Finally.

This was pretty great:

So… this new joint will be even better.

Thanks to Saeid for reminding me about this!

Clicky click to hear his music as well!

EDIT: DOWNLOAD NOW!!!!!!

Highly enjoyable.

“Tap The Phone” is already stuck in my head.

Yesterday, I had a lovely time with Melanie! Our intention was to enjoy the glorious early-Spring weather but it honestly turned pretty chilly. Melanie couldn’t even keep her brand new headband on because it was so windy! But she looked awesome and people kept complementing her! I have such stylish friends.

We also went to Sephora and played around with perfume because I’m in the market for an established woman “thing”. Melanie believes that when she’s an established woman, she will have a “thing” for hand creams. I’m not sure that I’m drawn to anything in that way. At first, I thought maybe it would be mascara because I own a lot of them – but they find me, I don’t seek them out! Then I remembered that one Christmas, I asked my parents for perfume because I thought it would make me seem grown. I smelled good but did not mature. So we played around, agreed that Marc Jacobs’ Daisy is pretty good but we’re all about Stella McCartney perfume. I also realized that perfume will not be my established woman “thing”.

My nose can’t handle it.

After Sephora, we grabbed some magazines and read them in Barnes & Noble. Let me give you some really good life advice. If you are ever feeling really down and need some cheering up, head to Barnes & Noble. Go to the magazine section and grab yourself one of these:

Actually, if you can, you should find this particular copy and read the story about the Scotsman and the woman who keeps spilling food on herself in the mall. CHUCKLES.

And it’s pretty excellent.

And hilarious…. in a melodious way, of course.

Also excellent: David singing + a rabbit!

Earlier in this new year, my dear friend, Intisar Abioto started a new project — Flier Arts. As I’ve mentioned in the past, Intisar and the other Abioto sisters have been working on The People Could Fly Project for several years now and the results have been truly amazing. They’ve traveled the globe, met incredible people, and all the while engaged in the multimedia act of storytelling. So when Intisar called me last year to tell me about a new project that she was working on, I knew instantly that she had a winning idea. Ever the traveler-adventurer, Intisar describes Flier Arts as “a web atlas and magazine”. She and Flier Arts are all about engaging creators (what a perfect word choice) from all over the world in conversation, particularly through interviews. Personally, I love that Intisar includes audio and written transcriptions of these dialogues.

Which brings me to some exciting news… for the second edition of Flier Arts, Intisar has posted an interview with Isa Nakazawa, the blogging beauty w/brains behind Buggin’ Out . Isa is 1 in a million; I don’t think I know anyone who can switch between debating high cultural theory, singing a classic r&b slow jam, and hitting you with some on point sarcasm with as much ease. Truly interdisciplinary in her approach to…most things… Isa is a talented spoken word artist, teacher, mentor, friend, and cultural analyst. I can always count on her to make me stop – think- and laugh.

Intisar and Isa are two incredible ladies that are steady on the grind. Take some time and check out the interview on Flier Arts to learn more about Isa and her work .

Screen capture of Flier Arts – Photo by Intisar Abioto.

Come see the work of an emerging talent, and one of my dearest friends, Micaela Anaya! She will be having her first solo exhibit, opening this Friday, at the Azucarera Art Gallery.

ELUDING DEFINITION

Friday, January 8, 2010

7:00 PM

Azucarera Art Gallery

414 W 145th St.

New York, NY

Definitely peep the back-up dancers, some of the fly-est women that I know in real life. And Victor and Hima are aiiight too. I kid. Someone sign them, please.

a beautiful video made by Miles Tokunow and friends.

If you don’t know about Das Racist, you aren’t any good at the internet.

And you probably confuse Wesleyan with Wellesley.

Go to their myspace right now and play “Shorty Said”, the Gordon Voidwell remix. It should be enough to convince you to come to the show Thursday night. Yes. Yes. Okay. Rap rap rap.

Extra Evidence:

Clearly, they’re a big deal: