No words to describe this. None. Please watch.
Gladwell/Simmons III
More eagerly awaited than Pacman-Mayweather (or even Pacman in Vegas II) has been my giddy anticipation for more collaboration between Canada’s own Malcolm Gladwell and ESPN’s The Sports Guy aka Bill Simmons. I would love nothing more than to have an extended bromance with these two. I really think I could add something to their [...]
People act according to the season that they born in
I love when really divergent and disjointed interests collide into one. I’m gonna call this post a 2fer.
First, Padma Lakshmi’s appearance on ”Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” got my swimsuit area all excited. Add Mos Def and Talib Kweli as musical guests with the Roots and I could not be happier. And then I got happier. The backup singers [...]
Black Friday is coming…
BlacRoc (aka the Black Keys and Damon Dash getting together to put out a hip hop album) is due out the day after Thanksgiving, and I’m mad excited about it. Kinda makes me wanna PIMP (Pee In My Pants). No joke.
The whole project is dope — Mos Def, Raekwon, Jim Jones, Pharoahe Monch, Q Tip, Billy [...]
dance is my religion
Oh, Kanye. I will never learn how to reconcile my love/hate relationship with you. I love your music, creativity, and your performances, but I cannot stand the personality. One more thing I like — your blog. It has put me on to more than a few things, and artist Devin Troy Strother is only one. His [...]
Thank God For Trains
Not exactly sure how I tumbled on to the site of Belgian artist Wouter ‘Wally’ Bongaerts. I do know I spent a good amount of time checking out his blog and some of his work. Very cool stuff.
Click here to check it out.
Comedian Ansari Enjoys Playing Sleazebag On TV
^ Actual title for NPR’s “All Things Considered” feature on Aziz Ansari. If the show wasn’t so good and public entertainment wasn’t so free, I would make fun of it. But I’ll take the high-road on this one. Oh, and watch “Parks and Rec,” it keeps getting better by the week.
Click here to listen to the interview.
The Pump Has Been Primed
Not gonna go on for too long on this — my man Bethlehem Shoals of The Baseline and Free Darko has it on lock. The topic of the conversation is mental illness in the NBA. It’s certainly been there for awhile (Shawn Kemp and Vin Baker immediately pop into my mind), but the recent sagas [...]
The Media Assassin
So a lot of yapping has happened in the past week — much of it due to Mr. Kanye West’s behavior last Sunday. Not gonna defend the manically bi-polar West, but it really wasn’t that big of a deal. It happened, he looked like a jackass, and that country girl and Beyonce came out smelling [...]
An unfortunate loss
Sad news from the weekend. Legendary and groundbreaking DJ Grandmaster Roc Raida passed away after still uncertain and unsubstantiated circumstances. Roc Raida and the rest of the X-ecutioner’s completely revolutionized what it meant to be a hip hop DJ. Roc, Rob Swift, Mista Sinista, and Total Eclipse inspired countless DJs. He forever changed hip hop and [...]
Who do I like more???
As much as I love Aziz Ansari for helping me find gems like this, I think David Cross is even cooler for making this his bio.
These Look Tight — No Homer!!
The 21st season of the Simpson’s is about to start up and the good folks at Format Mag and Moxie Creative have linked up to get down with the get down. Turning some of the GOAT rappers into their own Simpson’s character, it’s tough not to get a good laugh at these. I love Biggie [...]
IKEA Heights
Anything having to do with IKEA not involving me going there cracks me up (see Raaaaaaaandy’s Ooksa for an example), but this is too much. It’s “IKEA Heights” and it’s a series that’s been entirely shot on location at the IKEA in Burbank, CA. What’s better is that no one in IKEA has a clue [...]
Laugh, Kookaburra
Ahhh, David Sedaris. I don’t really know where to start with him. I can say two things with the utmost sincerity – first, your favorite Sedaris book is guaranteed to be the first one that you ever read; and two, anytime I’m in need of a good, fun read, he’s without a doubt the writer I turn to. That [...]
No one will
Damn I love me some Cody ChesnuTT. Most people might know him as that bohemian fella from that one Roots song, but the man is so much more than that. After going awhile without hearing from the man who looks good in leather, here’s some live footage of Cody performing new material at an LdotAdot streetfest. [...]
The Look You Give That Guy
I put out an alarm for some new-new to listen to, and I get this gem back from The Eels. Check out the video below. And the pic above is from my boy Tony Gambucci (click on the pic to check out some more of his work), who happens to be the one that put me on to these [...]
Two heroes collide
I met RZA (at least in an art appreciation kind of way) in 1993. “Cash Rules Everything Around Me (CREAM)” and I didn’t really know it until he told me. I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting MC Paul Barman until I was at Amoeba Records in 2001. Here’s Paul’s account of interviewing the Abbot [...]
You find any weapons of mass destruction in here?
How serendipitous. First I get an email from my guy Duryl (again), pointing me in the direction of a great article on the Nation.com about the 20th anniversary of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” (click here to read “‘Do the Right Thing’: Still a Racial Rorschach at 20″). It’s a groundbreaking and extremely dope [...]
Hold on, John
Much love and respect to my guy Marcus Lo on the image up there. Keep it coming, shun!!!! Click here to check out some more of his work.
Here it be — some more free music for ya’ll. Little bit more of everthing. Some side projects from TV On The Radio and Vampire Weekend (although not on [...]
Dear Mr. Watterson…
Oh Calvin and Hobbes, how you changed my life in so many ways. The first crush I ever had may have been on Susie Derkins. It made me yearn to be outside and riding a sled down Newton Hill and even made Radio Flyers look like a good time. Something about it made me nostalgic for childhood [...]
RIP John Hughes
John Hughes was unbelievable. I could go on and on about just how dope he was but I’ll keep it short and to the point. In 1985 he wrote and directed both “The Breakfast Club” and “Weird Science.” And then followed it up in 1986 with “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” That’s an impressive-ass three movie [...]
The rabid dog is racism?!?!?!?
Insert intellectual boner here. Some of my favorite things — literature and literary criticism that attempts to frame said literature — are on full display here. 99.9999% of literature cannot be read as though existing within a vacuum. Really any manifestation of art cannot be treated as such, for it fails to attribute the artist’s own personal world view [...]
He was hip. He liked to dance.
Come celebrate the life and work of Ryan Quirt….
Ryan Quirt’s beautiful and captivating art has only been experienced by a select few. August 29 marks the first time Ryan’s work will be displayed for the public. Please come enjoy the work that Ryan created with the same intensity and passion that he lived with.
August 29th [...]
Chuck Inglish in the studio with Kenny Keys
Chuck Inglish of the Cool Kids and Kenny Keys live in studio. Fresh isht. Chuck on the drums and Kenny Keys on the…uh…keys. Kenny gets all sorts of funky on this isht and Chuck is on point as usual.
