#localove Pt. ???

   Ninety-six problems and a hook ain't one. Tully Cicero, Pope Adrian Bless, Abe Linx, and Chuck Mason representing one time for Crown Hill USA. Just a little more #localove from The Forty5th... check it out...

Abe Linx, Tully Cicero, Pope Adrian Bless, and Chuck Mason
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When It All Becomes Home...

    There's a point in every aspiring artist's life, when that easel and canvas become a piece of miscellaneous furnishing, equivalent to an old shoe box. When that small booth, and/or walk-in closet is the girlfriend, whose arms are always opened, but not as "obviously" inviting as she once called your name, now signals and insinuates something normal that could become something interesting.  With all people following their true passion, there will come a time, rather it is a microphone, drawing pad, composition notebook, or saxophone, it will all become home.



    What is it about that familiarity, that gives us the feeling of haven?  Usually, people of a more left-brain approach spend a certain amount of time in life, if not all of it, expressing and compensating feelings of loneliness and complacency, and after so long, the only place of comfort, where self-identity has no need for headstrong defense mechanism, is where the magic they create is made.  Even if the only thing being created is an expression of that solitude.  Although today's "people of the passion" are getting used to a more domestic culture of home studios, and portable digital devices, there are still those of us who find beauty and appreciation of what might be considered the hard way.  Not all of us agree with rapping into a laptop, then looping it to a software, where you can practically turn what sounds like an MC stuck in a sewage system, into Prince having a magic moment at Studio 54 after a divorce with his first celebrity wife.  As hard as it may be for some of those iPhone photographers to accept, there are several people who prefer dark rooms, and film cartridges.  It is something about the extra labor making the finished product more particular than the ideal "fecund selection" modification that almost anyone can fathom, once they find out where to download your sound pack, for FL Studio 12.  So, we've know, now, that in the world of "different" there are even more awkward people within. But what do we know about them? And what do they have to say about their whims and preferences?... To Be Continued




 

 

V.O.W.

If you're hungry and in need of food, the lyrical cafe is open at MidTown Arts and Coffee Lounge!!Wednesday nights have now become the new Friday. After Mondays' stagnance, and Tuesdays' follow up, leaving work on Wednesday calls for a celebration! Come on out to Vibes On Wednesday with your host Theon Lee. This guy has no filter, and has no issue making sure that everyone feels welcomed and ready to laugh. For only $7 at the door, you will enjoy awesome food prepared by Ms. Amber Michelle Harper, and positive uplifting vibes. On 38th and Ruckle, right next to the Domino's Pizza!!

Every Wednesday, be it rain, sleet, or snow, there is a V.O.W., opened.

And Life is Grand
-ParaLectra

 Staff Writer



Coming at you with more goodness. 

Check out this new vid from Indy native, Blake Allee.

 

"Headlights" directed by Digital Rabitt

Editorial on Blake Allee COMING SOON! 

Stay tuned!

-Ari Attack 

Staff writer

 Serena does the C-walk, Pres. Obama sings Al Green, and the world's corrput. Well, if you cannot see the small photo of a Nascar event above, it is a picture of a largely welcomed presence of the Civil War Confederate flag. I guess you guys are still upset about the black fists at the other Olympic uproar, huh? It's hilarious and absolutely rib-shaking to know that "black history" and the culture behind it makes everyone uncomfortable, and the reactions are completely reasonable, says the young man who is not allowed to display a peace sign because it is a patriotic act of gang violence. No twisted fingers, no blue flags, and nothing that in the common background of this dance, that would indicate that Serena is forreal thuggin' it, shows itself. But all through an entire night of family fun, there goes that flag that was only made after slaves were given jobs, rather licks on the back, being flung across the Manifesto-American atmosphere.


   Listen, maybe she could've been a tad more conscious about the outcome, but you crackers and hollywood niggas don't even know its initial origin. Just to clear some things up, The gang movement formally known as "G.D." (which stands for Gangster Disciples) was an answer of communal and ethnic security in a time where half of your Dale Earnhart Sr. fans were secretly covering klansman in sheriff badges.  And like most things, the culture of that particular area, along with it's patriots, has taken another form of recognition. I don't know how many times I've seen White America replicate the 'Kid N Play' dance. Wonder how many people would erase their Facebook accounts, close their checking accounts, and take a family leap off the Chase Tower.  The lack of maturity and audacity of people to, not just criticize, but single out and condemn someone for using what could still be a representation of rapid violence and massacre, as a reminder that good things can come from the slums of California. How many of those people are Catholic, and sport the cross (* a signature execution punishment from the Romans) around the neck, on top of their churches, sewn into their into their bibles, encrypted in  stain glass murals, etc? 


  Lesson: If you're going to use insignia to judge someone's character, well hey... I'm sure there's a KKK application you can fill out online. Unless you can literally cause a change of karma on a man, shut up and let people embrace their origin. It's not like us minorities have a lot of that to work with, anyway. In the words of another beloved Californian, We "...Build our own pyramids, write our own hieroglyphs." Inferior society, stop getting pissy because people are becoming authors of their own legacy. "Go, build another route to China, if they'll have you." I solute you, Williams sister. May you "worship" all the way to the pages of history.  

Staying Tuned and Alive

Here's for everybody that missed  the debut D.O.X. show (Breakfast Club)...
so now you know. Next time you see a flyer with the name "D.O.X." you need to be tuned...

D.O.X. Presents: The Breakfast Club @Midtown

I don't know about you, but We here at Forty5th Floor celebrate breakfast food at midnight, and other unorthodox dietary sustainments alike. But if you CAN relate, July 26 at Midtown Arts Lounge will be filled with people just like you. On the behalf of Omni-breakfast eaters around the city, D.O.X. would like to present: The Breakfast Club.Come out Thursday night and open your Friday the right way,Poetry, Emceeing, and HipHop Dance (the real kinda hiphop dance. Did we mention it was only a dollar?... Cause, we definitely should've. So for a dollar, you get a perfomance from Adrian Bless, Rehema McNeil, Limitless, And Theon Lee w/ Harry Otaku on the beats all night, for a dollar!... BE THERE!