Feb 24

Smart Is The New Sexy

Me In San Leandro, Ca

Me In San Leandro, Ca

“i think the “smart is the new sexy” or “new rich” trend is replacing the “ghetto fab” fad which has been dominant in media and society. its seems no longer trendy to be dumb, tough and cool and i simply look at it as a passing fad like bell bottoms.”

“tell mr stewart i am a primary example of why the “smart is sexy” trend started!! LOL ive always been able to get along on the street or in academia or at a corporate level and never used toughness or “sexy” to get me by. and i will say this, one time a long time ago like in the 80’s danny jokingly told me i was too happy to be black! LOL to this day i remember that statement cause one i thought it was brilliant and two cause it helped me to better understand how i may be perceived and it explained a lot of the reactions i get from people, both “positive” and “negative” and from white folks and blacks folks. i’ve told that story many times and have used an evolved understanding of that statement since that day when interacting with people.”

” ive never really “fit” (and didn’t want to) into any basic stereotype and have lived with this all my life. and living in liberal california AND since it seems my “stereotype” is very popular right now “my kind” is on the come up!!!! i can get down (on beat LOL) with the best at night in the club and talk physics with scholars and buddy up with CEO’s during the day. i participated in the trendy “ghetto” fad and it was cool, but it was always just a fad to me just like it is to white kids in the suburbs. i never lived it. just like i’ve never lived the life of a scholar or a CEO or a religious saved person or a thug or that of an athlete. 50 years of life and all i know is i have acquired the confidence to be me!! i’m jeffery and “i’m me” and people say that about themselves but i really really really mean i am my own individual self and i love that more than anything! (the prime example is the balls it takes to openly not believe in God where EVERYONE you’ve always known and see even on tv believes).” 

to me that’ s a true freedom and it is magical and euphoric!!!

 

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Feb 12

Transitings 20130212

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I installed WordPress Mobile on my HTC Evo Shift so I can blog on the train in the morning when there is no connectivity. I am a geek living in what I feel is the best time ever for a geek. I don’t think I could have thought of a better idea than the internet as a resource for my personality, interests and intentions. I love people, developing technologies for my self- especially free ones, communicating and just about all forms of electronic media (paper use is dying). Social media provides me with a connected, yet isolated platform to exercise, share and explore my opinion and the opinions of others. The idea I can get information on any subject instantly always is a very powerful tool. No other time in the history of mankind has the common person had access to so much data and information.

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Feb 11

Facebook Funk Talkin’

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Whats up man “catch you slippn'” I never thought about it like that I was more focused on that idea of who “they” is as my son is caught up in all that gangsta glam as is many many other (black) kids I see everyday spoortin’ a hard tough mentality. But just let me say also I thought your rhyme to be very good, tight and creative and the “inside the club” line all but blew me away just as the creativity of these kids does but when they start talking that gangsta bullshit to me its wasted thats just a personal opinion like i tell my son you are promoting the killing of your own people would jesus do that? Cause the people in the suburbs are buying the music where the folks in the hood are living it. 

And also the “ain’t they we” is a song title waiting to be written and I believe its mine as I thought it up so thank you for being a creative energy but back to my point that if we get rich by selling it to them it really comes back to us yes i think i know what you mean by dumbed down and the idea of they but i thought about it and they is actually we!

As a side note i said the same thing when C-Kunsphrsy Children Of Production came out years ago gangstering it up under that name which i felt was sacred. So no man i wasn’t coming after you personally but the idea of making that bullshit dumbed down music and it not affecting we or us whoever we or us is. And again i really really liked the rhymin’!!!

Same with the music people be out there calling “Funk.” it REALLY gets me going when any ole music with half a beat is called funk!! ill giive you an example i aint never heard a song by Dam Funk that was funk! I dont want our kids growing up thinking that kind of music is funk! Now im not saying the music (not just dam funk, other musics too) is not good, it is and i like it but it aint funk as was created by the Mothership Connection record and developed by Parliament and replicated by many other groups (a lot of them from ohio like me).

I miss it deeply sooooo deeply and if it wasnt for the fact Mr Clinton continues to tour what would i have? I love the band and the music and realize the touring is more than touring and hearing the music like no one else can play it, its also keeping that Thang alive!! The side projects by Mr Curry, Mr Bedrosian, Mr Payne, Mr Spearman, etc may could not happen if the band wasnt pulled together to tour. The musicians who learned to play P-funk and who have played it for 30+ years would disperse and then what would we have? NOBODY plays the music the way the folks from the P-Funk camp does as that Thang is in them.

LOLOL and i aint one to not have what i want so ive been trying to make the funk i desire myself! LOL its fun and rewarding and i love it to death but i tag it jefferyTV music and not PFUNK1 cause i know it aint got that Thang on it. Even i know it aint funk yet regardless of my intention and im cool with that cause by profession i work in an office and fix peoples computers and am not a musician.

But best believe if i ever hit the lottery and get a budget to produce a funk record i know who and where to go to get that Thang.

LOLOL Yeah and some have called me the funk police as there is no doubt i have a very strong opinion about funk and especially the funk i love most with all my heart coming out of the P-Funk camp. Im just a life long fan with an opinion and the internet as a tool.

And all that “doo-doo” and “baby making” music is also a form of dumbed down as was the awesome power record thats just my opinion and i want so desperately for my heroes to make that breakout hit it aint got to be super high conscious music but damn have some kind of inspiration in it.

So what yall be doing in that studio is very important to me as i know NOBODY makes the music better than P-Funk

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Feb 11

My Thoughts On The 2013 Grammy Awards

If yesterdays Grammy’s was any indication rap is dead or dying. I dont remember any rap performamces other than LL and Chuck D and that was at the end. There was no Funk, basically no R&B as ive known it and even a new category- Urban Contemporary.

But watch out, white folks is gettin’ it down. Justin Timberlake killed. Jack White tore it all the way up, with a rock sound that felt more “on the one” than old school rock. Sting with Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, etc brought very strong energetic performances.

I was not wowed by Frank Ocean, but i can see why his style is popular.

Even though LL and Chuck D are not gangsta and lean towards a more conscious hip hop, the energy was “still” hard and tough. Like that of struggle and fight. The performance killed, but the energy seemed outdated.

The one hip hopped out cat i saw took the stage with Jay Z to get an award and looked way out of place. Jay Z didnt even thank anybody receiving the award he made a joke about hip hop costumed guys hat saying he thank the swap meet he got that “boys in the hood” hat from.

Though i may not partcularly like the styles of musics last night, the performances and productions of all of them were very good and very tasteful.

No gangsta energy. And i really dont remember any traditionally “black” music. No “real” R&B and no traditional soul (though Carrie Underwood came close in a “new” way). The gospel performance was good (white folks).

The dancing, singing and stage production was top notch. Very innovative visuals using projection with Frank Ocean and Underwood very creative. Graceful and tasteful though i remember very little diversity.

For me this was a tasteful classy show very unlike the NAACP Image Awards which seemed still in that gangsta ghetto mess tone. 10 minutes into the NAACP Image Awards i was all but screamin at Steve Harvey’s buffonery. Dont get me wrong, i laughed cause Mr Harvey is funny but as a representative of an “Image” i felt he set black people back 50 years. Though i will say that after his opening monologue i didnt get that feeling from him again. Then the tone and production of the show seemed stuck in an older time and consciouusness. And it was more than just the over the top God thanking, something modern and innovative was missing.

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Aug 02

My Status Update To William “Bootsy” Collins Post

i’ll be there just like I was last year in LA when snoop and dr west got funky wit it and I helped you back on stage after you touched somebody (I remember the first time I saw you do that early 90s hollywood palladium I believe) and then meeting you in your dressing room on my birthday the next day in San Francisco wearing that pittsburgh steeler jersey with that p funk on the back oh yeah mr collins I was born in raised in ohio and came up on Parliament (not Funkadelic, specificly Parliament) and 3 deacades later I hear Lige and Clip and Kidd and Greg Thomas sing about noise and boys before they called the Mothership down. what y’all created is so special its still going strong and I’ve come to realize the specific elements that went into that creation and the creation of FUNK itself. FUNK began with Mothership Connection everything before that was just funky. The part Ohio played in the creation of that genre when Parliament was the first to use FUNk as a noun and bring every instrument down on the one and how so many other groups during that era successfully recreated that feel and hit that spot.

I thought everybody danced and did music the way we did in ohio moving to LA I found what we are is special I can remember my mother taking me to get stitches cause I hit my head on the coffee table doin the popcorn same woman was head of our cub scouts and we did a dance routine to psychadelic shack for a troop meeting and we practiced using her jc penney console stereo she use to let us listen to her 45s one of which was testify amongst many others.

Its not like that out here in this smoking melting pot so when the FUNK around oh yeah mr collins I do what I have to do to hear the music played the way is suppose to be played a lot of people say this is Funk and that is Funk but only a few play it the way I remember it played hittin that spot however they did it from slave to the ohio players only a few can hit that spot nowadays so yeah whenever you or your buddy mr clinton come around I’m there in fact when mr clinton came to cincy this year I was there and you were to leading the crowd we love to funk you funkenstein so yeah ill be there wearing the black and gold with p funk on my back

pardon me while I wiggle, I’m under the influence of a groove (don’t tell me to be cool, you can be cool when its your turn)

oh how the music moves me like I was saying when I began to understand exactly went into the creation of Parliament I began to see your role and your contributions and how they lined up with the parts of pfunk that I gravitated to. First time I walked a major city alone philly I bought this boot is made for fonkin I remember it well the feeling to this day. Mothership Connection changed my life. From the very instant I heard that keyboard sound I was hooked. I can remember where I was sitting when I heard it to and can picture the bootleg 8track I borrowed cause there was no way I was leaving that house without that music. I believe you and mr clinton believe that was a real ufo.

And for all intents and purposes it served its purpose that ufo cause about a month ago stephen colbert called you and gc “interdimensional black people” and showed a pic of y’all. What y’all created to me is way above all others by far. Once I got home with that mothership 8track I typed out all the words and have been studying every syllable off every pfunk album since. The keyboards caught me, but the concept kepted me. Not a contradiction in philosophy across any pfunk album. How is that? There is deep intregrity in this consistency which I demand from anything I place my faith in. Not only is the music pure, but the core philosophy is also. Pfunk freed me to be a fool i still felt cool cause the doctrine was strong enough for a teenage boy to place a faith in it. The boy is 50 now and still living on the one musically and philosophically. So yeah mr collins, I will be there

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Jul 24

What is Local?

Growing up, going from my house on the southside of youngstown to the mall in boardman, 3 miles away, was “far” and way on the other side of town. Going to Farrell, Pa where my extended family was, 25 miles away was a day trip! LOL I mean you left the city and got on an interstate where there was nothing but trees and woods and it felt like you actually left something.

My local growing up was a 5 mile stretch.

Moving to California I met my old babysitters husband who had driven to Rancho Cucomonga from Los Angeles with no sweat. He was like yeah we can go here and there all over LA county like it was nothing. He knew the freeways and had the confidence and I was like THATS the kind of freedom I want! Looking back coming here a small town boy I wasn’t ready for big city getting around like that. It took over 10 years for me to gain the experience, knowledge and confidence to feel i can go anywhere in Los Angeles at anytime. From that came yahoo maps and then gps and google maps and the confidence i could go to any city anywhere and get around freely.

Now living in the SF Valley I’m use to travelling 20 miles every time I start a car! My mother lives 70 miles away from me and I consider that local! Going to her house on the expressway 70 mph thru city after city its like you never leave town. Im so familiar with the places in between that I consider everything between me and her like local.

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Jul 24

The Power Of “Faith” is Also the Problem with Faith

Faith works. A person with a faith is a happier, better functioning human being. Faith by definition is belief in things for which there is no evidence. Over the years of human development systems were created that pump adreneline, saratonin, endorphins and other stimulants into our system based on how we feel and what we think. With faith, we not only find a way to overcome the things that are unknown to us (no evidence),  we also can achieve the spectacular and perform “super human” tasks based on how we feel.

The problem with faith is that just because a person (or miillions of people) believes it, it is still unknown (there is no evidence). And because these beliefs are “sights unseen,” they can be interpreted and or presented to be anything. There is no direct criteria to judge the unknown so it can be whatever we or any individual wants it to be. It’s not about what it is, its now becomes about what we believe it is.

So when we apply faith to religion and God, who determines what the unknown and unseen is? The Church? Your Pastor? The Bible? It’s he who claims to know the unknown.  And we all have an equal right to do that. So how can any individual or organization claim to know what God is or what God wants?

With no direct evidence there will always be conflicting ideas,contradictions and at least minor conflict.

Science is a system where nothing is taken as true without direct evidence and repeatable demostration of this evidence. There has to be criteria and “experiments” that can disprove any claim that is made. If something cant be disproven it cant be taken as fact.

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Jul 24

My Life I Love

I love my life absolutely. I dont think that im in love with myself, but i am definitely in love and very proud of the things i can do. The things that i am capable of is what i love most about me. My knowledge gives me “advantages” and a freedom that most people will never experience.

My understanding gives me the abilty to determine what is important and what should be priority based on my own personal desires and needs. I dont go to external sources to determine what is cool or how i should live. I am at a point where i live according to my own philosophy. I do not live to please or appease anyone or anything. I worry not about any judgement, other than my own unto myself.

I have said it many, many times. The freedom i have achieved is magical. It comes from having the tools to achieve, and to do or have anything that i want. Its not about money or power or cheating or stealing or “getting it.”. Its about having heightened intelligence (a superior processing of knowledge + experience) to figure out the way to have whatever it is i want and attaining it in a harmony with everything around me.

Money is one route to get what you want. That’s why a lot of people seek riches as the solution. What money does is get you “things,” but there are ways to get those same things (or generic versions thereof) without money. And it lies with people, communication and a lot of times paperwork!!

Also with my understanding i have the ability to enjoy every ounce and nanosecond of life. I dont need to have the best or the newest or travel to an exotic place to find joy. Because i believe everything is connected (in this universe) i deeply appreciate the impact that everything has on the universe, and therefore on reality and its affect on “forever.”

Consciousness to me is the greatest gift in the universe. The ability to contemplate and be self aware. To reason and understand the environment around me. To explore life, not just physical life but the conscious thoughts of other human beings in relation and comparison to the concepts and perceptions i have. To gain deeper knowledges of how the things around me operate. To be sensitive to what other people respond to. And to do this with a predisposition towards harmony.

There may be the secret. It is one thing to have an ability, its another how one applies it. My motivation and energy comes from being in harmony with people and things around me. I get joy from the joy of others around me and this gives me more joy which i express to excite more joy in the people around me. Its almost perpetual in that the levels of energy between me and others can feed each other generating greater possibilities and degrees of higher consciousness. For me this is the key. Being able to tap into what could be an unlimited source of energy.

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