"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.
All the best in 2011!
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, December 31, 2010
Today is: Friday, December 31, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Today Is: Friday, December 24, 2010
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." -Vincent Van Gogh
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Some “Good Times” History: The Portrayal Of The Black Family On Television
“Good Times had a father in the family but only because [Esther] Rolle fought for one; according to [BernNadette] Stanis, the show’s producers wanted the show to have a single mother, but after Rolle’s protests, they hired John Amos, a former professional football player.” -From, “Fierce Angels” By: Sheri Parks
Today Is: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
"The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." -Robert Frost
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Today Is: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
"To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever." -Bruce Lee
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, December 17, 2010
Today Is: Friday, December 17, 2010
"There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation; veneer isn't worth anything." -George Washington Carver
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Currently Reading...
"Fierce Angels: The Strong Black Woman In American Life and Culture" By: Sheri Parks
Today Is: Thursday, December 16, 2010
Life is beautiful and brief. Don't disrespect it by engaging in pettiness and mean-spiritedness. God has the justice department covered! Let Him do His job, while you enjoy your life. SIDEBAR: "He who is in the mud wants to get somebody else dirty." -Johnnie Cochran...Stay fresh & clean. xoxo
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Today Is: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
“Success requires you to get up just one more time than you get knocked down. That’s what life is: getting knocked down and getting up. Stay down and you miss half a life- the half that makes the whole worthwhile. The blow may be a swinging door, a harsh word, a lost job, a bad investment, a misplaced confidence, a lapse of health, or a loved one’s passing. Whatever fells you, get up. If it only staggers you, gain your balance and renew the struggle. Outlast the blow- that’s the secret of triumph. It is hard! But it is harder to lose!”
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Today Is: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -Leo Tolstoy
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Today Is: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Never take the word "inexperienced" as an insult. We all have to start from somewhere. Just remember: "Experts made the Titanic. Amateurs made the ark."
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, December 6, 2010
Today Is: Monday, December 6, 2010
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Bruce Lee Edition
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." -Bruce Lee
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." -Bruce Lee
Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Jimi Hendrix Edition
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix
"I've been imitated so well, I've heard people copy my mistakes." -Jimi Hendrix
Today Is: Saturday, November 27, 2010
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." -Jimi Hendrix
[SIDEBAR: Happy Birthday to Jimi Hendrix.]
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, November 26, 2010
Today Is: Friday, November 26, 2010
"When you want to destroy a community; when you want to destroy a people; you destroy the nature of their romantic love- destroy their ability to love another in a healthy way...The love that we have for one another is the greatest threat to the people who rule over us." -Amos N. Wilson
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, November 22, 2010
Fly Flicks
SIDEBAR: If NYC trains were still this fly, then MAYBE $2.25 for a one-way fare would be justifiable.
Today Is: Monday, November 22, 2010
Monday Morning Challenge: Every time you have a negative thought about someone or think about how a person harmed you in some way, stop that thought stream and say a prayer of peace, healing, and happiness for yourself AND that person. (SIDEBAR: WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER WITH THIS!)
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Consider This A Dropped Jewel: The Television & Advertising Bamboozle
“News has become entertainment. Television is the main source of news, and only real purpose of any commercial televison program is to deliver an audience to advertisers.
The programs and the advertisements become indistinguishable, both serving the purpose of massaging the viewer into the mood to consume. If there were no such thing as official U.S. government propaganda, America would still be in the grip of the most powerful propaganda apparatus in human history: the advertising industry. Advertising is not usually thought of as propaganda, because it has no obvious political slant. All the better to brainwash you with. In fact, advertising sells a political ideology as fully developed and as potent as anything...The ideology is consumerism.
There are tow types of propaganda identified by Jacques Ellul, whose book ‘Propaganda’ is a definitive work on the subject. There is propaganda of integration (sociological propaganda) and propaganda of agitation (political propaganda). Advertising is both. It presents a coherent set of values and standards, which serves the purpose of molding (integrating) disparate ‘propagandees’ into a coherent group with shared ideals- in this case, the equation of happiness with consumer products. And it ‘agitates’ its targets into performing specific acts for the benefit of the political system- namely, purchasing things, an act without which industrial capitalism, our political system, would perish.
Conflation of advertising and propaganda spawns USC professors Ian Mitroff’s and Warren Bennis’s book title, ‘The Unreality Industry.’ The advertising and entertainment industries have teamed up to instill America with a culture based upon outright falsehoods and manipulations of fact. We worship celebrities whose public personas bear little relationship to their real identities, then we purchase products designed to make us identify with the artificial celebrities. The process perpetuates until we’re living in a mirage. Or perhaps it’s more like a hologram because the illusion is deliberately created.
What becomes of our own identities in this haze of consumption? We lose them, as we submerge ourselves into the mass culture. Striving to create ourselves in the images presented to us by advertising, we lose touch with reality.” From, Conspiracies, Cover-Ups, and Crimes” By: Jonathan Vankin
Today Is: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen." -Mother Teresa
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Today Is: Tuesday, November 16, 2010
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." -Carl Rogers
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, November 15, 2010
Today Is: Monday, November 15, 2010
"Our days are identical suitcases- all the same size- but some people can pack more into them than others."
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Today Is: Tuesday, November 9, 2010
We don't need to be slaves to technology. There's no camera better than the human eye, and no computer better than the human brain. Use technology, don't let technology use you.
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, November 5, 2010
Today Is: Friday, November 5, 2010
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." -Bernadette Devlin
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, November 1, 2010
My Life...My Flight: Me & My Music...
I will release music again. However, I will do so as I have ALWAYS done...I will continue to operate based on my own intuition and intentions. It was NEVER about status and “popularity” for me. Consequently, I never based my decisions on- or mingled with people- based on their status, or what they professed they could do for mine. My talent is my gift from God; and I protect, cherish, and honor it as such. I have always based- and will continue to base- my decisions and movements on this premise...Hence my purposeful musical isolation. I have never allowed anyone to interfere with how I make or promote my music, and I will never allow anyone to corrupt or dilute it...FLY OR DIE will never die!...Taking flight in my own way, in my own time...Peace.
Today Is: Monday, November 1, 2010
Monday Morning Challenge: Every time you have a negative thought about someone or think about how a person harmed you in some way, stop that thought stream and say a prayer of peace, healing, and happiness for yourself AND that person. (SIDEBAR: WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER WITH THIS!)
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, October 25, 2010
The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week
1990's Brooklyn..."How Many Emcees"
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Today Is: Monday, October 25, 2010
"Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man." -Paul Robeson
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, October 22, 2010
Today Is: Friday, October 22, 2010
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." -Tao Te Ching
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Just Because...
..."I'm just a soul's whos' intentions are good..." Nina Simone singing "Misunderstood" live...
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Today Is: Thursday, October 21, 2010
"To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith." -W. H. Auden
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Today Is: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
There's a difference between personality and character. It's nice to like a person's personality, charisma, and sense of humor; but make sure that you equally like their character.
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, October 18, 2010
The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week
A collaboration that wasn't often spoken about: AZ & SWV.
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Today Is: Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday Morning Challenge: Every time you have a negative thought about someone or think about how a person harmed you in some way, stop that thought stream and say a prayer of peace, healing, and happiness for yourself AND that person. (SIDEBAR: WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER WITH THIS!)
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, October 8, 2010
Today Is: Friday, October 8, 2010
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing- that's why we recommend it daily." -Zig Ziglar
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Today Is: Monday, October 4, 2010
Monday Morning Challenge: Every time you have a negative thought about someone or think about how a person harmed you in some way, stop that thought stream and say a prayer of peace, healing, and happiness for yourself AND that person. (SIDEBAR: WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER WITH THIS!)
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, September 27, 2010
Fly Interviews: Part 2- Muhammad Ali & The Jacskon 5
"If you are given a victory and a power over your adversary; then in thankfulness for God for this, forgive them..."
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Fly Interviews: Part 1- Muhammad Ali & The Jacskon 5
Muhammad Ali is the best!...
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The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week
Mary J. Blige performing "Be Happy" on the Apollo- with no backup; just her and a microphone...
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Today Is: Monday, September 27, 2010
Monday Morning Challenge: Every time you have a negative thought about someone or think about how a person harmed you in some way, stop that thought stream and say a prayer of peace, healing, and happiness for yourself AND that person. (SIDEBAR: WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER WITH THIS!)
[SIDEBAR #2: I'm still trying to master this. It's not the easiest thing for me to master, but it is very necessary! Even for the people that I know I have to keep a proper distance from.]
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Today Is: Saturday, September 18, 2010
How well, and accurately, do you know yourself? Do you know the process of terminating bad habits, and countering negative thought patterns that you may have? Do you know how your habits were created? Failure and powerlessness are habits. Google "learned helplessness" and think deeply.
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, September 17, 2010
The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week: Part 1
Boyz 2 Men sing, "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye", on Arsenio...
Today Is: Friday, September 17, 2010
"Wise men speak because they have something to say;
Fools because they have to say something." -Plato
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, September 10, 2010
Today Is: Friday, September 10, 2010
"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week: Part 1
A real hip hop classic!
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Today Is: Monday, September 7, 2010
QUOTE: "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Today Is: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning." -Benjamin Franklin
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, August 27, 2010
Today Is: Friday, August 27, 2010
"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking." -Mohandas K. Gandhi
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Today Is: Thursday, August 26, 2010
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." -Charles Dickens
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Today Is: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." -James A. Baldwin
Today, I'm searching through all the crevices to banish procrastination.
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Monday, August 23, 2010
Today Is: Monday, August 23, 2010
Not all exercises are physical. Think about it...Practice makes perfect.
This morning, I'm praying a prayer of thanks for all of my blessings, and thanking God for the gift of patience. May we all continue to practice and grow in faith and patience.
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Friday, August 20, 2010
The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week
Remember Sporty Thieves? I always thought they were clever lyricists...Remember their answer record to TLC's "No Scrubs"...
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Natural Hair Commentary
I love visiting the natural hair blogs! I came across this great quote while wisiting The Afroniquely You Blog. In an interview on the blog, model Nikia Phoenix, had this to say about natural hair:
"I do think natural is professional. I’ve been having this conversation with my mom lately. She’s been conditioned to think that natural hair isn’t polished. My mom keeps saying things like “you should get a few wigs so you can be more versatile” or “do you think you’re getting less work because your hair isn’t straight?” I know that she means no harm, but she brings up some interesting points. American society has black women believing that we can’t be accepted with our kinky hair. Locs and dreads are portrayed as dirty and unkept. Afros and natural curls mean you’re making a political statement. I believe that when employers see black woman with natural hair, they feel intimidated. I guess natural hair is an unofficial sign that we are not conforming to their standards of beauty."
Today Is: Friday, August 20, 2010
"Don't tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I'll tell you what they are." -James Frick
Have a fly day!
Lots of Love,
Starface
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Fly Quotes / Happy Birthday: The Marcus Garvey Edition
"A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman; but a writing man and woman is exact." -Marcus Garvey
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