Bobby Caldwell's "My Flame" is my favorite song right now.
Past midnight, eyes heavy, and still struggling to piece together a lyrical viewpoint of today's happenings, and yet here I'm stuck on this hook - listening to it for the millionth time, yet it sounds more legit than ever.

I play to win.
And it teases the deepest regions of my mind, the corners of which regulate time.
A non-renewable resource that, once gone, is forever encapsulated through one's memory. Do you still love me? Do you still love me? (Some things will never change..) And no matter how society has conditioned me to think otherwise, I genuinely believe that it is possible to find truelove in this lifetime. Yes I've seen the marriage statistics that would endanger such a thesis, but I'm talkin bout the statistical anomolies, baby. That off-the-chart, out-the-cut, however-do-you-want it type event.

The melodic styling and the genuine vulnerability alone - dont sleep

My Flame - Bobby Caldwell
Sup playa its game time.

This is all I have to bring today

It's all I have to bring today
This, and my heart beside
This, and my heart, and all the fields
And all the meadows wide
Be sure you count – should I forget
Some one the sum could tell
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

-E.D.

bomb grafitti

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?" -DPS


Spray that on one end of the subway train 4me..

Y'all know bout the golden era of hip hop, I'm sure.
The 88-96. Ya girl was still two steppin' in the bahay kubo's of Metro Maynila, Taguig, doin the tsinelas thang in the streets BUT lemme just say....

The breadth of late 80's-90's hip hop & r&b that came out is nothing short of profound. Trust, I've been knee deep in these beats, lyrics, and hooks and it is the TRUTH. [Thank God] To wet the palette for a minute, lets discuss JODECI. Originating from Virgina and North Carolina are the members Jo-Jo, DeGrate (including both Dalvin and DeVante) and K-Ci. Under the management of Diddy to Uptown Records, the r&b group went platinum on three different ablums, including: Love Always, It's Real, and X. If "Forever my Lady" can attest to the lyrical pull these gentlemen have on women, "What about us" would demonstrate the effects of gravity on our articles of clothing. You heard it here first.

I wish I had a nice MPC to sample and chop the kicks and snares off these records.
I'd be gettin my Pete Rock on, no doubt.

Short little freestyle before I drift off to sweet dreams:
"You sound like a broken record the way you talk about money/
boastin bout the layaway chain on ya neck, I think its funny/
See, you amateur rappers spit rhymes without a solid foundation/ of your artform's creation/ using foul imagination right from the start, referee called it, and you never had the heart/
Do you use art to make money, or do you make money from the art/
game recognize real game/ and I can tell you sucka emcees apart/"

..daaaaammm, that was all me yo- your welcome! :)

[Background info: Elainne & I were watching dvd FightKlub battles earlier..haha)