Randomness & Two Pastrami Sandwhiches on wheat.

HEY...it's #musicmonday on Twitter. You know I am down with that! So, the UNCF tribute to Senor Lionel Richie was cool for what I saw. I think I took it down and went to bed just as Akon was performing. I did a few updates on Twitter last night under #UNCF & #LIONELRICHIE hashtags. I'll post here for your viewing pleasure in decending order. Additional comments by me in RED:

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:02p
#uncf Lionel Richie is the truth #thatisall - i said THAT IS ALL

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:04p
#uncf I see johnny gill still aint learn 2 dance. Eddie Murphy, get tha boy dance lessons. Sheesh. - I failed to mention that he did sound great. Brickhouse though? He should've sang "Hello"

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:05p
#uncf Boney James = SICK! Someone throw a church mother @ him! Gawdt! - Yo, legendary and professional. Just NUTS! He got an anointment! lol

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:11p
#uncf lionel richie looks less horse/camel like as the years go on. There might b hope 4 jay-z. - my peeps Jamie said "Jay-z is gonna die a camel face"...lmbooooo, i had my funeral after that! lol

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:14p
#uncf Tom Joyner = cooncooncooncooncoon - He is NOT a coon. he looked coonish in that commodores outfit.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:16p
#uncf natalie...I love natalie cole. - PERIOD

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:17p
#uncf natalie after drugs/near death/cancer and whitney nor mariah can touch her. #thatisall #pedigree #professionalism

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:19p
#uncf natalie cole- professionalism and steady vocals will always win over vocal acrobatics with me!

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:25p
#uncf katherine mcfee? Uhm. Why? Uhm. Ok. *food network* - who is she? Well obviously she's more famous than me...lol

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:31p
#uncf #lionelrichie Brian MACKnight shlda sang "easy" but this is good. Nicca piano skillz is alien like. Who regularly rocks 13th chords? - He didn't play the piano, but i was just mentioning it. He sounded great...fa real.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:33p
#uncf #lionelrichie that folkz is Brian "u can't do my riffs&runs" McKnight! - Good singers pray to sound like B.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:34p
#uncf #lionelrichie Brian McKnight in bad voice is better than u in ur best voice #technicalexcellence He gets an A+ in theory!

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:34p
#uncf #lionelrichie B. McKnight wasn't even singin in HIS key...wait, all keys r his.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:39p
#uncf #lionelrichie ok richie cunningham aka jesse mccartney...its like robin thicke sneezed & this is wha came out his nose! Sang boy - this lil dude SANG HIS FACE OFF! I would venture to say that on recordings his full personality doesn't come through. Ima look up some other live performances of this cat...he was FIRE.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:40p
#uncf #lionelrichie is tha Todd Bridges aka Willis from diff'rent strokes on bgv's? Lmbooo - no fa real, dude looked like WILLIS.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:58p
#uncf #lionelrichie uhm Ledesi...follow thru & finish the riff/run...thankz...breathing technique @ home...peace - she really was good though. She can sang. she is no where near a bad singer. Just can't be on point all the time and uhm, Opera training, then why can't she reach some of her notes live. Mayb her voice was a lil tired.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 10:58p
#uncf #lionelrichie but tha was nice tho, not bad @ all Ledesi

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 11:01p
#uncf #lionelrichie lmboo @ my friend Valyncia via text - "is ledesi pitchy or emotional?" DONE & DONE...read 2 Timothy 2 @ my FUNeral. - I literally LAUGHED OUT LOUD! DONE.

Sent: Jan 24, 2010 11:11p
#uncf #lionelrichie iSleep...catch the rest another day...5:30am approaches.

Question for those of you reading. While my comments above were critical, were they malicious? Or mean? (ok. maybe the Katherine Mcfee comment. lol) But mean? No...I don't think so. What say you? I wonder why some peoples critical remarks come off as mean or even hateful. (and yes i mean "hater" hateful). I've seen comments about people on twitter/facebook that you can read in between the lines and see the person making the comments really has envy for who the comment was about. Saw someone tweet something about someone else and all I could think was "but you are trying to attain exactly what he has attained and beyond, so why are you hating on him?" Not that I didn't have the courage or cojones to reply and tweet, but I pick and choose my battles. Had I picked that battle, he would have deleted his twitter account, or reincarnated himself or just unfollowed me...but big deal. It just wasn't worth it.

I guess what I am asking is "Where is the love, support, encouragement, empathy, sympathy, for others?" I take note of those who are always critical and judgemental. OOOooo and especially those that call others out about their mess when they know they just as, if not more messy. Working on a new sermon (thanks Holy Ghost & @Chozn1, thanks for ya FB status)...the title is "You ain't saved enough to check me"...my homegirl said "kinna like 'who gon check me boo' with a Christian twist" In this I realize more and more that if I do come to a brother or sister with something, that I first must do it in love, and that I AIN'T GOT NO DOO DOO STAINS IN MY DRAWZ...feel me? I know that I cannot draw close to folks that are that way because next could be me on the firing line. Not that I care, because if I had any mess that I don't want on front street I would never tell anyone. Whatever you see come from Aquon is public. If it wasn't, then you wouldn't see it.

Aight, I'm about to dig into my lunch (pastrami on rye w/ american, mayo, and mustard)/ Y'all stay up!

****COMING SOON****

A blog about MODERN DAY BAAL WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH (making someone else other than God your Lord & Master)...yep...its crazy. You ever been to a church where ALL the men emulate the pastor in some way (clothing, speech, even hairstyle). Or ALL the women try to be like the first lady? Oh it's serious folkz. Until then...peace!

Music & Me...the one thing I own.

People who know me very well know that I feel like the only thing I really own outright in this world is music. It's not just about singing....it's MUSIC, period! Music is the one thing that I control and it listens to me and never does something that I don't advise or direct. It's totally under my control. I OWN music. No one can take it from me and nothing could ever stop the music in me. Even when I lose my voice, there's a melody playing in my heart/mind continually.



I know, for me at least, music is a gift from God and so it's the one thing that I can freely give back to him, without wondering if He will accept it. Because no matter how I'm feeling, when I sing to Jesus, IT'S ALWAYS SINCERE. I can't fake a love song to my savior. Even when I know I've fallen short and haven't pleased him, when I send up an offering, a song of repentance, a song of Love, a song of His Glory, he hears it, receives it and smiles. He forgives me, loves me, and tells me "it's gonna be ok. I'm with you."



In high school, they used to call me "radio"...long before the Cuba Gooding Jr. movie. Lol. I know a song for everything, any occaision. I can be in a normal conversation and all of my responses could be song titles, phrases, lines....music....love it! Even now, my mind is so musical that I'll be walking along and my brain will just play a song to correspond with the beat of my steps. (yes, i walk IN BEAT, successive steps, in syncopation, and time)



*side bar-someone on the floor here @ work just sang the "yaaaeee yaaaeee, yaaaeee yaaee yaee yeah" part from "DA BUTT" by EU* (back to ya regularly scheduled blog)



I was walking to the Lightrail one morning and of course, my steps were in beat. All of a sudden in my mind and unmistakable beat starts to play...the music drops...baseline, keys, guitar, strings, drums, tambourine...and then the lyrics



Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,

I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.

Music loud and women warm.

I've been kicked around since I was born.

And now it's all right, it's O.K.

And you may look the other way.

We can try to understand

The New York Times' effect on man.

Whether you're a brother

Or whether you're a mother,

You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Feel the city breakin'

And ev'rybody shakin'

And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha,Stayin' alive.

Stayin' alive.

Ah, ha, ha, ha,Stayin' alive.



All I could do was crack up laughing....but hey, IT'S MUSIC and it's MINE. Everyone knows I love gospel music, that's a given. I love a GOOD love song also...nice lyrics, nice music, nice sentiment...i'm sold....here are a few of my fav love songs. Of course I'm gonna blog more about music, so you'll be turned on to more of my tastes as time goes on.

NOTHING EVEN MATTERS - Lauryn Hill & D'Angelo
"Now the skies could fall, Not even if my boss should call, The world it seems so very small. 'Cause nothing even matters at all"
(ever been in love and all you wanna do is be with/think about that person...whewwwwww)

NOTHING HAS EVER FELT LIKE THIS - Rachelle Ferrell & Will Downing
"Nothing has ever felt,quite like this Oh No. Nothing has ever meant the whoooooole world to me. Nothing has ever been this good.Nothing has ever been this right. Nothing so sweet, In my life..."
(Rachelle Ferrell...nuff said)

ALWAYS ON MY MIND - SWV & Brian Alexander Morgan
"Sometimes, I find it hard to concentrate Because thoughts of us together fill my head. When you're away, it's hard to sleep at night, So, my pillow, like my thoughts of you, I hold tight"
(a little "bubble gum-ish" but c'mon...who hasn't felt this way in love?)

Until next time...Q