I have never been so happy it's Sunday evening. Not even the
thought of Monday morning tomorrow can bring me down. Ladies and
gentlemen, this little experiment is finally over, and the end
couldn’t have come any sooner. I didn’t think I'd live to say
this, but I am all talked out. Wait, that's not entirely true. I
have a few choice things to say about the idiot MPs who felt the need
to act like fools last night, but that can wait. Apart from that I
have nothing to say. Although there was this brilliant article I
read about porn addiction and how its complete bollo...no...nothing to say tonight. Tonight I let other
people speak.
I present to you part of my current playlist, inspired/created
almost entirely by the brilliant people I follow on twitter (while
it is still the work of the devil, I've finally accepted that I have
sold my soul, and embraced it. Most of it. Well, about a tenth
of it. I've digressed...). I'd love to take credit for what you're
about to see and hear, but save for putting them in some sort of
discernible order, this list has nothing to do with me and everything
to do with the kindness of strangers.
That's also a disclaimer in
case you get offended by something and you feel the need to rant huko
chini.
First up, Ms Eartha Kitt.
Have you ever listened to someone and you sat up straight, goosebumps on your arms, back of your neck
tingling? That's what happened when I clicked play on this clip. Ms
Kitt speaks with such clarity its a little frightening, no one should
be this sure of themselves, right? Wrong. We should all be so lucky
to know our minds this well, and speak them without fear. When I
finally find the documentary from which this clip is taken, you best
know I will return to this most fascinating woman.
In keeping with the theme of women
speaking their minds, Ms Janet, who's
been on my playlist
since December.
I'm not sure how to explain just how
important Janet, last name Jackson, is, I suspect I’ll have to do a
separate post on her. This woman was and still is the shit. Ignore
the dodgy Tyler Perry movies, her genius is almost as great as her
brother's, hell, she only loses points because his voice was in a
class of its own. 'You want this' is what a sexy video should look
and sound like, oh ye younglings fond of girls shaking their thonged
asses for the camera. I'm just saying, Nicki ain’t got shit on
Janet, never has never will. Useless fact, back in the day we all
wanted to look like Janet. We didn’t have the body, or the face,
but we had the braids, dammit. Another useless titbit, I can still
pull off the MC Lyte rap perfectly and my sister still does that
kuteremka dance step like the aspiring video vixen she was back in
the day. Yes, my family is a bit special.
Special, in a good way, describes this
chap quite aptly...
I had never heard of dub poetry before
I played this clip, now I can't get enough of it. This was a bit of
a mind fuck for me, reggae plus rap/spoken word. Its gorgeous music
and words that make sense. Brilliant, and so confusing to my lover's rock loving ass.
Speaking of spoken, this is my latest
crush...
Smart, articulate, gorgeous, funny as hell, and she
swears like a sailor. How can I resist Staceyanne Chin? I've had her playlist on in the background while I work for the past two weeks. I think I
love her.
I also love these two...
This reminds me of the Whedon version of 'Much Ado About Nothing', the one in B&W. It's the rapid dialogue cum poetry, fascinates me to no end, probably because I talk quite slowly (because I think even slower). I figure if poetry reminds me of Shakespeare, good Shakespeare, and mind you I struggle with the bard, then it's a keeper. These two are brilliant.
Speaking of brilliant...
So I've been getting music lessons of sorts from these two junkies I follow, they who like to fuck up my playlist
at random, because they can. Its a bit fuzzy how I ended up at Chuck
Brown (it probably had something to do with Chef, the movie), but I’m glad I did. This is funk, pure unadulterated funk. As is this one...
You know how you click a link to prove
someone wrong? I clicked on this because I thought there is no way
it could be anywhere near as funky as he claimed it would be, its a random white dude for crying out loud. I now
have all of Mayer Hawthorne's music. Woi.
I could keep going, but I suspect I’m
already pushing it. One last one, to say asante,
for keeping me company this week.
Thank me later.
