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What we have here is a new soul 7″ (that’s the size of a vinyl 45) out on Melting Pot Music. The artist, Lucinda Slim, is a singer/songwriter/DJ out of London. Actually, Lucinda Slim is an alter ego of one, Nia Shaw, who is also a member of the Afro-European vocal outfit – Zap Mama. The track has been produced by Belgian producer, Krewcial. Belgium – what it do doe!

Lucinda Slim & The Lone Stars “All This Time” from krewcial on Vimeo.

So go ahead and enjoy the song. If you buy vinyl, you definitely could use this in your collection.

A couple of cool young professionals, who just happened to be a part of a group called Motor City Connect and started their own subsidiary group within the organization called MCC Millennials, are helping raise awareness for an emergency shelter in Pontiac, Michigan. The establishment is the HOPE Hospitality & Warming Center, Inc. Previously called Place Called HOPE, it is a shelter that provides seasonal accommodations for those in need in Northern Oakland County, turning NO ONE away. For more info, check the HOPE website and peep the video the cool MCC Millennials group put together below:

HOPE Center for Hospitality & Warming from Shauna Nicholson on Vimeo.

I recently attended my first Tweet-Up – and the first one of 2009 for the Detroit Tweet-Up Network (you might want to join if you aren’t already) – at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Novi. It was nuts as there were over 80 people in attendance. Many of the major social media enthusiasts were in the mix like Shannon Paul, Charlie Wollborg, Henry Balanon and Brandon Chesnutt. The event was overwhelming, but I got to meet a lot of people that I connect with daily on Twitter. The greatest thing that happened was I got to reconnect with an old chum that I know from college – Fabian Halabou of Fancy Lad Music.

Greetings all, it looks like I have finally been tagged in the 7 Random Things Meme. I got the cool distinction of being tagged by Beverly Cornell – author of Global Business Perspectives.

You should already know I am random if you read this blog. I don’t know if this list affirms or refutes that logic, but here goes:

1) I am a sugar addict. My major weaknesses are in the form of donuts, rich cakes and pies. This is the reason I am participating in the 30 Sugar-Free Days Challenge started by Dr. Scott Olson to try and break this addiction.

2) When I was 15, I got the opportunity to go to Japan as an exchange student in the Detroit / Toyota City Sister Cities program. This experience changed my life forever. Being a sheltered kid from Detroit, I had no idea there were areas that were TOTALLY different from the United States. If not for this trip, I have no idea what I would be like today. From my musical taste (which is where I was first hipped to a certain Detroit hip hop producer – thanks Justin Brown) to my general worldview, Japan shook me up like a martini made for James Bond.

3) When MSU rioted in 1999 after losing to Duke, I followed behind the riot police squad as the shot tear gas at crazed… property defacers. Talk about surreal.

4) I once ate a serving of french fries a day for 48 days straight. The streak was started during my 6-week excursion in Europe. Streak ended at a Wendy’s when it got robbed at gunpoint. My fries got dropped on the floor as they were being handed to me. Again, I didn’t freak – I wanted to maim the assailant.

5) As a hobby, I rap. I like doing it, but don’t care about making money with it. www.myspace.com/gambitthemc

6) I used to own over 5000 vinyl records; I own about 15% of that now. I’m a music junkie. I still have over 200 professionally-released cassette tapes. I also have reel-to-reels, but no player… YET.

7) I met my fiancee at a Halloween party in Detroit. I was dressed as Tyrone Biggums – the character from The Chappelle Show. Yes, the crackhead… and I barely meeting her that first time. Horrible, I know…

more movies at www.miloop.com

All righty, here are the se7en bloggers that I am going to tag (make sure you check out their work while you’re at it, reader:

Kelly “K-Fresh” Frazier

Nick “MOSologist” Zaher

Henry Balanon

Cosmo Baker

Eric Brown

Justin Weeks

Kenny Fresh

Here are the rules for my fellow bloggers:

• Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
• Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

I got hipped to this via one of the coolest girls – aside from my future wife (hi honey!) – that I know, Annika Howe. Note to readers: if you do not have your own name with a dot com behind it, then you are at FAIL right now. I’m just saying, I told you so. Yeah yeah, this ain’t no Hubert Sawyers dot com or gambit the mc dot com, but this isn’t about me. 

Anyway, the artist goes by the name of Peter Fox. He’s the singer in a group called Seeed. Based on the YouTube views alone, I can see these guys are very major overseas. I must say I am digging the worldly pop reggae sound of Seeed, but this is about Peter Fox (Wikipedia info).