Correction from yesterday: Invented Sex (Remix) is not the best thing on the radio, but it is pretty close. Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart still has that honor. What a great song.
I was late on the ball seeing Avatar in 3D iMAX but I finally did and it deserves all the praise and money. James Cameron is a long-proven pop genius. I would give him this title based off Aliens and Terminator 2 alone, but here he is all these years later still making movies that define the science fiction of the current time and technology. Apparantly the dude who directed Taken is directing a built-for-3D-from-the-ground-up adaptation of Frank Herbert's glorious Dune. Can't fucking wait.
Found out Robert Rodriguez is not directing Predators. Boooooo. But, he is writing it. So I will pay for a theater ticket. I'm more excited about Machete anyway, I think. It's a close call.
Read that the Farrelly Bros. Three Stooges movie is still not going anywhere. Please MAKE THIS MOVIE WITH THE ORIGINAL CAST YOU ANNOUNCED MOTHER FUCKERS. SEAN PENN, BENICIO DEL TORO, JIM CARREY. NOW. And redeem the last portion of your careers god dammit. Because who is even making good comedies any more? It is not a good time for comedy... I guess the times have gotten too serious. There was The Hangover, and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard recently. What was really good before that? Borat is the last actually classic comedy that I can remember before Hangover. Someone please tell me I'm wrong. I'd hate to think the country is forgetting how to laugh. Or maybe reality TV is already making us laugh enough. Jersey Shore Season 2 FTW. Also, though, I think comedy is probably the hardest genre to make a classic movie in. Getting somebody to laugh the first time they watch a movie is fairly simple, but comedies are difficult to build for scrutiny.
Toy Story 3 trailer looks really great. Glad to see Pixar getting back to the same ballpark as classic Disney traditional animation. There has been no torch-bearer for traditional American family animation as Pixar has been edging further towards animation that might end up in the Special Interest section next to Triplets Of Belleville and whatever else film festival garbage. They're better than that. Don't get me wrong, Wall-E is some kind of adult-animation masterpiece I suppose, but that is not what these guys are supposed to be doing. They are the only interesting thing happening at Disney animation-wise and if they cannot deliver classic pop family animation then the artform is truly dead.
GF home. Y'all come back now ya hear?
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
R. KELLY IS PUBLISHING 15 NEW CHAPTERS OF R&B SOAP OPERA 'TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET'.
So in honor of R. Kellz here is a rundown of the good tracks on the R&B chart at the moment:
Mariah Carey - Up Out My Face [Ft. Nicki Minaj]... it's kind of like Obsessed (Remix) how Gucci and the beat were the whole reason I am listening. Nicki has got whatever it is that makes a new rapper interesting. Who gives a fuck about Mariah Carey, not even The-Dream can make me want to listen to her album. Everybody was blaming Dream when it's really Mariah's fault Mariah can't sell an album. It's cause she's fucking boring. Eminem - The Warning made me real, real happy.
T-Pain - Reverse Cowgirl... I'm glad all the people jocking dude's style are out of business and nobody cares about T-Pain anymore, so I can begin my career as a cult follower of an another unfairly-cast-aside genius in the vein of my R. Kelly fandom. I would like to listen to this slow jam on some pills. Also the title and subject matter are an epic win.
Roscoe Dash - All The Way Turnt Up [Ft. Soulja Boy]... if you liked Turn My Swag On then this is up your alley.
Jay Sean - Do You Remember [Ft. Lil Jon, Sean Paul]... this has been popular for a minute but I still want to write about it and it's still on the charts anyway. Pure high fructose corn syrup sacharine. It's heavy on the sweet side, but the gruff grind of Lil Jon adds just the right contrast and I have a boner for Sean Paul ever since Youngbloodz.
Usher - Lots of shit cause he has an already-classic album that just dropped and like 5 of the songs are on the radio, most of them not even official singles... But in particular the Trey Songz - I Invented Sex (Remix) is the best goddam thing on the radio right now.
Lil Wayne - Drop The World [Ft. Eminem]... this would not be a good Lil Wayne song, but then... Eminem comes in... and it's glorious... and it's the entire reason any radio station would ever play this song. Em single-handledly propels this song to the charts with his mindblowing verse. He needs to hop on another GOOD non-Em song though, cause Forever left just about everybody drooling and even Jay-Z said he stole the song. And everybody was in tip-top, and Kanye put one of my favorite Yeezy verses since DJ Khaled - Go Hard [Ft. Kanye West] and Jeezy - Put On [Ft. Kanye West] way back before 808's. But Em still killed him somehow. Relapse 2 now please.
Gucci Mane - Lemonade... I thought State Vs. Radric Davis was pretty disappoinging, meaning mediocre. But this is a good, definitive of the times, southern-ass rap track. Too bad nothing else on the album approaches the glory of Wasted.
Yo Gotti - Women Lie, Men Lie... Good production work to get fucked up to. I could care less about Yo Gotti. After Juelz, Ricky Ross, and Jeezy, this dude sounds mad generic. Better than 5 Star Chick though IMO (again, all credit goes to the producer).
Lil Wayne - Steady Mobbin' [Ft. Gucci Mane]... People wanted this team-up so bad they are willing to play it on the radio despite it being the filthiest most amoral thing to hit the airwaves since Every Girl In The World. A hedonist's delight. Hard ass gangsta rap from two dudes who we have grown accustomed to being commercialized. Here they are in raw form again, sounding harder than N.W.A.
Plies - Medicine... I just like everything plies does. I think his impeccible choice of candy-coated southern rap beats taylored for radio play combined with Porn-rap lyrics so extreme they could draw comparisons to 2 Live Crew and bar-none the thickest southern accent on rap radio (even in the era of southern rap on rap radio) make him the most interesting rapper in the game at the moment. Even as he turns out hit after hit he remains basically underrated in rap discussions. As far as I'm concerned he now has a track record of 3 classic rap albums in the 2000's.
Okay, that's it, I digress. I promise the next post will not be about rap. Probably about movies. Peeeeeeeeeeace.
So in honor of R. Kellz here is a rundown of the good tracks on the R&B chart at the moment:
Mariah Carey - Up Out My Face [Ft. Nicki Minaj]... it's kind of like Obsessed (Remix) how Gucci and the beat were the whole reason I am listening. Nicki has got whatever it is that makes a new rapper interesting. Who gives a fuck about Mariah Carey, not even The-Dream can make me want to listen to her album. Everybody was blaming Dream when it's really Mariah's fault Mariah can't sell an album. It's cause she's fucking boring. Eminem - The Warning made me real, real happy.
T-Pain - Reverse Cowgirl... I'm glad all the people jocking dude's style are out of business and nobody cares about T-Pain anymore, so I can begin my career as a cult follower of an another unfairly-cast-aside genius in the vein of my R. Kelly fandom. I would like to listen to this slow jam on some pills. Also the title and subject matter are an epic win.
Roscoe Dash - All The Way Turnt Up [Ft. Soulja Boy]... if you liked Turn My Swag On then this is up your alley.
Jay Sean - Do You Remember [Ft. Lil Jon, Sean Paul]... this has been popular for a minute but I still want to write about it and it's still on the charts anyway. Pure high fructose corn syrup sacharine. It's heavy on the sweet side, but the gruff grind of Lil Jon adds just the right contrast and I have a boner for Sean Paul ever since Youngbloodz.
Usher - Lots of shit cause he has an already-classic album that just dropped and like 5 of the songs are on the radio, most of them not even official singles... But in particular the Trey Songz - I Invented Sex (Remix) is the best goddam thing on the radio right now.
Lil Wayne - Drop The World [Ft. Eminem]... this would not be a good Lil Wayne song, but then... Eminem comes in... and it's glorious... and it's the entire reason any radio station would ever play this song. Em single-handledly propels this song to the charts with his mindblowing verse. He needs to hop on another GOOD non-Em song though, cause Forever left just about everybody drooling and even Jay-Z said he stole the song. And everybody was in tip-top, and Kanye put one of my favorite Yeezy verses since DJ Khaled - Go Hard [Ft. Kanye West] and Jeezy - Put On [Ft. Kanye West] way back before 808's. But Em still killed him somehow. Relapse 2 now please.
Gucci Mane - Lemonade... I thought State Vs. Radric Davis was pretty disappoinging, meaning mediocre. But this is a good, definitive of the times, southern-ass rap track. Too bad nothing else on the album approaches the glory of Wasted.
Yo Gotti - Women Lie, Men Lie... Good production work to get fucked up to. I could care less about Yo Gotti. After Juelz, Ricky Ross, and Jeezy, this dude sounds mad generic. Better than 5 Star Chick though IMO (again, all credit goes to the producer).
Lil Wayne - Steady Mobbin' [Ft. Gucci Mane]... People wanted this team-up so bad they are willing to play it on the radio despite it being the filthiest most amoral thing to hit the airwaves since Every Girl In The World. A hedonist's delight. Hard ass gangsta rap from two dudes who we have grown accustomed to being commercialized. Here they are in raw form again, sounding harder than N.W.A.
Plies - Medicine... I just like everything plies does. I think his impeccible choice of candy-coated southern rap beats taylored for radio play combined with Porn-rap lyrics so extreme they could draw comparisons to 2 Live Crew and bar-none the thickest southern accent on rap radio (even in the era of southern rap on rap radio) make him the most interesting rapper in the game at the moment. Even as he turns out hit after hit he remains basically underrated in rap discussions. As far as I'm concerned he now has a track record of 3 classic rap albums in the 2000's.
Okay, that's it, I digress. I promise the next post will not be about rap. Probably about movies. Peeeeeeeeeeace.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Getting Back In Touch With Rock
Man, I have not posted to this thing in a minute. I spent the afternoon listening exclusively to rock, which is weird for me because I usually listen to r&b, rap, and pop exclusively, but for the record I do like rock music, I have just gotten really tired of it over the years because I listened to so much rock as a teenager and young twenty-something. So what have I pulled out for my nostalgiac rockfest? I'm glad you asked...
Them Crooked Vultures - Eponymous debut LP from a supergroup of Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin... WTF. You pretty much know what you're getting based off of the Grohl/Homme combo as Grohl drummed briefly for Queens Of The Stone Age and appeared on their first LP. This is solid as shit though, really well executed and engineered rock album.
Killing Joke - Been listening to multiple records as this is one of my fave rock groups but it was the LP that Grohl drummed on that triggered this miniature revolution on my laptop.
Les Claypool & Buckethead - A tripped out ass collabo LP called Monsters & Robots that came out I don't know when. I like well-engineered weirdness and this is up there with Zappa. I love these dudes, separately or together.
Zappa - Apostrophe' and Hot Rats. Zappa is still underappreciated. The lyrics/vocals are whatever, but the complexity of the musical compositions and skill of the performers leaves me in awe every single time. One of the true geniuses of rock.
Mastodon - Crack The Skye. This is getting into hipster territory, which I try to avoid, but this is an undeniable accomplishment in heavy music. A masterpiece of technique and aesthetic.
/rock
Started watching the old Vincent Price film version of Poe's Pit And The Pendulum last night, and everything about this type of classic is delicious. I'll take this type of movie over a b&w Universal monster movie any day of the week.
GF is home, later folks
Them Crooked Vultures - Eponymous debut LP from a supergroup of Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin... WTF. You pretty much know what you're getting based off of the Grohl/Homme combo as Grohl drummed briefly for Queens Of The Stone Age and appeared on their first LP. This is solid as shit though, really well executed and engineered rock album.
Killing Joke - Been listening to multiple records as this is one of my fave rock groups but it was the LP that Grohl drummed on that triggered this miniature revolution on my laptop.
Les Claypool & Buckethead - A tripped out ass collabo LP called Monsters & Robots that came out I don't know when. I like well-engineered weirdness and this is up there with Zappa. I love these dudes, separately or together.
Zappa - Apostrophe' and Hot Rats. Zappa is still underappreciated. The lyrics/vocals are whatever, but the complexity of the musical compositions and skill of the performers leaves me in awe every single time. One of the true geniuses of rock.
Mastodon - Crack The Skye. This is getting into hipster territory, which I try to avoid, but this is an undeniable accomplishment in heavy music. A masterpiece of technique and aesthetic.
/rock
Started watching the old Vincent Price film version of Poe's Pit And The Pendulum last night, and everything about this type of classic is delicious. I'll take this type of movie over a b&w Universal monster movie any day of the week.
GF is home, later folks
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