We lost “The Voice”. Whitney’s music had a special place in my heart.
And now, the books:
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This one has the needle moving on my I-wanna-read-'er scale
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For the budding scientist!
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Oprah puts the O's in books!
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This one measures about a 4.5 on the wanna-read-'er-scale
There were some good looking books on this list!
Your favorite musician and why?
do people really have a favorite musician? i mean like really? i for one can’t qualify any one artist as my absolute favorite. but i guess there are a top 3 or so. before my great gettin’ up mornin’ i HAFTA see stevie wonder in concert. so he’s way up there for me.
hmm. who else? i’ll cheat and re-visit my answers from one of those surveys that were all the rage for a while. this one was called ‘Your own People’s Choice Awards’. you rememba that one? you memba? you memba?
anyway i think i’ve alluded to my allegiance to that Baduizm in other posts so erykah’s a given. it’s kinda hard to explain. does erykah sometimes concern me with her over liberal, hedonism in a headwrap way of life? yeah. but i guess she speaks to that part of me that is kooky and flower childy. ‘Baduism’ got me through my 1st complicated ‘love” and broken heart and for that i’ll always be grateful. and it should be noted that erykah’s is a controlled chaos. i mean she does bizarre well. her shows never disappoint. they are entertaining and engaging from beginning to end in a way that you wanna see her EVERY time she comes to your town. can’t say the same for jill scott or india.irie (this brilliant guy i know dubbed the latter paint.drying. HILARIOUS!).
and rounding out my top 3 is the incomparable, the soulful, the ever-polarizing (according to one group [the right group] she can sang but ask those others and she needs to be that poor soul in the choir with their mic [unbeknownst to them] turned off) MARY J. BLIGE!!!
i dunno. Mary’s music is just my kinda music. her pain is always palpable and her joy seems like real joy–still subject to come back down to earth but jammin’ and happy in the moment. mary gives a song texture. i don’t really buy music anymore. i’ve got too much else to do to keep up with the musical jones. but when i was in the market. i was buying whatever these folks were selling.
A song that suits your mood:
It was between this, the Isley Brothers’ version of ‘Summer Breeze’ and Bruno Mars’ ‘The Lazy Song’. Bruno got scrapped because he started to riff mid-song about having pre-marital sex. The song started off as a proud declaration of the young man’s firm commitment to the principles of couch potato-ness and quickly devolved into sexual deviancy. NEXT!
‘Summer Breeze’ is nobody’s sloppy seconds (does that term send y’all grammatical spidey senses atingle like it does mine?). The arrangement is so evocative. The vocals are—hey it’s the Isley Brothers. If you don’t know, you should. But I’m die hard team E. Badu.
All that to say that my mood is kinda easy like Sunday mornin’ and I’m layin’ in my bed, lookin’ out my window at the “blue and green, [while] flowers bloom and birds sing…today”. And I don’t plan to do much else.
Whatchall playin’ in your mind?
life on tuesday 