Mackdaddies last week. This week? The mackmommies.

Old School Wednesday: The Mackmommy Mix, Volume I.

How does one become a mackmommy, you ask? Well, take a look.

Have you ever thought that what you think should be happening really isnt, that perhaps something's not quite right, even to the point that you question the whole relationship?
01 - Pebbles - Giving You The Benefit (Extended Mix)
02 - The Jones Girls - You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
03 - Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately?

Do you think that there's something out there, something that's so good, they'll end up missing you when you're gone?
04 - Me'lisa Morgan - If You Can Do It, I Can Do It Too!
05 - Karyn White - Love That's Mine

And then, finally, finally breaking it off?
06 - CeCe Peniston - Keep On Walkin'
07 - En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)

Well, after that, it's time for a change in life, and a new set of rules.
08 - Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love
09 - Elisa Fiorillo - On The Way Up
10 - Chaka Khan - This Is My Night

Until, finally, you come to the realization that you are a mack mommy, right? Right!
11 - Cherrelle - Pick Me Up
12 - LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
13 - Salt n Pepa - Shoop
14 - Adina Howard - Freak Like Me

Enjoy it all. Next week? Mackdaddies, part II, followed by Mackmommies, part II the following week....if everything falls into place.

Baker's Dozen: Carless, Week 2. From KB's Bakers Dozen.

1. After not having my car for a week, I finally folded and got a rental car from Hertz. Me staying at home and not having gone to the gym is not good thing. This will be rectified today.
2. "Why didn't you get your car this week," you ask? Well, first it's the transmission. Next, the axle. It's supposed to be ready this week. I'm not holding my breath.
3. Getting the mack mommy mix ready for OSW started out being really difficult, but of course, when the women start putting their requests in the ring, it suddenly got really easy. Look forward to another mack daddy, and then another mack mommy mix. In short, we're all set through March at this rate.
4. Got to speak to Saga, who then introduced me to Fave. Yet another cool blog to read - and an even cooler person.
5. Speaking of which, what happened to The Prom Queen Is Dead?
6. Not only has Prom Queen been dethroned, but Around The Way Girl has taken her ball and gone home, too. Man!
7. Even though I can't make it to SXSW, I will be making it to New York on April 10th for Brown Sugar. New Yorkers, this is your official notice. Check it out. Let Nichelle know if you're going to make it.
8. The first thing I do when I get my rental car? I go to the record store. What do I pick up? New Sector Movement's Download This, Geno Young's The Ghetto Symphony, and Silhouette Brown. Just because eXponent is on lockdown now doesn't mean I've stopped. Look an upcoming review or two, particularly on New Sector Movement, which is in my ears right as we speak.
9. Speaking of which, have you even gotten into Audioscrobbler? If you're a music maniac, I'd suggest you do so. Who, me? ejflavors of course. I'd be thrilled to find out what everybody's listening to, and on top of that, you can check out what I'm vibing to. Thanks, Ofrenda and Hashim, for the hook-up.
10. I meant to do the radio blog and song selections from J. Brotherlove's post One To Ten, but I got sidetracked with the Mack Mommies.
11. Did anyone besides me sit there on Friday night, and instead of going out, decided to watch NBC's splendid version of Enterprise? They are not renewed, and as such, the episodes have gotten intense. Just when I thought that Enterprise was weaker than weak, they're pulling out all the stops. Damn....
12. You know it's bad attempting to come up with twelve thoughts, when for the 12th one, you have nothing to talk about but television. Did anyone see the Third Watch/Medical Investigation crossover episode? Wyclef Jean was in this episode, and as much as I don't want to admit it, I really loved it. Okay, it's official. I'm ultra lame on a Friday night. Ahh well.
    

I have not one, but TWO, music memes I need to cover.

I: "Stop Trippin' And Give Me Some Music" Meme.

I should have only done this a week ago. Honey challenged me and I'm more than a little late.

Category 1: Artists you wish would stop trippin and come wit' anotha album, soon!
Honey mentioned Maxwell, and I was going to mention D'Angelo, but someone else beat me to it, damnit. Thought about it, and Loose Ends, who is rumored to be coming back with another album, is making me very, very anxious.

Category 2: Artists who need to just "stop trippin".
Alright, people might kill me for this one, but yo - Adriana Evans, you know I love you, but when I had to fall back on the first album, I felt a sense of sadness. It doesn't have to be that way.

Category 3: Artists who have "gone on" that you wish would stay "Gone"!
All four of the others tagged by Honey said the same thing I'm about to say right about now. If I hear another Tupac album, I swear...

Category 4: "New Artist" who, when you hear em', you swear, sound like somebody you already know!
Ciara sounds too much like Amerie to me, luckily Rich Harrison knows how to drop the beats better than Ciara's production crew (who are they anyway?)

Category 5: Artists you wish you would've "Tried before you Pryed" open that jewel case!
The Game. Maybe I'm just not feeling them right now, and maybe someone will accuse me of drinking Haterade, but so be it. It's. not. working.

And now for meme #2:

I still have to do some catching up! Right now, it's two days after Valentines Day, and in doing my needed checks around the blogosphere, there's a lotta love here, and a little love/hate goin' on right about here.

I thought about it for a second and consorted with a couple of the people. At first, I thought, let's do the "haters of the world unite" (and may still do it - anyone wanting to hear the anti-Valentines-Day mix?) I thought about the trials and tribulations of love- this time on the men's side - from failure, to breakup, to denial, over to the evil side, and finally transitioning to the mackdaddy vibe.

Presenting for your listening pleasure:

Old School Wednesday: The Mackdaddy Mix.

From cheating, resulting in the breakup:
01 - Full Force - Unfaithful
02 - Oran Juice Jones - The Rain
03 - Prince - Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
04 - Tevin Campbell - Goodbye

To bitterness after the breakup:
05 - Full Force - Love Is For Suckers
06 - Boyz II Men - U Know

To getting it out of your system and just freakin' every which way you can:
07 - The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
08 - Whodini - Freaks Come Out At Night
09 - Al B. Sure - Thanks 4 A Great Time Last Night

To finally coming into your own and becoming a serious mackdaddy, from taking innocence:
10 - Alex O' Neal - Medley - Innocent/Alex 9000/Innocent II

To the lovemaking professional:
11 - Ready for The World - Can He Do It Like This?

To the serious mackdaddy who knows goodness when he sees it:
12 - Prince and the NPG - Sexy MF

Don't worry, the mix for the women is coming up next Wednesday. I'm taking requests. Enjoy.

Baker's Dozen: Beads, beads, beads! From KB's Bakers Dozen.

1. Did you miss me? I know I've been gone a while. Where did I go, you ask? Well thanks to Google Maps, you can see my path to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
2. So I drove to my family hometown and hung out with no other than Angelica Storm. It made me almost miss my hometown and I really wanted her go down to New Orleans with me.
3. After a 24 hour stopthrough, I met up with a couple of people, and made my way to New Orleans.
4. I drove through here, sent out an APB to Salrac twice (hey, where u at?), and arrived just in time for the Superbowl. We won't talk about Philly losing. At all.
5. Number of beads I got? 11. Do I have more pictures? Nope. Thank goodness. You wouldn't want to see how I got the beads, would you? ( I plead the 5th).
6. The drink of choice while in New Orleans? A hurricane. How many hurricanes did I have? My posse says 4. Note: 1/2 of a hurricane is enough to make the mack daddy in me come out. Again, I plead the fifth.
7. Hanging with Crackmonkie. It's a great thing. Who knew how cool it would be to get inebriated with a blogger and talk serious tech, blogging, whether or not we should go into a bar or stand outside, cavorting. Pound pound, sista, pound pound.
8. On the way back from New Orleans, my car decided that it didn't want to make it home, and instead decided that it wanted to break down right about here. Damnit.
9. Problem with the car? It seems that the transmission went out. That's right. Just over the state line, my car has to be towed back home. So much for the end of vacation. Is it just my fate in having things disintegrate as I drive them? On second thought, don't answer that.....
10. Being without my car during the weekend means I missed his concert....and I coudn't even meet up with him on Saturday. Damn, damn, damn.
11. So what did I end up doing this weekend? Why, I stayed at home and just worked, making up for my two days off.
12. The end result? I made up for lost work time, I missed a concert, and now I have to really figure out whether out I'm going to SXSW. How can I defeat my 101/1001 and not even 101 days have passed? Geeze. At least I completed another task.

And, lest we not forget, today is Valentines Day. Happy Valentines Day to all. Much love.

Since I'll be going on vacation this weekend (Mardi Gras, here I come!), I'm going to give everyone a double dose. First, the sights. Since some of the other bloggers are gonna drop this, I feel it's my duty to drop this on y'all too. Please welcome EJ's goodness back in '72.



Caption anyone?

And now that we have your attention, it's time for our weekly OSW. This is our tribute to Honey, since Lis and I were on a Honey vibe. I had to make sure I didn't include love songs, since it's 2 weeks to Valentines Day, but I managed to do it...and got signoff from SPs Lis and KB.

Old School Wednesday: The Sweetness Mix.

Check it out....