Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “My Lament”

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7/28/16
So eager to have what we think we need,
Based on emotion and no thought,
You always felt it unheeded,
The qualities it brought,
But it created confusion,
I watched you age before my eyes,
Your youth and strength diminished,
I struggle now each day, because,

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A$AP Ferg – Beautiful People (Ft. Chuck D & Mama Ferg) – “Beautiful People”

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[Intro – Chuck D:]
We got our ways, but ain’t we human beings too?
If our lives don’t matter, no lives matter
Thus life is our future, dying is unacceptable
Living for what we believe in is life itself
And that in itself is beautiful, iight

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – “Three Of The Hardest Words” – A Blue Lines Blog Four Week Wedding Series

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10/19/15
Was it your smile that got me?
That fateful day when our eyes met,
The beginning of us, with years to develop,
Moving forward in an unknown direction,
A future California dream,

When did everything change,
Separated by the United States,
Our affection matured by travel and distance,
To lead us to this day,
The Californian dream,

Text Tuesdays – New Prose – ” A Request…In Your Honor” – A Blue Lines Blog Four Week Wedding Series

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1994, 2015, Adult, Atlanta, Best Man, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bridgeport, California, Connecticut, Forest Hills, Georgia, Harlem, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Los Angeles, Marriage, New York, New York City, poetry, Prose, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Text Tuesdays, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Walnut Creek, Wedding, Words

10/6/15
It began with a request,
Not like when I asked you,
As an adult, who had to fall to grow again,
You asked me in a mature phase,
I was flattered, to give back to you,
For your special day, and your special time,

Music Mondays – Moby feat Skylar Grey – “The Last Day”

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2013, acid house, alternative rock, ambient, bass guitar, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Connecticut, Darien, DJ, downtempo, drums, EDM, Electronic rock, Electronica, Elektra, experimental music, Folk rock, guitar, hardcore punk, Harlem, Holly Brook, Holly Brook Hafermann, Innocents, Instinct, Interscope, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, iTunes, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, KIDinaKORNER, Little Idiot, Machine Shop, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Mazomanie, Moby, music, Music Mondays, musician, Mute, New York, Outer Rhythm, Photographer, piano, pop, Richard Melville Hall, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Skylar Grey, songwriter, techno, The Last Day, Turntables, U.S., United States, V2/BMG, Virgin/EMI, Vocals, Wisconsin, XL

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.

30 Day Photo Challenge – Day 14 – A Picture of Someone You Could Never Imagine Your Life Without – Family

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There’s really nothing to it. When I look at the way she looked at me, having always wanted her babies. She had 3 of us. This may be a picture of my mother and I, but I could never imagine life without my family.

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 – Nasty Nas – “Halftime”

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Originally appearing in the soundtrack for the 1992 film Zebrahead.

(Right..) (Right..)
Check me out y’all, Nasty Nas in your area
About to cause mass hysteria

[Nas]
Before a blunt, I take out my fronts
Then I start to front, matter of fact, I be on a manhunt
You couldn’t catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer
That’s like Malcolm X, catchin the Jungle Fever
King poetic, too much flavor, I’m major
Atlanta ain’t Brave-r, I’ll pull a number like a pager
Cause I’m am ace when I face the bass
40-side is the place that is giving me grace
Now wait, another dose and you might be dead
And I’m a Nike head, I wear chains that excite the feds
And ain’t a damn thing gonna change
I’ma performer strange show the mic warmer was born to gain
Nas, why did you do it?
You know you got the mad fat fluid when you rhyme, it’s halftime

(Right..) It’s halftime
(Right..) Aiyyo it’s halftime
(Right..) It’s halftime
(Right..) Yeah, it’s about halftime
This is how it feel, check it out, how it feel

Cover Sundays – Paolo Nutini – “Natural Blues” Moby Cover

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1999, 2000, alternative rock, ambient, Andy Green, bass guitar, Blue eyed soul, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, blues, BMG, Connecticut, Cover, Cover Song, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, Covers, Darien, David LaChapelle, downtempo, drums, Easy Listening, Electronic rock, Electronica, Elektra, Festival Edition Disc 2, Folk, guitar, Harlem, Instinct, Isle of Wight Festival, Isle of Wight Festival 2007, Jim Duguid, Ken Nelson, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Little Idiot, Moby, music, musician, Mute, Natural Blues, New York, Outer Rhythm, Paisley, Paolo Giovanni Nutini, Paolo Nutini, Play, Pop rock, recorded live at the Isle of Wight Festival 2007, Richard Melville Hall, Scotland, Singer-songwriter, techno, These Streets, Tom Elmhirst, trip hop, Troubled So Hard, Troubled So Hard (Natural Blues), Turntables, U.S., United States, V2, Vera Hall, Virgin/EMI, Vocals, XL

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: DMX “How’s It Goin’ Down

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♫ How’s It Goin’ Down – DMX http://lala.com/zCSxI

Maaaan, this reminds me of the late 90’s, summers in New York, when it got hot, muggy, and nasty after a short afternoon shower up on the Hill (up in Harlem with my Dad for Harlem week), but the honey’s were so fly with attitude…

[Chorus:]

“All I want is you, all I want” [Background]

What type of games is being played, how’s it going down?
If it’s on till it’s gone, then I gots to know now
Is you wit me or what, they gon try to give me a nutt
Just honeys wanna give me the butt, wha..