zutopia

while i did get emo over alternative/indie music, i was not quite at home in it.  is it because it's prickly and i'm not supposed to be comfortable there? or is it because despite being a resistant culture it was a homogenous space that was not so welcoming to me (sans purple hair - i tried once, the dye didn't take)?  i eventually found a home in hip hop.  open to sampling and claiming the world in it's entirety, in hip hop there was room for my love for the smiths and i ended up having some of the best discussions about morrisey's angst with hip hop producers, and hip hop djs from stretch armstrong, to mark ronson, ztrip, and hollertronix (later diplo), would mash up the party mixing in rock records on the regular.  yeah so that's my heart but while I may only have one tattoo. And not on my chest. and I may have vacillated btw birkenstocks, doc martens, and chucks under my long shapeless dresses. and I may have listened to more of the smiths and the cure than the sexpistols and iggy. and de la and the native tongues may have stolen my heart after i had given up on hip hop during the new jack swing era, i did cry tears of joy in 2004 when i finally saw morrisey live at the apollo in harlem -he came across the sea to Martin Luther King Blvd. yo. And i cant wait to jump around and swirl and rock out with my little girl at Afro Punk fest next weekend. I'll try not to cry.