Event Notice: Oct. 3rd

Our peoples over at HustleMode (the cats who provide us with the hot tracks and new random releases) are having an event in NYC at S.O.B.'s. This event should prove to be nothing less than fly. We like to support those who are grinding just as hard as Tinalee Media & Events. The info is below...

Weds Oct 3rd 2007 The Cool Weirdos and HustleMode Present:

Peter Hadar and Friends:The Hipster Extravaganza

Live performances by:

Peter Hadar http://www.myspace.com/peterhadar

Janelle Monae http://www.myspace.com/janellemonae

Mishal Moore http://www.myspace.com/mishalmmoore

and special surprise guests. Broadcasted internationally by Dj Barry King

@ Sounds of Brazil - 204 Varick Street at West Houston

Doors open @ 9pm

$10 in advance/$12 at the door

Free gift bags, and other giveaways

Sponsored by:

Leroy Jenkins http://www.leroyjenkinslimited.com/

Coup D'Etat Brooklyn http://www.cdtbk.com/

Pieces http://www.piecesofharlem.com/

Kiser http://www.kiserny.com/

FDL International http://www.myspace.com/distroleague

Creme Magazine http://www.creme-magazine.com/

Cornerstone Promotion http://www.cornerstonepromotion.com/

Spotlight Grooves http://www.spotlightgrooves.com/

Lemar & Dauley http://www.lemaranddauley.com/

The Collective Spotlights...

EXPLORING CULTURAL ACCEPTANCE WITH A BUMBLEBEE,

A T-SHIRT AND A DREAM

Beeing is a culturally inspired lifestyle brand aimed at spreading cultural acceptance through the iconic use of a bumblebee. This may sound easier than it actually is. How many people are completely comfortable in their skin? Now, how many are completely comfortable with other people’s skin? Co-founders Mfon Idiokitas and Feginse Youance set out to show the world that appreciating yourself and others is a basic and empowering concept. As straightforward as “Love Beeing Nigerian” or “Love Beeing Japanese.”

Officially founded in June of 2005, Beeing was first tested a year prior on NYU campus and the SOHO area before selling to a broader market. The line has since grown from a single t-shirt to a Men’s and Women’s Classic T-shirt and Signature collections. The Classic T-shirt collection consists of cottons tees emblazoned with various cultural acceptance phrases and images of the bumblebee. The Signature collection consists of T-shirts and thermals with the cursive Beeing signature logo. Hooded sweatshirts and zip-ups are also included yet have more intricate designs such as honeycombs, a compass for world positioning and a varsity style inspiring world education.

The two met as graduate students at New York University. Mfon and Feginse started Beeing with a single shirt to offer a stylish way to embrace and express one’s ethnic background. They chose an iconic bumblebee as the logo to inspire customers to cross-pollinate themselves with the cultures of the world. Before long the culturally inspired brand was developed. “We thrive on using style and fashion to empower people to embrace and express their identities as well as others,” says Feginse.

The company is based in Manhattan and is currently available at the online store http://www.ilovebeeing.com/. Consumers can soon purchase items at small boutiques around the world.

They're Bringing Home the Troops!

Only 5k by Christmas? Are you serious? So maybe, perhaps, there's a chance... that they are REALLY going to come home. You know dag-on well that they aren't. I'm sitting here watching President Bush's special report (it blocked out all local programming so I'm sure you saw it too) recite the words someone wrote from him and I'm thinking to myself "Are you serious?!" I mean, I'm glad that Iraq is safe (is it really?) and that they feel save on their streets, but what about my 'hood? Can I feel safe in my own country? He says they are finding the rebels and disbanding the gangs... does he realize we have gangs in our own military and that they are coming home and teaching military tactics to their fellow gang members back home? Hot mess!

Now he is giving shout-outs to the troops and everyone involved with his shennanigans. Justifying the deaths of the young lads. Fast-forward, he says goodnight and God Bless America.

Now the bantering from D-Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed stating that he has been against the war from the beginning. Aren't we tired of the fingerpointing? As Larry the Cable Guy says "Get-her-done!" Just get the job done. That's all we really want. Even the callers vented about the maddness and

If you are so moved, use these numbers to voice your opinion

Democrats: (202) 737-0002
Republicans: (202) 737-0001
Independents: (202) 628-0205

If you missed the chance to call or the program, visit: http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

Until next time...

Be Seen at the Top!

Save the Babies

Im sure that I share the same sentiment as most conscious young Americans in that I am frankly worried about the longevity of this great country we call the United States of America. Notwithstanding the current turmoil in domestic and foreign relations of the present, it is our future that I’m concerned about. Why does it seem that every futurist is also a blazon pessimist as well? We have all seen the Minority Reports, Terminators, Mad Max’s and the Blade Runners out there and I don’t see much hope being portrayed to the masses about the stability that our current course is offering for our offspring. America is roughly 400 years old and already it shows signs of instability within its borders. Do you see the U.S., as great as it is, having a run comparable to that of say a China where they have been prospering for millennia? I want to. Have the gatekeepers of society been feeding us these pessimistic portraits of societal demise through entertainment just to cushion us when we have arrived at that era. Look at the book 1984. I have never read it but I’m sure that in the actual 1984 we were chillin compared to the outlook of society that that book gave in its pages. Are we all preparing for the worst while actually living the best? I just know that we are growing and influencing at a startling rate. I once read a stunning statistic that said that 90% of the scientists that have ever practiced are living today. This is truly an information age. What is also interesting is that in the bell curve for an industry there is inception, growth, maturity, decline and the end in its cycle of existence. The industrial revolution, if you ask me, is somewhere in the late decline area. However, the technological revolution will be in a growth mode for centuries to come. I hope is that we as a people and a country really put an effort into crafting these new technological tools for our long term benefit and proper prosperity of our generations into perpetuity.