No More Lip Piercings

Ok please stop with the lip piercings already. Yes Little Wayne got his lip pierced. We heard about this at the 2008 VMA’s.

Lip Piercing Start

Yes people have been getting their lips pierced way before Little Wayne but dam this has turned into a fad. A trend, that needs to stop. Maybe its been going on, maybe I just noticed because  my friends are  turning 18 they want to be “rebellious” or signify being legal.

But No. Its seems to be dam near everyone is ready to get a hole in their lip. Its the thing of 2009. Skinny Jeans, Hot Topic, Lip Piercings, Tattoos, Come on. Can we please just go back to being ourselves. Sigh people are never themselves. If people focused on being themselves everyone would be better but ill get into that later.

Step one, stop with the dam lip piercings. I personally know about 5 people who just got them and I keep seeing it. Please pierce something else and lets not share what we pierce.

The thing is that you people are not understanding, is unlike metallic outfits, camouflage (in multicolor), bell bottoms a lip piercing leaves a hole in your face.

Find another way to “be cool”, try being yourself. If you dont know what that means it means go try to do something by yourself and dont care what your friends say. You like it buy it wear it stop questioing yourself.

2009 is about saying fuck you to the trends and finding your own dam idenity.

My NPR Premier:Teens Cope with Less Cash in Downturn

Teens are Broke Too.

I write, interviewed and produced this peice, with the help of my editor/producer Brett in four days and now its on National Public Radio (NPR) show Marketplace.  Listen Here

—-Aired to this morning—

I’ve never had $5,000 a year to spend at the mall, but that’s the average amount teens spend per year on retail, or at least it was. A new study from Piper Jaffray says teen spending is down 14 percent this year. My friend Rose Powell and I know all too well about cutting back.

Rose Powell: Now we definitely go, ‘oh we should go do this.’ And then the first question is always like, how much does that cost?

Rose and I used to go to movies all the time.

Powell: And like now, like we go ‘hey like who’s house are we going to, to sit around at and talk to each other?’

We’re definitely not shopping for new outfits these days, and we’re not alone. Clothing is one of the hardest hit categories — taking a 22 percent plunge. And that’s visible at my school. I don’t hear anyone bragging about their brand name jeans anymore.

Powell: There’s totally like kind of a stigma now for being like ‘oh I have hella money I just buy whatever I want.’ Cause you’re like ‘oh look at that rich kid over there who like is not economizing ooh.’

Other students don’t have the option of economizing, like 17-year-old Derek Williams. After his mom went on disability and his older brother got laid off, hanging out with friends became extremely difficult.

Derek Williams: My friends know my situation so they know sometimes that I don’t have money, and they want me to go out with them so they’ll…

So they’ll lend him the money, which makes Derek feel like he’s got to treat his friends like Wells Fargo.

Williams: The way I think about it is if, like, they the bank, so I took out this amount of money from them so I’m in debt and I pay it back.

For most teenagers, having a social life is an essential part of our identity, and sometimes it requires money. But teens like me are finding ways around this. Now I shop at thrift stores instead of department stores, and I even split $5 foot longs with my friends.

But I think this recession has prepared me for the future. I’m learning to budget and save money, skills some people have trouble understanding well into adulthood.

In Oakland, Calif., I’m Asha Richardson for Marketplace.

Photojojo.com

I am a photographer, artisit, and poet. And I love all sorts of art. A guest artist at my school, who is helping us design a mural told me about this website, Photojojo.com. Its fantastic and I love it. Yes I have only been on it for an hour or two but Its really school. So while I am exploring this site, I will post and link some of my favorite merchandise,blogs, DIY, and other projects I find interesting.

Its a really great site, go check it out. They have lots of fun inexpensive DIY (Do-It Yourself) projects. Such as Make An Album  Out Of A Old Bordgame.

just use an exacto knife to cut out parts of the game board and place your picture under it… that simple then you have the coolest most fun picture frame

Stupid Facebook Quizzes Waste My Life

I know they are stupid, yet at times when there is so much work to be done I find myself up, doing dumb ass Facebook quizzes. So Facebook has enough applications as it is, and I simply click ignore all when my friends decide they want to waste my life and invite me. BTW if your my friend on Facebook book stop inviting me to stupid applications. I don’t wanna be a zombie, or buy you, or play pet society ANY MORE.

Now that I have the applications out of the way, the quizzes seem to be coming up so much. And i hate myself every time I click, “What kinda girl are you?”  or “Which Watchmen are you” or “What drink/pet/boy/shoe/flavor/sunset/superhero/six sense/ mystical creature are you”. These are just pointless quizzes that inaccurately tell us dumb shit about “ourselves” based on the dumbest of questions. But we keep doing them for some reason. Like we don’t know who we are, or what our personality we have.

I wish I could just delete all of the stupid request and invites. Like it should be an option, I can turn off or on. Or maybe be less distracted and do my late late homework. I’m sorry I don’t have a solution to this common problem, especially since I am currently suffering from this.  Do You?

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Bow Wow’s New Wack City II

Music Aside, He is Fine

So I just listen to New Jack City II, and im not feeling it. How your song with T-Pain still wack. T-Pain makes all song instant hits, but nope. He came back finer than ever but its a new sound. I used to love me some Lil Bow Wow, prolly cuz I was 8-13 but no like the game Ive grown up. And I didnt like it. I know some people will buy this CD regardless. There’s not one song I like. I mean I dont like Soulja Boy either but Ill dance to it, or theres one song or two of his I like. There’s nothing on this CD I wanna hear. The song “I Aint Playing” with Trey  Songs is ok. Yea “I Aint Playing” and ” I Got a Pole in the Basement” are  good enough for radio play and in the party once. I’m not buying this CD. But I will be buying Drakes new CD.

And my opinion is  not  tainted just cause Ima girl, becuase Drake and BowWow are both sexy its purely the music. Dont believe me, go listen to the whole CD on KMEL.com