Fantasia - Control Freak (Music Video [Fan-Made])

Fantasia is one of the most underrated artist of this time and it stops nothing. Not even my love for her. This song, Control Freak, I happened upon browsing the net and enjoyed it thoroughly. Fully aware a video will never be made for this song I took the liberty of creating my own. These are three of Fantasia's videos: When I See You, Bittersweet, and Truth Is made into a music video I desired for my own enjoyment. And now I gift you with the outcome. Hope you like.

Until Next Time.

I Need You To Survive

There is so much we need to learn, so many resources that we can use in order to understand this development of our humanity and it's boggling the selfishness and the lack of consideration running rampant in people. What happen to the dream of Dr. King? What happen to the struggle of the slave? What does it mean to you?

Typically our prayer are self-centered demands to God to rid of us of all the trials and tribulations come upon us so we can live a stress free life. Get over it!!!! You are not going to live a stress free life in a selfish world; it's crazy to think it. Therefore, why don't we think of our struggles as a milestone to greatness or an apex of merit only we can conquer in order to be qualified candidates to fulfill the destiny set before us? Let's use our prayers as weapon of warfare. We don't struggle against humanity but we struggle against the spiritual puppeteers encamped about us. That's why it's so hard for us to do good things, because, "when [we] think to do good, evil is ever present."

I have an idea:

Why don't we collectively use our prayer a weapons of mass protection. Unselfishly bridge the gap between our unpaid light bills and the woman struggling with the issue of abortion. Selflessly transforming our Thank You Jesus into I Appreciate What You've Already Done!

I don't know, maybe it's a weird concept, but I think it might work. How better to touch God than to act selflessly? Dr. King did with the power of his assassination and became as prominent as any American figure to date. The slaves exemplified it by Stealing Away to Jesus in an attempt to gain northern bound freedom. Christ even did it with the redemption of Calvary!

Am I being too preachy? Is preachy even a word? Maybe! I just want to live in a world where I feel at peace knowing someone is praying for me, because I'm praying for you. I hope you find comfort in knowing I want you to be o.k. I got an idea I think would work:

How about?

I pray for you?

You pray for me!

Because, I love you...

I need you to survive!

Until Next Time!

[written 12/30/2007 -- 12:59 a.m.]

Butterscotch

As a child I was fascinated by the melody of candy

2was a sweet rhythm in tune with the harmony in my young heart.

Someone has caught the nostalgia of candy's era

My fascination has been restored in grooves of:

A motion

A gaze

A statement of reassurance

Newness!

I can taste the sugar speck

One so good I tilt my head softly and breeeeathe

Close my eyes and induuulge

Release a declaration of jubilation:

"I love this candy!"

Recalling my memory of...

A childhood long forgotten

A tomorrow I didn't want to face but must conquer.

My future's in this candy,

Somewhere in the newness of it's arrival

I wasn't expecting but it came like a thief in the night

My soul was afire and it blew a cool wind in my burning soul

It motioned to me a 'come hither' wave

Gazed at me with a look of love

Lectured deliverance to my heart

Mmmm...

Inside of this candy was the answer to:

My Whys!

My Woes!

My Whats!

Within the dream was the sweetness of sugar; nevertheless, the outside is hard and comes in the form of

ButterScotch …

[written: 02/04/2007]

Aaliyah - Rock The Boat (@B_Ames Remix)

There no mistaking she was, of course, beautiful. The description beautiful maybe understating the obvious. And a near decade disappeared, yet, her spirit lingers in a way which seems relevant.

B. Ames remixed Aaliyah's Rock The Boat. Brilliant is his fashion of remixing, I deeply loved it when first heard. The moment I'd found a video, right for editing purposes, I made this video. Hope you enjoy.

Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love (B_Ames Vogue Remix)

[click on the picture to visit his YouTube music page]

He's enormously talented and becoming a quick favorite of mine.  Not because his vogue mixes slay but he has an ear for it.   The ear to compose makes him special.  Most surprising, he's not famous, which is hard to believe due to his genius.  He is also  a good person.  I merely asked if he could remix Whitney Houston's "You Give Good Love," and he's completed the track in two days.  What a good person!

So without further adieu, this is my favorite song of all time remixed by the talented B. Ames, a new friend of mine.   I hope you like it because I love it. 

When Friendship Goes Bad!

To me, friendship has solid importance. To be take as serious as any other situation of love. My relationships with my siblings are air-tight (that's us in the above picture). Perhaps the seriousness is rooted there. The premise of my relationships, personal or intimate, was solidified by my siblings. For it is by this dynamic I'd found my place in the scheme of life. Therefore, the creation of friendship, for me, is mirrored by the paradigm of family. It is gold. And a portion of my spirit enters into the relationship tying us by the confidence of love and selflessness. If by the name 'friend' I address, then I consider this 'friendship' set apart from the rest. Something like holiness.

Without question, a share of disappoint is given in unions with attached emotions; none are exempt. Disappointment may not be voluntarily conjured but the comfortable parts of man finds inconvenience in compromise. Moreover, it is clear even friendships are affected with degrees of turbulence. I know and am use it. But there is one friendship in my life that seems wasted with a lack of consideration.

The cordial nature of this friendship in question feels less friendly, more aggressive. As if we battle for 'brotherhood' but losing to fate. Unnatural is the feeling. Only dealing because of history and not for what we can provide for one another. From this; an epiphany: whenever situations of any fashion transcends inconvenience and becomes, "why are we even friends?" Take action. Don't maintain a situation which doesn't work for you because it work for another. And likewise, don't perpetuate a severed situation... for broken wounds bleed.

The moral of the story is simple:

Friendship is responsibility. Responsibilities are as priorities. If the balance of this priority is heavy or can't be handled with fairness, for the sake of all involved; LEAVE IT BE! Disappointment is a marker of a heart wounded.

Nicki Minaj - Massive Attack (@B_Ames Remix)

Unappealing initially, I felt the song too messy. Personally, I thought it not constructed in "song" fashion. The song; however, grew on me the second I found B. Ames' remix. B. Ames reminds me of hot sauce. Regardless the quality of meat, he can make it taste better.