love. jumping rope. mallrats. riding deep with my girls in a 94' wrangler jeep. 8th grade dance. magical realism. Almodovar. now and laters. Manu Chao (!) Jo'burg. hypomania. Eartha Kitt. Val slang. Datsun Zs. Weetzie Bat. Murda Ma$e. overcoming my cyberchondria. the many anecdotes of Ashley St. Ives. pannie store music. retiring the bamboo.
Music
Esthero, Fishbone, Sir Samuel, Kudu, 340 ml, Tha Dogg Pound, 2Pac, YoYo, Ice Cube, DJ Quik, Fela, J*Davey, Amadou et Mariam, Serge Gainsbourg, Big Youth, Carlinhos Brown, Big L, K-os, The Kwani Experience, Tumi and The Volume, Brazilian Girls, L'Trimm, Amel Larrieux, Bad Brains, Super Senna, MXO, Grace Jones, The Runaways, Brigitte Bardot, Thandiswa, Slick Rick, Special Ed, Masta Ace, Big Daddy Kane, J Dilla, Mad Professor, Madlib,The Gorillaz, N.E.R.D, Imani Coppola, Tanya Stephens, Betty Davis, Vanity 6, Mary Jane Girls, Yarah Bravo, One Self, Joni Mitchell, Boards of Canada, Lila Downs, Res, Talib, Ani Difranco, Common, Klymaxx, Little Brother, Sade, Aswad, Black Star, Dennis Brown, John Coltrane, Miles, Santana, M.I.A., La India, the Roots, Heart, Joan Jett, Carlinhos Brown, Bob Marley, Bola Sete, Earth, Wind and Fire, D'Angelo, Bebel Gilberto, Maxwell, Fiona Apple, Ella, Sarah, Dinah, Syreeta, Eddie Palmieri, Nina Simone, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, My Fania All-Stars, OutKast, Teena Marie, Nas, Prince, Miles Davis, Steel Pulse, Third World, Rick James, Stevie Wonder, De La Soul. A Tribe Called Quest, Native Tongues, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell, CSS, Zero 7, Air, Kenna, She and Him, Marlena Shaw, MGMT, Neneh Cherry ....and of course, Nola Darling.
Movies
2 Days In Paris, Broken English, Persepolis, Are You Cinderella? (my favorite short in the entire world!!!), A Very Young Girl, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Brother From Another Planet, Shaun of the Dead, Once Were Warriors, Tableau Feraille, Uptown Saturday Night, The Princess Bride, Now, Voyager, Carmen Jones, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Willow, Sankofa, the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy , Wild Style, Freestyle, Labyrinth, Dancehall Queen, Quilombo, Let's Do It Again, The Wiz, The Fifth Element, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Bounce, Strictly Ballroom, Teen Witch, Rabbit Proof Fence, Fight Club, Tank Girl, Krush Groove, Up In Smoke, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, The Warriors, Do The Right Thing, School Daze, Beat Street, Baby Mother, Sexy Beast, Talk to Her, Live Flesh, Goodfellas, The Professional, Kill Bill Pt. 1 and 2, Requieum for a Dream, An Affair To Remember, Almost Famous, Boyz N The Hood, Mildred Pierce, All About Eve, Orfeu, Black Orpheus, Frida, Mi Familia, American Me, The Flower of My Secret, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Juice, Paid In Full, Cidade de Deus, Friday Foster, X, She's Gotta Have It, Raising Victor Vargas, I Heart Huckabees, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Muriel's Wedding, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, anything with Bette Davis.....
Television
sigh.
Books
Warrior of the Light, The Alchemist, Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone, Anything Octavia Butler, Brown Girl in the Ring, A Wrinkle In Time, Bone Black, Sula, Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, Weetzie Bat, The Salt Roads, Manchild in the Promised Land, The Spook Who Sat By the Door, Back In The Days, The Coyote Kings of The Space Age Bachelor Pad, Caramelo, The Four Agreements, The Prophet, Like Water for Chocolate, Giovanni's Room, Mama Day, Linden Hills, Paradise, The Sound I Saw, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Half Past Autumn, Invisible Man, No Disrespect by Sistah Souljah, Love In The Time of Cholera, The House of The Spirits, Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna, Of Love and Shadows,The Healing, Eleven Minutes
About me: i am the monster at the end of this book.
i like to ramble and write about shit i like. so you should humor me and read the Nou La/Nola Darling BLOG (click that sheeit).
other than that, i am quite silly and wish i could drive.. deuces!
"gotta get that NOLA D"!
Cop this album too... Nola Darling's on a few tracks! You can buy it on iTunes now...
my homie P.Casso's "For Your Consideration" is out NOW on High Water Music... Nola Darling's on a song called "Ghost Story", produced by DJ Spinna
NOLA DARLING on XXL Mag Online.... Read it
HERE
Check out WAH! to download and read Nola Darling's interview with ourselves lol in issue #3...
"Chat Ms. Deejay" at Knitting Factory. LMAO at how i trip at the very end, tryna be slick....
...uh, i dunno....i just like angelyne. that's that real LA sh*t cuzzo...
oh yah...and i have this awesome cat named Murda Ma$e who thinks he's a dog...
Who I'd like to meet: forever and always: bill s. preston, esq., theodore logan, moon doggie, angel juan, buckaroo bonzai, hamza, and my secret agent lover man.
Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 11:00pm
@ THE ANNEX
152 ORCHARD STREET, New York,NY
This THURSDAY we are going to get JAIL BAIT with it with beautiful girls that rap with a SNARL!
We have the fashionista girls, the young rapper girls who are going to make this game so crisp we'd be $100 bills flying in the AIR at THE ANNEX this THURSDAY.
You'd be wishing you were 18 years old again. This is a 21 + event (just so you know...)
TOYKO DIIVA
www.myspace.com/toykodiiva
AZEALIA BANKS
www.myspace.com/azealiabanks
JOYA BRAVO
www.myspace.com/joyabravo
RED
http://www.myspace.com/redlettherock
LIVE SET FROM THE JAIL BAIT CONNOISSEUR
ANTON GLAMB (never heard before trax!)
DOOR BY ROBOT
$5 W/O RSVP
HOSTED BY:
CONTESSA
JUNGLE PUSSY
XENIA (BDAY GURL!)
& PUKE THA CAT
MARTINI GLASS
DARELLE (Tha Pimp)
Presented each and every week by your hard werking Radical Outing (Anton Glamb, Hiro Tha Jap, Skitsnygg) and hard twerking Cuntmafia (Contessa) productions...
Live DJ:
ANTON GLAMB
SKITSNYGG
HIRO THA JAP
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!! :)
RED
Hi Aziza Montenegro, the summer Steel Pulse tour is just around the corner! Please let your friends know about Steel Pulse's MySpace page, so that they can receive updates when Pulse will be performing in their area. There is also a new feature there where Pulse fans can receive Text Messages about local upcoming shows, so register your phone now!
Also, check out many cool new items that have been added to the STEEL PULSE STORE!
Thanks for all your support and love..."Life without music, I can't go!"
SUPA NOVA SLOM is currently casting models for the videoshoot of his next hit single "Transin" of his upcoming album "THE REMEDY. "
WHO: Sexy, Stylish Female Models & Dancers for a respectable, fun, party scene!!!
WHAT: SUPA NOVA SLOM VIDEO SHOOT
WHEN: SATURDAY MARCH 28, 2008 7pm-10pm Check In Time 6pm Sharp
WHERE: THE CENTER 106 Kingston Ave.
(Btwn Bergen & Dean) Brooklyn, NY
CONTACT: jadakhan@gmail.com
ABOUT SUPA NOVA SLOM Highly proclaimed by many as one of the 21st Century's most prolific artists. Hailed by Erykah Badu as her Myspace October Featured Artists, his album includes collaborations with The Game, Jadakiss, dead prez, Bilal, and Erykah Badu. Far more than just a hip-hop artists, Supa Nova Slom is a chosen communicator utilizing his music artistry to revitalize the people and industry.
Cop this album too... Nola Darling's on a few tracks! You can buy it on iTunes now...
..
