My Soundtrack - The Music of Me

These are some of my favorite songs, some of the songs that define me, delight me, and bring me home. This is the music that feeds my soul and keeps me whole. There's so much more so check back frequently, I'll keep adding and sharing! Enjoy!

Month of Me! - Day 18

Today is a video playlist. Very simply, it's songs that over the years have been the soundtrack to my love for my husband. There are more and the playlist changes, but these seem to stay in heavy rotation.

There are so many ways that I love you, babe. There aren't enough genres. There isn't enough music.
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Kindred the Family Soul - "Where Would I Be"

Kindred the Family Soul - "Stars"

Common - "The Light"

Erykah Badu - "Love of My Life; An Ode to Hip Hop"

Stevie Wonder - "Overjoyed"

Raheem DeVaughn - "You"

Jason Mraz - "I'm Yours"

Robin Thicke - "Lost Without U"

Chrisette Michele - "Love Is You"

Jamiroquai - "Canned Heat"

Raul Midon - "Sunshine"

Luther Vandross - "A House is Not a Home"

Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - "In A Sentimental Mood"

 

Month of Me! - Day 13

THIS!! THIS RIGHT HERE!! This is everything! This is my senior year of high school! This song (and thus this performance) was EVERYTHING to a romantic, hormonal, bisexual Black nerd chic in '93 in love with the hottest guy I'd ever laid eyes on in-person who was just as horny as me!! 

Do you know I would've KILLED for YouTube back in '93 for the chance to watch this on a loop at various times throughout my day, complete with fancy hand dances. Today, this song. It's all about this song.

Jill Scott Spends a Fabuous Hour with Mo'Nique

jill scott always brings me joy to the tippy top of my soul!! i would love to just give her a splendid hug one day and tell her THANK YOU for being 'the magnificent'!

jill visited 'the Mo'Nique Show' and for the full hour they had a wonderful time and BET gets major credit for posting the whole episode!! sit back, get ready for lovely words and sound and enjoy!

Timothy Bloom - 'Til The End Of Time ft. V. Bozeman

this is beautiful in every possible way a music video and piece of art can be beautiful.

there is some artistic nudity so it's NSFW, but i'm completely in love with this video.

Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

The future of green is local -- and entrepreneurial. At TEDxMidwest, Majora Carter brings us the stories of three people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet. Call it "hometown security."

BABIES!!

this is truly one of the sweetest, most wonderful documentaries I have ever seen! it's simply a candid look into the lives of four babies in four different parts of the world, from birth to age one.

in the words of daddyluv, it's like 'march of the penguins' but with babies. *single tear for the penguins*

if you're a Netflix subscriber it's available to watch instantly!

hairy situation

i spend way too much time talking about this natural, giant, curly mass of hair. i said 'too much time' because i'm not talking about my hair, i'm talking about my son's.

apparently my decision to just let it be big and beautiful as long as he lets me detangle and comb it a few times a week, doesn't sit well with everyone. there seems to be some unspoken rule that if a little black boy is going to have long hair it should be cornrowed or braided in some way. if not, cut it off.

i happen to think his hair is fantastic just the way it is and i have no desire to try and contain it. in fact, this one's for you kid!!

Whip My Hair Sesame Style - Willow Smith Remix (I Love My Hair)

aaah thanksgiving

aaah thanksgiving! the holiday that reminds us that it's perfectly ok to flee the persecutions and suffering of your homeland to the safety of america, pillage the native lands and people, then proceed to subject them and every other person who flees the persecutions and suffering of their homeland to the safety of america to countless persecutions and sufferings in the name of america, if you're really, really pale.

gobble, gobble.

but i do love 'a charlie brown thanksgiving' so click on the pic and enjoy!!

i will not be defeated - video by pierre bennu

I Will Not Be Defeated from pierre bennu on Vimeo.

This animated video by Pierre Bennu (see his body of work at exittheapple.com) was inspired by the awesome mantra of a song by Steven Wesley Guiles, from the album "And The Stars Will Guide Us Home," available at stevenwesleyguiles.com

Video © exittheapple November 2010.