what more can i say?

"The world is mine when I wake up/I don't need nobody rolling over looking after me." - Erykah Badu, Certainly (Live) I've gotten so used to my rss feeds courtesy of bloglines that it had been forever since I had visited a lot of your virtual homes. Came to find out that Anitra and Michelle and Karsh and Buccho all were wearing new clothes. Anitra, in fact, was sporting a whole new url which I didn't know about. Even though I've been lost in the dark caverns of my mind, I hadn't simply dissapeared. I've been commenting. Talking with S-Train about The Matrix:

Keanu Reeves is half-brown people (His father was part chinese, part hawaiian) so The One was brown people, too. And, this is probably the very first time where a multiculti cast was put together where the heroes were brown and their goal wasn't based on some kind of race or class issue in an American film. And their ultimate goal wasn't to teach the white people something about life. They were saving the world. Their world. Our world. One love. -me

and with Madison about Eminem the racist?:

If we're looking at Marshall as a person and want to consider his character in regards to race matters, I would note that the proof is in the pudding. He employs, empowers, and supports a whole cadre of Black Folks and does it respectfully, genuinely and in a way that doesn't seem like he's "using" them for his own nefarious purposes. And, in this instance, I'm not going to put him under a different microscope than other hip hop acts for what he says because he's white. -me

and with Monique about MJ.

I also finished reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. The story is very "blockbuster action film" style but the reference material is eye opening and wonderful. It damn sure makes you want to know the roots of things. There's a line of non-fiction books that will need to follow my reading of that but that has to wait for me to finish The Time Traveler's Wife. I'm so thankful for the hour I spent at Saturn service and repair this morning getting my headlight replaced. It gave me ample time to get fully engrossed in this wonderfully well written tale of love that is so much more. It already has me hankering to visit some libraries and museums. Speaking of libraries, Unshelved is such a highly enjoyable comic strip. I need to know more librarians. They are fun. Kanye West's Through the Wire and Kelis' Milkshake are tops on my listening queue right now. Sarah Mclachlan's exclusive acoustic EP was my first itunes album purchase. I hated Jay-Z's Change Clothes on first listen, but now it's growing on me. I'm purchasing the 2 recommended tracks off The Black Album right now (What More Can I Say and My 1st Song) to see if the album is worth it. I've got a bunch of hip hop writing on the way. I plan on reviewing MTV's The Battle II (the first thing I recorded using my lovely Time Warner Digital Video Recorder...the tv revolution is happening too, ya heard?), especially because the wrong person won. Wreckonize can't see Swann or Blind Fury but I'm getting ahead of myself. I've got a Jae Millz joint tentatively titled Future With a Past that needs a home, probably a J-Live spot and an exclusive feature on unsigned Philly MC Jimmy Tha Joun. The Jay is back. Mister JT is back. What More Can I Say? A lot.