Rockin' robin

Okay, I did it.  I bit the bullet, and finally did it.  I'm a little disappointed in myself... just a little bit.  But, it's been done.   Facebook is still the devil, now.  Don't get it twisted!  But, with receipt of the confirmation message from @Biz Stone and the @Twitter Team ("Welcome to the flock!" it read), I have now joined the birds who have been rockin' in the treetops all day long, tweedle deedle tweetin' and a-tweetin' along.  I am officially a Twit.

I guess it was inevitable.  I mean, if you look at the template design I chose for this blog when I started it up in September, you'll see the birds in the upper righthand corner... I was bound to "join the flock" some time, huh?  Twitter.  I just can't believe it, y'all.

While this may seem like a "so what" moment to you, this is pretty major for me.  When it comes to social media, I'm like your weird uncle who still mails at least one letter per month to Paramount Pictures asking when are they gonna finally release Forrest Gump on Laserdisc. What I'm saying is I can be resistant to change.

But this time, I'm also ready to change, folks.  I've committed myself to making slowFlowOnline.com a bigger and better presence in 2011.  Part of me doing that is getting the name out there, through media... socially.  :: big sigh ::

So, go ahead.  Follow me, you Twits.  I'm @slowFlowOnline on Twitter.  You can view my recent Tweets via the widget off to the right, beneath the blog archives.  Damn, I feel like an old head  for real, talking about $#!t and not knowing whether I'm using the correct terminology!  LOL

Now, no matter how much my wife, friends, family members, and co-workers try, I'm not reading any psalms from the Book of Face anytime soon... as I mentioned, FB is still the devil.  But for the time being, you can just say I'm flying with Hell's Angels, so follow me inna town, and a-follow me inna country... as I get my Tweet on.  Reason why you should ah follow me?  Cuz yu love me!

 

The MF'n Life, eh?

No, I didn't select this title so that I could drop F-bombs on the low.  I'm talking aboot the bombshell firecracker Canuck that goes by the name Melanie Fiona.  She's sexy as hell, can sing her @$$ off, and if she could recite verbatim Rev. Brown's sermon from the Sexual Chocolate scene of Coming To America, she'd be half as dope as my wife is (I love you, baby).

Anyway, I linked up with her dope @$$ last year, on the brink of her burgeoning popularity... circa August 2009.  This was quite a bit earlier than her debut release, The Bridge, dropped in the States; just before "It Kills Me" hit the airwaves, but just after "Give It To Me Right" had her catching ears of neck-rollin' pigeons from T-Dot to Texas.  I saw her tear the stage down at Water Street Music Hall here in Rochester, which gave me good reason to dub her a modern-day Anna Mae Bullock.  Melanie, showing a glimpse of her GT background, performed what would become my favorite from the release, that I'll share here:

Melanie Fiona - "Ay Yo"

She also performed...

Tell 'Em Chali Sent Ya

I was re-reading my Faithful/Priceless post, and noticed that towards the end, I mentioned a late night out, as me and Scotty had just wrapped another interview/shoot.  That was on 9.15.  Well, the fruits of our labor have finally seen the light of day!

Yes, I take some of the blame for it being two and a half months before publication, but not all of it.  I admit I was struggling getting this piece completed.  Usually when I write, the piece will simply fall into place as I move it along.  For some reason, though, I had a block whenever I sat down to attempt banging this one out.

It would be six weeks from the time that I interviewed former underground Hip Hop set Jurassic 5 notable Chali 2na before I submitted the completed work!

tunes available after the jump...

ghosTown Productions

So, I've been told that my blog has become somewhat of a desert-like ghost town of sorts.  My bad, sons!  I logged in to begin this post, and was shocked to see the date of the last post was over two months ago.  Yeah, pretty wack, indeed.

Even though this is a bit of a "filler" post, it's still something!  I say it's filler because it's not going to contain too much new content, and it's a "hold y'all over" until my next post, in which I have some jurassic news to share.

The last post contained a bunch of songs that were supposed to be able to be streamed on my site.  I understand that not everyone has been able to hear all of the content.  So, I've made them available in another format.  The tunes are available below (and hopefully, this time they'll all work!):

Faith Evans - "Maybe"