Masquerade

So I've been looking for fabulous halloween parties to attend in the downtown area and luckily, I stumbled on this...



Since my favorite word and my favorite party theme is a masquerade... I am definitely going...But what am I supposed to wear? 

Little do you know, I have a secret power:

I can find virtually ANYTHING on the 

internet. How?

Google of course. I can Google my ass off!!!! 

Anywho, I typed in the word [masquerade] and I read a lot of things about the history of, various locations in the world  that have been throwing these fancy celebrations for centuries, and pics. 

Here's a smidget of what I found:

A Masquerade, a company based in Bellvue, WA that sells and rents costumes and accessories. 

What was most interesting, and helpful about thier online store was the fact that their costumes were arranged, for your convenience, by era. Their costumes ranged from "classical antiquity"

 ( anything like fake egyptian wear, roman soldier gear, caveman wear, aztec maiden dresses, greek goddess dresses, and spartan gear so you can bring out or reenact your favorite "300" movie scenes) to '1980's" 

 apparel ( famous Madonna music video outfits, Prince's notorious purple outfit, and some not-so 80's outfits)

I might consider renting from this place for the masquerade, but not before I take a thorough search through all of my internet resources.

 I went back to Google.

Then, Wikipedia read my mind. 

Masquerade ball

A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is an event which the participants attend in costume wearing a mask. (A masque is a formal written and sung court pageant.)Such gatherings, festivities of Carnival, were paralleled from the fifteenth century by increasingly elaborate allegorical Entries, pageants and triumphal processions celebrating marriages and other dynastic events of late medieval court life. Masquerade balls were extended into costumed public festivities in Italy during the 16th century Renaissance (Italian, maschera). They were generally elaborate dances held for members of the upper classes, and were particularly popular in Venice. They have been associated with the tradition of the Venetian Carnival. With the fall of the Venetian Republic at the end of the 18th century, the use and tradition of masks gradually began to decline, until they disappeared altogether.In 1979, a group of young Venetians interested in theatre and culture had the idea of reviving the Carnival in Venice. Now the visitors that crowd Venice in the last week before the beginning of the Lent reach the figure of more than 500.000 and the traditional spirit of the Carnival pervades again the city. Identities again become confused. The division between reality and illusion, between past and present, never very clearly defined in Venice at any time, indistinguishably merge...

I think this is exactly why I want to go to Italy (other than to stare at random fine ass Italian men).  I really want to go to the masquerade dressed in a big costume and a really nice mask so i can meet some mysterious guy and live like Cinderella for the rest of my life, but this is AMERICA so that aint' gon' happen.

However, I think I did find a couple of masks I wouldn't mind wearing...

The real 

question is if I'm really going to buy these or go to the nearest party store...hmm...

Jill Scott "The Sky Ain't a Ceiling"

A masterpiece by none other than Queen Jill Scott...

Public And Private; Mirroring the Mass media

Photography Assignment

A Value System:

I agree with...

I don't agree with..

'Size zero' advert shocks catwalk

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

A shocking image of a naked anorexic woman has gone on display to help force the fashion industry into ending a "dangerous" reliance on size zero models.
Emaciated Isabello Caro, who has been anorexic since the age of 13, has been shown on billboards across Milan as the Italian city celebrates its fasion week.
The slogan above her body, used to advertise fashion group Flash&Partners's clothing brand Nolita, are the words: "No Anorexia".

A person...

... that you herald or honor...

Dr. Huey P. Newton (1942-1989)

Minister of Defense and Co-Founder for Black Panther Party

...a person that you would want to avoid...

Someone with a bad aura. Since I have a good intuition, I can usually tell who is, and who isn't a good person. 

Someone of the same gender 

you identify with....

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama

She met Barack Obama when they were the only two African Americans at their law firm and she was assigned to mentor him while he was a summer associate.] Their relationship started with a business lunch and then a community organization meeting where he first impressed her. The couple's first date was to the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing. The couple married in October 1992, and they have two daughters, Malia Ann (born 1998) and Natasha (known as Sasha) (born 2001). Throughout her husband's 2008 campaign for President of the United States, she has made a "commitment to be away overnight only once a week — to campaign only two days a week and be home by the end of the second day" for their two children.

...you do not identify with...

Christine Beatty, Former Chief of Staff for Former Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick

A personal Characteristic that you are proud of 

... that is represented in someone else...

...that you would like to disown that is represented in someone else...

I find it hard to respect people who are insensitive to other people's lifestyles'. That is the main reason why I am a democrat, and why I participate in The Day of Silence, and other various protests.

i will be posting very soon, lovies

More on Santi!!!

I hope you can imagine how much I love adore cherish and admire

SANTOGOLD

This woman is taking music by storm....If you scroll down to the earlier post i wrote on her and Robyn, you'd realize that the full album playlist, provided by her imeem.com account, is now a grapevine of 30 second previews...

:-(((

I know lovies and besties. But you can trust my exquisite and refined taste in music enough to buy her album off of iTunes or Rhapsody or anywhere else you purchase your legal music....I just hope you own what you buy...



A history on Santogold...
myspace.com/santogold

This is better than good; this is gold— SANTOGOLD!

Santogold is a survivor of a half century worth of living along musical evolution’s most cutting edges. The only live act that can boast of having out-aged Barbara Bush, having outlived Mr. Miyagi and out styled Liberace, Santogold is here with future flavor.

Already receiving weighty club rotation and airplay in urban Afghanistan and downtown Beirut, Santogold is the first act of the century to boast a post-war following on the International Space Station Mir. Following a live performance broadcast from three thousand miles off the Cape of Good Hope last June, inmates at Leavenworth Penitentiary received Santogold with a celebratory confetti parade. Just another first for the modern super group that knows no bound.

Composed of absolutely no members, Santogold is also the first musical outfit capable of claiming the planet’s broiling collective consciousness as their front woman. Longtime collaborator, singer and songwriter Santi White says of her work with Santogold, “We began trying to write pop songs to sell, which made us depressed, so we started writing songs for ourselves instead.” The results of that self centered conceit is the songwriting work heard for the first time on the full length self-titled Santogold album, released in 2008 on Downtown/Lizard King (US) and Atlantic (UK).

As unmastered tracks leaked over the internet this past November, the request lines of radio stations from Miami to Hanoi began freezing with a flood of calls from listeners eager to hear the new Santogold sound over their frequencies. From his radio show in the United Arab Emirates capital city of Abu Dhabi, Michael Jackson (the King of Pop) played what Santogold snippets he had been able to pirate from a bootleg MySpace page dedicated to the group. Days later, BBC Radio One reported that the unreleased Santogold debut was heard blasting from the iPod shuffle of Libyan ruler Moammar Qaddafi as he entered an international summit in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Recognizing the urgent need to address the uproarious buzz, Santogold released the following statement through their label reps : “The response to our unmastered songs has been both premature and phenomenal! We were happy to hear that the children of Darfur have found hope in our melodic interpretation of life on the battlefield of love! We’re hoping that each and every 20-something from downtown San Francisco to central Mumbai will also learn something from our work! And to the people dropping no-knock fire on old ladies in Atlanta: shame on you! Santogold ain’t with that shit!”

The trajectory of such early successes leading to newfound political clout is nothing new for Santogold, whose debut album, though half a century in the making, is sure to rock glass pipes from the Lincoln Memorial to Buckingham palace. The flavor of the gold is guaranteed: Santogold!

Video of the month!!

I forgot how dope Barbara Streisand is....
This song has been hiding from me for a while but i found it...






I heard this in To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
and instantly! , me and this song had a connection simply because im the Princess of the land of Far Far Away...but thats a story for another time...

Im Bo Yo

THIS KID....lol wow...


http://break.com/index/im-bo-yo.html

Lyrics>

Im feeling these lyrics right now...and I just had to share them...

this is how I feel about that special someone that i can feel...they are so close to me i can reach out and almost touch them.....feel their warmth...ahhh so soothing.....

;-)

Orange Moon

By Erykah Badu

Reflecting the light of the sun

Many nights he was alone
Many, many, many nights
His light was so bright that they turned away
And he stood alone
Every night and every day
Then he turned to me
He saw his reflection in me
And he smiled at me when he turned to me
Then he said to me

How good it is, how good it is
How good it is, how good it is

I'm an Orange Moon
I'm brighter than before
Brighter than ever before
I'm an Orange Moon and I shine so bright
Cause I reflect the light of my sun
I praise the day, he turned my way
And smiled at me
He gets to smile and I get to be orange, that I love to be

How good it is, how good it is
How good it is, how good it is
How good it is, how good it is
How good it is, how good it is

(Oh...)
Shine so bright
(Oh...)
He ruled the day, I ruled the night
(Oh...)
Shine, shine, shine
(Oh...)

How good it is, how good it is
How good it is, how good it is
How good it is, how good it is
How good he is, how god is
How good it is, how good it is
How good it is, how god is
How good it is, how good it is

I'm an orange moon
I'm brighter than before, brighter
Reflecting the light of the sun
Smile at me

Le List

This fashionista to the right, Me of Course!, is definitely feeling some Monday blues....ARGH!!

Then I realized that I haven't been posting so my babies know I'm still on this beautiful earth. Today, I'm going to give you something very simple....a list...courtesy of Karen @makeupandbeautyblog.com

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Mood:Bored...ARGH
Mascara:Hypnose by Lancome
Breakfast:2 Waffles, 2 sausage links, one hot dog, bowl of Honey Nut Cherrioes
I’m lovin’ it (makeup related): Givenchy's Make up palettes.....
I’m lovin’ it (non-makeup related):nice says like the one's weve been having recently
Outfit:Strapless dress pulled up as tube top (cute) dark wash denim capri's
Fragrance: Carol's Daughter Shea Butter Souffle and signature scent...
Quote of the day:"Save the Babies!!!"- Marvin Gaye's "Save The Children"
Just another manic Monday?...Yes
Goals of the week:Find a cool weekend job, buy underwear, lipgloss, and lip balm

Santogold ::::::Robyn::::If you didn't know, Now you know...

This woman is the best thing to grace multiple genres in a long time.

SANTOGOLD  has a sound that makes you want to just...chill and relax with some friends. Mannnn...ive been digging her since i heard "Switch and Graeme You'll Find A Way remix" on Ali Madigan( Ke*sh's home girl)'s myspace profile.

Anywhoo, the girl is the ISH... every track gets me pumped and i'm pretty sure if you got dressed to go or party while listening to this, you'd get pumped too.

She inspires me so much. UGH!!!!! I LOVE THIS GIRL!!

She makes me want to go out and party/gives me enough energy to redo my entire wardrobe. FAREAL. 

I BE ALL INSPIRED WHEN I ARROW HER MUSICA

SANTOGOLD gets 8.7 out of 10

Next,
ROBYN

This bad mamajama is another pop sensation that i think should not be slept on. 

Robyn aka Robin Mirriam Carlsson hails from Stockholm, Sweeden. If you listen to her album closer you can hear her airy, beautiful crispy accent. Her swagger makes me want to go out and flaunt my inner Man-eater-ness. She spits, sings and croons with the sort of swagger you'd never expect from ...er... Sweeden. 

I BE ALL INSPIRED WHEN I ARROW HER MUSICA

ROBYN gets 8.0 out of 10