Halloween-y Poem: Nosferatu's Nefarious Nature...

Man oh man...IT'S HALLOWEEN!!...It's officially the day when you can literally be anything you want to be no matter how silly or stupid or scary or sadistic...You can get away with it without being called a "freak"...It's also the time when we celebrate vampires and ghouls...In commemoration of the aforementioned I decided to write something...Nosferatu is both the title of my favorite silent film and the name of the villain in it...I seriously suggest you see this film...It was SUPER creepy and engaging; not to mention the fact that it was made in 1922...Anyway, I present some new ish...


Nosferatu came to me in my nocturnal state and drank of my nectar
Naturally, I tried not to knowingly surrender my naïveté
But his nefarious nature was quite nurturing, to me
And my neck became needy
And I became naughty
Nearly naked, my nectar exposed
And Nosferatu nestled and napping in my nymphomania
Needing nothing

Epic Failure: News Headline

Uh oh, gay (or extreme cougar) pedaphiles, they're already naked and waitin' baby!!...You sick bastard...
.FIN

Literary Brain Fart: Shit

I'm supposed to be entering a poetry contest for the Baltimore City Paper today...My ex - *sigh* - suggested it, and I thought I might fancy the idea...Unfortunately, I'm stuck...Can't find the right words to write new material, and suddenly hating all my latest material...I've nothing in my mind....Nothing but...

My mental is clouded with mucous filled nothingness

And I'm wet from the sticky green boringness its' bored into my soul

I'm trying to trust myself enough to trust my voided mind

But running in the wrong direction...

.FIN

Heroin & Cigarettes: My new song...

Intrigued?...You should be...After a long songwriting/Studio hiatus, I've finally gone and relieved the absence of both (though the project is not nearly complete)...'Heroin and Cigarettes' is a hardcore, raunchy and sad version of what I imagine I feel like on the deepest parts of my inside and where possibly I might be, had I not the integrity to push through this breakup...*GASP!*...Yes, the breakup...That dreaded thing that put me on my ass for far too long...I suppose this song is part of my healing process...Guess we'll just have to wait and see...Anyway, the finished product should debut here in a few weeks after ad libs and mixing and mastering...Perhaps a verse from one of my uber talented lyricist friends...Stay tuned...

.FIN

Royal Fam SBTG: Dead General edition custom Dunk Hi

In correlation to the relaunching of their website, Royal Fam SBTG is debuting it's new 'Dead Generals' line...The line will feature some great new military inspired apparel as well as some SUPER dope custom dunks, aptly dubbed 'Jackal and Hyde'...The dunks feature salvaged denim, zippers above the laces, and gold or red crossbone and banner lace locks...Jackal and Hyde just became available on the new and improved Royal Fam SBTG website yesterday...You might wanna hurry though, as these customs are SUPER limited quantity and I suspect they won't last long...

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Stussy Japan: SS Link Rag Mat

I thought this was dope (And somehow I picture Dizzy already having this; he's always on top of things)...This mat is a recent collaboration with Japan's Gallery 1950, and is available exclusively at Stussy Harajuku...You can see more collabs Gallery 1950 has had recently, after the jump...

Fragment Design

Original fake

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Converse x Barneys NY: Swanky Chuck Taylor

Chuck Taylor, the quintessentially universal classic shoe of every bodega, hood and suburb alike...This classic sneaker has been one of my favorites since a wee tot, but I always wished there was a pair I could wear when I play 'dress up/dress down'...Voila!...That dream chuck has arrived with Converse's collabo with Barneys NY to create a perforated, premium patent leather, Chuck Taylor Hi...It's available now in three colorways you can see after the jump...I suggest you cop at your earliest convenience...



Oh yeah, and don't forget about the Lupe Fiasco x Product Red joints releasing in February 2009...


.FIN

Butt-On: Come on baby light my fire...

Here's a great night light concept by Ashish Chaudhary for all you ass-obsessers out there...Dubbed the 'Butt-On', this aesthetically pleasing version of a night light also provides tactile pleasure with it's soft, silicone materials...Pinch on, pinch off, the Butt-On (*pinch-pinch*)...No worries, you won't get slapped in the face for it...

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Thoughtful Gesture: Random Flowers...

It's safe to say I had a bad day today...Feeling quite worthless and unlovable, wallowing in my own sad sorrow...That was until...I came to my desk and saw these mysterious beauties...


See...SOMEONE gives a damn about Aja...I gave them a nice ghetto vase...

And had an overall, nice day...Off to cook some dinner!...
.FIN

CameraFone Perspective: Art Through TeleFoney

I'm random...If you deduct anything from BeautiFoul™, it should be this fact...Also, you should be able to note that I (heart) photography through shitty lenses...Here's a new experiment...Shitty CameraFone Pics...I 'Art' random...

I am truly amazed I took this flick with my Nokia 6102 Cell phone with a VGA cam...

Dusk...

Mary x Jesus x Tattoo = My Kind of Party...



The luminescence of 'La Lune'...


.FIN

New Tattoo: Om Mani Padme Hum

Here' 'tis...Finally got it...I feel more at peace now strangely...I know shitty camera phone pic sucks, it'll be replaced tomorrow...Until then, here it is...
**That is my ARM, by the way...Gotta love my ambiguos limbs...**

.FIN

Dancin' Kim: How to do the Cabbage Patch...

Is she for real??...As if the dance itself wasn't ridiculous enough...

"We're doing this AWESOME dance that's totally RAD!!" - Dancin' Kim
"Now let's do the cabbage patch with my rad dancin' friends!!" - Dancin' Kim
"Put your shoulders into it to really get some cabbage patch action going!!" - Dancin' Kim
.FIN

Word of the Day: Expeditious

This word has been revealing itself to me constantly via television, email, radio and text message for the past three days...And this morning, my 'Word of the Day' email from Dictionary.com is 'expeditious'...I'm really not sure what the hell I'm supposed to do expeditiously, but for now, I'll interpret through a literary piece dedicated to the word...

expeditious \ek-spuh-DISH-uhs\, adjective:
Characterized by or acting with speed and efficiency.

I've been meaning to expound upon some things lately...Mostly myself...More morose than most, I've been meticulously meandering through my mentality...Making calculated, non-copulatory, callous criticisms of my'self' to try to get out of the confines of this conundrum of self-cauterization...Somehow, I slowly sever my severely solemn, sullen solitude with the serrated knife-edge of serenity...And amazingly, I've accomplished this all while remaining arduously yet acrimoniously allegiant to my amative and altruistic nature...I am an exponentially existential example of how a person can expeditiously extract excrement of mental warfare and exonerate emotions to be overt to life...

I swear to you, I've got a mental block...I've been writing pure shit, and honestly I'm pretty frustrated...Everything I write is a depressing chasm in both time and my mental capacity...Never quite a reflection of who I am or what I'm thinking or feeling at the time...And yet, it's all I seem to be able to write...And not the good kind...It's all been just horrible...I do apologize for subjecting whosoever reads this trianwreck of a literary piece...I am reading and drawing more, hoping to gain some sort of creative inspiration...Until then, look for more crap by Aja on BeautiFoul™...*sigh*

.FIN

Epic Name Failure: Le - a

I was both perplexed and perturbed when I read through this and the true pronunciation and justification of such was explained...You'll see what I mean...

How would you pronounce this as a child's name?...Leah?...No...Lee - A?...No Sir, guess again...Lay - a?...Nope, not even close...Lei?...Guess Again...Are you resorting to tongue clicks yet??...It's pronounced "LeDASHa"...Oh yes, you read it right...The 'dash' is NOT silent...This is the name of a real child who lives in Livingston Parish, Louisiana...Le - a's (haha!) mother is irate because everyone is getting her name wrong...When the mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said "the dash don't be silent."

If you ever see this again, for the sake of Le - a (I can't hold back my laughter at the sight of this name) and her creatively ignorant mother, please don't forget to pronounce the 'dash'...
.FIN

MacBook Event: Disappointing to Consumers and Investors Alike...

It looks like there will be no low-end Apple laptops despite the wide-spread speculation that there would be an entry-level MacBook starting somewhere near $800...There IS, however, a MacBook with an introductory price under $1,000 but you can expect it to not include any of the semi-cool new features Apple has added to the new 13" MacBook (Starts @ $1,299) and MacBook Pro (Starts @ $1,999)...Here's a breakdown of what you'll see in the new models, available now online:

*Casing is made from a single piece of aluminum

*Mouse is replaced by a glass track pad that can handle multi-touch gestures much like an iPhone

*Enhanced graphics performance via an NVidia graphics chip

Yeah, lackluster...Cool, but not exactly the big "Wowee" we were all looking for...And the disappointment was reflected in Apple stocks yesterday as the company's shares dropped 5.6% after 4 p.m. yesterday; this, after Apple stocks are already down 45% this year...This is not to say, however, that Apple stocks are failing...Apple shipped nearly 30% more computers already than it did last year and this years laptop sales topped that of Apples iPod and iPhone sales with 62% of total sales...**End nerdy psuedo financial guru Aja rant**...Though I am disappointed that what I had expected from Apple did not come into fruition, I am glad that Apple continues to be a front-runner in the 'PC' industry and always seeks ways to improve upon it's already near perfect (in my own personal opinion - relax) product line...

*Gizmodo has a video breakdown of the MacBook Pro that can be seen here*

.FIN

Architectural Technologic Innovation: Moving Building...

I'm speechless...For once in my life, I've no words to describe how enamored I am with this design concept...I'm even more amazed that this is not, after all a concept, but instead is a reality that will be in Moscow and Dubai soon...A rotating building??...This is the stuff of futuristic 1960's childhood dreams, of a time when we'd surely be 'driving' flying cars by the year 2000...But alas, in 2008 we've advanced so far technologically that we can design and produce a building that rotates (the full rotation can take up to 3 hours and is voice commanded)using only solar and wind power with more energy to spare for surrounding buildings, should they need to borrow some...This $700 million structure dubbed the 'Dynamic Tower' is designed by Italian Architect , David Fisher...Amazingly, most of the structure is prefabricated at a factory in Italy (Side note: Building them this way makes it possible to install a floor in only six days, whereas building it on-site can take up to six WEEKS per floor) with only a core being built on-site...The core will house the elevators, which will not only move people, but cars too - directly to their floor!...I am both happy and terrified to live in this day and age...The technophile portion of my soul embraces all these advances to further enhance and make more efficient human life as well as environmental conservation in correlation to these advances...The nostalgic fibers within me start to wonder though...Have we advanced so much that the simplicity of life and actually 'living' within this world in its more natural sense has been lost forever and we can never truly 'live'?...Food for thought...Anyway, you can expect to see these buildings in 'real life' as early as 2010...And if you're nouveau riche enough to afford a floor at $3,000 per square foot, you can get in on the innovation too...

.FIN

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Epic Failure: DVD REWINDER...

There's not much to say here...Hopefully you're smart enough to catch the utter uselessness of said product...Man, I really need to rewind this DVD...Yo!...Lemme hold your Rewinder ma dudey...

.FIN

MacBook under $1000???...Tune in October 14th...

Well well well, it seems our man Steve Jobs may be feeling the pressure as the PC industry is aggressively dropping prices on laptops as new mini-laptops and affordable tablet PCs hit and potentially will dominate the market...Not to mention our failing economy...People can no longer afford to dish out minimum $1,100 dollars on an Apple and I'm pretty sure people eyeing to invest in Macintosh are paying attention to that too...It appears as though this may change...There's buzz around town that on October 14th, during the MacBook Event, a 13.3" MacBook will be unveiled with a price point more than likely under $1,000...Some even believe the price will bottom out around $800...This is exciting news for all those who've wanted to be a Mac snob but never could afford it...If this rumor comes into fruition, I will be one of the first to purchase...You should too...before Steve Jobs changes his mind...

**More updates on October 14th**

.FIN

Soundwave: Vinyl Fights Back!!...

Ahhhh...Vinyl...A lost art only coveted by old-school embracing DJs...I was almost horrified when the first CD, subsequently followed by all digital turntables, emerged on the scene giving lazy DJs who don't appreciate the true essence of music in all it's raw glory, a venue to even scratch the music we all grew to covet...So now is the time for Vinyl to fight back...To regain its stance in the music world as the great deliverer of aural enlightenment and the greatest manipulator of sound...Fight back soundwave...I've got your back!...Ok , enough of that, this is actually a sculpture by Jean Shin that's on display at the Manhattan Museum of Arts and Design through February 15...I'll be going to see it next weekend...Any more lonely art/biblio/photogra-philes care to join moi?...

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Reality: Social Networking does NOT equal real life...

My MySpace status update today states: "Aja says the internet is not real life nor does it define anything within it"...This is my food for thought today as a turn of events happened in my life yesterday that made me reevaluate just how out of control the internet has gotten...People truly catch feelings based upon very superficial, childish and empty things that occur through text behind a screen...This computer and this internet can protect the person who is on the giving end of things, but what of the person on the receiving end? ...Left emotionally distraught with open-ended promises or unanswered anguish only left to guess and build upon their own emotions based on this uncertainty...This creates a cornucopia of false pretenses and conclusions drawn so early they haven't even become a thought yet...Then suddenly things become ugly and people are no longer sworn lifelong friends, and middle America young ladies are killing themselves over the loss of a prospect of love that was never a real prospect at all or being raped by online predators...And broken hearted men and women are aimlessly mulling over that last text message sent by the love of their life and relentlessly trying to decode the encryption within it in order to reach some false sense of closure...And in all of this, there is nothing...And all time and love and ultimately all people...Are wasted...And yet we continue to base this thing we call social networking, the internet, and cellular communication and all the rancidness of its' nature as all that is meant to be taken seriously in this world...The insecure nature of those who dwell behind the security blanket of a screen of communication are seen solely by those individuals who know that things are not always what they seem...A manipulative nature can only be reciprocated by those smart enough to recognize that manipulation is a game that can be easily played by being still and ignoring ignorance...This shit is not real people...Believe that, and you will be much happier...
(Random Rant).FIN

Register to vote damnit...

Here's the deal...Register to vote today if you aren't registered already...Why?...Because if you don't you WILL NOT be able to participate in this historical and monumentally important Presidential Election...I'm going to make it really really easy for you too...You can go to Rock the Vote and register online...I just found out something really great today too that made me smile...DC and Maryland are now allowing ex-Felons to vote in upcoming elections...This is a step in the right direction to giving people with a record more of a chance to regain a normal life and recapture their dignity...I am all for more rights and more chances for these people since the world likes to close doors in their faces regularly...But yeah, go to Rock the Vote and register...Tell all your friends to tell a friend or two...It is, indeed, time for change and our votes DO make a difference...

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OMFG!...That was the BEST 'BIRF'DAY Celeberinjam EVER!

I'll post pics once they come my way (I took the night off as fotog and let others take their perspective)...But for now I'd like to thank the 19 people who showed up to my birthday dinner/80's dance party/Almost stage performance...
-Donna
-Liselle
-James
-Dwynn
-Vernon
-Cliff
-Malik
-Elijah
-Shannon
-Q (damnit I always forget your daggon name, but it starts with a 'Q')...(Quartez)
-Doug
-Steph
-Cavan
-Darren (Wow, that was seriously a GIANT surprise)
-BMarz
-Johnny
-Cant Remember your name guy#1 with the mad Trinidad garb on who was super dope! (Junior)
-Can't remember your name guy #2 with the two-tone dope ass jacket on who was super dope! (Naaim)
-ASHLEY!!
We had so much fun and this literally was the best birthday I've ever had...You all came out to show your support on a day you all know is very tough for me even though it is a celebration of my own life..I LOVE YOU ALL...Real love, from the bottom of my heart...THANK YOU...
There IS one person whose presence would have made my birthday PERFECT though...*sigh*...
.FIN

Happy Birthday Deshaun Holton aka Proof aka Dirty Harry aka My Heart...

Something you all may not know about me because I don't speak on it much as it is still a great sadness in my heart...There is not a week that goes by that I do not think about this great man and there is not a week that goes by that I do not shed a tear for him...His name was Deshaun...I always refused to call him by his rap name 'Proof'...I have so many lovely memories of this man and I guess that's part of the heartache too...He was my one and only love and my number one mentor...He taught me how to be a better person and how to fight for what you really want out of life even if it hurts so bad you want to quit...HE taught me how to write...I am more than grateful to him for this lesson alone...HE taught me how to read the dictionary to expand my vocabulary...HE taught me how to challenge my own mental capacity...He taught me what love is and how it hurts...He is the reason I am the woman I am today...The good and the bad of who I am...But mostly good...He is the epitome of love...He is greatly missed by me but I know HE walks by my side all day, every day...I find comfort in the fact that, as he promised, he never left my side...And he never will...Today is the celebration of your born day too DeShaun...And tonight I'm gonna party like we always did...In true Libra fashion...We are so proud to be who we are and we never falter for anyone...HAPPY BIRTHDAY DESHAUN, I LOVE YOU UNTIL THE END OF TIME...

I wear this proudly...

.FIN

Guess who's having a birthday thing tomorrow...

This girl!!

Email me for more info
I figured I'd extend an invite to those of you who've become faithful readers of ye olde blog...
Basic Info: 8:00pm Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 @ a secret location (I've always wanted to say that)...
.FIN

Vote for my great friend DONNA!!...NOW!!...

Isn't she lovely (wipe your drool...I see you)?...Vote for her to be featured in the 2009 KIS Models Calendar...And when she wins, buy the calendar please...Donna has been on her grind in the modeling world for as long as I can remember, and (pardon me while I use the gay mans obligatory fashion terminology) she's FIERCE!!...Vote here NOW!!...

Thanks for supporting my friend!!

.FIN