ERYKAH BADU Concert feat Janelle Monae & J*Davey

Wednesday, June 22, 2010
I went the ERYKAH BADU Concert
Out of My Mind, Just In Time Tour 2010 AD
feat Janelle Monae & J*Davey @ the Marquee Theatre in Phoenix, AZ!
And you have no idea how EXCITED I was go to. I truly do love Miss E. Badu!
It was the Sunday before the concert I saw a tweet go figure from @yayamartinez [a local radio host for underground hip-hop]
giving out concert tickets for Erykah Badu. Just call in to win. So fan-crazed me called in, sang a Erykah Badu song + BAM!
Won concert ticket!!!





J*Davey
I like J*Davey despite not being well known.
They did my song "Slooow" so I couldn't complain!
Her odd lil vocals and sexy stage performance


Janelle Monae
Now I've been following Monae since she before she was a signed artist
got her first album + unreleased songs
so to see her for real on stage was surreal
she has incredible stage performance; animated as life
Her tightrope is the bizzzzzzzzzz!

*at the end of her set she stage dived.
I caught HER!
MADE MY NIGHT!!!


Erykah Badu
from her entrance to the encore
Badu is just greatness
such stage presence is felt when she's in a building
that personality must be great to be around 24/7
and that voice soars and fills the room


She did all here songs
On & On, Window Seat, Bag Lady, etc
its was a real live set
the crowd was just loving her!




"I AM AN IMMIGRANT"
that shirt was iconic and meant more that words here in Arizona
SB 1070
Phenomenal performance really...
made my summer.
I mean the best I can describe it is if you've been you an Erykah Badu concert
you know exactly what was experienced.
We were all one under the name of Badu
nothing but love in the building!

Gotta love Badu!

Arizona State Fair '09

Arizona State Fair
Oct 16 - Nov 8

So in case you DON'T live in the AZ
the Arizona State Fair or the state fair (as the natives call it)
comes around once a year at about the same time (mid Oct - beginning of Nov).
The state fair is filled fun for all with rides, games and food for any&everyone. And with a $10 dollar admission it better be haha!
There's a petting zoo, funhouses, loads of rides, BOMBASS fair food like Turkey leg, Kettle Corn, hotdogs, Mexican food [GO FIGURE this is AZ haha],
OLD SCHOOL JAMS stores along with our annual OLD SCHOOL JAM where we get like 7 old school artists together to preform some of their hits! Definetely a nice show and the stadium is always packed & they always have
MC Magic from the NB Ridaz.
[yall aint know bout him] and last but not least we always have rigged games where you win fish or stuffed animals BIG & small.




















"this used to be a FUNHOUSE but now its filled with Pirates..."




*note I do not like heights & being off the ground so NO i rode nothing & will not ride most of these*
Rollercoaster = DEATH
#justsayin


So every year the fair deep fries or chocolate covers something
that not ought to be as food. Last year they had Deep Fried Twinkies????? Definetly not eating that. Do you know how many perservitives are in a Twinkie? If there were a neclear war and we were all wiped off the face of the earth the only thing that would remain are cockaroaches & twinkies....

Anyways,
This year it was Chocolate Covered SCORPIONS


$4 - Chocolate Covered Scorpion


Scorpio eats Scorpion
it tasted like ehh but going down it tasted like a SHOT of ALCOHOL
due to the poison



dos grillos - CRUNCH TIME!
[$1.50 for 2 chocolate covered crickets]


www.AZStatefair.com

KIX: Kid Tested, Mothers Approved MY A$$

LAST Sunday, July 12, 2009 at around noon
I had an ANAPHYLAXTIC reaction

WHAT'S THAT?

"Anaphylaxis is the term for a severe allergic reaction. I may begin within minutes (which it did), up to an hour after exposure to the substance you are allergic to ("allergen"). Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or stomach cramps, itchy rash (hives), swelling of the eyes, lips, face or tongue, wheezing, difficulty breathing and swallowing, throat tightness, chest pain or fainting

This kind of reaction can be life threatening."

According Banner Estrella Hospital (the hospital I was admitted to).


The Story
'Round 12 o'clock noon, I poured some KIX cereal into a cup and started eating some KIX business as usually. Normally I would of been at church on Sunday, but I had a paper to write and got hungry. And in about 5 mins of a couple handfuls of damn KIX cereal... I felt funny. I've never felt this way before in my life: my face was itchy so I was scratching it, my throat felt unusual and scratchy and I started wheezing [the symptoms of Anaphylaxis if you weren't paying attn] and after washing my mouth out for about 3 mins in the bathroom & looking in the mirror at my hive stuck face, I told my dad "I think I'm having an allergic reaction to Kix." I wasn't in a pretty good state.

So we immediately rushed to the hospital which was about a 15 min drive. All the while my symptoms are getting worse: just like the definition, my eyes, lips, face and tongue were swelling and swollen to the MAX! I looked grotesque... Lips bigger than Jigga man! (so not funny at the time tho) and my throat was tightening to the point where after 5 mins after leaving the house I couldn't talk or breath from my mouth (only my nose).

We get to the hospital, I'm taken immediately to ER where they gave me an oxygen mask because the Anaphylaxis was cutting off my air supply & without any air > I die. Even there they were surprised at how badly swollen my face & lips were. They shot me up with IVs in both arms, took my blood, got my vitals all that hospital stuff. I was given Benadryl (antihistamine to fight the allergy), Epinephrine to open my airways, raise my heart rate & other excitatory functions because technically my body was dying due to the lack of oxygen because of the Anaphylaxis. FYI Epinephrine is pure adrenaline & I was given Pepcid cuz all these drugs were gonna FUCK with my stomach and they didn't want me in gastric pain on top of dying.

Due to the adrenaline (Epinephrine) my heart was beating so hard & fast I honestly just wanted it out of my body. And due to the Benadryl, I was in and out of consciousness (Benadryl> causes drowsiness). After I stabilized a bit I text'd a few ppl (friends & fam) about how I was [didnt twitter a soul]. I had 2 visitors: my bestfriends Vero & Katelynn (KK). I remember talking to Veronica but honestly only remembering saying "hi" and "bye" with KK (so sorry it was the drugs haha). But I still had mad Twitter luv & shoutouts from the bestfriends @GL0, @veroooo, @frankenstein_23 and the homegirl @menaababyy22 & calls and texts I really could respond to being either drowzy (asleep knock'd up on meds) or couldnt speak.

Anyways long story short, I spent the night in ICU, was constantly being checked upon, always sleeping & watching the "ER" marathon oh the irony.

In and out of consciousness, I was unaware of the fact that I honestly could of had DIED! which my parents kept reiterating because they were so glad I was alive and well after being discharged Monday, July 13 2009 @ 1:30PM Mountain Time (I live in Phx).

Throughout the whole Anaphylaxtic episode I wasn't really scared or thought I was gonna die. No ply major plea bargains with God expect help me. I just wanted this to be fixed NOW and wanted to go home NOW! instead of spending the night there for monitoring.

Having this near death experience truly makes me appreciate life a whole lot more... more than even this blog can express.

-Mikeman





PS
I'm good now but I AIN'T NEVER EATING KIX AGAIN IN MY LIFE
They can KICK ROCKS for all I care