Welcome back

So in case it needs reiteration, I am a college student and if that can work as a probable excuse for my three month absence then so be it; I was on a summer vacation.
Anyways, not much has happened over the same, not much worth writing about..erm MJ died a couple of hours after Farrah and totally stole her thunder. I would do a whole 'why he was the best" tribute but that horse has been beaten to death.
The oh so awesome United States of America decided that since they couldn't get people to stop talking about health care they'd try a diversion technique-que the UBS inquisitions. Now I am all for them cracking down the top wealthiest 1 percent of this nation but lets be real, those investigating the case were probably very friendly with the perps. C'mon feds-we're not that dumb. Well it was blown up in the media for all of a day or two I think, then UBS said screw it, we'll give you the names and numbers of all the hedge fund managers you're looking for if you quit harassing us. And they did-and furthermore I'm sure they're not going to do anything in the way of persecuting anyone...I mean they're money is green...very green.
Erm...what else what else..
Oh hey last night I was watching Mad Men(if you don't know anything about this AMC hit show, find the nearest knife and gorge your right eye out...you deserve it), and they(get this) SMOKED WEED!!! Okay for those of you who don't feel the excitement my capital letters were supposed to impart, let me clear it up. Mad Men is a show centered around the lives of a couple of people that work in an ad agency on Madison Avenue. It is set in the early sixties(time pieces are awesome!) so everyone still smokes,the secretaries are referred to as 'Girls' and they all but bathe their bosses, oh and then there's the booze..so much scotch! I mean they get brandy with breakfast-it's all very glossy and glamorous!!
Anyways last night the creative dept had to come up with 5 holiday scenarios for a Bacardi ad, They were working on a Saturday afternoon at the office when the conversation turned to weed..this dude goes "I wrote my dissertation in college on....and my muse; Mary Jane" I was like WHOA!! was that a marijuana reference? Awesome!!(Don't do drugs kids). I think the icing on the cake was when Peggy(the little uptight-looking only woman who isn't a secretary on the show) walks in and goes "I want to smoke marijuana" in her sing-song 'I love Lucy' voice. Priceless. If I met the people who wrote this episode I would buy them some Columbia...never mind-I'd uh congratulate them.
Well now that I have done some serious advertisement for the show, I'll be off to further my education;until next time
Peace.....

Still Buzzin' from Freak Nasty

Freak Nasty was last Thursday and people are still buzzin' from the event! Everything from that night was on point. The host JP Justice kept us laughing with all kinds of jokes from Potatoe Salad at Black Cook Outs to Lessons for the Bedroom. Then each artist added their own special twist to their erotic poetry and the night was full of suprises.....Don't take our word for it, read below to see what others had to say about the show.

~A, you should be still grinning from last night show! Everything was amazing! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of it! Everyone that came - that I know- greatly enjoyed themselves! Like you said - I have now performed at the Le Poisson Rouge! :)

~OMG Ainsley/Brina .. FREAK NASTY was GREAT!!! Can't wait 'til the next one ... JP's hosting was out of this world -- the poets were awesome and the entertainment was on point. KUDOS -- to BURROWSINK ...!!!

~Hello everybody I had a blast hosting FREAK NASTY last night. You guys was amazing. PLEASE take the time out and friend me here on FACEBOOK or evern better yet got to my site http://instigatedtalk.ning.com/

~Dude, the host was a beast at Freak Nasty

~I enjoyed it all of it hit me up the next time i can bring more people

~There are no words....

~hhmm ... WOW ... GREAT ... WOW ... OMG ... Did she just do that .. LOL .. well .. U HAD TO BE THERE!!!

~There are no words to adequately describe it-if u missed it tough ISHT - it was off the chain - call it FREE!!! LOL

~WELL, JUST ONE WORD "PHENOMENAL" ( I LOVED IT! )

~Ainsley, Burrows inc. did an excellent job!! I don't even care that I only got three hours sleep and came to work today. It was well worth it. I forgot to mention that the lesson you gave, and you know what lesson I am talking about, left me speechless!! I loved it! Hope you can return....

~WE WANT MORE!!!!!!

~Oh man...Ainsley I had a blast! I was telling everybody about it! JP...u were HILARIOUS! I was in tears! It was so well worth it. My pics will be up soon! Hahaha.

~Great show Ainsley and Sabrina! Packed house and great performers (as always). That MC was awesome! I just want to have a party now so I can hire him to make me laugh. My stomach muscles got a workout from his very informative "skit". :-)

~Wow, great show!!!! Don't spend the dollar I threw at you all in one place, lol..You were a GREAT host!!!!

Keep your eyes and ears tuned to the wire to find out when the next Freak Nasty will be :)

The Freakiest Thing You've Ever Done

We took an informal poll to find out some of the freakiest things people have done and we got some amazing answers! I bet you want to know what they were and are curious to know if it tops your own freakiest thing you've ever done story....Read below and post your own story if you're brave :)

- ONE TIME I PLAYED THIS GIRL IN A B-BALL GAME & THE DEAL WAS THE WINNER GETS HEAD IN THE PARK. WELL, I WON 16-0.....

-hmmm.... what would make one thing freakier than another? sex in a playground at night. femme-threesome while the bf watched. CBT torturing a dude in a dress in a room full of people. being wrestled into submission, tied up and having all my clothing cut off with huge ass hunting knife while taunting each other with inappropriate racial slurs... etc... define freaky...all examples I posted did occur and I was involved...

-ONE NIGHT IN THE NUYORICAN I READ HER AN EROTIC POEM. SHE CAME QUIETLY IN THE FRONT ROW. WE MET IN THE BATHROOM & SHE CAME WILLINGLY.........

-Ok...here is the situation...1 guy...four women...a little eh em ...some wine...and a poem made of some of the most beautiful flesh one could ever imagine...how long it lasted...now that's the part I can't tell you...lol

- In a limo with a potential employer's wife while he watched and then joined us for round 2.....it quickly became a very worthy investment...LOL

So we've shared some of our stories & some of our favorite stories....tell us some of yours.....

Welcome Back Me

Hello, it's been about a month since I posted anything...did you notice? No? Well I didn't ,iss you either...
So every now and then I decidedly get obssessed with a band/artist from the past-you know like a music generation past. One of my favourite obssessions is the fab four themselves, the almighty Beatles. I LOOVE spending time knee deep in Beatle memorabilia-it's really an awesome way to spend dead hours. In the past 2 weeks I have rediscovered their albums from the raw hungry beginnings with Please Please Me, to their trippy Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band(Lucy in the sky with diamonds*) to the uber spiritual Let It Be. I can't imagine how awe inspiring it must have been to see this formidable force live you know? They were forging a path in a diection that had not yet been taken-it must have sucked to be another band trying to make it in their shadow.
I hadn't realized that the Liverpool gang had made more movies than just the 'Hard Day's Night' which I had watched a bagillion times before, but apparently they had. I have now officially committed to memory A Hard Day's Night, Help and Yellow Submarine- I am missing Let It Be and of course Magical Mystery Tour... Their acting was terrible but it's their voices are AWESOME for their brand of humor, they have no intonation so their punchlines are even funnier.
So later after work I am going to rent Magical Mystery Tour... I'm going aaalll the way to the sea of green :-).
Peace.

Meet..my..erm..

Mkay so sometimes you meet a man. And said man just so happens to be pure amazingness but due to prior expediences you and afore mentioned man decide to take things slow; super slow. Days turn into weeks and those weeks into a solid month and still no definition. Now this isn't always a bad thing I mean I'm with Dwele on this one; things get tainted when you label them, However it is more convenient to have some kind of title. It's hard to introduce significant others when they have no title "Hey Sabrina meet my...erm meet Eddie" super awkward!!!
I personally call them a man friend(yes it's weird but at least he's propelled away from the f word-friend- and he is made aware of the fact that we need to move on), This is where the question of caution killing progress comes into play. Are you too scared to pursue this? Are we going to make it past your shadows and their ghosts?
I say every time a relationship ends try and wipe the slate clean. Sweep up after them and re lay the bed so that the next guest will find it accommodating. This way you have room for new memories and maybe even new ghosts-it's the joy of living. What's the point of starting things if you won't see them all the way through..
In case you can't tell this was one of those "I'm venting, ignore me" blogs
Till next week...
Peace

Broken Arrow

So I was reading this book a long time ago right; it was entitled The Art Of Seduction (by Robert E. Green) and in this book he outlined the various seducer traits, the victims who fall for the said seducers and last but not least the actual process of seduction. It was an engrossing read to say the least- I mean it dealt with appealing to the sub conscious, tapping into one's core psyche...exploring the psychology of the lonely. I was impressed with its depth.
I found out that my seduction style was a dandy/star/something else that I can't remember- anyways apparently my strength was my lack of gender role adaptation(i.e I come off kinda masculine) this intrigues men and helps them let their guard down- they feel like comrades and what not- but all the while there's a tangible tension because man brain or not I am still a woman(an attractive one too if you ask me).
Mkay, here's where the issue comes in; one can easily catch the opposite sex(let's be real dudes aren't that hard to attract-but they don't have an extended attention span)it's keeping them that proves hard. I mean the book easily gives you the tools to catch a man but not how to keep him enchanted. How long can you keep someone hypnotized without them coming to? Is it possible to have someone stay under your spell forever? Surely they will come upon the antidote sooner or later.
What I'm trying to say is when it comes to seduction we somehow forget ourselves in a bid to satisfy someone else's fantasies thus ignoring the real us. We paint the perfect picture- we are the immaculate image of perfection...until they fall into our trap. Now what? You've got the game, why keep using your hunting tactics? This is where your true colors start to bleed through the cracks and the "distance" starts to surface. Questions about why you changed and how you're not what they thought.....yeah mostly because they never got a chance to really meet you. You sabotage the whole thing before you even introduce yourself.

I 'n I Be De Same...

Mkay so when I was little it was cool to fit in, you know if you all had the same black and white converse with striped socks to match(I just made the socks up but you catch my drift), same lunch box,same lunch-it was the coolest thing if you were all basically carbon copies of each other. Now I have always been friends with the cool kids but I never fit in(I was the honorary cool kid in school)so I always considered myself an outsider-and I think what cemented this status is the fact that I never tried to rectify the situation- I stayed outside the circle on purpose. I learned later that this made me somewhat of a non conformist.
When I got older it became cool to be different-everyone claimed a tweak in character or appearance that separated them from their herd-which in turn made them all the more similar. I looked around and wondered what had happened to the matching outfits-now they were like a visual cacophony of random people trying to disassociate themselves with their former image and it still felt like they were conforming;just in a different mode....
And it just snowballed as I grew even older-now everyone is draped in scarves(in this hot Dallas weather) and super bright "vintage" clothes-you know the over sized jewelry,crazy hats, the glasses-yea the whole nine. And I'm still wondering if they understand that trying to be so different only makes them look the same. Their quest to find uniqueness especially since it doesn't come naturally to them only displays the latest trend-and it's tragic really,especially when these people sit back and talk about the people that blend into the crowd-no wait it's actually pretty hilarious...so my point is; is non conformism the latest form of conforming? If so how does one stay completely genuinely themselves and not look like a poser?
-the answer next week-
Peace.....

Show Me The Money...NOT

Allow me to internationalize this blog right quick...so over the past oh I don't know, 40 years, Africa has been the sole beneficiary of billions of dollars in monetary aid. This fact has tainted Africa's image- I think it infantalizes governments as a whole.... they are made to look like they can not fend for themselves, they're stuck on the enormous titty that is world aid.
These a fore mentioned governments are still playing catch up with the rest of the world(you know colonialism..AIDS..droughts..civil wars..) and in addition they find themselves dealing with World Bank loans and the induced interest rates-it's like shooting a man on crutches in his good foot-it's just sad really.
In case you can't tell I am very anti government to government aid; it's just not a long term solution to the immense poverty that looms over the beautiful content-matter of fact it's like aspirin for a malignant tumor. I just think there are better ways to heal a nation these large lump sums are merely band aids.
How about investing? How about instead of throwing money at a random nation, you know how about help them cultivate their resources(we all know that these third world nations are rich in resources) so that instead of the super powers exploiting them(resource harvesting basically) the playing field is levelled...So that developed and developing nations are able to trade equally-tada!!!!!!!!
Yes I should be in the UN!!!!!

Feelin' Iree Heights...

Sooo folks, it's 4/20 today and my campus is overrun by heavy eyed, slow walking/stumbling skate boarders; how are you doing today?
So ever since I moved here, I've wondered where this weed celebration came from. Who designated a pot holiday and when? I mean April 20th as far as I was concerned was the Columbine memorial. I eventually decided to check this out and get this; answers.com had no answer!!! When my online encyclopedia of choice is stumped...well that means whatever I looked up must me non existent, but the red eyes and dilated pupils sprawling all over the campus begged to differ so I was forced to dig deeper and sure enough I found something on the oh so reliable wiki...(I ought to write a poem about wikipedia and it;'s extensive material).
Apparently this whole thing got started by some kids from San Rafael High School in California(why am I not suprised?) in the '70s who met up at 4:20 everyday(because that's when they released the kids in detention) to light one up....
On the other hand the Rastafari celebrate it because it is the eve of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica- now this may not seem like such a big deal but keep in mind that they believe he was the Lion of Judah, the returned messiah that the Bible had promised. His visit was met with hysteria, the airport was crowded with thousands of faithfuls, singing and smoking awaiting their savior. It had been raining and by the time the emperor's plane landed the sky was still dark and stormy but as soon as the doors opened and he stepped out(according to wiki) the sun parted the clouds and shone down on them with the brilliance of a million diamonds(okay fine I exaggerated that last bit..but still).
I prefer the second story to the first one (eh call me biased but Ratsafari intrigue me)... Now kids here must have gone crazy with colored chalk last night because on certain parts of the campus today there's huge pot leaves drawn on the side walks and on the other parts I came across a bold declaration "You can't spell blunt without the UNT"...that should have been our slogan-super catchy, hey those pot heads are kinda clever-oh I go to the Univ. of North Texas...
So anyways it's a bout time I headed to class...Happy 4/20 I guess.
Stay off the grass folks.
Peace

Eaostre Merriments

No don't worry this isn't going to be one of those rain down on religious festivals blogs...I just had to get that off my chest.
So I went home to the fam this weekend and upon my return I realized that I didn't have my phone charger...my phone died earlier at work and for a couple of days I am phone-less! It's terrible but on the other hand..it's new. I am forced to imagine what it's like not to be able to text while the babies are napping(I work at a day care) or when the professor turns to face the board...ugh it's oh so primitive. It feels like the dark ages right now....what would I do without the Internet(I rushed to the nearest laptop and updated my Facebook so everyone knew what's up). Speaking of which; this Sunday my pastor spent a good thirty minutes on the subject of twitter AHAAHHAAA!!! And like only five people in the whole congregation knew what he was talking about, I was like he should read my last blog...aah the beauties of the Internet. I mean who needs face to face interaction right?(Although I wish I had my phone so I could tweet directly..ugh).
In other news, Lent ended yesterday so a part of me is exalted to finally get back to the debauchery!!!! I mean I am not super religious but every year I try another Faith's practises(call it my trial and error method of finding truth) so this year I gave up certain things that I felt were....stains on what could have been a pristine surface. For the past 40 days(not counting weekends) I had no red meat, no coca cola and no sex.....needless to say my sanity suffered but man am I glad that is over! I don't see how any one can deny themselves the things they love the most (yes those are my favourite things-forget diamonds) for that long. Call me a hedonist but I like pleasure...I pursue it with a deep deep passion. Life is short right?
Well I'm headed to class(and I'm five minutes late...the joy of college)

Myspace/Yourspace

Mkay so speaking as a college student I have to wonder when Internet took over our lives. I recently got a twitter(yes, I am very ashamed of myself), so now I am accessible through three different world wide channels, that is the almighty Facebook,the still dwindling Myspace and the new comer Twitter(which apparently is hot right now)... My homeboy got me on it and it is CRACK!! I am currently following Dr.Drew (yeah from vh1),Micheal Ian Black(also from vh1) and a whole bunch of random Internet personalities...I am an official people junkie(thus this blog)much like everyone else in this generation.
But am I really addicted to other people's lives or am I addicted to talking about myself? I think we as a generation are obsessed with ourselves, when I eat a cupcake at work it's not that awe inspiring but when I update my twitter telling all those uncaring strangers out there that I just had a fluffy little pick me up, why its the peak of their day; in my opinion anyways. Ah and of course the Facebook pictures. The day after every mundane event,every small show I've gone to, I log on and hope that people tagged me becuase you're a loser if your 'pictures of' link reads below 300(especially if you're not a freshman in college-cos thats a viable excuse). Oh and have you noticed the FB chat? (Erm if you haven't by now, gorge your eyes with whatever sharp object is handy). This oh so-devilishly-good-it-has-to-be-fattening innovation allows us to speak directky to other FB junkies when we're trying to study. If I could say how many times I have gone to the library(in a bid to get some work done because my apartment is too distracting)and sended up on Facebook for hours...let's just say I would have to cram-study the night before almot all my exams(eh c'est la vie).
As for Myspace,well..that's that big sleeping giant; that random dormant volcano that erupts just when you write it off. Yea I recently had a Myspace revolution, I went to a slam poetry night in Dallas the other night and a friend gave me their myspace link(yes he wrote in on a piece of paper)and I found him on there...and the rest of the Dallas poets and I have been Myspacing for the past couple of weeks(ask if you need the link lol).But truth remains its an old glitchy site...
So it's been real folks but I have classes and stuff so....I gotta go
Till next week;follow koyanisquatsi on twitter
PEACE>>>

Can a Brother Breathe?

I usually try to stay away from political talk but this merits a discussion....What is the world coming to?

Obama has been in office for less than 90 days and every where you turn there's some republican criticizing his every move, and I do mean EVERY MOVE! First they get on him because he doesn't wear a suite jacket to work....really? A Suite jacket? That's what's going to make a difference in his ability to have sound judgement? If that's the case I need to know who makes his suites because they could be saving me a lot of heartache in the dating department LOL. Then they criticize the brother for giving money to AIG who then used it to dish out bonuses. I'm not say what AIG did was ethical but what I am saying is that when I loan money to someone in good faith, I can't control how they spend it. So how does that blame fall on Obama? They accuse the man of being a Socialist (which BTW, isn't an insult; we do lots of business with socialist governments that happen to be doing a lot better than we are right now), a Neo-Marxist and my new personal favorite they accuse the man of hoodwinking Americans to vote for him....Really? That's funny. At least this time we can say, we VOTED for him, haven't been able to say that in the last 8 years.

I was really hoping that the people who didn't vote for Obama were going to at least follow McCain's lead and MTFO LOL. Just Kidding...I was actually hoping that they would be respectful and give the brother room, time and space to do what he needs to do to work through the crisis that our country is in. Personally, I feel like he's done a great job at responding in a quick and efficient manner while working within the realms of our legal structure (which we all know doesn't always have the speediest turn around; unless you move G. W. style LOL). People need to visit shutyourtrap.com and let the man work; he doesn't go to your office and tell you how to do your job so let the brother breathe!