Oh gosh, it's the new warlord!

How many no money boyz are crazy, how many boyz are raw?

How many no money boyz are rowdy, how many start a war?

Got Life

Got my hair. Got my head
Got my brains, Got my ears
Got my eyes, Got my nose
Got my mouth, I got my smile

Madhesi girl

I feel really out of the loop with all things Bollywood. I was at a house party last night and this song kept coming on a bunch of times and it sounded like they were singing "Madhesi girl" and in my drunken state I thought it was a song about the marginalised ethnic minority group in the Terai region of southern Nepal, also known as the "madhesi". I was totally excited at the idea that there may be a human rights connotation to a Bollytune.

And then, this morning my grandma was watching the music video on Indian satellite TV - obviously, it is not a tribute to the discriminated minority community of Nepal at all.

Sick of the Democratic Primaries

While listening to an old Gil Scott Heron cassette today, one particular passage of Enough really made me think of the mother of all Primaries which I once observed with anticipation and hope and a sense of celebration from all the way over here in Asia. Now, as the media continues to pit black man against white woman and middle class educated white voters against "blacks" and young women voters against older women voters and Asian immigrant voters against their 1st generation children - what the hell is going on over there!

"I hope you don't think that a vote for John Kennedy took you off my shitlist, because in the street there will only be black and white,
there will be no democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives,
moderates or any of that rest of the shit that you've used
to make me forget to hate."