Directed by Jack White
As I am in Atlanta working on a lot of uber top secret music video stuff, I have been watching A LOT (no really a lot) of music videos. I wish I could share them all with you, but that’s like telling people what cologne you wear. Next thing you know everybody ends up smelling like you!
But this one, you should have. Enjoy your life.
Go to this page and donate $5 or $10 to Turn off the TV. It’s for a good cause…
This is the first video off The Remnant’s 2009 album, PB&J. “Know This” featuring Scar. Lie and tell us you loved it! Shot and Directed by Nathan Corrona of Dust Brand Films. http://www.dustbrandfilms.com
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“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
I have the esteemed pleasure and honor of being in three of the four weddings I will be attending before the year is over. One of these weddings has me at the helm of the traditional bachelor party, as I will be standing closest to the groom…until he stands next to his blushing bride. The four ceremonies that I will be attending are all weddings of fraternity brothers. (and they said we were playboys for life, ha!)
But before we get fitted for our tuxedos and schedule the rehearsal dinners, we are going to need some pallbearers and somebody to type up the obituary. See, with our entry into the next stage in our lives, things change. In some ways it is the death of a lifestyle. There won’t be as many trips to exotic places with the fellas. There surely won’t be any chasing tails at the let out anymore. There won’t be as many late nights out when we come to town. Shoot there won’t be as many “when we come to town’s”. Honestly, I am okay with it because there will be births and visits and barbecues and Christenings and graduations and Godfathers…
The truth is, I am probably a lot father, excuse me farther, from marriage than I would like to be and definitely farther from marriage than my Grandmeré would want me to be. (She is famous for telling everyone at my 26th birthday dinner that she wishes I “would just put my sperm somewhere.”) For those that don’t know, I grew up in a close knit family and though it was small, I always knew that I would have one of my own one day. The goal was to do it traditionally, meaning within wedlock. So far so good. But I also grew up with a dream and though it was huge, I always knew I would live it one day. So far so good. But I need a little more time than I thought I would.
So I am glad that everyone is getting married. There is a sort of relief with all of my boys settling down. Though there is the added pressure from the women around us. (“Oh well, I guess you’re next George!!”) But when your boys get hitched, it kind of pacifies and satiates that social and biological desire people have to go to a wedding. Because if you’re waiting on me…well, I mean I don’t even have a girlfriend yet.
So here’s to four weddings…and a funeral.
P.S. Do you take a date to a wedding that you are IN?
Professor Cornel West of Princeton University has a message for the US president as he completes his first year in the White House.What do you citizens of America think?
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I’ve been…
painting my stanzas on every inch of this canvas
Because my brain is off the chain and my mind is off the planet
I’m funky as a monkey whose been eating bad bananas
And colder than a polar with avalanches in his sandwich
Either way you couldn’t manage so you admonish this with harsh demonstratives–
haunted by your parents and your fear of monster kids
But this monster lives under surfaces unseen
Not only in their windows but in the flatest of your screens…or plasma
(Breath)
Your asthma isn’t real, you’re just scared to take a breath
or a chance
dream a dream
dance a dance
Any you think I’m silly for trying to convince you that your life is just outside
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“Gentleman, synchronize Swatches”
Not watches….Swatches!
*credit Saida for the title
Last spring the renowned illustrator and conceptually gifted visual artist Chad Weatherford came to Wondaland to begin work on album art for Janelle Monae’s new project. Chad is the kind of guy that only needs a can of soup, a cup of coffee and a space. Over the course of the 6 days he was in town, he probably completed 50-60 individual sketches of people, rocks, costumes, concepts, graphs, giraffes, carafts, and…me!
I didn’t even know that he was sketching me as we were sitting in the kitchen in conversation. I got up to use the bathroom and when I walked behind him, I saw this sketch .
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