Comfort and Material Wealth

So my fortune cookie said I will have comfort and material wealth in my old age. To which I took “comfort” in the fact that I must not have reached old age since I’m neither comfortabe or materially wealthy.

… Or am I?

Here I am sitting in the break room of my deadend job watching a bad bootleg of Wanted. Living paycheck to paycheck … Rent is due, phone bill is due, loan, credit card, the list goes on. Next week it will be Comcast and another credit card … Then JEA … Then another credit card … Then the cycle loops again … So much for comfort … LOL

However, if things are that bad then how is it I’m able to sit here and tap this blog out on my new Apple iPhone 3G? How can I afford the big screen tv sitting in my living room along side my 700+ cd collection and my wall of DVDs? By some measure I guess one would say I’m living comfortably and displaying signs of some kind of material wealth … though I’m always broke.

… or maybe the truth is I’m living beyond my means?

Confucius Say …

“You will spend old age in comfort and material wealth.”

Jus sitting here in the break room at work and just finished eating some yucky Chinese food. Well ok didn’t finish it, I just quit while I was ahead and my health was still intact. Tossed half of it in the trash and set my sights on a lil fortune cookie dessert – NOT!!! Damn cookie was stale too. Only thing left was to see if my fortune would be any better.

I will spend old age in comfort and material wealth. Hmmm… Well it’s nice to know that at 42 I’m not old yet; as evidenced by the absence of comfort and material wealth. But it got me wondering what would constitute “comfort and material wealth” for me?

‘n we thought the FEEDBACK video was bad?

Witness another career malfunction from the late great Janet Jackson.  I’m a Janet fan but this was sad to look at … ROFL  

The Dream – Falsetto

Dunno anything about this kat but I love this track … and yes it was DEFINITELY his falsetto.  Anybody know if the cd is worth a listen???

Favorite track from “Lovehate“
the new album from The Dream
released December 11th, 2007.

Erykah Badu – Honey

First single from “New Amerykah, Pt. One:  4th World War“
the new album from Erykah Badu
in stores February 26th.

YES WE CAN

Ledisi – Think Of You

Favorite track from “Lost & Found“
the new album from Ledisi
released August 28, 2007.

Janet Jackson – Feedback

Hmmmm … watch me piss off alot of people real fast.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’ve been a Janet Jackson fan for years … BUT I miss the Janet of old and it just seems to me that lately she’s just struggling to stay relevant. I realize its a natural right of passage for all of us to experience a sexual awakening. And its become almost cliche now for recording artists to wear their sexual enlightenment on their album sleeve. But clearly now that she’s discovered it, she clearly can’t leave it alone – addicted perhaps? And like any good porn, Janet’s cds are hot the first couple times but then fizzle quickly for the next hot thing. Now here we are not even a year since 20 YO and there’s another Janet cd on the radar. Strangely enough 20 YO wasn’t a bad cd – clearly better than Damita Jo, but I guess they couldn’t figure out how to milk it a lil longer or didn’t think there were any other cuts worth releasing. So here we have the first single from her soon to be released new album Discipline.

My feedback? … a lil more dancing and a lil less CGI … anybody else think she looks like Britney Spears at the end of this video???

The first single Feedback from the
soon-to-be-released new album Discipline
available February 26th.

Help Wanted!

This Christmas Santa brought me an Onyx Black Nintendo DS-Lite system and subsequently I ran out and purchased a copy of Pokemon Pearl.

My nephew already had Pokemon Diamond … in case you were wondering why I chose that one?

While I’m still in the early stages of the game (acquired my first badge today), I’ve finally managed to figure out how to activate the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection features of the game and am eager to test it out. According to the girl at the counter however, I require at least one Friend Code in my Pal Pad. Anyone interested in helping me test my Wi-Fi connection can contact me directly or by replying to this post so we can exchange Friend Codes.

Alicia Keys – Like U’ll Never C Me Again