John Forte

John Forte "Runnin Up That Hill" from The ICU on Vimeo.

This Is How We Live! Fela in Calabar

Grammys Swagger.

Grammy Night 2009 had a bit less swagger this year than usual. Something was missing and I'm not talking about Ri-Ri & Chris Brown's Swagger. They don't interest us. Sorry.
(We did however, find the conversations of two Trini girls on the 4 train debating the scandal quite hilarious . " But Cleo, de girl nahsti, i can tell, she nahstie!" )

Anyway, as far as I can tell, M.I.A, Jay-Z, Kanye West, T.I & Wayne had the only swaggy performance of the night.

Swag on People. Swag On...




P.S. I have not hated a word more than I hate the word "SWAGGER" in a very long time.
One of theses day I'll draft you guys a whole list of words or phrases that annoy the shit out of me. It'll be fun.

XOXO

My President is Black!

So Relevant! So Right! We eternally hART Richard Pryor!

PUSH: Based on a Novel by Sapphire

I cannot wait.

Another Hot Joint.

and another dope marketing piece done by yours truly!

Turn It Up!

What if we told you that this Friday you could, listen to music of, for, and about the legendary J-Dilla, party with some of the freshest women in NYC & raise money for Lupus research? All for cheap cheap, you'd wanna be down right...yeah I know!
So Join LADIES LOVE Dilla this Friday at Deity!


P.S. Our firm designed the flyer (CLICK ON IT to see it in all its glory).... and in the words of our dear friend St. Yacque...Its Ca Ute!

xoxo

Not My Space Leads to Feel Good Music.

Racking up a million friends on Myspace is not such a huge achievement anymore. You no longer have to be a cute Asian girl with a bisexual persuasion, have a witty blog or even a decent profile picture. All you have to do is alter your settings to allow any Joe Schmo with an email account to add you. And they will come! As a test we changed the privacy settings on our personal page and poof! Within 3 days we had 87 new friend request ( I maybe, kinda think, I might have actually known ONE of the requesters). Anywho, sadly Myspace has become web wasteland. No longer can start up brands or bands claim a web presence based on a purported "million friends" following. I personally cant find anything even interesting on Myspace (to think I almost got canned a few years ago for my Myspace addiction!). For many formerly loyal users, Myspace has turned into a loud, glaring commercial with everybody and their mama selling some thing, some band, some idea or some party!
So we hardly visit our Myspace page anymore. It seems the once indestructible power it once held is no more. Even for declared Internet junkies that thing has gotten just a bit to impersonal.


A part of what made Myspace so appealing was its ability to connect real people to one another. Connecting with old friends or making new friends kind of made you feel like an insider, someone in the know with direct access to the personal (sort of) lives of the individuals in your que. I wont get all nostalgic on you ( who has the time these days) but, to scratch our social networking itch we've switched over to Facebook with a promise to be extremely selective about who we let get down with our get -least we have to start another page under our OTHER alias, like some less than A list celebrity.

Anyway all of the above is just a long ass way of telling a short ass story about this band who despite our very selective approach to adding only people we know and sort of know - somehow found its way on our Facebook friends list and sent us a very random link to their music.

We liked it. So here it goes.





Who knew South Africa had so much Detroit Back Packer-esque swagger?

New Year!

2009 HAPPY NEW YEAR VID FROM JSJ from jsjcreative on Vimeo.

Dante, Dante, Dante

Happy New Year Fam,

I spent New Years Eve dressed to the nines pouring cocktails for some of NYC's creative elite at the Afro Punk/Coup de'tat Punk-N-Paint Show. Big shout out to Ms. Mary Pryor (We Fancy) & extra special thank you to Ra$u Jelani (cdtbk)!

In all it was a great night (except for the psycho who I thought I had a crush on and his strange outbursts –more on that in the next issue), perfect dresses, art abound, drinks galore, good friends, great music, and Dante's Mac & Cheese.

The later stands in a category by itself.

Now I've heard about this catering company DANTE FRIED CHICKEN for at least a year or so now. DFC have been aligning itself with the local indie music scene and catering all these high profile underground events. But I didn’t get what the big deal was... food, music, indie kids, Arab scarves...ok ok ok. I get it, and I wasn’t buying it. I thought, 'good marketing, but the food is probably "regular" at best'.

I've been converted.
That jawn was THE FOOD HIGHLIGHT of 2008. Seriously.


Dante Fried Chicken: Santogold - Coconut Mac & Cheese from Dante Fried Chicken on Vimeo.

See I don’t eat everybody's cooking and I don’t eat ANYBODY'S macaroni & cheese (I'm a bit of a food snob)...but THAT WAS THE BEST MAC & CHEESE I EVER ATE IN MY LIFE. Real talk, it was better than my Grannies!

Poor Dante, when he was not serving up plates for the hungry masses in attendance, he spent the entire evening avoiding eye contact with me. I was doing mad Jedi Mind tricks trying to score an extra plate.


xoxo

P.S. I can only hope your 2009 turns out to be as rich and creamy. The Toy Plane wishes you sincere love and abundance for the New Year.

4 PROPELLERS

Only In: New York 1.0

Dont forget to RSVP

P.S I'll be announcing the New Years Eve plans-I'm working of course- as soon as they get that money right.... (walks away singing Kanye West)

Introducing: Nancy Wu

Pretty much like how most great discoveries are made, we found this Cali based artist and designer completly by accident.





^^^These are made from Soap!



^^^This purse is made from BEEF JERKEY SUN! BEEF JERKEY!

http://www.nwudesign.com/index/index.html

Disposable Income 1.0

Come, Shop, have a blast & get blasted. (the last part courtesy of TheRumPunchCrew bka MOI)

We Still Heart : The Boondocks

WWW.BOONDOCKSBOOTLEG.COM

The Notorious...

A few years ago, I worked with this very sweet girl named Lena who idolized Betty Page. "Betty who?" My girl was floored and I was embarrassed cause I didn't know who "Betty Goddamn Page" was .

So that night after my shift I went home and did my homework...and I fell in love.


RIP

All I want for Festivus...

Lets be clear, I am not a sneaker chick. I wont even disrespect my dank basement in Chinatown digging, ebay searching, flown in from japan sneaker fiends and front like I'm into my footwear like that. But I do have a few STUNNER pairs I like to rock just for (insert bad pun here) kicks. I acquire a new pair about once a year and wear them 2 or 3 times at most, and I'm brand loyal like a mofo...ADIDAS are King and those babies above need to be my latest acquisition.

So Dearest Readers, If you got the drop or -if you wanna be my new bestest friend- and cop these I’ll love you forever and ever.

I’m a boys size 8

Amen.


Jeremy Scott Adidas=XOXOXOXOXO

Stir it up...

Here are a few mixes I'll be in this weekend.

P.S. You Got A Video Camera? Wanna Roll?

xoxoxo

"Indecent Proposal"

I'm in love with Netflix. I've got about 300 movies in my Que and I just keep adding them and adding and adding them. I never know what's coming until I open those 3 little lovely red envelopes in the mail. Is it another romantic comedy? That indie I've been meaning to catch? Will I now be finally able to say I've seen 'Love & Basketball'? 'Dream Girls'?

I'm seriously in love. My easy little heart never fails to go pitter patter. (I mean this is what love feels like right?) The excitement of it all is so..exciting. Netflix is so, so...dreamy!

and my boo has just gotten better. You see, I've been sending emails to my boy Steve over at corporate -he controls the whole Instant Play feature that Netflix has- cause I thought it downright scandalous that he was was not supporting me (and the 9 million other Apple Mac users) considering how long I've been loyal!

And you know what? He listened to ME!

Instant Play is now available for Macs.

and now I think I'm getting married!


xoxo

Question of the Moment No.4

About QOTM: Here is your chance to vent, answer, argue or explain. Sometimes our QOTM is pure fluff and sometimes it's a path to enlightenment.
Our thoughts? Well they are in the flight notes. Selah.

What's your worst pet peeve when it comes to the physical attributes of a love(or potential) interest?

I dont know why, but I find myself quite annoyed by TACO MEAT . (see example below)



still love you Yay