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Music Mondays – Gorillaz – “Amarillo”

31 Monday Jan 2011

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2010, 2011, 2D, alternative rock, Amarillo, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blur, Boston, CD single, Damon Albarn, digital download, double A-side single, Electronica, Emily Burton, Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour, Gorillaz, iPad, Jamie Hewlett, Key Yemaya Walker, March, Massachusetts, Mick Jones, Murdoc Niccals, music, Music Mondays, Noodle, Parlophone, Pirate Radio, Russel Hobbs, Stephen Sedgwick, Sub-Division, Texas, The Clash, The Fall, Tour



The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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New To You Music Sundays – Damien Rice – “The Blower’s Daughter”

30 Sunday Jan 2011

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14th Floor, 2002, 2004, Acoustic rock, Bell X1, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, clarinet, Clive Owen, Closer, Damien Rice, DRM/14th Floor, Folk, Folk rock, guitar, Heffa, Indie pop, indie rock, Ireland, Julia Roberts, Juniper, Key Yemaya Walker, Kildare, Lisa Hannigan, Mike Nichols, music, New To You Music Sundays, O, percussion, piano, record producer, Republic, Singer-songwriter, The Blower's Daughter, Vector Recordings, Vocals, Warner Bros.

You may have heard this before in the 2004 film Closer.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school

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Blue Lines Blog – What I learned/Experienced (last two weeks)

30 Sunday Jan 2011

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Blue Lines, De La Soul, Joi, Joi Gilliam, Keypsiia, Little Dragon, Mase, Roy Hargrove, San Francisco, Starbucks, The Masquerade, Wine, Yoshi San Francisco

Learning how to listen.
Learning how to be even.
Discovering music that I slept on from one of my favorite artists.
Outfitting my youngest nieces.
Reverse jetlag stinks.
Change is good.
Putting people onto music is cool.
With my catalogue, being put onto music is even better.
Are thoughts reciprocal?
Being humble enough to know that after 409 pages, my manuscript needs work.
Accidentally happening upon the Starbucks Coffee that opens my manuscript.
The iPhone Starbucks card app is great.
Certain beliefs and ideas that you hold, don’t always apply to everything/everyone.
Talking is good, but listening and allowing someone to talk can be so rewarding.
I realized that readers of my manuscript have no clue what Keypsiia looks like.
Building relationships with people in my field that I would just know by face alone.
Life is short, moments are fleeting…make everything worth it.
Learning to not to stress on things more than I need to.
Airports excite me because I always know I’m leaving.
Life is cool during those simple moments, the cool clear mind moments.
Everyone should have a theme song, what’s yours?
Life should have a soundtrack.
Seeing Little Dragon live was great, I was kind of surprised that for $15 there were two opening acts and a show that ran into the wee hours. Joi Gilliam’s attendance and seeing De La Soul attend and introduce, was not shabby either.
Concerts on a school night (Tuesday) don’t make for good sleep.
Boats…I still have to warm up to them.
It was great to see a great friend after a long span of years. I hope to not wait that long to see each other again.
The conversation I had on the second leg of my flight back home was the most unexpected, rewarding conversation lately. I’m really trying out this listening thing.
Debating about music is great!!!
It was great to see a former intern (or Trainee as they were termed) after a long time since 2002, doing the same thing I do. And she’s married with children.
Yoshi’s San Francisco Jazz Club is the bomb.

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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Cover Sundays – Easy Star All-Stars feat Citizen Cope – “Karma Police (Radiohead Cover)”

30 Sunday Jan 2011

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A cool downtempo teaming of one of my favorite artists and covering another of my favorite bands. From the 2006 East Star All Stars cover reggae album or Radiohead called Radiodread.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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Blue Lines Blog – 20 Questions That Could Change Your Life

28 Friday Jan 2011

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I would be lying if I said I watched Oprah, although I want my published book to be endorsed by her. I came across this on one of my favorite blogs (Va$tie Kola’s) and thought it would be an interesting port.

Via vashtie.com/blog (Oprah.com) — If you’re like most people, you became obsessed with questions around the age of two or three, and scientists now know that continuing to ask them can help keep your mind nimble however old you eventually become.
So when someone suggested I put together a list of the 20 most important questions we should all be asking ourselves, I was thrilled. Initially.
Then I became confused about which questions to ask, because of course, as I soon realized, context is everything. In terms of saving your life, the key question is, “Did I remember to fasten my seat belt?” In terms of saving money, “How much do I need to retire before I’m 90?” is a strong contender. If daily usefulness is the point, “What’ll I wear?” and “What should I eat first?” might lead the list. And for the philosophically minded, “To be or not to be?” really is the question.
Because I’m far too psychologically fragile to make sense of this subjective morass, I made the bold decision to pass the buck. The 20 questions that follow are based on “crowdsourcing,” meaning I asked a whole mess of actual, free-range women what they thought every woman should ask herself. Thanks to all of you who sent in entries via social media.
The questions included here are composites of those that were suggested most often, though I’ve mushed them together and rephrased some for brevity. Asking them today could redirect your life. Answering them every day will transform it.
1. What questions should I be asking myself?
At first I thought asking yourself what you should be asking yourself was redundant. It isn’t. Without this question, you wouldn’t ask any others, so it gets top billing. It creates an alert, thoughtful mind state, ideal for ferreting out the information you most need in every situation. Ask it frequently.

2. Is this what I want to be doing?
This very moment is, always, the only moment in which you can make changes. Knowing which changes are best for you comes, always, from assessing what you feel. Ask yourself many times every day if you like what you’re doing. If the answer is no, start noticing what you’d prefer. Thus begins the revolution.

3. Why worry?
These two words, considered sincerely, can radically reconfigure the landscape of your mind. Worry rarely leads to positive action; it’s just painful, useless fear about hypothetical events, which scuttles happiness rather than ensuring it. Some psychologists say that by focusing on gratitude, we can shut down the part of the brain that worries. It actually works!

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Foto Friday – Sign By Pacific

28 Friday Jan 2011

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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Shell Toe Thursdays – GSU Issued Shell Toes

27 Thursday Jan 2011

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Let the world change you…
…and you can change the world

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Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – De La Soul “I Am, I Be”

26 Wednesday Jan 2011

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Blue Lines, Buhloone Mind State, Buhloone Mindstate, Dave, De La Soul, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Long Island, Maseo, Native Tongues, New York, Posdnuos, Shorty No Mas

On of my all time favorite songs!!! From my favorite De La Soul album Buhloone Mindstate

[Verse 1]

I am Posdnous
I be the new generation of slaves
here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes
the pile of revenue I create
But I guess I don’t get a cut cuz my rent’s a month late
Product of a North Carolina cat
who scratched the back of a pretty woman named Hattie
Who departed life just a little too soon
and didn’t see me grab the Plug Tune fame
As we go a little somethin’ like this
look ma, no protection
Now I got a daughter named Ayana Monay
And I can play the cowboy to rustle in the dough
so the scenery is healthy where her eyes lay
I am an early bird but the feathers are black
so the apples that I catch are usually all worms
But it’s a must to decipher one’s queen
from a worm who plays groupie and spread around the bad germ
I cherish the twilight
I maximize, my soul is the right size
I watch for the power to run out on the moon
(And that’ll be sometime soon)
Faker than a fist of kids
speakin that they’re black
When they’re just niggas trying to be Greek
Or some tongues who lied
and said “We’ll be natives to the end”
Nowadays we don’t even speak
I guess we got our own life to live
Or is it because we want our own kingdom to rule?
Every now and then I step to the now
for now I see back then I might have acted like a fool
Now I won’t apologize for it
This is not a bunch of Bradys
but a bunch of black man’s pride
Yet I can safely say
I’ve never played a sister by touching where her private parts reside
I’ve always walked the right side of the road
If I wasn’t making song I wouldn’t be a thug selling drugs
But a man with a plan
and if I was a rug cleaner
betcha Pos’d have the cleanest rugs I am.
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In Concert Tonight – Little Dragon

25 Tuesday Jan 2011

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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High School Crush – Shanice Wilson

25 Tuesday Jan 2011

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High School Crush, I Like Your Smile, Shanice Wilson




The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

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