RAINY DAY SHUFFLE.

it's that time again.
i present to you the rainy day shuffle #2.
a baker's dozen of random tunes.

1. Breathe In Breathe Out (feat. Ludacris) // Kanye West
2. 83 // John Mayer
3. Hell No // Sondre Lerche & Regina Spektor
4. Changes // Army Of Me
5. Block Rockin' Beats // The Chemical Brothers
6. Right As Rain (nVMe Remix) // Mick Boogie & Adele
7. Vertigo (U2 Cover) // Lemar
8. Africa Bamba // Santana
9. Zo // Sarbel
10. Go To Sleep // The Avett Brothers
11.  Hoochie Koo (ft. Mos Def & Jim Jones) // The Black Keys
12. Worried Shoes // Karen O & The Kids
13. Check Your Time // Westbound Train

stay dry.

THE SWEETEST THING.

The Sweetest Thing - Lauryn Hill

 The sweetest thing I've ever known
Was like the kiss on the collarbone
Soft caress of happiness
The way you walk, your style of dress
I wish I didn't get so weak
Ooo, baby, just to hear you speak
Makes me argue just to see
How much you're in love with me
See, like a queen, a queen upon her throne.

Your kisses taste like amaretto
Intoxicating, oh, so intoxicating
How sad, how sad that all things come to an end
But then again, I'm, I'm not alone.

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know.

damn lauryn, gets me every time.

MIXED.

MIXED

"...All too often, mixed-race people are already perceived as beautiful-because-exotic. All too often, multiracial kids are fawned over by well-meaning strangers for that special something - the texture of their hair, their skin tone, the shape of their eyes, that slight touch of flava. And we must be conscious of oversimplification. We must be mindful that moving forward means not returning to making snap judgments about people based on factors that are only skin-deep. We must recognize that 'exotic' can be a euphemism for 'different' ... Racial mixing and being multiracial alone will not solve our society's problems. That fact that these kids are mixed is not what will make them our ambassadors for a better world. What will do that is the fact that they represent what we all are - unique, questioning, afraid, hopeful, angry, joyous ... But more than this, these children, like all children, are honest and fearless in bringing themselves to the table, honest in showing without prejudice that many of us adults choose to hide, or have forgotten how to show."

-Kip Fulbeck

I AND LOVE AND YOU.

I saw the end of The Avett Brothers set at Newport Folk Festival this past summer, and I kind of wrote them off as just another folk/rock/country hillbilly group. But recently, they've been playing on my iTunes more and more, and the other day I picked up an older album of theirs. Now I can't stop listening! They're like a sweet fusion of Kings of Leon, The Decemberists, Langhorne Slim, Conor Oberst, and Holy Ghost Tent Revival - but not too overbearing. The perfect combination. If that's what you're in to. But I highly recommend you let your ears try them out.

Kick off your boots, pour some Jack, sit back & relax.

LISTEN NOW!

SO GOOD, you won't regret it.

INIFYE.

SUPPORT DISASTER RELIEF IN HAITI.

A NEW DECADE, A NEW PERSPECTIVE.

It's 2010, what up!

I can't believe a decade has gone by so quickly! I can't believe I was only 10 years old last decade! I can't believe all the hype and fear and superstition that surrounded the coming of Y2K! But I do believe that 2010 is gonna be a very good year indeed ...

My fam and I just got back from New York before the Times Square New Year's Eve craze. Last night we were invited to a Vegan Potluck party at my friend's house. Being non-vegan food lovers (meat! cheese! eggs!) we were kind of freaking out and worried that we wouldn't be able to make anything. We settled on cashew curry & coconut rice. If I do say so myself, It was pretty successful! The whole potluck was delicious! (Especially the desserts.) It was a pleasant & different (not to mention, healthy) way to ring in the new year, the new decade. Although I don't think I could ever go strictly vegan, I will resolve to be more vegan-conscious, I suppose. Open my mind to the diversity and variety of vegan foods. (How very Cambridge of me.)

As part of my resolutions (well, I suppose they're more like goals), I'm pushing myself to do more writing, especially to keep up this "blog". We'll see how this goes!

Cheers!

EMPIRE STATE OF MIND.

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care ...

... Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Oh, there is a light and it never goes out.