birth of the blues

They says they was a man
But they ain’t sho’
Don’t nobody know what was this mans home
He don’t got a mama o’ a pappy
Aun brutha o’ sista
Alls he got’s his gitar and a his saaaad sad song
His balls and his word
But dontcha go on aksin him
Cuz he wont tell

Lawd jesus could he play
Eva note the tears o’ the devil
Let me tell it the devil his self
They say he wont born
He like not to eva’ exist
Nary a picture of him ‘round

They say he was come to the cross roads
Full grown, a go’geus black man
Lands a’mighty he shone like wood fire
Beside this man was a gitar carved from
Black oak with strangs a’gold
He git up and looked
Left, was desert, right was a forest
Trees fulla that there
Strange fruit

And ahead was blacker than the heart
That made him
So black ya couldn’t see ya eyes close
And it was sweet as revenge

They say they was a road yonder
Plain as day it shone through that darkness
And it was anotha’n run ‘cross it
He aint know why or what, but he know
He gotta cross that road

And there he go, holdin’ fast to
His flesh bound book

Skin was white as snow in the moonlight
Eyes burned like whip ‘cross yo back
With the finest zoot suit yo’ eyes did see
He was beautiful
And this man called to that butha
And told him he would change the world
If he would give up his soul

If’n he he was a man ‘fore this
He might’na knowed what’d happen
But he wasn’t
He was newborn, green, a lil’ sapplin
And this here beautiful man was a full tit
Offerin’ him the great I am
The world for a soul and a suck

This man they say look at his gitar
Then he look at the snow white stranga’
He say he’d give anythin’ a make that
black and gold moan
And he prick his own fanga
And sign his name in that stranga’s book

Not even ‘fore the blood dry
This here wood fired man o’ ash and coal
Strum them strangs
And sounds man aint neva know poured out
The tears o’ the devil
They say that strange fruit jump down
from the tree, and move like
Like this man plucked Gawd’s breath outta that
Gitar

man look around for the stranga
But he was gone
Nuthin but the smell o’ sulfur and burnin’ flesh
Left behind
And a note that say
“See ya’ in 27 years my boy”

So he was born
Black man sho’ nuff like no other
And ever act to come there afta’
Would know the name
O’ Robert Johnson

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nipping at my tar heels: a blog by drew everyday

yes, i am a tar heel. yes it feels good. yes i hate waking up in the morning. yes i love this class. yes i will make an 'A'. yes yes yes.

with that said, i return mid-may to make a proclamation: i am clean, educated, in pursuit of happiness, and hoping for the best. by hoping of course i mean that i am actively working toward my goals. I've made a few life decisions in the time since our last encounter. for one I'm celibate. women are but a distraction to me, and i need to be focused on the mission, not my urges. ah, who am i kidding? the real reason for my celibacy is the negative results of the "exam". no more chances for the man of every hour, no sir. from this point forward we only philander with companions, savvy? i also decided that i was to continue with my education by any means necessary, even if it meant obtaining bachelors degree number two pre-law school entry. my folks don't think it's a good idea, but i'm not exactly anxious to jump right into a situation i'm not mentally ready for (post grad) or that's not economically ready for me (the, well, economy... or the job market). anywho, what else? what. else?
oh yeah, i'm leaving me humble abode as soon as my situation allows for me to do so. not that i've fallen out of love with the place itself, no. but i can't deal with the arrangement. i didn't sign up to live in a group home, and that's what the place is becoming. one my current roommate lets his friends run rough-shod over the place with no regard for anyone else that lives there, not to mention that he has no respect for people who don't live by his neanderthalic creed. he's moving out (good riddens). but now i learn that apparently i'm supposed to be getting some new kid as a roommate today. who, you ask? i don't know. neither does my landlord. i'm done. i had enough trouble trusting his judgement on letting his kinfolk move in which was a disaster (remember the "good riddens" guy?). i mean the kid doesn't even respect the landlord! and now i'm supposed to trust that this random guy who he doesn't even know is going to be a good roommate? hell fuckin no. i'm leaving ASAP. ASAP! ok, anything else new?
nope, alright bitches, I'm done for now. until next time, holler!

the madness of march

i took march off for a reason. it was my birth month, so to speak. it was, a march when i first donned the mask, you see. at any rate, it's the month i choose to recognize, so i keep it sacred and work free. i jest. i was "born" in march, but the reason i didn't post in march is because i really had nothing worth sharing. i was off on an adventure that turned out to be fruitless, but never you mind that. here is the update:
0- i completed the legend of Zelda
0- i discovered a new found talent for baking
0- i reaffirmed my hatred for politics
0- i watched cable
that was my march. oh yeah i almost forgot:
0- i got "born"
so with all this said, oh faithful followers, i return humbly to maintain the order of your net days. i will continue to follow the mission that i set forth in my initial post. and i will always continue to be your dark warrior.

big day tomorrow....

DARKstradamus

dont believe me? read this blog in which i predicted Obama's election almost exactly 2 years before the fact, back when i was still an Edwards guy (yikes):
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=24550090&blogId=193609273
BAM BITCHES! lets see if i can make lightning strike twice.... uhhhh.... KEITH OLBERMANN WILL EAT BILL O'REILLY'S HEAD THROUGH A STRAW AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE GREAT CABLE WAR! RACHEL MADDOW DEFEATS ANN COULTURE AT THE BATTLE OF BRISTOL! AMY HOLMES AND WOLF BLITZER WILL HOLD LIVE COVERAGE! GEORGE W. BUSH ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF SPACE! USE (UNITED STATES OF EUROPE) BEATS USA 189-188 IN THE GOLD METAL GAME FOR BASKETBALL AT THE 2020 OLYMPICS! OSAMA BIN LADEN STILL AT LARGE! PRESIDENT SHWARZENAGER LOSES HIS BID FOR REELECTION TO WILL SMITH AND HIS RUNNING MATE BEN AFFLECK! WHEN ASKED HOW HE FELT ABOUT HIS LOSS, THE FORMER PRESIDENT WILL RESPOND "AGJAEHAGCUEOEJBDOUO, I'LL BE BACK"! and finally, PROFESSOR PLUM, IN THE ATTIC, WITH THE CANDLE STICK! DARKstradamos has spoken...

guest: drew everyday

i was going through some files on my associate, drew everyday, and i noticed a rhyme that i hadn't previously. well, loyal followers, i thought it only right to let you see it. decide for yourselves what this means:

i touched the sky like lupe and kanye
never been chi
never been aligned with anyone but caroline
that in mind remember im never on time
my mind state is that of an all time late
i cross states like I 8-5 and 6 got scared and ran away
lost it, got exhausted like your car bakfired and the fumes is costic
got sick of it and threw up the nausea to my niggas
cold shouldered it till florida could feel the shivers
it returned the quiver like an archer
till i was forced to scribble like an author
my sorrows to my frats and my sorors
my heart was full of darkness
bare witness to the horrors
trained it all away like the marta
what once was madness has now become sparta
now it's dictionary status like encarta
so i could raise the game like a father
control your style, and like a barber
i got the cuts that you dont want a part of
i been here from the tip off like a starter
then i took a little rest like a comma
brought the fruit of the earth like a farmer
did i make a good move you be the judge like your honor
wax judgemental i wane like tha carter
the whole world is my parlor
sky, sea, land, flora, fauna
makes me a leader not a sing-alonger
oh, for the key notes like obama
and i hit em for a reason like your mama
to drill the point home like an auger
even if it fell on deaf ears they'd hear ya holler
comma

next lifetime (by HIM)

i hate this part.

i hate it.

but it seems to be an inevitablility at this point. i have become the guy in erykah badu's song "next lifetime". you know, the guy who falls for this awesome girl only to have his hopes dashed because she's involved? that's me right now.it's. she's my badu. i think. well the thing is after i made an ass outta myself like three times by trying the whole, "lets just tell her how i feel thing" and subsequently being informed that she also has feelings for me but cant do anythng because of her involvement... i hear that song in a whole new light. this is a first for me ya know? being that guy and everything. now she has more to say to me and all i can do is sit here like an asshole again and wonder whats in store this time. oh well, i guess i see her next lifetime...

i have researched this drew everyday fellow

i have been looking into this guy, drew everyday. he seems to be on the up and up, but as you will see from this list of twenty-five things that i have discovered about him, he raises a number of questions.


1. Drew's cooler than you. deal with it. (he's certainly sure of himself)

2. Drew's better than moultrie. he knows why (moultrie. why does that sound familiar?)

3. never try and fuck with drew. especially not on crenshaw (refers the masacre on crenshaw. ive heard tales of the incident)

4. chuck norris wears drew pajamas to bed. so does superman (for the record there was only circumstantial evidence in regards to this)

5. there is no chin under drews beard. just another drew. (yet to be seen)

6. when us troops pulled sadam out of the hole he wasn't worried about the US invasion. he was hiding because he tried to fuck with drew (his last words were "i never should've fucked with drew". that is on record)

7. the constitution gives us the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of drew. (this cant be true)

8. cleanliness is next to drewliness (he does maintain a certain level of hygene)

9. drew once went diamond... in the streets (no official record of this)

10. the only thing we have to fear is drew itself (i believe he said this in an interview)

11. man cannot live by bread alone. he must also not ever fuck with drew (if the crenshaw reports are true, this may be more prudent than i originally suspected)

12. in the year of our lord 1987, God said "let there be drew" and it was so (his birth year)

13. it is a law of physics that two drew's cannot occupy the same space at the same time. the results could be catastrophic (also true for people named sven and angus)

14. the five greatest rappers of all time? drew, drew... drew, drew, and drew (debatable)

15. drew shot the deputy (official reports named no suspect)

16. drew once caught a bullet with his bare hands. the bullet and the gun subsequently apologized for their transgression before growing legs and running back to the manufacturer to hide. (there were witnesses to this unlikely event)

17. there are only three definites in this life: death, taxes, and drew (there have been close to two billion drew sightings)

18. drew is the cure for the common cold (not a scientific fact)

19. there were once 8 days in the week: monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday friday, saturday, sunday, and moonday. moonday tried to fuck with drew. there are now 7 days in a week. (i checked and there was an 8 day week at one point. no mention of thename of the day or the circumstances that led to the revision to 7)

20. drew once performed open heart surgery and delivered a baby at the same time. on the same woman. (i was there)

21. rome was built in a week. it took nine months to make drew. (it takes nine months to make everyone)

22. drew is the walrus. coo-coo-kachoo (investigation in progress)

23. drew once kicked an 80 yard field goal in finger football (he is unusually gifted at finger football)

24. if at first you dont succeed, you're not drew. (i cant say ive seen him fail at much. i cant say ive seen him do much to fail at)

25. drew= mc² (this is a scientific fact)

guest: HIM

by him i mean the one who created me. the one who gave me the tools to become your dark warrior. today this man confided in me. i asked if i could share with you what he shared with me. he said yes. so i now present this mans words to you:

nanerpus makes me laugh. a laugh really feels good right now. i needed a good one.
well, i have mixed feelings about the events that have transpired over the past 24 hours. there's been some good and some bad. some strange. some expected. some out of nowhere, left fieldsy stuff. lets explain.
BAD: i hurt someone i care about. i told them that i had feelings for someone else (which is true) and that i had feelings for them (also true, but different. i'll explain now) it's not that i dont have feelings, it's just that those feelings arent romantic. for the person i hurt, that is. i care about her feelings and dont want to hurt them, or anyone to hurt them for that matter. but im not in to her in that way, despite what we've done (nothing was planned, it kinda just happened). and i feel terrible because i knew she was going to become emotionally entangled and i knew it would hurt when i told her what was going on with me. and it did. and that is something that im going to regret.
GOOD: the girl who i have feelings for (romantic ones) finally decided to come clean about her feelings for me (she wants me!!!!!!! she really does!!!!!!!!) she even wrote me a two page letter! that makes me feel like all this bs i've been trudging through, a sum of it of my own making, is worth it if we wind up together. i really want this thing to work out. i mean you dont even know how badly i want this to work.
BAD: we both have loose ends to tie up. she's in a relationship and i'm, well, not in one, but you guys know the situ of which i speak.
GOOD: the weight has been lifted
BAD: i just found out i may have to wait untill the summer to walk. yep. turns out there were two classes (non-major, mind you) that i missed, and i may not have any other courses that can be massaged into place as replacements.
GOOD: the pressures gone. now i can go on with the rest of the semester, chill up here for the summer, walk and still be on schedule (the one i made for myself [someones law school by 2010 fall]). mama wont like it, but in the end it may be best. it means i get to see some things through that i may not have bee able to before. it also means that i wont be sitting in charlotte or durham with no gig and nothing to do for those summer months. and who knows, mybe penny and busko can work a little magic and make something outta nothing. we'll see. i;ve got this strange since of optimism that wasnt there a week ago when no one was mad at me, i thought i had lost all chances with the girl, and graduation loomed like a dark omen staring through me. i feel like i'm ready for it. ready to meet the world head on, instead standing there like a man in front of a firing squad just waiting for the first bullet to hit.
in conclusion, life is hitting me at nationwide speed, but it's better it happens now while i can deal with it than it happen later when it might cost me more than a relationship and a semester. ces't la vie. bitches.

always brightens my day