A Memorial weekend....

Darlings.

Friday: Headed down to meet OP!, Fullcrate and Mar @ Unionsquare (after trying to leave the apartment for 10years). Trying to coordinate us with 2 record-shopping-hungry-wolfs in Brklyn, miss e3na and my scottsmwoman... all this was much easier said than done. Finally we manged to almost get everyone together for dinner in Chinatown a la Vietnamese...

(photo by: Fullcrate)

...after that the conclusion was 'Turntables on the hudson' (initially Wepa..but everything got delayed so we had to throw the events around a little in the schedule), due to food-coma, leaving-records-at-home-and-never-getting-out-again and other excuses that this house is built on ... only me and Blyth ended up going. Lead by her impeccable sat-nav 'Marge' we managed to walk from the subway to the party where Nickodemus and Recloose (Love 'em both, really nice people) were spinning. Blyth took a picture of me that I was planing to post...but I look like a drunk-freak in it... ok you know what...

... I only slept 1 hour that night. And after seeing Nikkita of, (and eating 2,5 brownies covered with peanut-butter for breakfast ...I never really eat pastries at all...I'm an ice-cream girl) me and B chilled in Battery Park... had dinner in Korea town....Blyth was going to come over later...but we all fell asleep.

Yesterday (Sunday): Me, Scribe and Jon Oliver attempted another Sunday-ride. The destination was Brklyn and Samchampion and Tiffany's BBq. This week there has been something in NY called fleet-week. A million US miltary (i guess navy?) hang out prior to memorial day/weekend.... this effected us in the way that Riverside (the river-stroll caresses Manhattan on the Hudson side, the west side.) was filled with soooooooooooo much people...to make a long story short... I ran over a kids leg and his bike hit me in my knee!! :(((. Really an awful experience, lucky the kid was ok...but still.

The BBQ in Bklyn was perfect, filled with beautiful souls - adults, kids and a little dog, a nice temperature and sun... what more can you ask for....

... after that we went to 'Dark Disco' where MJ Cole (remember...the 2-step guy), Actress, Kenny Dope and many more played... now my fingers are so tired from typing so I'm just going to post the rest of the pics. Love you dearies/Kissey

I know it's Sunday...

but Omar's 'Saturday' feels sooooooo good today :)

Nikkita is in town...

Darling,

My darling Nikkita is in town, very exciting. We been a little here 'n' a little there. Wednesday: The box to hear Louis Vega play and see Anane's video-release. Nikki went out to make a call and then security wouldn't let her back in (...and many more..) so no video for us... instead w headed over to Cielo and a house-playing Marley Marl.

Thursday: we got up a little late but managed to go with Scribe for some Ethiopian @ Awash. After that the Museum of the City of New York,(Where we found out about the grid system and that NY was the first city in the world where 'commuting' occurred) In the evening we went to the sexy Submercer to celebrate Dj Moni's birthday (congrats again)...

... and to hear Nikki play...

Tonight... :S I don't know yet. I'm thinking of going to hear Recloose spinn at Water Taxi Beach @ Turntables on the hudson -party, also Nik wanted to go to an afro-house party @bar13... it's fun : ) but I'm soooooooooo tired. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Love you dearies/Kissey

Sitting here in a million Fahrenheit...

doing my taxes 'n listening to Actress.

Love you /Kissey

make a push up...

What's up?!...

Cats and Dogs.

Mixed and matched, this and that. ILV Saturday was banananananananas Saturday, can't describe the energy more than ...i t w a s s i c k! The dj's are so talented and it was extremely nice to bring in 1 year with them. And I was happy to entertain Tone with my absurdness on the mic... you'll hear it in the podcast... shouted out Neneh Cherry when it was Salt'n'Pepa, apparently said 'shake that ass' in a extremely nasty way, sang along with the crowed in true Hockey-choir style, did a Mr C even though I said that I shouldn't...yepp...a lot happened.

Beyond that what have I been up to. Finally starting to conquer Wordpress... soon this blog will be moving over there. I'll let you know all about it; time, feed adress, url etc.(Don't you worry your pretty little head about that right now). I've seen 2 awesome movies lately. First out is 'Cleo 5 to 7'. I'm having a thing for Agnes Varda atm. Did you ever see 'Beaches of Agnes'? omg she totally captivated me with that memoir-movie. Last night I got around to see 'Gentlemen Broncos'...

...I know, IIIII KNOOOOW : ) I hear Aaron sitting over in London saying! Seriously, You knoooooow what I'm talking about! After being slow on 'Nacho Libre' How could I have not learnt my lesson, got my act together, get it straight in my, connect my head to twitter when it comes to the Hess brothers. Love there characters, love their stories and their intros.

Oooo I forgot to tell you about something that happened in Central Park yesterday...to late now. Tell you all about it tomorrow.

Big Hug, love you

/Kissey

Pigs are green and do fly...

Snacks and Shit...

Hi Babes.

Blyth turned me on to the blog - 'Snacks and Shit'. It questions various rhymes that rapers spits >>>

"this blog is about rap and hip-hop lyrics that are absolutely absurd, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous, basic, basically stupid, basically bad, basically basic, or preposterous. We also take some lines and examine them literally. In the words of one of our critics, we are "willfully obtuse". Call it what you want. Hopefully we don't get capped. You have to understand that we really do love rap and all of these artists that we kid about.

(We're not just saying that.)"

You ready? Click here to see what it's all about.

Love you, big hug/Kissey

6 drummers & 1 apt....

Bees and Ducks.
I read an article about this clip, 'Music for One Apartment and six drummers' in the Swedish newspaper DN recently. Apparently this short film over is 9 years old and now they are premiering a whole movie based on this at this years Cannes-festival. Check the bedroom out... not going to spoil it for you... but those fuzzies are beautiful.

Love you babies/Kissey

SF was in the NY house Sunday...

Nerds.

I wish I had a video to show you the view, I wish I had a way to describe how amazing that roof top was Sunday.maaaaaaaan! I managed to bike through Times Square for the first time in my life ,escorted by two other people, one biking in front, another behind But! I did it. We had been at the Uptown Juicebar to grab some food and then from 120'something we biked down.

On the top of this downtown hotel some DJ's from San Fran and NY had gathered to throw and amazing party, SFNY. Didn't think NY could keep up the steam from the previous night (the Wonder-full party)...but I was proven wrong, 3 levels, one dance-floor, one in between/chill area with a bar and the third one that offered the view and air. My camera ran out of batteries... (as it frequently does these days). Eric Raphel was kind enough to let me snatch some of his FB so y'all could feel the vibe a little. Enjoy!

Love you soooo much darlings/Kissey

NY: ILV this Sat...

Dearies.

Hope to see you this Saturday at 'I Love Vinyl' @lpr. Besides that you should indulge all the amazing DJ's, celebrating that it's their 1st year anniversary...I'll be on the mic mistressing. See you there loonies.

Love you/Kissey

Dangerkats...

Darlings.

At the block-party Saturday this group, The House of Dangerkats danced/ vouged/ fashioned/ divad/ entertained. This is a clip from their production 'Addicted'...

....miaouuuuuuuu! Very interesting and refreshing.
Love you . kiss kiss kisss kisssssssssssssss/ Kissey

Random...

Babes,

Yesterday a lot of different things happened. First I went to the Havana Outpost Block party in Brooklyn. In the evening it was Carnegie Hall and the final of the Japanese Karaoke Championships... that was different, but cool. Dinner at Vynl with friends. And ending the night at Spinna's Stevie Wonder party 'Wonder-full'....

(photo by: B.Goldfarb)

...let me correct that... it ended with me taking the subway the wrong direction... suuuuuuuky suck. :)

Love you/ Kissey

Support Ruby...

Darlings.

My buddy Ruby Veridiano (blogger/artist/Vj) is up as one of the finalist competing for the spot 'headblogger' @ Alicia Keys ' I am A Superwoman'. To help her succeed click here to vote.

(check her blog out, nice one indeeeeeeeed)

Love you a million, especially Blyth (Because it's your birthday today!!!)/ Kissey

NY: Shantell Martin solo show...

Dearies,

Miss Vj/artist/illustrator Shantell Martin has only been in NY for about 3/4s of a year and she have already achieved a lot (eg appearing on Gossip Girl, Done a project with MoMa, live-brunches @ SoHo house). Today she's opening a solo show @ The Colette Blanchard Gallery. The show is called 'InsideOut OutsideIn'. Here is some more information on the exhibit+project. Opening is 6-8pm tonight.

Love you darlings/ Kissey

Onra- 'Long Distance' sampler...

Common, Computer, Tone, Saadiq and Latifah...

OMG! it's never really worth taking the cheap way out. Installed a free internet security thing and it messed my new darling computer UP! after a million tries and restoring my system a million light years back... I AM BACK!mUAHAHAHA.

Common @ the highline Friday. I had a teenage crush on him, When 'Like Water for Chocolate' was released which hiphop/r'n'b girl in Europe didn't? It came out the same year as Jill Scott released her first. Crushes like that are created in that age and meant to stay that age (I thought I was Jill Scott at that age too...in every word and every song, I was a grown woman, with grown problems and was going to take my rings of and knock that girls face out!) A part of me felt sad that I didn't get to see him when I was there, that teenager, when I was Jill Scott... it would have made it so magical. I don't know how I managed to avoid to see him live for so many years.

At the concert I started to smile, I started to reminisce about when I lived in Malmoe (Sweden) and Raphael Saadiq preformed there at the 'Jeriko'(a church remixed into venue for sinful dance and music) ... after that all the girls in the city was TOTALLY convinced that they were his baby-mama... I experienced my friend getting teary in a cafe because another friend said- no, no, no SHE indeed was the mother baring his children (observe: I know for a fact that they hadn't been 'groupies', they where never closer to him than a concert.... I don't think this man is aware of how many Swedish imaginary kids he has out there somewhere .lol). It was a very magical concert and those 2 hours are very dear to my heart. I felt like I got a hint of how women/girls were fainting left and right at Beatles concerts back in the days when my dad was young.

*My dad has this story about how the neighbor's daughters had been grounded and prohibited from seeing them live, the Beatles. It was devilish and nothing they should get involved with.What happened? they went anyways, snuck out at night. Next morning their faces and 2 more girls appeared on the front of the morning newspaper

.... Raphael.... I remember the impact that stayed in the city after that... for weeks ... everyone loved this man for giving them a sweaty, pure, not-an-ordinary-day, sold out concert,

To see Common live ... it reminded me of that little part. Where do you loose that? ... I don't know... age? stress? too-many-impressions-in-life-so-you-are-just-pessimistic-about-everything? When Queen Latifah got on stage as a secret appearance it felt surreal. Yes I am an entertainer BUT! it's so bullshit when people express that only because you are an 'artist', you can't be impressed or emotionally-in-pressed by someone... that is showing total lack of strength. Are you kidding me? I love to see things as a fan still, I want to continue to enjoy my life, everything doesn't have to be analysed, criticized, sized up ... it can be left as it is? ... right there in that moment... right in that time?... It's ok people, go ahead ENJOY your life. And to all you others... Keep your posses and boring un-emotional lifes to your self. ..If I'm in the corner.... it's because I don't know how to be... I'm socially weird..nothing else. Why are you there?

I loved the moment when Twilite Tone stepped up from the audience and danced-locked-grinded-poped and what-not for 2-3 minutes. I didn't even know that he could do that! There is apparently a youtube clip somewhere floating around of him doing the dance for 5 minutes or more in some other city... haven't found it yet, if you see it.. let me know will ya'? Sorry if the rambling got heavy tonight.

Love you / Kissey

Jamie Lidell - 'The Ring'...

Sheeps and Shepards.
I am sooooo looking forward to Mr Lidell's new album Compass by the judging of this song !

Much love/ Kissey

...

Dollfaces,

Just finished seeing 'The Wackness' this morning.... Love the scene when the psychiatrist 'Pumps' his shoes after tagging the wall. HAHAHAHA Hilarious! Tonight I'm going to Santos to check TK Wonder's new project 'Mars' out...

... swing safe in the jungle. Going to write some musica now. Love you /Kissey

pinky in pink ...

Dearies.

A lot of pictures and things I need to tell you about, but technology is working against me a little. Trying to devote today to get all pictures and things together :).

Love you/Kissey

Twilite Tone - 'Just Wright' pt2 (freeload)...

Darlings.

Common posted on his blog pt2 for the 'Just Wright' movie. And it's mixed by our favourite Mr Twilie Tone. So click here to get it. Sitting here frying my brain /head with dye... again... when you think about it... stupid ain't it. lol. AND listening 'Brand New Heavies ft N'Dea Davenport' from 1991.

Love you /Kissey

M.I.A- 'Born Free'...

... directed by Romain Gavras.

A Family-portrait...

Hi babes.

Somedays ago we got together and took an oldschool 'Family-portrait'. Jannick Boerlum is the father behind this idea (the photographer as well)...

...Love you. Kisses / Kissey