Buzz - Vibrationzz - Feel The Movement

Guys

There is a new band that we shoudl pay attention to for Miami Carnival 2007.

They're actually ex Flava Girls Masqueraders that started their own group a few years ago.

They're called Vibrationzz.

and I'm sooo proud of them and their efforts.

They launch in New York this weekend. hopefully Bagogyul can check it out for us...

and the truth is..i have a sneak peak into the designs....(SOOOO HOT!!!)

But I can't reveal yet until they're ready to Launch In Florida.

So bookmark the website and Look out for them soon..

Update on Island elite- Into the West...PICS

Since people have been shopping images back and forth... i figured why not Right?
its only us,....allyuh {IE} forgive me.
To be fair though these pictures do not do the costumes Justice and you BEST BELIEVE that IE will have images soon to BEST display the designs!!!

The Bacchanal Start..Band Launch, Island Elite

SOOOOOOO...OFF TO THE RACES!!!!
The Bacchanal start...first out the gate Island Elite...
Theyre going to Broward Carnival not MIAMI...GASP!! can you imagine???
[look no politics here...this is MY BLOG!! I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH ANY CARNIVAL... i am just used to Miami!!]

anyways...

Island Elite launches "Into the West at Big Fish" this weekend..

Of course Big fish is always ram with their faithful party goers..And who would blame them...The venue is open air...even though it was hot as hell that night....And we were seeing guys in long sleeve shirts at the Bar?? WHAT WRONG WITH THEM???

Anyways back to the story...Jono and them had body painting for their patrons.....just setting off the night.

The stage looked like a real sound stage...Overhead lights and stuff..

Me and the old girls didnt get to the party till one....with me hyperventilating because i was sure i would miss the reveal.

Thank god as soon as we walked in and got a drink..[ey that rude girl in the first bar will never see my money again]..and tried to maneuver to where we usually hang....body guard type man says [WAIT ...that wasnt no body guard it was EVON!!...okay he forgiven} please stay out of the way they walking through here...

SHOW TIME!!

Mind you you know i ..um...vertically challenged...so i tried to stay as close to the front as possible because unlike the other sweaty, jammin down the road patrons...I came to SEE MAS!!

lol..

As the girls came through the crowd....the once that immediately caught my eyes were the Saloon Girls, and the Cow Girl-esque ones...forgive me I dont have the exact names of the sections yet...[but thats jus me....i sometimes have an aversion to Indian/comanche costumes]..

They walked through the crowd and then onto the stage to showcase the costumes...

At which point i Bravely chose to ignore the body guard types {ah shame...sorry Evon) and went up on the side of the stage so my short ass could see everything. SUCCESS!!! [I have pictures too...but in deference to the mas people...i not revealing more than they want to reveal yet...] They're a sneek peek here...

Very Tribe-Like...lol...

soon all the costumes were on stage and the patrons and models were showered confetti style like a real big band launch...

All in all...i think they did a great Job...and I doubt they will have any problem moving any of the sections...

I just wanna know who on the road with them for music...and what kinda special food they serving...and what gonna be in the goody bags, and...well..

When i find out...i guess ill put it here...

Much love Island Elite...


Cliv

Next Stop is....

ahm....i hadda check the calendar...

HOT FEATURE::
LADIES!! they have the cutest little foot socks things on the costumes... REALLLLLY different!! soo

The Legend that Never Was

I still have a rant coming about this...lol...but until then this will have to suffice:

Confessions of a prodigal Blogger

So...its October....when was the last post here? I cant even remember...and while Nix and Sue remind me that I've been delinquent in my postings.....I havent had the ZEAL to put my thoughts, however conflicted down...

Usually around this time im jus getting over the carnival drama, and settling down to normal life again....Endless fodder for a complex brain...but

I feel like ...I'm waiting....for the other shoe to drop...like something is coming...that I should prepare for...if I only knew how

The scary part is that I don't know if its an ominous thing...or not

Like ...im marking time

Miami Carnival 2006

Great Barrier Reef






One Love Concert

Soo....Renee is in town...which usually means that all the Social events that I’ve become so adept at avoiding ...much to my friends dismay...especially the ones who call me to make sure that I’m leaving...and I still never reach...sigh... I cannot avoid because she will not LET ME!!!@! She has no idea how comfortable I have become with sitting my butt in my favourite chair with a laptop on one side remote on the other...and book on the floor....sigh..Now THAT my friend is a Saturday NIGHT!!!

I must admit though that I’ve quite enjoyed our runs to Emerald Coast, and to the mall....( a glimpse of the maven i once was reappears when we hit downtown Miami and I see the PERFECT SHOES and bought the same one in two different colors....sigh. Four shoes in less than TWENTY MINUTES BABY!!! ..yessssssssssss)....and eating Macdonald's in the car in the parking lot...because we want to eat in peace...and THEN DRIVE...

Anyways...she Insisted that we ARE GOING TO THIS CONCERT..One Love Festival...featuring Gregory Isaacs, and Buju and Coco Tea (who did not Show) and some guy who warmed up the show...but he was wayyyyyyyy too long...and wtf was up with his 2 person fan club???? Two screaming white girls up on the balcony...who seems to be the ONLY PERSONS IN THE ROOM WHO KNEW THE LYRICS TO HIS SONGS!!!!.

And while I'm semi tempted at the thought of seeing Buju Perform live.....the fact that this concert is on a weeknight...which will SERIOUSLY cut into my sleep time is kinda daunting.....Plus the world's best commercials is on at 9 on TBS....and i DONT have TIVO...yes i know I'm crawling towards it...

Now...here's the god honest truth. ...I don't like going to revolutions....because "that BWAY" usually there...and while the attempts at civility seems to be holding strong these past months....i feel like I'm being watched....like the flippin sound track from X-files is runnin in the back of my head....and people are peeping...and i don’t just mean "that BWAY"..... But those people who knew me with "THAT bway" like I'm under inspection and investigation for responses to seeing him...I’m still waiting to go somewhere and not have to do a countdown as to how long I can have a conversation with someone without the question coming up... It usually goes like this:


"Insert name here": "Hey Cliv...how are you...where you been?
Cliv : "Oh I been around.....work and stuff...how are you?? getting ready for Carnival you know...
TICKING BEGINS..T minus 5 Seconds)

"Insert name here": "Oh yeah....it’s about that time right.(4)...I thought you left town...I don’t see you any more...(3)..(while checking me out to see signs of distress, starvation …abnormal smoking…water retention…crossed eyes…distended stomach..)

Cliv: "just been busy....well it’s nice to see you.....ok?.

(OMG am I gonna make it?? a full stinking conversation?? with out....(2)... )

"Insert name here": " So you and "THAT BWAY”……????? BOOOOOOOMM


AAAARRRGHH....wha di mudda ass....is that any of your flippin business in the first place??? And am I not enough of a person to be Just ME? You noticed me to say hello...so I'm obviously quite visible and HUMAN without…………..woooosahhhhhh...

That’s' why if I DO choose to venture out of Egypt..(cause I’m so damn far from everything including a convenient Starbucks) I prefer to go to poetry night at the district, or to jazz clubs....or go to a sushi bar..(Newly converted) because our island people tend to define you by who you are to OTHERS.....or how you are seen by others....and it's not just a Trini thing or a Jamaican thing....its definitely an island thing. The good thing is though is that I’m recovering my NAME...lol..with out the "identifiers" on it....

I digress....

So anyways.....after the Sis announces that tickets are purchased ...I have to figure out what the hell I’m gonna wear...


Shoot...i ain't no empress...earth earth ...Rasta rule the world....and you know gonna be pure Rasta......natural sisters...
with that inner glow that comes from denying themselves the pleasure of Bacon, and Pork Chops and Processed food…and salt...and real milk……yikes....
while MY glow comes from...Burger King Angus Burger with Bacon...(FYAH BUN SWINE...yes Renée...i hear you), MAC number 34 Studio Fix and that AMAZING bronzer I found for 2.00 at CVS. sigh..

Plus my other dilemma is ...since I've turned myself into the domestic diva reality TV, internet, my space, obscure novelist, foreign film, junkie, my other passion...SHOPPING...lol..has fallen to the wayside.... well I still shop ...but I get excited over that cute little throw rug I saw at the Super Wal-Mart.. (I’m rapidly progressing to that old lady with the 3 cats named Booboo, Squiggy, and Victor...hmm i think )

So do i try to go Earth sister for the night??

Hell nah....i fix the "almost Mohawk”…(details to follow), put on my jeans and a shirt...and Head out the door....and herein lies my error of the night...

My new purchases....my shoes...Now a true shoe addict knows that regardless of the price and style and design of a shoe...Jimmy Choo's to Gen Eration....new shoes need to be broken in....and while these were so fierce...and singing to me in that voice.." Mommy we need you, Mommy we need you"...i should have ignored their taunting cries...DEVIL CRIES!!....and said "Not tonight babies"....and left them at home...Buju was too much for youngsters anyways.....but no....they wooed me....and I answered...FOOLISH FOOLISH GIRL!!!....so they went with me...Fierce...even though no one could see em but me under my jeans.....

After a phone call from Armani Boy...I’m instructed to please be ready at 9:30. So this means that I need to start to get ready at 8....but strange enough the tickets say show time at 8...am i gonna miss Buju?? huh? but i cannot contradict Armani boy ..steups even Renee can’t....and face the wrath of his quick Jamaican wit...so I dutifully get ready for Nine....shoes and all....

So I'm thinking this is my break in shoe process...walking around the apartment while I wait for them to pick me up....No problem mon....Strap is at comfort level....nothing rubbin on the edges...I’m good...plus...IM FIERCE remember??

Okay so Armani boy shows up at 10.00. And still I’m fine...we go through the normal platitudes...Renee asks me where you get that top ? I say I’ve had this for ever....I commend her on attempting to wear her hair in a pony tail...and I squeak...what if we miss Buju...to which Armani boy chuckles...and states Nah man...

So we arrive at the club....and as we get there….the band is just striking up….thank god...I didn’t miss anything...but a nagging creeping little suggestion of an ISSUE is creeping up on me....but i ignore it...and keep going...

We have our tickets....we go inside...where its nice and cool INSIDE the club....but nothing is going on there...and we step OUTIDE in to the concert area....and Immediately....

it is MUGGY, and HOT, and sticky and blehhhh.....and that little niggling sensation is definitely there...Faint but there...hmm....ignore it....

Armani boy and Dj Friend leaves me in charge of Renee and goes off to the howdi does...lol...I do my fair share…smile pinned onto my face… with Renee in the back avoiding those she wants to ....and acknowledging those she does not...

See ..i KNOW I smile too much...if i didn’t then people wouldn’t come up and say hi and Hover and shit...

So we find a place that allows me to see from the nostrils UP of the performers on stage....not in the main thoroughfare of the party....but close enough to the bar and the bathroom ...with a vantage point of seeing who walks in and out….PLACEMENT my friend is VERY important in these events....

Armani boy buys me a drink..(I like him) and him a water....and after kissing the sister ..."Be back" disappears...lol.. At least he has the camera with him up front with the DJ crew..so we get great pictures of the artists that I really cyah identify CAUSE I CANT SEE THEM.!!!

at which point the sister and I BOTH admit....almost simultaneously....MY FEEL HURT!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....

So we take a drink...and try to stand up in a way that moves the body weight AWAY from the area of the shoe that is the most painful...for her its the straps across the front...(on aside...the shoe she is wearing is also brand new....and also a style that I also own...its just a different color...we have a tendency of doing that...at least tonight we didn’t have the same ones on at he same time)... ..for mine it’s the cut out area at the front…open toe?? That seems to be choosing to press against the second and first toe on the right foot….and the ankle strap on the left…DETAILS….See she can lean back, and put her weight on barricade or something and have temporary relief. MY problem is a dual one…because what fixes the one foot…aggravates the next!!

We Buy a drink...hoping a Hennessy and Red Bull and CLOSE CONCENTRATION on the artists on stage....We manage ....lol...we go to the bathroom, chill in the AC a bit...and go back outside....jus waiting for BUJU…even the brief sighting of “THAT BWAY” was a mere passing thing in light of the shoes…


AT this point we both do not want to admit that the shoes have taken control of the brain and are STEPPING ON THEM...pushing their pointy heels into the nerves that control eye watering, and sinus drippings, that the high arches have now pushed straight through from the floor up into the base of my head and was trying to force my brain out through my ears....

BUT I WILL NOT MISS BUJU!!!

lol....I give thanks to our years of pointe training....Our ballet teacher said...No one must know that your toes are bleeding and that the nail has fallen off…your face must remain devoid of pain…lol….move gracefully, light as a feather…while the nerve endings in your toes are RAW AND TWITCHING AND SCREAMING!! See? Training is everything…

Do you know what the Hilarious thing is?? Renee and I have done this before. Who can forget that night at Big Fish when we ventured testing our newly purchased, plastic still on the bottom , HOT TO DEATH shoes that we bought outfits to match…NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND…..lol…and realizing at about 3 am that we had stopped dancing and were doing the same thing…propping our feet up…..DAMN NEW SHOE SMELL!!! EVIL EVIL THING!! We walked out of Big Phat fish that night giggling and Gingerly…lol…having to sit in the car for a few minutes for the blood to return to our cramped pinched toes…lol…fortunately those shoes got officially broken in after Big Bottom Gyal and Roll it…lol

Finally BUJU….awesome…can I Just say awesome?? And his back up singers are AMAZING…reminiscent of the I three’s …even with the dance movements which I tried to recreate much to Renee and Armani’s Boys embarrassment….lol…but even Buju singing his Pre-conscious music….could not soothe the feet…so…after trying my best to make it through to Not an Easy Road…we GAVE up..lol…picked up our food that we had ordered 2 hours before so we would take it home…said good bye to the stalkers who believed me to be Lisa from Trinidad visiting for one week to check out universities, and heading back home tomorrow…with Renee’s cell phone number…BWAHAHAHHAHAH..ah joke still..Renee….lol…we walk…heads erect shoulders back…toes dying….back to the car….or to the near vicinity…where we hold on to each other for support…while Armani boy runs to the car….we creeeeep…and Drag the offending articles off our feet reverently...

At least we know they won’t hurt us the next time we wear them…

Oh…and ps….

The Show was Good…lol Gregory Isaacs remembered twenty percent of his songs..that alone is an achievement

The Carnival Series - The Photo shoot - Multiple Personalities

sooo...yesterday was the photo shoot....

We get there at 12 ( doh lie Clivia...you were late 12:30) nothing starts till say 2. so Clivia the Artist is immediately sensitive and testy and wants to pee..and go back in the car and hide...and start over the blasted costumes...you KNOW that braid wasnt right...and why di arse you think you is Mac Farlane and bending wire...STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!

.....while Tallest the section leader jus brazen and busy...and looking for design elements to vaguely plagiarize.......so we walk into the rooms where the costumes are. and....

We alright...... nothing to worry about it..we made the cut .... In terms of design and color...nothing is lacking ....and our color Combination i think is one of the most striking out of all of them...

needless to say i walked back out the house......and ran around the block......and did a dutty wine....*singing* " We pretty...take a wine take a wine now"...phew ...

Remember i was really concerned about "CUTE BOY'S section...its very nice...but i still think we okay......

I was having visions of Pride and Sea Wrasse in my head. (non mas players..google it!!) ...thank you jesus..

anyways so now we get to the shoot itself...

I brought makeup and stuff for Tisha our model....Tish names don't need protecting she needs EXPOSURE!!

So i start doing her face....(Alana the Make up artist does all ofClivia the artists Makeup for Tallest the Section Leader...KEEP UP PEOPLE!!!! MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES!!!)

Of course i use the colors of the costume and we already know how striking Tish is...( i dont protect Tish's identitiy becasue she need EXPOSURE!!!

So i do the MAC Glamour face ..lol..and everybody else starts asking....
"CAN you do mine???" ...None of these girls walked with makeup..NONE..so i ended up doing everybody's face... anyways...at this point i tell MAS BAND MAN that i don't have a male costume cause we didn't get the pants in...

How about the Genx man runs around his house rummaging and brings me a Navy blue short short pants an tells me to use that.
I said HELL no...we're gonna go without it..

Anyways on to the shoot....they had the girls dressed up..some of them were really stiff and static...and just posing...and this time they did video too.....

Now mind you we have soca playing and beer running and everything...so they could loosen up...( steups I dont know bout dem but I was well nice...)and they were still stiff and static....

its a pity they dont have chocolate midget models....i woulda been FIERCE!!!

so about 6 costumes in...they said Tish your turn...

Now...Tish is a pro as we know...and she goes in...

She's the tallest chick in the room......the photographer had to stand on a chair...lol..no male counterpart...just her...and the standard....anyways...so she starts posing...like...professional poses...not like the other girls smiling cheese at the camera.. and then...

the foolish foolish foolish camera man...said

DANCE....
oh dear....
The WHOLE ROOM was in shock....that girl SHOULD BE AN HONORARY TRINI... the guys started screaming....the girls were asking who the hell is she...and the photographer nearly fell over...plus GenXMAN picked up his own camera and video taped the girl..lol

SHE WAS AMAZING...you would all have been very proud...

so then they took pictures outside in the sun with all the costumes....and once again the costume looked realllly amazing....

so now this is about 4 o'clock...and GenXMAN asks us to go to the Miami Carnival Launch..
by now ALL the personalities tired...

EXCEPT FOR MAVIS THE MACO...(non trinis ...google it...damn...thats a feature they need to add yes..) So we drove over there...and went inside to set up...in the MASBAND Tshirts...

MIAMI CARNIVAL LADY nearly had a conniption...what are you guys doing here?
Are you registered in Miami?

So of course I'm thinking ...this is not what I came here for...I call GenXMAN.He says...we'll take care of it ...BAM...we registered to play
So we set up the table...mind you the place is HOT as hell...oh..and misfits are there....and Cutler ridge sports club........on an aside...these girls are now VIBRATIONZZ!!] and they're drawings are really nice..I'm so proud of them.), and China, and Radikal, and Acapai, and Islandfntsys, and Wassi ones, ..and people seemed generally happy to see MASBAND ( who di arse i think i foolin with dis??) was there...

I was jus uncomfortable...cause of the unregistered thing...and then..and we went home..long ass day...when I get the pics back...ill share it with everybody... ..

Carnival Begins...Miami Carnival 2006..Multiple Personalities

So....this year....Im trying to do a carnival blog...

something that will cover my angst and anger and stress and happiness during this cathartic process called carnival...

we had our photo shoot this weekend for our brochures so ...immediately...Clivia the artist......look..i have plenty personalities okay???
..so Clivia the artist is immediately sensitive and testy and wants to pee..and go back in the car and hide...and start over the blasted costumes...
You KNOW That braid wasnt right...and why di arse you think you is Mac Farlane and bending wire...STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!

.....while Tallest the section leader jus brazen and busy...and looking for design elements to vaguely plagiarize....

so I sent an email to the posse this morning...after the days drama.....and im gonna use it as my first Carnival series post.

...nicole...this is for you...
The names and situtations have been changed to protect the innocent....
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