Imagine coming home from the most random, long, frustrating day and finding this gem in your inbox. We watched this video in absolute hysterics!!! Thank-you so much Double D for making our day, this is the best compliment that two wild girls could ever ask for. Can’t wait to take you up on your offer  e-mail us at thosegirlsarewild@gmail.com then pick an evening next week you wanna link. But KNOW we’re gonna bring our cameras and more than likely we will force you to do a skit… just sayin!

Thanq, thanks you, thank yas!

“Stop right there Ma’am,” says the security guard with stiff features and a long arm.

“Yes,” responds the shopper.

“Were you not planning on paying for that camera in your hands?”

“No,” says the shopper surprised. “See the thing is I don’t really have a budget and I just thought the camera manufacturers would be flattered I even chose it at all. So if you will excuse me…”

As stupid as this story sounds, imagine that it happens every day, not with materials, but with real people. Favours are great, they are wonderful and amazing, they make the world go round but favours are for friends and family – for everyone else, just imagine that the word doesn’t even make sense.

The best advice my mother ever gave me on writing proposals is to answer this question off the bat: what’s in it for them? This is the advice I would like to pass on to you all today! Before you talk about how great you are or how greatful you would be for the opportunity – let the person know what you can offer in return.

Being on the right side of life (the arts) I just know too many people who do not receive compensation for their craft. Photographers, videographers, dancers, performers, models, spoken word artists, motivational speakers who are hand picked for their excellence but told they should want to work for good faith.

If you are looking for someone with experience, you should be looking to give up some goods and if you don’t have any goods, then don’t ask someone good! (more…)

Andrea’s Journey To Creating an Album

This week was really hectic for me! A lot of meetings, making CRAZY skits and then I had a lot of songwriting deadlines to meet! None the less, everything worked out and the album is going well!

Shannon’s NEW Journey to #GetLaidOnTheView

Big thanks to everyone who took part in my poll last week to find a new journey. I chose The View because they are all moms AND not to mention that Barbra Walters is one of my heroes. PLUS we all know that show isn’t going anywhere. This week is about finding as many contacts as possible for the show. I want to know for sure that someone on the crew is aware of my journey! Okay away I go Next week is where the REAL work comes in!

Our Reader’s Journeys

We want to wish Carissa a VERY happy 19th birthday! For all of you guys who don’t know, Carissa is the wonderfully WILD woman who runs our Facebook Fanpage and @ThoseGirlsRWild Twitter page. She is an integral part of our team and we are happy to celebrate her today.

To the lovely, talented, outrageously, awesome, tall Carissa!

What would we do without you? No seriously, I have no idea! Thank you so much for all of the love and support that you have given and continue to give to our individual careers and as well as this blog!! You’ve become our 3rd partner in crime and whenever we’re unable to post something on the blog, I think of you!! Ash Shannon, I never want to let you down! lol Have a great birthday girl!! xoxo

Love,

Andrea Lewis 

Carissa,
I want to raise a big glass of strawberry milk (my fav) to you on your special day. At the risk of sounding cliche, words can’t express how much we appreciate your support, work and friendship. My mini-me, I am so glad that the internet brought us together and I can’t wait until both of our successes lead us to share a big  hug in real life! CAKE IT UP TODAY MANNNNNNNN!

Love,
Shannon

To our fav smarty pants: Happy B-Day Carissa

So the last time we tried to do a foursome hangout in Toronto, things didn’t workout so well… SO in LA we tried again and had a ridiculous amount of success. Like DSOL people, Shandrea is about to be boo’ed up JUST NOW. Of course we brought our cam with us so check our recap of our fab date!

Thanks to comedian Mike Mizzel and actor Rob Vincent

Download Love Letters and Heart Break from award-winning DJ’s Lissa Monet and P-Plus. It is the first mixtape to have a version exclusively for your iPod. Click here to download OR if you need more convincing, click our informercial.

A couple of weeks ago your pals at ThoseGirlsAreWild.com brought you a contest from award-winning DJ’s Lissa Monet and DJ P-Plus for their new joint-mixtape, Love Letters and Heart Break. DJ Lissa Monet chose the winners herself so congrats to Shayla Duval and Jonny Kates

We never realized how rad biking was til we saw this video a little while ago. Nigel Sylvester is sick and 13th witness is visually victorious for putting this together. Ever like something so much that you get so inspired you get a lil ahead of yourself? SSAU (should shrug arms up) Dunn know we’ll be seeing you guys at the SKATEPARK Nigel and 13!

The REAL video

follow @nigel sylvester and @13thwitness on Twitter

New world order: you will be granted one super power of your choice! Don’t waste it on being the next spiderman because let’s face it, throwing silk at someone is not that badass. Just playing choose whatever you like but make sure you back it up

Shannon’s Pick

Andrea’s Pick

Thank-you shortyrise.tumblr.com for hosting our first Tumblr blog tour stop. She had some ill questions so check the video and her blog for more eclectic awesomeness. To have us on your blog e-mail ThoseGirlsAreWild@gmail.com

We hope to high waters that our love for singer Melanie Fiona isn’t news! This young lady is not only our fellow WILD GYAL but she is also a Toronto native just like us As luck would have it she shot her video for Ay-Yo yesterday, so since we were both in LA we hit it up with our boy Simon Curtis! All photos by Shannon

**said in our best corner bootlegger voice** We got dat EXCLUSIVE first look at the NEW Melanie Fiona vide-yo for AY-Yo!

@shannontboodram, @simoncurtis, @melaniefiona, @missandrealewis

Kardinal Offishall and Mel F – MORE FIYAH TORONTO!

Popcorn

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This isn’t a traditional Think About It… A young lady named Adebe is putting together an anthology currently titled, “Mixed-Race Women Speakout.” When I read the criteria for submissions, I just knew I had to share my story. My experience as a mixed woman has been an interesting one that usually left me feeling one of either extremes: too pale or too ethnic. I’m writing it in a 5 part story: Frizzy Headed Freak. - Who Brought The White Kid. - Ugly Black Girl - Get A Tan Shan- and Mixed NOT Confused …. so here are the first two parts. If you’re interested in submitting, click HERE for details

what are your thoughts on this video?

Frizzy. Headed. Freak.

By the time my mother discovered the army fatigued-patterned backpack filled with hair, it was too late. She put her hand to her mouth leaving enough space for her lips to manage a “what have you done.” I eyed the ground speechless thinking the answer to my amused self, “oh mommy, I did what needed to be done.”

At my elementary school, all of the boys liked Lisa – even Devon, the boy I had a major crush on since senior kindergarten. Lisa was white with thin wavy strawberry-blonde hair and bird-like features. She always wore her hair down; she didn’t have to put it in braids, or buns, or messy ponytails just so it wouldn’t block the chalkboard for any student sitting behind her. She didn’t have to scatter a handful of bobby pins near the front to chain-down fly aways. This is why (to my understanding at age 11) all of the boys liked Lisa and none of them liked me at my predominantly white suburban elementary school. But I have always been a girl of action so I devised a plan to turn my love-life and popularity around: I completely cut the entire middle portion of my hair out. I pinned up one layer stretching from ear-to-ear and then braided another thing layer along the nape of my neck. The rest of my hair I’m afraid didn’t make the cut, or I suppose in this circumstance it did: snip, snip you ugly poufy cool killer. I watched fistfuls of curls drop to the floor with sheer delight. When my homemade makeover was completed to my liking, I jammed almost an armful of my hair into an unused school bag.

Finally, I too, had thin hair. (more…)

Welcome to TGAW’s Journey To Greatness Post. We took up a huge goal for 2010 and said we would do at least one thing per week to move closer to that goal. We challenge you to take your own separate journey with us. If you do a vlog/ scrapblog send it and we’ll post OR leave a text comment with your week’s progress!

Andrea’s Journey to Creating an Album

More from the stairwell series to come!

Shannon’s Journey to Get LAID on Tyra

Created by an incredible TGAW Reader!

Thank-you everyone for your encouragement, great advice and kind words from last week’s video (honestly the photo above made me smile so hard I teared up). As you advised I went a little harder to get the “absolute no” before throwing in the towel and guess what…. I got it. Producer Becky Cohen-Fortune wrote me to say thanks for my hard work and she wishes me luck BUT They Tyra Show is infact finished taping for good. Definitely a major disappointment  BUT I think the best piece of advice I got was: it doesn’t matter where people hear about the book, it’s about who you want to hear about the book. I really think the Oprah Show would be incredible BUT with her show set to cancel in 2011, it may be a mistake to set my sights on another show with a narrow timeline (especially since the Oprah Show tapes most of its shows in advance).

I’m kind of torn on what show to begin My Journey goal on next so I’d like your help!

Our Reader’s Journey’s 

We’d like to share our time together with you all so we’re going to try and take plenty o’ pics to post here. You’ll probably see the accompanying video to the stills in a few days Happy almost March Fam jam!

you WISH you took the stairs instead of the elevator this day huh!

BMX Bullies deh

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We got a great question this week about setting dating standards too high or too low, how do you know when your bar is unreachable and is there such thing as your standards being too high? Thanks to Alex M. for asking and showing love! 

Alright this week’s topic is a fun one: if you could be the parent of any celebrity who would you choose? And to make it a little interesting tell us one that you would choose because they’re so awesome and one you would choose because you think someone seriously needs to put them in TIMEOUT!

Guess who’s together? And this time we taking over the land of sunshine and glamour!! Shandrea Lewdram is in LA! Let the mawdness begin!