Sunday, December 27, 2009

Youtube Mania: Mixing it up.

Just some favorite I saw over break.

1. Darin Atwater - "He's Got the Whole World in his Hands"



Remember those videos with Soulful Symphony, forgot to post this one last time. Just the choir and piano this time. Beautiful rendition.

2. "Emmanuel" - UAPB Gospel Choir



Although Christmas is over, I loved this version of this song! I had chills, and felt exactly what they felt in that video. Amazing!...

3. Never Steal A Fat Black Kids Ramen Noodles!



Sorry for all the F words (change of pace from the gospel videos, i know). But this was way too hilarious to me! Had to post it. I know how he felt though, dem Ramen Noodles be the shizznit. And I would put it on everything (including my grandma's grave, jk) if someone stole my noodles. hahahahah omg!

4. Weird Water Experiment



Kool, sciency thingy. So what, I'm a dork?!. I got to Northwestern.....

5. The Clark Sisters -"Jesus is a Love Song"



This song is a least in my head once a day....most of the time it's just that long note she holds around 4:45,
Love this song though.

Last post before the New Year,
so enjoy the last days of '09,
and welcome with open arms those of 2010.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

On Break Updation

Sorry, I haven't updated in awhile, I was breaking from the blog (but you probably don't care anywayz, neither to I....duh....)

But um break's been pretty good. I put it up there (wherever that is) as one best winter breaks ever. Like I just really enjoyed myself, I feel like I generally just had fun and break'ded. A well need break before heading back the "E" and the world of academia.

More fun to come though with the upcoming bowl trip (AHHH!). I Leave for E-town on the 28th, then heading down to Tampa with the rest of NUMB on the 29th. Whether we win or lose, I'm fairly certain I'm gonna remember this trip and I'm gonna have a grand ol' time. And since the game is on the 1st day of the new year, it'll be the first time I have NOT been with the familia on New Years Eve, so yeha. It's one for the books(??).

Just excited about the new year in general. 2010. WOW! weird. A decade in the millenium and I'm still here (THANK YA JESUS!!)

Speaking of Jesus, Christmas was kool, I think I'm officially over it (not the whole day that Jesus was born thing) but like presents and stuff, I feel like it's all unecessary. Fun, Food, and Family (the 3 F's) that's all I need for holidays.  I got a new phone and some clothes, which was kool. But I wouldn't've (<--whoa contraction mania!) cared if I didn't get a thing.

one more post to before the new year, i guess.
not sure yet.
anywayz

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Top Posts in 1 year!

Since it's my blog-a-versary,
AND
it's almost the end of the year 2009,
I thought it would be fitting to provided my Favorite Top Posts/Updates/Blogs of the year
(year interpreted as from 12/17 to 12/17)

Let's say top 5, but this might turn into top 8 or something.

And order here does not mean anything its just a list of my Favs

1. Thoughts on Snow ~~~~Hilarity! Basically me talking to Snow, very approiate now btw.

2. I am a member of ~~~~~ Talking about NUMB, oh how I love thee.

3. So this one time I got stuck on an elevator ~~~~~~~Hilarious! An experience I'll never forget!

4.Chris Brown/Rihanna ~~~~~ A funny video with transcription omg! can't believe I did that!

5. YOUTUBE MANIA ~~~~~I think my first of these mania's, hence my favorite.

6. a REAL poem ~~~~~pretty awesome poem I wrote, I have no idea what I'm taking about though.

7.Thing that made me say ~~~~ A Dream starring Tom Hanks + BET Awards + Bernie Madoff = Hilarity!

8. The Wiz- the Movie ~~~~~My "expert" analysis on the film. awesome.

9. Love Potion #9 ~~~~My favorite song from Smokey Joe's. Just an awesome song in general (look it number 9 on the list...totally didn't plan that!)

Yeha that's it.
(btw I went through about the first 150 posts, couldn't look at the last 50..got tired).

Do you have a favorite post(s)????
.................................anyone?

hahaha
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!!

ONE YEAR!!! Wowzers!!!

On this date one year ago, I posted this. And such began the afroboiii blog (then known as the accounts of an afroboiii, idk why I named it that, guess I couldn't come up with anything creative, apparently).

I love this blog. I don't think alot people actually know about it or they do, but it don't matter.
I just enjoy having one, and actually keeping up with it.

I can basically post whatever I want, even if it makes no sense, I love it. Maybe because it's just one thing I can actually control completely (like I can't even control myself half the time).

Anywayz
In Honor of my one year blog-a-versary (yhea..) I decided to reveal this secret of sorts.
Actually its two secrets, well actually I won't reveal their names or whatnot (yhea I lied.)
Basically these two things tell me things about the blog.
It all started about 6 months ago, June acutally. I remember it like it was yesterday...[insert flashback here]

Collectively they have given many interesting details about the blog.

# of Visits since June/July: Secret 1 - 2500  Secret 2- 1,000

Referrer with highest # of visits: Secret 1- images.google.com; 41.71% Secret 2-  images.google.com 30.94%

Most Visited Page: Secret 1 http://afroboiii.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html with 48.26% of the visits Secret 2 same link with  35.17%

Some other referrers: blogger.com; facebook.com; google.com;
Average Time on Site: 1:01 minutes.
% of New Visits: 65.42


Geolocation ( My Favorite!):
Secret 1

U.S. 76.28% of visits
Canada 4%, UK 3.6% , other visits from: Austrailia, India, Phillipinnes, Netherland, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and 70 (yes 70 other countries).

Secret 2 ( a little more detailed)

U.S. 814 visits/1, 073 visits (about 80%)
with visits from every state except 6 states (darn you Hawaii, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont, and New Hamsphire!).

Highest state: Illinois (of course), then California, New York, Wisconsin, Texas.

Other Countries, 62 of them this time,
including those menitoned above and randoms like Fiji, Nigeria, and countries I never heard of:  Bahrain, Slovakia (idk).

Basically this blog has been seen in every continent besides Antartica, which is fine with me.
Looks like this basically.




Anywayz its kool where my blog has reached even if viewed for a milisecond or a minute, still awesome. Who would've known my decision to just write about crazy things could reach the whole world (well almost)?. Amazing!

Again all this comes from secret sources, and shall remain so, until I feel they are no longer useful (whatever that means)

that's it,
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!! (<---btw comes from my first post, which if you didn't check out you should).

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Really Random Randoms

yeha.
so I don't know what to update about.
I just wanted to update, cuz sometimes I fill the need to type my thoughts out
hence the creation of this blog. ummmmmmmm

yeha.
I did finally see Slumdog Millionaire,



which was a very good film. Like I saw why people enjoyed, very entertaining. yeha..........................

I realized something today, I love taking showers ( I know random right).


It's something about the solidarity, it's a place I know I can go to think about things. I think I actually get alot thinking (whatever that means) done in the shower. Showers just make me feel clean (duh dumbass), its something about standing there naked, alone. it just takes me back to the core (of an apple?). It's like I am who I am in that shower, nothing can be changed, covered up. And the water rinses all the dirt of yesterday: mistakes and such and makes me all clean for a brand new day (whoa this is really awkward....sorry) (wait, not really). yeha so I like showers.

anything else?

Whitney Houston is awesome. And so is this song.


cuz my name ain't Susan.

now, you get a random picture or something like that...



if only my birthday was something like this...

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

GLEE



(hey I know this image is old, but it works and I didn't feel like looking for another one)


is so freaking kool and awesome! Can't wait untill the new episodes. A couple of days ago, I got all caught up with episodes ( being a college student definitely limits my amount of TV watching)

and basically glee, the story lines are kool, and dramatic and stuff with crazy love triangle, squares, but I must admit
I REALLY REALLY like the singing. I mean without the singing the show would just be about a glee club (boring...)....

And the girl that plays the token black person, Mercedes, (Amber Riley) can blow,
like pretty much at the end of the episodes I was just like "This chick is sick!" like she needs to
get her own thing going on so I listen to it, seriously.

And probably if it wasn't for her I probably wouldn't watch the show either, or at least to
me the singing would not be as good. I mean the Jewish girl is pretty good, and the guy in the wheelchair is suprisingly good (sorry can't remember anyone's names), everyone else is mediocre to me.

But yeha a few songs/videos where Amber was killin'

"Lean on Me"


"Bust Your Windows"
(think this is a repost, whatevs)


"Proud Mary"


(FYI: she does do (??) her own thing apparently)

"Sweet Thang"




that's it!
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Winter Break is.....

awesome! !
I have done nothing but eaten, slept, showered, and watched TV,
and not necessarily in that order.

BUT
I seriously have somethings I must do:

Write Resume for Student Teaching Placement
Write an Essay about why I want to be a teacher

My plan is start on those on Monday, like really, but I'll probably end up procrasintating the
first couple of days, then again I don't plan on doing anything (like nothing) so I might end up actually getting it done before next year.

Then there are things I want to do:

Start the NCE website
GO SHOPPING for myself! ***this is kinda something I must do also**

Hopefully I can (theortically I should) get all this done before heading off to Tampa.
Yes, I can! I can do it! (ALL NIGHT LONG....whoa inapproriate!)...

that's it ya'll
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Randoms again.

Hey done with final and such (actually been done since Monday night, just been hanging around for a couple days to chill with the amigos)
But now I'm headed back to Kankakee, K3, the Keys, the Kank (hahaha) for winter break
(Deuces to E-town).
It'll be nice to be around fam and such for more than 3/4 days(stupid thanksgiving break),
I'll get to celebrate Birthdays( my brother's) and Christmas
so it should be fun.

Hopefully I'll be able to get in some much needed shopping (for myself, I don't really buy Christmas presents, cuz then you have to get everyone one).
And hopefully I'll get in some much needed relaxation, and tv watching, movie watching, and general just not worrying about school. There's some plan to hang out with High School Peeps, which should be interesting because I haven't seen anyone in forever.

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here's a random picture, I thought was pretty kool

It's the World Smallest Snowman



( It's constructed of two tiny tin beads that are usually used to calibrate an electron microscope, and welded together with platinum. It's only fifth the width of human hair.) 


Here's a cooler picture of it. 




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Winter

Speaking of snowman, and coldness and stuff. What is going on with the weather, g-fizzle?
Ever since the night of my Birthday (I'm telling that day is really special) it's like God flipped on the winter season switch. Like I woke up the day after my birthday and there was snow on the ground and i was "wait what?, there's snow on the ground" (yeha) and ever since it's been that crazy snowy, windy, rainy, icy, down-right unbearable winter in Evanston that we all look forward to every Winter quarter.

Ahhh, this rant reminds of a post I post right when I was starting off basically me talking to snow.
I'll probably re-post that. cuz it'll be just as relevant in about a week or tomorrow.

Yeha so Winter's officially here.

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Also, I wonder how this would taste.
My theory of food is that everything taste better with bacon, so far it has been proven be true.
I have yet though to try bacon and chocolate, I'm sure though I've had bacon with a donut before.
Either way I think this would taste delicious, or interesting.




Chocolate Covered Bacon Maple Donut Bar

Chocolate Covered Bacon Maple Donut Bar
(Submitted by Alex Brewer)

I must admit this makes me want to try it. I of course got this from This is why you're fat.

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that's it.
HOLLA!!!!!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Wildcats are Headed to Florida.

The news broke at about 4:30 PM on my B-day
(That day was so special, I heard that all the baby unicorns learned
to fly that day, and rhinoceroses stopped picking their noses, and that for a maybe a second the world was at peace, but I digress).
That the Northwestern University Wildcats would be playing
The Auburn Tigers
in the OUTBACK Bowl in Tampa, Florida.

My Immediate Reaction: OMG!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!! I GET TO GO TO FLORIDA!!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!! WHEW!!!!!

My Reaction after Immediate Reaction: IT's ON NEW YEAR's DAY!!!! I GET TO SPEND NEW YEAR's DAY IN FLORIDA!!! OMG!!!!!

My Reaction after the Reaction after Immediate Reaction: OMG!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH, SHIT!!! IT's MY 21s BIRTHDAY!!! THIS IS  SO AWESOME!!!!!

This was a total shock, because we jumped over a 9-4 team (Wisconsin) to go to the Outback Bowl, and the entire time I had be hearing/reading we were going to the Champs Sports Bowl, I mean either was fine with me. But now that we get to go the Outback bowl, I'm so happy we didn't go to the Champs Sports Bowl.
This is gonna be amazing. I'm just excited.  Because:

1. I've never been to Florida,
2. I'm gonna be in some place warm starting out the New Year
3. Free Beach, Plane, Food, Hotel, Money.
4. FOOTBALL!

This should be pretty awesome. This mean I'll be back in E-town around the 28th/29th, which then I'll stay until school starts, so It'll be a good end of winter break.

Did I mention I'm so excited!
Florida here I come!
Whew!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Y'tube Mania: WTF?!

I don't know what's going on in the world today,
but lately, the only videos I have been seeing
give me the reaction to yell out: "WTF?! 
Are you serious, what is wrong with you? who is yo' mama, cuz I will call her up right?....etc... "
[you get my conkerdoodle]

1. 13 Most Ridculous Things About I am....Yours



So over thanksgiving break, I watched Beyonce's lil' special and there was definitely some moments I was like WTF? is this chick stupid? (I've come to that conclusion she is). I think this talks about the whole DVD in general, which I haven't seen, but it has some parts that were showed on television, and that made me say WTF?!

2.  How to Eat Chicken Wing



I was to busy staring at how good them chicken wings was lookin, fo' real, [I'm still droolin] to think that this video actually exist. If you need help on how to eat a chicken wing, you don't be hungry. AND WTF?! how you gon' tell me how I eat chicken wing is wrong (even though you get all the meat his way, i mean in fact it makes sense). Plus I don't be havin time to do all that  when I be hungry, I just want food.

3.  Jamaican Video Dating



I have no idea what this dude was saying, cuz I was too distracted by how he was looking. WTF?! do you know brush yo teef. and you might want to see a dentist. Also what's up with the hair. You might want to get those things checked out before you start dating, just fyi.

4. Screamgirls: Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Jamie Foxx



Okay. Hilarious. Etta James' voice:  I LOVE. If only the real dreamgirls had been like this. hahahaha
what made me say WTF?! (besides all the crazy things happening in the actual video) you can make videos like this, like the people looked just the celebrities it was kinda creepy, but kool. So this is not a bad WTF?! it was just like omg! you can do that.

5. Hey Mister Jackson: Diana Ross & Debbie Rowe




Another video like Screamgirls. Loved this one more though. My WTF?! why did they have Joe Jackson looking like that. That was all.  (btw I love the dancing in these videos)

6. Crazy girl on Train- Original Subtitles



WTF?! I think this girl was high on sum'in, why you gon talk to an old lady like that seriously?. But then again we don't know how that old lady was looking at her.......also I was like WTF?! is Soulija Boy really that popular? that people sing all his song like that...damn. oh did I mention this was hilarious.

Okay that's it.
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Whoa! This my 200th post

of it I will make the most
by writing it in the form of a poem
with rhyming and timing sturdy as foam
I would call it the greatest you've ever seen
but that's ridiculuous and obscene.
so just continue to read in wonder,
the flow will hit you like thunder,
rattling the windows of your mind,
so you'll know this blog is one of  a kind.

200 posts in about 1 year!,
yes the blog's anniversary is near,
who would have known or even guessed,
at it's inception, in the midst of a world of mess,
coming through so clear in a sea junk,
would be the words of an afroboiii, not a punk.
Posting so many random pictures and videos,
or just general rants about spoiled milk and Cheerios,
from topics about music, movies, current events,
to NU related things, sports, and spontaneous irrelevance,
I have provided my individual view
as an Afroboiii solid and true.
It's been cool and fun,
and I'm up for another year's run
whether no one ever shall read
these words, I won't plead,
nor beg because this blog in the end is all for me
but I don't mind allowing others to see
that through it all at least,
there's no overbearing scary beast,
but just a dinner, no a feast,
serving out a big plate of

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!

I AM TWENTY-ONE.
One year older.
I am happy now.
I can drink legally.
Yes.

I would like to thank my mom, the academy, and God (for real ya'll).
I'm just gonna celebrate as much as I can.
This chance only comes around once. Live it up!

That's it.
I'm too excited to sleep.
Hence I post this post at 4 in the morning............
whoa has this ever happened before, nope.

but yeha that is all.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Youtube Mania: THE Gospelized Version.

hey I haven't done this in awhile,
and I've found some interesting Gospel Vids, while having nothing else better to do than
watch youtube videos.........

1.  Jesus Paid It All- Mississippi Mass Choir




I think I posted a link to this song before, but I finally found the video. Made me so happy to "see" this song.
and also this version is longer than what I'm used to hearing. Love it nevertheless!

2. Joy - Kirk Franklin/Georgia Mass Choir




Did you know Kirk Franklin led this song? I sure didn't. I knew he wrote this song though. It's also really nice to "see" this song, cuz I've been hearing this song on radio since I was like 5,6,7,8, gosh one of those numbers.

* The rest of these videos are of a group called Soulful Symphony, directed by Darin Atwater, who worked with Richard Smallwood, so he like integrates gospel with classical. so talented! *

(Also there is a story that goes along with how I found out about this group, but it would be really long,
so I'll just leave it a mystery or something like that)

3. Elijah Rock




MY FAV! I have watched/listened this song probably about 15 times already (I found it yesterday, so in less than 24 hours). This video though likes to stop at the 2:00 mark for some reason makes me upset, cuz this is my Favorite song of theirs.


4. Go, Down Moses




I love the jazzy feel to this it pretty kool. And the build up at the end (which could be better, but never mind)
I love also. These singers are so talented, yeha.


5. Wade in the Water




This chica is bad! Those notes she hits are crazy! In my old black woman voice: "Chile, I tell ya, Ain't nothing like a negro spiritual"


6. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot




I love the vamp on this. Pretty good rendition of the spiritual.

There are more videos of them singing other negro spirituals, even a couple with just the instruments which are also pretty kool. Check 'em out.

yeha..that's it.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

It's December 1st!!!!

Which means my BIRTHDAY is in 5 DAYS!!! 
so excited!!!!
I can say this is probably gonna be one of the few times where I will feel my age.
Like I feel older already, like I can see the changes physically, mentally about who I am, who I THINK I am.
It's very interesting (and weird..............................yeha)

Enough about my BIRTHDAY (did I happen to mention that it's in 5 days?!),
but today also means it's been about a year since I started this blog. (whoa, right?!)

I'll have a year-celebration post coming up soon, probably when I get away from E-town for Christmas break.

I can't believe I kept up with this though. I think at first, I started the blog to just entertain myself, which I still do, it's just away for me to record my thoughts on things, ya know.

It's kool when people are like yeah "Youe blog is awesome" and "I saw that on your blog". but it's also
weird cuz I'm always like "oh, yeha, my blog" like I totally forget that other people read this sometimes.

I kinda don't care if other people don't really read it/this (but I actually DO), but it's all good in the hood or something like that....

so yeha....

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Randoms.

One Week Left! 
until I am the big 2-1!!!
ask me if I'm excited, cuz I AM!!!!

I honor of my proximal 21-ness, I decided to watch this film entitled 21.


okay so like the first 30 mins of this movie was really weird. it reminded me too much of college life, like including the math and everything (yeha that was really descriptive). Overall though, this move was pretty kool. I give it a 7/8 outta 10. But then I looked it up on wikipedia (a random habit of mine after watching a new movie) and people totally hated it. It was a good film kept me interesting for about 2 hours, that's pretty hard to do, most of the time.

Also this thanksgiving break, I watched way more sports (there was nothing else on)
like at any sports game, I stopped and watch it for at least a minute.
I watched 2 NU football games (repeats of our wins against Illinois & Wisconsin). Couple of NFL and NBA games. 1 NU women's basketball (did you kno we were 4-0, until that game? also we beat #10 DePaul, when did they get good?). 2 NU Men's basketball (against Norte Dame & Iowa State, both which we won, making us champions in the chicago inviatation challenge thingy, awesome!).

why is this relevant?

Because this is coming from a guy, who has a kid, I distinctly remember this, I believed that all sports were stupid, all you did was kick that ball around back and forth (I think this was because I didn't play any sports). and to imagine myself about 10/11 years later watching basketball and football like all thanksgiving weekend pretty much just weird/impossible.

But I think this entrance into the "sports world", comes from my love of NU football, which all comes from NUMB, interesting how one decision to be in the marching band changed my life completely, although I'm sure any other decision in college would have been just has life changing.

okay that's it...........

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!!!

Friday, November 27, 2009

Thanksgiving

Was pretty awesome. Started with my nucluer familial unit eating in a (un)traditional way:
in the living room, watching a movie @ like 10,11 in the morning.
Pretty awesome.

Then I chilled in the bed (my still fairly new soft FULL sized bed, so much betta than SMQ) watching TV.

Then we headed over to my Grandma's, where like all my family was at,
it was like the scene in Antwone Fisher, movie starring Denzel Washington and Derek Luke, where he's like
"home" and there's all these black people smiling, that exactly what it was like. And I felt really happy inside, cuz that's my family.

Anywayz there was like tons of food (and I'm probably forgetting something) : chicken, turkey, dressing, ham, collard greens, macroni and cheese, sweet potatoes, cabbage, conbread, ribs, potato salad, deviled eggs, chit'lins (ew), and like tons of desserts.

I laughed tons, and everyone just acted a straight fool, and I realized that's where I totally get my humor from, cuz like my whole family acts exactly the way I act, well to a certain extent because I am my own person.

I also just notice myself being alot more observative ( is that a word? ) than usual. It was like my teacher-ness kicking in. Or maybe it was just cuz I hadn't seen my family in a long time.

Anywayz it's been a really good break, I wish I could stay until here January or whatnot. That would be an awesome winter break!...hahaha.
But unfortnately I go to Northwestern University (which  I love SO much.. I mean I'm paying 50 G's to go there....sooo yeha)

yeha that's it.
Updations to come later.... I guess...

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Another-funny-crazy-wtf-thingy-type-delio-of the week!

The Shake Weight for Men



ummmm. really?! this is too funny. Like this is straight outta that episode of South Park, where the gay teacher invents that wheel thingy. WAY TOO HILARIOUS!......

Jennifer Lopez Falls...

1. She's still making music?
2. Is she even relevant now?
3. I decided to post this before I watched the video, I just saw it like everyone on the blogs, so I figured it must be funny. Nope........
4. The fall wasn't even that huge.
5. My problem is...I have no idea what she's saying...Loob-at-tons?! idk...



this photo= wrong, just wrong.

46



from peopleofwalmart.com, just when ya thought it was safe to go to walmart any kinda way. People please, PLEASE! get your lives together (which means get a FREAKING MIRROR and LOOK at it before you step outside you house, simple) you are embarrassment to all americans!. it don't make no sense that you should be coming outta they house like that.......SERIOUSLY!...

WTF?!

 - Sarah Jessica Parker with her first boyfriend

this is blemtious!, people have lost their minds. point blank period.

whoa.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Bowl Bounded 'CATS!

so if ya don't know (which means you musta been living under a rock with Patrick Star <= he's a pink star, craziness!)
'CATS WIN!!!! 33-31 against #16 Wisconsin. The Wildcats have defeated another ranked team.
The 'CATS are now 8-4 and are heading to a good bowl: which means warm.
I'm excited! Bowl Trip should be awesome wherever we're going.
Also the game was the last of the regular season, and what a great finish!
WHEW!

but um other than that, 3 days before thanksgiving break, which means I get to home back to the kank, for a few days at least. get to see my family, and get to eat a whole bunch: this should be pretty fun. I hoping to get relaxed enough to come back a finish these last couple of weeks of the quarter STRONG, then celebrate my 21st BDAY! WHEW!!!!!!!! LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

but um yeah that's about it.
i'm just living........
aight
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!!!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Um so I have nothing else better to do with my life.....

so I'm gonna update...
AND YOUR GONNA LIKE IT YOUNG MAN (or WOMAN or NEITHER if you're that bullfrog that just can't stop reading my posts..........you probably look something like this....


looks like someone needs to take a bath! ewww SMELLY FROG! )

but anywayz......
I'm Chillin' (like Wale)
I actually have nothing to update about, well I guess I kinda do, yeha I totally lied.....

so yesterday, the juniors of the secondary ed program here @ NU, met with the placement people: the MARY's ( and they looked exactly like this  jk)...They told us about the process of being placed for our student teaching. And as I am about most things, I don't care where I get placed, I just want to be somewhere, teaching.

But basically they were saying it's gonna be a long process. And we have to present a packet, and I have to write an essay about why I want to teach. And I'm not so sure why I do, i mean, I like math, and I think I like teaching (yeah it's gonna be a great essay). It's just letting me know that after graduating I'm going right to work, which is not gonna be fun, at first, but I'll know I'll get used to it....

wow that was a lot yet I still managed not to say much.......

oh, the marching/football season is almost OVER! Yes! (and No!). Truthfully, I'll be really happy when marching band is over, then I'll have time to do stuff. Meaning I'll have time to do absolutely nothing. But then football's gonna be over, which I kinda hate, it's SO bittersweet (which is an actually plant/tree thingy,  I didn't know that till I just googled it). But I'll get over it. It'll be exciting to be a "normal" student come winter quarter.

I think that's enough updating of sorts.......
I'll holla at cha later,
and hopefully u'll holla back, and
then will both be two freaking hollering fools,
and then people'll put us in a crazy house,
and then we'll devise a plan to escape,
and we totally get out for a day or two,
but then get caught, after ONE of us ( I won't say who)
runs over a police officer, and we have to go back to crazy house,
and we stay in there for like 70 years, until they realize it was all a big mix-up
and we were just two people hollering at each other,

so ya know what, you might want to holler back at me,
just let me be hollering fool all by my lonesome...
thanks!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

What's up, Peeps!

It's none other than me....
the Master of Space and Time Continuum (wait, isn't that Hiro from Heroes?....)
THE secret Kung-Fu Ninja (shhhhh don't tell anyone, it's a secreet),
representing for all my gangstas that be hustlin' (......ummmm no...)...

another week has gone by and I'm still here at NU, waiting for Thanksgiving, which is
gonna be awesome, cuz I haven't seen my family in forever, and it'll be nice to get some food I love, and by some I mean TONS....but yeha.....

Guess what?! 'CATS WIN! we're now 7-4, which means warm bowl (YES!)..........this weekend we play Wisconsin.........not sure what will happen, but we shall see, as per usual...........

NCE concert went pretty well (Praise God). I definitely enjoyed myself, and the choir know they was getting it.
Thank God I'll be in it next quarter, or I would just be so depressed........well not really, but ya know......

now I'm just rambling with random things that pop into my head. actually I'm not cuz I'm done here........
yeha....
that's it.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!!

Funny-Random-Thingy-of-the-Week-Type-Dealio.

Here's some things I found quite hilarious.
Hope you enjoy 'em too (like a bag of Lays Potato Chips!)

SO APPARENTLY
Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx are coming out with a movie
starring Sheneneh (from Martin's hit show Martin) and Foxx's character Wanda from In Living Color.
At the BET awards this summer, the two did a little thingy

watch it.



this is funny. I'm hoping the movie will be hilarious....(be sure to check out some of them related videos on youtube if you haven't heard of these characters before)

btw my favorite Sheneneh catchphrase is "I'm a LAAAY-DAY"........hahahahahah

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Sammy Sosa bleaching his Skin?!!!!


WHY?!!! RIDICULOUS! (dude like yo ass look white. seriously....)
like did he not see what happened to michael jackson?.

and then he gon try to lie about it, like about something like that....
 MAYBE you can lie about steroids usage but you can't like about bleaching yo skin
all people gotta do is take a picture of you, dude.....

ridiculous.

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the Toliet Rap. 



"Sittin' on the Toil-let!"
too funny.
short.
period.
point.
blank.
word.
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this is slowly turning into a Youtube Mania post...oops....





this is way too hilarious. esp the subtitles. and it sounds like what they say....


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random picture (hopefully it's funny)....




 - Yes Erkel you did


sorry.....hilarious.....i would like to say that I've done this before but unfortunately I don't do CRACK 
(like yo mama!)..... Things I find funny about this: helmet, the tongue, white substance on his body, the fact he's rubbing it, the guitar, his scary stare..
that's it....
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Hey......so Wednesdays

YOU SUCK! 
Major Bizalls, and such.............
and by such I mean HUGE, GIGANTICA, MAJOR BIZALLS......

yeap. but now that I'm past that, let's move on.

A funny thing about Wed-nes-days is they are like my busiest day of the week,
but they are like the only time I have to update my blog during the week at least.
Weird, huh? (you probably really don't care so whatev).

so just to let you know,
there's a concert this sunday, by the one and only
NCE (Northwestern Community Ensemble), NU's only gospel choir.....

yeha here's the flyer


(dude I can't help it I'm publicity chair, i just have to publicize everywhere basically)

Yeah so that's this weekend.
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Also this weekend. NUMB is traveling to the UofI's to support the wildcats as they fight (in football) against the illini.
should be exciting, especially if we win, cuz that would be major good for our bowl possibilities.
so we'll see.

*fyi I freaking hate champaign (it should be spelled champagne),  UofI, the illini, the color orange, and dare I say indians ( and by indians I mean native american)............*

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oh on sunday, I saw Precious



starring this chicka



(her name is Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe)

Monique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey,

pretty much it's about a 16,17 year old girl (woman?) who's life is basically jacked up on so many levels (I'm FO serious).
I Can't really type all that stuff here, cuz then I start thinking it & about her sit-eee-ation and I just like lose it (and by lose it I mean cry like a big fat babby).

I think people should def see it, it opens your eyes to the possibility that people actually have lives like these, and it seriously makes me Thank God that my life is not like that AT ALL....

um yeha funnier post thingy coming later........

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Homesick.

I am Homesick. And I don't like it.
Ya kno, you would think I would stop being homesick by my junior year, but no, I'm not.
I think this is pretty usual for me though. Like I haven't my family in such a long time, and I only talk to them occassionally. Yeha I just can't wait till Thanksgiving, I'm definitely looking forward to more than the food this time.


BUT, HOW 'BOUT THEM 'CATS, Y'ALL?!
WON 17-10 to an undefeated #4 IOWA!
Pretty much awesome-ness. Really kinda upset that I did not go, but it's alright.
Still a great win...
We are now 6-4, which means bowl eligibility, we need to win next weekend against Illinois,
which I'll be at with the band. And it'll be my 5th time going to this stadium (whatever it's name is....)
so not that excited about that, AT all.....



Just watched the Terminal,



starring Tom Hanks (his son btw goes to Northwestern now...) as a foreign guy from some country (Krakozhia, fictional place btw), so basically he's just stuck in an airport, literally. I won't give away the movie, but um....
It's was an alright movie. Probably Definitely wouldn't watch it again. Yeap.

so by updating, (and publishing these here words) I am procrastinating, I really need to be working on
my CS class. I'm like so behind in that, but I'm just seriously tired of the thought of classes.....uhhhhhhh

but anywayz.
I'll Holla!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Hey My Name Is Not Susan.

Seriously it's not. So don't call me that. Ever! (or I'll punch you in the liver)

Actually the title's a name of  a song by the one and only Whitney Houston.
watch this video, it's got Whitney dancing ( I see some New Edition moves in there!)



Probably the worst Whitney song ever! If you can find worst-er one let me know.

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here's a funny thing I found.

Purple Streakers

on the NU campus. Apparently they do this all the time, but I've never seen them in my 2 years of being here, guess it's a frat thing, which would explain why I've never seen it.
I would love to do this personally, at least once in my life, i meant streak in general, not to be a purple streaker.

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oh and did you happen to hear about the toddler that got stuck in a CTA door, but then fell on the track?
(wait why am I asking you questions? wait that's another question.)

read the article about it here. 

I mean I have so many jokes about the CTA, I should start my own comedy routine on it. SERIOUSLY!
(like about the fact I don't get a U-pass even though I live 15 miles from Chicago, what the CTA would be like if I was a CTA train operator, random stories about random people I've met on CTA. you kno, maybe I'll take that up one day)

BUT Like I don't want to ride the CTA for real now. First you raise the fare to 3 bucks, and my safety is not f'ing secure!
Bull crap! SERIOUSLY I'm not about to spend 6 dollars when I could totally get stuck in a door and DIE!. and then I saw on the news they asked a CTA official guy about the doors, he said he couldn't answer questions about the CTA doors closing properly. whaaa?

 I mean I'm just gonna stop riding the CTA all together (like that's ever gonna happen)


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ooo I haven't done this in awhile...
Random Picture Time!!!

 - This is why hookers shoulden't be allowed to f

this reminds me off that Madea quote "How do you have a butt in the back and the front?" 
nevermind the random oompa loompas. if you're looking for some random photos though,
Please check out Explainthisimage.com, I just laughed my butt off looking at the pictures on the site.

okay that's it for real.
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Blackface.

 IS NOT COOL. for any reason. people find it offensive. so you shouldn't do it.

If you haven't heard two NU students dressed up in blackface for Halloween, or should I say as black people, not sure of their intention, but it definitely came off as blackface.

I don't think they should have done it. I would like assume that those gentlemen didn't know about the history of blackface, and maybe that's why they felt it was alright. I would hope that it wasn't supposed to be a stereotype of black people. But this just demonstrates the  lack of awareness people have about race on the NU campus.

I myself am not that upset at the incident. I just hope people know that blackface not cool. And I expected people, especially the black community, to get upset about something like this. I think it was kinda stupid for them to post the pictures on the facebook. but hey.

there's supposed to be a discussion of the blackface tomorrow, educating people about it. I myself didn't know that much about it. If you want info now you can check wikipedia, as I did.

yes this was a serious post. I will do that from time to time.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Instead of Studying for my midterm

I've found it a must-updation about this music jewel (it's my precious) I found.............
I may straight listen to this chick for 2 weeks. She's sick, in many ways unimaginable.....
don't know who I'm talking about?

I'm talking about Ledisi

If you like neo soul or  R&B seriously you should love her. She's definitely alot more jazzy, but she's
one of the few people whose every song I'm just like AMAZING. Please just go to imeem and type in Ledisi, and hit play or something......

Like usually when I'm studying, which I was, I try to play Neo-Soul music, it calms me down when I thinking about all this crazy numbers stuff, but this woman does some crazy things with her voice: the harmonies, the rythm, i mean her scatting, her expressitivity (??) craz,. That i just couldn't concentrate on my studies w/o being like "wait that lick/run was so sick!"

Like I heard of her before, but I never really looked into any of her music, really mad I hadn't earlier.
Like seriously she is a music jewel that has just been added to my favorite music list and will be continually on repeat for Lord knows how long.

Yeah just wanted to share this with you, cuz I can!

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Time Keeps on Slippin Into the Future

well, DUH stupid! 
everyone knows that.
Here's the video, the song's actually called Fly Like An Eagle





 (this is the Seal (Heidi Klum's husband) version that I remember from Space Jam for some reason)

but seriously Time Keeps on Slipping into the Future, seeing as how it's already November 1st! CRAZINESS!!!!
I feel like it was just September (well it was...kinda). this quarter gonna be over soon AND I'm gonna be 21 really soon 35 days (COMMENCE COUNTDOWN!)............

yeha dude I'm gonna be so freaking old, but that alright, it's life.

sooo the 'CATS lost to Penn State :-(. I mean everyone kinda expected it, but I was praying for an upset. We were getting there in the first half, then Kafka randomly left the game (apparently from a hamstring injury thingy) and he didnt return to the game, leaving Persa, the second-string quarterback, to try to keep the momentum going. FAIL. but that's alright. We still got another chance for an uspet against Iowa next week, who is currently 9-0, and us beating them would be major awesomeness.

not much else is going on. I'm trying to coordinate/do this NCE publicity, it's like all I've been really thinking about. and I have a midterm on tuesday, that I'm not studying for right now........
but everything's gonna be alright.......

sometimes ya gotta just keep telling yourself that , even if it won't, you gotta believe that, or your gonna be stressed about crazy stuff. there's no need to worry, like seriously things work out. not always like ya think, but they will. yeha i kno right i'm SO FREAKING deep..........

i'm gonna get back to my procrastination
that's it
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Let's just say...

that I'm kinda angry/ frustrated.......WTF people?! 
stupid people..........who gave you the right to say that?..uhhhhhh.....
yeha....
I mean I could really rant...but ya know I'm not about putting down people or what not....
so let's just move on.......

My friend Amy sent me this song through imeem, definitely heard it back when I was a child...
pretty awesome song. I just love me some MJ (R.I.P.)
It's called EARTH SONG, again not sure what he's talking about in the song but music and background
are just amazing.
Also heard that his This is it! Movie 
is really good. Definitely have to see that.

oh some random again. I been playing Zelda 
(for Nintendo 64....yeah old school) for like the past couple weeks at my friend's Apartment.

It's been really fun. The game came out like 11 years ago, but this is not a game I would want to play as a 9 or 10 year old. For one, it would have taken me forever to figure out what to do. And I would probably had crapped my pants a billijion times. Cuz playing it now I'm like the most scared-est (???) person ever. It's actually really funny though. And I still can't figure out what to do so we just usually go online and read the walkthrough. Idk why I felt like updating about that...cuz it's uber-random.but whatevs..

um yeha let's end it there....

it's almost the WEEKEND! (whew!)

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!!

What it is hoe? What's Up?

I never actually listened to this song before, neither in its entirety nor to the words,  it's so bad: Lil' Scrappy "Some Cut" 
check the video/song here
i mean just check out the chorus: 


What it is hoe, ah what's up (what's up)
Can a nigga get in them guts (them guts)
Cut you up like you ain't been cut (been cut)
Show your ass how to really catch a nut (oh yeah yeah)
Well give me your number and I'll call (I'll call)
And I'll follow that ass in the mall (in the mall)
Take you home, let you juggle my balls (my balls)
While I'm beatin and tearin down your walls (oh yeah)



(I don't know I find it extremely funny that he says "juggle my balls", the visual of that is so funny...sorry)


This is not what this post is supposed to be about. 
Actually I'm not very sure what it's supposed to be about. 
Let's see what's going in my life?
I could tell you about my long ass day today (SURE WHY NOT?!) 


1. wake up at 7:00 (stupid alarm clock)
2. go to work at 8:00
3. stay at work until 10:45, dealing with crazy people
4. go to first class, def don't pay attention. 
5. hungry I go eat lunch
6. go to second class, def don't pay attention, so tired from 1 that I fall asleep in class. 
7. go to dorm take a nap until 3:30 
8. go to NUMB rehearsal 
9. go to work meeting @ 6:30 
10. after quick stop by dorm, go to CVS to buy soap
11. walk to library to do flyers for NCE
12. go to late night 9:15
13. finally return to dorm, where I continue working for NCE, then finally update blog. 


As you can see it was a very busy day, and I am officially tired. so probably after this going to sleep. 


Looking forward to the weekend, as always, 'CATS take on Penn State @ 3:30 (LOVE AFTERNOON GAMES!)
It's also gonna be Halloween, which means partying, and yeha, that's it. 


Should be fun. 
that's it. 
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Youtube Mania

Yes it continues forever and ever and ever....or until I get tired of posting videos...

The Facebook Date



This was actually really funny for some odd reason. I think maybe it was his African accent. It was good though. oh and I like the little intro/exit music "Dont Jealous me" (what does that mean?)


Single Ladies Spoof/ All My Playas



The P. Diddy thing was funny. The song was kinda bad, but why did he have a cat? that's funny.


Math It's totally Fantastic



okay this video was just weird. I totally saw all the humor in it, but it didn't make me laugh. I can't believe I watched the whole thing...


I've discovered something amazing again




Doesn't it seem like this dude has a fetish for receipt paper? I mean by the end, it def clear. And that would totally make sense why anyone would find receipt paper Amazing, cuz I don't.

Grocery store Musical



If only life could be like this 24/7, but then we'd all probably be really hoarse and tired from all the dancing. it's from the people who did the Food Court Musical, def not as epic btw, but it's pretty good. I was waiting for everyone in the entire store to bust out a number.


that's it.
PEACE  & CHICKEN GREASE!

Monday, October 26, 2009

What a Weekend! What a Weekend...

now that's it all over. I must say I had a pretty good weekend.

'CATS WIN! 
they had the greatest comeback score-wise in NU history, but it doesn't help that it was from Indiana,
nevertheless good game. You can watch highlights here. Good homecoming game. Big Game coming next week against Penn State! Should be exciting..

Also, I swear I saw this guy at the game:

his name is John Marshall Jones

He played the dad on Smart Guy, a show from awhile back ago, reruns still come on BET i think. I didn't make a big deal about cuz I didn't think it was him, but then I went to http://www.johnmarshalljones.com/ and saw that he did go to Northwestern, which  brings me to the conclusion that it was him.

This is crazy cuz he's like the third Black tv person I've seen at NU (steve urkel, and the light-skinned Aunt vivian being the other, all at football games oddly enough, craziness right? )

everything actually worked out in the Marching Band, i didn't think our drill would be so hot,
but as you can see here:



we did some pretty awesome drill. FINEST BAND IN THE LAND, baby, babyyy!

AND did I happen to mention that totally got wasted 2 nights in a row? yeha I was gone.
but it was fun.

i guess the most memorable quote of the weekend "This is a big ass circle" (like it was literally huge, man, like for real)...yeha college life...FUN!

um what else did I want to update about?....nothing..now that I think about it.......

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Midterms.....SMIDTERMS!

SONG of the DAY: (i hit random on Itunes). The Love You Save by the Jackson Five.

so I should probably be studying for my midterm that's on friday...
but I'm not...I'm writing this post (clearly!)....

but this is around the time of the quarter that I anticipated/dreaded,
business 24/7. Everything is kinda overlapping, and so many things must get done:  classes,
band, work, sleep, organizations, homework, eating. Yes, eating.

but ya know this is the college life, specifically the Northwestern life, we are all running around
doing 50 bijillion different things, mainly because we're CRAZY. I'm taking it all in though,
cuz before ya know it college is over, you got a REAL job, and your life is over, and all you do is reminisce on the days of college life when you had so much freedom (well, sort of).

I'm taking it all in though, esp this season, I love fall,
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AND when I think of fall I just feel like automatically relaxed, it's a fresh of breath air  i mean a breath of fresh air, I think that has something do with the leaves blowing in the wind........{blah blah blah, what I love about fall....blah blah blah}.......

this weekend is exciting though, the 'Cats face off the Indiana Hoosiers (what the HELL is a Hoosier?)


[picture goes here: I googled Hoosier{s} and the result was inconclusive.
 If Google doesn't know, who does?].

they are 4-3 like us. And of course it's homecoming. I'm banking on all these factors, and considering we lost to them last year, that we should win.  I'm excited, but it's gonna be a long weekend.

yeha that's about it,
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Gospel Video Youtube Mania

man, I should seriously stop watching youtube videos,
but there's so many.... so I continue to watch...
check out this gospel videos....

Hold to God's Unchanging Hand - James Hall & Worship And Praise

Their staccato in this old hymnal favorite is stellar (<--- ooo big word...??). and that soprano "to-oo" is so kool. I love choirs though, for real. And this choir is pretty good.





Keep Holding to His Hand - Duranice Pace & Central Georgia State Choir



The Directors Face in the beginning: PRICELESS! The lead singer is crazy too, love her, I mean the way she was looking can't get that from audio only, that's why video is amazing. And her testimony was really touching! And the bass, it was really makes this song.....


I Won't Give Up-  Ricky Dillard and New G




Wait? What! Ricky Dillard actually singing and leading a song?. Dude can actually sing. Maybe he doesn't sing anymore, cuz this looks like a young Ricky Dillard. Love this choir btw.


Keep On Praisin' -Fred Hammond



Seriously one of my favorite Fred Hammond songs (speaking of which I didn't get that new album)....it was nice to see this live and on video.


He is not Just a Man-Fred Hammond




Whoa, tons of people singing. Love this song alot too. Great Worship. That's why ya gotta love Fred Hammond.

Alright that's it.
PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!

FRIENDS, (How many of us have them??)

Answer: I would assume that everyone does, but then there's this guy



yeha
seriously during my little BUTT-tastrophe, friends were there.
and they are so awesome for that.
*so if your one of those friends reading this you are awesome, just so you know.
and if I happen to win/earn a million dollars one day, you'll get some. most def.

this post also reminds me of a song we used to play in high school band at the for graduation
every year:
"That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne Warwick.



That's what friends are for.... to help you when your butt hurts! (btw the black star power in that video is amazing, I've never seen them for sing together in my life...really kool to see)

Thanks guys.

PEACE & CHICKEN GREASE!