To the people who care if I live or die....

Hello and good evening to all my fellow bloggers. I know it's been a while since I've updated my blog. I've been going through a lot of changes since my last blog back in May of 2010. You don't have to tell me, I know it's been over a year. Sometimes it takes that long for you to gather thoughts and information to put down on paper or on a computer. Some of my previous blogs had to do with change. I know I've been re-inventing myself over and over again but this time i think I've got it right.


A lot of what I've been thinking of has to do with change, reinvention, mutation, transformation. It's so funny how time takes a toll on your life. I don't hold anyone responsible if they decide to change. Change in a good way or bad. Sometimes we all have to go through change in order to survive. If it's in a bad way you realize it and alter it and head in the right direction. If it's in a good way, you only better yourself. Through out this past year numerous events happened that were life changing. You live each day working, playing, enjoying, not realizing that your memories get longer and your life gets shorter. Small things don't really matter to you anymore like they did before. Friends that were there for you then are not there now. Even love sometimes fluctuates. at times it is strong, at other times it's weak.


For those who know me well, I'm a huge family person. I've always believed that blood is thicker than water. I still do, I'll always be there for my family no matter what hands down. Lately though the unity of my family has gotten weaker. It's really saddening to me when I think about it, when you reminisce about the past and where it stands in the present. You gather all these different emotions and don't know which one to feel. You want everything to be okay even though it is not. And that's where change comes into play again. Places change all over the world, and it's the same thing with people. Everyone is entitled to change. Different people go through different changes at different points in their lives. We can never be in sync at the same time. If that was the case, the world would stand still and there would be no development, the earth wouldn't turn. The world would be grey.


The question that always hinders in my head is where is my life headed? Am I making correct decisions? Do I want to spend the rest of my life doing what I'm doing right now? Do I even want to bring a human being into this crazy hectic world? I may sound a little crazy here but these are certain thoughts that you need to think about. Is me feeling content with myself real or am I in denial? I do worry about what people think of me, and how they look at me. I know everyone has problems, I guess it's normal to be insecure, But my question is, will the same people that i please, worry about me in my time of need?


I know there are a few of you who still care about me and my well being, and there are those few who don't give a fuck about me. But that's okay, because really......I don't give a fuck about you too. Life is too short to deal with petty things. And this blog goes out to the people who care if I live or die.




                                                                             -G- 2011

G'z Top 5 Women Of 2010

Hello everyone, I apologize to all my fellow bloggers. It’s been a busy and hectic few months but i’m back. These past few months have been crazy in my life, I had to take a  break from blogging in order to take care of some business. 

This blog is what everyone was waiting for. I know I’m going to catch a lot flack from my significant other but she doesn’t have to know. This blog is my “Top 5 Women Of 2010”.

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder, so these are my top 5 catches based on how these women make me feel down south,you know what I mean? I’m expecting a lot of hits on this blog, so please leave comments and opinions. So enough of reading and moving on to the looking. So lets begin starting with...................

#5 Olga Kurylenko

Birth-Nov.14,1979

Nationality-Ukraine

Featured Films-

Hitman 

Quantum Of Solace

#4Zoe Zaldana

Birth-June 19, 1978

Nationality-
Dominican Puerto Rican

Featured Films-

Drumline

Avatar

The Losers

Star Trek

#3 Cassie Ventura

Birth-Aug.26,1986

Nationality-

Filipino

African

Indian

Featured Song-

Me And U

K.West Video Stronger

#2 Megan Fox

Birth-May 16,1986

Nationality-

Irish

French

Cherokee

Featured Films-

Transformers 1&2

Jennifer's Body

#1 Olivia Munn

Birth-July 3,1980

Nationality-Chinese,German,Irish

Featured In-

Iron Man 2

Host Of G4tv

Getting Old Is Mandatory, Growing Up Is Optional

Just this past year I’ve reinvented myself again. Hopefully this will be the last time I do so. From this point in my life I feel very content with who G is. It’s weird because I had thought I’ve grown into a man the day I got married, but I was wrong. 2009 into 2010 I went through a transformation. I began to realize and it hit me.... “ it was time to grow up”. Growing up is a very difficult stage in life in my opinion. It was a Tuesday morning not too long ago. I woke up and on that very day everything just hit me. I can’t really explain it but it was a feeling in my gut. It was like I reminisced certain thoughts on my past and what I’ve been through. It was a trip down memory lane, from who I have known in my past, the ex-girlfriends, friends, trouble I had caused my parents, being on top of the game, being popular. I guess you can say at that moment in my life that Tuesday morning, all of that BS didn’t matter to me anymore. Don’t get me wrong, all of those events in my life are what made me the man I am today. And I don’t regret anything I have done in my past. I’ve realized that I didn’t have to prove myself to anyone anymore. The only two people I have something to prove to is GOD and myself. It was time to take off the baseball cap and sneakers and put on the fedora and button ups you feel me?  Just the other week, I was watching television. And I was flipping channels, I was intrigued with this song and video by Jay-z. It’s the song “On To The Next One”. The lyrics in that rap song were so fitting to me. Jay-Z has a couple of song that I can totally relate to. Another song is “30 Is The New 20”. If you ever have time, Google the lyrics to both of those songs and read them, “It’s very en-lightning”. 

I feel it’s time to hang up my cool factor, and hand my trophies down to the younger generation. Everybody who really knows me, knows what I have been through and how

I stood in popularity, style & swagger. It was time to switch cigarettes to cigars, Hennessey to Champagne, G-shocks to Chronographs, Sneakers to leather tie ups. I’m at that point in my life where it’s time to enjoy the finer things in life and move forward.

I really thought I would be a kid forever, going out partying and drinking. But things do change. I will always have that kid in me at heart. Progressing into a man was one of the most life changing experiences that I had to go through. It’s hard to let go of being cool, now it’s more important to me to economize and put money into the right places and not be selfish to my family. It’s better to measure twice and cut once than to keep cutting, that’s something everybody needs to think about if it’s that particular time in your life. The reason why I decided to blog about this is because this was something that was important to me in my life and I wanted to express this to my fellow bloggers. As for my “ending blog quote”, it comes from the Ferris Bueller movie........”Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

                                                                               -G- 

G'z Top 5 Famous Iconic Figures

Growing up I looked up to a lot of people. Those few people that I did look up to made me the person and character I am today. Have you ever looked at someone and said to yourself that he or she looks like a famous person? Or talks and walks like a famous person? If so it’s probably because he or she admires that superstar. Most of the time it’s quite true, people who look up and turn to famous icons for inspirations usually incorporate them in their own life somehow. 

So in this blog I will give you my top 5 icons that I’ve always admired and looked up to. These 5 famous icons got me through a lot of good times and bad times throughout my life. For those who know me, maybe you can see bits and pieces of these icons in me. I will rate them starting from number 5. So please read on while I give a brief explanation on why these famous icons have inspired me.

#5 OPTIMIUS PRIME          

When I was a young boy, I’ve always been infatuated with Japanese animation, comics, and the underground cult that follows it. I’ve been into X-Men, Batman, G-Force, Robotech,Dangard Ace, Voltron. But one certain cartoon that I instantly fell in love with was Transformers. For all you 80’s babies, you all knew how much of an impact Transformers left in culture. Just a couple of years ago, my dreams came true, when Optimus Prime came to life in the big screen, trust me I was star struck even if it was CGI. I guess the reason why Optimus Prime means so much to me, is because he is a leader, and me being a Leo, I was attracted to that. He was always in control, Top Dog! And more importantly he’s just fucking bad ass.

#4 TUPAC SHAKUR

What more can I say about 2pac. He was probably one of the best rappers that ever lived. His poetry and ego gave rap music a new edge. I respected him so much because he never held back on emotions and feelings. Whatever he was feeling he made sure you felt it also. His rough swagger and gangster image was one of the many reasons why I have so much confidence in myself. Also a lot of the things that he rapped about I related to some how. When 2pac passed on it was like I lost a part of me also. 

#3 PRINCE

Don’t look so surprised. For those who really know me, you’ve should have seen this coming. Since the 80’s Prince has been making awesome music. His style that he created what I like to call “Secret Style” is what gave him that edge. He is never scared to cross or push that boundary. His music is like poetry, if you just read the lyrics without the music you would see what I mean. As you can tell music played a big part in my life, His music has inspired me to create art whether it be on paper, canvas, style, and love. Out of all the artists out there, I admire his sense of style. It’s dark but clean, not too rugged but yet not too formal. His music is timeless, everybody knows at least one if his songs whether you like it or not.

#2 KISS

I was 16yrs old. One of my best friends and older cousin showed me an old 70’s vinyl record. And on it was 4 crazy figures. One was a Demon, the other Star man, some weird Space man, and a Cat man. I was totally blown away by it. At the time I thought it was a comic book. But as he explained to me that it’s actually a rock group I was mystified. I wanted to know everything about them and what they stood for. There is so much information on what the group is about and what they stand for, that I would have to write a separate blog on just that. So I’ll give you a brief idea. It’s basically a super hero rock group. All 4 of them have their own mystical powers. They incorporated their alter ego’s in the songs that they write serperatly. They believe in black and white nothing else. They have this kind of music that makes you feel like a bad ass. Not only that, you really didn’t know who they were at the time. One of the best rock groups ever in my opinion.

#1 DARTH VADER              

Darth Vader has almost everything that inspires me in my life. It’s kinda weird if you think about it, but it makes perfect sense. He’s a leader, Powerful, You really didn’t know who he was at the time or what made him tick. He did’nt take shit from anyone, everybody feared him. He’s dark, all black, but there was a sincere side to him. I’ve always been fascinated with him since I saw Star Wars for the first time back in the 70’s. He looks like a fancy car, clean, sleek, and fast. And when he walked George Lucas incorporated The Imperial March song which made him extremely larger than life. 

So there you are my top 5 Iconic figures that  gave me many inspirations in life. Please leave comments, I love criticism. Just drop me a little message here and there. I know there are some of you out there that are enjoying my blogs. Please stay tuned there will be a lot more to come. Thanks again for reading. Until the next blog. 

                                                                   -G-

                                                          

"Family Matters" Directed & Written By:G

Since the beginning of life the term family has always held a certain priority. Every living creature in this world abides by that by nature. Flocks of birds that travel together. Schools of fish that swim together. Coyotes that walk in packs. Horses that roam the land. And there is always that one thing that ties the family together, it’s called blood.

Blood in and blood out. No matter what you will always be linked. Me personally, I’ve always been a family man. I’ve been brought up to respect family. In my heart it’s always family first. Sometimes we all tend to forget where we come from and who we really are. We get caught up in everyday life and everyday interactions with other people, places, problems, and situations. We keep on living on and adapting to life. We meet friends, close friends, lovers. Sometimes the priority list changes. What was on top is now last, what was 3rd is now on top so on and so on. With family comes loyalty and with loyalty comes respect. I was brought up to always honor thy family. I will always honor my family. I’m honored to carry my last name along with my middle name. I will never turn my back on family. 

Family is not always about blood even though blood is the straight descendent. Family is

also connected through marriage, it’s connected through very close friends that are considered family. Even though this is a really bad example, but family is shown in gangs,

Mafia's, cults. The way it’s portrayed in those examples also show respect, love, and loyalty.

I’ve done a little research on the definition of family and values and these are the results that I came up with.

Definition of Family: A family is a primary social group, a small community, in any society, typically consisting of a man and a woman, or any two individuals who wish to share their lives together in a long-term committed relationship with one another, raising offspring and usually reside in the same dwelling. Family is the main building block of a community; family structure and upbringing determines the social character and personality of any given society. - Family is where we all learn: love, caring, compassion, ethics, honesty, fairness, common sense, reason, peaceful conflict resolution and respect for ourselves and others, which are the vital fundamental skills, and family values, necessary to live an honorable and prospers life in harmony, in the world community.

Definition of Family Values: To have a sense of Family Values is to have good thoughts, good intentions and good deeds, to love and to care for those whom we are close to and are part of our primary social group, our community, such as children, parents, other family members and friends. And to treat others with the same set of values, the same way we wish to be treated.

To close this blog I want to leave you with this thought. Don’t ever forget who you are and where you come from. Some people tend to forget who really is important in their lives. Because through it all when everything has faded away and the dust settles, the only 

people who will be left is family.

                                                                                   -G-

"Thirty-3" Written: Sept.15,2009

I am owned by the year 1976, I am the property of August.

The sign that you read off me are those of a four legged feline.

I am born and raised in the misty fogs of San Francisco. 

Like the bible, my life has many chapters in it. Page after page of life stories and rediscoveries.

Let me tell you all who I am. Who “G” is, And what you already think you know. 

For those of you who think that they know who “G” is , you got another thing coming. Let me begin to explain my complex life. This poem, letter, or note was inspired by the “Hater In You”. There are allot of you out there who step to me about being cool and being on top of the world. I’ve been there, done that. The 4 Elements you ask? I’ve spun on my back and head, I’ve tickled the vinyl, and owned a couple of Krylon bottles. Nice cars? I’ve had 3. One muscle car, one import circa 95 when the import scene was big, and one SUV with the larger than life wheels at one point. Clothes? Let’s not really get into that. Let’s just say that I’ve inspired quite of few of you out there. My personality is based on “Swagger”. Friends or so called friends, I’ve known too many. I’ve simplified my life......”True Friends” and “True Enemies” that’s it.

To all of the kittens that I have scratched, I don’t regret any of you. To M,B,B,A,N,M,M,J,C,G,D you all know who you are, it was fun. Everything changes

though when you find the right cat. And that’s why I’ve walked down the long aisle of God’s house and professed my love in marriage. Money? I’ve got my own place, pay for all my own bills, and own my own car. What does that tell you? My inspirations in my life are the reflections in my eyes. Those that I see and feel that make the difference to me. I know some times I may disappear behind the shadows, but that's just because I’ve moved on to bigger and better things in my life. The more you get older you begin realize that there is

more to life than what’s on your feet or on your hip. It has always been a struggle for me to grasp life. I’ve always had to battle through it all, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I live with no excuses and love with no regrets. There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page or closing the book. Getting old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

-G$-2009

The Essence Of Black

With age comes wisdom. I’ve come to learn so many things about meanings of life, fashion, love, and understanding of many other things. Just this past year, I’ve reinvented myself. I’ve taken what G was before and did a full 180. I’ve done a lot of research of the color black and I’ve found out what it represents. Now I’ve dedicated to myself that I would wear only black, white, and grey. It felt only natural to me when I looked in the mirror wearing all black and say to myself that this is what G is about. To get a better meaning of why I’ve chose to do this statement, I’ve gathered some of the intel that I found when doing the research.  In my own opinion, I think black represents nothing, but deals with everything. The color black is all the colors united but not separated.

Nature of Black:

Black is the absence of color. In clothing, black is visually slimming. Black, like other dark colors, can make a room appear to shrink in size and even a well-lit room looks dark with a lot of black. Black can make other colors appear brighter.

Ultimate Dark:

Considered the negation of color, black is conservative, goes well with almost any color except the very dark. It also has conflicting connotations. It can be serious and conventional. The color black can also be mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated.

Black is not a color. It is the absence of all color. Black absorbs all aspects of light. While white reveals, black conceals. It is also mysterious, providing a sense of potential and possibility. We do not believe in the obvious or being predictable, as we learn and grow we want our collections to grow with us.

Black:

The Color of Sin: White and Black Are Perceptual Symbols of Moral Purity and Pollution

That’s what black gives you. Solid, grounded, powerful, in control, protected, shielded, confident, and fearless.

One Of G’z Favorite Quotes:

Color can do anything that black-and-white can. 

Vincente Minnelli