When athletes retire from other sports, they usually retreat into a life full of terrible clothes, even worse golf and lots and LOTS of apparently really good food. If you have any doubts about what that means, look no further than our favorite big man from yesteryear, Sir Charles Barkley…
Clearly the man has not missed a meal!
But what happens when you’re already a big guy, say for example, a sumo wrestler? The recent retirement of the the baby-faced (but drunk and violently tempered) yokozuna, Asashoryu, had me thinking: what do sumo wrestlers do when they leave the sport? Do they go for what they know and take up coaching? Or do they get in to showbiz? Or do they spend their later years knocking down residual groupies? We see you #23!!! Read more »
I know I’m not alone here when I saw that the Winter Olympics are such a bore! But more than a few residents of the City Under Red Sun have still found a way to get their collective panties in a bunch, and his name is Kazuhiro Kokubo (seen above). The problem was he showed up at Vancouver International looking like this!
My first (and second and third) thought was: カッコイイ!!! [read: kakkoii - dope!!!] But the Japanese media was not impressed! The ill sag, the untucked shirt, the nose stud and the locks to top it…. the media was NOT having it. Instead, they labeled him as somehow “unrepresentative of Japan”. Even politicians were making statements about his “regrettable appearance”!
So you should know from my last post that I HATE being pointed at! There’s perhaps nothing ruder or more threatening than an index finger extended, stabbing the air! The only thing worse – besides actually drawing blood, that is – would have to be someone saying “Hey, you!”. It makes my blood boil! And if finger pointing arouses my “fight or flight” response, a “Hey, you!” is a sure way to get me to stick around and teach you some manners
There is of course always an exception to the rule! And ladies and gentlemen, behold the exception to the rule:
Earlier this year, in my daily worship at the altar of Kanye I discovered a new GOOD Music artist by the name of Kid Cudi. The video for his lead single Day and Nite really grabbed my attention. Sure, it was mad creative, but what would you expect from one of Kanye’s artists? Still, the video resonated with because it’s really just a guy going about his day imagining his life as something other than it is… walking in his own daydreams as it were. If you know me for real, you know that’s pretty much me!
Listening to the album, Kid Cudi really takes you there with the depth of introspection and emotion. He’s something like Kanye minus the ego, something like hip hop emo. And I was feeling it from track 1. Months after I first “acquired” it, Cudi’s Man on the Moon is still in heavy rotation. It’s something the soundtrack to my day on the grind! And perhaps no song primes me up for that daily grind more so than this track here….Pursuit of Happiness!
Grind with me on this one!!!
If you ain’t up Man on the Moon yet, you LATE AS HELL! Lemme help you though…
I haven’t done one of these in a good, long while so I thought it was about that time to bring y’all another one of the City’s uber-talented resident extraordinaires. Previously, I served up the Polish sensation, Przemek; my own cocohime, Miss Mo; and last but never least, my tranny godmother, Anthony. This go ’round I want to serve up another helping of Eastern European genius, and dare I say, sexiness!
I can’t remember when or where we actually met for the first time, but it seems like I heard of him, this character referred to only by the name of his superstar diva idol, for ages. Needless to say, I was anticipating meeting some super-duper die hard fan whose entire existence is a tribute to his diva idol (envision all those Michael Jackson impersonators sliced up to look like MJ – may he rest in peace – or pretty much every third Black dude impersonating his favorite rapper impersonating Tony Montana). When we did end up meeting though, I was pleasantly surprised, and almost disappointed even.
The man I ended up meeting was instead an absolute sweetheart of a man named Aleksandar, or Alex for short. And did I mention he’s gorgeous? What is it about Eastern European men!?!
Born in the former Republic of Yugoslavia, this Serbian sensation is a long-time resident of the City Under Red Sun. And like so many other of my circle of acquaintances here, he is also an uber-talented artist, videographer to be exact, who draws his inspiration from theology (yes, theology, you heathens!) and technology. His vision, he describes, is a re-creation of reality with the freedom of abstraction. He says, “it is all about creating sense out of the nonsense and then gong back to nonsense.” If you follow my blog for real, then you’ve already seen his brilliance in the fabulous. When I asked what can people expect from him in the future, he forwarded me this!
ENJOY! Or as they say in the City Under Red Sun, douzo!!
And if you haven’t gotten into the Tranny Trash Burgers, do it! DO IT NOW!!!
For my more of Alex’s tranny fab video work, check out my previous post here!!!
In the 7 weeks that I’ve been out of work, I’ve decided that for the time being at least I should focus on trying to do a lot of the things I’ve always wanted to do but never had the time to actually do. One of these things that I’ve been dying to do is to create an online magazine. Getting everything together for that though has been a process that is still ongoing. Y’all are NOT ready! LOL
In the meantime though, you know, I’ve been working on getting an internet media firm together to manage the magazine and a few of my other creative projects. In addition to managing the magazine, I want to get in to writing, publishing, and artist management. It’s ambitious, I know. But I’m starting with what I can do now, just me, my MacBook and Adobe Suite.
I’ve always down web design and development projects, so I figured I’d churn out a few projects to make some dough to subsidize my income (or rather lack thereof). I know I haven’t actually designed a site in a while, but please believe ya’ man still has it! I did after all get this blog up and running, and designed the logo. As for the extent of my skills, give me a few weeks and I think I’ll knock your socks off!
So I’ve been meeting with a few potential clients these past few weeks. And needless to say, it’s been HARD as HELL! I mean ,they all were interested in my work, which was definitely a good thing seeing as though I don’t have an extensive portfolio (or any portfolio to speak of right now). It was also good that they all wanted things which are well within my technical capabilities. But what was definitely not good was how much they were talking about paying! I mean I know it’s a recession, but DAMN!
I know alot of y’all out there HATE Kanye. But the man is a genius and the inspiration of genius in others. I found this clip on his blog the other day, and it so sums up so much of my interaction with my potential clients as of late.
Sometimes I so just want to scream, “Show me the money!” FYI, I do have one serious client and also is an effing genius. I can’t wait to get his project up so y’all can see what we both can do!
I know I have a very small but faithful group of readers! And I love and appreciate the HELL out of y’all! Y’all mean so much to me, if for no other reason that there are so many things that I want to say but can’t quite seem to be able to express anywhere else but here. So…. Thank you! Sorry it’s been such a long time since my last post. From today, I promise to get back on it and try to catch you guys (and gals) on all the extreme craziness that has transpired in the last few weeks.
In the meantime, I saw this video a few weeks ago when Black Mamba came for visit. I had never heard of this group(?) before but I was feeling this song from the break. Granted I don’t what ol’ boy is singing/rapping about but I dig his passion, and the song is just beautiful in any language.
Wanting to get it in (IMMEDIATELY) with Kanye has nothing to do with him being gay (or not). It’s a creative genius thing really. I mean, the man is a f-ing creative genius!!! If Jay-Z is our generation’s Sinatra and B is our Tina Turner, Kanye has to be like our generation’s Prince or Rick James! So he’s either gonna turn you out with just a look in his eye, or he’s gonna smack you, tie you up and beat you for three days! How could you deny him? World, I wonder… WHY WON’T YOU LET THIS MAN BE GREAT? Really??? LMAO
I mean, my man is from the 24th century for real. And Captain Kirk ain’t got anything on Kanye. We got him walking on the moon one minute and the next minute he’s giving us the raw and unadulterated fever. Peep how he even recruited the alien queen to star in his video… got her all paranoid! GENIUS!!!
While I’m in the mood to post viddies, I might as well post these too. Not necessarily representative of the City Under Red Sun mind you, but if my life here in the City were a movie these would be good candidates for the soundtrack. You know, right at the part were the hero (read: moi) gets it together and hits the scene again.
Here’s just a lil bit of what’s giving me life right now. (I wish some folks wouldn’t be such stingy bastards and lemme embed – love that word – what I want! Hell, I’m trying to hype their joints!)
Anyway, you already know the first joint HAS to be from my diva idol!
And if you don’t know Röyksopp, get your international music game up (waaay up) and get into them ASAP!!!
Inspirations, Personal | young city extraordinaire | 
February 22, 2010 11:17 pm | 
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