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06 Sunday Apr 2008

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by vivrant thang on blog posts you should be reading

In the spirit of spreading the linky love, here’s a roundup of posts I enjoyed over the past week. As I’ve mentioned, I read a lot of blogs and often fall WAY behind. I hope you find some new blogs here to stalk so you can share in my misery! I plan to do this regularly.

Chris Rock on Black Progress in US

And if Soul Bounce is not one of your daily reads, you need to get into it. Now. Maxwell has.

I’ll repeat that again.

Maxwell has. Yes, THAT Maxwell.

Happy Valentine’s Day: The Show, The Afterparty, The Hotel

14 Thursday Feb 2008

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Happy Valentine’s Day
Every day the 14th!
I don’t think y’all heard me!
I just wanna say Happy Valentine’s Day!
Every day the 14th!
Can y’all dig that?

Until last year, Valentine’s Day was a big deal for me. In high school, I remember watching the popular girls walking around with their huge balloons, flowers and teddy bears. In college and beyond, the timing was always off. Either I hadn’t been dating anyone for a while, was only involved with a FEPO (for entertainment purposes only), or I had just broken up with the person I was seeing just before that day.

Last year, up to about a month before, it looked like it would be more of the same. That is until one of the exes popped up wanting to get back. While we were getting reacquainted, I casually mentioned that I had never had a nice Valentine’s Day [read: you need to make it happen]. He promised to make the day special for me. It had only taken 29 years. I was too hype.

He went all out with the planning and it was all very creatively done. As he started to reveal parts of the agenda for the evening, I was thrilled with the effort. I took care of everything on my end as far as my girly maintenance and outfits for the show and the “afterparty.” Other than that, I was instructed to just show up and be my “vivrant” self. I can’t lie. I was enjoying a man working to earn my affection. And it was going to be on Valentine’s Day – finally!

The evening didn’t quite go off without a hitch. I won’t tell the entire story but let’s just say it all came thisclose to being ruined. I had to let Jesus take the wheel and we got through it and went on to have a nice time.

In hindsight, while I greatly appreciated someone making the extra effort to ensure that I finally had a nice Valentine’s Day , it’s really just another day. What’s really important is how we spend the other 364 days of the year. For all he did on that day to get back in, less than two months later, it was quite apparent that nothing had really changed between us the second time around.

I will never become anti-Valentine’s Day, but in a future relationship, I don’t want that to ever be the only day that Mr. Vivrant Thang feels he has to put a little extra effort into us. I believe in regular date nights. Weekend getaways just for a change of scenery. Sweet “just thinking about you” notes left in random places. Naughty calls or texts in the middle of the day. It’s up to both of us to keep the fires going year round.

Now on to the music.

As you can tell by my Top 50 list, I am a fan of the slow and sexy jams. Over the years I’ve mixed up my share of slow and sexy CDs. Now, I like to leave it to the professionals.

The HNIC of my favorite music site, Soul Bounce, shares a couple of mixes he cooked up. Head on over there and grab them. Warning, one of them is called “The Babymaker.” Don’t say I didn’t tell you.

I was excited to see that fellow Jersey native T Grundy of Rhythms in Black Satin had issued a call a call for a carnival of Valentine’s Day mixes. Make sure you stop by Cupid’s Hunt: Searching for Love Music in All The Right Places and set your evening off right…better yet, your entire year off right.

For now, we do things a little more low-tech over here. If I had the time and the know-how, I would have turned my list into a podcast and participated. In any event, I thought I would share some of the songs that were a part of last year’s Valentine’s Day celebration. I decided to break them down into “The Show, The Afterparty, The Hotel.”

Enjoy, but make every day the 14th!

The Show

Fortunate – Maxwell
Say Yes – Floetry
Pretty Brown Eyes – Mint Condition
I Care 4 U – Aaliyah
He Loves Me – Jill Scott
Soul Sista – Bilal
Voyage to Atlantis – Isley Brothers
Damn U – Prince
I Need Love – Robin Thicke
Imagination – Floetry
Adore – Prince
Queen of Sanity – Bilal
Let’s Chill – Guy
A Love of My Own – Average White Band
You – Raheem Devaughn
Promise – Ciara

The Afterparty

I Love You – Keith Washington
You Don’t Have to Go Home – Boney James
Softest Lips –Eric Roberson
Ask Yourself– Raheem Devaughn
Do You Mind – Janet Jackson
Anytime, Anyplace – Janet Jackson
Can We Make Love – Silk
Feenin – Jodeci
If Only For One Night – Luther
Yearning for Your Love– Gap Band
Insatiable – Prince
International Lover – Prince
When We Make Love – Ginuwine
Three Letter Word – Jamie Foxx
Softest Place on Earth – Xscape
Hurry, Hurry – Pete Belasco
Can’t Get Enough – Tamia
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Reasons– Earth, Wind and Fire
All This Love – Debarge
Love Won’t Let Me Wait – Luther
Once, Twice, Three Times – Howard Hewitt
The Beautiful Ones – Prince

The Hotel

Lay Down – Floetry
Turn Off the Lights – Teddy Pendergrass
Sex Me (Parts 1 & 2) – R Kelly
Til The Cops Come Knockin – Maxwell
Scandalous – Prince
Slowly – Tank
Slow Love – Prince
White Turns To Grey – Bilal
Between the Sheets – Isley Brothers
The Greatest Sex – R Kelly
Do Me Baby – Prince
Seconds of Pleasure – Van Hunt
Untitled (How Does It Feel) – D’Angelo
The Art of Love – Toni Braxton
Uhh Ahh – Boyz to Men
Sweet Sour U – Bilal
Sumthin Sumthin (Mellosmoothe) – Maxwell
You Got The Bomb – Brian McKnight
Your Love Is King – Sade

He Makes Me Wanna “Shoop!”

06 Tuesday Nov 2007

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If looks could kill you would be an uzi
You’re a shotgun – bang! What’s up with that thang?
I wanna know how does it hang?
Straight up, wait up, hold up, Mr. Lover
Like Prince said you’re a sexy mutha-

I’m not normally in the habit of committing violence against my friends. But when my girl Butta told me she was going to interview Idris Elba (he’ll always be Stringer Bell to me) before his gig in DC earlier this year, I seriously thought about how I could get rid of her, hide the body, and transform myself into a 5’3, freckle-faced Tamia look-alike so I could go in her place!

In case I hadn’t mentioned it before, this is the ideal for me, my “type” if you will.

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Hell, how could this not be any woman’s type?

As you may or may not know, Stringer is a DJ.

“I’m crazy for you Mr DJJJJJJJ!”

Sorry, a little Yvette Michele “Everyday & Everynight” flashback.

Where was I? Yes, so Stringer is the artist also known as DJ Driis. According to Butta, he’s got mad skillzzzz and had her doin’ the butt ’til the break of dawn like she was at the first House Party with Kid and them.

Check out the interview over at Soul Bounce.

Mmm….gotta love a man with an accent. Makes you wanna shoop!

Smooth black skin with a smile
Bright as the sun, I wanna have some fun
Come and give me some of that yum-yum
Chocolate chip, honey dip, can I get a scoop? (please)
Baby, take a ride in my coupe, you make me wanna…

Shoop shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop
Shoop shoop ba-doop (Don’t you know I wanna shoop, baby)
Shoop ba-doop
Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop

My Favorite Things

24 Wednesday Oct 2007

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When the dog bites, when the bee stings
When I’m feeling sad
I just simply remember my favorite things
and then I don’t feel so bad.

Over the past few weeks, life has been real heavy. Interesting, but heavy. Lots of what I like to call “pondering the meaning of my existence.” So much I need to do and just trying to figure out how to get it done while beating back a nasty procrastination habit. Men from my past showing up out the blue trying to get back. New dudes acting a plum fool. My football team’s season is just about in the crapper.

Let’s just say a sista has been going through lately.

Thankfully, there have been some bright spots along the way that have kept a smile on my lips. So I’ll share a few of the things that have lifted my spirits over the past few weeks.

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Indeed, music does wash away from the soul the dust of life. I am so greatful that there are people out there that are so passionate about music and want to share their love with others…for free! I’ve been a fan of EJ Flavors for a while now. His mixes have introduced me to a lot of artists I had never heard of. He takes it back with Old School Wednesdays – and then he has one of my favorite categories, New Jack Swing. Talk about taking it back! I was grooving this morning to Teddy’s Jam, a little Al B. Surrrre. You know, feel good music. I don’t know about you, but I’m not interested in hearing anything about Superman Dat Hoe at 7am….or really any other time for that matter.

sclogocd1.jpgThe other site I’m feeling lately is DJ Grantlove over at Soulcrates. I call him “the teacher” because I’m hearing stuff over there from a time I wasn’t even thought about. He’s got a hot Nina Simone and Marvin Gaye tribute over there now. I think I really fell in love when he did a Where Are They Now” The 90s Sex Edition. You already know. Most of the cuts on my personal Sex Me mixes (don’t trip, we all got them) are from the 90s. He messed up though when he included not only “Your Love is a 187” by the Whitehead Brothers but also cuts from my man Sam Salter’s 1997 album It’s On Tonight! Loving it! People slept on that album big time. Every single cut was blazing. “The Teacher” says Robin Thicke produced a song on the album.

Just talking about the music has me smiling. If music does the same thing for you, be sure to also check out V over at Honey Soul, Nova at both of his spots, Nova Slim and Soul Bounce, and Butta at It’s Like Butta. They all are equally as passionate about music and share the love often.

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I am also really feeling new The Salt N Pepa reality show on VH1. Like most 80s baby hip hoppers, they were my favorite female rappers, next to MC Lyte. I wasn’t expecting much from the show for some reason though. Not sure why. Probably because I really don’t do reality TV outside of Top Model and American Idol. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself giggling throughout the second episode where Salt tries to hook Pepa up on a date. Pure hilarity. This show just works. I’m mad they are just now doing it and I Love New York is in Season 2. Whatever.

Lastly, I know everybody and their Momma in the blogosphere has talked about the greatness that is Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married. I don’t remember the last time I laughed so hard at a movie or talked back to the screen. It truly left me with lots of food for thought, particularly towards the end when Jill was talking to her girls about how good her new man was and the qualities that made her fall in love. However, I really don’t know what more she needed after seeing him nekked for the first time. But whatever. Seriously, that conversation, and others gave me food for though, particularly in light of my earlier posts about not being sure if I believe that marriage can work longterm.

I am mad at Tyler for waking up my shopping jones though. Did you see the way those broad were ragging in that movie?! Luckily, Heather Hunter Honda (yea my car is named after a porn star – don’t ask) had a major crisis that put a serious dent in my pocketbook so I’m banned from the mall for now. I can still dream…