The Flavor of Love: What Am I Suppose to Get from Watching?

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Read my profile of Kind of Blue, Miles Davis' 1959 masterpiece. It has become the best-selling jazz album in history, and is perhaps most often the first jazz album to which a jazz neophyte listens. It has probably been reissued more than any other album. I would be willing to bet that if you asked jazz fans and musicians at random, it is the most likely album to have been completely memorized. For more great albums, check out my list of Ten Classic Jazz Recordings.

Related:

• Artist Profile: Miles Davis
• Artist Profile: John Coltrane
• Artist Profile: Bill Evans

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Sunday, October 15, 2006 VH1 aired the season finale of “The Flavor of Love”, season two, in which our favorite Hype Man of the legendary rap group “Public Enemy” chose laid back, “Deelishis” over the dramatically charged “New York.” I was happy with his choice, but I was lost in thought watching the show. A week earlier someone asked me, “What do you get from watching that show?” After making a face from irritation of the question, I proceeded to say, “Umm, entertainment.” I also went into a Frantic spew of words just as I am about to do now. 

Before this question was posed to me I remembered hearing about people saying that “The Flavor of Love” reinforces stereotypes made about African Americans. It is like every time I turn around a problem is found within something that is distorting someone’s race. It is bad enough I have given up eating watermelons, but “The Flavor of Love” quickly became one of my favorite shows that I was not going to turn away from it. I never watched “The Flavor of Love” and thought once to myself that Flava Flav was making me or my race look ignorant, because Flava Flav is such a unique individual that I can’t even see racial stereotypes within him and the show, mainly because it is reality TV. 

If you want to get technical I appreciate the fact that Flava Flav is able to be seen on TV today, since he was apart of the politically charged rap group “Public Enemy”, who had rap songs questioning the minor systems in the United States, such as 9-1-1 the emergency number and the United States Government as a whole. Still thinking about what this show does for me, clearly it is strictly entertainment as are most television shows. I mean sure if someone of another culture watched American television shows they would probably have some pretty crazy ideas about the United States, but for me a Black American I think nothing of television shows except as a way to past time. 

Even if I was watching “The Discovery Channel”, “The Learning Channel”, or “Home and Gardening TV”, there is still some entertainment as I learn how to create the perfect drapes in the living room. Although someone may say “I am going to watch ‘Home and Gardening TV’ and learn how to plant tulips,” no one is going to say, “I am going to watch ‘The Flavor of Love’ and learn how to treat a woman.” But at least if someone did watch “The Flavor of Love”, Flava Flav does wine and dine the ladies well and is a very sincere person on the show. Looking at it like that maybe someone could get more than entertainment from watching this reality show. But seriously TV has always been said to be a mind numbing activity. 

Too many people were watching “Friends” instead of really making friends. If you look at all shows in a sense where you are not doing anything productive and you are wasting your life away to watch “Lost” every week, instead of being social then maybe it is time that you put the remote down. All in all what I get from a television show is not the same for everyone, but it is all entertainment. 

If you watch a game show you won’t win money watching it, if you watch a soap opera you may never have a romantic experience like the characters, and if you watch ER you will never be a doctor with out the proper education, but after that special show is over the you love you will have the gratification of being entertained and if you don’t like the show that is on your TV set, then change the channel. It is easy as that.

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Have You Ever Caught Yourself Silently Demonstrating Low Self-esteem?

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Still Amiss in Afghanistan

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* Afghanistan has become another Vietnam. We're fighting the war from the United States and on PC terms to bring our troops home (”Bombs

NotAway,” Noah Shachtman, PostOpinion, Dec. 22).

President Obama sent a little more than half of the troops his generals asked for. Now he's going to tie their hands with his rules of engagement?

It's a shame when civilians die. We should know here in the United States; we lost a lot on 9/11.

Sam Lumia

Whitestone

* Why is Gen. Stanley McCrystal fighting a war? To babysit for the Afghan people?

His troops are like sitting ducks. If he doesn't like the way he has to fight a war, he should tell that to Obama and either quit or get out of there.

We can't be dictated to by other countries on how to fight our war. These are our troops who are fighting.

We can't have political correctness and Miranda rights in wartime.

Obama is all wet when it comes to defending our troops and our country. After telling everyone how sorry we are for what we have done, he then sends troops to Afghanistan and tells them not to hurt anyone because we don't want to look bad to the friendly dictators.

Bob Tornese

Yonkers

* As a veteran, all I can say is thank God I'm not in this war in Afghanistan.

With a president who wants to win by giving the enemy lollypops, and a general who won't use air support, these soldiers are doomed.

Collateral damage is part of war; just ask anyone who lost a loved one on 9/11.

Joe Depascale

Brooklyn

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  This had its downsides, besides – inevitably – getting the two currencies
  hopelessly mixed up (both eschew the euro, using the krone and krona
  respectively). Waiting for the none-too-reliable trains in Arctic conditions
  (record delay: 50 minutes at 3am after the talks ran late) was no fun; nor
  was negotiating in a blizzard with Malmö's notoriously crooked taxis drivers
  (record try-on: £34 for just under a mile).

  But the benefit of the commute was that it enabled me to get to know two of
  the world's greenest cities. Copenhagen is so environmentally minded that it
  has been lighting its 60ft Christmas tree by pedal power: to keep it bright,
  passers-by had to jump on to one of 15 special bikes and generate the
  electricity themselves. And Malmö claims to be even greener.

  In fact, the two have a none-too-friendly rivalry. Copenhagen aims to be the
  world's first carbon-neutral capital city by 2025; Malmö to be powered
  entirely by renewable energy by 2030. Copenhagen boasts 250 miles of bicycle
  paths, with 32 per cent of commuters using two wheels; Malmö, which has a
  smaller area, pips it with 255 miles and 40 per cent. Copenhagen was last
  week named as Europe's greenest major city; Malmö brandishes an award from
  the UN. You get the picture…

  Overall, though I liked it rather less (it must have been those taxi drivers),
  I thought Malmö was the more interesting of the two, because it was heavily
  industrialised until only recently (as well as being known as Sweden's most
  boring city – which is saying quite a lot).

  Its proudest boast was that it had the biggest shipyard, the biggest dry-dock
  and the biggest crane in the world. Then disaster struck. The Berlin Wall
  came down and shipbuilding and other industries promptly pushed off across
  the Baltic to cheaper Eastern Europe.

  “We found ourselves in the deepest crisis imaginable,” said its
  mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, who showed me round. “It was a question of which
  path to take now that the pursuit of industry was no longer working for us.
  The direction we took was to promote Malmö as a centre of knowledge and an
  eco-town.”

  In a complete about-turn, it now markets itself as “Cleantech City”
  – and has cast off the torpor so effectively that it was recently ranked as
  Europe's most creative city (those taxi fares again?). The symbol of both
  transformations is the Western Harbour, where all that shipbuilding used to
  be, which has now been turned into a smart, green, modern suburb powered
  entirely by renewable energy produced on the spot.

  Mourning that ugly crane, its old symbol, the city decided to erect another
  emblem on almost the same spot – and plumped for the Turning Torso, a
  striking white (but green) 56-storey skyscraper, twisted through 90 degrees.
  Its residents, like everyone else in the area, compost their food waste to
  produce bio-gas to run the city's buses.

  In all, Malmö will cut its carbon dioxide emissions by at least 40 per cent by
  2020. In the process, it is growing, and attracting people, as never before.
  And what is happening there, and in Copenhagen, is important to us, because
  the battle against climate change will be won or lost in towns and cities.
  They may only cover 5 per cent of the world's land surface, but they emit
  three quarters of its greenhouse gases. And as the World Wildlife Fund
  points out, they will invest $250 trillion in infrastructure over the next
  30 years: it is important that this is green.

  So it was good that – almost unnoticed amid the shenanigans at the climate
  negotiations in the hideous Bella centre on Copenhagen's outskirts – mayors
  from 80 big cities held their own simultaneous, and much more productive,
  summit down the road.

  One by one, they unveiled their achievements and plans; no fewer than 1,016
  towns and cities across the US, for example, have agreed to meet the targets
  of the Kyoto protocol, which the government still rejects. Even New York
  plans to cut emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.

  All this – and my two commuting cities – goes to show that, as our own dear
  Boris Johnson said in Copenhagen, we should “stop being quite so
  unremittingly negative and gloomy”. Even though countries seem
  unwilling to save us, cities might.

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  I caught myself demonstrating low self-esteem yesterday as I was sitting at my kitchen counter and looking up into the clouds while eating a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. After a few moments, I realized that I was completely spacing out when I really should have been focusing my thoughts on more productive things. I thought to myself; Shawn, what are you doing? And then my thoughts responded; just trying to see shapes in the clouds is all.

  Even though these thoughts didn't surface into an active physical behavior, the words “just” and “is all” are what makes this a demonstration of low-self esteem. “Just” suggests that my time and interests are unimportant. “Is all” is begging for acceptance without ridicule. But given that these thoughts where encompassed within my thoughts only and not reflective of an active physical engagement with another person, it also implies that I'm overly self-critical.

  (To keep this article on topic, I'll discuss being self-critical another time.)

  I think this can be easily confused with schizophrenia because it might look as though I'm having an inward and disconnected conversation between two different egos. But have you ever noticed what your thoughts look like? When I look at my thoughts, they're typically in the shapes of cognitive conceptions or my personalized version of the English language. Language is learned from the outside in, and how it's used between oneself and other people can shape a great deal of how we think.

  There have been many times while sitting in the break room at work reading a book when someone would ask me, “Shawn, what are you reading?” Past experience has shown me that some people are occasionally offended by someone reading self-help books. So in efforts of avoiding unnecessary friction or drama with a coworker, I'll often respond, “It's just a book on relationships is all”. This is one of many examples where I've become accustomed to physically speaking the words “Just” and “Is all” and since they're a part of my physical vocabulary, they're also a part of my thought processes.

  A healthy level of self-esteem is an essential component of progressive personal and spiritual growth. But without being aware of the various formations of low-self esteem, our ignorance as such can limit our personal growth and/or emotional healing patterns leaving us suddenly confused and stagnated when all the while we thought we were doing quite well. Instead of saying “It's just a book on relationships is all”, all that's really necessary is “A book on relationships”. Whether or not the person I'm responding to accepts it or not is their business, but it maintains my self-esteem and dignity.

  In what ways do you catch yourself demonstrating low self-esteem?

  Wishing everyone a beautiful day!

  Peace, Love and Harmony,,,

  ***Disclaimer***

  Although anyone may find the practices, disciplines, and understandings in this article to be useful, it is made available with the understanding that I am not engaged in presenting specific medical, psychological, emotional, sexual, or spiritual advice. Nor is anything in this article intended to be a diagnoses, prescription, recommendation, or cure for any specific kind of medical, psychological, emotional, sexual, or spiritual problem. Each person has unique needs and this article cannot take these individual differences into account. Each person should engage in a program of treatment, prevention, cure, or general health only in consultation with a licensed, qualified physician, therapist, or other competent professional.

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