Had to go and do a facebook.  Dear God where does it all end!?

hope everyone’s doing well.  sorry for the long layoff but looks like everyone else is too!

-felix

“I WEAR MY SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT…”

Well I don’t.  But celebrity singers do.  Especially during performances.  I watching the 2006 BET Awards the other night and saw a pattern.  See if you can find it:

        
           Chingy                                Lil Bow Wow
         
 Lil Scrappy can’t even see!     Slim Thug ain’t even slim!
      
         Jaime Foxx                     That’s why I like Andre 3000!
         
                Diddy                              Not you too Lebron!

         
        Tha Doggfather                          Young Joc
        
             Jay – Z                         Oh.  Slim Shade-y
      
             T.I.                           Yes Mary, they’re ridiculous
   The Wayans Brothers

You know there was only person who was rockin‘ them that night

                   
                YOU GO STEVIE WITH YOUR BAD SELF!

After the show (btw watch Busta Rhymes, sans the sunglasses, performance…off the heee-zeee (hook y’all…hook).  Anyway after the show, I got to thinking…Maybe sunglasses are the way to go when I…

                        
                                           COOK?
I mean it will keep the steam from my eyes.  I read somewhere they come in handy when cooking with onions!  Let’s see…how about when I…

                      
                                             SLEEP?

Who needs a sleeping mask anyway?  Plus I can use these to sleep during the day (with my blinds open) and still get a nice rest.  How about when I take a….

alright..alright…I crossed the line.  It was too hard to read anyway.

Guess I’ll never be a celebrity singer because I don’t think I can live this “sunglass lifestyle…”

                                           Peace out

Man…Knock…knock..knock…Is this thing still on? …

I guess this still works.  Well, school finally ended and now I have nothing to do do.  Might as well tell you what happened the last 5 months of my life.  Nah.  Here’s what I did yesterday. 

I finally went out to Coney Island during for the 4th. Now normally I don’t like crowds at all but some friends were there so…why not?  First thing I see was Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.  Signs everywhere…It was a huge event.  ESPN, Channel 7 was covering it…

It was pretty crazy.  My man, Takeru Kobayashi beat Joey Chestnut with 53 3/4 hotdogs to 52 in like 12 minutes.  Damn!  That’s Asian Power man!

So after, of course I had to do my thaang…

with mustard and beer of course!  That size doesn’t do it justice…It took me like only 20 minutes too.  And what?

Yum…This was my view on the sidewalk…

Good times….

                                                 Happy 2006

Been busy.  Went to California to see how the other side of the world works during the Christmas.  Couple of things I’ve noticed:

• Weather is a lot different.  68 degrees?  During Christmas?  What!?
  
• Cali natives thinking 68 degrees is cold and wear fleeces with their shorts and thongs  (what we call Flip-Flops in NYC)
  
• My brother’s wife’s family had about ~70 gifts under the tree.
  
• Me and my mom in NY?  Man, should be lucky to get 4 if I ever got my lazy ass to get the Christmas tree from the garage and ornaments from the basement!

Then…Went to Las Vegas for New Year’s to see how the City of Sin works during New Year’s.  More things I’ve noticed:

• Vegas is crazier than NYC!
  
• No ball is dropped at 12 am but at 9 pm instead.
  
• People still say “Happy New Year!” at 9 pm anyway…
  
• You can still lose a lot of money at nickel slots… AND penny slots…
  
• Never to early to take a baby to Vegas as my bro did (9 months!)
  
• Don’t turn off the light after a night of drinking and gambling and run to your bed at a hotel room….there might be a wall that unexpectedly “jumps” out at you!

Here are some pics:

   
                          The crazy crowd.  Hardly got out of the hotel!
     
                        No ball drop?  Just wait for the Countdown and then….
             
                                                     FIREWORKS!!!!

Just imagine Times Square without the Police Barriers.  Yup.  Utter chaos..

As for the lil incident with the wall at the hotel room, at least I got love from my niece, Avery.  She got a nick, albeit a small one to match her uncle’s! (gotta look closely)  
             
                                                        That’s Love!
             
                                    Here’s to a good new year all!

                                             STRIKE!!

That’s right.  Those crazy MTA Transit workers are at it again.  But its been 2 days now…Jeez.  The teachers have been gone 2 years w/out a contract and we never struck.  Guess we’re soft.

Bad News about the strike :
- Man is it hard to get home at night w/out a ride.
- Cost almost $20 a person to take a cab a few blocks.
- hard to catch a cab.
- L.A. traffic up in herrrre.  Except thre only 3 lanes as opposed to 5 or 6!

Good News about the strike :
- Get a ride to school.  Nice and cozy ride may I add.
- I get to school at 10am, instead of 8:30am and I’m considered, “dedicated“
- Less students at school.  Stress level=low.
- No after-school activities!  No coaching basketball until 6pm!  Leave @ 3:30pm!
- Get ride home, which is still nice and cozy.

* Also, I get to meet new people.  As in the people I share the cab with and a random couple drove me to work today because they needed people to carpool with them!  Guess it’s okay to accept rides from strangers during strikes…

For some reason I expected mass chaos and a lot of people going nuts and running in the streets..but everyone’s all cool and collected.  Yup.  We tough. 

ONLY IN NYC….

LIFE IS ALL ABOUT ASSES….

You’re either covering it,
laughing it off,
kicking it,
kissing it,
busting it,
trying to get a piece of it,
or behaving like one …..  

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.  Hope everyone ate well.  I know I am stuffed… and Thanksgiving was yesterday!

So as you some of you may know I moonlight as a High School/Middle School DJ for free mostly.

Whatever, it fulfills a dream of mine and I always like to go to a party and listen to all the music I like.  (even if its filled with 14-17 year olds!)

Anyway, even though I listen to a lot of music and different genres, most of these kids want the latest jams in Hip Hop.  That’s right, so no LL Cool J, or Rob Base or Black Sheep or Tribe.  Not even Biggie or Tupac.  In fact, when I play some stuff from a couple of months ago, they get all huffy, which makes me not want to DJ a dance ever again.

Last month I did a HS dance and the week after I did one for the MS.  Both were to raise money for Katrina so I did it.  So the night of the Middle School Dance, of course I get requests and stuff.  But there was this one request that stood out.  This 6th grade little white girl, Frankie, who was the cutest thing you ever saw came up and timidly asked me:

Frankie: “Do you have any Rock?”
Me: “I’m sorry.  You need to speak louder!  What!?”
Frankie: “Do you have any Rock and Roll?”
Me: “ What kind of Rock?”

Now at this point, of course I had Rock but let’s face it.  Once I take off Sean Paul and put in Kid Rock, besides the dirty looks I would get, everyone would get off the dance floor.  So I humored her.

Frankie: “I don’t know.  Any kind of rock.”
Me: “You gotta tell me what kind.”
Frankie: “Well….do you have any…Beatles?”

Beatles?  What does this girl know about the Beatles?  She was like born in the mid-90′s!

Me: “I do, but if I play it do you think everyone behind you will dance to it?”

Frankie turns around and sees a huge crowd grinding to “Gasolina” by Daddy Yankee.

Frankie: “I guess not. “
Me: “If it makes you feel any better…you have the best taste of music than anyone at this dance.”
Frankie: “THANKS! “

OR

How refreshing.

I ended up playing “Yesterday” for Frankie when the dance was over.  She was happy.

More proof that NY’ers are tough as they come.

I was taking the N train this past Saturday and it stopped at 59th Street for a while, with the trains doors opened.  After about 3 minutes the guy next to me yells out:

“What the fu*k?”

At first I thought he was angered by the wait but when I looked out on the platform, I saw smoke.  Few seconds later, this Police officer is yelling:

“GET OFF THE TRAIN!  GET OFF THE TRAIN! TRAIN NOT IN SERVICE!”

So people start scampering off the train and I see more smoke.  Some people are walking fast but most of them are staying put.  Apparently a fire broke out on the train.  It got real smokey within 1 minute that it was pretty hard to breathe. 

The funny thing was that most people there seemed annoyed by the inconveinence and were still waiting on the smokey platform rather than scared.  I, on the otherhand, got my ass out of that train station.  Why people were staying and waiting for another N train, I have no idea. 

Bad ass NY’ers man. 

don’t forget to watch PARRY tonite!

Without a trace

CBS 10 PM Eastern Time

                                                      That is all.