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kill it with fire [08 Jul 2009|01:42am]


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Oh, and check out Marian Kihogo's blog. This bitch is so effortlessly stylish it blows my mind. Brb right click saving every single outfit.
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frivolous shit not going to save the whales [04 Jul 2009|02:00am]



new shit acquired for my closeto/seedy webcam pics )
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funky milk love [03 Jul 2009|02:10am]

It's funny because I distinctly remember disliking Maxwell during the peak of his fame, but then I was like 12 or something and a lot of it had to do with the fact that my sister loved him and would play his album on loop at full blast all the live long day. But hot damn. I've always loved this song - but his performance of it in this particular video just floored me. The notes are coming out so clean, so clear, and the emotion behind them is earnest as all hale...I dunno. I think it's beautiful So I'm sharing.

Oh, be a dear and fill this out for me won't cha hun? (stolen from [info]justinches )

Name, A/S/L:
Picture:
Interests:
Music/bands/books:
Goals/aspirations?:
How long have we been LJ friends and where did we meet (off_wut, liking, etc)?:
Anything you'd like to know about me / see in my entries?:

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man o man [01 Jul 2009|03:28am]


I love Jersey City. You can't see it but each photo has the date of the theft, the name of the culprit and the item which they were stealing. Classic.

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The only part of the movie worth watching [29 Jun 2009|03:41am]

This movie was such a waste of life but i looove this part of it.

Post clips/stills from your favorite movies.

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i pronounce it "me-me" not "meeem" [27 Jun 2009|10:46pm]
Leave me a comment and I will give you a letter. Then, write 10 things that you love starting with that letter. Post the list in your journal. Give out letters to your commenters in return.

X
XL T-Shirts
The name Xavier
X-Men
Xtra cheese on my pizza
Xtra guacamole on my burrito
Xtra sour cream on my mashed potatoes
Xtra sugar in my tea
Xtra loud music
Xtra gewd movies
X-Mas





I've worn this dress like three days in a row, now. Once to Lynn's birthday party, once to volunteer at the Sounds Like Paper music "festival" and once to go out for dinner tonight. It's really sad how I have no problem with this and want to wear it again tomorrow, haha.  Speaking of Sounds Like Paper I definitely got to hang out with Chester French and was bitchfaced like whoa by Kid Cudi and Travis McCoy on the tour bus! It was fucking crazy.

I woke up at the asscrack of dawn to get to South Street Seaport on time to volunteer and was basically unpacking/packing boxes and handing out free shit all day. At some point Nicky, the organizer of the event, tells me and this kid Will that he is about to give us "the fiercest" job of the day, which was basically to hang out on the bus with the talent and be their bitches for the rest of the night. A lot of shit happened which I'll tell you  about later, but it was def a crazy experience. Unfortunately I HAVE NO PICTURES from said epic event because I had to leave all my shit, including my camera, at the office. There might be an image of me floating around on Wire Image though because some random photographer lady thought that I was Kid Cudi? Lmao.  I did however get ~free Levis jeans~ and ~free Ray Bans~. Oooh.

How was your week?
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this is how i spent my tuesday evening. [24 Jun 2009|12:48am]


beautiful black women pic/video spam )
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I can has pimp my community? [22 Jun 2009|12:22pm]
If you like Old Hollywood and want to lulz and gossip about Old Hollywood stars join mah new community, [info]ontd_classique!


/pimp

Excuse me while I shatter your fragile, fragile world... [21 Jun 2009|02:40pm]
These are the new astrological signs:

Capricorn - Jan 20 to Feb 16
Aquarius - Feb 16 to Mar 11
Pisces - Mar 11 to Apr 18
Aries - Apr 18 to May 13 D:
Taurus - May 13 to Jun 21
Gemini - Jun 21 to Jul 20
Cancer - Jul 20 to Aug 10
Leo - Aug 10 to Sep 16
Virgo - Sep 16 to Oct 30
Libra - Oct 30 to Nov 23
Scorpius - Nov 23 to Nov 29
Ophiuchus - Nov 29 to Dec 17
Sagittarius - Dec 17 to Jan 20

I don't know if I even believe in astrology but for some reason, this shit bothers me. Anyway, my personality still fills the ~requirements~ of being a Taurus so fuck being an Aries.

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talking [19 Jun 2009|03:19am]
I feel like it's been raining for years. Like the "ocean is falling out of the sky." I'm undecided on whether I like this or not.

Today, after being stood up and briefly feeling like a loser (only very briefly, I've sort of gotten used to people flaking on me and I am pretty flaky myself, negl), I disappeared into a Starbucks by the waterfront, pulled together enough change to buy the cheapest thing on the menu (American Cafe? or something. I don't know, just, Disgusting Black Coffee), sat down by a window and stared out of it. Everything looked gloomy. The sky, the trees, the rain pouring down. For some reason it put a scene in my head of two people sitting on a park bench in the middle of a storm. Almost instinctively I pulled out my brown journal that Zandile bought for me years ago at a Barnes & Noble, and I wrote a little...vignette. A little play? I don't know. I call it "The Girl Who Could Fly." And I enjoyed writing it. I think I'm going to make more of an effort to write in my journal, and when I do I'm going to go to a cafe or (if I'm too broke for transporation) the playground next to my house to do it. I think what's been blocking me all this time is forcing myself to sit down at a messy desk and click away on my little laptop, hoping for something brilliant. There's something a lot more organic and...honest? (oh, jeeze) about putting a pen to a page and physically etching those words into existence. I dunno. It was nice.



big images lovingly await you )




GAH! HOW IS IT ABOUT TO BE DAWN IN A COUPLE HOURS AND I'M JUST NOW GOING TO SLEEP?
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[19 Jun 2009|03:05am]
Uneventful day was uneventful. Got all dressed up to meet Martine for lunch. Didn't show. What else is new? Yesterday I went to a memorial service for a teacher of mine from high school who died earlier this month. I was in a weird mood all day yesterday. Weird feeling, going back to McNair. Hadn't really been there or seen anyone there since I left. It was a nice program. I didn't know how to feel. I sat on the bleachers in the back of the hall and watched friends, family, collegues, and students give their short little rememberances of Dr. Solberg. She was a truly brilliant person. Quirky. Incredibly blunt. There wasa slideshow of her life, from birth all the way up to a few weeks before she died. At the end, her two brothers stood up on stage and played renditions of "The Rainbow Connection" and some country song about popcorn (she loved popcorn, apparently) with their violins and guitars...And it was nice. But I really didn't know how to feel. I guess the biggest impact Dr. Solberg made on my life was that she introduced me to Shakespeare. I know it sounds lame but...Shakespeare and literature in general are a big part of my life. And I discovered them and grew to love them through her, so I appreciate that. But I dunno. After I got kicked out of McNair I feel like...well, I got the sense that she really didn't like me or something. Or that she'd lost respect for me? But then I get that feeling about everybody. We weren't incredibly close, especially after I left, so I don't know why I kind of sort of feel sad. Blah. 

humor me [15 Jun 2009|01:02pm]
I'm one of those people who always says they're going to do something. I make a big show of it, too. I get everything all planned out and lined up and then when it comes to the point where I actually have to deliver...nadie. I mean, there are certain circumstances in my life as of right now that make it harder to do things - like get a job, for instance - but I think I've been hiding behind these circumstances for way too long. Always citing them as the reason why this or this or this is not possible. It's such bullshit. Anything is possible. It's a cliche but it's really fucking true. I guess I just have to stop being afraid and ~believe~ in myself. Now, now, now! before I'm a fifty year-old spinster still living with my mum without even cats to keep me company (I'm allergic to them).

I dunno. I guess I need inspiration. Actually, no, I don't need inspiration but I guess it would be nice. I don't know. I want to do a lot of things and I can't let the shitty obstacles in my way hinder me. I want to get my masters, publish a book, write a screenplay, win an Oscar. I know, those are pretty lofty ass goals and perhaps I may never reach them but the sad part is I haven't even tried, let alone failed. I guess I'm afraid of the failing part. But I really have to get the fuck over it and just see what happens. Right? Right.

I'm inspired by -


1. The city around me. I'm so grateful to have grown up in Jersey City, especially since it's in such close proximity to Manhattan (jsyk Jersey City residents secretly think they're New Yorkers). I like to tbelieve my experiences here have made me a lot more well-rounded than I would have been in Boston or even Ghana, to be quite honest.


other tings )

So what inspires you? People, places, things? Feel free to post quotes, photos, videos....In fact not just feel free - I implore you, from the bottom of my heart! I'm really interested. Plus, I don't know, maybe it could inspire me, too.
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stuff to be said and done and stuff [05 Jun 2009|03:06am]
Today nothing happened. Or rather, stuff happened but nothing really of consequence. I went to NJCU to register for classes only to be informed that my adviser was "out sick." Walked around the park for a while, sweltering in a blazer that I couldn't take off because of my hoochie-mama, ~lingerie-as-clothing~ top underneath. Took the bus home, did laundry. Read a bit of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. Walked my mother to the bustop and saw her off. Watched "The Fashion Show" with my Aunt. Went on LJ. Cleaned my room, packed some things up for people. Took lame pictures of myself. Obsessed over my pores in the bathroom mirror. Lol'd on the phone with Shirley while watching VH1. Had a late dinner with my mum when she got back from work. Uploaded my pics. And now here I am, just about ready to go to bed.

This is a weird and random statement but - I like my life. If that makes sense? I mean, nothing spectacular happened today but it really struck me how...I like my life. And I like myself. Didn't use to for a long time. I'm glad things have changed.



The view from my front door.

If your name happens to be Julia or Christiane please gtfo out and do not click.  )

gurly hurr shit )
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just because i can [02 Jun 2009|07:05am]
I've got to get back into the swing of things.






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g09 [18 May 2009|03:19am]
[ mood | sleepy ]
[ music | nneka - heartbeat ]



hundred or so )

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fah-shun [16 May 2009|09:02am]



I am back on American~ land. It feels sort of odd. I just took the longest, hottest shower in the world, praise Jesus. The journey home was grueling and my shoulders and legs still ache from it all. But I'm back. Yay! I'll post pictures of things not having to do with me later, I just wanted to showcase some of the clothes I had got back home.

at home she feels like a tourist )
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Hello! [25 Apr 2009|08:37am]
Hiya there people. I haven't been around but I will be, soon, come May or so. I'm feeling really good but I'm not inclined to go all up in what's making me feel good (OK, one thing - I met a guy). It's my birthday on the 29th! I'm going to be twenty. Cannot fucking believe it. But in a good way. Twenty years old!  This'll be my first birthday in Ghana since I was one. Very appropriate, I think. Happy birthday to all my fellow April-babies on my f-list. F-list. It's such a stupid word. Like...podcast. Or vlog. Stupid but necessary. Anyway. I can't wait to get back home but I'm feeling a lot less homesick than a couple months ago. In fact, I'm not feeling homesick at all. I've nothing really interesting to say just now I just like the sensation of typing...I dunno it soothes me. Blah blah blah crumpet. Shakespeare fucking owns, it's true. "Only Fools and Horses" is a good show. My hair has grown. I got extensions again, though, I just couldn't be bothered. Lalalaaaaa. Bye!



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i'm just a little bundle of sunshine, aren't i? [25 Mar 2009|09:25am]
It’s no good. It’s no good when the clock has just struck 4 AM. It’s still dark outside and all the lights in the house are on. The kitchen, the bathroom, the basement. You’ve been walking through the place like a ghost for hours, because you can’t sleep. You can’t sleep because your mind won’t settle down. You get in bed and shut your eyes but the thoughts don’t shut down with you. They just keep whizzing, whizzing, whirring inside your head like little metal gears or wires or whatever metaphor it is that properly conveys the sense…the sense that you feel like a fucking machine sometimes…

There are a lot of odd sounds coming from outside. Creaking in the floorboards. The walls. You began to wonder if someone’s watching you? You welcome it. It’d be nice to have someone to talk to. Respite from the sound of the fan overhead, the buzz of the inane entertainment show you’re ignoring (“…buried the 45 year-old actress yesterday…In other news, are Rob and Kristen back on?! Find out after the break…”).

You walk. You keep walking. Up and down the stairs. In one room and out again.

You stare out your bedroom window at the darkened street below and wonder how fucking long it takes for the stupid fucking sun to come up anyway? How long does it take for the world to spin around, or whatever it is?

It’s then that you recall a documentary you watched, weeks ago, on a night like this. “The Universe: Alien Galaxies.” You thought they were actually going to talk about real aliens but all the narrator went on about was supermassive black holes and telescopes and shit. But then he said something that kind of got you. Something like, there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand in the entire world. Something like,

“You are just a speck on a speck on a speck in the great big expanse of outer space.”

How fucked up. How fucked up and amazing! You are just a grain of sand! A speck on a speck on a speck on a speck on a speck on a speck and so on and so on…And all those fucking thoughts that keep you up at night and make you worry and make you cry? What are they?! What are they and what do they even mean or matter when the stars are just photographs of themselves billions of years in the past? They were there before you were and now they might be gone, burnt up, sucked into darkness. And you might be gone, one day….And you’re rambling…And you can’t wrap up the little piece of writing that was supposed to clear your head but now just makes it ache…You’re just trying to make sense of it….You want to make sense…The stars were there and now they’re gone but you’re still here and it’s going to be OK!

No, really. It’s going to be fucking OK.

_________________________

also, oh hai!
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hi. i look like an alien. [02 Mar 2009|02:53pm]



February 4., 2009

My hair is gone, gone, gone. What have I done?

February 14, 2009

I really want to pop this pimple...But I won't.

It just occurred to me today that chocolate is disgusting. Tastes shit. Looks like it, too.

February 23, 2009

Hahaha at Robert Pattinson's intense stalker vibe on the Oscars. It's times like these I wish I had regular internet access.

February 25, 2009

The other night, I started feeling really overwhelmed, though I’m not entirely sure why. The boys were in their bedroom, playing videogames, and Auntie Sarah was either in her room or in the study, snoring loudly over the gospel music she blares out of her radio every night.

I went into the kitchen to get something, but once I got there I forgot what it was I had meant to get, and ended up just sitting on one of the dirty white plastic chairs by the stove. And I just sort of sat there, willing myself not to feel lonely or depressed or stressed out or whatever it was that was bothering me. Whatever it was that I couldn’t figure out.

After a while my eyes focused on these red ants, crawling from a crack in a window pane, down the white tile wall, to an old foldout table scattered with leftover food from dinner. Every few seconds a pair of them would meet each other, going in opposite directions, and touch antennae, passing between them whatever important ant business it is that ants do.

And suddenly I became really, really aware of the ants…and the cockroaches in the cupboards…and the mouse behind the fridge…and the lizards on the walls…and the mosquitoes…And I just got to thinking that theirs is a whole world that I’ll never understand. That the act between those two ants as they go back and forth between home and food is something so simple and so pure…that they’ll never have the extra shit, the additions to just trying to survive.

The life shit.

For a second, that made me really sad (for me). And then another second passed and I was really sad for them.

Deep as all hell.

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i write the songs that make the old ladies cry [02 Feb 2009|03:09pm]
[ mood | homesick/full ]









January 11, 2009

foux du fa fa foux du fa fa fa fa

January 13, 2009

Something is wrong with my fucking lens. I want to cry.

January 14, 2009

I feel so ugly. How dull. Get the fuck over it and move on. At least I don't have two heads.

January 18, 2009

i have consumed the first five volumes of sandman, jonathan strange & mr norrell (again), the ladies of grace adieu, four seasons of sex & the city, let the right one in (again), half of twilight (again), all three lord of the rings special edition extended dvds (this is including the appendices, which are about eight hours each), watchmen (again), and now i'm going to get started on the manor house dvds...but then bbc entertainment is having a torchwood marathon so i think 'll check that ou, as wellt.

i am pathetique.

January 19, 2009

I'm reading dad's autobiography, "Fighting For Freedom," and I have come across a rather amusing passage:

"I have loved, and been loved by several women in my life...I married Agnes Asante in 1979...by 1989 we had two children, Yaaba and Zeba...Looking back now I see that I was at fault...I did not grow up in a household that valued monogamy..."

Lmao. This shit is classic. Class. Ic. 

January 24, 2009

Skin pressed against skin  pressed against skin as one warm arm wrapped around another, as fingers pressed against his cheek and glided through his hair. It was all silence, all perfection for a few brief morning minutes and then last night’s events came to one of them, slowly but surely. Finally, he decided to speak.

“Find me a wife, Kyle.”

“Kay.”

“...I’m serious.”

A reassuring squeeze, a kiss on the cheek, “I know.”

---
She murmurs again and I say, I say, "If you don’t tell me what it is right now I swear on my grandmother's grave I’ll fucking knock your head in." And then she looked me straight in the eye and her voice got got real loud and shaky and she says,

“I’m fucking pregnant, you ass. I’m having your fucking baby.”

And it gets real quiet in that restaurant, like death sort of quiet, and I look at my reflection in the shine of the table we’re sitting at and for like this little tiny flicker of a moment I notice how much I look like my father, like those pictures of my dad that I’d see my mom staring at when she thought me and my brothers was all fast asleep in our beds.

January 26, 2009

There is a rat. There is a fucking rat.

January 28, 2009

"It ain’t easy to be happy. It’s the hardest thing you ever gonna do. But once you start that shit, once you get the hang of it…it gets better. Cause it’s so easy to be unhappy, right? It’s so easy to feel sorry for yourself, feel like the world is against you and shit. Like every motherfucker on the street just wants to run up on you and mess up your fucking day. Do you know how many dumbass niggas I have to deal with on a daily basis? And do you know the kind of shit I’ve been through? My mom died of AIDS, my dad was a crackhead, my brother was shot in the head right in front of me, I’ve been homeless damn near my entire life…I mean, that’s the kind of shit that can make a motherfucker go crazy. I know niggas on the street now that don’t know they left from they right because of the type of shit they be seeing, traumatizing shit, desensitizing shit. Motherfucker but do I look crazy? Hell nah, I don’t look crazy, because I grow from shit, I learn from shit, I don’t let that shit learn me."

January 30, 2009

I have finally connected with the love of my life. We are ~inseprable~. There is nothing better than just getting to know someone. Someone you know you can always rely on. Someone who you know will never hurt or disappoint you (unless, of course, you let the At the end of the day, when all is said and done, no one else matters.  I'm glad I've had this time to grow. Lol I am bonkers.



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