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My Favorite Blog of 2004: A Socialite's Life

Best Gift of 2004: Peace of Mind

Biggest Lesson Learned in 2004: No one can take responsibility for your happiness but you.

Favorite Movies of 2004: Spiderman 2, Shrek 2, The Incredibles, Kill Bill, Vol. 2, Fahrenheit 9/11, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mean Girls, Garden State, Napolean Dynamite, I (Heart) Huckabees, Supersize Me, Saved, Team America

Favorite Songs of 2004:
Lose My Breath (Destiny's Child)
Yeah (Usher)
This Love (Maroon 5)
Let's Get It Started (Black-Eyed Peas)
Golden (Jill Scott)
1,2 Step (Ciara featuring Missy Elliott)
Move Ya Body (Nina Sky)
If I Ain't Got You (Alicia Keys)
Naughty Girl (Beyonce)
The Way You Move (OutKast)
Toxic (Britney Spears)

Best New Artist of 2004: Maroon 5

Favorite Place Traveled to in 2004: Vienna, Austria (first visit) and Amsterdam (return visit)

Best Live Show I saw in 2004: De La Guarda

Biggest Winner of 2004: George W. Bush, Kevin Federline, Court TV junkies, bloggers

Biggest Losers: Kevin Ferderline, Britney Spears, American Public, FCC, Kobe Bryant, gays, Vietnam Vets

RIP
Marlon Brando
Richard Avedon
Art Carney
Ray Charles
Isabel Sanford
Julia Child
Rodney Dangerfield
Jerry Orbach
Rick James
Janet Leigh
Alistar Cooke
Tony Randall
Christopher Reeve

Time to Celebrate
Numanuma

Yeah, but could I stand to be someplace colder?
Canadian Alternative

My heart is so sad today
Gay Tsunami victims

Trash for the Race obsessed
The Amazing Race 6 - The Official Site of Jonathan Baker and Victoria Fuller

Tee Hee
Asian Wins First Ebonics Competition

Let's wrap this year up
A little over a year ago, I started temping for a great agency. Sometime around the end of March, they sent me to a job at a prestigious ad agency. This week I returned to the big ad agency. The last time I was there was in September but you would have thought I never left. Everyone was so great. My job...I provide complimentary gift wrapping for the employees of the big ad agency. Yes, I am a gift wrapper for the holidays but I love it. One would guess thatt with all the theatrical training, the degrees, and work experience that wrapping gifts would not be for me but you would guess wrong.

Sometimes it is nice to not have to think. Sometimes it is wonderful to just do something that helps someone else. Granted, I am being paid but nominally I assure you.

A fine little ditty
You may have seen The Ukes of Hazzard's music video 'Gay Boyfriend' but if you haven't then please watch it now.

Rufus - Walkin' In The Sun
I love Chaka Khan

Tears for a singer
The best part of living with my roomate is that he usually makes me see something enjoyable in the world that I would have otherwised walked past. I mean this figuratively and literally.

Jack, my roomate, is also a classic joiner. He is a member of many organizations and clubs. He also has more subscriptions than a library. Fortunately for me, one of his subscriptions is to NetFlix. Every few days or so a little white package with a DVD featuring some film that right off of Blockbuster's "New Release" shelf. Thanksgiving weekend we had A Home at the End of the World. It is based on the Michael Cunningham (The Hours) novel by the same name.

The movie was uneven and left me a little cool by the end but I was game for reading the novel which my roomate owned. The book was better than the film but this is not a film or book review. Who cares about either? I suppose Mr. Cunningham probably cares.

In the film, there is a scene in which Sissy Spacek, playing one of the lead character's mother, discovers marijuana and the musical stylings of Laura Nyro simultaneously. It happens a bit different in the book but that is so not the point. The point is Laura Nyro. I had never heard of her before that film but I seem to love her now. After seeing the film and reading the novel, I had to check out some Laura Nyro. I downloaded a couple of songs and fell in love with her sound. I decided to learn more about the artist. I started googling this afternoon and enjoyed reading about her career in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. Then I came across information that she had died in 1997.

Emotions can be so strange. I did not know Laura Nyro. I have never met members of her family. I hadn't even heard of her until a director decided to play her recording of "It's Gonna Take A Miracle" in a film. Yet there I sat at my computer trying to hold back my tears. I don't know if I was crying for the singer or the voice. It must be the voice.

Fuck The South

A friend of mine told me about this little rant he found on the web.

Who will be the lead in the musical?
Ask the good people of Camp Camp.

Show Titles
So I am writing this show that should preview sometime in January and be performed at Piper's Alley in March (I think). We have to decide on a title. The show will be monologues and two person sketches with songs. My partner Rebecca is great and very funny. We are trying to explore themes that are unique to us as Af-Americans but universal because everyone feels left out of the system at sometime because of politics, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc. For the uninformed, "Bourgie" is a black slang term for an uppity black person, as in "bourgeois"

Here are a few of the show titles that I submitted:
BOURGIE NIGHTS
BOURGIE WONDERLAND
DANCE WITH THE BOURGIE, GET DOWN!
THE DARKER THE BERRY, THE HIGHER THE INSULIN
GET DOWN, BOURGIE, OOGIE, OOGIE
AFFIRMATIVE REACTION
AFFIRMATIVE SCRATCHIN'
IS MY NOSE REALLY THAT WIDE?
MALT LIQUOR? YOU BROUGHT HER.
ROOTS AND LADDERS
INNER BOOTY
AMERICAN BOOTY
WAIT UNTIL DARKIE
SO YOU'VE FAILED THE BROWN PAPER BAG TEST, NOW WHAT?
PORK IS A NICE SWEET MEAT
or
THE REBECCA AND PIP SHOW

WELL LOOKING HETERO SEDUCED AND...
I'm not sure what is most offensive about this website. It is either the not so attractive boys or the really bad copy.

Oops
I am so far behind when it comes to blogging. I haven't covered Thanksgiving, the 6'9" , 22 yo hottie, the Second City holiday party, my broken heart, my students' original show, the cabbie that I got high, the departure of the dogs, oh so much.

So, I'm just going to post this link for now. Now excuse me while I go fuck myself.