Black folks can NEVER have no fun

So this past week had been such a tailspin for me. I broke my phone on Ventura Blvd on Friday evening. I cussed out my half cousin on Sunday, I got into numerous arguments with my parents, which resulted in me getting barred from my house on Sunday, I missed the USC-Buckeyes game on Saturday cause this "Special" elderly person came straight from Nigeria over to our house to spend the night and he and my pops stayed up till 1 AM watching evangelism seminars. I think the guy is a pastor or something. Plus I owe a lot of money which is common for most young adults at this current economic times. I'm gonna see if I can TRY to get a new vehicle this month. I planned on getting a new vehicle around November or December but I had to drive on Empty from South bay to the 10 freeway west to the 405 North to the Santa Monica Blvd off ramp to Santa Monica Blvd east to Sepulveda Blvd North past the Getty and Skirball all the way to Balboa and Victory Orange line parking lot. While I got there, I saw that the Los Angeles Police Department arrested two or three youth males across the intersection near Birmingham High School. 

My sister and I almost went there for summer school six years ago but the summer session there was full so we went to Cleveland High School in Reseda instead, and looking back I'm glad I did go to Cleveland that summer. But if I did go to Birmingham, I could've seen a lot a famous people there, including Gwen Stefani, before she was pregnant, cause they shot her "Hollaback" music video there and other film and television shoots. Now if I was still in high school I wouldn't want to go there based on the people that I knew that went there. Place is full of kids who parents that don't know how to raise a teenager properly. Every time when I drive or walk past that school, the kids there would be wearing stuff that you can't wear to a job interview or your nieces christening and there would always be some ruckus happening there, which is why the LAPD would shut down the intersection of Balboa and Victory until things were all clear. I feel bad for those kids who live in that are who are forced to go to that school instead of Reseda high, Van Nuys high or Taft high. Hell I feel bad for those teenagers period.  

On Sunday night I slept over at my moms house in North Hollywood. Then I woke up the following morning I went online to read the days headlines. One of them discussed an incident that took place at the Video Music Awards that took place the previous night in New York city. From what I read and watched the video clips online, young Country music singer Taylor Swift won the award for best Female Video over Beyonce Knowles- Carter's ( yes she married Jay-Z) "Single Ladies" music video. As she went up to say her acceptance speech, rapper Kanye West came out of nowhere and interrupted her by saying that Beyonce had the best video of all time, which is damn true, and when gave the microphone back to Taylor Swift as he walked off the stage. Since then Kayne West has been under the magnifying glass the next few days as the media, Taylor Swift fans, Kanye West fans, countless celebrities and even President Barack Obama disapproved Kanye's action on Sunday night, despite the apologies he gave on his website several hours after the incident took place. He even got sonned by talk show host Jay Leno on the inaugural "The Jay Leno Show" premiere. This happened to be totally coincidental because Kanye West was scheduled to preform on the premiere with Jay-Z and Rhianna and that gave Leno an opportunity to talk to Kanye West, in which he mentioned the late Dondria West which made the rapper emotional. 

To me, I think this whole thing is totally preposterous and absurd. Not just what Kanye West did which I find kinda humorous but the way everyone is shitting on this. I mean, to me, I think this this whole thing is fixed, planned, worked and or staged. In paraphrasing the ESPN Classic program, here are some reasons you can't blame Kanye West for Interrupting Tayor Swift at the 2009 Video Music Awards.

1. This isn't Kanye West's first incident at the VMAs

If you done your homework and research or if you religiously wacth MTV, then you know that this past Sunday wasn't the only stunt that Kanye did. In 2007 when the Video Music Awards took place, the rapper went apeshit after losing 5 nominations and he claimed that he would never appear on MTV again. Not everybody keeps promises nowadays. 

2. He was Intoxicated before the show started

As he and his girl Amber Rose appeared at Radio City Music Hall, Kanye had a bottle of Hennesy and Amber took turns chugging it. He even had the audacity to go up to Joe Jackson, who was here because his daughter Janet was gonna do a tribute performance to her brother, and give him "daps". Michael just died, but that was totally awkward encounter between Kanye West and Joe Jackson.

3. Beyonce Knowles' "Single Ladies" was the best video

I'm saying that cause I'm a guy. But as a former filmmaker, this video was shot in one take continuously and it was choreographed very well. I mean not A-plus well but three attractive females moving around in tights can have a group of Frat boys dazed  for minutes or they might do their own version of "Single Ladies". As for Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" music video, the background for producing this video takes a great deal of trust and time. I mean your shooting a scene that takes place in a football field and a school dance with thousand of kids who could consist of some high school in the mid-west or just about every exact Taylor Swift fan on this planet, and it's not easy. But the storyline was obvious. I mean, if you saw at least 50% of the chick flicks that came out the past decade including the Notebook, you pretty much know how this know how the video plays out. And that goes for never listening to the song which ties-in the video storyline. The bottom line is that Taylor Swift could've been reserved for the Kids Choice Awards, or the Teen Choice Awards, or the Billboard Music Awards if it was still in existence.

4. Its the VMA's

When MTV launched the Video Music Awards back in 1984, it was basically the youth version of the Grammys with some formality. Sure not everybody was wearing black ties and the performances were something you would see at a world tour such as Madonna's "Like a Virgin" performance or Rod Stewart's "Infatuation" performance, but everything else was moderate and things went according to plan. That was when it was the "Video Music Awards". When it became referred to as the "VMA's" things started to stir up a bit and all kinds of hell and mayhem ensued. Take Howard Stern's "Fartman" debut in the 1992 and having "Beverly Hills 90210's" Luke Perry grab Stern's visible rear end. Or how bout the entire 2007 Video Music Awards where there were countless after parties and concerts in every hotel on the Las Vegas Strip as well as Britney Spears' "supposed comeback" performance which was a major failure and letdown and the brawl between Pamela Anderson's exes Tommy Lee and Kid Rock. Let's not forget the threesome between Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in 2003. And last years show made "Solid Gold" conceiving a child with "American Bandstand" due to it being shot at a packed warehouse in Hollywood. I could go on and on but the bottom line is that the show is entertainment. It a chance for the celebs to let loose and do stuff that they can't do at any other award shows.

Here's the "Best of the Rest" the Stuff that didn't make it on the list:

5. MTV doesn't play (that much) videos anymore                  

6. Nobody in MTV's current demographic likes country music 

7. Kanye wants to try to promote Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3" album which came out around that weekend in favor of Beyonce

8. Kanye never won a VMA award  and wants his own acceptance speech

9, Taylor Swift is just 19 and should stay in school to risk being the next Paris Hilton, came out with an album back in 2006, or Lindsey Lohan, who also came out with an album back in 2004

10. It's all about the ratings........ and Twitter.

I really don't know about that last one but that's the best I can come up with. Maybe Kanye has gotten his wish. He might get some sort of lifetime ban from any future VMAs just like Andrew "Dice" Clay did in the late 80's with threw off the the MTV exces based on his explicit stand up performance. Looks like he'll take a while for him to recover from this tailspin he's in right now. 

 

       

Destination 9/9/09

4 deaths in one week is just too fucking insane.

That's one of the reasons on why I haven't been on here for two weeks. Well, that and some financial matters I had to deal with. But yeah, this "Final Destination" type shit has really made me gather my thoughts for a while because I don't wanna turn this page into some obituarty. Speaking of Final Destination, they released the 4th part of the movie without the Part 4 at the end of the title. The movie is called "The Final Destination" You know just like how they did it with Fast and Furious without "the" in the beginning of the title. I know, hollywood is is running out of ideas. I really don't wanna say it like that as a former filmmaker during high school, but with all the films that came out this past year, the opion just became a fact.

Yes, like I said, 4 people that I known and who I think are inportant have passed away in a one week span. 2 of them are famous and the other two were from my church. I don't wanna talk about the people from my church, so that I can respect their families privacy. But the two other people that passed away were Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy and Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, a club DJ whos known for his infamous,ungodly collection of sneakers, was engaged to Nicole Ritchie for a brief time, and he survived a serious plane crash.

Now that I got that out the way, we are already in the month of September, the ninth month of the calendar year, the ninth day of the month, and the ninth year of the decade as well as the century. Today was the official start of the school year for the Los Angeles public schools. My brother is in his senoir year and one of my sisters just started the 10th grade. To me, it feels like they were both just in middle school last year but now they already have high school experience. Just yesterday, the President of the United States did a video message directed to students at all the schools in this country telling them to stay focused and that giving up is not an excuse for failure. Prior to that, all the critics and pundits acted as if they know what he already was going to say, and that Barack would be treating the students as if he was speaking at all the schools during the regime of the Soviet Union in the 20th century. But he left out anything that had to do with politics out of his speech. Hell, they're were some kids who were motivated from his speech, saying that this was something that they never saw the past Presidents of the United States do every September. I wish my siblings, as well as those who just started their Freshman year and those who are in their last year in school a very sucessful year. Either way its a challenging destination that will last up to June 2010 or June 2013 for current ninth graders or June 2021 for those starting Kindergarten.

Oh yeah as for my labor day, it was bullshit. I got cited at the Universal City Red Line parking lot for having expired tags. Now I just took care of my registration before the month ended. I talked to the Sherrifs that were nearby patroling the area about it and they said that I still need the sticker, because I though they mail the sticker. So I went to the Department of Motor Vehicles the next day and waited two hours for them to call my number and had got the sticker which took 8 seconds. That's living in California for you.

Brett Favre is conceited, Michael Vick is conceived

In 2004, these two Quarterbacks were my favorite NFL players back when I was in High school. Everybody had their jerseys and ESPN would never shut up about them. Brett was in Green Bay with his consecutive starts and Michael was in Atlanta with a 1,000 yards in less passing and more rushing combined.

That was then, This is now

In 2009, these two Quarterbacks will be in brand new teams, coming off from years of media scrunity and off-field attention. In the next 20 weeks, ESPN will never shut up about them. I'm gonna get their jerseys as soon as my debit card comes in the mail. Brett with Minnesota and Michael with Philidelphia.

A new generation of the NFL. That means more Rachel Nichols to make me weak every Sunday.

A Reason Under the Sun

to me, there's nothing to look forward to right now......until I get my check.

If I get it this Friday or next week with Monday being the earliest, then my lifestyle will instantly change. I'll be back to the way that I used to be before this recession took place.

See, before the economy started to go downhill like around late March or April of 2008, I was basically living a wealthy-ish lifestyle. I always had cash, I was working at a fantastic retail store, I was seeing this gorgeous Chinese girl, my pops was single, my mom had two whips, I was always buying shoes and other stuff from Amazon or eBay, Britney Spears would be doing something crazy everyday and I was transitioning from 35mm film photography to digital photography. That was the way I used to live.

But then things sarted to slowly drift off financially and I had to cut back on stuff. Now after over a year of misery and long-suffering, I think I finally lost what I found. I managed to get by by doing things on the side. Stuff like helping one of my friends watch Nickelodeon and DVDs with her son and getting $5 to $20 for a day. Or just roaming the internet for labor jobs like helping move stuff, which I only did once and got $70 for it. Then I had to sell my first-gen Macbook for $500 which was the most I ever gotten during these rough times this past year. Unfortunately that cash was gone within a week. The only good thing I did with a portion of that $500 was that I was greeted by a poor Hispanic couple when I was filling up my car at the gas station in Granada Hills. I offered them to buy them lunch at a McDonalds near my house. So I gave them a ride and I didn't just give them 5 bucks and drop them off, I went inside the restaraunt with them and I bought them 2 large grilled Chicken sandwich meals which was like $10. I even impressed some girl in line while I was ordering. If I was under 18, I'd score with her.

Once I HOPEFULLY get paid this month, and I will, I'm going to pick up where I left off. Got bills to pay, got fines to take care of, and I there are sneakers I need to buy. I emphasize "need" because these shoes aer avaliable for a limited time. Also, I got to take some people out to dinners and to the original In-N-Out in Baldwin Park, so that I can check out the In-N-Out store and get some stuff there. In other words, I'm gonna be out of the house more and I'm gonna enjoy myself. Walter Lee Younger should've set a budget list with his family and mother before they got their Insurance check instead of investing in some bar. I miss reading that story in the 10th grade just like I miss my old lifestyle.

Oh yeah, my brother turns 17 tomorrow. He's already growing and being more mature then ever. May God bless him for another year.

Another weekend

Freakin' Sundays. I dispite them.

To me there are good things and not so good things about that day. The negative aspects about that day is that if you haven't moved out yet, then you'll deal with your parents wearing their University alma matter t-shirts or their non-work clothes all day in the house fixing something or cleaning up the place. Another thing is that it's hard to contact people, especially in the morning. When you call them, you'll get their voicemail cause they're either at their godparents church for the morning service or their very hungover from some party the previous Saturday night. Plus the television ain't gonna do any help. They'll be showing countless infomercials, political roundtables, lame ass marathons of a reality show, and movies you already pirated over the internet. The NFL is an exception. The only sad part is that you only see action for 20 Sundays of the year, which includes 17 weekly games, three weeks of the Playoffs, and the Super Bowl. You can add the Pro Bowl in there if you wish. If you're a slow reader and have a $1.50 and wanna kill some time by improving your reading habits, there's always the Sunday newspaper. Maybe that's just a sign for me to move out.

Last week was something else. A lot of stuff happen which was the reason why I haven't been on here for a while. I'm still working up there in Lancaster unfortunately, doing graveyard shifts. Also, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is finally sworn in as the first hispanic Supreme Court justice. I did some reasearch on her background and she did pull a lot of weight to get to where she's at right now. She was raised in the bronx , went to Princeton where there no Spanish instructors at that time,  got her J.D. at Yale, worked at numerous attorneys, and the lady is single as of now. I'm sure every young female, including latinas and single women, should look up to her so that they can pull of  to the same extent as to what she accomplished. I hope Judge Sotomayor makes wise decisons and does well in the Supreme court. 

Oh yeah, I took my brother to the bank to open up his bank account last Friday. He handled the process very well by himself. I didn't say a word while he's talking to the bank tellers. He even corrected one of them several times, not because our last name is very long, but other things because one of the tellers were new to the bank. He's gonna turn 17 on Thursday so when he does, I'm gonna get him something as soon as I get paid.        

         

Straight Edge my black-ass

Aw shit....

For the past 4 and a half days I was up in the Antelope Valley without access to the internet, although I admit, I did swing by the Best Buy in Palmdale to check my Myspace but that doesn't count and I was on borrowed time. When I got home yesterday morning, first thing I did was I went to the upstairs computer in my house, checked CNN.com as always and I saw this....

immediately I was like "WHAT THE HELL?!?! WE'RE GONNA DEAL WITH HIM DOING THIS TYPE OF SHIT FOR 3 MORE YEARS?" I mean the guy has a young looking wife in Michelle Obama and two girls in Sasha and Malia for crying out loud. Plus he's a MAJOR influence to young African-American  males out there who have never had a father or a male figure in their lives. Next thing is that he'll be investigated for having a collection of belts up at Camp David (black people know what I meant). If he were to do this "White House Beer Summit" he really didn't need the damn press to do this. He shoud've done it on Air Force One so that he can have his own "Mile High Summit". If this was an exclusive shot, then that paparazzo or photographer would've made a sick fortune if he sold that print to People or a Scandanavian tabloid publishing group.

I mean really, this is very unncessary. First he fucked up at the inaguration with the pastor having to swore him in again inside the White House the following week. Next, he goes out on dates with Michelle to public theaters in New York. I mean, looked what happened with Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre back in 1865, and they have a Theater inside the White House. Then he swatted a fly on live TV which pissed off the People for the Ethical Treatmeant of Animals or PeTA for short. But they didn't put too much heat on Barack cause he's the President. To make things more ludacris and dangerous, Vice-President  Joe Biden was involved in this summit. According to the constitution, the rules states that the President and Vice President cannot be in the same area at the same time unless if it were the State of the Union, at a funeral for a death of a former President, or if they're indoors at some secret undisclosed location inside the White House, cause anything can happen. I don't like to freak y'all out, but there are sneaky people in this place and they are very patient.

One last thing I have to say is that I hope every black church, or just EVERY church for that matter, better pray to have God stay by his side so that he can make positive and adequate decisions in the next three years. The White House is a fish bowl and every country, including Russia and his native country of Kenya, is watching every next motive he does. Yes it's his first year as the leader of the free word and yes he's made some rookie mistakes since January, but just like he "changed" America, he needs to change his old motives by eliminating the Alcohol, otherwise strip clubs and theme parks would be selling Bud Lights and Dos Equis, and he should pull in a lot of weight to get this country back on track without any distractions. I mean come on, "beer summits"? It's August right now. It's summer. Save that for a trip to Boston's Cheers bar in October or St. Patricks Day.     

My dearest Rachel Nichols...

PLEASE don't end up like your collegue Erin Andrews

on second though, you can look like her, but only better. You know what I mean. Look forward to seeing you this upcoming season on Sundays.
Sincerely, David Nwachuku
P.S. You still owe me an autograph headshot of yourself from two years ago