So this is what 18 looks like, Happy Birthday to me


Today I'm offically 18. I got some really cool presents yesterday from my small group of friends at this place. The Milwaukee, Minnesota DVD (It was mentioned to me that I should get a real boyfriend and stop obsessing about Troy so much), a weird doll within a doll(which actually makes no sense because I don't have any dolls), the Missy Eliiot gym shoes, a blue jean purse and some cards . I actually got an early birthday present friday, when I got a dollar raise on my job. My mother sent me this really cool comforter for my bed. My dad and sister sent me some money. My dad wants me to quit my job and focus more on University. Especially after what happened to Taylor Behl. She was my age(17 and also a college freshman) and it happened to her here in Virginia. I told him basically without saying that (I hate it here and was unhappy) that my job was actually very good for me. If I didn't have it I would be lost. I love the responbility I'm given and the fact that I'm really trusted there.
Taylor's Dateline story

Anyway, I have to work today after class. Which actually isn't all that bad. I took pictures from yesterday. I guess I'll post them tomorrow. Early this morning when I got up I checked my email and Bobby my co-worker sent me. This Prodigal Sunn & Leggezin Finn video called Universal Soldier. Which Troy co-directed and kinda makes cameo in. Bobby is a huge Wu-Tang fan and he know I really like Troy. So he sent it to me as abirthday present. Here it is. Thank you so much Bobby.
Prodigal Sunn & Leggezin Finn - Universal Soldier

Your Birthdate: October 31

Your birthday suggests that you are a good organizer and manager, an energetic and dependable worker; attributes often showing success in the business world. Serious and sincere, you have the patience and determination necessary to accomplish a great deal. Your approach can be original, but often rigid and stubborn. Sensitivity may be present, but feeling are likely to be repressed. You are good with detail and insist on accuracy, but at times scatter energies. You're a practical thinker, but not without imagination. You love travel and don't like to live alone. You should probably marry early, for responsibility is necessary for your stability.

My birthday is in seven days. I will be 18 at last. I wish I was with my family and friends. It would make the day alot more special. I have been totally obsessed with these two artist lately. Ray LaMontagne(Great Voice)& Leela James(Amazing voice as well). They are always playing on my ipod.

Ray's Website

Ray LaMontagne has an Incredible voice. I came across his music a couple of months ago. I listen to him all day and night. I would love to see him perform live one day. I really love the songs Trouble & Hold You in My Arms.

Here are songs from Introducing RayCharles LaMontagne...
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Ray LaMontagne - Burn In My Skin

Here are songs from "Trouble"...

Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Ray LaMontagne - Hold You in My Arms


Leela's Website
Leela's music is really amazing as well. Leela like Ray has an much older voice. I found her music a couple of months as well. I really love her hair. I wish I had that much, Her video for music is really great as well. I love Music, Soul Food(reminds me of my family), Don't Speak (No Doubt Cover) & A Change is Gonna Come(Anyone who cover Sam Cooke is alright by me). Here a some of her songs from her "Change is Gonna Come" Album.

Leela James - Music
Leela James - Soul Food
Leela James - A Change Is Gonna Come
Leela James - Don't Speak

Domino Website

Over the weekend I saw the movie Domino before I had to go my job. I really don't know how to review this film properly. Except to say that it left me with the desire to get up at certain points and to then stick around just to see how it would ends. This film was all over the place. I originally went to see it because of the trailer, Mickey Rourke(I love Barfly, Johnny Handsome, Angel Heart and his whole section in Sin City was trully amazing), Christopher Walken (The Man is a Genius), Tony Scott(True Romance) and because I thought it would be a really cool film. I'm not really a Keira Knightley fan, but she was okay I guess. Mo'Nique was actually good in the film. The whole Jerry Springer(28 year old grandmother, Black-Tino, Chi-Negro) thing made me laugh really hard. Macy Gray and Shondrella Avery(LaFawnduh) as Lashindra & Lashandra Davis made absolutely no sense at all (until the end). Ed Mosbey & Choco(Mickey Rourke & Edgar Ramirez) the bounty hunters were actually good. Tony Scott could of made a movie just out of the two of them. I,ve never seen Edgar Ramirez(Choco) in a film before. He really kept my eyes glued on the screen. Christopher Walken was just as wonderful as he always is. Brian Austin Green & Ian Ziering (crappy actor from crappy 90210) were sorta playing themselves/celebrity hostages. They served absoulty no purpose at all(but to annoy and be hostages). But, their reaction after someone's arm get shot off was priceless.


The whole Tom Waits montage was really when I just couldn't sit still. He was a bible sellsman/wandering soothsayer/trailer victims savior who came out of the middle of nowwhere and talked about saving (Mo'Nique's) grandaughter and then drove them to Las Vegas and just went away. I literally almost peed on myself when this section of the movie was going on. It's a good thing I caught the matinee and not alot of people were around.

But in the end I actually liked this movie and can't wait to see it again. All of the gun shooting, crazy ass dialogue, explosions and various other ridiculous stuff was really fun. I enjoyed the whole thing. When it comes out on DVD I actually might buy this film. It the only movie this year that I actually was waitng in the theater to see what was going to happen next. It by far was the most intersting film I've seen all year at the movies. I know that nothing in this movie is true except Domino's name and that she was a bounty Hunter.




Mo'Nique's Jerry Springer Scene

I got my sister's email this morning. Kizzy sent me a picture of herself and Wesley Jonathan (He's in Roll Bounce) which I or she has never seen. The picture which is from last week makes her look like a teenager. Kizzy's is now working at a catering company in Atlanta. Last week they feed a film crew.


I am addicted to Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide. I eat this stuff at once a week. It has this really wonderful taste to it and I just love it very much It is sorta replacing Cherry Garcia in my heart.


Robin Thicke has come back into my life. I put his album on my Ipod last night. It's all I'm listening too at the moment. I can't wait until his new CD comes out. The "I Wanna Love You Girl" was a great song. It could of went better without Pharrell's rap stuff. It's look like his hair is shorter again. I liked it better longer.
Here are 4 of Robin's songs
Robin Thicke - The Stupid Things
Robin Thicke - When I Get You Alone
Robin Thicke - I Wanna Love You Girl (Ft Pharrell)
Robin Thicke - Robin Thicke - Suga Mama

I've been here almost two months. I have like 3 close friends here and I'm lonely as hell. I just don't relate to anyone here. All of my close friends down south are pretty much going through the same thing. It really sucks being the girl from the state that drowned. Which kinda of pisses me off. Cause alot of Louisiana didn't even get destroyed. It also sucks not having anyone to relate to as well. Friday is family day, everybody parents get to come and visit each class and talk to the teachers. I will be the only one who doesn't have any family here. Which will suck big time trust me. It also sucks that the I will have to spent Thanksgiving here alone. I'm going back to Louisiana for Christmas and New Year.


In other news. I got my hair braided on Monday. The girl(Ligoleni) who did my hair is from the same part of Africa(Malawi) my parents are from. So she did it for half price. Ligoleni is 21 and was really nice and invited me to hang out with her.

I'm now reading two new books.
Cruddy by Lynda Barry & The Rights of Racial Minorities (It's a ACLU Handbook). I'm reading it as apart of my Poly Sci class. I am obsessed with Cruddy I love the Illustrations.

Tonight at 7pm Octavia Johnson(candidate for Roanoke City Sheriff) will be discussing empowerment of woman. I will be there to hear her speak. Tomorrow at 8pm I'm going to miss the apperance of Ellen Goodman. She won a Pulitzer in 1980. Ellen will be talking about (Whatever Happened to the Women's Movement). I have to work tomorrow. Which means I get Sunday off.

Their is this cool website about sunshine. It has this cool section on Troy. It also has a picture. It talks about how smart Troy is and how the whole Sunshine crew is impressed with him. His character in the movie name is Harvey. The site says when Simone isn't on the set he carries her picture around on his laptop. That so sweet.

I got a really wonderful picture of my little brother Adam today in the mail. He wrote me a letter about his new school and his friends. I miss him so much. I won't get to go back to Louisiana until Thanksgiving or Christmas. I get two weeks for Christmas and just one wek for Thanksgiving. I divided my holidays with my parents. But, I wonder how it will be now. They are hours away from each other now. I guess I'll find out when it happens.

I got some really great news about Troy Garity, from this really cool person named Gia. She is a very talented woman in England. Gia has told me that she met Troy and he hasn't approved any photos of himself. But she will soon get some stuff from him before the film is done.She also mentioned meeting Benedict Wong, he was so good in Dirty Pretty Things. I'm so happy about this news.

I'm still unhappy in Virginia. It's still hard for me to adjust and I really don't have anything in common with anyone here. I mostly have Hi and Bye friends. I see them around I say Hi or Goodbye. I actually look forward to going to work because I have more fun around the customers than I do on this campus.

My classes are going really well and my birthday is coming up soon. So It's not all that bad. My sister has moved to Atlanta to stay with some of her college friends. She is planning on living there for good. My mother is getting a new house renovated with the insurance money and staying in Natchez. Mom said that the roof caved and smashed the house down into the ground. My father house and the whole his block actually wasn't all that destroyed. It flooded over 8 feet, but the houses are still standing. He says the smell is unbearable. He's not moving back and planning on finding somewhere else to stay but for now Shreveport is his home.


I saw the History Of Violence this weekend. Viggo's character was positively mindboggling it had me really questioning if he was Joey Cusack or not. The end result was a very skillful piece of cinema. Last weekend I saw Flightplan with Jody Foster which was also an amazing film as well.


I am reading two new books now called
Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks (It's about Black Women and Feminism)
Wicked by Gregory Maguire (I want to see this play as well)