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My mind on shuffle: "I know you got soul!" edition

It's been a long time...I shouldn't have left you...

Without a "mind on shuffle" to step to...

(C'mon, name that tune...I know you got soul!)

So much triumph and tragedy on my brain. Much has been said about the last debate between McCain and Obama so I won't chime in with my two cents--especially not this late in the game.

Instead watch this brief clip talking about the realer than real tragedies going on in communities all across America. This clip highlights Hempstead. Poor people have always been in a recession.

Reminds me of a great song by Morgan Heritage called "Nothing to Smile About"

Speaking of Jamdown, much praise is due to fellow Jamerican Colin Powell for giving Obama a cosign.

In my book, this is a symbolic passing of the torch. Powell was that hope for many folks who thought he could become president and will help make his legacy bigger than his involvement in the Bush administration.

I haven't seen Dubya yet but seeing Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell makes me think about Billy Dee Williams in Undercover Brother.

Before he sold General's Fried Chicken, Billy Dee actually was the spokesperson for Colt 45...works every time.

My friends, you won't get another anti-McCain/Palin article from me. I'll still talk about the election, but I won't sling mud...unless of course one of them does something undeniably ridiculous between now and election day. (Odds anyone?)

Til then, enjoy Terry Tate's opposition to offshore drilling:

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My Mind on Shuffle (Premier Twitter Edition)

Art Stars may be familiar with my erratic series known as "My Mind on Shuffle"

Well I got to thinkin' (get your umbrellas out) and have decided to make this a staple of Art Star through using my tweets throughout the week (and you thought Twitter was a waste of time ha!)

If there are tweets worthy of sharing with you all, they shall be posted!

If you tweet something to me that must be shared with fellow Art Stars...they shall be posted!

Enough with my declarations...let's get into some tweets shall we?

Across the nation, June often means election time for city elections, primaries, etc. Upon my return to East Orange, I was overwhelmed with the amount of Obamaisms candidates flagrantly misused. Thus provoking this tweet:

I_AM_CtotheBSMH at local politicians swagger jacking Obama's movement. Unlike the Pres, YOU might not be the change we need

Which led me to think about an article from Glenn Beck (back when he was on CNN and didn't dabble in as much lunacy) and the failure of local governments for most chocolate cities:

I_AM_CtotheBOne argument repubs have I agree with: local officials in our chocolate cities (mostly dems) have their hand in why these cities haven't recovered

My attention soon turned to sports, specifically, the Magic-Lakers series. Phil Jackson is on his way to his tenth championship ring, and though I have resentment toward him going back to his days with the Bulls, I couldn't help but notice how bombed out and depleted he is starting to look. Thus, provoking the question:

I_AM_CtotheBWho is stealing Phil Jackson's essence?

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Art Star's Top 10 Posts of October

Hey good people, Happy November and end of Daylight Savings Time!

Some of you complain that there are "too many" posts on Art Star. Well although I respectfully disagree with that - I do want to incorporate an Art Star lite format for you. So at the start of every month I will highlight what I thought the best/most important/most interesting posts were.

It is just my opinion, but someone has to be a filter. Our last recap was the Art Star First Quarter Report.

Without further ado, Art Star's Top 10 Posts of October

1. Omar Miller Is A Fucking Giant Pt.2 by WHayes
Can we say how amazing it is that we scored an interview with an actor who has two movies out right now (both of which are pretty good). The fact that the interview itself is pretty sweet is just icing on the cake.

2. Clicking Around With Music: Lori Kirk by PicturesqueMusiq
I became a fan of Lori Kirk after reading this interview. Just everything you want a young artist to be, endearing, humble, dedicated, passionate, and talented.

3. Kill That Crack Head Terrorist Muslim Thug Nigger Hussein Obama by smartblackboy
Although this post was written half in anger and half in jest - the sad reality is that every day this post receives at least a dozen hits from people who are searching on Google - "Kill Obama" and "Crack Head Terrorist".

4. Home Is Where The Art Is by fotoloka
"Someday maybe photographers will just implant a flash card into our eye and all we' ll have to do is wink to make an image.." Well until then, thank you.

5. Clicking Around With Music: Teen Wolf
Just good west coast party fun. A must read.

6. My Mind On Shuffle "I Know You Got Soul!" Edition by CtotheB
"Poor people have always been in a recession." For those times when you forget the truth.

7. Best of the Internet Part 1 by Whayes
What Art Star is exists for - to share the stuff we find on the internet with you.

8. Weekend Jamz Part 1
For to shout out to Jim Nash. For the great music. For the picture and caption.

9. Hip Hop Artists To Watch Out For by DJ NY
We were waiting for a break out post - it finally happened.

10. Clicking Around With Music: Samantha Crain by Michael
Because catching someone right on the cusp on being a star is something we always appreciate.

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My Mind on Shuffle...Again!

First and foremost happy Juneteenth!...if you don't know what I'm talking about please go read a book immediately.

Speaking of Texas, my Cowboys seem to have put Sunday School on shuffle and have resurrected Adam.

It's always sad to see a grown man cry...but it's even colder when your friends betray you.

Microwaves make the devil get silly.

MTA= hypocrisy at it's finest.

Latest Canadian foot gets the boot.

Can a Wildcat make the jump from exit 30 to 34th street?

Lastly, a sneak preview of my episode on Broadway...(it's the picture silly)

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My Mind on Shuffle: No rocks at the throne

The surreal state of shock is still in the atmosphere.

I was on my way to the Garden on Thursday, to pick up the vibes outside as everyone anticipated the NBA Draft. Walking down 34th, I felt the buzz start to pick up as news of Michael Jackson's health started to spread. Street vendors stopping people on the street to let them know he suffered cardiac arrest. By the time I got in front of the Garden, I heard scalpers proclaim, "How am I supposed to sell this stuff? The King is dead." Yet still, I didn't want to believe it. I noticed a lag in my cell phone's network as I sent out texts asking about this news, assuming many others were doing the same. As my frat brother made his way down the street to me we both blurted out "Did you hear?!"

And by that time it was confirmed. My Mom returned my phone call, with tears in her voice, "Christopher, he's gone." In the same voice, no doubt, she'd use if a family member had passed. I didn't want to accept it, and in many ways spent this whole weekend denying it, but an icon who very much framed the expectations my generation has for icons, is gone.

For us 80s babies, who are too young to remember Thriller but too old to forget images of people fainting at his concerts, Michael Jackson has been a constant. In many ways, understanding his death is like hearing that the Sun just died. Of course he's mortal but don't front like you too didn't wonder, "Michael Jackson is dead?"

I can't remember any celebrity whose death has stopped the world like this. We've felt shock, and even horror, but I have never seen so many people take it this personally. There are reports of Times Square groaning as the crowd read the breaking news. Over the weekend I've realized how so many moments in my life had the King of Pop's influence.

Watching concerts on video. Countless attempts at Moonwalking. Friends dressed up as Michael Jackson for Halloween (one Halloween where three girls dressed up as Moonwalker, Mike from Thriller, and "Off the Wall" era Mike)

My senior year, my frat's winning show had a Thriller homage. The runners-up used that Smooth Criminal lean.

As I turn on video channels, read the news, you see so much love poured out for a man who tragically did not always feel this love in life. Even in this mourning, there are still those expressing their foolishness through tasteless headlines, ignorant facebook statuses; a barrage of tweets from twits. All revealing the hypocrisy so common in the human condition: a perverse readiness to dish out that which you'd never receive.

Michael Jackson was not a perfect man; like all of us he fought his demons but had the misfortune of wrestling in public. To those who still bash him and are quick to bring up his controversies, understand this: Nothing that you say can take away from his legacy.

Most of your heroes are complex and ALL of them have something they were ashamed of. If you have no reasons to mourn him, then you have even less reasons to tarnish his legacy. It is a shame that we often give flowers when the recipient can no longer smell them, (as a friend of mine remarks, we give flowers to the dead but no soup to the sick) and is cowardice to speak ill of one who is unable to retort.

Let's do more than play his music, let's listen to the words and express a love for one another that he undoubtedly possessed.

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Mind on Shuffle...(Heroes and Villains Edition)

Just finished watching the ESPYs...definitely a solid award show. Makes you laugh, think, and get hype as you remember your favorite moments in sports.

Have we seen a year in sports like 2008? Definitely the year of the underdog. Every category seemed to have teams or individuals that were in the dumps last year, stuntin serious!

Couldn't stand to see T.O give the Giants an award but it was all love.

Ray Allen definitely had the line of the night. After winning best team on stage at the Nokia Theatre, he cooly proclaims, "Another win in LA"

Michael Strahan is truly winning. Retire a champ, win bout 3 ESPYS, and have the former Mrs. Murphy on your arm. Kudos to you good sir. Please give A-Rod some notes as he is about 25 years late if he thinks it is cool to holla at Madonna.

Biggups to the Pope for apologizing and visiting victims of clergy sex abuse in Australia.

I'm making a list for a full feature article on Art Star about the roughest and toughest villains. But I want your help! Send me your nominees, I'll put an article together showcasing their badness, and we will vote to see who is the "real badman"

Nominees can be villains in film, television, history, music, or literature. Fictional or non-fictional. Dead, living, or undead.

Questions? Hit me up on that comments section. Ya dig?!

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My Mind on Shuffle

It's a wrap son!

Why the music of my parents' homeland is the G.O.A.T of music genres.

Sports Guy answering all your questions going into Game 4 (Can anybody say 2-2?)

Glad to be back whippersnappers!

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it's a subtle manifesto

css, klaxons... step over they've got witty band shirts and a seductress leading vocals. an australian cult classic, new young pony club rocks hard with dance groves that are just waiting for kimarr to remix it into a multi-song club banger (oh wait, neon coyote already did that-see second song- they mix in ice cream about 3 or 4 songs in). currently, they aren't touring or have released tour info for the u.s. but i'm sure they'll be riding the festival wave this summer. they are the perfect filler, not yet headliner band for shows like lollapalooza.

i guess the reason i picked this song is because i really listened to it passively the first 10 or 15 times on a 1 gig shuffle during workouts, but like so many of their songs tahita bulmer (heck of a name, eh?) eases ambiguous lyrics into a blissful grove. as for the meaning of "tight fit," on the surface i see a need to the classic issue chamillionaire addresses in all its grace... frontin'. putting on the layers and gettin in those jeans but what is there to do about the second half of the song. tahita's words definitely become an argument for visiting magical land to escape the need to get in the restricting skin. i like it. the message may not be g rated but its insight into her mind, the band's mind and their frustrations.

until they get back in the states and start rockin, we'll have to be content with the inevitable mixes on missingtoof and b side cuts. let me leave you with a dialogue from their website between tahita and production guru and guitar player andy spence:

Tahita: The thing with us is, we’re not 15-year-old boys singing in a garage with leather jackets and a manifesto.

Andy: We do have a manifesto.

Tahita: But it’s a lot less bombastic… It’s a subtle manifesto.

Andy: What Tahita is trying to say is that most bands…

Tahita: No, what I am saying…

Andy: Well, this is the obviously the other thing with us: antagonistic affection…