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!!!!

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!!!

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).

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!

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!!

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!!!!

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



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!!!!

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!!!!

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!!!!

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!!!!

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!