There Is A BIG Difference Between...

THESE PUERTO RICANS:

AND THESE PUERTO RICANS:


... And I just need you all to understand this.

I was gonna write this entirely too long rant about a discussion on race in movies that we had in class, how we brought up the Latinos who embrace their race in Hollywood, and those who don't, how I find myself mostly annoyed with Latinas like J.Lo and how as much as she doesn't represent me... she actually does at the end of the day- but I'd rather not.

-franso

PS- frustrated much?

Wild, Wild Hair

Can we focus on ME for a minute? Damn!

Lately... I've been feeling a lot like THIS:

Yes yes, that's me long ago.

I appreciate every compliment on my hair, I do.
I just need people to understand that this hair is pretty much no fun. There, I said it.

IT FEELS LIKE A LOSING GAME.

"Which products should I use? How often should I wash it? Maybe washing it everyday is the best way to avoid untangling for an hour. No wait, then that'll dry it out right? No gel, right? OK, so just hair food? But that feels like Vaseline! Fuck it, I'm just gonna get a fade."

Understand?

Then I have a friend going natural, talking about all these African products and I'm like !?!?!?!?

So she put me on pretty much, with a bunch of blogs to save my soul.

My FAVORITE right now though? www.coarsehair.blogspot.com
And then THAT website put me onto www.kinky-curly.com!

I wanna try 2 of their products, KNOT TODAY and CURLING PUDDING!!!!

So I'll let you all know how that goes when I actually cop those...

And I kinda wanna dye my hair this color:

I doubt I'll do it, all this hair a completely different color... but it's always fun to dream.

Lastly... I need you to look at some pictures from this children's book "Wild, Wild Hair" that I stumbled upon at work.
You can't tell me this book isn't about me.
Here's the cover:

REALLY?! I died when I saw this book!

These next two are me every morning:



My mom and I up until middle school (AND Mami got short hair, crazy!):



And while I wish the book would've ended with a solution to this madness... This is cute enough:


Awww! Gotta love it.

=)

-franso

Janet Jackson RECAP!!!! (cont'd)

Here are some pics from the Janet concert..... hopefully i can get some video for you soon!

I wish i was back here, man:










*dreamy sigh*... the second to last one is my favorite

=)

-franso

Q-Tip/ The Cool Kids

NOKIA THEATER
DECEMBER 2, 2008

see you soon,
franso

Janet Jackson RECAP!!!!

Janet Jackson
IZOD Center
October 17th, 2008

i can't even begin.

just know that she did E V E R Y T H I N G.

EVERYTHING.

=)

-franso

Making the Band Finale

*Courtesy of http://justentertainment.files.wordpress.com


*Courtesy of Rollingstone.com

Drama, drama, drama!

I get off the train, walk to 45th and Broadway and join the line with Geezy. And we wait.

The line for the Making the Band Finale at the MTV Studios isn't as bad as I thought, but I'm starving, underdressed with throbbing feet, and anxious about homework.

My connect won't answer my emails and we're not the list to get inside.

"Gabby, I'm out."

I was over the whole situation, but not homegirl- DETERMINATION AT IT'S BEST!

I'm trying to get us upstairs and nothing. is. working.

Finally (BLESS HIS SOUL!!!!!) our new crush, security guard TONY, found who we were looking for and we got upstairs.

Shitty seats, but what an interesting show.

We met Dawn (mad sweet and down to earth), Aundrea (mad tiny and cute in the highest heels ever), and Shannon (graceful, perfection).

We found out... nothing. Everyone was so tight lipped, huh?

What do you guys think?

I feel Diddy on Aubrey being a different person (I think she's on something)... but did he have to kick her out?

And poor D.Woods... even though I always felt like she should be a solo act. She doesn't mix well with them, I don't think.

So more power to her! :)

I wonder if Dawn is gonna go solo.... WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN WITH THEM?!

We can assume all we want... but the look in Diddy's eyes... I wish we knew what was REALLY going on...

God is good, we wound up backstage where we met Willie who gave us a kiss hello, and jolly Brian who hugged me once I told him he was my favorite voice in the group and that I respect him.

Wish I could go more into detail but yesterday was just CRAZY and I still can't believe we were chillin backstage lol

They just seem so down to earth and i like them even more.

Time to start applying for internships...!!!

=)

-franso

Maxwell Recap!!!

Can I just jump right into it and say that with each song performed by this beast of a man, it was like he was undressing every woman in the audience?

One by one, shirt, pants, bra....

Radio City, 8pm, opening act Jazmine Sullivan (Need U Bad)

I don't have pictures or anything, we were sitting all the way up top, but wow guys... what a fucking show.

What a sexy show... and not even in a raunchy way.

How you have a song that's just sexy- even before you start singing?!

*sigh*

o0o, how about before he started this one song... he stopped it and was like

THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PANTIES ON MY STAGE

i died.

he literally stopped the song.

and of course, some lady threw some big ass drawers (they weren't panties, they were DRAWERS) instantly and he teased about her having some junk in the trunk. mad cute.

i didn't know some of the songs but my highlights were SUMTHIN' SUMTHIN', FORTUNATE, ASCENSION, EVERWANTING, PRETTY WINGS, Al Green's SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL, WHENEVER WHEREVER WHATEVER

the crowd went wild when he did This Woman's Work of course... but, honestly... i hate that song. i know, i know...

Damn, that concert was so soothing.

That man is amazing.

=)

-franso

PS- next week is Janet- if she don't cancel!