quick Frequently Asked Questions post for the other 10 percent of you […]

Confession…

  I have a confession… Even in my mind’s eye, when I made to this point where everything I wanted become more tangible and less hypothetical…I didn’t think I would be enjoying myself. That’s the truth behind the joke of ‘the Batman’ and my militant phase.  I have never questioned my various talents or my […]

Song of the Day – Favorite Thangs

  Tomorrow’s post is one of my annual ‘speak from the heart’ posts, so you’ll forgive me if I use today to speak from the heart (and other areas)… One of my cousins turned me onto this cat a couple years ago.  There are a lot of great interpretations of this song (Coltrane and Andre […]

Song of the Day – Got My Mind Made Up

  Once a week for these, I’ll try to give a detailed breakdown of a song I post.  This one was easy since it’s a personal favorite… Got My Mind Made Up is hiding on ‘All Eyez on Me’, and it still plays as a great ‘one-upsmanship’ song between great rappers.  This song should have been […]

Celeste and Jesse Forever

  Celeste and Jesse Forever is love, L.A. style.  Written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, the characters are a little more adult than the ones we saw in 500 Days of Summer and it shows.  The title characters have been separated for almost a year but haven’t quite moved on yet…until one of them (in this case […]

One Down…

  That first month moved at a nice clip.  I owe you a few more movie reviews that may or may not come before the Oscars.  I will give my predictions before the 24th; I promise you that much. A little bit of adjusting had to be done (as I’m sure you’ve all done when […]

Thanks – 2012

‘It’s happening.  It’s happening right now.’ As I’ve touched base with the people closest to me, that’s been the overall message about this year.  Everything broke right, the pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place, my confidence is peaking.  I feel like Neo in the pic above: you know you’re in the Matrix, you’ve […]