Two Saturdays ago, I started my second tour as a fishing widow. For a week every May, for the rest of our lives, Miguelito will leave L.A. to go fishing on one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. Rather than feeling abandoned, I remembered that axiom: While the cat's away, the mouse will play. I called my friend Carol to be my plus-one for Diesel's party celebrating the launch of its new fragrance, Only The Brave. The featured performer of the evening was Common, who also doubles as the face for the fragrance ads.
The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based DJ provided the beats and samples pulled from Biz Markie and other hip-hop impresarios for Common to rhyme over.
I thought Common's shoes were Vans, but the slip-ons are actually by Surface to Air.
This voluptuous vixen let Common tap her "where the sun don't shine." As her reward, she was serenaded by him on the stage built in the middle of the store.
Common is a buff guy. I couldn't figure out why he was so fit but then I realized that he also has an emerging career starring in action flicks. He's got a part in "Terminator Salvation," due out May 21. In "Date Night," which he's currently filming with Tina Fey and Steve Carell, he plays a dirty cop.
Like Common, the two keyboard players from Philadelphia also have a penchant for cool kicks: black high-tops by Y-3 and Jack Purcell.
Carol and I moved to the second row after we saw Common flirting with the ladies in the front.
Common was on a roll with a freestyle rap, touching eclectic topics ranging from Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and the Black Panthers to Pres. Barack Obama and shopping on Melrose Place, where Diesel's store is located. He was doing so well that he took his performance to the sidewalk in front of the shop and also in the middle of the energized crowd, which included actresses Samaire Armstrong and Vanessa Hudgens.
It was fun to be treated to a free concert by an intelligent and socially conscious rapper like Common. His support for a peaceful, loving world was obvious on his T-shirt, which is part of his recently launched collaboration with tech giant Microsoft.
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