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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Skid Row... Operation First Night. Org - Fugees

Starbucks at Farmers Market
I'm waiting for who ever has been texting me....


Is there a booger in my nose?Maybe this isn't a good idea


Text
G--- I'm here

?--- I forgot about your punctual nature I will be there at 3....

Mary called

M --- GloZell where are you and who are you meeting?

G--- I'm at the Farmers Market and I don't know who I'm meeting... it's someone I know... they know that I'm always on time

M--- Call me at 4 so I know you are alive but I feel better knowing that you are at a public place

G--- Okay

3 o'clock came... I started to get nervous...

then he walked in...

"Bixel" ---- GloZell I couldn't wait to see you...

G--- Bixel... I haven't seen you in ... in 3 years...

Bixel -- I got my movie done G ( he always called me G)
G ---- That's... great...

Bixel ---- I lost everything G... no apartment, the restaurant, my car .

G--- I see ... now you have your story for Oprah... your Tyler Perry I was homeless story... (do a documentary on yourself)

Bixel --- I'm still working hard on getting my movie out there...

G--- okay

Bixel --- When I start with the restaurant again... I can start paying people back... paying you back... thanks for investing... I really wanted you to see I got it done

G--- I'm glad you did... but even more than paying me back.... it was that I gave you money for your movie ( I was teaching then)... you said you would repay is 6 months... it's been three years ....

Bixel ---- I was too busy to give you what you wanted ...

G--- A phone call... a text ... you are real good at texting now

B ---- You are the one G... I could have my base in Orlando so I can have someone to come home to and your mother could help take care of our kids... I love you and you the one G

G --- The last time I saw you was at your restaurant party with your "Real" investors... you didn't invite me your partner did... I went to get seconds and ... you had someone come up and tell me ... you don't like your women big and put the food down... in front of everyone... and I put the plate down...

held it together... finished the party... I had one of my students come because she loved the Fugees ( one of the members is the lead in the movie... but has sued him... it's all good now)
B --- G...

G--- No... no wait... how about when you called and said you made me lunch.... I drive over thinking wow I wonder what it could be with you owning a restaurant and all .... and it was a bag of carrots

my car wasn't fancy enough, my place wasn't good enough, I was too fat...

and now I'm the one....

B --- I'm the same guy that you wanted ...

G --- I hope that you are not.... I saw a guy who was passionate about his movie and his restaurant... a African American man... who hasn't been to jail, and finished College and owned his own business... trying to make it... no kids... hasn't been married... you are what I was suppose to want...

I was the one you could call to go get this faxed and take this here and there while you were in New York... pick you up... take you to the airport.... what ever I could do to support you... a Black Man trying to make it... I did

I sang at your function... remember... you didn't even talk to me... I help clear the dishes... and you left...

So... Orlando?... how's your family

Bixel --- Let's not talk about them...

G --- Don't treat you the same now huh...

Look... you had to loose everything... and you are becoming a better man because of it...

If you had called and said " I am trying to pay you back... but I can't right now... but I want you to know what's going on with the project" ... something Bixel

How mad... how stupid can someone feel and stick around... the party was the last straw...

Bixel --- G ... you are a great person... and we can be together now... in Orlando... I'm 38 ... no kids...

G --- I have a boyfriend ( you didn't even ask... ) ... it's crazy... but SK seems to like me now... not over a course of years... not after he has lost everything... now

SK doesn't have much... and soon he will have less( am I stupid?)... but he treats me better than anyone else... (nope not stupid)

I wish you well... and things will turn around for you... clearly you had to see who was real in your life ...

Bixel --- Here is a copy of the movie, a Tee Shirt, and a flyer... I would like to watch the movie together ... it's a real good movie G
G --- Where you want to watch it?... I still live off Crenshaw in the hood... Oh I know the movie is good.. I invested in it....Thank you ... I will watch it... by myself ...

Bixel --- I hope you still... can believe in me G

G --- I do... you will be fine... learn your lesson... it will turn around...thank you bye
(I'm glad I'm fat right now... HA!)


I call Mary...
G --- Mary... you wouldn't believe what happened today... remember the guy I said owed me money.....
(There's some back story for you Sus)...
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I hope Jay Leno never thought he was so special... ha... anyone that I care for ... I would entertain those who like him... strike with his writers... tell him straight up the truth... for the love of it... then getting let go/dumped ... nothing new --
Pras Michel, founder and member of the Grammy award winning hip-hop trio, The Fugees, visited Yale for a screening of his groundbreaking documentary, Skid Row. In the film, Michel trades his glamorous life for the street and goes under cover as a homeless person for 9 days. The event was co-sponsored by Operation First Night (OPFN) and Yale’s Homeless and Hunger Awareness Action Project (YHHAP). Both organizations were established to mobilize young people against homelessness.The idea, was originally pitched to him by a friend during a game of Scrabble and Pras was not the intended star. He signed on to the project as a producer. “Basically, no one else wanted to do it,” he explains. “Everyone else backed out”.

9 comments:

Fightin' Mad Mary said...

Glo, I went on the movie website and it looks soooooooooo good!!! Seriously, I want to watch it sometime soon. Please let me borrow the DVD or let me know when there is a screening in town.

ps. love the dress!!

GloZell said...

Mary... ah.........okay... I'm a... not happy...not sad... just... why ... whatever...

Yes... I have the movie and I don't want to watch it ... by myself... I was working and I believed in his project... I gave him 1500... not much in movie terms... but that's all ALL I had...
But what was my measily dollars ( sorry about spelling... man I am starting to get ...mad)

I gave just so he would know that I ... man... okay... I'm done...

Things turn around...

I was teaching all day and night... going to the comedy clubs... then on a break... went to the Tonight Show... Ha

funny...

okay... movie time...
Man... Mary I was willing to hold a camera on Skid Row... anything to help and for what Mar...
SKID ROW... over night in a tent whatever... he was scraping and calling people and pitching the idea and Pras was his friend...
"Bixel" had the idea just chilling with his friend Pras...

I was in on the beginning... from the jump...

now I'm not suppose to be mad at black men...nope...

okay... I'm done... I always thought the movie would be good... he just happened to have gotten a big head during ... the attention... a celeb... that's big for a 1st movie... and he got it done... I have to say I'm proud...

ha... He got it done...

What am I doing??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Anonymous said...

I was also looking at the homepage. It this all about homeless people? I saw many of them in NYC in Winter. They slept in cartoon boxes or without any protection. Some even had no shoes on. It was quite a shock to me when I saw it first.

A friend of mine (she is Swiss) lived as a junkie and a prostitute in NYC, Harlem. There was a time where she was homeless to. She got through so many awful things even prison in one of the worst in NYC.

We saw together the film with Will Smith and his son where they live as homeless in Chicago I think. It reminded her of her life in NYC.

After 10 good years back in Switzerland she is now in a clinic. She got clean, had a good job, a child from an African American crack dealer in NYC (she is very sweet)and a friend. Later she had a burn out, started to drink, lost her job and her child is living with friends. She is suffering under borderline. She is such a lovely person and very intelligent.

GloZell, men are like bees around you, they see your beauty and your soul! But mostly it are the wrong ones! :-)

Happy Easter!

Sus

GloZell said...

SUS...

oh Sus... your friend went through a lot... hope she can turn around againg...

Men... bees... but I get stung...ha

I don't know what men see... but they have 20/20 after I'm gone?...

I hope you get a chance to see the movie Skid Row...

wonder what is going to happen today?... don't think I should ask...lol

Take Care

xoxoxoxo

Happy Easter to you too... Leslie is singing in a choir Sunday... I will try to get a picture...

GloZell

Paria said...

Wow.... that's the guy? You briefly had told me about him.... as I was reading your blog the phrase, "don't miss a good thing till it's gone" kept running through my head.

I'd love to watch the DVD as well. We all get screwed by people in our lives. But in the end we ask that God remembers our act of kindness. You know my family story... we are poor because we gave and gave and NO one felt the need to return the "loans." It teaches us to give within our own capacity and to never have any expectation to have it returned...

But you know what's amazing? God finds other ways to repay us; he puts generous friends in our lives, blesses us with abundant joy and everlasting love....

By forgiving you set your soul free. I LOVE YOU! And as always, I'm very proud of you!

Anonymous said...

GG,
He's a talker and user. I'm sure you've figured out he comes on the scene when he has a plan...to benefit himself. All the talk of his poor $$$ situation is his way of saying he can't pay you back and then how he needs your assistance.
WE stayed home today. Jim worked in the yard about an hour. I talked to Mom and also Jean several times. A plumber came to see about installing a walk in shower...so Mom doesn't have to walk upstairs. Being Easter weekend we are not sure when he can do it. Mom really wants to remain at her home. Jim and I are going up there next month.
It was a good idea to let Mary know where you were.
I really hope it goes well next week. I am sure you'll introduce him to FMM, Leslie, Paria, WaWa, Chuck, Mr. Wisdom, Sister in your neighborhood, your AARP group, etc. Maybe you can celebrate Par Par's birthday and include her family.
Did you see my last post yesterday? It made it on the comments posted.
XXXXOOOXOOXX,
MD

GloZell said...

Oh Par Par...

You want to see the movie?... We can have Movie night at Mary's ( I have to ask her first... I'm sure she would say yes)..

That's right... you told me what happened to your family... (yours is worst...because of the people involved)

Thanks... my friends are very very generous to me...

Forgiving... ah...that's what you have to do... that's what we all have to do...

Proud of me ... Proud of you... in the highest form of good...

Take Care...

xoxoxoxo

GloZell

GloZell said...

MD

You are leaving next week...okay... I know you have to go...

Um... there would have been a time but he hasn't seem to quite be as honest... but I see that he believe in his work... willing to loose everything to get it done...

I have to work on my own projects... and I wish him well very well so he can pay back his debt to me and everyone else... and I think he will....

I want that to be the case... well Par Par, Leslie, Mary and I will give our review...

Tired now... OH... AI... thought of you... a standing ovation from Simmon ... man Adam ( I think that's his name ) is cute and talented....

Have a safe trip visiting mom... tell her I said hi... oh wait you are not going until next month?

Thanks for your right on point advice...

Take Care

xoxoxoxo

GloZell

Anonymous said...

Someone told me recently, "If your cup is full go ahead and give a little if you feel like it...if your cup is quarter full or half fill even, you probably are better off keeping your stuff for yourself."

It's such a tough lesson to learn for those who are naturally generous in spirit.

There's an old Jewish saying....it's passover anyway!..."If I am not for ME, who will be? But if I am only for myself, what good am I? If not me, who? If not now, When?"

It will be so nice for all of us when we start taking care of US!!!!

LA is such a tough town...but you've probably had more fun than anyone along the way!
Love you,
Leslie