if vision is the only validation, then most of my life isnt real.

i just welcomed/watched the sun rise again.
feelin goooooooooood, like always.





this isnt my favorite song by sam, but its how ive been feelin these last few days and sam is my homie, like highkey...is it safe to say that he possesses one of the best male voices today???

put on some blackface and do a little dance.

No I wont make you laugh
No I wont do a dance for you
No I wont talk loud so u can hear my unique prosody.
I.
AM.
NOT.
UR.
CONTINUOUS.
ENTE RTAINM ENT.
I dont think of you as mine,
refrain from thinking of me as yours.
let me be.
free.

spring break is comin to a close :-(

I didnt do anything eventful, but I feel well rested. No work + No school + A lot of sleep + Jesus = enough goodness to fit into 10 jars.

lately, i have been on a photographing dry spell. Think im gonna revive the film camera and do some portraits. I recently have come to the conclusion that the film camera will be mostly (not solely) for the use of (posed) portraits and images that "need" to be caught on film. The dslr will be for documentary work. I'ma stick with this plan for as long as i can and see if it works....

I'm on twitter now also (twitter.com/boukman)...I swore that i would not join anymore social networking sites, but it's addicting. Buuuttt, since the new change on facebook, I don't check it as much anymore, and twitter makes me feel wayy less guilty about constantly changing my "status". Wonder what's next??

"I wanna stick my love in yo eye baby,

So u can see me cummin, just cummin all over u...."

Which one do y'all like best???? (ps: comments have been enabled...leave em)

house of the week.

the front of this house is an almost perfect rectangle. its neat. wish the van wasnt in the way. nice gem on Scarff.

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

got........


my

eyebrow

piercededed!!!!!!

Neighborhood Spotlight.

On one of my first bus trips from my residence in West Adams/Jefferson Park/USC quadrant to West Hollywood, I was noticing the shift in neighborhoods, demographics, architecture, etc, and could not help but notice and want to find out more about this stretch of a gated community right smack dab in the middle of working-class Los Angeles. So, I did some research about this area west of Crenshaw and south of Venice and found it it is called "Lafayete Square". The houses in this area are really nice. Architectural styles include Neo-Federalist, Craftsman, Italianate and Spanish Revival, as well as several notable examples of early Modern. According to a Los Angeles Times real-estate section article on the district, "Most of the properties have period details: Juliet balconies, mahogany staircases and libraries, sitting rooms, stained glass windows, triple crown molding, soaring ceilings—even four-car garages."

Through the past century, the demographics of the area has changed from all-white to nearly all-black, to today majority black with new asian, white, and latino couples priced out of L.A.'s nearby westside. Yeah, its getting a little gentrified (im not a big fan of gentrification), but for the most part, old Black families are not selling these beautiful homes and are passing em down to the younger generation. Also, there are bans on multifamily/apt-type settlements in the area, so its full of couples and families, which makes it seem calm and all family-oriented.

For the most part, I really like the architectural contrasts of the area. Still, I find it kinda weird that it's gated. (??--hate gates around neighborhoods)

My oh my, how LA intrigues me sometimes.

Lafayette Square:

Wat's hood son?

spring break feels good

Most of you know that I work with elementary school kids four days a week. I may complain about their behavior, but I absolutely love my job. It's rewarding and interesting.

Everyday the kids eat snacks after school, and being that most of them are of Xicano/a and Central American descent, some of them bring or buy some peculiar (to me) treats. Red, hot, spicy, kinda sour, and sometimes buttery seems to be the trend.

This past Friday, Angel, one of the troublemakers (sometimes), who recently temporarily left the program I work with to be on the baseball team showed me this:

I have no idea what this is!!! He described it to me, and said it was or could be spicy, and sometimes sour if you squirt some kind of juice on it/them. I usually accept the offers of the students when they suggest that I try their chosen treats, but I had to say no this time...just too nervous, and I had no water with me. The last thing I tried was a persimmon. Sassy 5th grader Dulce requested that I take two. I bit into it, and smiled, and put it in my backpack to throw away when I got home. Couldnt hurt the girls feelings and throw it away in front of her!!!!

Sonje lapli ki leve mayi ou.

i aint did nuthin (but count dis money)

i luv the blackberry curve i have. honestly, if i could have sex with it, i think i would!





She is indeed one of my favorite Nigerians. :-)

hey baby,
we can make a baby
and we can call it Sundi.
dont you wanna do it?
we can make a baby.

i been painting lately. im not good at it. when i was younger, i was good 'for a kid', but that youth talent is worth nothing now. still, i paint. it gets my minds off of everything around me. for spring break, im going to buy a paint set and paint everyday since i cant go anywhere. and i will keep clickin the camera too.

i just got a text message that my friend got shot...the contrast btwn my life and the life of my friends seems wide, but really we're all the same...we all eat, poop, sleep, dream, and die. The small things we do between then just seems imortant, maybe...idk....sh*t.

goin on break now.

So I went to the State of the Black Union here in LA last weekend..it was kinda inspiring. Things that stayed with me mentally:
0-Being eco-friendly is nothing new to people of Afrikan descent, embrace it.
0-"Civil rights may not have written yo resume, but it made somebody read it" - Al Sharpton
0-Al Sharpton should just call it quits with that lil bit of perm he has on his head
0- Cornel West wears the same suit all the time because he feels it is his "work uniform"
0-Measurements of merit should be reviewed and renewed.
0-Julianne Malveaux is my homie
0-It's okay to be Black and studious (i already knew that)
0- We have to be the change we want to see.
0-The youth generation is smarter than most think
0-.........


Abubakar Sidiq

In other news, somebody stole some of my drawz from the laundry!!!!!! Somebody is out there sniffin my booty juice. Still, i dont judge

cold sweats occur when im not with her...

k im back maybe.

today i took party in a study/research group that was focused on defining "hooking up"....ish was crazy, and i felt completely out of the loop

today i heard three of my friends pass gas....

i cant stop listening to :




i need that ol thing back....