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
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
WTF
I wasn't going to blog today but I had to because of these two links:
A Kentucky ex-prostitute's personal blog! This blog is one flat-out, no bullshit personal blog right here. Reading this at times made me feel sad, but there is a very endearing ammount of humanity and caring to be found within too. However you wanna spin it, this lady's life is one big fuck you to modern civilization, and I'm okay with that.
And this flipped me out too:
This took this kid 42 hours to make... I guess he doesn't play video games... And if I haven't mentioned on this blog yet, I think Lady GaGa rules. Like most things I love, I hated her when she first broke, and now I can't get enough. Long live the Queen Of Pop.
A Kentucky ex-prostitute's personal blog! This blog is one flat-out, no bullshit personal blog right here. Reading this at times made me feel sad, but there is a very endearing ammount of humanity and caring to be found within too. However you wanna spin it, this lady's life is one big fuck you to modern civilization, and I'm okay with that.
And this flipped me out too:
This took this kid 42 hours to make... I guess he doesn't play video games... And if I haven't mentioned on this blog yet, I think Lady GaGa rules. Like most things I love, I hated her when she first broke, and now I can't get enough. Long live the Queen Of Pop.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Been DJing pop music to myself all morning... some cool shit has come out lately. Current favorites?
Robin Thicke - 'Sex Therapy'. This is one of the smoothest things a white dude has ever put on wax. I was thinking about his feature on Carter III where he's singing "I work at the corner store / My family's got problems - problems", and that is some pretty hood shit to be singing considering he is Allen Thicke(the dad on Growing Pains)'s son. Anyway that shit rules.
Ke$ha - 'Tik Tok'. A straight man's guilty pleasure.
David Guetta - 'Sexy Bitch (Ft. Akon)'. Best Akon song since DJ Drama - 'Daydreamin (Ft. Akon, T.I., Snoop Dogg)'. Akon came out recently talking about a whole bunch of songs he recorded with Michael Jackson that never saw the light of day because of MJ's chronic perfectionism... I wish those shits would surface in bootleg. Akon is no MJ but he has been a pretty solid pop, club, and R&B producer.
Shawty Lo - 'Dey Know (Remix)(Ft. way too many southern rappers for me to care about listing in this blog)'. This was banging back in 2007 and I pull it out a lot for an old track. Still sounds sharp enough to be new.
Sade - 'Soldier Of Love'. First new Sade album since Lover's Rock like 10 years ago, and this first single is the furthest thing from a disappointment. Kind of downbeat, but sharp and modern. The military snare drum is a nice thematic touch.
Alicia Keys - 'Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart'. This is the best, most off-kilter pop song I have heard since Lil Wayne - 'A Millie' a year and a half ago. Tiffany-esque 80's new wave turned soft bedroom R&B lament, with a high definition, 2010 aural sheen. Sophisticated modern pop.
I'm trying to get into NHL ice hockey. As a fan, not an athlete. It seems pretty awesome. I'm gonna watch a game today, and then later we're going to watch the Blu-Ray of Coraline, which seems cool and was originally written by the great comic writer Neil Gaiman of Sandman fame. It's animated in stop-motion with partial 3D or something like that?
We're also going to show our buddy Ryan the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp because he was talking about how he would like to sit in on some holy roller/psychedelic christian type church services just to see what the speaking in tongues etc. is like. I have been to a place called Church Of God Of Prophecy a couple times which encouraged fake healings and speaking in tongues, it is a real spectacle. I like to think of it as people getting off by being crazy together at the same time. It's the only thing I can think of. But if you have never seen that docu then I would recommend it to anybody, it is some pretty scary stuff that everyone should know about.
I started reading an old run of Punisher written by Garth Ennis and that shit is hilarious, morbid, and extremely entertaining. For my money Garth Ennis is the best writer in all of comics. Other writers (Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Kurt Busiek) may have deeper aspirations as far as artistic depth, but as far as me giving somebody 3 dollars for a 26-page comic, Ennis gives you an absurd ammount of bang for your dollar. Every. Single. Time. To me he is the Quentin Tarantino of comic books. There is no question of whether it will be worth the price of admission, only of how it will stack in comparison to his other works. I can't imagine a day when I'll leave the theater after a new Tarantino movie feeling like I've been jipped 10 dollars.
Tomorrow is the last day of NFL playoffs; 3:00PM will see Colts Vs. Jets and afterwards at 6:30PM is the game I'm waiting for, Vikings Vs. Saints. I like the Saints, but Favre is my favorite football player so I want to see the Vikings win this without question. I'll be rooting for the winner of this game in the Super Bowl regardless, which I'm assuming will be against the Colts. GO VIKINGS!
Awright, peace out blog people.
Robin Thicke - 'Sex Therapy'. This is one of the smoothest things a white dude has ever put on wax. I was thinking about his feature on Carter III where he's singing "I work at the corner store / My family's got problems - problems", and that is some pretty hood shit to be singing considering he is Allen Thicke(the dad on Growing Pains)'s son. Anyway that shit rules.
Ke$ha - 'Tik Tok'. A straight man's guilty pleasure.
David Guetta - 'Sexy Bitch (Ft. Akon)'. Best Akon song since DJ Drama - 'Daydreamin (Ft. Akon, T.I., Snoop Dogg)'. Akon came out recently talking about a whole bunch of songs he recorded with Michael Jackson that never saw the light of day because of MJ's chronic perfectionism... I wish those shits would surface in bootleg. Akon is no MJ but he has been a pretty solid pop, club, and R&B producer.
Shawty Lo - 'Dey Know (Remix)(Ft. way too many southern rappers for me to care about listing in this blog)'. This was banging back in 2007 and I pull it out a lot for an old track. Still sounds sharp enough to be new.
Sade - 'Soldier Of Love'. First new Sade album since Lover's Rock like 10 years ago, and this first single is the furthest thing from a disappointment. Kind of downbeat, but sharp and modern. The military snare drum is a nice thematic touch.
Alicia Keys - 'Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart'. This is the best, most off-kilter pop song I have heard since Lil Wayne - 'A Millie' a year and a half ago. Tiffany-esque 80's new wave turned soft bedroom R&B lament, with a high definition, 2010 aural sheen. Sophisticated modern pop.
I'm trying to get into NHL ice hockey. As a fan, not an athlete. It seems pretty awesome. I'm gonna watch a game today, and then later we're going to watch the Blu-Ray of Coraline, which seems cool and was originally written by the great comic writer Neil Gaiman of Sandman fame. It's animated in stop-motion with partial 3D or something like that?
We're also going to show our buddy Ryan the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp because he was talking about how he would like to sit in on some holy roller/psychedelic christian type church services just to see what the speaking in tongues etc. is like. I have been to a place called Church Of God Of Prophecy a couple times which encouraged fake healings and speaking in tongues, it is a real spectacle. I like to think of it as people getting off by being crazy together at the same time. It's the only thing I can think of. But if you have never seen that docu then I would recommend it to anybody, it is some pretty scary stuff that everyone should know about.
I started reading an old run of Punisher written by Garth Ennis and that shit is hilarious, morbid, and extremely entertaining. For my money Garth Ennis is the best writer in all of comics. Other writers (Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Kurt Busiek) may have deeper aspirations as far as artistic depth, but as far as me giving somebody 3 dollars for a 26-page comic, Ennis gives you an absurd ammount of bang for your dollar. Every. Single. Time. To me he is the Quentin Tarantino of comic books. There is no question of whether it will be worth the price of admission, only of how it will stack in comparison to his other works. I can't imagine a day when I'll leave the theater after a new Tarantino movie feeling like I've been jipped 10 dollars.
Tomorrow is the last day of NFL playoffs; 3:00PM will see Colts Vs. Jets and afterwards at 6:30PM is the game I'm waiting for, Vikings Vs. Saints. I like the Saints, but Favre is my favorite football player so I want to see the Vikings win this without question. I'll be rooting for the winner of this game in the Super Bowl regardless, which I'm assuming will be against the Colts. GO VIKINGS!
Awright, peace out blog people.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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