So whens the next tour leave for JA Anna? I don't need extensions (well, that's a matter of opinion ) but I do need medicines and immersion in some feral landscapes.

Doubt I can get down there till after Christmas ... crazy at work... but will defo shout u!

Alas and alack I can't get down there... lots of major stuff going on at the office which ties me .. the only time i can go (the wk btw chrimbo and ny) the cost of the flts are $700 ! sod that! I want me Christmas Fruit bun and cheese! I want to go see Pantomimes!
I am currently looking at dates in January that might work. Probably gonna go to Kingston an head up to Portland ... the best secret in Jamaica. Tourist free!!! Lush, green jungles, amazing Blue Mountains.. and the most photographed beaches in the world (They filmed Brooke Sheilds Blue Lagoon there! ha!).

It's only a matter of days now till I am back in Jamaica... and to say I am excited is an understatement! Am counting the days,nay hours!
One thing that am eager to go to are the 'parties'. Nowerdays in Kingston more and more events are held in private homes not clubs. I wish this happened more in NYC. I never know WHO owns these homes but most of them are fancy huge houses 'Uptown' in Kingston in the Hills overlooking the city. It's normally a word of mouth event (often chalked up arrows on the roads to the house). They run tight guest lists on the door. There are no free lists but a strict payment. There is all u need at these parties from music, drunk, sex and drugs (if thats your thang) ... they normally attract a real interesting mix of people too. But the outlaw nature is what I really enjoy (and I have been to some gay parties too). The freedom of the non-guilliani/bloomberg bottle service generation is wonderful. I think this is where we should movie Jackie 60! Next wk i have been invited to two such parties one is called "menage a troi" heh heh ... might be fun!

Don't bring down any governments while you are there!

u DO realize I am going there for the PNP elections right.... (Peoples national party ...before Bonnie says anything).... LOL no kiddin

I was out with Judy Nylon last night... and guess where she'd just arrived back from.... Kingston!! heh heh!! She goes there often too! Who knew!

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Judy Nylon!!!!
Yer killin' me!
You are always full of surprises Anna Nicole.
Tell her I said hello.

Name to watch out of Jamaica - Ras Kassa - film director. Unbelievable stuff, excellent use of color, political, just a real story teller. You might have seen his work in some music videos but I swear this kid is gonna be HOLLYWOOD huge if he puts up with LA... he is full on rasta and shun's allot of the bling associated with success and always wants creative control so he might opt to stay out of the biz. But Hollywood IS listening and have set him up a studio in LA I hear... but he is moving most of it to Kingston to teach local kids - i hear - I think his vision is amazing, his work is fantastic (i don't know him, would love to meet him) saw a local tv doc about it and he just 'gets it', 'gets' all the b.s. about how everyone is brought up to believe cash is king and materialism is all what we need. He just 'gets it'. Was well impressed!
Check out his work on the Damian Marley video for Jam rock - excellent cinematography - http://www.universalrecords.com/damianmarley/mediaplayer/

nice.
And such a great song.

Time for Bun!
In Jamaica at Easter people eat ‘Bun’ - A brown sweet fruit loaf popular to eat with thick slices of cheese or butter. You can buy these heavy fruit buns in allot of West Indian stores (inc. Daphne’s on 14th/2nd). But the other popular use of the word BUN in Jamaica is used by women – If a woman complains to her friends about her man (especially if its that he is crap in bed) the advice that will be given will be “bun im” meaning cheat on him. The saying by men “man a get bun” means when his woman is sleeping with other men. More recently the top of the charts was a song called Bun Him sung by Macka Diamond and Black-er, the video shows her going out with different men cos he was a looser. At this time of Easter when we shall enjoy some Bun… It makes me also think of some of my American friends who put up with such losers who they really should have given Bun to ages ago. If only women had that same self confidence that my JA gyals do over here!

I think I found a good lil NEW hideaway in Jamaica Mount Edge in the Blue Mountains http://www.jamaicaeu.net/vacations.htm... interesting lil B&B,way up in the hills over kingston...lil farm/coffee plantation - wooden cottages - fairly simple but chill. E-mailed the owner who was decent 'nuff to only ask for $40 a night for the Gong House which he says is the best cottage out of the lot as it has the best view/veranda and ensuite bath/toilet. I am taking my kid and he said he won’t charge me for a ‘pickney’. He also offered to pick us up from the airport for just $32 which is an excellent rate too. Seems very chill – previous guests have included Michael J Fox (how random!) and Lauren Hutton (of course!). It’s quite amazing up there as its abundant with hummingbirds that are relaxing to watch… and there are loads of huge butterflys and lizards (there are no snakes in JA). Our kid will love all the pick your own banana’s etc…and the owner said he has some bikes we can borrow to get to the local village. Should be a riot.. We will only spend 3 days there and then head back to the city and the beach. Am giddy already!

This from todays Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner, Home remedy suggestions for rum and ganga....



What dem seh ...

A little rum in a glass of milk will settle a child's, or anyone's for that matter, upset stomach or nausea.

White rum is good for curing the common cold. Men in particular, who suffer from cold symptoms, should drink it straight with lime juice, get to bed and wrap up in the covers, and by morning will be rid of their symptoms.

Soak a small rag in white rum, and place it on the forehead of a feverish person, and the cooling effects of the rum will 'break the fever' in no time.

It gives relief from arthritis and other joint pains if used to 'sop' the joints.

Two tea spoons of bizzy soaked over a long time in a small flask of white rum, becomes a remedy for colic or upset stomach . (just a tablespoon at a time).

A small branch of green marijuana leaves left in rum till the white rum becomes a dark green, is also a great way to alleviate colds and flu. Sap the forehead with a little and swallow a tablespoon full and get between the sheets.
eaner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTEddeyW5LM
So much of this music video (which is actual a popular video on heavy rotation on JA telly) is just SO typical of JA.
I just luv it that there she is in her council flat no pretention making this video, squeezed like an over stuffed sausage into those outfits and the cut away shots of dancehall scenes that are quasi sexual WWF moves. Classic Jamaica!

Only in Mo Bay - Headlines in today's papers -

MoBay gays not happy with 'panty shortage' story
Threaten newspaper staff over publication

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

MONTEGO BAY, St James - The Western Mirror newspaper, based in this city, was yesterday forced to review its security arrangements in the face of threats from two men over a story alleging that gay men were responsible for a panty shortage here.

Angered by the allegations in yesterday's Western Mirror lead story - 'Panty Shortage Hits MoBay' - the men yesterday stormed the newspaper's offices and threatened the staff responsible for writing the story.

According to the story, gay men in the city were 'buying out' women's underwear, prompting the shortage. The article said that on one occasion a well-known gay couple was seen buying 35 underwear from a higgler at an arcade in the city.

The men allegedly entered the newspaper's offices yesterday and demanded to speak to the editor, Lloyd B Smith. Smith was, however, at lunch and according to one reporter, the duo became boisterous and insisted on knowing who had written the article.

It's always an in-joke with my mates to call me Annee Palmer. I know the story of her from history but I must say I'm suprised that that BBC have never made a period drama about her - it's a wonderful story.... one that is prime for a Jackie Playhouse.

Annee Palmer was a teenager when her English mother and Irish father (same as me!!!) took her on a voyage to the West Indies early in the 19th century. She became a beautiful, lascivious and, they say, diabolical plantation owner. (Who was also known to dress in men's clothing!). Annee is said to have lured into her bed any man who took her fancy. Further, she is alleged to have dabbled in voodoo, tortured her slaves and murdered all three of her husbands: poisoning the first, stabbing the second and strangling the third. She killed each husband in a different bedroom and it is said she then instructed slaves to carry their bodies to the sea, after which they themselves were killed to protect her guilt.

She claimed yellow fever - which was common at the time - took the lives of all of her lovers, and because of her involvement in voodoo and her reputation for cruelty, no one challenged her. Strangulation was how the "White Witch" eventually met her death in 1831. She was murdered in her bedroom by her slave lover, Takoo, who suspected Annee of plotting his murder after he took another lover.
If you are ever in Montego Bay you can visit Rose Hall - Annee's home which still stands and see the area's where they found all the bodies of her lovers!!

If you scroll back here u will see back in Feb 06 I posted about a Jamaica film directed whom i was hero worshiping but who I'd never met.
I have an update.
I mentioned his name to a chum of mine, turns out they are pals. Ended up not only meetin my hero but we are planning on working together! I am beyond giddy! The guy is a genius. I truly believe he's just an amazing feral director. He is gonna move to Hollywood now and am sure he's gonna blow up.
It's really tickled me though to have been such a giddy fan of his then to be his chum.
Check out his videos allot of them are up on his page www.myspace.com/raskassa

So here I am in Kingston town ... and one of my many pleasures of 'foreign' travel is visiting supermarkes and drug stores... don't ask but that's the kind of thing that makes me happy. So I find this lil corner chemist, inside it's as quiet as a library and there at the old wooden and glass display cabinet is an elderly women in a brown polyester slip dress, check blouse with cameo broch and her grey hair neatly coufiered. She was the typical church lady... which immediately gave me guilt in my drug frienzy for Disprin and codine (all over the counter there) as it the Pill (real cheap) et al. When I stand an look what other pharmacuical goodies lie on the shelves behind this old dear I am totally mortified as the large array of dildos and vibrators. There's weren't your ordinary american 'quiet' lipstick sized bullets but there were mutherfuckin build by John fuck Deers black cousin. HUGE size of my thigh things. I am frozen, just frozen and can't stop glaring at these 'items of downright torture' (and ultimate pleasure!). And there the old deary is all meek in charge.
A classic JA yard tale.

AN/ I'll take several of those large black models please.

My hero Ras Kassa just directed a new one...
Check it out... beautiful....an really captures the feel of downtown Kingston,JA
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.indiv...l&videoid=2039259168

It's great.
Really good song too.
Ras Kassa is very talented.

but...
Why is everything from Jamaica such a cliche?
Everybody that I meet from Jamaica (of course through Anna Nicole) seems so smart and talented.
But Jamaica seems to be stuck in the 1970's.
That video could have been shot in 1975.
The Rude Boys, the dreads, the slums of Kingston, the police, the thieves, the kids with dreads, the girls as pieces of ass, the hopelessness...
It's been the same video for the last 30 years!
It's like a self fulfilling prophecy.

What really interested me was this one.

The space ship hovering above Kingston...
Now that's what I'm talking about.

I understand that the problems there are still the same but there has to be a new way to express it.
Otherwise nobody will take it seriously.
It's like Martin Luther King's Birthday.
I mean it great that the country celebrates it but it's the same old speech year after year.
Same old Coretta, Same old Jesse Jackson, Same old Rev. Al etc. etc. etc.
(OK Well, maybe Coretta has moved on)

Is there anything more experimental going on there A.N.?