Reminiscing

 I never heard these songs before today, but their styles took me waaaaaay back, to 15 years ago.

Silver Spring Maryland, where I lived.
Washington Dc, where I worked 10 miles away.
Chocolate city.
Steve Harvey on the radio or TD Jakes on BET as I got dressed for work.   D'angelo, Jill Scott, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Mos Def, Musiq Soulchild, Nas, Jay-Z, Destiny's Child, The Clipse, etc on the radio 24/7, 365.
Chocolate city.
My friend Henry. My friend Amanda. My friend Roland. My friend Diego. My friend Onyx. My friend Jeffrey. My friend Daniel. My friend Kirby.
Shakara and her fights when I would take her to predominately black clubs (there were many in Dc because it was Chcocolate City) and all of a sudden black women would find me attractive when I was with her.
Chocolate city.
 Lots of times I wish Washington Dc was still 10 miles away to the east,
Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine 10 miles away to the west,
 Southern California 10 miles away to the north

(and Paris to the south)

Song in my head

Tuesday Flashback

I remember when this song was new. I had met someone over the weekend. Madison Wisconsin. We talked that night in her car. This song came on the radio, and we both knew all the words, and we sang them. It was a great weekend. I remember calling in sick on monday morning, because I was still in her bed...
What a great weekend that was.

Friday Flashback

Song in my head

Listening to ...

Happy Birthday, Steveland Judkins

AKA   Stevie Wonder

Wednesday Flashback

A History Lesson

Listening to:

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder- Live

 that girl



sounding better than the original

Happy belated birthday, Stevie Wonder!

He turned 60 yesterday.  

I know it's a day late, but yesterday I was busy mentally preparing for a date with a woman who turned out to be a tea party supporter. It was a disaster- for her. Long story (see previous blog entry)

Here's my favorite song by Stevie

 A couple months ago my Tivo found and records Soul Train on weekly basis, from the Centric Tv  Channel. I don't know how it knew to record it, but I'm glad it does because each recording is something that takes me back over 20-30+ years, each recording, I can remember when I first saw it during the time and even before I was a teenager. I've seen performances from  icons of that era (like Parliament/Funkadelic, Sister Sledge,Barry White, Cameo, Stevie Wonder etc) to  up and coming artists  like Teena Marie, Rick James,  Luther Vandross, Cheryl Lynn, Janet Jackson, etc.   

This is one of my favorite singers, on a tribute show of one of my other favorite singers:

Quote of the week

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

--Stevie Wonder

Quotes of the day

" The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."


And, another one I like:

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision."


both by Stevie Wonder