Planning the Book Release

Okay I have been ironing out the details. I'm having the book release party for Constellation of a Black Star in November date tba I'm having it at Revival.




Cakeman Raven is making my Cake




And you already know the book is going to be the truth...

Why Pan's Labyrinth is my favorite movie of all time

And most people know its because the main character Ofelia reminds me of my friend Channel; Living in her fantasy world, rebelling against authority, confronting monsters to get by and the ending when she passed abruptely. I cry sometime I see the end, but it's a good cry, a cathartic one. In my nostalgic and emotional way I liken Ofelia's descension to her 7 Circular Palace to Channel ascending to wherever. That's it...aint know more. Had to honor my passed ones on a Sunday.

Black Kid's Fairytale

It's going to be the best poem I've ever written. I was inspired by The Complete Grimm's Fairytales. Most people think there are only like 10 or so Fairytales; Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood (It's Little Red Cap in the book), Snow White, Rapunzel and Thumbalina. In actuality there are about 210. My poem is basically referances to all of them. I dont know if I want to tie in several stories or focus on one main chracter. But I'm laying the groundwork.

I usually dont do this

but he a cutey...kinda reminds me of Tupac

R U Serious?

I love Tok son. She a fly little chick but I was tring to wonder if she was serious or joking

Last Random Night of Summer 2k8 (S and G)

If you aint know I'm an E.G. denizen....the only condos in Harlem with crackheads and a pool lol



I guess gentrification makes me look sexy









Silky had like 25 groupies



we love the kids



repping WORDSTOCK...I'm the first lady



ran into my daddy he did a double shift



we had a photoshoot with a crackhead





got sum dutches from Nose (deli man)



vandalized a vending machine



walked on the wild side



got wet



swung on sum poles



waited for assholes

And forgot to blog about the Afrikan Day Parade

the sun was definatlely in attendance



me and Big Gia aka Gia Hamilton









randomness

I Dead Forgot to Blog about my show with Black Ice....sorry

nuff said

My Favoritiest Cartoon Ever...4 real....no bullshit...havent seen it in 10 years

Not Funny @ All

Funnilicious

My Other Cousin

You know Silky my sister in law, comrade, secretary and life coach lol. But nah for real we found out today that her great grandmother Jaunita was my grandfather's 1st cousin. Now technically that would make us cousins by blood. Now aint that sum hotness.
I find this funny because we was going everywhere telling people we was sisters or cousins and it just happens to be true....sometimes I swear I'm my own genie.

I'm feeling great today...

Mz. Shakur Do Hunt Dem Hunters

(Wolf Howls)
I'm not a hunter but i am told,
that, uh, in places like in the arctic,
where indiginous people sometimes might, might, hunt a wolf,
they'll take a double edged blade,
and they'll put blood on the blade,
and they'll melt the ice and stick the handle in the ice,
so that only the blade is protruding,
and that a wolf will smell the blood and wants to eat,
and it will come and lick the blade trying to eat,
and what happens is when the wolf licks the blade,
of course, he cuts his tongue, and he bleeds,
and he thinks he's really having a good thing,
and he drinks and he licks and he licks,
and of course he is drinking his own blood and he kills himself,
thats what the Imperialists did with us with crack cocaine,
you have these young brothers out there who think they are getting something
they gonna make a living with,
they is getting something they can buy a car,
like the white people have cars, why can't i have a car?
they getting something they can get a piece of gold,
white people have gold, why can't i have gold?
they getting something to get a house,
white people have a house, why can't i have a house?
and they actually think that theres something thats bringing resources to them,
but they're killing themselves just like the wolf was licking the blade,
and they're slowly dying without knowing it.
thats whats happening to the community, you with me on that?
thats exactly, precisely what happens to the community,
and instead of blaming the hunter who put the damn handle and blade in the ice
for the wolf,
that what happens is the wolf gets the blame, gets the blame for trying to live,
thats what happens in our community,
you don't blame the person, the victim,
you blame the oppressor, Imperialism, white power is the enemy,
was the enemy when it first came to Africa,
and snatched up the first African brothers here against our will,
is the enemy today,
and thats the thing that we have to understand.

(Clapping)

My Cuzo

just has a way with the ladies. But true or no doesnt Low look scared as hell?

Low and G

That sleepover was the shit

Long Time Coming

I used to watch this dude on tv and now I'm gonna do a show with him....dreams come true

Mr. Mac

Thank you for making us laugh and giving a us a good reason to sneak and hear your dirty Kingly mouth

R.I.P.

Dumb You Down

I would like to give you sum musical backround before you see this fuckery...




now watch how they are literally dumbing us down...

http://www.truthzonetv.com/view_video.php?video_id=507

Have you seen the movie Waking Life? Buy it!!

http://www.truthzonetv.com/view_video.php?video_id=27

International Playgirl Reformed? Nah...not happening

I cant stop humming this for sum reason...maybe becuase I'm ready for the tour...



Guess who coming to my show on the 20th?

Who Said You Cant Love Your Sister-In-Law...

cuz I love mine we drink together, smoke together, get lost on the lower east side together. She is pretty, smart and she is not a bird. We have way intrestign and deep conversation wid each other. Way refreshing when birds and pidgeons are your only option (lol) thats my bitch and she doubles as my secretary



we was being "fat asses" we ate pizza, fruit cup, and then ice cream




oh yeah she is good at shutting up deli huggers and hood posers....

SILKY!!

Mr. Young

Randomly going through my myspace i hit up one of my poetry comrades B Yung. He had a double victory getting selected to be on the Youth Poetry Nationals and the Adult Poetry Nationals (yea he does have skillz). Shorty is the truth. Anyway I asked him to make me a list of venues in Wisconsin and he went above and beyond and said he would make a list for me where ever he go. Thats sweet. But he is also cute thats why he gets his own blog entry...im playing

but check my homey B Yung out at http://www.myspace.com/apoetnamedyung

The 20th

My manager Reggie put me on the spot last night and asked me what I was doing to get my show out there to the public (ref. to my show on the 20th with Black Ice) So I showed him my myspace page www.myspace.com/sunladyofmelrah and it was listed ut he said that I didnt have the day (e.x. mon) in front of the date so I wrote a blog with all the info on it and posted it (go to my site and look at it, much prettier)

Wednesday August 20, 248 @ the Key Club...
Current mood: excited
Category: Parties and Nightlife

is going to be the place to be; POETS, SINGERS and MCS welcomed to the Verse for Verse Open Mic hosted by RAS BARAKA (author of Black Girls Love Hard) and JUBA DOWDELL; GIA SHAKUR (WORDSTOCK artist, author of Constellation of a Block Star) opening for BLACK ICE (Def Poet, Broadway Performer and Recording Artist) in addition to performances by Rainmaker and Definition and several members from the WORDSTOCK poetry collective. Celebrate with Gia as she releases her debut compilation of poetry CONSTELLATION OF A BLOCK STAR. Let your Verse be heard.

When - Wednesday August 20th 2008
Where - The Key Club 58 Park Place (Downtown Newark) , New Jersey
Cost - 10 b4 10/ 12 after


Oh yea but I didnt tell you the funiest part...nigga got on the phone with my mother and told her that I was slacking on my job and missed rehersal....you know I got screamed at right?

Mobsters

iz the shit

Dave on A

So I'm walking from Spit 16 (Source Magazine poetry/hip hop thing) I'm walking up avenue A observing all the freakilisciousness stop and get a blackberry and banana shake and this white boy (man, I should say) on this weird ass looking bike. Vintage wheels. Anyway. He talking sum old,"I want you to model for sum paintings" And usually I'm very weary of white men equipped with cameras and the like (Me and Aja had a bad experience last summer) that I meet on the humble. But he didnt seen odd, just his bike. I gave him my info looked him up and he is pretty cool. He was that crazy ass that jumped off the 6 story building on a sheet of steel, wrapped in tinsel and Xmasery shit. He is a amazing. I love dare devils and escaped artists.


David is the wrestler to the left by the way. Check out his website.

www.impactaddict.com

**chuch**

Early Morning

Yeah...guess who I got a phone call from this morning?

The universe played a wicked trick on me last night. I'm not a downtown club person but listen. In a downtown club, on the humble, on a thursday night when I'm usually working...stands a motherfucker that looks just like Carlito. I mean this dude had his round ass head, with the wings on his back, short and stocky. I thought he was this dude so much I started looking at his teeth..crowded at the bottom, chipped and gapped at the top just like Carlito. But upon further inspection he had a scar on his face and he looked way younger like my age. But he he could have been dude twin. So I was just standing their starin at this asshole who had the nerve to look like my ex. I was staring at him so hard he actually turned right into my glance.

Then this dude had the audacity to follow me around and kept asking me to dance. I finally said,"Pa, I have been avoiding you all night because you look like sumone I used to deal with. Your face is literally hurting me." "Wow. Thats rough." he smiled and walked away...he kept looking at me the whole time. When he left he came up to me, gave me a hug and said see you around.

I could have cried. More so for the reason because me and carlito never officially broke up. I just stopped answering my phone for like 3 weeks. Then I blocked his number. After I put away the grudge I decided to call him for father's day (he has a daughter) and his phone was off. So I dont know how to feel. Definatlely not heart broken I dont do those. Its just a small voidness in my idle hours that manifest when Im reminded him...

I cant even drink Mo no more this is a sad state of affairs...

Cathedral and St. Mark's Comrades

I dont know why but I've been running into mad bitches that I used to go to school with. Funny thing is we werent really cool (I didnt do girlfriends in school, too chatty and stupid) but now its like we chill. I dont know if its them or me. Alot of my old classmates tell me I'm completly different...hello...10 years later? But anyways its cool to make friends with the chicks I was mortal enemies with in grade school...its like copacetic. One chick goes out with my cousin (yeah more on that later) and the the other 2 is party heads who have asked me to accompany in there escapades. i could neve refuse cool party heads and ill bashments

Constellation of a Block Star in a Dufflebag Near You

Yeah its been a long hard process. Much blood sweat and tears. Much leafing through my notebooks I been keeping for the last 3 years. But finally after my 10 years in the poetry game I'm self publishing my first compilation of poems and prose. Owww. I'm muy happy with myself I never thought that last year around this same time I would be publishing a book of any scale.
I had much time to reflect on these things. After coming out unscathed in the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn, 3 asshole boyfriends and occasionally run ins with the NYPD (figurative and literatively) and the death of my childhood friend Channel I was still able to produce work of substance. Even though I had vowed to myself at one point that I would never write again because I was finding out how ugly the world is and I didnt think writing about it would do much (how stupid was I?).
She never left me I just thought she had. Who can appreciate beauty without sunlight?

Don't Sleep on Nas

First off I dont have a problem with the word nigger. Never did. Even before I found out that
1. In Brazil calling a woman a nigga is compliment
2. In Kemmet an ancient language "nighar" translates to "to God"
3. In Senegal "nigger" has always meant friend
4. The Buddha studied from a group of dark skinned asians called "niggers"
5. "Nigger" "Nigga" "Nighar" translates into several languages througout Afrika and Asia as "all knowing"

So it gets me tight when people make ruckuses about words that they do not even study...duh

On Sleeping

Wise men say those who sleep on their backs are closer to their 7th circuit of conciousness...and to think of all my boyfriends who slept on their stomachs...And even the one who loved me the most who didnt...

Yo....dead ass....im so there

My lil sister, sidekick and ride or die just got peppered sprayed by the the boys

Good Way to Start off the Day

found sum good loving in Hollywood last night lol

Trying to be like Ghandi but these pussies wanna push me...

i dont want to go into details but sum lame ass suge knight looking nigga owed me sum money. He giving me a whole bunch of who shot john. Then started laughing at me. Like my dude if u think im living foolish cool but dont laugh at me when u taking money out me and mines pocket? What part of the game is that and I'm female...but basically I "blacked" as Charles Hamilton calls it but instead of doing it in the booth i did it with the booth. thats right ladies and gentlemen I beat that bitch nigga with a microphone stand and broke the gate to the mic and the stand. My dude Cash the nigga thats been recording me accapella, im sorry (it was his shit i broke on this nigga head). But niggas really need to watch their company. In fact niggas just need to treat niggas like they would want to be treated themselves. Then we wont have split lips and knots on our big abnormally shaped yogi bear looking headz...