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RIP Ms Stone, Damn
written in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, 3/2/25 while listening to Angie Stone
So, yesterday was the first day after the busiest day of the year where I work. I'm a vet on the nine to five at this point so I got through it. And while I'm still working my gig that I remain eternally grateful for, something happened at work on Friday that let me know it's time for me to get the entire fuck out of this job
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When I woke up yesterday after taking my customary morning lift-off, I decided to take the unusual step for me and take an equally large second dose only a couple of hours apart. My goal was to activate my creativity and get more of this site done aiding me in getting the entire fuck out the....well, you already know
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But it backfired. I turned on my computer and decided to go lay in the bed just a few minutes before I got to work, at approximately 2:30 in the pm. Next thing I know, I open my eyes and it's literally 9:45 that Saturday night! Oh shit. 'Twas not my intention. But I learned long time ago to listen to my body. Following a month of February where every day there is a shit ton of work waiting for us, to the point where we're not permitted to take time off during the month, obviously my old ass body needed some separate recovery of its own. Yes sir body. I don't argue with you about this kinda shit
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​After having achieved lift-off once more and again upon my second awakening of this Saturday and filling my belly with some of my excellent air fried food at home, I decided to fire up the ole cpu to complete the website work I intended to do yesterday (it's currently 2:33 am on Sunday). Before pulling up my site info, I perused Yahoo as I often do if you have read damn near any other page on this site. Unfortunately, that's when I found out about Ms Stone (deep sigh)
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​Angie Stone, hit making soul singer, dies in car accident
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Angie Stone, Neo-Soul Singer, Dead at 63
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Soooooo, lemme tell y'all about me and Angie Stone. She's not only in one of my favorite guilty-pleasure movies doing what she does best, The Fighting Temptations (yeah, an academy award nominated classic it is not, but I still absolutely love that movie), she's also the singer of one of my all-time favorite songs I think is an extremely underrated jam on my favorite album of hers
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I was just listening to this favorite song about two weeks ago and included it in a new folder for a possible return to my Vers(us) Solo podcast. As I write this, I'm listening to my favorite album of hers, Mahogany Soul, for the first time in a while and forgot how much I love this album. Isn't it crazy how that always happens? As much as I loved 2pac, his music never sounded as good as it did the day I found out he died
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What else sucked about Angie's death, is that it happened in a car accident after her show in Montgomery, Alabama on Friday night, while she was on her way to her next show on Saturday night in Baltimore. I don't know why, but for me this has always been harder to take for some reason. It's the same thing I thought when I watched La Bamba for the first time, not familiar with the Richie Valens story before that so unaware of what would happen. I always envision the artists going to work the night before, completely unaware it would be the last show they ever perform. Biopics turn out to be mostly bullshit so I don't know if he really said it, but in the movie Lou Diamond Phillips as Richie Valens even said, "it's the first coin toss I've ever won". Damn. And it would be his last. Ms Stone probably felt great after her show on Friday night, and was ready to arrive in Baltimore, unaware she would never see that show. It sucks man. It just doesn't seem fair. Life's not fair, yeah yeah, I know. But that still doesn't make it okay. She shouldn't have been driving herself (assuming she was, the details of the crash are pretty scarce at this point) in the first place. But the only plus is that she at least died doing what she loved
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I highly recommend checking out Mahogany Soul if you haven't heard it, or checking it out again if you have. I can't stress how much I love pretty much the entire album, and any song I don't love I still really like. I leave you with some of my favorite songs from that album, including my favorite song of hers mentioned earlier, as well as my favorite song from The Fighting Temptations. Rest in Peace Ms Angie
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Angie Stone - 20 Dollars
This is my favorite song that doesn't come until toward the end of an album of favorite songs. So I don't think this was one of her well-known songs, and as such, may not have gotten the credit it deserves. But it's such an awesome, relatable song for the everyday person just tryna survive in this sometimes cold world
Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You
I don't know if it's what I thought was an excellent use of an O'jays sample, or if it's everything about it but I absolutely love this fucking song. Probably my second favorite song on the album
Angie Stone - Easier Said Than Done
Coming right after Wish I Didn't Miss You on the album, it was around this song I decided I was going to go 'head and let the rest of this whole son of a bitch play to the very fucking end, thank you very much
Angie Stone - Snowflakes
Ohhh yeah. Almost forgot about this smoothed out, melodic jam right here. That would have been tragic! If you ain't feelin this one I really don't know what to tell you. Sucks to have your fucking ears!!
The Fighting Temptations - He Still Loves Me
The final show-stopping number of the movie, this song never gets old. Even to this heathen ass atheist. Of course I don't agree with what the song is saying. So! That's y'all problem, you can't separate what you don't like (anything doing with a deity) from what you do (the music). Fan-fucking-tastic