Masquerade

This is the end of the song called "Masquerade" by Canadian rapper K-os. He's pretty ballin'.  If you're reading this you should definitely check him out and listen to some of his stuff.

In this venture, nothing gained

I've only just touched the surface
Once nervous, when writing for a worthless purpose
It was once more than this, before the heart left the beat
The soul left the speech, I'm still trying to reach
My niche, and teach the love again
Inside the hate of a present day
Got stepped after, being genuine we're swept away
Before the importance of diamonds, bells
And a platinum place, fallen from grace
Not my campus with another trace
Of the same thing I came in, this thing is worth saving
Standing in the pockets holding tongues of what I'm saying
Blaming myself only for supporting what they're playing
I may peek through the storm, but now it's raining
Unchanging of late, it's hard to be creative
Although creating is native to me, I tried to be
Even patience couldn't save it, from the days of pages
They couldn't believe I would say this
No longer without wings, Kamau is what my name is
Too many undermind, what I underline
Placing my poetry underneath their making of rhymes
It was a creation of frustration
Brown bricks or blank slates
Subway trains and cardboard bound with masking tape
It was the sound of the evening, the way the day grew late
Words tumble from lungs over my tongue
And gave a new taste to my fate
It doesn't even matter how the chatter would paint us
With love on our side they could barely stand against us

Have this song stuck in my head..

I have this song stuck in my head. It's kinda catchy though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZycgwkwLLo

Best Night

Prom was last night. I don't know what it was but it was nothing like any other dance I've ever been to. Maybe it was because it could be my last dance I go to (and I say could be for the fact that me and Fiona are going reeeeeally well). But I didn't think that this prom would stand out as much as the other two; one with a girl from church my sophomore year and my junior year with Danielle. Maybe it was because I actually had someone to go with and didn't have to really ask. People kept asking me how I was going to ask my own girlfriend to prom and I said I wasn't because that would be retarded. The music was great. The food was okay, partly because I got some hot sauce with my chicken otherwise it wouldn't have been up to par. I just can't put my finger on it. But Fiona had fun. I had fun. Her sister went with us and she had fun. WHAT WAS IT?!? After prom me and Fiona came back to my house and watched tv for a bit before she had to be back home. She fell asleep on me and I was stuck watching "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" by myself. I didn't really mind though. She woke up and it was about fifteen minutes before she had to be home. But I got her home on time. It wasn't bad. I was kinda mad all morning/day because my parents woke me up and I wanted to sleep. I didn't go to sleep until about 3:30 in the morning. Needless to say I was kind of tired. All day. But it's good. After church we came back home and I've been chillin' all day. Trying to find the meaning of life.....

Boy I need to do this more often....

Wow so here's a habit I really need to start doing: Updating my blog more often. It's almost been a whole month (it would have been a month tomorrow) that I haven't updated. That's kinda pathetic. But trust me my Hairlson Habit faithful, I will try my hardest to keep you on point with what's in my head or any other work I do for journalism. Which reminds me. Last Thursday we went to Mizzou (University of Missouri-Columbia if you didn't know) for Journalism Day. We sent in some stuff to try and win some awards and guess what? I won one! Actually I won two. One for a photo that I shot and the other for our school's podcast. I was pretty excited because that was the first award I've gotten for any of my work. Or at least cool award. I think My picture gets to be hung up on the wall in Manfull's room on the "Wall of Fame." That was kinda my goal was to have one of my things up there. I'm not sure if it will be but I'll have to check. And if you want to know what the picture looked like then follow this link : http://fhntoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=22670703&event=708414&CategoryID=47862. That should send you straight to the photo. Man I have a lot to do this week. Monday, today, I have to work. Tuesday, I have to work again, Wednesday I have to work YET AGAIN. Thursday I have to go to a track meet and depending on how I do at that track meet I have to go back for finals on Friday. And then Saturday is my last prom ever. Kinda sad when I think about it. I've been to three and they've all been great. I just hope this one top them all off because it's my senior prom. If you really wanted to know because I know you're just dying by now, I'm going with my girlfriend of two months (and some change). Her name is Fiona. Fiona Brooks. It's kind of weird because we've always been kind of close from summer track, then again in high school, and we were always really flirty with each other but we never really showed any real interest in a relationship type deal. Maybe it was because I didn't think she was "mature" enough yet. Maybe it was because she was really flirty. Or maybe it was because I was scared of what her mom would say. But in the end it kind of worked out fine because her mom knows I'm a pretty good kid and she's alright with me dating her. Now her dad on the other hand......well let's just say the first time I actually met him and introduced myself to him, I was not prepared. I was at a track meet (Friday Night Relays to be exact) and I didn't look the best. I had just gotten done warming up and it was kind of chilly that day so I had the sniffles and basically looked like what my mom would call "a hot mess." And she pointed me out to him. But needless to say I met him and his exact words after meeting me (directed towards my mom) were "He's alright." Nothing else. Just those two words shaped my future with Fiona and my being able to date her and her dad accepting me as her boyfriend. But at that time that's all I needed because prom is coming up and I'm going to need some type of acceptance to take her away for the "night of all nights." Why, just a couple of weeks ago Fiona told me that her dad said that I could come over to her house. I still couldn't come inside, but I can stay on the porch. Now you may not think that that's a big deal but to me that's a hell of an improvement from where I was at prior to the porch. At first learning about me he originally said I couldn't even come over. Then he said that I could come over but had to stay in the front lawn. And now the porch?!? I must be getting somewhere if I'm on the porch! Well in a couple of weeks I'll be standing in the front door. But that probably won't come until summer. But that's all for now. Hopefully I'll remember to update this more and I'm going to try my hardest to update it after prom in some reasonable manner of time. Stay tuned for the next episode.

Will Fiona's father let Andrew ever so closely to the inside of the house? Find out next time on HAIRLSON'S HABITS!!!!!!!!!!