Case File: Organized Chaos - Random Thoughts Part I

What's up readers... All 2 of you... Look What time its is!

Its almost Jesus Who? Day!... Go Santa and Best Buy!

God bless capitalism

Anyway

My first crack at a novel is still coming along... I've fleshed out some characters and yes... there will be some loosely based on people I know or have met... Have fun figuring out who they are

What sucks is that I have 908257039 ideas right now for projects I want to work on... so I'm jotting them all down... from websites to novels to art designs and photography compilations... my mind is on overdrive...

Not all my ideas are good, however... some absolutely suck...

Note: Icy Hot + Masturbation = A grown man crying

But I digress... here are my random thoughts of the night since I can't seem to sleep at the moment (2:38 am)

- Push Pops used to be dope
- Life is simple... It's the people that complicate it
- Creativity is the closest thing to recapturing your youth
- Stomach viruses suck
- Spontaneity is the second closest thing to recapturing your youth
- I could die a happy man if I knew I was remembered for something special... even by a few
- My father is the man
- I hope to god this New Year's is better than the last (it's a hell of a story)
- Speaking of... I admire great storytellers... whether oral or written
- No matter how sophisticated you are, a good dick and fart joke can make anyone chuckle
- I will kill you if you watch Laguna Beach... No seriously... I will
- Dude... I still have that fake Paul Frank watch... weird
- Tattoo number two is coming sooner than you think
- Greeting cards are wack... why get some pre-written crap when you can write something on your own?
- Sometimes you only get one chance at grabbing for that one thing you've always wanted... Go get it
- Digg.com rocks
- IM me if you're interested in reading the first few chapters of my book... I need opinions =/ (soulknowledge1)... and no... I wasn't angry when I wrote it
- Family Guy is funny but overrated
- My partying days are coming to a close
- I had the weirdest dream about booking a trip to Greece... so I think that's where I want to go next
- I'm gonna try beef again for the first time in years... someone call PETA

I think I'm finally getting sleepy... cool

Take this blog entry and make use of it my children

And no... I didn't masturbate with Icy Hot... but there's a funny story behind that one too

But I digress

Till next time

Case File: A Lesson in Lynching

OK... so I was going to post a blog about my experience in Jamaica, but that can wait till the next one... Why?... Well for those that have heard the news Michael Richards (aka Kramer from Seinfeld) went off the deep end on Friday... He got pissed at some hecklers and proceeded to say how they would have been lynched 50 years ago and asked them to be kicked out because the were "niggers"

OK...

Afterwards I saw the story come up on www.digg.com and I decided to go through people's comments on it... The most frequent comment was "Black people say nigger all the time"

So do racists

I have never agreed with the use of the word nigger by ANYONE... It doesnt matter if you spell it nigga or nigguh or whatever other spelling you choose to use to justify its use... I wont, however, tell people not to use it, as we have freedom of speech in this country..

Blacks have had a painful, storied history in America... and to be frank, I'm quite sick and fucking tired of the casual nature in which the word nigger is used... I wouldn't have been so adamant about this before, but lately I have seen a gradual "niggerfication" of America... what do I mean by that?

Flavor of Love

Chicken Noodle Soup (The dance's roots are from minstrel shows)

The Yin Yang Twins

Miss Jones in the Morning (Hot 97)

Fry That Chicken

"Chain Hang Low"

Need I go on? Why don't we just start rocking Black face again and resurrect the minstrel show?

E-fucking-nough

Now I know there's a thin line between comedy and ignorance at times (i.e. the line dividing Dave Chappelle's social commentary and Flavor Flav's hoodrat convention) but enough is enough... I've been seeing this shuck and jive shit go on for far too long...

It's hard enough to be dark skinned in this world (not just Black... because it's too broad of a category... and not just America because being dark skinned is unacceptable in so many places)... but Christ if it isn't so much harder being a Black American in this world without being considered humankind's punchline.... am I exaggerating? See things from my perspective...

Black Americans have countless negative stereotypes going against them, even by other Black people in other countries... I've seen it... No, I don't have a chip on my shoulder, but I've seen this bull too many times... I'm friends with numerous different races, but at times still wonder how their parents would react if the brought a Black girlfriend/boyfriend home... In Jamaica, Black Americans are often seen as lazy and stupid (No fucking lie)... My boy Lu told me in Japan, people will refuse to sit next to a Black man on the trains...

But I suppose I should overlook this... Malcolm X was murdered less than 50 years ago... and look how far we've come since then...

Sorry if this post is more serious than my previous ones (it's also much more unstructured)... but I had to write something...

Thanks for reading. This rant has been brought to you by Andre C Griffiths and the Angry Black Man Society.

Case File: Hi Grandma

Two posts in a row... I'm on a frakkin roll

11/07/2006 at 5am I'll be on my way to Jamaica. I haven't been back home in 7 years. Practically a prodigal son. Everything for the trip was literally set up today... I've never been much of a planner and don't intend to start being one anytime soon... spontaneity is the one thing that keeps me feeling detached from the monotony of everyday life.

But I digress...

I think i need this vacation to - for lack of a better phrase - get the fuck away from it all... This trip isn't necessarily for recreation as much as it is for family... truth be told, living in the States has caused my to lose touch with my most of my blood relatives, and let's be honest, life is too short for that sometimes

Morbidity aside... thanks to whatever higher power (i.e. God, fate, Eva Longoria) you believe in for helping me achieve this last minute excursion.... High-five big guy... you're the best...

To whomever reads this... see you in 1.5 weeks

Gwan now... meh hafeh get ready

...With a Cool New Minty Taste...

So it's been a while since I posted... (how many people actually read this crap anyway?)

Since the last time I posted, I put the "mini autobiography" idea on hold only because I suck at tracking people down and getting on them for not writing up their parts... It's not a dead idea though... I'll resurrect it sometime.

For now I've been working on my first novel... yes you heard it... after years of short stories and half-assed ideas that I never completed, I'm actually 6 chapters deep into a weird mind fuck of a dark comedy... The concept is pretty far fetched and right now much of it has been character development... The short explanation: The protagonist is a guy by the name of John that is so disillusioned and jaded by the superficial nature of the corporate culture in LA that it begins to drive him over the edge. Soon he creates this entire convoluted plot to trick his co-workers into killing each other. Weird, eh?

My writing style is structurally untraditional, but I figure that's the way I'll differentiate myself... That's how I faked my way through College English II... (Take THAT Seton Hall educational staff!)... I don't know how good I am of a writer beyond short satiric articles, but I guess this will be the actual test... I'll explain more on the concept later as I'm getting ready to see "Borat"... I'm a sucker for mustachioed comedians...

Side Note: themindofdre:PROJECT is finally almost complete... 3 more tracks to be done

Wise Man Say: Shit or get off the pot - Kevin Smith

Later kids

Case File: The Mind of Dre Project

So I had this idea a while ago for "The Mind of Dre Project." I while I anticipate that most people don't care what's on the mind of anybody other than Brad Pitt and the Olsen Twins... I figure hey... why not give it a shot.

The first chapter in this process is a book idea I had... You see... I figure that everyone has a story to tell... so I had this concept of a collection of short autobiographies... stories and anecdotes from random people... hopefully they'll be of some interest...

Cool concept?... I certainly hope so... I'm not quite sure how it'll work out, but I'm sure I can make it happen... ideally there'll be some thought provoking as well as humorous stuff in there.

If you want to contribute to this project... let me know!... I'm looking for about 20 different subjects... no matter how stupid, fucked up or what have you... as long as it's interesting... we can keep names anonymous if you choose to...

I'm looking to have this completed by Spring '07 or earlier.... get at me for details, fuckers!

Case File: Ghetto Gourmet

For those that don't know, I live in Paterson, NJ. It's not quite lifestyles of the rich and famous out here. Some may even label it as the hood. Tomatoes, "to-mah-toes." I call it home.

That being said (Yes there was a point to that intro) yesterday I went to the supermarket for my parents on the hunt for some barbeque snackage. I see a middle-aged woman in the snack aisle looking rather perplexed. She looks at me and says, "Do you know where they are? This place is impossible."

"What are you looking for?" I'll bite. I've never seen someone confused by chips before.

"Where are the Funyuns? Do they sell them here?" She looked pretty distressed. Chick must love her faux onion products.

"I don't think so," I replied, "But they have these Wise Brand Onion Rings! =D" Yes, I even said "equals D" at the end because just smiling wasn't enough... I had to translate it in Internet Junkie as well.

"O my son won't eat those. I call that the ghetto brand."

"Ghetto brand?"

"Yeah. I'm from Conneticut, I'm just visiting family. We have Funyons where I live. Thanks for your help though!" And she smugly walks away.

Now let me get this straight... Wise Brand Onion Rings are ghetto... and Funyons aren't? It all makes sense now! I didn't realize that Funyons were so revered within upper middle class communities. I was under the impression that eating any imitation onion ring product was fairly "ghetto."

Whether I buy a fake Movado in Chinatown or Milan... I'm pretty sure it's still a shittily constructed watch.

So now I'm officially representing the Fuck Funyon Foundation. Yeah, I said it. Everytime you eat a Funyon a baby angel commits suicide. Seriously. They hate baby angels in Conneticut. Their state motto is "Die, baby angel, die!" Or something like that. Look it up... I think it's in the Bible somewhere or something.

"I don't know how you all see it, but when it comes to the children, Puffy is good, but Wise-Brand is for the children!" - Old Dirty Bastard