I've never seen this video before in my life.Look at how basic it is, and yet the soul of it is more movingtham half naked girls with fat butts, expensive cars, and rented jewels.
My cousin, Monique Lawton wrote on her face book that she "doesn't think love has to be a battlefield." I felt compelled to reply;
My understanding is to love love, and to hate hate - the double negative = a positive. If you don't stand for somethin' you'll fall for anything. Be Love. Love recognizes Love ...and as hard as trust is honor and maintain, trusting someone doesn't dictate their actions or thoughts. It only dictates yours, so while someone may be waring with you, based on a misunderstanding of your spirit, all you can do is remain trustworthy, and hope that they aspire to remain the same. Fear breads confusion and that's the gliche in the spiritual matrix. Fairytales may not come true but Heaven on Earth will and all the love and joys that is the treasure of it is bound for the future. ...and Love is not a battlefield. Bring your greatest dreams to life.
This has to be the funnies video I've seen this year! If you wanted to shape up your abs, you gotta watch this. You'll be laughing so hard, you'll feel it in your gut. LOL!
I woke up 3am in the morning to notice a caption on MSN that said (to men) babying your back aches does more harm than good, and it lead to a Men's Health sharing things like men should have a goal to have sex 700 times a year to look and feel younger. I can dig it! The article is actually Dr. Oz's 25 Health Tips to Swear ByClick here] to view it. It may help you to help yourself feel like a better man!
I felt this journey was purposeless, because I don't see the connection in a man thinking "Jesus wants" him to walk to Mexico from Maine. With a similar experience of my own, I remember the freedom of just being out on a spiritual journey ...free without money and God's covering over me with His Love and Protection is so divine, that this guys experience makes me remember it. However, being real-er than when I first posted this video, I honestly don't see the point. In God's name I'll wish everyone love, faith, exercise, protection, and shelter ...but I can't say that I see the purpose in this journey. Like Jesus? Jesus didn't rock a cross on his back just to prove a point that he loved God. Have contempt for the wicked and represent the truth, and if they hate your innocence, don't make concessions to sell your soul to be just like them, and if only God should grant them the authority to bring death upon you, THEN AND ONLY THEN, CARRY YOUR CROSS!
Those google income offers are not an income opportunity that is offered by Google, but an independent company trying to sell you a way to get rich "using" Google's services.
# 1 Google's pay per click service is not subscription based.
At the point at which these companies ask you to pay $80+ per month to become a member of their network that should raise a red flag, and you should not try it.
#2 If you buy $1,000 in pay per click (check Google for exact details), they'll set up your PPC for you to help you maximize your sales for the products that you're selling through their search engine, because they want your repeat business.
People are getting scammed, but that aren't even aware of what company is running the scam. It's not Google.
A long time ago, I did a program like that called "Googad", that used the same concept. Trial based on paying for the shipping of a CD ROM, and then a monthly subsription for what was supposed to be the forum of wealth (so-to-speak) that would have marketing and PPC techniques and 24hr support to help me make money with google.
...but that wasn't google, my friends.
I read the fine print on a site I visited recently, and spoke to someone at customer service for the site I was at, and I knew they wanted $80 somethin' per month, before I bought into the trial. The value they tried to build into that $83 was the amount of money you could make. Of course, if I'm making $10,000 per month $83 ain't nothing, but if what I gotta do is post an affiliate link to a similar website, getting people to buy into this $83 service (which is what I see repeatedly), then that says a lot about where the money's coming from, and that's some b*** s*** to me. You're not making money selling a product on google, you're making money selling "the google money making machine" as the product.
I look at how the person is promoting what they want me to buy into. If I find out about it on a search engine, then I figure that's how I gotta promote it to hit my target market. If it's a message on a message board, a direct message in a social network, or an email ...then I figure that's what I gotta do (either in time spent in free online marketing or in ad money) to find customers for the product.
With the Google money thing ...I see alot of fraudulent ads on blogs that pretend to be an article in a viable news paper, when it's not ...or a video with someone flossing a rediculous amount of money that they earned ...and I couldn't possibly duplicate that just starting out as a newbie. If an individual has to floss how much their making to sell it, then it's probably not worth getting into, because you come into it making "$0" = No proof = No sales for you.
So, my suggestion is to look at the product, and if it's something that you can use and are willing to market to others, then go for it!
If it's something that in the time you spend promoting it - is turning sales in a way that's worthwhile to you, then keep at it!
Sales is all in the presentation in anything you buy into online, because #1 there's absolutely no way to test the product, unless it's a digital product (music, video, ebook, software, game, etc..), so know your role and create a hot ass presentation for whatever it is you're selling, or fall back and do something else.
I got tired of hearing people say wack rappers were real Hip Hop or the new era of Hip Hop, as if their music is the evolution of it, when it's clearly not.
Just because a dance is a dance and Hip Hop cultivates dance, like beats to rhymes, and spinning the tables to making beats, graffiti, etc...
...DOES NOT MEAN that everybody that picks up a mic is hot. A lot of so-call rappers out there are wack!!! and that's why those who try to preserve what REAL HIP HOP is don't like to associate those artists as being Hip Hop artists. We're not jealous of success in Hip Hop, either we love what you do or we don't. Nobody'smad that your song is served up with a dance. Back in the day we had the snake, the whop, the Pee-Wee Herman (turned into a rap dance record), and so many other joints. Nobody hates a kid in Hip Hop because his song has a dance.
Though, when the boy can barely rhyme to a beat, sings unbearably off key as a hook, and his beats are wack, then the dance ain't gonna save it, not in it's musicial form. It's wack for the most part. If that can be real hip hop, then anything and everything is.
If it uses a drum machine ...it's hip hop?
If it's associated with a dance ...it's hip hop?
If it tries to rhyme to a beat ...it's hip hop?
If it sings is it R&B???
NO!
...I'm getting real sick of posers who try to adopt the culture like Madonna with an African baby, feeling like this gives them some authenticity as to what Hip Hop is and what those who are Hip Hop should accept as Hip Hop, saying "I bought it/adopted it", "I did the research", "This was that and that is this"
...For the record: My point of view isn't meant to be racist, and I know it sounds like it is, but I loved the Beastie Boys. They were Hip Hop to me. Vanilla Ice WASN't. I don't care if he sold or none of that. KRS-1 was The Best at one point in the time-line. PM DAWN - 0 - They sucked
However, Hip Hop had soul, and the more I come to understand what it was that I loved about Hip Hop, I know it had nothing to do with murder, pimpin, hoes, bling, or wanna be ass rappers with a new dance.
Yes it was about dance, and it was about rap lyrics with the most phenominal deliveries, and the beats were #1, but the way commercialism has success structured in what they might call a successful song, album, or even a classic is full of politics advertised through gimmicks and gestures, which is a whole bunch of bull sh** solidified by statistics/sales.
I love Hip Hop for what Hip Hop used to mean to me.
That love is what becomes future, leaving the rest behind to be forgotten and destroyed.
If those that I respected as being my love of Hip Hop, who started Hip Hop in my life ....if they're gonna let the bull sh** fly and sell their soul to the politics, then what I do needs a new name that isn't Hip Hop to be served on a new platform that isn't industrial.
...and WTF is Hip-Pop ...that's self-degrading in anybody who accepts that badge, cause basically you're just saying you aren't good enough to be Hip Hop, so you'll settle for less as long it emulates what sells more.
I don't exploit communication on any frequency or any medium. The affinity that some people seem to have with the dead, the number 6, and creating their own religion is horrific and only going to manifest blasphemy, moreso against The Spirit of Truth, than any man's religion. The punishment of works that manipulate other people's rhyme and reason through seances, Ouija boards, and such ...are worse than anything that has ever taken a man to his grave, and worse than any fear that a man has ever had about a beast, life, death, or his own after life.
I don't create my own religion. I just exemplify what I know is right. There's more to life than fame and money, and I wouldn't exploit the purpose of reaching the masses with anything. Darkness and Light itself isn't a characteristic of either good or evil, because good and evil exists within them both. Still, I don't bond with the darkness that is symbolic to monstrous images intended to render submission through fear, nor spiritual hacking in mishandling multi-dimensional forms of communication and/or existing. What they attempt to conduct, who approach you with their man-made religion and spiritual manipulation, is piracy.
The cops lost this one. I empathize with the man, knowing how it feels to be on a spiritual journey and have the laws of man test your divinity and your sanity. He may have seemed crazy, and the experience definitely had me crackin' up, but y'all better know ...CALL ON GOD, FIRST AND FOREVER!
The kid , who plays young Salim, is one of the main characters in a movie making millions hand over fist. Not only is his family still living in the slums, they're now homeless! Construction workers have demolished their tenemant, claiming it has been "illegally constructed" as most of the shacks in the slums are. This is absolutely horrible. Where's the human heart? The movie was great - one that I highly underestimated.
The children have done a great job acting and deserve a better life than what they are enduring. First, we hear about this kid being whipped in public, by his father. Then, we hear the other little girl's father tried to sell her for $300K.
Are we talking about aliens? Where's human love and human compassion for a fellow human being? They get rich off of your gifts and leave you broke in the slums, while they laugh it up all the way to the bank, eating the fat of the land, dress in fine linen, and live extravagantly.
Someone, ranging from the distributors of the film to the production executives, even Danny Boyle (the director) needs to go bless that kid with a house and a bank account. He's earned it! Give his family a house in America. We enjoy his talents in America. If this is were he wants to be, he should be allowed.
Damn!! Is there no one of the elite in India, who would make sure this kid is taken care of, with pride in one of their own becoming an international success for a job well done??!!! His mother's not even asking for a hand out, she only asks for space so they can survive!!!!!
I'm so impressed by this article that I'm quoting the entire article to blog these efforts made to support Black Business. An Black couple has vowed (as an experiment) to "only" support Black businesses for a year. It was hard for them to find a Black drug store, the grocery store they found is about 14 miles from them, and they haven't been able to buy their kid toys, because there are NO BLACK OWNED TOY STORES. Many have joined their movement, and they've decided to go deeper with it, turning it into a scientific effort to produce hard data. Visit the site at http://www.eefortomorrow.com/, and make a donation, if you can.
ATLANTA — It's been two months since 2-year-old Cori pulled the gold stud from her left earlobe, and the piercing is threatening to close as her mother, Maggie Anderson, hunts for a replacement.
It's not that the earring was all that rare — but finding the right store has become a quest of Quixotic proportions.
Maggie and John Anderson of Chicago vowed four months ago that for one year, they would try to patronize only black-owned businesses. The "Empowerment Experiment" is the reason John had to suffer for hours with a stomach ache and Maggie no longer gets that brand-name lather when she washes her hair. A grocery trip is a 14-mile odyssey.
"We kind of enjoy the sacrifice because we get to make the point ... but I am going without stuff and I am frustrated on a daily basis," Maggie Anderson said. "It's like, my people have been here 400 years and we don't even have a Walgreens to show for it."
So far, the Andersons have spent hundreds of dollars with black businesses from grocery stores to dry cleaners. But the couple still hasn't found a mortgage lender, home security system vendor or toy store. Nonetheless, they're hoping to expand the endeavor beyond their Chicago home.
Plans are under way to track spending among supporters nationwide and build a national database of quality black businesses. The first affiliate chapter has been launched in Atlanta, and the couple has established a foundation to raise funds for black businesses and an annual convention.
"We have the real power to do something, to use the money we spend every day to solve our problems," Maggie Anderson said recently at a meet-and-greet in Atlanta. "We have to believe that black businesses are just as good as everybody else's."
Now, the Andersons are following up with 4,000 people who signed up for the experiment on their Web site to gauge their commitment and set up online accounts to track their spending. Hundreds have also joined the experiment's Facebook page, Maggie Anderson said.
Gregory Price, chairman of the economics department at Morehouse College, said black visionaries like Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey made similar calls to action.
"The idea is a sound one, given that black Americans are still underrepresented in the ranks of the self-employed and that entrepreneurship is a key component to wealth," Price said.
There are one million black businesses in the United States accounting for more than $100 billion in annual sales, according to the National Black Chamber of Commerce. The latest U.S. Census numbers report that blacks have more than $800 billion in expendable income each year.
The Andersons track their spending on their Web site and estimate about 55 percent of their monthly spending is with black businesses for things like day care, groceries, car maintenance and home improvements.
One of the businesses highlighted by the Empowerment Experiment is Brenda Brown's Atlanta wine boutique, a shop with a growing black clientele. She said the project can help overcome the problems many black consumers lament.
"When we were a community of black folks who could not go to the white stores, our community of black stores flourished," Brown said. "When we were given the opportunity to go into the white store, it was like nothing else mattered anymore and we wanted to go to the white store, regardless of what the black store provided. We could have the same or better products if we supported (black businesses) in the same way."
Lewis Peeples, 45, lives in a black neighborhood in southwest Atlanta but didn't think to spend his money with black businesses until a friend told him about the project.
"So often, we make purchases and decisions and aren't even mindful that there is a a need to support our own businesses," said Peeples. "Now, I'm reaching out and making sure I know that I have an option when I look to make a purchase."
Two months ago, he committed to patronizing black businesses and found a black dry cleaner 10 minutes from home. Even when he was dissatisfied with his black doctor, he was able to find a new one. He suggests both to friends and refers others to the experiment's Web site, where he tracks his expenses.
Dallas Smith, who owns a commercial real estate firm in Atlanta, said mainstream retailers have undervalued black consumers. He lives in a black neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, where he tries to dine at black restaurants. He lamented the lack of quality businesses catering to black customers and said blacks should appreciate such businesses more.
"We've still got that 'the white man's water is colder' mentality," he said. "We can't take us for granted. When we go to our establishments, it's almost like we're doing a favor. That ought to be a given for us."
The Andersons remain encouraged by their momentum online and in the media. At the end of 2009, they hope to show $1 million in spending with black businesses among supporters across the country.
"The response has been so huge," Maggie Anderson said. "We think so much can come out of this. We're in movement-making mode now."
Price, the Morehouse professor, said defining the project's success won't be easy, since the real barriers to black advancement are poor access to capital and lack of training opportunities.
"It would be nice to see some real, hard data," Price said. "Otherwise, it could just be an episode of ethnic cheerleading."
When you're working in the collections division at your job, but the top level managers call for an employee meeting and probe you and others from various departments for marketing ideas, and for creative input to improve their product and service - something is wrong. These tasks aren't within your job description and are worth so much more than your wages per hour - even with the bonuses. Then, you come to work weeks later to find out they've used your idea without accrediting, compensating, or even notifying you. [Sounds like Slavery]
The job offers a series of free courses to "help you" improve your job skills for a better pay grade, so you take a Microsoft course at the job. However, for an Excel project which you must turn in to be graded, they didn't give you a generic company with a given formula. Instead, they asked you to CREATE A BUSINESS with the formulas that you had to come up with on your own to conclude the lesson. You know your idea is hot! You've been talking about it for the past several months with your significant other, so when you turned it in (you lied, when) you said that it was patented, knowing it wasn't ...hoping that it (the lie) would be enough to prevent them from stealing your idea ...YOUR INVENTION.
You turn in your unique business idea called the "Traveling Hotel", and then one day, while at work, you receive an email from your significant other that said, "Yo, this is what you've been talking about!!!"
...and it contained this video, called "the hotelicopter".
Ever since (my brother) Adam put me onto this show, I've been hooked. I think me and Nikki got into it around Season 2, and we wait for the DVD to come out, so we can watch every episode of the complete season back-to-back. I don't know the actor's name, but I found this funny BBC Clip of (the guy who plays) House on youtube, in his younger years. Funny stuff!
I watched this about 4-5 times. This cop is whippin' this grown man like a child IN BROAD DAY LIGHT. They were gonna charge this man with assaulting an officer and he would've faced up to 15 years. Because of the tape, the charges have been dropped. He's about to get paid!
The world must really be coming to an end, when to express the rationalization of pro-life is banned from prime-time television AND a website can be sued for "not" displaying gay ads - and give in to submission. I read that NBC rejected $1.9 million in a refusal to air this ad that displays the possibilities of an unborn embryo, reflecting the life of Pres. Barack Obama, that he was raised by a single/struggling parent and become president. It's true. You never know what a life of a child may manifest. That's the wonder of possibility. You could be aborting a genius! The spirit of your child may be an angel on Earth, and because of your fears or unwillingness to face the responsibilities of your actions leading to your pregnancy, you feel you have a right to abort. Excersice the right to abstain. Don't have sex, if you can't afford the faith, the income, or emotions to handle having a kid. Better prepare yourself in life for it, before you have one.
Wendy brings the heat on this one. Pres. Obama has a book out about his life and a character in the book is type hood, so in the audio book version, Pres. Obama is reading "Sorry Ass Motherf*****. You ain't my B*TCH." WWwwwooooowwwww. Listen to audio clips here on wendyista.blogspot.com
You gotta love the digital age. I met MC Epic online at soundclick.com. I added him as a friend, asked him for an acapella, he responded with the acapella to "Acidity", and after sittin' on it for about a week or so ...this is what happened. [click the pic to download]
This dude is from Canada. Is that where Hip Hop is right now?! I do have my criticisms, but this is like a breath of fresh air in comparison to what's been on the radio over the past 5 years.
Chris' wordz aren't a perfect truth, yet his philosophy is interesting. He touches on some "Don't Believe The Hype" topics regarding the U.S. Black president, Barack Obama. I reserved myself to watch the video in full. I was most attentive to the interview from 2:15 and on.
To stand for Dr. King is to stand for non-violence. Don't get it twisted. All the hype about a Black president, and hype about his inauguration being so close to Dr. King's b-day may have had us feeling good inside, like we can do anything (and we can), but wake up and smell the roses! Your ability to do anything is not because of Barak Obama. Black people have been making it in this nation. Don't be a fool for mass marketing. Seek the truth. Like Bush, Barack is fueling the war to capture Osama Bin laden. That's Bush's project. Is he even guilty? Conduct your own investigation.
Pastor Manning of ATLAHWorldwide said the first time he saw Barack Obama's name was on a pair of titties. LOL. However bugged out this guys sermons may be, it's true!!! I remember it the same exact way. In the earliest stages of the campaign, when the news talked about Obama, they didn't even show him. They showed a few of his young, beautiful, big breasted women with "OBAMA" written across their chest (on t-shirts). Sex sells. The media sold a Black President.
So as KRS says it's New World Order with a Black face, don't be mad. The media waved Barack in front of us like a pendulum to hypnotize us. Who doesn't know that the Bush elections were fixed? That means ELECTIONS ARE FIXED. You still feel you have power as a voter? They put whoever they want to put in office. The democrats didn't even fight for the two previous elections. All they had to do was sign a simple piece of paper, saying they wanted a recount. Out of 52 states, not 1 senator stood up to say, "I'll sign," despite the voice and demands of the people. Barack's not in office, because you voted for him.
Here's where it gets realer. "911 was an inside job." - KRS 1
The turn of events were completely domestic, even "IF" the final act was carried out by an alien. Domestic security was breached. ANYBODY in the U.S. could have been an accomplice to 911, even a born citizen. Is it so inconceivable, when there's kids out there shooting up college campuses? While most people are screaming, "the government did it!", to fuel New World Order conspiracy theories, I believe the following album cover should be counted as evidence to expand the list of potential terrorists.
The above pic is a hail storm of fire in lower Manhattan, particularly hovering over where the World Trade Center used to be. This is Busta Rhymes', "Extinction Level Event" a.k.a "E.L.E." album cover. This album was released in December of 1998, 3 years before 9-11 occurred.
The lyrics from Track 6 [song title: against all odds, featuring flipmode] are as follows;
“Yo, what you want from us now there’s a lot more of us
Stay toatin’ (weapons) under my different flavorful Nautica DESTROY ANY ARCH RIVAL, OR ANY CHALLENGER MAKE YOU REMEMBER THIS DAY, NIGGA, MARK IT ON YA CALENDER
I’m showin’ you somethin’, you ain’t sayin’ nothin’
My niggaz make noise like a bunch of volcanoes erupting NONE OF Y’ALL NIGGAZ REALLY WANNA WAR…. THE TYPE OF NIGGA TO CRASH MY PLANE IN YOUR BUILDING IN THE NAME OF ALLAH”
---End of His Verse---
So, BUSTA said he'd crash his plane in "your building" in the name of Allah, and this didn't raise any flags????!!!! 911 was an inside job! Who accused Bin Laden, and why? To this day he's been on the run, and there's been no evidence made public to prove his guilt. You think you're gonna find evidence on him, now? In a court of law, what can you convict him on without a murder weapon or any proof?
The song (against all odds) concludes with the words, “Call the National Guard.” Then, as the song goes into Track 7, the time count on the CD player doesn't begin the next track with (00:00), it begins with (-01:19), which is apparently 911 backwards.
Commonly idle time on a CD, is the time in between tracks. On some discs, when a song ends, you'll see your player count down from (-00:02) before the next song begins. What I described on ELE, I have never seen before on any other CD ...where a musician has an interlude with an audio track that lasts over a minute, and manufactured it to play within idle time. An interlude of this length usually has it's own track.
If you know someone with the CD, listen and observe it for yourself. Busta Rhymes boasts about crashing a plane into the twin towers in 1998. Wooowwww!!!
Was he ever a suspect in question?
And the outro ...called "the burial song." sounds like a Bin Laden sermon translated in English. Check it out.
"How should we get prepared for what's about to come? Just because we have a African American president, doesn't mean he is not going to continue the Bush agenda." - Krs-1
I feel The Bible scriptures in Revelation, where it says, they will talk of many wars, but don't fear them - is extremely relevant right now. How should one get prepared? If you fix cars, you should further your education and experience in this field. If you're an artist, master your skills and create greater works. If you're a healer, research and apply medical techniques that are natural without negative long or short term affects. Learn how to eat and exercise right. Network with people and create organizations for the greater good. Keep it movin'. Don't stop in fear for war and famine. God protects his own.
"Are you gonna allow this system to tempt you into their prisons, into their job, into their psyche? Follow your purpose!" - KRS-1
Yes, I agree.
Do what you came here for. Live out the reason you were born. Seek knowledge, share knowledge, help yourself, create things that help others, raise your family, etc... If you have a product or service that you should be in business with, raise the capital and do it! You don't have to rob and steal, beg, nor borrow. You can publish your own works, manufacture your own inventions, and create your own flow of wealth. Do your reasearch. Google is like a school.
GDI is a business with a great business model to help you get started with raising capital. Anyone, even with a low to moderate income, can create a domain name on the internet with GDI and be in business for themselves.
People are unhappy at their jobs, but caught up in a chain of depression, and not applying themselves to take steps to run their own life. People sign up to stuff hyped about making money, then drop it. You gotta work it! Build the income you deserve to fund your life, so you can live happily and have fun ...natural fun.
With God as your guide, you have to have faith and help yourself. God helps those who help themselves.
Before you play your next record, let the tables spin for the record shops who are no longer here.
I loved them days, and I wish I was in a real record shop right now....but at the same time I love and appreciate the technological advancements that have evolved the way we play and distribute music. Serato Scratch Live keeps the feeling alive. I love records and don't think I'll ever part from the turntables, but honestly, making wav files (and mp3s) of my albums and 45s preserves them. Thanks to Serato I can cut and scratch without damaging the record. Run DMC's "Peter Piper" 12' - I'm probaly through my 3rd set of those ...and "Not Bad, meaning bad, but bad, meaning Good!" ...is permanently dusted from practicing with it so much. That will NEVER happen, using my mp3 copy of "Peter Piper" on Serato Scrath.
So, like cats pour out a little liquor, I thought I'd let the tables spin for the shops that are no longer here. The love you provided lives through. Beat Street (Brooklyn), Rock N' Soul (Manhattan), Harmony (Tremont Ave/The Bronx), DJ Specialty Shop (Castle Hill/The Bronx) ...those were the days.
Does anybody still have "Fusion Beats"? I need that!
I wish Jimi had lived a happier life. I love his work and I see the colors he wanted me to see in his music, even in my dreams. A Band of Gypsys is my favorite album, of all time. He dealt with (manic) depression, and during those times, when his colors were lost in gray, his lyrics and self-image reflected morbidly and that sadness that belonged only to him would eclipse his eternal image.
Being set for life, after death, isn't a bad thing. Think about what that really means. I love Jimi Hendrix and I know his electric star is flying through the Universe at great speeds. I'm honored to have had his light before me.
I was in the soundclick forums, and someone posted this,
"Something to ponder in the big scheme of art...
Vincent Van Gogh is an artist who's paintings sell for millions of dollars.
His art has been celebrated and scorned, and highly sought after by consumate collectors and the masses for over a hundred years.
Vincent Van Gogh never sold one... let me say that again..
Vincent Van Gogh never sold ONE of his paintings in his lifetime. In fact his peers did much to tell him is work was worthless.
Vince would often be told his paintings sucked and so he would just paint something else over them. Xrays indicate almost half his work was painted over, each with a masterpiece underneath that will never be shared.
He ended his life by walking into a field (some accounts a dung pile) and shooting himself in the head.
When he walked home his brother asked him what he had done, Vincent replied something like 'if I am lucky I have killed myself'.
His last words were 'Sadness will last forever'."
"...The Moral of the story.
Art is a bitch" - end quote
The moral to the story, the way I see it, is not to committ suicide. You may die, before you ever know just how loved you are. He may have lived to prove everyone who discouraged him wrong, or at least long enough to create more of what so many renoun as masterpieces.
I honestly don't know at what point my music will be my source of food, housing, clothing, traveling, etc.. and I can't say life isn't hard, because it is! Having invested all that I am into faith, being the love of music that is the gift inside me, believing in being a good man to a good woman (and finding my soul mate) rather than being a playa, LIFE AND MY RELATIONSHIP IS STILL HARD. Harder than I ever imagined it would be.
Chosing the right thing to do, doesn't mean that life comes easy. To make life as free and as easy as we dream takes a lot of sacrifice and endurance (in these days). There is so much wrong in the world that we have to overcome, including our own perversions of happiness that we call our wants.
So, either you are an artist, because a creative being is who and what you are, or you don't love what you do and you only choose to exploit yourself or allow others to exploit you as a means of making money, despite the lack of love, quality, and worth of a real artist - to create for the purpose of true love.
Bills stack high, I feel like I've embarrassed myself, and lost my pride in pursuit of a happiness, of a love that only God communicated to my heart and told me it was real. Through genuine inspiration, he inspired me, and motivated me to be (and not give up). Still today, I look around and I don't feel completely fulfilled. I can't deny that I still feel rejected, and that I complicate my own life, when I feel like I am paying (in pain) more than I owe to justify my place on earth and to live with peace on earth.
I do, however, have faith. For now and forever I send up my prayers to He, who is The Most. I practice letting go of my gripes and my doubts to trust in This Experience, as I Trust in Him (completely) to be led by His Will in favor of righteousness.
Keep moving and looking ahead. Don't look back to let your love come to an end. Yes, you've given a lot and sacrificed so much, already, but you still have it, and you're still here. Your life is worth nothing without your love, so always invest love in what you do. Seeds didn't become trees in a day and slaves didn't become free in just one lifetime (or generation). You gotta do what you came to.
I remember a comedian once said, when somebody from the hood graduates college, the streets pay it no mind (like it's no big deal). But, when somebody comes home from jail, everybody's open like, "YO! You home!!! You made it, kid!!!!" ...and they're well respected and embraced.
Robert Jackson is a young Black brother, who placed 6th in the nation, running track, and earned a scholarship to The University of Memphis! While being a member of Memphis' stellar group of hurdlers in 09', along side Richard Lowe, Darius Anderson, and Alex Sweet, Robert plans to major in finance!
"These guys are such great leaders, tremendous competitors and they are easy to coach," said Robinson of his group of hurdlers.
I wish you the best in life, and I commend you and your team for being young men with a clean active lifestyle, and earning a great education. I hope time manifests beautiful families for all of you in the future. Don't look back!
The video is deep. Did you know that there are more children with honors in India than there are in the total number of children in the U.S. That's deep!
I expect this documentary to be off-the-hook. Big Daddy Kane is definitely one of the most influential rap giants of the 80s. I still remember my first encounter with "Long Lived The Kane". Those were the dayz.
I love the music in this film. It's mixed really well. I mean, the bass from the speakers on my little 19' TV moved me. During live performances, they translated Hector's lyrics (from Spanish to English) and I could experience the soul of the music and lyrics paralleled with Hector's experiences in the film. It was a spiritual movie about a man in pursuit of life in New York, against his father's wishes. He came to New York and fell victim to drug addictions, but he left behind a legacy as the front man in the crew of musicians who started Salsa. I thought it was a great movie. I would watch it again. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony did a great job. This is the Latin 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.
Ever since (my brother) Adam put me onto this show, I've been hooked. I think me and Nikki got into it around Season 2, and we wait for the DVD to come out, so we can watch every episode of the complete season back-to-back. I don't know the actor's name, but I found this funny BBC Clip of (the guy who plays) House on youtube, in his younger years. Funny stuff!
Vincent Van Gogh - Van Gogh's Estate
