Kanye West. Yes, sir.
27 December 2010
Gems.
When you give me love,
I have no fear of heights.
No fear of the deep blue sea.
Although it could drown me,
I know it could drown me.
I have no fear of heights.
No fear of the deep blue sea.
Although it could drown me,
I know it could drown me.
-Katie Melua (No Fear of Heights)
Smoking A Joint, Photographer: Stephen Shames
Photographer: Stephen Shames
Smoking a Joint, Bangladesh, 2004
Rally for Seale and Newton in Front of Federal Court Building, Photographer: Stephen Shames
Photographer: Stephen Shames
Rally for Seale and Newton in Front of Federal Court Building, San Francisco, 1970
PINA: Dance, Dance, Otherwise We are Lost (Trailer)
PINA - Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost from neueroadmovies on Vimeo.
A film for PINA BAUSCH by WIM WENDERS.
Weezer, Say It Ain't So
"Your drug is a heartbreaker.
Say it ain't so a-woah-a-woah.
My love is a life-taker."
-Weezer
Muse.
"You wanna nibble on a nigga ear.
And do all the things that make a nigga wanna get near..."
- QTip
Esthero, My Torture
I wanted to heal him,
I did not plan on staying as long
I didn't think I would need him
So how did he become
My torture.
-Esthero
26 December 2010
R.I.P Teena Marie
Square Biz by Teena Marie. Gone, but never forgotten.
A musical legend and a personal favorite of mine.
(March 5, 1956 - December 26, 2010)
Kelis feat Andre 3000, Millionaire
"I woke up early this morning. But I still ain't see the sun...." -Andre 3000
Gems.
When music and you close by
i have to shut my eyes remembering
which one of you i'm dancing with
and which one of you i'm dancing to
-Marvin K White (Foursomes)
i have to shut my eyes remembering
which one of you i'm dancing with
and which one of you i'm dancing to
-Marvin K White (Foursomes)
Gems.
If you bring forth what is within you,
What is within you will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
What is within you will destroy you.
Gems.
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes "Awww!".
-Jack Kerouac
-Jack Kerouac
24 December 2010
Drunk as Drunk, by Pablo Neruda
Drunk as drunk on turpentine
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it - our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky's hot rim,
The day's last breath in our sails.
Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,
And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.
- Pablo Neruda (Drunk as Drunk)
From your open kisses,
Your wet body wedged
Between my wet body and the strake
Of our boat that is made of flowers,
Feasted, we guide it - our fingers
Like tallows adorned with yellow metal -
Over the sky's hot rim,
The day's last breath in our sails.
Pinned by the sun between solstice
And equinox, drowsy and tangled together
We drifted for months and woke
With the bitter taste of land on our lips,
Eyelids all sticky, and we longed for lime
And the sound of a rope
Lowering a bucket down its well. Then,
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles,
And lay like fish
Under the net of our kisses.
- Pablo Neruda (Drunk as Drunk)
Gems.
We found each other
Hungry
And we bit each other
As fire bites,
Leaving wounds in us.
But wait for me,
Keep for me your sweetness...
-Pablo Neruda (Absence)
Hungry
And we bit each other
As fire bites,
Leaving wounds in us.
But wait for me,
Keep for me your sweetness...
-Pablo Neruda (Absence)
From My Eye(phone).
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
Road trippin.
En route to Pittsburgh.
Touch, by Octavio Paz
My hands
Open the curtains of your being
Clothe you in a further nudity
Uncover the bodies of your body
My hands
Invent another body for your body
- Octavio Paz
Open the curtains of your being
Clothe you in a further nudity
Uncover the bodies of your body
My hands
Invent another body for your body
- Octavio Paz
Gems.
daughters choosin to be women
lick their wounds with their own spit
til they heal
-Ntozake Shange (Resurrection of the Daughter)
lick their wounds with their own spit
til they heal
-Ntozake Shange (Resurrection of the Daughter)
Gems.
a daughter convinced her beauty an aberration
her love a fungus/ her womb a fantasy
loft eh asylum of her home on a hinch
she wd find someone who cd survive tenderness
she wd feed someone who waz in need of her fruits
she wd gather herself an eldorado of her own makin
a space/ empty of envy/ of hate
-Ntozake Shange (Resurrection of the Daughter)
her love a fungus/ her womb a fantasy
loft eh asylum of her home on a hinch
she wd find someone who cd survive tenderness
she wd feed someone who waz in need of her fruits
she wd gather herself an eldorado of her own makin
a space/ empty of envy/ of hate
-Ntozake Shange (Resurrection of the Daughter)
Amy Whinehouse, Tears Dry On Their Own
He walks away.
The sun goes down.
He takes the day,
But I am grown.
-Amy Whinehouse
Muse.
If I am Black, it is not the result of a curse, but it is because, having offered my skin, I have been able to absorb all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a ray of sunlight.
-Frantz Fanon
Gems.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all: ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
-Marquis De Sade
-Marquis De Sade
Gems.
Even now
I remember something
the way the flower
in the jar of water
remembers its life
in the perfect garden.
-Mary Oliver
I remember something
the way the flower
in the jar of water
remembers its life
in the perfect garden.
-Mary Oliver
Gems.
You can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
-Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
-Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Gems.
Sappy pathetic little me.
That was the girl I used to be.
You had me on my knees.
-No Doubt (Sunday Morning)
That was the girl I used to be.
You had me on my knees.
-No Doubt (Sunday Morning)
Amel Larrieux, For Real
"I can breathe you,
I can drink in your laugh.
I can,
I can live on your smile."
20 December 2010
8 Ways of Looking at Pussy
1. enter here and find your home
your bathwater run already
the sun setting in the distance
heat on the horizon of your clit
6. I love like the ocean at first light
the waves coming in to meet the edges of earth;
rushing up and back like tiny orgasms
high tide the explosion
of you
on my tongue
-Letta Neely (8 Ways of Looking at Pussy)
your bathwater run already
the sun setting in the distance
heat on the horizon of your clit
6. I love like the ocean at first light
the waves coming in to meet the edges of earth;
rushing up and back like tiny orgasms
high tide the explosion
of you
on my tongue
-Letta Neely (8 Ways of Looking at Pussy)
Random Thought.
Waiting for your response to my persistant messages
I feel like a dog
yapping at your feet for attention.
Could you throw me a bone?
-HF
I feel like a dog
yapping at your feet for attention.
Could you throw me a bone?
-HF
18 December 2010
Gems.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the Black experience.
-August WIlson
14 December 2010
Wet Dream, by Carlos Omar Gardinet
I.
Sprinkles of rain
caressed my mouth
Thinking it was your love
I swallowed
Only to wake up
and realize
I left the windows
open
II.
Calm
like the eye of a hurricane
you lay silent and wait
to destroy my life.
-Carlos Omar Gardinet
Sprinkles of rain
caressed my mouth
Thinking it was your love
I swallowed
Only to wake up
and realize
I left the windows
open
II.
Calm
like the eye of a hurricane
you lay silent and wait
to destroy my life.
-Carlos Omar Gardinet
Gems.
Something about you
all of us
with songs inside
knifing the air of sorrow
with our dance
a carnival of spirits
shredded blossoms
in the water
-Jessica Hagedorn (Something About You)
all of us
with songs inside
knifing the air of sorrow
with our dance
a carnival of spirits
shredded blossoms
in the water
-Jessica Hagedorn (Something About You)
Sorcery, by Jessica Hagedorn
there are some people i know
whose beauty
is a crime.
who make you so crazy
you don't know
whether to throw yourself
at them
or kill them.
which makes
for permanent madness.
which could be
bad for you.
you better be on the lookout
for such circumstances.
stay away
from the night.
they most likely lurk
in the corners of the room
where they think
they being inconspicuous
but they so beautiful
an aura
gives them away.
stay away
form the day.
they most likely
be walking
down the street
when you least
expect it
trying to look
ordinary
but they so fine
they break your heart
by making you dream
of other possibilities.
stay away
from crazy music.
they most likely
be creating it
cuz
when you're that beautiful
you can't help
putting it out there.
everyone knows
how dangerous
that can get.
stay away
from magic shows.
especially those
involving words
words are very
tricky things.
everyone knows
words
the most common
instruments of
illusion.
they most likey
be saying them.
breathing poems
so rhythmic
you can't help
but dance.
and once
you start dancing
to words
you might never
stop.
-Jessica Hagedron (Sorcery)
whose beauty
is a crime.
who make you so crazy
you don't know
whether to throw yourself
at them
or kill them.
which makes
for permanent madness.
which could be
bad for you.
you better be on the lookout
for such circumstances.
stay away
from the night.
they most likely lurk
in the corners of the room
where they think
they being inconspicuous
but they so beautiful
an aura
gives them away.
stay away
form the day.
they most likely
be walking
down the street
when you least
expect it
trying to look
ordinary
but they so fine
they break your heart
by making you dream
of other possibilities.
stay away
from crazy music.
they most likely
be creating it
cuz
when you're that beautiful
you can't help
putting it out there.
everyone knows
how dangerous
that can get.
stay away
from magic shows.
especially those
involving words
words are very
tricky things.
everyone knows
words
the most common
instruments of
illusion.
they most likey
be saying them.
breathing poems
so rhythmic
you can't help
but dance.
and once
you start dancing
to words
you might never
stop.
-Jessica Hagedron (Sorcery)
13 December 2010
Gems.
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is the promulgation of promises of eternal passion... Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
New York Times Style Magazine, Dec 2010
New York Times Style Magazine, Dec 2010
Model: Arlenis Sosa
Photographed by Camilla Akrans
(I miss home and the feel of the ocean/wet sand in-between my toes...)
Gems.
Wandering
Wandering
I could spend my life
Traveling the length
Of your body
each night.
-Jewel (Jupiter)
Wandering
I could spend my life
Traveling the length
Of your body
each night.
-Jewel (Jupiter)
Gems.
My hands are two travellers
That've crossed oceans and lands.
Yet,
They are too small
On the continent of your skin.
- Jewel (Jupiter)
That've crossed oceans and lands.
Yet,
They are too small
On the continent of your skin.
- Jewel (Jupiter)
Gems.
Take these stars from my crown.
Let the years fall down.
Lay me out in fire light.
Let my skin feel the night.
Fasten me to your side.
And say it'll be soon.
-Jewel (Jupiter)
Let the years fall down.
Lay me out in fire light.
Let my skin feel the night.
Fasten me to your side.
And say it'll be soon.
-Jewel (Jupiter)
Gems.
A good love is delicious,
You can't get enough too soon.
It makes you so crazy
you wanna swallow the moon.
-Jewel (Jupiter)
You can't get enough too soon.
It makes you so crazy
you wanna swallow the moon.
-Jewel (Jupiter)
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