It's been a week since the last post.. okay, here we go..
07/29 - we took second, behind dallas: club clearview in the Houston slam..... way to go neo-soul teammies!!
07/30 - got day off, chilled with fam.
07/31 - nothing spectacular.. work...
week went ho hum.... nothing to write home about until!
08/03 Thursday. Sugar Water Festival. Now, i could say it was a disappointment, and it was slightly. Floetry did not show up, and they insultedmy intelligence by not announcing it. We had a good time though. Jill opened... Performed quite a few songs from her upcoming cd... Believe me, I can't wait for the song, and I quote "she wears her womanhood in the seat of her pants....." as always she did not disappoint. queen, did her thing, but i promise, i really believed she lip-synced the dana owens songs... closed with unity!!!! off the chain. erykah did the same show from austin earlier during the year. including the purple and green outfit. she did add a few more songs... all in all a great show... jill was jamming in the wings, so erykah called her and queen back out... they did not perfrom together, but clearly showed sisterly love.. HIGHLIGHT: i talked to Jill Scott!!! told her about the natinal poetry slam in austin.. she told me, get this, "sister, poet to poet, get them with your words... a lot of poets use performance to carry them through, use your words to make a greater impact." i was HYPED! queen refused (a strong word, but not her sentiment) to autograph a t-shirt. i understood she didn't want to open a can of worms, if she signed one she'd have to sign 100....
08/04 performed at the blanton!! i loved it, got to wear linen (banana republic, 'cuz i loves banana republic linen!) the men did well. HOWEVER, SPECIAL PROPS AND CONSIDERATION TO chelle and i. who ripped the hell out of our piece... a piece that is humming and ringing in ears. a piece that has been called a favorite going into nats.. man.... felt damn good. most touching moment was when her daughters walked up to her crying discussing how proud they were of her.... that was touching...
08/05 went to s.a. we blew up the first bout, coming in first by a 2 + point margin. second bout, much harder, representative of nats. lost by i think .5, pretty tough pill to swallow. let's say we went from being tied for first and finished third. SUCKS! we stuck to our plan. and one team member was missing so it took a bit out of our aresnal. it was a learning experience.... i was IMMEDIATELY reminded how COMPETETIVE I AM AND HOW much of a sore loser i am...... UGH!!!!
07/29 - we took second, behind dallas: club clearview in the Houston slam..... way to go neo-soul teammies!!
07/30 - got day off, chilled with fam.
07/31 - nothing spectacular.. work...
week went ho hum.... nothing to write home about until!
08/03 Thursday. Sugar Water Festival. Now, i could say it was a disappointment, and it was slightly. Floetry did not show up, and they insultedmy intelligence by not announcing it. We had a good time though. Jill opened... Performed quite a few songs from her upcoming cd... Believe me, I can't wait for the song, and I quote "she wears her womanhood in the seat of her pants....." as always she did not disappoint. queen, did her thing, but i promise, i really believed she lip-synced the dana owens songs... closed with unity!!!! off the chain. erykah did the same show from austin earlier during the year. including the purple and green outfit. she did add a few more songs... all in all a great show... jill was jamming in the wings, so erykah called her and queen back out... they did not perfrom together, but clearly showed sisterly love.. HIGHLIGHT: i talked to Jill Scott!!! told her about the natinal poetry slam in austin.. she told me, get this, "sister, poet to poet, get them with your words... a lot of poets use performance to carry them through, use your words to make a greater impact." i was HYPED! queen refused (a strong word, but not her sentiment) to autograph a t-shirt. i understood she didn't want to open a can of worms, if she signed one she'd have to sign 100....
08/04 performed at the blanton!! i loved it, got to wear linen (banana republic, 'cuz i loves banana republic linen!) the men did well. HOWEVER, SPECIAL PROPS AND CONSIDERATION TO chelle and i. who ripped the hell out of our piece... a piece that is humming and ringing in ears. a piece that has been called a favorite going into nats.. man.... felt damn good. most touching moment was when her daughters walked up to her crying discussing how proud they were of her.... that was touching...
08/05 went to s.a. we blew up the first bout, coming in first by a 2 + point margin. second bout, much harder, representative of nats. lost by i think .5, pretty tough pill to swallow. let's say we went from being tied for first and finished third. SUCKS! we stuck to our plan. and one team member was missing so it took a bit out of our aresnal. it was a learning experience.... i was IMMEDIATELY reminded how COMPETETIVE I AM AND HOW much of a sore loser i am...... UGH!!!!
4 comments:
if I ever meet Jill, I would pass the fudge out!! I love her and Erykah for not only their music but for being the strong sista's they are!!
and Jill was right....its should be the words and not the performance the people remember!
stop being a sore loser....enjoy the experience!
see you in two days
i thought i was.. she shook my hand and i trembled... hahaha..
sore loser, part of my childlike charm!!! hahahahaha.... man, it just slipped thru our hands...
i'm picking you up right. call me later...
have always been immensely proud of yall. but of course you (because you have a special place in my heart). please trust that yall will do well and represent to the FULLEST!!! of course there will be "familiar faces in the places taking up hella spaces!" we gotchu boo--ALWAYS! :-)
koffe, you're right. i will look at it that way...
angel, thanks... and i can't wait for you to meet MO fuh sho Brown... we are gonna have soooooo much funnnnnn.... when is slump coming in?
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