Archive for Raphael Saadiq

WTF Happened to D’Angelo?

Posted in Awesomeness, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2009 by aznheartthrob

D'Angelo's favorite of his own songs? Brown Sugar from Brown Sugar and Chicken Grease from VooDoo, apparently.

D'Angelo's favorite of his own songs? Brown Sugar from Brown Sugar and Chicken Grease from VooDoo.

One minute I’m listening to my Brown Sugar and VooDoo cds and then *poof*, you’re gone. NINE YEARS THAT WAS. You throw us a bone and release a Live in London cd that’s limited as hell and available only in Japan and that’s it. A rare appearance on someone’s album here and there. Rumors of you getting fat and depressed (oh say it ain’t so D!) cause of drugs and a car accident. Then you do one track on the Q-Tip Renaissance album this year (but since it took him 8 years to do the album, this could have been from way back). And then I read this. What? 3rd album on the way this spring/summer? Tour to follow? Collabos with Cee-Lo, Raphael Saadiq, Mark Ronson, and Q-Tip? And yes ladies, according to Blender, he’s back in the gym. Cause the only way for the economy to turn around and wars to end in the Middle East is if D’Angelo is confined to three places: the gym, the recording studio, and on stage with a mutha F’N piano.

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Google Corporate vs Company X

Posted in Awesomeness, Bitch, Bitch please!, Uncategorized with tags , on March 4, 2009 by aznheartthrob

This Is what you get if you work at Google Corporate in Mountain View:

  • Free gourmet food at the most exclusive restaurant in the world
  • Snacks in the form of fresh juice bars, Red Mango yogurt bars, candy shops
  • Massages
  • Bikes
  • Shuttle service to and from major cities, including San Francisco (I wished everyday when I saw it that I could just hop on in The Mission and sleep my way to work…)
  • Free T-shirts that people covet like Beanie Babies from 1993
  • A cult of coworkers all between the ages of 22 and 32
  • College interns from small liberal arts colleges, California public factories, and Ivy’s
  • Free Stickers (think about that one for a second before you decide how lame it is)
  • Entire theaters at the Mountain View Century Theaters rented out for big movie premieres
  • Free water (I had to pay for water cooler access at one of my past jobs)
  • Game rooms (Rock Band tournaments? What what?)
  • Clubs and associations
  • Dog and baby sitting
  • Laptops
  • Christmas parties, all over the Bay Area depending on which group you work in
  • And R&B genius Raphael Saadiq performing on a Wednesday afternoon

 

 

This is what I get at Company X where I work:

  • Fruit (Oranges, grapes, tangerines and bananas. Bananas that get stolen by the old people so they can save them at their desks)
  • Tickets to three local sports teams (oh wait, that was taken away)
  • Candy
  • Lunch at Chevy’s twice a year (which I missed last time, cause yea, ironically, I had to work)
  • Christmas party at the kitchen
  • $0.75 sodas at the Korean American Retiree Heritage Club across the parking lot in the building that smells like mold

It was definitely hard going back to work after enjoying an official Google Its It ice cream bar while listening to Raphael sing from the best R&B album of the year: The Way I See It. Sorry JL, Saadiq was there when I had sweaty palms at the Jr. High dance and he was there during all my anniversaries.

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