so much of my childhood right here. My brother and I played this ALL DAY!
so much of my childhood right here. My brother and I played this ALL DAY!
Priorities…
And we’re still cutting from Education -_-“
“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
- Bruce Lee
— QUEERING THE GAME OF LIFE (via cocknbull)
so awhile ago someone asked me to go through process/resources for what i do when i write. this isn’t for everybody, everybody has different motivators. but some of these links have been useful for me in the past.
- typing speed test - warm up your hands
- writing ergonomics - take care of yourself writing for long periods
- music to write by - put on a soundtrack that won’t distract
- writeroom - find a program that removes temptation to browse
- write or die - if you have trouble staying motivated
- word count meter - keep track of your progress
- stayfocused - lock yourself out of distracting sites (chrome only)
generally speaking, i just try to make sure i’m sitting properly, take regular breaks, have plenty of water at hand, and good music. the rest varies on just how much i’m feeling it on a given day, and how badly i need motivation. hopefully this will help!
It looks like D’Angelo is officially gearing up for his comeback to the music industry! With his upcoming gig at Essence’s Music Festival, as well as being announced as one of the headliners for Jay-Z’s ‘Made In America’ festival this September, it’s evident that D’Angelo is not playing around. He even managed to snag a spread and interview in GQ magazine. Check out a few excerpts from the interview:
D’Angelo on the evil in music
There’s forces that are going on that I don’t think a lot of motherf-ckers that make music today are aware of,” he says. “It’s deep. I’ve felt it. I’ve felt other forces puling at me.” He stubs out his cigarette and leans toward me, taking my hand. “This is a very powerful medium that we are involved in,” he says gravely.” “I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know? The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of the energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you’ve got to be careful.”Paul Hunter (Director of Untitled) on the videobeing misunderstood
Most people think the ‘Untitled’ video was about sex, but my direction was completely opposite of that. It was about his grandmother’s cooking. Think of your grandmother’s greens, how it smelled in the kitchen. What did the yams and the fried chicken taste like? That’s what I want you to express.” The video may have looked like foreplay, but it was actually about family, Hunter insists-about intimacy.
Later when I tell D’Angelo this, he says, “It’s so true: We talked about the Holy Ghost and the church before that take. The veil is the nudity and the sexuality. But what they’re really getting is the spirit.D’Angelo on the effects of the ‘Untitled’ video
One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel like f-cked-up, and I threw the money back at her. I was like, ‘I’m not a stripper.’
On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D’Angelo told him, “Yo, man, I cannot wait until this f-cking tour is over. I’m going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.” Questlove thought he was joking. “I was like, ‘You’re a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen.That’s how much he wanted to distance himself.”
I will say that I’m interested in hearing the new music he has been working on!
The music industry tore him apart. I’m glad he’s coming back on his own terms though. Lord knows R&B needs him right now.
YESS!
I’m just going through the motions of life at this point. I just take the days as they come. Two years ago I had a life plan and had everything worked out. I knew exactly where I wanted to be by each age and how I’d get there. I don’t have that anymore. I just exist. I miss the days when I had it all planned out and together. I was more motivated. I felt like I would achieve it all and would achieve it all. Lately, the days have just been passing me by and I feel like I’m just standing in the middle of the world, lost and confused. As much as I dread school, it has become a safety net for me while I figure things out.
No one told me real life would be like this.
Lauryn Hill - Everything Is Everything
forever reblog.
also: who wears expensive and unstable earrings in the ocean in the first place?
kim kardashian, that’s who.
ahh this is why I love Kourtney
