Barbados Music Awards Winners

Square One

So, another Barbados Music Awards show has come and gone and this year seemed a little low-keyed to me. Maybe because star girl Rihanna wasn't in attendance? Nevertheless, kudos to producer Ronnie Morris for once again staging the event, especially in the current economic environment where sponsorship is hard to come by.

This year, mega soca band Square One were the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, while the International Lifetime Achievement Award went to R&B songstress Regina Belle.



The Living Legend Award went to songwriter extraordinaire Anthony Walrond, while a posthumous Award of Merit was bestowed on artist Winston Jordan. Several Cornerstone Awards were presented to the band Ivory, cultural icon Wayne 'Poonka' Willock, actress Myrle Niles and broadcaster Win Calendar.

Some of the main winners of the night were:

Best New Artist - Stabby De Guard


Soca (up-tempo) Single - Blood- That Is What I Talking Bout


Reggae Artist of the Year - David Kirton
www.davidkirton.com


R&B / Soul Artist - Hal Linton
www.crsmusic.com


Song of the Year - Shontelle- T-Shirt
www.gossiponthis.com


Video of the Year (Female) - Rihanna- Disturbia


Band of the Year - Krosfyah
www.decooler.com


Songwriter of the Year - Edwin Yearwood
www.afromontreal.com


Female Entertainer Of The Year - Rihanna


Male Entertainer of the Year - Khiomal


Platinum Certification - Soca Queen - Alison Hinds


Award of Excellence - Peter Ram


Tomorrow, the red carpet critique.

Photos: www.bajanfuhlife.com

Shontelle's 'T-shirt' Video

Happy New Year, my fine peoples! Here's wishing you all God's blessings in the coming year.

To get this party started, I'll begin with a video from up and coming international star, our own Bajan beauty Shontelle. Her first single T-shirt took the airwaves by storm and incidentally, was named Song of the Year at last night's Barbados Music Awards (more on the awards later).

The talented Shontelle is also a great songwriter, having penned "Roll" for Allison Hinds and the song "Battle Cry" which is on Barack Obama's celebratory album. She also made Rihanna drop and give her push-ups when they were in Cadets together, so you know she don't play.

Enjoy and later on in the week I'll bring you some pix from the awards.

Packham Called It

When it comes to summing up 2008, Chris Packham (the most talented and unique writer The Pitch ever had the stupidity to let slip through their grasp) pretty much nailed it with this simple tweet.

I agree with him completely. 2008 can, indeed, kiss my black ass.

At the end of 2007, I was still in a committed relationship that began in mid 2004. It was great! I was happy. I thought I had found the woman I would spend the rest of my life with.

True, we faced a year of challenges that I thought we could weather together. I won't go into any more detail out of respect for her privacy. But I always thought we would make it. I never had any doubt.

In fact, I had reason to believe that we would even be co-habitating in less than a year. So when I moved in October of 2007, I always viewed it as temporary and never even bothered hanging pictures or curtains. I still have unpacked boxes in my garage.

So imagine my surprise when I finally realize that I had been unceremoniously dumped last spring. As far as I can figure, it was over somewhere in the April/May time frame. But I was too fucking stupid to see it until early to mid November.

It took the insight and feedback from my many female friends and confidants for me to finally get a clue that I was the only person still in the relationship.

After months of anguish, grief, confusion and heartache, I finally had to let it go and moved on.

So 2009 finds me once again unattached, back on the dating sites, trying to figure out what I really want.

There is a part of me that wants to take this opportunity to once again unleash my inner ManWhore and just go nuts. I'm very good at monogamy when I am in a committed relationship. But if I'm not, well, that's a different story. I'm Lon Chaney and every night is a full moon at Balanca's Pyro Room.

But the Larry Talbot part of me would be perfectly content to be snugly ensconced in a secure relationship with one woman, contentedly eating Chinese and watching movies on the couch, and rubbing her feet.

And there is yet another part of me that wonders if I have the emotional energy for either of those paths. I may just be emotionally exhausted and content to spend the rest of my life as a curmudgeonly hermit, yelling at kids to stay off my lawn. Not that I actually have one, I'm just sayin'.

In the meantime, I've taken the time off during the holiday season to make myself at home. I've hung pictures. I've draped swags. I've put up curtains.

I have also made a lot of new friends. Incredible friends! Amazingly awesome and diverse friends! In many ways, I begin 2009 with much more hope and optimism than I began 2008.

This isn't where I thought I would be, but it has potential that I never anticipated.

Shit. I think that may be my epitaph. I like it.

Hey! There's a New Kid in Town!

NEW BLOG!


I noticed I had a new follower named "Gabriel". I had to investigate because earlier this year, the Archangel Micheal was hanging around my blog, leaving snarky fucking comments about God loving me and shit so I had to kick him in the balls, and BAN his feathered fucking ass.

So the last thing I wanted was another goddamned Archangel trolling around here.

Fucking Archangels! Bunch of arrogant pricks, I say.

So I clicked on his profile and much to my relief, he is not yet another annoying member of the Heavenly Hosts, but a brand new blogger!

His blog as the promising name of "White Boy East of Troost" He should have some interesting stories and perspectives on things.

It looks like he has only been doing this for the past 3 days and he already has 5 posts up.

I'm adding him to my google reader and I'll be interested to see what he does with his blog.

I Link To Three Right Wing Nut Jobs For Entertainment

Right Wing Nut Job #1 - "Conservatism With Heart". Or, as she used to be (more accurately) known "The Chatterbox Chronicles".

About Me
My name is Dee. I am a Conservative Christian who has a passion for politics. I am a political news junkie who also enjoys knowing what is going on in pop culture. I am married and have four children whom I homeschool. I am the host of Conservatism with Heart which airs every Monday on Togi Net Radio. If you wish to contact me my email address is: chatterboxchronicles at hotmail.com

She has her own internet "radio" show where she conducts a feedback loop with other brain dead zombies who are incapable of critical thought

She likes to listen to books on CDs. Anyone who can't be bothered to actually read...well, that "speaks" volumes, doesn't it?

I used to read her blog, leave comments and try to engage in dialogue, but she banned me.

Right Wing Nut Job #2 - Jo-Joe Politico.


About Me
I was born in Miami, Florida, the son of an Air Force officer, traveled the world, was saved at age 17, and have served the Lord since. That's me on the right and my lovely wife, Bonnie...the pretty one...on the left.

Yeah. That's really what he calls his blog. He's very biblical and judgemental. One of "those".

I used to read his blog, leave comments and try to engage in dialogue, but he banned me.

And finally, there is "this one"!

Right Wing Nut Job #3 - Mike's America

About Me
Currently living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Mike has taken a keen interest in politics and government since his days as a young whippersnapper in Ohio. There, he organized College Republicans clubs, worked as a professional staffer on two statewide campaigns and was elected to the Delaware County Republican Central Committee among other achievements. In 1986 he began graduate studies in government at Columbia University where he specialized in National Security matters under the tutelage of former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Leaving New York in 1988 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become a White House Intern in the Political Office of President Ronald Reagan. With backing from the first Bush Administration he spent four years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has lived on Hilton Head since 1996 where he writes, photographs and gardens.

I've never seen so much latent homo-eroticism stuffed into this small a space since accidently clicking on a gay porn site. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I used to read his blog, leave comments and try to engage in dialogue, but he banned me.

This is what these people do. They ban people. They don't want to hear any voices that disagree with them. Because they know that they can't support their viewponts with facts. All they have are rigid dogma, ancient fairy tales and blind faith.

I don't mind. I don't care what they think and I'm not going to waste my mind trying to change their minds.

I'm content to spend the next 8 years listening to them spew their increasingly impotent vitriol at a dramatically decreasing audience as the United States, and the world, steer a path towards sanity, rationality, mutual understanding, decreasing violence and international interdependence.

Which will begin in just over 2 weeks.

I can't fucking wait!

"We do these things not because they're hard, but because they are EASY!"

Bea did it.

Jane did it.

So what the hell. I'll do it too.

I give you the year in review by listing the first sentence from the first post each month from 2008.

January - "I know you are all just DYING to see the newly trimmed look."

February - "This is local blogger Faith from Frighteningly Uncommon Sense and her dad on her wedding day."

March - "She's making her mind up about all things Kansas City pretty quickly!"

April - "The highlight of last weekend was the serendipitous discovery that the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was in town."

May - "I love the way that the television networks are advertising the fact that they are now broadcasting (a rather antiquated term) in High Definition."

June - "I don't fish all that much."

July - "Lewis Black - The Devil's Handiwork"

Gonna have to re-post that one!



August - "This is awesome!"

September - ""I think, if anything, it shows the Republican Party is a real American party," said Rex Teter, another Texas delegate."

October - "Although she no longer attends school there, my daughter, young Galadriel Tanqueray Onassis, returned to Richmond yesterday for Homecoming festivities with her old friends."

November - "We are the wealthiest and most scientifically advanced nation on the planet."

NOTE: This doesn't have anything at all to do with this meme, but I'm reposting it from the November collection because, as Iwanski said in the comments, "I kept waiting for this to get boring, and it did not." Hell, even Cara admitted "it's...hypnotic."



December - "Because holding a CD cover or your iPod in front of your face doesn't yield good pictures for your blog."

Wow. What a lame ass, sorry excuse for blogging. Only 9 posts in December.

I suck ass.

There Ain't No Afterlife

I totally poached this from Joe's Big Blog. One of my favorite atheist buddies.