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I miss Tripping Daisy, I saw their last show. I left early cause my now wife was too tired and I was a little too. I wish I would of stayed, less then 2 months later Wes was dead. I enjoyed all of there albums. They were one hit wonders in the recording industries eyes but musical geniuses to me.
I remember when I heard 2 cuts off of Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb I knew they were something different and special in the age of rock rap, the demisis of Grunge and what knot. Daisy was doing this Magical Mystery Tour/Flaming Lips thing and it was euphoric and fun.
There final album is also I beauty
May 4th, 2006
As I sit here watching a look back on The Cosby Show I think about how I spent most of my childhood watching that show. It truely helped shape my life, values and comedy. I think back at how funny but almost pure that show is and how it would not survive in this modern day tv environment. As I grew up in a city where crack viles laced my school playground The Cosby show showed me something that was not what was going on around me. Cooler then that, my grandparents lived in a brownstone. It attack the family element from every angle and was funny
I remember that was a show that stuck out to me. It helped shape my comedy on the light-hearted side.
November 4th, 2005
When a girl at UNT turned me on to Kanye. I didn’t like it at first cause I was like that’s that fool who is playin’ oldies at 150rpms or something. But my brother bought it and I burned it. Man, I conneted with it. An underdog story like no other. A black man not excepted for being himself in rap and not taken seriously on the mic.
I feel that way about my comedy and life in general. Also I was just finish school and had no job lined up. I felt like school was a waste. College Dropout got me through it.
The wizardry with word and his realness with his physical, mental, spiritual inconsistancy. He is my favorite artist at the moment.
September 1st, 2005
Ever since I was a child and I saw Ghostbusters and Stripes. I was struck by something that I didn’t see in other people on screen. Yes Eddie Murphy was funny but all so flamboyent and got his laughs from being a jerk. But Bill was light, quick witted, so sudtle. In my childhood I would say Bill was Bugs Bunny and Eddie was Woodwood Pecker, Murray was more of a get even or crafty in his sceams. Murphy just pecked your freaking head and laughed at you.
That’s what I thought was funny about him. The magic word thing with Walter Peck (Ghostbusters) and the funny spatular thing with the girl on the stove (Stripes). I still love his work. If I could meet anyone person I think he’d be in the top five or the top one.
September 1st, 2005
Man, If it wasn’t for Robin Harris I would not be the person I am today. Though I was only 7 or 8 when I saw this man’s HBO special I was floored, he was so funny. Yes, he is the Bebe’s kids guy, thought he was more then just that. Iit is funny to see how many people still bit off of that bit, unfortunately many black comedians. He is the only comedian I listened to as a child and went back a couple of months ago and listened to the CD and still loved it. I tried that with Kinison, Pryor, Murphy, and others and didn’t feel that timelessness of it. I felt like with those others I could place the decade and time.
From that point on I got a wierd drawing to comedy one that I never thought would become me being a comedian. He started it all that twinkle or small thought in my head that said being a comedian would be cool.
September 1st, 2005