Jesmimi: N.E.R.D. concert video

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

N.E.R.D. concert video

This is a video made by the Kin folks at Microsoft: the Kin is the new Microsoft phone and it's supposed to be amazing and integrate all your social networking media in one place. They sponsored the show in San Francisco on Saturday. This video does nothing at all to capture the sweaty, frenetic energy of the crowd and the performers.

KIN: N.E.R.D. & Asher Roth in San Francisco from We Are Always Here on Vimeo.

I'm the light-skinned ghost in the front row (I like to call that my San Francisco pallor).

2 comments:

Johanna Parker said...: i lobe your writing and am so happy to have stumbled upon this blog.
just thinking about that line about the separation of celebrity and actual persona meeting music and dying. so true. thank you for your words.
also love the "lullabye".
very moved.; 12:01 AM
johanna Parker said...: well, not lobe, but love. ah well...; 12:02 AM

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My second novel, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury) is available now. The novel follows a teenage girl, Esch, and her family during the ten days preceding Hurricane Katrina and during the immediate aftermath of the storm. Here in these Mississippi coastal backwoods, there are motherless children, beautiful pit bulls, lost girls, boys who ride bikes without seats, fights in basketball gyms, births, deaths, and more. Sit with me on the lip of this ditch. Come on: let me tell you a story.

My debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds (Agate Bolden) is available now on Amazon.com, or you can find it at your local bookstore. Essence magazine chose the novel to be an Essence Magazine Book Club Selection, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association chose it as a 2009 Honor Award recipient. It was also an honorable mention for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction, and a finalist for the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Award.

I have a small essay titled "Obama I: Blood Dread and Hope" in issue number 64, which is on Race, of The Oxford American literary magazine. I also had an essay called "We Do Not Swim in Our Cemeteries" published in issue number 62 about Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of the storm.

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I'm a former Stegner Fellow (Stanford University). I was the Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. In the fall, I'll be an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama.

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

N.E.R.D. concert video

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