The Sky Deck

lil' interview.

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:36:00 -0400

If I were to interview myself there would be so many questions to ask….

hmm. top 3. why not?!

-Why do you long for something and once you get it, you start feeling uncertain?

-You often think a relationship, but are you really ready for that?

-During the happiest time of your life, why is something still missing?

honest answers. leggo.

-The thrill of the chase. I enjoy having to work at something until I conquer it. Once I get it, the uncertainty is whether or not I will continue to be thrilled. This goes for numerous situations, notably when dealing with members of the opposite sex or even going shopping. With men, I’d rather not know that I’ve got you- it makes me feel a certain way (strange, maybe) which is very difficult to explain. Shopping pisses me after browsing for so long and getting something to wear once and frown upon when I see it in the closet (not “NEW” anymore)

-I say yes. The game sure is a dirty one out here and building and growing with someone is very appealing.

-Because I have yet to fill it.

lmao. unfortunately I am difficult with myself which complicates things even more. But hey, as my pa says “This shit is not simple.” & there you have it

Something in the way you are -Kimbra… I can feel it in my...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:35:00 -0400

Something in the way you are -Kimbra…

I can feel it in my bones
Something that nobody knows
How it really feels inside
To let go of all my pride

Yes, its definitely something.

Settle Down -Kimbra Been vibing out to her album lately…...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:31:49 -0400

Settle Down -Kimbra

Been vibing out to her album lately… She’s incredible.

Jeans -Quadron I’m into my own jeans… Precisely...

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:14:27 -0400

Jeans -Quadron

I’m into my own jeans…

Precisely how I’m feeling today. Happy Sunday

love.

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:26:00 -0400

with so many incredible meanings, I am convinced that love is all we need. the passion and desire for something that we go to extremes for. staying up countless nights pondering about what could be, how it could happen, and where it could go. how it creates those sensational butterflies even humongous smiles. no one can tell you how to do it or explain how it makes you feel-which makes it even more pure. I love hard. whether its my family, friends, or acts that i love to do.. I put forth a valiant effort that leaves no question as to whether or not Marisa loves it. Its embedded in my dna.

circumstances and situations sometimes make you wonder why you love and care about certain things or people. being thrown under the bus and ran over is not a new occurrence for me, it simply makes me stronger just as it should for you.

choices-we all make em. mistakes- we all make them as well. in the 10th grade my english teacher had a quote on the front of her desk that I’ll follow everyday for the rest of my life, “The choices you make today determine the quality of your future.” I’ve made a lot of bad choices and bounce back. I will ultimately always choose to love. & love extremely hard.

That I do -Miguel @ SXSW… oh yes.

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:13:04 -0400

That I do -Miguel @ SXSW… oh yes.

don't be fooled.

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:58:00 -0400

after a long evening in New Orleans then heading back to Baton Rouge, I had convinced myself and decided that making a 6 am flight in New Orleans would be simple. not my life. after waking at 4:30 and realizing that my plane boarded in an hour, just about how long it’d take to get there, then pass through security and grab my ticket-it would be a very close call. To my surprise, the airport was lively with hundreds of people waiting to check luggage and then I stumbled into a beautiful, statuesque woman working at Delta. At 5:50 am, we met and greeted- I informed her of my situation and went into panic mode when she began to explain that I may indeed miss my flight. Needless to say by 6:05 I was whisked through security and comfortably on the plane waiting to depart.

God bless her. I never even knew or thought to ask for her name-but she certainly looked out for me. What a coincidence that its April 1st. I just knew the joke was on me

Sunday -Jarle Bernhoft. She just had to leave and I’m not...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:44:55 -0400

Sunday -Jarle Bernhoft.

She just had to leave and I’m not one to tell her how

to live her life with ghosts I don’t believe in…

Just what I/you need this evening.

“adorn”. miguel. #eargasm. quiet storm

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:25:00 -0500

“adorn”. miguel. #eargasm. quiet storm

cheating

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:21:00 -0500

it’s certainly been a while. this transitional phase in life has been one of many unexpected twists and turns. attempting to figure out what is real. finally understanding that patience is imperative-things definitely don’t happen when I want. growing up, mama always tried to convince me that when things are meant to happen they will. the desire to expedite the process has successfully given me a heavy handed slap in the face- one more powerful than mom ever could exert. can’t say she didn’t warn me.

the-weekndxo: www.the-weeknd.com

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:08:40 -0400

the-weekndxo:

www.the-weeknd.com

Fluid bars gracing a memorable beat.. nice vibe for a late...

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:19:00 -0400

Fluid bars gracing a memorable beat..

nice vibe for a late summer ride, definitely worth rotations. see for yourself

“Now or Never” -@JayBAugust

A rarity in real music. Looked to twitter this evening for...

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:54:57 -0400

A rarity in real music.

Looked to twitter this evening for trending topics and the leading trend happened to be her. Was hoping that one of my favorite artists had decided to drop a single that had overwhelmed the world, but to my surprise it was regarding her demise. The media had frequently ousted her troubles with drugs over the years, leaving a permanent haze on her image. She even publicly addressed the matter in her first US hit Rehab.

Can’t quite remember who put me on to her, but a sorority sister of mine suggested that I take a listen to her first and largely unknown album “Frank”. I was blown away immediately. Especially when “In my bed” tumbled through the speakers over Nas’s “Made you look” instrumental. That gave me even more insight to how inclined her ears were musically, as Nasir Jones is the best hip hop artist in my opinion.

After watching several live videos I remember having goosebumps after hearing her raw, almost effortless performance. Not to mention her live band which is almost extinct in our times.

One song in particular spoke to me in ways I could not explain. Her emotion was felt so heavily- I repeated this song for days on in reflecting some situations in a significant relationship. The damage was so deep, I had a difficult time internalizing what had happened. You Sent Me Flying addressed so many matters and it was just the tipping point to the many more songs I would enjoy, but this song I particularly love. It couldn’t have been presented in my life at a better time.

His message was brutal but the delivery was kind

Maybe if I get this down I’ll get it off my mind

Oh, it serves to condition me and smoothen my kinks

Despite my frustration for the way that he thinks

-You Sent Me Flying

I appreciate her for music that truly captivated and encouraged me as well as many others. #salute

Amy Winehouse

15 of the Deadliest Corporations

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:32:57 -0400

15 of the Deadliest Corporations:

westaylifted:

These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.

I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the cigarette company) most of them are legit horrible. I’m posting a summary but I recommend reading the full article: http://brainz.org/15-deadliest-us-corporations/

Chevron : (then Texaco) discharged 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the rain forests of Ecuador without any remediation, destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and sickening indigenous populations. Chevron was responsible for the death of several Nigerians who protested the company’s polluting, exploiting presence in the Nigerian Delta. Chevron paid the local militia, known for its human rights abuses, to squash the protests, and even supplied them with choppers and boats. The military opened fire on the protesters, then burned their villages to the ground.

DeBeers : was knowingly funding violent guerrilla movements in Angola, Sierra Nevada, and the Congo with its diamond purchases. In Botswana, DeBeers has been blamed for the “clearing” of land to be mined for diamonds — including the forcible removal of indigenous peoples who had lived there for thousands of years. The government allegedly cut off the tribe’s water supplies, threatened, tortured and even hanged resisters.

Tyson : Even if you don’t care about the horrendous animal abuse that has been documented in Tyson’s factory farms, you have to flinch at Tyson’s appalling environmental abuses and workers’ rights violation- Tyson has allowed e coli tainted beef to enter the food supply. A recent study showed that Tyson’s chickens were the most salmonella-and-campylobactor filled poultry of all the major suppliers and has even been accused of human trafficking to supply themselves with cheap labor.

Smith & Wesson : In a study of the top ten guns involved in crime in the U.S., the first was the Smith & Wesson .38 Special.

Phillip Morris : is the largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the U.S.

Haliburton : is a huge “oilfield services” company, profited big time from the U.S.’s invasion of Iraq when Cheney called in his boys to quell burning oil wells — and to “help” the Iraq oil ministry pump and distribute oil. Haliburton has also been implicated in countless oil spills, including the BP disaster of 2010.

Coca Cola : corporation has wrought devastation in India, where its factories use up to one million liters of water per day, leaving tens of thousands of nearby residents dry during the drought months. Then the factories dispose of the wastewater improperly, contaminating whatever water is left. A lawsuit in 2001 accused Coca Cola of hiring paramilitaries in Columbia which suppressed unionization in the cola plant there through intimidation, torture and murder.

Pfizer : the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the U.S., pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest health care fraud in U.S. history. Pfizer decided to use Nigerian children as guinea pigs. In 1996, Pfizer traveled to Kano, Nigeria to try out an experimental antibiotic on third-world diseases such as measles, cholera, and bacterial meningitis. They gave trovafloxacin to approximately 200 children. Dozens of them died in the experiment, while many others developed mental and physical deformities. According to the EPA, Pfizer can also proudly claim to be among the top ten companies in America causing the most air pollution.

ExxonMobil : is perhaps best known for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill which resulted in 11 million gallons of oil contaminating Prince William Sound. But they have also been responsible for a huge oil spill in Brooklyn and for aiding in the decline of Russia’s critically endangered grey whale because of drilling in its habitat. The Political Economy Research Institute ranks ExxonMobil sixth among corporations emitting airborne pollutants in the United States.

Caterpillar : supplies the Israeli army with bulldozers which are used to demolish Palestinian homes — sometimes with the people still inside. In 2003 a Caterpillar bulldozer ran over and killed Rachel Corrie, an American protesting in Gaza who stood in front of the tractor to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily : “The Cruelest Show on Earth” is famous for its abuse of wild animals.

Monsanto : Monsanto’s list of evils includes creating the “terminator” seed which creates plants which never fruit or flower so that farmers must purchase them anew yearly, lobbying to have “hormone-free” labels removed from the labels of milk and infant milk replacer (through bovine growth hormone is believed to be a cancer-accelerator) as well as a wide range of environmental and human health violations associated with use of Monsanto’s poisons — most notably “Agent Orange.”

Nestle : crimes against man and nature include massive deforestation in Borneo — the habitat of the critically endangered orangutan — to grow palm oil, and buying milk from farms illegally-seized by a despot in Zimbabwe. Nestle attracted worldwide boycott efforts for urging mothers in third-world countries to use their infant milk replacer instead of breastfeeding, without warning them of the possible negative effects. Supposedly, Nestle hired women to dress as nurses to hand out free infant formula, which was frequently mixed with contaminated water, or the children starved when the formula ran out and their mothers could not afford more and their breast milk had already dried up from disuse.

British Petroleum : Who can forget 2010’s oil rig explosion in the Gulf Coast which killed 11 workers and thousands of birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other animals, effectively destroying the fishing and tourism industry in the region? This was not BP’s first crime against nature. In fact, between January 1997 and March 1998, BP was responsible for a whopping 104 oil spills.

Dyncorp : is best known for its brutality in impoverished countries, for trafficking in child sex slaves, for slaughtering civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for training rebels in Haiti. This privatized military company is often hired by the U.S. government to protect American interests overseas — and so the government can claim no responsibility for Dyncorp’s actions.

So yeah.

Kanye & John Legend Blame Game I’ll call you bitch...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:35:06 -0400

Kanye & John Legend Blame Game

I’ll call you bitch for short as a last resort and my first result.
You call me motherfucker for long,
At the end of it you know we both were wrong.

There’s nothing like Kanye live.

slippery slope

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:47:36 -0400

false idols

assault rifles

eyes open

spirits searching for belonging

“Loving” people their hands will never touch

Hoping, believing, searching, dreaming

their current situation could be extinguished

through singing, rapping, balling, slinging

killing reality

the one frequently cloudy

lack of speaking profoundly

dumbed down by your surroundings

the tube, brainwashing

a fool’s food for thoughts

which one claims to genuinely be his own

while time ultimately

moves on.

-ML

Random Quotes

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:06:26 -0400

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Give it up -Jalin Roze I’ve got crazy love for the city of...

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:18:00 -0400

Give it up -Jalin Roze

I’ve got crazy love for the city of Louisville..

It doesn’t hurt that we have some dope artists that reside there as well, notably a friend that goes by @jalinroze. The music creates pandemonium to my eardrums as his lyrical content is superb and the infectious beats hit SO heavy.

His latest, the Brilliance is available.

And trust, its worth frequent rotation.

Freakin my Black -HP #villewhore

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:59:00 -0400

Freakin my Black -HP

#villewhore

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Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:50:45 -0400

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