Reminiscin' - Art of Noise

This song has been' creepin' up on me for a while nooOOw. Have been sick as a dawg the past couple of days and listenin' to extensive amounts of muze I loved as a child growin' up in England. My childhood memz remain quite 'FANTASICAL'. Winning a veteran's dance competition in Reading, the keyword is VETERAN, I was 8?!?! haha. Theme muze - Soul II Soul's 'Back to Life'. haha. Bowlin' kids over with tree trunks, befriendin' the nunz so they'd buy me jawbreakers on my lunch break, [yeh yeh i went to a private all-girl school]. oh n' WHAM BARZ, searchin for badgers, newts, frogs, naked fairies, unicorns, GHOSTS, joanne carson-long, burgerz n' heinz baked beanz at little chef, pears and chocolate sauce, spotted dick, TREACLE, roadtrips to St.Ives, PANTOMIME, Isle of Wight, moonin' at the Ascot Races...hahaha

I always wanted to be this little girl in the vid.

ART OF NOISE - CLOSE

Eartha Kitt + Freddie Hubbard

Last Xmas 2008 James Brown took flight, now Eartha n' Freddie...Uh.

What can I tell ya about EARTHA. She is one of 3 gentle juggernauts, haha, who changed my life as a performer. [Eartha Kitt, Grace Jones, Chaka Khan, yeh ya know it.] Saw her live my first night in NYC at the Blue Note. Captivatin', seXy, and witty as hell. Sighhhh. Got to hear n' hang with Blossom Dearie at Danny's Skylight Room the night after too, craZiness, em little powerful women. My New York city ranger/jazz groupie galpal Louisa and I had quite an epic week. Hangin' with Elvin Jones' bass player in Harlem, ping pongin' at the Fat Cat, wizzin' to the Village Vanguard to see Lewis Nash with Renee Rosnes! Savion Glover, Giant Step party at APT, um and the list goes on and on and on...



FREDDIE HUBBARD's "POVO" was my intro to the infinitely dope trumpeter. My Pops used to play Freddie all the time when us kids were but wee ones. Creed Taylor Release, Skydive 1972. Just the album cover alone DAMN!!! Featuring fellow geniuses Hubert Laws [flute], George Benson [guitar], Keith Jarrett [keys], Ron Carter [bass], Billy Cobham [drums], & Airto Moreira [percussion]. Wohhhh! Might remember that bass line off of Guru's Jazzmatazz with N'dea Davenport some 25 years later, ya know "I like the vibe I get from you babe, that I get from you..."

Xmas IS ALL ABOUT the gifts...

Chuckle Chuckle Gobble Gobble. Anyone who really gets me knows that I ain't too hard to figure out, let me tell ya...spicy food, outrageous art, n' couture fashion are BIG euphoric buzZes for me. Anything over the top or extremely minimalistic. No inbetweenz. Gotta control myself sometimes when wantin' to wear my craZy hats. hahaha I'll talk about that obsession lates. So who would've guessed that my main man OPOLOPO would get me my mos fave prezzie this year. I HEART MY URBAN COOK BOOK! Don't be put off by the title, forget all em establishments wanting street cred by usin' the description in their cheeZy ad campaigns. Check out the content and the visual feast. From inflatable sculptures to JERK chicken, graffiti's Wooster Collective to !K7 records, oh yeh and let's not forget ALL the multitude of recipes from New York, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam n' London! AY YAY YAY! Gotta hand it to the man King Adz who put it together. I salivate, snuggle n' giggle with it. What more could a girl ask for? Okey maybe my own cargo plane so we could go feed all starving folkz...Hmmm.

Oh and please if ya need some auditory inspiration, check the latest Matthew Herbert Big Band Album featuring the one and only ESKA. My theme music right now. UNBELIEVABLY MIND EXPANSIVE, all em horns! Check Pontificate and Battery, em trax get my juices flowin'. ;-D

Snow Globe Shakin' - Vancouver versus Stockholm

So craZzzzzy! Icing sugar all over Vancity. Yum Yum! Meanwhile on the far side of the planet, my other home Stockholm, we have a giant sneeze of snotty icicles courtesy of my jazz gurl Jeanette Lindström. ;-P

Welcome! Mabuhay!

JUPITER MILK COMET!!! I DID IT!

I just unleashed the beast! Now what? Hmmmm.

Click HERE to hear what I bake...