Don't you miss GOOD Friday's?
, we are less than one month away from my thirty, flirty and fun.
I'm very excited about my birthday (10/20), so much so that I've been on Facebook telling people happy birthday so they can tell me it back when the day comes. I honestly wanted to deactivate my Facebook, but I will wait until November 1st so I can collect all my birthday love. That being said, thank you to everyone who reached out to me about Hurricane Florence. There are lots of updates so I'll leave my birthday list and things for another issue.
In addition to this week's musical listens, I wanted to also share a really good podcast episode that I listened to recently. The podcast episode was the first from Travel Noire founder, Zim's new series called The Bloom Podcast. For the podcast, Zim will answer listener questions and give advice to them. On this episode, one of the questions she answered was about being in a relationship and having friend's of the opposite gender. Her answer definitely stuck with me. Take a listen to the podcast here and let me know what you think.
Another podcast that captivated me was on Death, Sex and Money. They re-released an 2014 interview with famed actress, and activist Jane Fonda, to coincide with the release of her upcoming HBO documentary "Jane Fonda in Five Acts." Jane is easily the older woman that I want to be--the kind that is still dipping and doing (too much Wendy Williams watching) and I find her to be adorable. They asked her how life has been now that she has reemerged from celibacy, and if sex was different now and she said: "I think that when a woman is older, sex is better. Partly because she doesn't give a fuzzy rat's ass anymore you know? She's not out there in the marketplace anymore, she knows her body, she knows what she wants, she's less afraid to ask for it." Listen to the episode here. Lastly, to follow up from last week's newsletter where I mentioned the new Beth Comstock book, here's a great interview with her on HBR.
Do you remember GOOD Music's GOOD Friday releases? That seems like a random question but it wasn't really. This week, I've revisted a lot of albums from current or former GOOD Music artists like Common's Be, Kanye West's Late Registration and College Dropout, and John Legend's Get Lifted. This was a great time for music, and I felt a sense of nostalgia listening to them. In honor of this walk down memory lane, I created a short playlist of some of my favorite releases from GOOD Music artists. what were your favorite songs/albums from GOOD Music?
Noname Gypsy - Room 25
I have been listening to the new album from Noname Gypsy, and although I don't have many opinions of it yet, it's definitely growing on me. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Listen to the album here
Playlist: Fall Mood
I put this newsletter in last week's newsletter and as I mentioned, it's my current and favorite playlist that I have these days. I added some new songs from Tori Kelly, and Noname so listen to it.
Listen to the playlist here
I have liked actress/comedian Maya Rudolph for a long time in part because I grew up hearing her mom Minnie Riperton's amazing voice. Maya has a new show on Amazon Prime, Forever, so in promotion, the New York Times ran a great profile on her. I thought the article was going to be about her show, but instead, it explored essentially what it means to be mixed race in America. The article goes through her upbringing, and such and was a great read. Also, just a plug for her new show Forever, it's pretty good and weird. Her husband is Fred Armisen from Portlandia, and there's an interesting turn of events. Here's a pretty legit review of the show.
Aside from the interview with Maya, I've also been doing a lot of other reading around the interwebs like the interesting article about the millennial employees in the Trump administration and what areas they frequent even to how hard it is to date (thanks Stephanie). Have you watched the new Netflix show Sisters? This article reminds me of the plot. Curiosity killed the cat and made me interested in this article about how the modern world fell in love with money. Click-bait gets me every time, which is why I clicked on an article about Trump's dick. Also, growing up, one of my favorite Bay Area things to do was to go to Festival at the Lake--it used to be so fun. You'd run into your cousins, friends of your parent's, listen to music and eat. Love this article about when Oakland was chocolate city--light years ago.
"... they wanted to know why I wasn't as black as my mother, more or less. I didn't seem as culturally black. It was weird to grow up that way, thinking, I'm the kid whose mom died, and everybody knows it - or at least you feel like everybody knows it." - Maya Rudolph