you can be mean when you look this clean!!

It is no secret that I liked the movie Magic Mike.  NOT because it was any great cinematic event, but more because Channing Tatum and that dude from CSI Miami…. Adam Rodriguez because they had their clothes off and that made me HAPPY!! So with all of that said I should have enjoyed Chocolate City much more than I did because again, not a great cinematic event but nekkid chocolate bodies!!  SO yes right?!?!  Ehhh.. not so much and here’s why.  ***Spoiler Alerts*** So like if you haven’t seen it run to your on-demand and go watch you that movie because it still made me happy and it may make you happy too!!  So here are my thoughts on the movie.  FIRST off I should have really enjoyed more nekkid Robert Ri’Chard, but he was a child star (One on One), and was cute but goofy who has grown up and looks GOOD.  And then they casted DeRay as his brother cause they had the whole light skinded brothas with light eyes thing going on, with Vivica Fox as their mother with THEE WORST curly wig on in the history of wigs.  The premise of the movie was a struggling college student who gets approached (in the bathroom) by a man who does male stripping at some random club in Atlanta.  You can guess the main points of the movie but let’s delve further into the cast.  All of the strippers were over 40, except Robert who was 30, now this should be my age range but for some reason they all just looked old to me.  AND I know Matthew McConneheay (sp) is well over 40 but he was too skinny for me in Magic Mike and wasn’t really a stripper.  But anyways…  Lem from Soul Food err Darrin Dewitt has this crazy hairdo and after one time dancing they moved Robert to his spot.. Plot holes my friend, PLOT HOLES.  You mean to tell me the newbie can dance better than the choreographer… NAH he can’t! Tyson freakin Beckford!!! **smh** He cannot act!!  Not now, not as a as a cameo person, not ever!!  In addition to him not being able to act, HE CANT DANCE!!! So he wiggled around to some reggae music and it was bad.  AND THEN we have some real strippers, and maybe this is what made me smile the most!! Bolo the Entertainer who is a real stripper who oozed the secks appeals and yes I did like seeing the crack of his bootay!! Ummm.. whew maybe that is the highlight LOL  Other people in the movie Imani (the little girl from Everybody Hates Chris) was Roberts girlfriend.  And Carmen Electra was the DJ **loud sigh**.  Another BIG ASS PLOT HOLE…. So Robert has a bike and then after working a few times alla sudden he got a Mercedes!?!!?  REALLY?  OH and he gets beat up by Tyson’s boys and then heals in like 3 days.  Then they kept trying to compare themselves to Magic Mike.  Yeah so not a great movie but it may just make you smile and that is what entertainment should be about, right?

I am currently obsessed with 2 songs Classic Man by Jidenna and Alight by Kendrick Lamar.  Both have such heavy usage of the N word and F bombs drop like crazy, but like I heard the radio version and I was like they missed a word!! So let’s get into it.  Classic Man!! Jidenna is part of the Janelle Monae camp, Wondaland and actually I just watched The Q.U.E.E.N. video and Jidenna was in it so even though it feels like he came out of nowhere he kinda has been around.  Jidenna is very interesting to look at; he is light with red hair AND a red beard and wears tailored suits.  I like a man in a suit, I just do! And I hope this is ushering a new era to hip hop were men are really concerned with looking well. I am ready for the pants below the butt and just big baggy everything and looking scruffy to be over. So we’ll see, but I do like the song and I feel like I need to hear it right now.  I watched a video with him and Janelle Monae.  He is Nigerian and his mother is Scottish (not just regualr white LOL) so that answers the red hair question. The next song is Alright.  Now the first time I heard it was at the end of Ballers which is a new series on HBO featuring one The Rock *fine ass* (oh he could get it!) Dewayne Johnson. Actually that show had another song in it and I had to rewind it which was the song Eve (or whomever the producer was) sampled for Tambourine.  Yes I have a good ear and YES this is random! So Alright came on and I was in LOVE and then I didn’t know it was Kendrick Lamar and I don’t really like rap but maybe I need to qualify that, I don’t like bad rap.  Rap where I don’t understand what they are saying or crazy innuendo’s that reference sex acts that I have to go to urban dictionary to look up or drugs.  And maybe it was just the hook that had me HOOKED!!! We gon be alright Can you hear can you FEEL ME??!  We gon be alright!  Yes Kendrick I can hear and feel you WE ARE gon be alright!! So then this week I looked for the video and it’s not just some regular ass video THIS is a cinematic experience!!  And then I’m mad cause I feel bambozzled by Fios I don’t have VH1 Soul NOR MTV Jams so I have to get my videos online which is actually ALRIGHT!!  See what I did there?!?! The song has some religious connotations even though you might miss it amongst the fucks.  Like DMX he was and I'm sure still is trying to get his life right and it's like a prayer.  Sometimes these rap songs are bigger than what is at face value.  And then sometimes all they are about is booty and bling (i had another blog about that LOL).  And then from here I went to another video from Flying Lotus that is hella disturbing but it's good and i just watched it again even though it makes me full on misty.

Why do the women who are small in frame make the most noise as they clomp past my desk?!?!  I know we can't all walk like Naomi Campbell, but let's try!!  

This past weekend we went to see my niece sing at the Big Tree festival in the middle of Juniata County PA  She did a wonderful job!!  OF COURSE she takes after her aunt LMAO... not really but she did do a great job!!  I was surprised that I didn't see any confederate flags since there were only about 5-6 black folks there. Her mother is just regular white (LOL).  

My hair must have been on fleek, as the kids say, last week because I got so many compliments!  I have been doing twist out on Sundays and then pull them out Monday and I have the good disco hair.  Alls I've been using is either WEN or Shea Moisture shampoo and conditioner and then the shea moisture cream and eco green olive oil gel to twist.  It's getting long and it's been shedding like crazy but it's all good.  I am about to get it braided for my good vacay... Puerto Rico HOOOOOOOOOO... and i can't be doing it in tropical weather.  I just refuse!!