thats right...i apologize for my slacking on the journal..but seems that we had some technical difficulties with my old journal..so....i found a new journal home here at Blog spot..or blog thing..i dunno..whatever this thing is called...Carmen recommended it to me so i thought i'd try it out..
lets see where should we start??...well...during Thanksgiving i was fortunate enough to travel to Toronto Canada...we left Thanksgiving night, we had a pre-djabel-bday party that wednesday night..it was pretty interesting..but i was stoked how many people came out for it...was actuallly really fun.... the next day was Thanksgiving , i ate a quick dinner with my family and hit the road.. lemme tell you it sucks having to drive a 4 hour drive on thanksgiving day..i was thinking about the fam all sitting around, grubbin and chillin, laughing and just having good family time....here i was in the middle of nowhere with nothing but trucks passing me ... i got to the Airport and checked in and what not.... our flight was a freaking 6 hour flight with a layover in Vegas..was kinda cool except i lost 30 bucks in less then 20 minutes..haha..my damn fault i know..the thing is i never if ever gamble...*sigh*...but we left Vegas around 12 am and headed to Toronto...This had to be the most uncomfortable flight..luckily myself and brodhi were in the 'exit' seats, and i was lucky enough to have some leg room....so we slept through the night..i never been on a redeye flight so this was different...an uncomfortable different...
so when we got to toronto we were interrogated by the Customs and Border control..it was wierd..they asked all kinds of questions...haha..made me feel...hmm..unwelcomed..or made me feel bad for going to Canada...they looked at every single one of my records..haha..they searched the CD players, the CD's...everything..it was crazy..haha.. we chilled the first day "FRIDAY after thanksgiving".. mostly slept through the day to prepare for the night time...that night we attended the Canadian Aboriginal Awards..it was kinda cool for a minute, but being that were from America we hardly knew any of the artist . we hit up a little of the town.. i finally got to eat canadian bacon in CANADA!...and we finally heard our waitress say."EH"....haha..it was actually a real dope moment for us...i dunno why.. After a good dinner we hit up the Spirit Magazine Afterparty...dope dope dope party...it was an array of Native Celebs...Adam beach recognized me from our work on the Kerry/Edwards campaign..haha..Wes Studi was there, a grip of Northern Hip Hop Artist and Blues artist..it was awesome...good good show...
the Thing that really freaked me out about canada was their love..or i should say their lack of love for our president...yep..i ran into Protestors in the streets of Toronto...they were chartering buses and vans to Ottawa Canada where they were protesting Bush's visit to Canada to 'patch up relations" with the prime minister of Canada.....i have flyers i brought back and heres what the flyers say..."BUSH, YOU'RE NOT WELCOME HERE!!" STOP BUSH IN OTTAWA..from Nov. 30 to dec. 1st, Bush will make a state visit to Canada. Activists from across the country will descend on Ottawa to give Bush teh welcome he deservs. The Toronto Coalition to Stope the War is organizing busses to send activist from Toronto to Ottawa to participate in the mass actions against the Bush agenda. "" it was weird..and actually made me think about how we are the most hated nation in the world...actually...americans aren't necessarily hated, its our president and his policies....another thing that was weird about Canada was the Media...We here in America have such Political Blindfolds on...we watched the news and they were talking about things we never even hear about here in AMerica....the last day i was in Canada, they showed the 32,000 protestors egging, and yelling and basically protesting BUSH when he first arrived at the airport all along his motorcade, to the parliament building....here in America, they made it seem like Bush was having a good time in Canada..they failed to show the protest...it was sooo massive that i can't believe they didn't show it.....thats what i mean. we have political media blindfolds on...it sucks!!!!.....
I posted this on DU, and of course i got some flack for it....one person was like.."you should shift your energy towards tribal politics, why go for the big kill first??"...i didn't respond but i was thinking to myself, Who is this guy to tell me where i should shift my energy too..i dunno i was kinda peeved knowing ..or actuallly NOT knowing what this guy has done to be active....*shrugs* who knows...then another guy was like.."thats america, love it or leave it"...i was like..OMG....unfortunate people still think that way..as a matter of fact..its that attitude that seems to have gotten us into soo much trouble...globally!!!..i dunno....we'll see what happens...all i can say about that is i was suprised....very suprised that the canadian political dynamics in media are soooooo much different the american....its kinda..hmm...sad...
anyway...back to the trip.. we did our show which was moderately packed..the promoter who goes by ALLEN someone...i dunno was shady as fuck, and payed me and ALyssa Divine 40 bucks to travel all the way to Toronto to spin for a combined 3 hours after he BEGGED us to relieve his dj's...*sigh*..i dunno man..its weird...i told him i was there supporting tactile and brodhi, i didn't want to bring hundreds of records to spin the actual club because..well..i didnt' prepare for it..but after he begged us, we ended up doing it....only to be jipped at the end of the night on my Birthday!!..haha..i dunno i was kinda pissed off, that i was jipped, worked my ass off, and got paid only 20 bucks (20 after me and alyssa split it evenly) Canadian 20 bucks is like american 16 dollars..haha...what was i thinking...damn..and the worse thing is.....It was my Birthday...haha...so i went to canada to get dissed, stand in the cold ass rain, and ripped off on my birthday.....*shrugs*..ooh well...what can we do right??
So on my actual Birthday i chilled with Brodhi.. check this out..Brodhi has the same freaking birthday as me...me and him had a good ass time hitting up the town daytime style...we had a good lunch, and hit up a couple spots...it was fun, but when my sister called, i had my cousins all singing happy birthday to me over the phone, and they were telling me how much fun they were having back home...i actually, honestly , for the first time in a looooooong time..got homesick....maybe cuz i was feeling sorry for myself that it was my birthday and i ended up eating my birthday dinner in a fast food resteraunt with the 16 bucks i earned the night before!!.haha....
so yep..the next day we were up early, and i was ready to come home!!!.......dont get me wrong, Toronto Canada is a beautiful place, the people were nice, but just the timing was bad and i had to work for a shady promoter....thats the only thing that made my trip kinda...hmm....'cheap' (rez accent).....but ooh well...its done with and i look forward to the New Year....the other thing that i was happy about in Toronto was the eye opener..the political eye opener made some weary feelings i had more apparant.......thank you Canada!!!!!
thats about it..i have alot more to talk about...this is only the first of many new Journal Entries here at my new 'journal' home..haha....let me know what i should do to make it more fun!!!
peace in the middle east..PLEASE!!!
