Lina Plioplyte and Seth Green created Advanced Style, a blog turned documentary to prove that style advances with age. In the documentary you will meet women like The Countess of Glamour Lynn Dell and 90 yr. old Ilona Smithkin who dress to the nines and are putting a lot of us youngins to shame.
“There is no substitute for life experience.”
Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. I discovered her poetry via Twitter and have probably favorited every tweet she posted since I began to follow her. Her words on love are perfect, they illustrate every thought, emotion and act. I always thought if she collected every tweet into a book I’d buy it. While her tweets haven’t been published her poetry has in her first book “Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth”
Patron the arts and pick up the book and Bookmark warsanshire.tumblr.com
Common gets PROFILE’d.
The Dreamer/The Believer is available now!
I love this video for various reasons. 1) El chamaquito B.B. Bronx steals all 9 minutes and 40 seconds with his witty one-liners and ranking skills. 2) They created an actual cipher… IN THE RAIN! 3) They’re beat-boxing! A hip-hop art form that’s been reduced to only being heard before Justin Beiber or Timberlake spit a rhyme. 4) B.B. Bronx shames Manin, who seems to be the neighborhood cipher King. 5) When an old timer asks why they have to bring up each other’s mothers in the rhyme B.B. Bronx responds in a rap “miento tu madre o miento a mi abuela” = “I lie on your mother or lie on my grandmother”
“Tira el beat!”
Iconoclasts presented by The Sundance Channel X Grey Goose Ent. was an intimate TV series that revealed a fresh perspective on celebrities and the company they keep. It isn’t often we see camaraderie celebrated in the entertainment business so this series was game-changing. My favorite episode featured Fiona Apple and Quentin Taratino. While at first glance they may seem like an unlikely pair they both carry reputations for being socially awkward and revered for their artistic genius. Words of wisdom are trivially tossed and blurted out and both creatives give an inside look to what inspires their work.
One of the perks of following comedians on Twitter is you get to know their calendar of events before the rest of the city is informed. Last week @HannibalBuress tweeted he will be giving his fans free tickets to an upcoming show. That show turned out to be his first Comedy Central Special at The Gramercy Theatre. While I got the worst seats in the house (first row in the stadium seats directly behind the tech guys) Buress made up for it with his quick-witted, overly logical, and sonically lackadaisical comedic routine. If you’re not up on Buress check out his TV debut on Letterman below.
Pick up My Name is Hannibal on iTunes.
A few weeks back I went out to Sneaker Pimps to soak in “The Kendrick Lamar Experience”. After the show he sat down to get PROFILE’d.
Last night I finally checked out “The Skin I Live In” and was completely taken by the musical feature Pedro Almodóvar decided on for the film, Concha Buika, a Spanish singer who fuses flamenco and coplas with soul and jazz. Her performance in the film left me mesmerized with her sound and curious to hear more. I tried to find words to describe her voice but Almodóvar defines it best saying “Buika belongs to a lineage of artists that is found very rarely. Her voice has an unusual color and a very wide tessitura, gifted for the most intimate caress and for the deafening shriek. Buika only knows how to sing ‘with her heart ripped apart.’ So young, she makes me tremble because she gives the impression that each performance is the definitive one, the last one.” Listen + Download HERE.
Wish I could say I’m related to these three tykes but we just share a surname. Gustavo, 13 Abelardo, 15 and Angie, 10 are super talented (and adorable) siblings from Mexicali, Bajo California who have gained lots of attention over the past 5 days with their cover of Adele’s smash hit “Rolling in the Deep”. While many are completely over the hit record Los Vázquez’s have piqued the interest of over 1 million people on youtube and even made their local news. I have a feeling Disney will be calling soon. Check out the trio rock out below.
¡Que Viva Los Vázquez!
A few months back, fresh off of a family trip from the Dominican Republic I was interviewed by Dash Harris, a young woman of Panamanian decent who’s interested in getting to the root of Latino Identity. Throughout the years I’ve learned about my cultural ancestry/history in school, films, and by peers (my family only revealed information during a moment of rage or slip of a tongue). I always questioned my family’s secrecy and shame but after speaking with Dash and watching Pt. 1 of her Negro Docu-series I realized I’m not alone. After traveling to Dominican Republic and Colombia chronicling the Latino experience and its historical roots, Dash says, “We have a complex history that shows we come in all colors and hues and the denial of that history really upset me growing up.” On a mission to reveal and unite Dash looks forward to traveling to El Salvador, Cuba, and Brazil in exploration of truth. Check out her GoFundMe page to learn how you can donate to the project.
“Any country that has gone through colonialism, where Europeans dominated… there is racism”
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