Solo Comes to Cleveland

Last night Solange performed at the House of Blues in Cleveland. It was a great show. Her band was great and cute (the bassist was giving me the eye). She rocked out. The crowd rocked out. My homie DJ Steph Floss opened for her.

I took some illegal footage which I will post once my computer situation is resolved (I have a clip of a very dope cover of Love Fool by the Caridgans).

For now, check out some of the pics courtesy of my trusty BB.

You can't really seem them in these pics but Solo had on the SICKEST gloves. I've been trying to find a pair like them all morning with no luck at all. :-(

Floss is back on his healthy food kick. So he brought rice cakes and grapes to "work".


The bassist gave me his set list. I told you he was give me the eye :-)

Confessions: Sneaker Edition

I love sneakers (check the title of this online journal). I always have. I always will.

I remember how excited I would get when the Eastbay came in the mail. I would spend hours going over all of the shoes that I wanted and ways to get my parents to buy them for me.

With that said, I have a confession to make...... I have owned some of the WORST sneakers of all time.

Take a look at some of the sneakers in my closet of shame...

Exhibit 1: Jordan 11 low in black and red

These weren't exactly my fault. I wanted the highs but they sold out before I could talk my dad into buying them for me. He got me the lows to make up for it......obviously he only made matters worse. I hated these shoes then and they make me cringe now.

Exhibit 2: The Kobe IIs aka the Moon Boot.





I fell victim to the hype with these. It was basketball season my junior year of high school and the boys team was getting them as one of their team shoes (our high school had an Adidas sponsorship). So when it came time for me to pick a shoe to hoop in, I picked the Kobe II. It was big. And bulky. And heavy. And stiff. Bad pick, Ainslee.

Exhibit 3: The (original) Master P


Arguably the worst shoe ever made. I don't know what I was thinking. I asked for them before I ever saw them and when they arrived......yeah. It was this freaky shoe-in-shoe combination...with the inner shoe being like a fitted water shoe/sock thing. Now I realize that it wasn't even realized by a legit shoe company....just "Master P" kinda like the "Shaqs" now. And to make matters worse, I had the blue and orange pair so mine were like 12 times uglier than the ones pictured here.






We've all had wack shoes in our closet. I'm just the first to admit it.

F*ck You & Your 25 Random Things....

I wasn't going to do one of these. It's been on ATL radio today. There's an article on TIME's website about these. It's out of control.....But the one posted by Nudy inspired me. So here you go...

1. I live 2 very separate lives. (No, I am not an assassin or a stripper in my spare time.) When those two worlds cross paths, I get a little nervous. It happens...and it's been happening more frequently lately but it still makes me very uneasy.

2. I move at a ridiculously fast pace through life. It's how I operate. It's how my mind works. I'm okay with that.

3. I have negative patience. In a perfect world, everything would happen seamlessly. (See #2). When there is lag time, I get very angry.

4. I have a horrible temper. I probably need anger management. I try really hard to control it but once something sets me off....it's over.

5. I retain information like a savant. Most people think I'm really smart...they're wrong. I just don't forget enough random facts.

6. I've been a lot of places and met a lot of people but I've only been star struck once. It was crazy. I couldn't talk. I didn't even really want to move. I couldn't believe that "they" were there...right in front of me...close enough to touch. (I don't get like that around them now.)

7. For some reason people live life vicariously though me. (I'm not a pretentious asshole....people have actually told me this.) I really don't think my life is all that out of the ordinary. Then again, it's the only life I've ever lived.

8. I am inspired by the people around me. I enjoy seeing my friends succeed more than I enjoy my own success.

9. I don't believe my own hype.

10. My text game is at all-star levels. I've had a full qwerty keyboard on my mobile device since I was 15 (what's up to all the kids that had 2way pagers in high school!)

11. I have self-diagnosed ADD. I need to be doing like 3 things at once to function properly.

12. I average at least 1 typo per text/BBM. (See#2) Eventually, you'll get used to it.

13. I don't necessarily think I'm a "trend-setter". Sometimes I just do what I feel. Sometimes I'm just really good at picking out the next hot thing and making people believe in it.

14. I think of a rap lyric that relates to pretty much everything. (See #5)

15. My best friend is a guy. We're pretty much the same person. We think the same things at the same times. His temper might be a little worse than mine.

16. I don't watch movies. It's not that I don't like them...I just don't watch them. All the movies you think are classic, I haven't seen. And if I have seen them, it's b/c #15 made me watch it.

17. I'm obsessed with C.O. Bigelow Mentha Lip Shine. #15's parents got me 52 tubes when I left Columbus...I've opened about 30 of them so far. They're everywhere. I always have one within arm's reach. If I can't find a tube immediately, I panick. *cue Napoleon Dynamite "My lips hurt real bad.**

18. I was really passive aggressive growing up.

19. I have a problem with authority. I always have. DO NOT TELL ME WHAT TO DO! You can make a suggestion and then give me a logical explanation for that suggestion...but don't try to boss me around. (See #4.)

20. When I shop, I don't put together outfits. I just buy random things I like and try to figure out how to make them work later. Maybe that's why I never match (See #13.)

21. I hate to be wrong. It really really bothers me. (See #5)

22. I realized recently that I really enjoy arguing with people. If you argue properly, you're never wrong. (See #21 and #5).

23. Some of my best conversations have been with people under 7 and over 70. At that age, people are either too young or too old to care. It's some of the most pure conversation you can have.

24. I'm always down for an adventure. I hop on planes, buses (big shout out to the Megabus) and in cars headed to random places for no good reason at all. It's always a good time or a good story.

25. I have an extremely low pain tolerance. I have someone with me to hold my hand when I get tattoos.

26. I'm extremely tickle-ish. But don't tickle me. It pisses me off (See #4.) I almost broke up with someone for tickling me after I explicitly asked them not to.

Yes, I did 26 instead of 25. (See#19).

On Love

Am the only person that thinks love is the most ridiculous thing ever????


Like seriously....you get all worked up over some intangible "emotion"....start acting all irrational and doing things out of your normal character.


It's freaky. It's weird. It's creepy. And it sucks.


NO THANK YOU!

Featuring ME

The homies over at Eighty81 posted "No, No, No" in the LISTEN UP feature.

Check it out.

http://eighty81.com/v2/?p=9412#more-9412





**Note to self: I really need to schedule some photo shoots. I can't continue to use these super old photos.**