A few weeks back, my Twitter feed went nuts with black film geeks famous and not famous all saying Netflix dropped a series called ‘Pioneers of African-American Cinema’ that is mandatory viewing if you’re a student of the history or the artform or the culture. And they were all right. Streaming on Netflix, twenty episodes […]
Word got to me that Sir Paul is playing Dodger Stadium next year. Against all realistic and biological odds, it looks like the stars will align for me to scratch ‘see a Beatle in concert’ off my bucket list. Besides being one of my favorite songs he wrote, this particular arrangement is incredibly beautiful. Enjoy.
OK, yesterday was a day. Let’s find something to get back to being a little bit more relaxed. Silly even. Maybe seasonal. Perfect. This is perfect. Enjoy!
So, I could have very, very easily been murdered today. I found myself Downtown this afternoon. Not L.A. Live, more the residential neighborhoods. I was wrapping up my affairs as a nearby high school was letting out. One set of boys walking down the street I was on starts shit talking another set of boys […]
My goal this year was to line up the rest of my life, the rest of my long term goals, that’s been done 11 months. I’m in a good spot. A few of you know I’ve been thinking more this year about working again behind the camera; my specific ‘voice’ can be as strong of […]
The extremely rare wet day in the City of Angels, so this is perfect. Have a good weekend everyone.
Worked away from the camera lately, setting the baseline for my voiceover work. Like being in front of the camera, you try to gravitate toward things you’re naturally passionate about, so for this I went to ‘The Book of Basketball’, the beginnings of black cinema, and luxury cars. Enjoy.
In no particular order, thank you… Mom, Pops, Sheena, the Fradieus, Darryl, Tara, Brittany, Tawana, Shannon, my ‘Fan Club’, Steve, Lorenzo, Leo, Jermaine, the Asian Delegation and my Age of Learning family, Nathan and Saba, Jay, Tish, Alfred and Amber, Adrian and Aida, Ben, Terrance, Brandon, Akela, Aaron, my Jayhawk family, Larvell and April, the […]
So, a film about a young convert finding her place (and herself) as a Muslim while also coming into her own as a young adult. You would not be wrong to deduce that I’m cheering for this film to succeed on several levels, whether it’s a good film or not. But the debut film […]
Whatever we feel about Timberlake (the Boondocks joke: Michael Jackson is not a genre of music comes to mind), this song goes. Thank you Timbaland. And this video! Man. Bill Simmons called this ‘the white people’s Hit Em Up’, and he wasn’t wrong. I mean, he got a straight Britney clone… Enjoy!
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