Self,
The weekend of Father's Day I attended the Playboy Jazz Festival held here in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl. To my dismay I was late but I was able to still make it in plenty of time to see the "main" performers.
The performers that were the highlights for me were:
Sheila E.
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
WE had plenty of food to munch on. The venue openly allows alcohol so we were sipping on Jack Daniel's Honey Whiskey and lemonade. a variety of Jello-shots were flying about the seats. We laughed and just had a good time. I tried to figure out how to use Instagram, but I couldn't while I was there with both food and cocktail in my hands.
I even tried a "funny" brownie for the first time. It really didn't taste all that good. I was told I was "on one" later in the evening...but I didn't feel any different,...that's not true I had a headache. The lack of a buzz makes me wonder if the "effects" are really just in the users' head and because they want it to do something to make them feel a certain way, then it does make them feel that way.
I also now have tickets to attend Jazzfest West in July out in HOT ASS SAN DIMAS, CA....FOR TWO DAYS! But the list of performers shuold make it worth suffering the heat..... However the guidelines for this venue prohibits damn near everything because they want you to buy everything from their venders. I have figured out Instagram....I think, so I should have it running for in San Dimas....lol course they may confiscate my phone for running around naked if it gets hot enough. Kidding!
Sincerely,
Pharoah
I'm off to Las Vegas for a conference I'll be testing this Instagram to see if I can get it working by Jazzfest West.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Pot's Right
Self,
So this past weekend was the birthday weekend for both, the Royal Brother, and Prince Esquire. Lots of activities to celebrate both occasions.
Prince Esquire had a list of events that started on Thursday we went to a "underground" Cuban Rum bar. It was cute the underground part was that they had it set up as if you walked in to and office and the "secretary" greeted you then opened the secret door to let you into the "speak easy" club. It was a fun night for a Thursday. Prince Esquire also...."held court" at a bar in WeHo where there was a drag show. Although I did make an appearance at this event, I had missed the show and simply had a drink with the group, which included both my girlfriend and my mistress....my wife no longer comes out to party since she has kids with her legal husband. And then Sunday Esquire again held court at a champagne brunch buffet. I think all those who attended had a good time.
The reason I was late to the drag show was due to the event honoring the Royal Brother's birthday. His girlfriend had planned a suprised poker party for him at her parents home that included BBQ burgers and hot dogs. They play "Texas Hold'em," for those that are curious. The suprised part was for 2:30pm and my thought was that I could stay a couple hours then join Esquire and the gang for 9pm. Well...I decided to get into the poker game. And washed out after about the second hand thanks to the Royal Brother. I sat there watching and then one of thr Royal Brother's friends who had been doing pretty well most of the game decided she had to leave and let me take over her chips...and I was able to come back and win the prize.
I was surprised to win...but the prize was a nice blessing that arrived....when I needed it. I collected my prize, helped clean up a bit, then ran to catch Prince Esquire and the gang. Later when I saw the Royal Brother again at home, I gave him a piece of the prize because well he was the birthday boy and if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have been playing in the first place.
It was then jokingly mentioned by my folks when they heard that I won, that my brother's friend who left me her chips will be expecting her share of the prize.
Should I share part of the prize with her?
Sincerely,
Pharoah
PS for the record I already know what I am going to do, but as always I am curious to hear what thoughts other may have to share.
So this past weekend was the birthday weekend for both, the Royal Brother, and Prince Esquire. Lots of activities to celebrate both occasions.
Prince Esquire had a list of events that started on Thursday we went to a "underground" Cuban Rum bar. It was cute the underground part was that they had it set up as if you walked in to and office and the "secretary" greeted you then opened the secret door to let you into the "speak easy" club. It was a fun night for a Thursday. Prince Esquire also...."held court" at a bar in WeHo where there was a drag show. Although I did make an appearance at this event, I had missed the show and simply had a drink with the group, which included both my girlfriend and my mistress....my wife no longer comes out to party since she has kids with her legal husband. And then Sunday Esquire again held court at a champagne brunch buffet. I think all those who attended had a good time.
The reason I was late to the drag show was due to the event honoring the Royal Brother's birthday. His girlfriend had planned a suprised poker party for him at her parents home that included BBQ burgers and hot dogs. They play "Texas Hold'em," for those that are curious. The suprised part was for 2:30pm and my thought was that I could stay a couple hours then join Esquire and the gang for 9pm. Well...I decided to get into the poker game. And washed out after about the second hand thanks to the Royal Brother. I sat there watching and then one of thr Royal Brother's friends who had been doing pretty well most of the game decided she had to leave and let me take over her chips...and I was able to come back and win the prize.
I was surprised to win...but the prize was a nice blessing that arrived....when I needed it. I collected my prize, helped clean up a bit, then ran to catch Prince Esquire and the gang. Later when I saw the Royal Brother again at home, I gave him a piece of the prize because well he was the birthday boy and if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have been playing in the first place.
It was then jokingly mentioned by my folks when they heard that I won, that my brother's friend who left me her chips will be expecting her share of the prize.
Should I share part of the prize with her?
Sincerely,
Pharoah
PS for the record I already know what I am going to do, but as always I am curious to hear what thoughts other may have to share.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Movie Fun
Self,
Ok I think everyone agrees "The Avengers" was pretty awesome. MIB was good too. Battleship was good considering that it was based on a boardgame and there were no specific character that they writers had to hold true to for fans, like with the comicbood based films. The surpise kicker is "What to Expect When You're Expecting." This movie was so funny. It has that subtle real humor like "Bridemaids."
I want to see these;
Hopefully, they will be as good as I'm hoping they will be.
What movies are you looking forward to seeing?
Sincerely,
Pharoah
One of the things I love about the summertime ...aside from the always wonderful weather that we have here in Southern California....is that this is prime movie season.
I've already seen these;
Ok I think everyone agrees "The Avengers" was pretty awesome. MIB was good too. Battleship was good considering that it was based on a boardgame and there were no specific character that they writers had to hold true to for fans, like with the comicbood based films. The surpise kicker is "What to Expect When You're Expecting." This movie was so funny. It has that subtle real humor like "Bridemaids."
I want to see these;
Hopefully, they will be as good as I'm hoping they will be.
What movies are you looking forward to seeing?
Sincerely,
Pharoah
Friday, June 8, 2012
Spending Time
Self,
So I guess it's ok to share that I have been "spending time" getting to know someone. We've been hanging out since the end of April. I'm almost constantly laughing with him, because we seem to always be teasing and verbally jabbing each other. One running joke is his nickname, (which I'll use here) is "the Black Hobbit" because he is short and has a dark complexion.
We are keeping things very casual....no pressure to label what we are doing or lay claim to each other, unlike with KB....which I'm really appreciating.
The possible problem is....Hobbit shares an apartment with his Ex. On one hand that really doesn't bother me, because...well for one - this it not the most recent ex he is living with and supposedly they are more like family now, two - even if they are fucking....I don't care since we have no claims on each other like that to be worried about.
However what I am kinda worried about is that the Ex had a biopsy and is sounds like the results came back cancerous, which it seems to have the Hobbit a bit...out of sorts, if not under duress. From just the brief conversation The Hobbit and I had about it, he's planning to be extremely involved in the Ex's recovering process.....and yeah the selfish part of me potentially sees that as bad news for me.
Sincerely
Pharoah
So I guess it's ok to share that I have been "spending time" getting to know someone. We've been hanging out since the end of April. I'm almost constantly laughing with him, because we seem to always be teasing and verbally jabbing each other. One running joke is his nickname, (which I'll use here) is "the Black Hobbit" because he is short and has a dark complexion.
We are keeping things very casual....no pressure to label what we are doing or lay claim to each other, unlike with KB....which I'm really appreciating.
The possible problem is....Hobbit shares an apartment with his Ex. On one hand that really doesn't bother me, because...well for one - this it not the most recent ex he is living with and supposedly they are more like family now, two - even if they are fucking....I don't care since we have no claims on each other like that to be worried about.
However what I am kinda worried about is that the Ex had a biopsy and is sounds like the results came back cancerous, which it seems to have the Hobbit a bit...out of sorts, if not under duress. From just the brief conversation The Hobbit and I had about it, he's planning to be extremely involved in the Ex's recovering process.....and yeah the selfish part of me potentially sees that as bad news for me.
Sincerely
Pharoah
Monday, June 4, 2012
More Ups & Downs from Memorial Weekend.
Self,
So I was in Phoenix for several days and the incident with the 5AMer was actually still pretty early in my visit and there were others guys I had planned to meet....both of these are platonic connections.
The first is an up situation. we have been chatting for a while and we simply conversed while stuffing our faces....no problems. The guy, IC, seems cool and I think we will continue to build towards a good friendship.
The down....well is should have been an up...but it went wrong. I already have decided what I'm going to do but I'm just getting it off my chest.
So this guy, WG, we had talked years ago and reconnect a while back...I think even before I met KB...but there wasn't any romance talk because he is in a relationship...so was I at the time. And we mostly played "Word with Friends," Scramble with Friends," and "Hanging with Friends." Nothing major.
So the Sunday of the holiday weekend we planned to meet initially at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf....but I was getting hungry and suggest lunch. Then he says something about not being sure if he want's to tell his boyfriend about me because his boyfriend gets jealous easily. I could care less if he tells the boyfriend or not so I am confused and text, "Well it's up to you....I doubt you plan to take me back to your plave to have hot sex on a platter so there's really nothing for him to be jealous about. but you know him best."
"Yeah he is crazy sometimes...and your moral values would prevent us from having hot sex on a platter."
I send, "My moral values or yours?" [Side bar...I'm a guy, I wasn't looking for sex, didn't really have any interest in sex with him....but I'm a guy...if you are going to offer than I'm going to be open to it...besides my feelings about it is that I can always say no at any time....even if you are standing in front of me naked with an erection...if I'm not feeling it then I'm not feeling it. So since he made the offer I'll see where it goes.]
"Ours, but if you want to come over tomorrow you can send the night. That would be better."
"So you don't want to meet today?"
"If you want a shot at sex tomorrow is better cuz he'll be home and I'll be at my place."
I send, "LOL oh so you want to have sex? Well we can postpone...but lunch today doesn't mean no sex tomorrow."
"LOL. I told [the boyfriend] and he acting up so I told him you are heading back in the morning. I'll see you tomorrow night XXXX Streent name here."
The next day I try to get WG to set a time to meet because I was to also coordinate meeting with IC because where I was staying is like 30 miles outside the city I didn't want to meet IC then drive to My cousin's then turn around to drive back to Phoenix to meet up with WG. We set a time but then he flakes on meeting by saying the boyfriend is drunk and he wants to go home with him. I understood and let it go.
So a couple days later I'm going about my business at home and get a text from WG saying hi and he sorry I didn't get the sex I was wanting in there in Phoenix.
I told him I was not looking for sex and that it was his suggestion and remind him that I said that we WEREN'T having sex so there was nothing for his boyfriend to be jealous about.
He then said he made the offer to go to his place as a test because he was curious about my motives..but sex didn't really cross his mind.
Then he gives me a load of crap about how he wish I respected relationships more but he respects me immensely for being honest about my willingness to mess with guys who are in relationships. Then texts, " You values and mine are very different mine, You are moe selfish. There is an innocent party involved, someone who your moment of greediness and disrespect may directly -god forbid- or if the innocent one is lucky inadvertently affect. The fact that your moral prism doesn't include that person in view is disconerting is all Im saying. It's short sighted, myopic and selfish to put it mildly."
Im floored at the audacity. I send back "Hmm that's really the pot callin the kettle black...the meer suggestion that YOU were willing to cheat on your relationship shows the same selfishness and disrepect for the innocent part. Which makes your accessment of my "moral compass" quite hypocritical."
"Not at all....blah blah blah...I don't expect that we'll agree on the matter at all because we dont come from the same moral upbringing-we dont have the same value system so I don't expect you to "get it" as it were, but I'm just expessing myself for the bery selfish motive of getting it off my chest. I don't expect to win you to my side whatsoever, your values are something you are content with and I respect it, but it informs me what access I can offer to my life."
"I feel you are back pedallin since I've told you how your test was flawed ...because it is crazy to think your boyfriend is going to be jealous of two friends meeting for lunch so raising that point was the initial problem because really it's a mute point. However I'm tired of this game...u want to stand in judment...then so be it. What I get is that u have a need to be self-righteous and feel that u are superior in some way....so you can have that too. I don't want a friend who is going to try to judge me when he sets me up to fail. So we can keep the accest to each other like it is. Sorry my attempt to get to know u better was just a game for you."
Then he says he agrees contact should be limited and the conversation should be more "surface" which I took to meanhe meant superficial and asked me if I heard any good music lately...
I intertained that for a bit...but really I wasn't interested in the convo anymore.
Truth of the matter is that I think we have a different opinion of what "limited access" to each other will mean, I'm not sure what he think it means but suffice it to say...from this point on...for me the only access I'm allowing is the continued participation of the games of Scamble and Hanging with friends....something I do with random strangers anyway...and now I know he's nothing more than that.
Sincerely,
Pharoah
So I was in Phoenix for several days and the incident with the 5AMer was actually still pretty early in my visit and there were others guys I had planned to meet....both of these are platonic connections.
The first is an up situation. we have been chatting for a while and we simply conversed while stuffing our faces....no problems. The guy, IC, seems cool and I think we will continue to build towards a good friendship.
The down....well is should have been an up...but it went wrong. I already have decided what I'm going to do but I'm just getting it off my chest.
So this guy, WG, we had talked years ago and reconnect a while back...I think even before I met KB...but there wasn't any romance talk because he is in a relationship...so was I at the time. And we mostly played "Word with Friends," Scramble with Friends," and "Hanging with Friends." Nothing major.
So the Sunday of the holiday weekend we planned to meet initially at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf....but I was getting hungry and suggest lunch. Then he says something about not being sure if he want's to tell his boyfriend about me because his boyfriend gets jealous easily. I could care less if he tells the boyfriend or not so I am confused and text, "Well it's up to you....I doubt you plan to take me back to your plave to have hot sex on a platter so there's really nothing for him to be jealous about. but you know him best."
"Yeah he is crazy sometimes...and your moral values would prevent us from having hot sex on a platter."
I send, "My moral values or yours?" [Side bar...I'm a guy, I wasn't looking for sex, didn't really have any interest in sex with him....but I'm a guy...if you are going to offer than I'm going to be open to it...besides my feelings about it is that I can always say no at any time....even if you are standing in front of me naked with an erection...if I'm not feeling it then I'm not feeling it. So since he made the offer I'll see where it goes.]
"Ours, but if you want to come over tomorrow you can send the night. That would be better."
"So you don't want to meet today?"
"If you want a shot at sex tomorrow is better cuz he'll be home and I'll be at my place."
I send, "LOL oh so you want to have sex? Well we can postpone...but lunch today doesn't mean no sex tomorrow."
"LOL. I told [the boyfriend] and he acting up so I told him you are heading back in the morning. I'll see you tomorrow night XXXX Streent name here."
The next day I try to get WG to set a time to meet because I was to also coordinate meeting with IC because where I was staying is like 30 miles outside the city I didn't want to meet IC then drive to My cousin's then turn around to drive back to Phoenix to meet up with WG. We set a time but then he flakes on meeting by saying the boyfriend is drunk and he wants to go home with him. I understood and let it go.
So a couple days later I'm going about my business at home and get a text from WG saying hi and he sorry I didn't get the sex I was wanting in there in Phoenix.
I told him I was not looking for sex and that it was his suggestion and remind him that I said that we WEREN'T having sex so there was nothing for his boyfriend to be jealous about.
He then said he made the offer to go to his place as a test because he was curious about my motives..but sex didn't really cross his mind.
Then he gives me a load of crap about how he wish I respected relationships more but he respects me immensely for being honest about my willingness to mess with guys who are in relationships. Then texts, " You values and mine are very different mine, You are moe selfish. There is an innocent party involved, someone who your moment of greediness and disrespect may directly -god forbid- or if the innocent one is lucky inadvertently affect. The fact that your moral prism doesn't include that person in view is disconerting is all Im saying. It's short sighted, myopic and selfish to put it mildly."
Im floored at the audacity. I send back "Hmm that's really the pot callin the kettle black...the meer suggestion that YOU were willing to cheat on your relationship shows the same selfishness and disrepect for the innocent part. Which makes your accessment of my "moral compass" quite hypocritical."
"Not at all....blah blah blah...I don't expect that we'll agree on the matter at all because we dont come from the same moral upbringing-we dont have the same value system so I don't expect you to "get it" as it were, but I'm just expessing myself for the bery selfish motive of getting it off my chest. I don't expect to win you to my side whatsoever, your values are something you are content with and I respect it, but it informs me what access I can offer to my life."
"I feel you are back pedallin since I've told you how your test was flawed ...because it is crazy to think your boyfriend is going to be jealous of two friends meeting for lunch so raising that point was the initial problem because really it's a mute point. However I'm tired of this game...u want to stand in judment...then so be it. What I get is that u have a need to be self-righteous and feel that u are superior in some way....so you can have that too. I don't want a friend who is going to try to judge me when he sets me up to fail. So we can keep the accest to each other like it is. Sorry my attempt to get to know u better was just a game for you."
Then he says he agrees contact should be limited and the conversation should be more "surface" which I took to meanhe meant superficial and asked me if I heard any good music lately...
I intertained that for a bit...but really I wasn't interested in the convo anymore.
Truth of the matter is that I think we have a different opinion of what "limited access" to each other will mean, I'm not sure what he think it means but suffice it to say...from this point on...for me the only access I'm allowing is the continued participation of the games of Scamble and Hanging with friends....something I do with random strangers anyway...and now I know he's nothing more than that.
Sincerely,
Pharoah
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Memorial Weekend Up's & Down's
Self,
So for the holiday I was in Phoenix, AZ with family. Surprisingly it was not hot as hell there....not until the day I left, which I took as AZ's way of letting me know it was time for me to go home....lol and I did!
I know I titled this "the Up's and down's" but I don't know if I want to start with the ups or downs.
Well I will start with the good because that was the whole reason for the trip. I was in AZ because my nephin (nephew-cousin...ie my cousin's oldest son who is like a nephew because of my relationship with his mom) is now a High school graduate...and well a college student all in the same trip. Obviously, attending my nephin's graduation was the purpose of my trip to the state that's usually hot as hell, this time of year. He's also a college student becasue his mom made him enroll in summer classed at the local community college that happen to start YESTERDAY (5/29/12.) Yeah I think that kind of sucked too, but he has to be in school to stay on the family health insurace and she wasn't going to let him sit in the house all summer playing video games while she and her husband went to work everyday. LOL I don't blame her.
The down....
Well I had been comunicating with this guy who lives there...well actually three, but this one in particular I think I was really feeling. So the day after the graduation, CH (his initials) and I plan to meet. We have a late meal, play a couple games of cosmic bowling, skinny dip in his jacuzzi, watch "The Iron Lady" (because that was one of the only of his many bootlegs dvds he had that would actually plays.) About 5am we're naked in his bed and things start getting ...exciting. Just as things start getting intense....I say something that he decides to responds to by rolling over and going to sleep....I'm left laying in bed next to him feeling insulted and hurt. Well it is after 5am and the drive back to my cousin's house in the boonies would be murder, so I just trun over and get soem sleep also. I wake a couple hours later, still feelin insulted I dress and leave.
Most of the day goes by and I didn't hear from CH, which to me kind of adds insult to injury...or rather injury to insult. So I send a text that was uncomplimentary. Of course that results in a few uncomplimentary text directed at me. Needless to say at this point we are no longer speaking with each other.
In the text dialogue we had CH basically said that the events of 5am had nothing to do with those at 9am surrounding my departure and that it was very shady of me to have slept in his bed and not have acknowledge him when I left. Hindsight being 100% more clear, I did and do agree with him. I can't help but wonder if I was somehow subcounciously sabotaging the situation. I mean I was having a pretty good time....he is sexy as hell...pretty much a example of my ideal man physically (aaahh, the ass and thighs on this man that became apparent when his clothes came off......not to mention the more obvious arms, chest and abs. I don't know if all that measure out for me in a way that I wasn't....entitled to be with someone like that....if I could keep someone like that interested and satisfied....if I would be enough for him. Then you through in the logistics....he lives in FREAKIN PHOENIX, AZ! I mean I had enough of a headache with KB who only lived a 45 minute drive away...CH is 5 hours! (yes only an hour by flight...but I aint rich and will be even less so once I buy a house.)...and its PHOENIX......a city I nearly despise...and can almost say with certainty that I will never live there.
So maybe I unintentially blew up the situation. That said when I CH pointed out my errors I of course apologized but he doesn't believe me and didn't feel it was genuine. Part of me wants to do SOMETHING to try to make my feelings and apologies more clear and sincere. or should I just let it go?
Don't get me wrong, I have also considered that his words and reaction may have just been an act and he played it up to make his infaction at 5am seem more insignificant. That said the fact remains that although I did feel wronged by him, I feel bad that I wronged him in the process and feel I should try to fix it.
If anyone is reading this...I would like to hear your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Pharoah
So for the holiday I was in Phoenix, AZ with family. Surprisingly it was not hot as hell there....not until the day I left, which I took as AZ's way of letting me know it was time for me to go home....lol and I did!
I know I titled this "the Up's and down's" but I don't know if I want to start with the ups or downs.
Well I will start with the good because that was the whole reason for the trip. I was in AZ because my nephin (nephew-cousin...ie my cousin's oldest son who is like a nephew because of my relationship with his mom) is now a High school graduate...and well a college student all in the same trip. Obviously, attending my nephin's graduation was the purpose of my trip to the state that's usually hot as hell, this time of year. He's also a college student becasue his mom made him enroll in summer classed at the local community college that happen to start YESTERDAY (5/29/12.) Yeah I think that kind of sucked too, but he has to be in school to stay on the family health insurace and she wasn't going to let him sit in the house all summer playing video games while she and her husband went to work everyday. LOL I don't blame her.
The down....
Well I had been comunicating with this guy who lives there...well actually three, but this one in particular I think I was really feeling. So the day after the graduation, CH (his initials) and I plan to meet. We have a late meal, play a couple games of cosmic bowling, skinny dip in his jacuzzi, watch "The Iron Lady" (because that was one of the only of his many bootlegs dvds he had that would actually plays.) About 5am we're naked in his bed and things start getting ...exciting. Just as things start getting intense....I say something that he decides to responds to by rolling over and going to sleep....I'm left laying in bed next to him feeling insulted and hurt. Well it is after 5am and the drive back to my cousin's house in the boonies would be murder, so I just trun over and get soem sleep also. I wake a couple hours later, still feelin insulted I dress and leave.
Most of the day goes by and I didn't hear from CH, which to me kind of adds insult to injury...or rather injury to insult. So I send a text that was uncomplimentary. Of course that results in a few uncomplimentary text directed at me. Needless to say at this point we are no longer speaking with each other.
In the text dialogue we had CH basically said that the events of 5am had nothing to do with those at 9am surrounding my departure and that it was very shady of me to have slept in his bed and not have acknowledge him when I left. Hindsight being 100% more clear, I did and do agree with him. I can't help but wonder if I was somehow subcounciously sabotaging the situation. I mean I was having a pretty good time....he is sexy as hell...pretty much a example of my ideal man physically (aaahh, the ass and thighs on this man that became apparent when his clothes came off......not to mention the more obvious arms, chest and abs. I don't know if all that measure out for me in a way that I wasn't....entitled to be with someone like that....if I could keep someone like that interested and satisfied....if I would be enough for him. Then you through in the logistics....he lives in FREAKIN PHOENIX, AZ! I mean I had enough of a headache with KB who only lived a 45 minute drive away...CH is 5 hours! (yes only an hour by flight...but I aint rich and will be even less so once I buy a house.)...and its PHOENIX......a city I nearly despise...and can almost say with certainty that I will never live there.
So maybe I unintentially blew up the situation. That said when I CH pointed out my errors I of course apologized but he doesn't believe me and didn't feel it was genuine. Part of me wants to do SOMETHING to try to make my feelings and apologies more clear and sincere. or should I just let it go?
Don't get me wrong, I have also considered that his words and reaction may have just been an act and he played it up to make his infaction at 5am seem more insignificant. That said the fact remains that although I did feel wronged by him, I feel bad that I wronged him in the process and feel I should try to fix it.
If anyone is reading this...I would like to hear your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Pharoah
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Hills Are Alive With Music Again
Self,
Thanks to Aunt K, I have been reinvesting in my love of music....and the joy/excitement of discovering "new" music.
See what had happened was...
On my last visit to her house when I soaked up some of the serenity in her backyard garden, she, being slightly technically/electronically disconnected/challenged she had a iPod Nano that she had never opened and gave to me.
Now I had basically despised the Nano...for size, capacity and funtionality, which is why id didn't own own one already.....but this bitch was free and I decided to use it! I mean why let a gift go to waste, right? Well, I knew I couldn't load all my CDs in to iTunes....that might over load the poor Nano. So what I started doing was searching for the songs that I had heard on my walkabouts and had identified using an app on my phone.
So this is one of those songs, the artist is named Kimbra the track is called "Settle Down." I think she was in a group called "Someone I use to know," I hope you enjoy this one as much as I do.....obviously it's also available on iTunes.
Ok. So as I was getting ready to publish this post, I found other videos by Kimbra...this is called "Good Intent" and as best as I can tell is a track from her new release due out in a couple weeks.
I am feeling this!!! What' I'm loving about this one and well both tracks actually is the music is so layered. She sound great, I love her voice! Ok this is the last one...I already have this next track in my new Nano, but I want to share it here because it seems to really showcase her voice!
Sincerely,
Pharoah
PS - I posted these for the music, but I also have to ask, what are some thoughts on the videos?
Thanks to Aunt K, I have been reinvesting in my love of music....and the joy/excitement of discovering "new" music.
See what had happened was...
On my last visit to her house when I soaked up some of the serenity in her backyard garden, she, being slightly technically/electronically disconnected/challenged she had a iPod Nano that she had never opened and gave to me.
Now I had basically despised the Nano...for size, capacity and funtionality, which is why id didn't own own one already.....but this bitch was free and I decided to use it! I mean why let a gift go to waste, right? Well, I knew I couldn't load all my CDs in to iTunes....that might over load the poor Nano. So what I started doing was searching for the songs that I had heard on my walkabouts and had identified using an app on my phone.
So this is one of those songs, the artist is named Kimbra the track is called "Settle Down." I think she was in a group called "Someone I use to know," I hope you enjoy this one as much as I do.....obviously it's also available on iTunes.
Ok. So as I was getting ready to publish this post, I found other videos by Kimbra...this is called "Good Intent" and as best as I can tell is a track from her new release due out in a couple weeks.
I am feeling this!!! What' I'm loving about this one and well both tracks actually is the music is so layered. She sound great, I love her voice! Ok this is the last one...I already have this next track in my new Nano, but I want to share it here because it seems to really showcase her voice!
Sincerely,
Pharoah
PS - I posted these for the music, but I also have to ask, what are some thoughts on the videos?
Monday, May 14, 2012
Mother's Day
Yesterday was Mother's Day. And a pleasant one was had. Of course I cooked dinner for the Queen Mother....there was some assistance from both the Royal Sire and Royal Sibling. I made The Queen Mother's favorite dish, "Steak Diane" along with garlic & dill mashed potatoes and spinach salad. Actually, Steak Diane is really a Royals favorite we all love to have it when ever possible. It's suppose to be made with filet mignon, but most times a good New York Strip steak works well. the secret is near the end it is flambé using a cognac (Henessey generally)....and that's all I will say here....Hmm maybe one day I'll actually share the recipe on "The Colored Plate" blog....lol but is an advanced recipe, not sure folks are ready for it! Anyway, dinner was great success, I also made the other family favorite, peach cobbler.
The only hiccup to the day....is that I was sent three "Happy Mother's Day" messages. WHY do people send Mother day greetings to men. To me.....it's like wishing "Merry Christmas" to a Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or any other Non-Christian. Hmmm....it's like wishing a Klu Klux Klan member a happy "Martin Luther King Jr Day." It just doesn't make sense to do it. It is even more strange to me, for a man to wish another man a "happy Mother's day" Ironically...all three messages were from other guys....atleast one was kind of enough to send a picture of himself shirtless to go along with the inappropriate greeting. Is it me...am I just crazy?
Sincerely,
Pharoah
Thursday, May 10, 2012
One of Those Silly Moments of Mine
Self,
and no it wasn't new to me, I've seen it on other billboards.
But it struck me about how much Kim Kardashian is a non-celeb....and it all came from a sex tape.
SO...yeah I went there, being silly...This is the text I sent to a few folks:
I got some good responses. {The other person} {and ME}
A new friend in Houston;
"If we splitting the cash 50/50 I'm in!" "LOL your cut depends on what role you play in the tape....you can't have me doing all the work and expect half of my shit! Besides you haven't shown me the goods for me to know if I want to do a sex tape with you." "LOL! Trust me, I would definitely be up for an ava (adult video award) And neither have I seen the goods! Atleast you seen (a pic of) me in underwear." "LOL Have I....that profile pic could be anybody...nothing that specifically identify you!"
A new friend here in LA;
"No but I do have a good therapist you can see immediately." "Sex therapist? Is he a "hands on" type?"
"He will more than likely use his hands to put your crazy ass in a straight jacket." "LOL. That's not what I had in mind....but a sex tape in a straight jacket may be a good gimmic....to one up that Karda$ian heffa."
Another new LA friend;
"HA! You have Kim's ass?" "Oh is that a requirement?" "Nah, not for me." "Oh so you would do the sex tape just to do it?" "Ummm I'm not sure. Never done one but I think it's kinda hot. I guess itt depends on who I'm doing it with. So my answer would be probably...lol" "LOL. Well your co-star would like to see your equipment before agreeing to being seen on film with you! =)"
LA friend;
"LOL...I'll put the word out to any exhibitionists I may know...let me see if Ray J may want to do a part 2. U may need to get a long wig and lashes..." "LOL What ever it takes! But Ray J is cute but obviously not hot enough, because if he was he would've made the millions on the scandal, not her...I think she used up his combustability factor, so he would be seen as washed up." "Lol...I know I'm not quite ready to go viral or straight to dvd...lol" "LOL come on....your apple probably could rival hers!" "And mine is real! No booty shots. It's in the genes...and my jeans.."
A Friend newly arrived in Michigan;
"I am sure you have a great pool to make a selection. Let me know when the video becomes available" "LOL I'm lookin for options" "You got plenty" "The more the merrier!" "So you are looking for more than one person? Will this feature a gang bang?" "LOL Sure for multiple audition tapes....but no gang" bang" "Why no gang bang? I am sure folks would double or triple their offer" "LOL...,not sure if I can handle all that" "I'll teach you" "Oh you are an expect at being the subject of a gang bang? That's news to me." "Private lessons before your screening"
Prince Esquire;
"LOL! No. but you realize she was worth $25 mill before the tape...you're starting waaaay behind the 8 ball....or black balls as the case maybe" "She wasn't...her DADDY was....so technically we are on even ground. She was a broke freak...to start" "No when she did that her dad was dead...therefore her cut was already $25 mill. Sorry sir. And it started with Paris...see, you gotta be rich already for that shit to make you more rich...or at least famous. Ha!" "You know Mr. [Esquire] you are not very supportive of my dreams of taking over the world...." "Oh but I am! I just have to make sure you see every angle, that way you can approach it properly"
Duke Darktomahawk;
"I just live here in the sticks. Ain't no one famous. How about Will [Smith] or Bruno Mars?" "Hmmm I would do both of those....hmmm and actually I would have to do them both together...I gotta one-up that bitch if I want to jack her for her job!" "You stooopid"
There were two responses that I wasn't expecting...not because they were funny but because....well they weren't funny at all.
NYSuitor;
"Uhm. Nope. Not even close" "You are no help. Besides you of all people I was expecting a smart funny response...-nope- is too boring....try again." "Nope. I'm not here to entertain you"
A entertainment Lawyer here in LA;
"Magic Johnson" "Hmm lol well he is still kinda hot, but that's a high risk option."
The fact that the name was ALL he said about it...made me kinda wonder if he knew the Magic would be down for that and if he could set that up if I was serious....for some reason, that was a little spooky for me.
Well that was my random act of silliness of the month...maybe just the week, we'll see. I'm glad to have shared with both those who participated and those who are learning about it here. I got a few other responses about wigs or how crazy, stoopid or silly I am...some who simply said "me."
As I was writing this post I got one today who said "I already did that and it's gone viral, but it will be expensive to see it now, because the person is a high ranking official and they had it blocked." I thought that was funny too.
Also today a female friend in ATL said She'll do it! which is hilarious because as I was writing this I thought it funny that nobody had suggested any females for me to make a sex tape with....Do people simply think that me in a sex tape with Queen Latifah, Jessical Alba, Lucy Liu, or Scarlett Johanson wouldn't be a scandal!?!?!? I mean I am talkign about trying to get paid!
Sincerely,
Pharoah
So yesterday while I was working, I rode by a bus stop that had a cover and on one side a panel for advertisements. The ad I saw was this one.........
and no it wasn't new to me, I've seen it on other billboards.But it struck me about how much Kim Kardashian is a non-celeb....and it all came from a sex tape.
SO...yeah I went there, being silly...This is the text I sent to a few folks:
I need to find someone to make a sex tape with and change my name to Karda$hian, so I can get PAID! Know anyone who'll be down? LOL.
I got some good responses. {The other person} {and ME}
A new friend in Houston;
"If we splitting the cash 50/50 I'm in!" "LOL your cut depends on what role you play in the tape....you can't have me doing all the work and expect half of my shit! Besides you haven't shown me the goods for me to know if I want to do a sex tape with you." "LOL! Trust me, I would definitely be up for an ava (adult video award) And neither have I seen the goods! Atleast you seen (a pic of) me in underwear." "LOL Have I....that profile pic could be anybody...nothing that specifically identify you!"
A new friend here in LA;
"No but I do have a good therapist you can see immediately." "Sex therapist? Is he a "hands on" type?"
"He will more than likely use his hands to put your crazy ass in a straight jacket." "LOL. That's not what I had in mind....but a sex tape in a straight jacket may be a good gimmic....to one up that Karda$ian heffa."
Another new LA friend;
"HA! You have Kim's ass?" "Oh is that a requirement?" "Nah, not for me." "Oh so you would do the sex tape just to do it?" "Ummm I'm not sure. Never done one but I think it's kinda hot. I guess itt depends on who I'm doing it with. So my answer would be probably...lol" "LOL. Well your co-star would like to see your equipment before agreeing to being seen on film with you! =)"
LA friend;
"LOL...I'll put the word out to any exhibitionists I may know...let me see if Ray J may want to do a part 2. U may need to get a long wig and lashes..." "LOL What ever it takes! But Ray J is cute but obviously not hot enough, because if he was he would've made the millions on the scandal, not her...I think she used up his combustability factor, so he would be seen as washed up." "Lol...I know I'm not quite ready to go viral or straight to dvd...lol" "LOL come on....your apple probably could rival hers!" "And mine is real! No booty shots. It's in the genes...and my jeans.."
A Friend newly arrived in Michigan;
"I am sure you have a great pool to make a selection. Let me know when the video becomes available" "LOL I'm lookin for options" "You got plenty" "The more the merrier!" "So you are looking for more than one person? Will this feature a gang bang?" "LOL Sure for multiple audition tapes....but no gang" bang" "Why no gang bang? I am sure folks would double or triple their offer" "LOL...,not sure if I can handle all that" "I'll teach you" "Oh you are an expect at being the subject of a gang bang? That's news to me." "Private lessons before your screening"
Prince Esquire;
"LOL! No. but you realize she was worth $25 mill before the tape...you're starting waaaay behind the 8 ball....or black balls as the case maybe" "She wasn't...her DADDY was....so technically we are on even ground. She was a broke freak...to start" "No when she did that her dad was dead...therefore her cut was already $25 mill. Sorry sir. And it started with Paris...see, you gotta be rich already for that shit to make you more rich...or at least famous. Ha!" "You know Mr. [Esquire] you are not very supportive of my dreams of taking over the world...." "Oh but I am! I just have to make sure you see every angle, that way you can approach it properly"
Duke Darktomahawk;
"I just live here in the sticks. Ain't no one famous. How about Will [Smith] or Bruno Mars?" "Hmmm I would do both of those....hmmm and actually I would have to do them both together...I gotta one-up that bitch if I want to jack her for her job!" "You stooopid"
There were two responses that I wasn't expecting...not because they were funny but because....well they weren't funny at all.
NYSuitor;
"Uhm. Nope. Not even close" "You are no help. Besides you of all people I was expecting a smart funny response...-nope- is too boring....try again." "Nope. I'm not here to entertain you"
A entertainment Lawyer here in LA;
"Magic Johnson" "Hmm lol well he is still kinda hot, but that's a high risk option."
The fact that the name was ALL he said about it...made me kinda wonder if he knew the Magic would be down for that and if he could set that up if I was serious....for some reason, that was a little spooky for me.
Well that was my random act of silliness of the month...maybe just the week, we'll see. I'm glad to have shared with both those who participated and those who are learning about it here. I got a few other responses about wigs or how crazy, stoopid or silly I am...some who simply said "me."
As I was writing this post I got one today who said "I already did that and it's gone viral, but it will be expensive to see it now, because the person is a high ranking official and they had it blocked." I thought that was funny too.
Also today a female friend in ATL said She'll do it! which is hilarious because as I was writing this I thought it funny that nobody had suggested any females for me to make a sex tape with....Do people simply think that me in a sex tape with Queen Latifah, Jessical Alba, Lucy Liu, or Scarlett Johanson wouldn't be a scandal!?!?!? I mean I am talkign about trying to get paid!
Sincerely,
Pharoah
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