Blue Lines Blog – Happy New Year?

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As I look back at the year, I could easily expound on life, growth, gratitude, and love in 2015, and how I look forward to continuing those things in 2016. I can easily use vague comments to reference the people I love and hold dear. However, in my posting life, I’ve done that enough, and simply because I feel a certain way, does not mean it resonates.

What do I mean? In all of my “happiness,” and “hopefulness,” I still live in a country that fails to bring justice to the family of a murdered teen. No Life Matters…especially Black, the evidence is growing in support of that. Tamir Rice is another casualty in an increasing epidemic of injudicious police murders in this country. My heart is heavy for a myriad of reasons, this just augments that weight. It makes you wary, but what am I going to do? Lock myself inside and hide from the world? No.

Happy New Year? What about them?

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Jay-Z “Hey Papi”

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Feeling late 90’s on this one.

[Timbaland (Jay-Z)]
All my mamis bounce, uh
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Come on)
I said all my mamis bounce
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Bounce with me)
I said all my mamis bounce
(Yeah, yeah, uh, uh, uh yeah-yea-yeah, yeah-yea-yeah)
(Come on)
I said all my mamis bounce
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah)
Freaky-freaky…

[Jay-Z]
Ay yo I got a resolution
This year I’m playing right
No six fifteen this year
You can stay the night
We can go bowling it ain’t like before
Can’t y’all see that I’m growing?
I was so immature
I was young and having money
Having honeys come to the crib
Thinkin’ they s–t and they couldn’t get cab money from me
Some bad chicks didn’t get pass the bridge

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “What Did It Mean”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, California, Chapel Hill, Cleanse, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Love, New Year, North Carolina, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, Text Tuesdays, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, What Did It Mean

Slowly easing into a new year,
Past mistakes behind,
Moving forward with something new,
What was there to learn,
What did it mean,

Doors opening to new opportunities,
Some reflections of the past,
Some reincarnated anew,
What was there to earn,
What did it mean,

Music Mondays – FKA twigs – “Breathe”

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Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Breathe, FKA Twigs, Keypsiia, Love Is My Drug, LP1 (Japan Edition), Music Mondays, Sacramento

  
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.

Cover Sundays – Monophonics – “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” Cher Cover

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1966, 2012, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Cher, Cover, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, In Your Brain, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Monophonics, Sonny Bono, The Sonny Side of Cher, Ubiquity Records

  
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.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Bonita Applebum”

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1990, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bonita Applebum, California, Chapel Hill, Charles Stone III, East Coast Hip-Hop, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jive Records, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Mr. Muhammad, New York, New York City, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Queens, Sacramento, St. Albans, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Underground hip hop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[Intro: Q-Tip]

Do I love you?
Do I lust for you?
Am I a sinner cuz I do the two?
Could you let me know
Right now, please
Bonita Applebum

[Chorus:]

Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on [x4]

Text Tuesdays – “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” by Robert Browning

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1855, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Camberwell, Chapel Hill, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, London, North Carolina, poetry, Prose, Robert Browning, Sacramento, Text Tuesdays, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I love the rhyme scheme of this piece. My piece “Ending Is Just Another Word For Goodbye” enlists this scheme.

I.
My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the workings of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby.

II.
What else should he be set for, with his staff?
What, save to waylay with his lies, ensnare
All travelers who might find him posted there,
And ask the road? I guessed what skull-like laugh
Would break, what crutch ’gin write my epitaph
For pastime in the dusty thoroughfare.

Music Mondays – Broken Social Scene – “Bandwitch”

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2005, Adam Marvy, Alex Calder, Amy Millan, Andrew Whiteman, Atlanta, Bandwitch, Bill Priddle, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brendan Canning, Broken Social Scene, California, Canada, Chapel Hill, Charles Spearin, David Newfeld, Elizabeth Powell, Emily Haines, Evan Cranley, Feist, Georgia, indie rock, James Shaw, Jason Collett, Jason Tait, Jo-ann Goldsmith, John Crossingham, John McEntire, Julie Penner, Justin Peroff, Kevin Drew, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Leslie Feist, Lisa Lobsinger, Martin Davis Kinack, Metric, North Carolina, Ohad Benchetrit, Sacramento, Sam Goldberg Jr., Toronto, Torquil Campbell, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Windsurfing Nation

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.

Cover Sundays – Kiesza – “Take Me To Church” Hozier Cover

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2013, Alberta, Andrew Hozier-Byrne, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bray, Calgary, California, Canada, Catholic church, County Wicklow, Cover, Cover Album, Cover Song, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, Covers, Georgia, Hozier, indie rock, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Kiesa Rae Ellestad, Kiesza, Kiesza Szösi, Sacramento, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Take Me to Church

  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.

New To You Music Sunday – Hudson Mohawke feat Antony – “Indian Steps”

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2015, Anohni, Antony, Antony and the Johnsons, Antony Hegarty, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Chamber pop, Chichester, Disk Jockey, DJ Mayhem, England, Georgia, Glasgow, HudMo, Hudson Mo, Hudson Mohawke, Indian Steps, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Lantern, New To You Music Sundays, New York, New York City, Sacramento, Scotland, Sussex, United Kingdom

  
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.