Today is: Friday, December 31, 2010

"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

Today Is: Friday, December 24, 2010

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." -Vincent Van Gogh

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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!”

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Lots of Love,

Starface

Today Is: Tuesday, December 14, 2010

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -Leo Tolstoy

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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."

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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.]

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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
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Lots of Love,

Starface

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!)

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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

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Lots of Love,

Starface

The Nineteen Ninety Fly™ Video Of The Week

Don't let it go to your head...

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."

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Lots of Love,

Starface

Currently Reading...

"Brainwashed: Challenging The Myth of Black Inferiorty" By: Tom Burrell

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.

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Lots of Love,

Starface

Today Is: Friday, November 5, 2010

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." -Bernadette Devlin

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Lots of Love,

Starface

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.