Ok... with all this negativity I have been talking about lately, I need to brighten it up a bit. So I will NOT tell you about my macbook pro drama and my screen going black and me being without my laptop for a week, or that I have to bring it back to get repaired and be without it another 7 to 10 days... nope... I am NOT here to talk about that... (ARRRRRRRGH!)
What I do want to talk about is my girl Jennifer Hudson. As you know, if you have read my blog in the past... I am a big fan of JHud. I have loved her ever since her AI season and I even stopped watching in protest when she was voted off after singing the best non-Whitney version of 'Run to You'... (well... I did tune in to the finale to see Fantasia win... I couldn't help myself... I loved Fantasia too... lol)
We have all heard about Jennifer Hudson's tragedy, losing her Mother, Brother and Nephew in one fell swoop... and our hearts went out to her. I know I really felt for her... So I am really glad to see her back on the scene, and come back in such a major way...
No doubt you have all seen her performance at the Superbowl singing the National Anthem... well if you haven't, here you go...
I have said it before, and I will say it again... JENNIFER HUDSON IS ONE SANGIN' AZZ HEFFA!!!!! WOOOO... THIS GIRL CAN SAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAANG! I mean dayum... its crazy. I LOVE her voice. And I love her runs... I love her power. I just love to hear her sing.
And immediately after the superbowl, the press was all over the fact that she lip-sync'd. So fukking what? She had to sing it at some point... its still her voice... and its no less amazing. And really, she didn't need to lip sync. She can perform like that live, and has proven that time and time again. JHud is one artist who doesn't need studio magic... that is for sure.
I am just glad to have her back. If she can overcome losing 3 family members at once... and still shine... how can I be upset about a laptop issue... or a houseguest that is a pain in the azz... or a friend who has drama in her life...
Looking at what she has overcome makes my issues seem so small and insignificant... Just goes to show that no matter what happens, you have to keep on moving... and that you can overcome anything. Kudos to JHud.
On a very VERY strong branch...but together, nonetheless...
Anyway, if you haven't heard the news... Jennifer Hudson just got engaged to David Otunga (aka Punk from I Love New York) this Friday on her 27th birthday. Congrats to them...
Really, I don't care. And its not really newsworthy to me... but everywhere I have seen this posted, people are shocked like Jennifer Hudson is slumming... or dating beneath herself. But umm... I don't get it.
Don't get me wrong. I do love Jennifer. I think she is talented and is destined for big things in her career. I get that she has an Oscar... but really... Who the hell is Jennifer Hudson anyway? She lost on AI, and has only two movies to her credit. Big deal. That doesn't make her so unattainable by anyone... she is just a regular girl just like anyone else.
And David Otunga is a harvard law graduate. She could have done much worse. Cats are saying she has New York's leftovers, but really, does New York really count as one of his girlfriends anyway?
If Punk was trying to marry someone like... umm... Oprah... now THEN, I would be shocked and amazed. I think that Oprah is just a regular person too... but at least then, I would get why everyone is acting like Oprah was slumming... but... JHud... not so much. She is happy, he is happy, and I am happy for them.
Truth is... Celebrities are just people.
Now I will tell you what IS newsworthy about this whole thing... Punk cut the S-Curl out of his hair. What was that hair about anyway? Now THAT is newsworthy.
Remember that post, Entertainment Drama, where I said I was in a theater production that was going up soon? I am not anymore.
More Drama... To sum up a long story... the theater production I was a part of was canceled... 3 weeks to opening date, after I endured FOUR MONTHS of drama. The writer/producer (whom I will call the cripple-foot queen) of the production decided that we (the actors) were not ready and it was our fault because we were not stepping up our game.
Now if this was indeed true, and we were at fault, I would have accepted the criticism and called it a day. But the situation we were in, was because of him. Among MANY other ludicrous things he did, he switched directors THREE times, and the last switch was two weeks ago, only 5 weeks before opening. And the new director changed up all the staging, so we basically had to re-learn the entire show.
I am drained. There were so many ghetto negroidian things going on that I don't even have the energy to recount them all. I cussed out the cripple-foot queen via email (because if I called or saw him in person, it would have gotten ugly) and I released it. I let it go. I can't deal with the negativity. It didn't work out, oh well... on to the next thing. If I think about my wasted time for the past 4 months I am liable to flip the fukk out and catch a case. So I will take it as a learning experience. I felt like this production and the cripple-foot queen were corny and bootleg from the start, but I second guessed myself.
If it walks like a corny bootleg cripple-foot queen, and talks like a corny bootleg cripple-foot queen... then it is a corny bootleg cripple-foot queen. I learned to trust my instincts.
In other news...
I have been thinking about my guest room issues... I still want to be able to put up my people if they come visit for a weekend or something... but I don't want it to be taken for granted. So, I have decided to change my guestroom into an office. I figure if there is no visible bed in there, it changes the energy of the room. And if I am really using it as an office, I will feel less guilt saying 'hell no' when people ask me to stay for extended periods. Check out this desk that I found. Its a desk with a hideaway bed.... what do you think? I love the function of it... but I am not sold on the design... if you guys know of anything similar, but better looking design-wise... holla at me.
Ok... so my new guilty pleasure is... Gossip Girl. I would say, 'no homo'... but... a grown azz man watching a show called 'Gossip Girl', kinda is... lol But its interesting and well written. It's like a Mean Girls TV show. I watch it... so what? I still have hair on my balls, so fukk ya'll! (lol)
Anyway, one of my favorite characters and actresses on the show is Leighton Meester. She is kinda the dark-haired bitch on the show. But that is not why I dig her. I dig her because she is so beautiful to me. She has such a pretty smile, and I am a sucker for dimples. She kinda has that Gabrielle Union glowing smile thing going... but... white.
So I am surfing random blogs today and I came across one that made me REALLY dig Miss Meester. (What kinda name is that by the way? It sounds like I am saying Ms. Mr. with a mexican accent... like it should be followed by... 'on a steeeeeeeek'... lol)
And while Miss Meester is playing a rich brat from Central Park West,in real life,she was BORN IN JAIL!!! No. Really. Well, her mom was allowed to live in a half-way house with her til she was 3 months old. But she was still technically a jailbird. And Leighton was raised by relatives while her mom served time in a Federal Prison for drug charges.
Now, I am not celebrating her parent's delinquency (her dad did time too...) I am just saying that I love the story of the come-up. I love when people can surmount their situation and accomplish something major against the odds. And I LOVE that this story is about a white person, and illustrates that black folks aren't the only ones with messed up backgrounds. This could be ANYONE's story. This could be anyone's success.
So any of you readers out there whose mamma was(is) a crackhead or daddy was (is) in jail... BE ENCOURAGED!You can be anything you want to be. Just go out there and DO IT!
The Republicans are messing up left and right. But I am glad cause I am tired of them, and want them to go away. First, I can't understand how a party that is based on traditional family values selects a woman who has a teenaged unwed pregnant daughter as their VP candidate... I don't get that. But their convention location just adds icing to the cake.
The democrats say that the Republican Convention was in the twin cities because it is a symbol of John Mccain being the same as George Bush since they voted alike 90% of the time... but... I think the real reason is for...
Gay Sex... lol
Did NO ONE in the ENTIRE Republican party realize that they were about to have their convention in the same city that one of its senators, Larry Craig, was busted for soliciting gay sex in the airport men's bathroom? Really? No. Really?
Well... I bet that bathroom was ROOOOOOCKIN the week of the convention. Walking by that airport men's room must have been like hearing the ghost of Sandman Sims, with all the foot-tapping going on in there...
Anyway... I was not the only person to see the coincidence of city choice... COMEDY CENTRAL did too... observe their skit below... its COOOOOOOOOOOMEDY!
Almost, anyway... you know I always got something to say. Ok... remember when there were rumors about Ciara being a dude? While I never thought she was a dude, now I am wondering if she is even a girl... maybe she is SEXLESS!
Where is her poom-poom? lol Like for real... I know Ciara grew a few curves since she has grown up some... but I don't remember Ciara's thighs and booty being that thick where it would hide her poom-poom in that position... And even the thickest of booties would reveal a poom-poom when the legs are pushed back that far... Is that photoshopped?
Ok... even with the anatomically ambiguous area... Is it me or is this cover still super erotic...? lol I mean, I never thought of Ciara 'that way' but I am kinda turned on looking at this... I never paid her much attention. First of all, because compared to me, she is like, 12. But second of all, I just was never pressed with her cause she is a twig. But this pic is kinda hot.
Ok... so I am a weirdo... lol But the whole punani mystery just makes you focus on her intimacies... and then you see the booty, and the smooth skin, and while its not seen, I KNOW the punani is there... and I kinda wanna see it now... lol
The secret is out. I am kind of a freak. But with her vagina-less Barbie Doll body, so is Ciara, so its a match made in heaven... LOL
UPDATE 9/7: Here is a video of Ciara discussing the Vibe cover. Basically, she just says, she is older now, more mature, and adventurous... so basically, 'The Goodies' that she was so earnestly protecting in her first album are no longer staying 'in the jar'... (In other words, she was always a ho... just wasn't old enough to express it before... lol) Just kidding... she is not a ho... just a vagina-less Barbie Doll... I stand by that one. lol
Usher recently announced that he is planning an intimate 15-city, Ladies-Only Tour to promote his latest album, Here I Stand.
"There's only a few artists that can pull that off," he said. "I feel like I've had such a connection with my audience. This album, I felt like, was definitely the type of one that was more intimate. So what better way to get up close and personal than to make it all women?"
Usher says he wants to prove that he is a family man AND a sex symbol. By having this tour called 'One Night Stand'...?
*blank stare*
This is stupid on soooooo many levels.
He is smelling himself too much and his record sales DON'T justify it. He is living off of past glory.
And the women only thing was attempted already by Tank, Tyrese and Ginuine, and it BOMBED miserably. When your records are not selling like they used to, you need to
collect EVERY dollar that people are willing to give to you, which
includes men.
Then there are the logistics... how is he going to restrict it to women? Ticketmaster does not screen by sex, and even if they did... how could you prevent folks from lying?
What about the fellas who aren't even Usher fans but who would take their girls to see him?
This is stupid and career suicide if it goes wrong. Too risky. A failed album AND a failed tour when you are trying to make a 'come back' would turn this into a cautionary tale of how NOT to become a 'has-been'.
Usher is becoming whacker by the day. He needs his momma to step back in and handle the bidness cause he is a dumbass.
Even though I have never been interested in seeing Usher live... I hate
being told I CAN'T do something... lol I still don't want to go... but
its about the PRINCIPALITIES SMOKEY!!! lol
I know its been eons since I have sat down to blog... but I just haven't felt motivated to write.
But another reason I havent been blogging much is because I have landed a lead role in an off-off broadway gospel theater production that is going up in September and October.
I have been in rehearsals for a couple months now, but I never mentioned it before this because, until now, I wasn't really feeling this production. It was kinda whack...The writer/producer is a new young writer, and kinda amateur-ish in how business is handled. The director was a nice guy, but kinda crazy... like need therapy or short hospital stay kinda crazy...and the stagemanager was sexually harrassing the women.
In addition to all that drama, the director was not good. He let us make up our own staging, and then edited what we did. In other words, he didnt direct us. It may seem cool at first since you have almost total freedom, but when you consider that there are 6 people on stage and everyone has their own idea of how the scene should go, and each wants to make their character stand out and shine... and it becomes total chaos.
I felt like I didn't know what the hell I was doing. The scenes looked random... it was so whack that I didn't even want my fam to come see it. Basically, I was only doing it to get some practice at my acting skills. And if something better came up, I would have taken it. Since I am just starting to professionally act, I need to get my practice where I can.
The initial drama came to a head when the director told us that he had considered suicide the week before... And that was the last straw, and the producer/writer of the show fired him... (a week after he fired the stage manager for following one of the actresses home...)
And that is when I learned what a difference a good director makes... Our new director was PHENOMENAL! The show looked great, I loved way the show was going and now I am ready to invite the world, and even agents to come and checking out my acting chops.
But... the drama doesn't stop.The writer/producer starts ego tripping and wanting to tell the new director how to do her job, she cussed him out, and he fired her. The young director/writer who is producing his third production, was telling a 30 year theater veteran that her scenes weren't theatrical enough... that she wasn't handling the actors right... blah blah blah... and now... we are back at square one.
I am so worn out, and drained from this whole thing... but I have invested so much time and energy into this that I dont want to pull out now. But I DONT want to go on stage and look whack in front of my fam and friends.
We have a new-new director... a month out from the opening... and I am really trying to hang on cause despite his inexperiene, the young writer/director means well. And the cast is all made up of all people trying to break into show bizness... so leaving at this point would fukk everyone over.
I just have a month left. And if this new director is good and the show continues where the last one left off... I will tell you guys so you can come see it. If not... you won't hear a dayum thing about it... lol
Entertainment is DRAMA... both on and off the stage and screen... I guess I am paying my dues.
Anyway... since it has been forever since I have blogged, I will mention other randomness...
I LOVE... LOVE LOVE LUH-HUH-HOVE... the Tide Talking Stain commercial... It's one of the funniest commercials ever. When the stain starts screaming in the end, I laugh hysterically every time I see it... If you havent seen it... check it below. TOO FUNNY!
Also, I am loving Solange. I was hearing leaked tracks over the last year and was telling folks that they are sleeping on Solange, but no one wanted pay me any mind... But now she is coming up, and peeps are jumping on the bandwagon... She will make it out of Beyonce's shadow yet... just watch.
In other randomnes... I truly feel that this whole retro 80's crap is out of hand... I HAVE SEEN FIVE PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 30 WITH JHERI CURLS!!!
Who knew that they still make Jheri Curl Products?!? In 1984, 5 people with Jheri Curls may not seem like a lot, given the millions of people living in New York. But in 2008... that is a ridiculously large number! Where the hell are they buying the relaxer? Where do they buy the activator? What hairdresser even offers such services? Are they doing it themselves? So many questions... I am so confused. I just truly hope that does NOT catch on. In 1984... Jheri Curl was the bomb. In 2008... not so much. Boo.
SEKSHUL CHOKLATE!!! He sing so lovely don't you think?
They have announced the cast of the new Biggie Smalls movie... most of the roles make sense...
This dude, Jamal 'Gravy' Woolard, is big, Black, and a rapper. That makes sense.
Anthony Mackie... I can see him playing Tupac. I actually think he is the best option for this role... and he lives here in Harlem and works out at my gym. Congrats to him! Yaaaaye Anthony!
Derek Luke as Diddy... ok, he can pull it off I think. Everyone doesn't have to be a look a like to pull off a real life role... look at Angela Bassett in 'What's love got to do with it'...
But despite there not needing to be an exact look alike to pull off a role... some choices are kinda ridiculous. Yes, Angela is a phenomenal actress... but playing Voletta Wallace? Huh? That is laughable. That is some ol' "I am an executive producer of this project and I see myself as Angela Bassett' type bullshyt. Voletta Wallace is the ONLY person who sees herself as Angela Bassett. I see her more as a Loretta Devine, Alfre woodard, or Phyllis Stickney (the therapist from 'The Inkwell' that braided Lorenz Tate's hair)...
But I guess I can't hate. If I had a movie based on me, I would choose some young really good looking established actor too... But he would actually have to resemble me at least a little bit. Angela Bassett and Voletta Wallace? That is just some wishful thinking...
As some of you may know, charges were recently dropped against Brandy in that big accident she had in which a woman unfortunately lost her life. Initially, the LAPD were looking at pressing criminal charges but in my eyes there were no grounds for any criminal precedings. She was not speeding and she was not under the influence of any drugs or controlled substances. She simply realized too late that traffic had come to a complete stop ahead of her, and hit the car in front of her, that resulted in a chain reaction of cars that led to the fatal incident. In my eyes, this was just another case of... celebrities get away with everything under the sun... UNLESS YOU ARE A BLACK CELEBRITY!!!! (Cause Black celebrities are ALWAYS the ones that not only pay for their crimes but the judges and the public are both EXTRA hard on. If any celeb is going to be the 'example' that the law doesn't go easy on celebs, they are usually BLACK!)
Now if she were drunk or speeding, I would have felt sorry for her, but I would feel like she would need to pay the piper nonetheless. Wreckless drivin, wreckless endangerment or vehicular manslaughter or anything that leads to a loss of life is no joke. But being a bad driver is not a criminal offense. So I am glad that they have finally dropped the whole entire incident.
On the flip side, the woman's family is still suing Brandy in civil court. And while I don't believe Brandy is a criminal, she did start an accident that resulted in someone's death. If that were my mother, I would be suing Brandy too. If I can sue someone because I got whiplash in an accident, you better believe I am going to sue if someone dies. It's unfortunate that, because she has money, the suit will be for a lot more than it would if she were a regular joe, but thats is life.
I am a great big Brandy fan. She is no power ballad singer like a Jennifer Hudson, or a strong singer-performer like Beyonce, but there is just something about Brandy and her music that I have always loved. So I am glad to see that she will not be taking any mug shots any time soon. Now if she can only keep her triflin brother from still trying to pimp his dick and that stupid skin flick with Kim Kardashian anymore, all will be right with the world again.
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