This was my first night staying in a hostel. Sitting in that room anchored me from drifting in the currents of the city’s streets. I was cut away from eyes and bodies that could see and touch what I could not hide. Staring out the window, smoking a splif and eating a burrito, I was happy to, if just for a night, watch the world instead of it watching me. I got reborn taking a shower. The hot water felt …
Tag: writing
“You’re not ready,” said Quang over the phone, from his 26th street Manhattan studio. He’s sipping Dalmore whiskey, watching The Traveling Players. “If you’re a writer, you don’t need money to write, just a pad and a pen.” “What do you mean?” I said. “And next time, don’t bring a cell phone. You can’t have this kind of shit and be a writer, every time you have trouble you call mommy and daddy.” “I’m not calling mommy and daddy I’m …
This kid I used to know made me this book. We haven’t talked for a decade. 
Photo by Brian Kavanaugh 
Transcription nots from an interview with actor Josh Peck and director Jonathan Levin, San Francisco Film Festival 
Transcription nots from an interview with actor Josh Peck and director Jonathan Levin, San Francisco Film Festival 
Transcription nots from an interview with actor Josh Peck and director Jonathan Levin, San Francisco Film Festival 
still breathing…. Photo by Brian Kavanaugh 
still breathing…. Photo by Brian Kavanaugh 
Photo by Brian Kavanaugh 
This was birthed from my long paranoia of people reading my journals (I’m missing some). They include loose pages of lyrics, poems, images, lines that I couldn’t find a home for, and embarrassing ramblings of insecurities. Nothing is in any particular order. I just went through my notebooks and picked what probably has been a reoccurring theme through out my life. No other eyes were ever meant to look at these pages. I’m not trying to be pornographic, but before …
The first time I met Harlemite rapper, producer, filmmaker, and actor Mtume Gant aka Core Rhythm, was in our Harlem Renaissance class at SUNY Purchase College. Gant usually had the most to say when it came to class discussions about our reading assignments. He was so vocal and passionate that I felt intimidated to raise my hand. Thoughtful, and progressive ideas effortlessly sprung off his tongue. There were few places where our opinions diverged. Most times, I was envious of …
For LA Weekly I wrote an article about rapper and songwriter Gizzle. Also, I talked to rapper and producer The Koreatown Oddity. Check Gizzle’s EP 7 Days In Atlanta, shorty got bars. She’s like the Dolly Parton of rap, meaning, she pens hella songs, or in this case, raps for a lot of popular rappers. TKO was a humble cat who happens to be a multi-talented hardworking artist. Stones Throw Records just dropped his album Finna Be Past Tense. His Driving While Black flick was …
