My Name is B Twice...

Ten things I won’t do at 30+…
10) neglect my skin
9) spend money without discretion (money doesn’t spoil, it keeps)
8) confuse insecurity with intuition
7) have sleepless nights due to worrying
6) put energy into someone who doesn’t give the same energy back
5) say no to dessert
4) drive pass the gym (see # 9 about spending err wasting money)
3) worry about what others think of me
2) take myself too seriously
1) apologize for being me!
And an honorable mention…forget to pursue my passion.

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In celebration of us approaching being up & running for a year now, KICKmySOLE is looking for females 2 submit pics to kickmysole@hotmail.com to be used as our profile pic on Facebook. Every two days will be a new FSF face reppin for the ladies in the game, till the end of the month. You must be in the pic. Keep it classy!! Send those pics in!!! #Reblog

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Dinosaurs…duh!

The Gospel is the good news and I’m here to bring it,  my top 10 Albums of 2011.  The beauty of these year-end lists is that they are all subjective, it all about what your ear digs. So you don’t have to like it, this is MY 2011 in musical review. The gospel according to B Twice:

10) RADIOHEAD-KING OF LIMBS

I’ve been a fan since 15 STEPS on IN RAINBOWS and well once it was added to the Twilight Saga soundtrack I knew I was in love. While of KING OF LIMBS their 8th studio album is the shortest, it employed more DJ sampling, which I love.

9) BEYONCE 4

The woman I love to hate.  If you ask me do I like Bey I enthusiastically say NO, but her albums always end up in my library.  4 was no exception, the pop beats are infectious and let’s be honest her man is apart of Illuminati (I’m kidding Jay) so she controls the radio waves.

8) MAYER HAWTHORNE-HOW DO YOU DO

DJ Haircut was back in 2011 with more Motown influence soul. My personal favorite on the album, HENNY & GINGERALE where he sampled the late great Marvin Gaye.

7) DRAKE-TAKE CARE

I know, I know, Drake is soft and insert all your other slander here_______. Are you done?  In my opinion, not everyone can be a gangster and he can’t help it if he fall in love err lust at first sight. Aubrey might have ovaries and well so do I. I like that he’s so open. By the way, Just Blaze killed the production on the infused gospel choir inspired track  LORD KNOWS.

6) ADELE-21

How can one experience so much pain at only 21? I don’t know, but thank God for it… Let’s be honest who didn’t cover or sample ROLLING IN THE DEEP this year and for that alone it had to make my top 10.   The bluesy pop singer gives us a glimpse into the gut-wrenching pain associated with young love.

5) LYKKE LI-WOUNDED RHYMES

Li gave us teasers from the album in late 2010, and in February the Swedish artist released a glimpse into her melancholy world. The album is dark, moody and heavy, but aren’t we all sometimes?

4) JAMES BLAKE- JAMES BLAKE

Another February release. February is obviously a great month for music and otherwise (I’ve been telling people this for years*wink*). Someone special put me on to Mr. Blake after listening to just I NEVER LEANT TO SHARE I had to download the album immediately. “My brother and my sister don’t speak to me, but I don’t blame them…

3) PUSH T-FEAR OF GOD

Always a fan of the Clipse, but when Pusha joined G.O.O.D Music I believe he elevated his career. So many quotables where do I begin? I had the luxury of seeing him live in concert this year and it will go down as one of my favorite memories in 2011.

2) WATCH THE THRONE-JAY X YE

Look at all that gold and opulence…

This time last year the artwork for H.A.M was being formulated and by first listen of that song Jay and Ye had lots of critics.  Highly anticipated, but never disappointing, Jay x Ye collab to make one of this year’s hottest tickets.  While I missed out on the opportunity to attend, I hear they put on a show. N*ggas in Paris, 8 times in a row? I say hell yeah.  I love the album from start to finish, too many personal favs to pick just one, but if I had to, WHY I LOVE YOU w/ Mr. Hudson who Ye worked with on 808s and Heartbreak.

Drum roll please…

1) NOSTALGIA ULTRA-FRANK OCEAN

When I first heard of Frank early in 2011 after SXSW, I was skeptical because of his ties to Tyler and Odd Future.  I was so pleasantly surprised that if you check my twistory (twitter history) you will see almost every other tweet was about FRANK! NOSTALGIA ULTRA makes an unlikely audience privy to some classic acts such as the Eagles and MGMT. Frank Ocean makes the soundtrack to my life.

I’ve always been a reader, an avid one at best. As my mother put it, I “decided” in 1^st grade on my own accord that I would read, I did just that and never looked back.  You could always find me with a book in hand, but then life got in the way, school, jobs, friends, boyfriends got in the way of my one true solace reading.  I think over those 25 plus years I read err started hundreds maybe even a thousand books, either for my pleasure or for obligation.  There are those rare times when a book comes along and touches your soul, the type of book you never want end because the characters are your dear friends and why would you want to part with them? I finished a book, a novel, a neo-classic piece of literature, just like that called The Help.

Two years ago, The Help was recommended to me, by the family I nanny for, oh the irony.  It wasn’t until I heard it was being made into a movie that I felt the urgency to read it. I will be forever grateful that I did.  Acclaimed by NPR as one of the most important pieces of fiction since To Kill a Mockingbird, The Helps examines the lives of white women and their “help” or maids in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights movement.  Ohh, but don’t we wish it were just that simple of a story line? No it’s so much more. While it is a work of fiction, I would go as far to say historical fiction; this novel not only examines the lives of the black maids and their families, but author Kathryn Stockett carefully weaves in real events from the past.  Take for instance, how the residences of Jackson, MS were rocked when Medgar Evers was killed by the Klan in his home just miles from their own.  Or the first time Skeeter heard Bob Dylan’s voice come through her radio singing “The times they are a changin’…” Having no idea who he was, but knowing she was a part of the change.  Stockett had a tall order with this book, a white woman, writing from the point of view of both white and black women during an era she herself may of lived through, but was not exactly apart of.  “There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation.” ~Howell Raines

Putting aside the pervasive, systematic racism that existed in the South in 1962 (quite possibly now too) the core of The Help is friendship of three unlikely friends, bonded by missions to set the truth and themselves free.  Stockett does a wonderful job of quietly developing this friendship, chapter after chapter you become more sympathetic to their lives and the people in it.  I will not herald Stockett as the next J.D. Salinger or Harper Lee for that matter. I will not review this book, as I am not qualified to do so.  I could recommend it to you or tell you what I think the author could have done better, but I won’t.  I say the sign of good book is not wanting to start the last chapter, The Help, was that book for me.  Let’s see if Hollywood does this novel it’s justice, when the movie, based on the book opens in theaters August 10^th and I can revisit my friends Skeeter, Aibileen, and Minny.

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.  ~Author Unknown