I promised I was not going to go into the Britney/Lohan/Paris world, but I have to. Rumors are spreading regarding Britney Spears appearing at this Sunday's Primetime Emmy® Awards broadcast on FOX (8/7 CT). Guess what for? She will apologize for her unforgivable /unforgettable performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. In case you missed it, watch the video and let us know if Britney should even consider appearing on television until she cleans up her act and put herself together.

After all, it is her choice. But who cares? Well, FOX cares (really? of course, they live on that), NBC's Co-Chairman Ben Silverman does (I heard he liked Britney's performance at the VMAs) and the Academy does (if they allow this it wil be REALLY sad). Britney, I hope you don't do it and/or the network and the Academy change their mind.

P.S. CLEANING UP YOUR ACT means NO drugs, NO party, NO drinking, NO making a fool of yourself, NO showing your bald vagina to the world, and getting help. But help actually helps only when you want.

P.S. CARING means stop using others misfortunes, mistakes and crying for help to make money or get ratings. It is very low and unethical, only if you care.

Would you be surprised if I tell you that not everything at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in NYC is great? Of course not! I wil not only tell you that some collections were simply NOT suppposed to be allowed on the runway but I will show you some examples. Even the models look a bit confused with the "jogger wonder woman, sock tied around my head" look.

Lacoste, Herrera & Baby Phat: what the f@%! were you thinking?  Call me crazy but, come on! It is true that high end fashion designers with a name have a free-for-all liscence but sometimes, once in a while, some things, just don't make any sense.
What do you think? I say NO.
 

JLo closes NY Fashion Week Spring 2008 with a few thumbs up! 

JustSweet, JLo’s new fashion line introduced earlier this year, presented its Fashion Show at Eye Beam during NY Fashion Week Spring 2008 on Tuesday, September 11. The “JLO by Jennifer Lopez” brand launched in 2001 but was phased out with JustSweet.

JLo staged the surprise JustSweet show, as she took to the catwalk herself at Eyebeam studios after her models wearing a trendy lime green mini-dress from her new fashion line.

She called JustSweet "a fantasy - classic inspiration but with a new, kind of funky spin. Girls who are young are going to wear it… to feel sophisticated, because it does have a chic kind of feeling to it, but people who are older who wear it are going to feel young, flirty and fun. It really has a nice mix." We agree and we like JustSweet being just oneword.

AHHHHHHHHHH offically NINE, yes 9 more days until michelle and i head on out to the Forum in Inglewood to see LIVE the ever so wonderful WHITE STRIPES!!!!

woooowhooooo

Ho, ho, ho, hooooooooooooooo
Ain't nobody,
Love me better……………

When was the last time you was in a club and an old-school 80s joint came on that took everybody back and you just had to sing and belt it out?  Well for me it was this past Monday, August 27th, 2007.  The tune was "Ain't Nobody", its singer: bad ass Chaka Khan, the DJ spinnin' it: Bobbito, AKA, Kool Bob Love.  The place: Apartment. 
I left the club with a sexy, raspy voice, hoarse because for a minute I thought I was Chaka and since the music was so loud, I could scream it out and no one was gonna criticize me cuz they were doing just the same.  One brother next to me got all into it, started rubbing his boonkie on the wall and melting into the song. It was an audio despojo of black and brown peoples. It was beautiful.

My Boricua Brother Bobbito be giving out doses of therapeutic musical healing every last Monday of every month at Apartment in NYC's meat-packing district. 

Bobbito spins at apartment

The sounds which includes everything from latin jazz, to salsa, to hip hop, funk, soul and more, puts the crowd into a dance trance.

 
Photo by Ray Llanos- Apartment

But what's lovelier is to be at a club listening to beautiful music that few people got the know-how to spin and then right in the middle of it, have your ears blessed by the voice of Puerto Rican freedom fighter and former political prisoner, Ms. Dylcia Pagan, dropping some knowledge over the speakers before the music breaks into an off-the hook salsa.

My portrait of Dylcia

DJ Rich Medina, DJ Bobbito and B-Boy legend Crazy Legs chillin' at Apartment

OK, so now I'm gonna tell you a story about Happy Feet.  Happy Feet is a place where people check their egos at the door.  If you're coming to mack and look cute, this ain't the place for you. People come in comfy clothes and in their kicks cuz they know by the end of the night they're gonna be sweaty and straight up funky.  I'm gonna tell you how serious these cats are about dancing.  I watched, carefully observing, as one sista busted out with a thing of baby powder and strategically dusted the floor so her sneakers could glide more to the music. Don't believe me, here's a photo:

You see that dusty ass floor?! Baby powder kids!  This was bugged and beautiful. Reminds me of how as kids we used to get our one piece pajama sleepers with the zipper and the little footsies and do the same baby powder action to slide across the floor. It took a lot of coordination to keep from bustin' ones ass.

I didn't take a picture of my feet, ain't into feet, but I did take a picture of my Happy face and that of my hubby's, Ivan.  What had me so happy?, well where the hell else, besides my own ipod can I hear someone spinnin' the music of not one or two but 4 of my Soul Rebels!:

This is a detail of my Soul Rebels installation that was on the theater doors of El Museo del Barrio. L-R: Eddie Palmieri, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, all of whom you will hear at a Happy Feet event.

Yes, again being blessed with the conscious music of my favorite Fela Kuti whose intelligence taught us how to subvert the dance experience, flippin' it on the nyash shakers by teaching about "Sorrow, Tears and blood" in West Africa and any where oppressed people be dancin' to their revolutions.  

Later my Happy Face turned even happier,as I zoned into a music high………..

Don't know about ya, but this coming Sunday, I'm gonna be at the next happy feet, gettin' my happy high on rebel rhythms at Club Element with Bobbito and Rich.  If you wanna be down….. here's the flyer:

And don't forget, the last Monday of each month, Bobbito spins at Apartment………….See ya on the flo'
Yaz

Image: by legendary Joe Conzo, check out http://www.joeconzo.com/html/main.htm for a visual history of hip hop.

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