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[Jun. 12th, 2006|10:57 am] |
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the Australia Japan result was total bullshit. |
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[May. 7th, 2006|01:49 am] |
Well it started off on 8th Avenue when I made up a name called:
Dork Nation. Word Press is niftier than blogspot. I can put up pages like 35 most influential albums and 110 movies and whatnot. Not much whatnot there yet.
3rd home. see also pithinthewind.com |
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| Dear Everyone. Who? EEEEVREEEEEONNEEEE |
[Apr. 4th, 2006|01:58 am] |
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Y'all are killing me with the snark. I'm suffering from snark overkill, unecessary snark. Way too much. Stop watching and learning from the mostly second rate comedians on those VH-1 shows. Some a y'all can do it (LPo), some a y'all were not born to it. It's as if the trust-fund hipsters started writing for Def Comedy Jam. |
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| MF DOOM question |
[Feb. 11th, 2006|05:15 am] |
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Somebody. Which MF Doom song samples The Electric Company end theme? PUHLEAAEEESEE |
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| hardly a suprise |
[Sep. 28th, 2005|09:57 am] |
caught A History of Violence last night. Good . . . more when I've the time. I complain about lack of time however I have enough time for a quiz . . . ?
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| dumb ass uncle |
[Sep. 3rd, 2005|06:22 pm] |
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So maybe grandma is not as aiite as I thought. I heard from my folks that she's been without power since Katrina struck (the entire small town where she lives is in the dark) and that power may not be restored for weeks. Why my able bodied but fat assed uncle doesn't drive her up here is a mystery. Well . . . now that I think about it, she probably doesn't want to leave. She hates to be away from home. Can't blame her. |
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[Sep. 1st, 2005|12:21 pm] |
By now, the debate over the differences between the captions on the looting pics of black vs white are raging over the Internet. I've been relatively oblivious to most of the coverage post-landing. My parents' folks are from ground central, they evacuated northward long before Katrina struck. My father's people don't have anything to return to we imagine. Grandma is still safe and sound.
Attended a show last night, a local MC and Louis Logic. Mr Logic put on a great show, he had me crackin' up, too. Think a rappin' Basquiat, then you get the picture.
Uh-oh, the former university President is snooping around here . . . cya |
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| rediscovered |
[Aug. 29th, 2005|03:08 am] |
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Infesticons - Cave Theme. Google. Listen. Enjoy. |
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[Aug. 29th, 2005|03:07 am] |
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Maybe R Kelly should do a song about being trapped in a closet with Chucky (the doll). |
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| Second home sick |
[Aug. 26th, 2005|03:58 pm] |
So . . .
I still churn out pieces for the weekly, in case you were wondering. Such tasks allows me the pleasure of meeting such luminaries as Teairra Mari. lower case l, o, lower case l. I'm writing much more frequently now than I was before. I've kind of slacked off on movies, though, which has complications all of it's own.
My day job situation is becoming more miserable I must say, and a change is gonna come. At some point. While driving home yesterday, I flashed on Hadano-shi, the birthplace of Psychick. I'm sure I'm no where near as desperate to see that little hamlet as she is. Still, I've got an aching to get back there. I don't know when, though.
Maybe I can whip out some photos as a tribute once I get back to home base. |
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| Give yourself a late pass |
[May. 13th, 2005|04:00 pm] |
I've been thinking of going blog, like with myspot or blogger, etc. I can't even keep LJ updated infrequently, what will I do with a blog?
Poll #493379 blog or not to blog
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7Should I blog? |
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[May. 13th, 2005|03:53 pm] |
So this CRASH joint. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chocinmidori remarked about some similarities to Paul Thomas Anderson. Yes, I thought about that, too, towards the end. The tone and cinematography does bring to mind with the frogs. That’s about it for me. The more I think about this film the less I think of it. The characters were all stock from the Hollywood liberal’s BOOK OF RACE. Example: Terrence Howard had to play two types; the black man who has forgotten where he came from AND the middle aged executive frustrated by his work who freaks when he can no longer stand the pressure. Howard, to his credit, handled it well enough, he barely avoided the standard way black actors play this part, raising the pitch of his voice and talking nasal. Ludacris’ militant was played for a fool, as militants are often played in mainstream film, and his anger is not really grounded in anything tangible in the script. Contrast Dillon’s racist, who is filled with hate because of bitterness over the way his father has seen his fortunes fall at the hands of Affirmative Action.
It is all really predictable from start to finish, Haggis telegraphs his punches like a palooka. Cheadle is also predictable as the best thing (and sometimes most surprising thing) in the film. It was nice to see Bullock play against type, too, even though her character was wasted. One minute she’s a maniacal racist, falls down and then has an epiphany. The way her transformation is shown, her maid becomes her best friend ONLY when she realizes she has no others, not out of some genuine caring. Perhaps that’s what Haggis wanted us to think, but I doubt it.
Someone else wasted in a recent film is Sean Penn in The Interpreter. WTF, etc. I know, the politics of the film, he couldn’t resist. Working with Syndey Pollack, couldn’t resist. Big paycheck, couldn’t resist. He tried, though, really tried to work his strengths into a standard thriller character. It just didn’t work for me.
Both films were examples of Hollywood mainstream wanting to tackle BIG ISSUES and seem IMPORTANT. CRASH does the better job, Haggis takes everything head on even if the insights presented aren’t particularly challenging to accepted notions – how about for once saying that the well meaning white liberal (Ryan Phillipe) ISN’T conflicted and misguided, but spot on, or that the racist isn’t really a good guy at heart, just plain ignorant? The Interpreter was all about Kidman’s conflicted sense of right and wrong, however the genocide issue was much bigger than that. This was a case of back story being far more interesting than the presented story – let us see Kidman running around a fictional African nation with an AK-47 throwing bombs at oppressors and being the gun moll to the leader of a revolution!
Back to Mr Howard. HUSTLE AND FLOW was a Sundance hit and prompted a bidding war won by MTV Films. Howard stars as a small time Memphis pimp who Just Wants Out of the Ghetto. He’s very good in this stock role, though his accent is more North Nashville than “Memfeh.” Towards the end, the film just falls apart. The writer/director (his second film) just didn’t know what to do. He knew the kind of ending he wanted and made his characters do rather unbelievable things to get him there. I’m surprised Hollywood hadn’t made a Dirrrty South movie before; it took an indie to do it. |
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| Biggest hit of the summer? Already? |
[May. 5th, 2005|03:44 pm] |
Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith. It's the biggest hit of the summer. That's what they say. Well, I saw it today, and yeah, it probably will be. There are no surprises in this movie. Lucas proves he still retains a well fashioned tin ear for dialogue. Hayden Christiansen is a horrible actor though he looks a bit like Christopher McDonald and talks like Walken with a cold. Hayden continues to be horrible in Sith. I mean this guy is just BAD. REALLY bad. It doesn't help that Anakin, as written by Lucas, has got to be THE MOST GUILLABLE JEDI EVER. He's basically Leon in The Professional, except that we like Leon, and even though he's illiterate, he isn't an idiot.
Lucas may be the only director who can make Sam Jackson give a boring performance. He doesn't even talk loud! Not once! (that's a Chapelle show joke)
It isn't a complete disaster. McGregor is great as Alec Guiness. Lucas' strength, imaginative visuals, ILM's magic, Baker's creatures are all on point. Once we get into the meat of the conspiracy the film becomes more engrossing, and the tragic (though poorly written) downward spiral of Anakin really starts to get to you. It's this portion of the film that will offer something to people not fans of Star Wars or not in it to view the spectacle.
Two big problems with the film outside of Hayden: 1) All along in this part of the trilogy, Lucas tries to wrestle with the good v evil dichotomy he presented in the original films. Modern film audiences were going to find it rather corny, and in this political climate, the idea of a monarchy distasteful. I appreciated that he tried to address that by offering some nods to democratic ideals and discussing the moral relativity of "evil." However, the ambiguities are only offered as manipulations by the Sith Lord, and we the audience are to conclude that ambiguities are bullshit and there is only good and evil. Bollocks. 2) TOO MUCH FAN SERVICE. Revenge of the Sith works best as a reward to the people who have been with Star Wars since '77, who have watched Clone Wars, who had the Star Wars curtains and bed covering set (two out of three for me), etc. Fine, he had to do it. However, after the film's climax, the resolution goes on and on AND ON setting up what will be Episode 4. We, the old schoolers don't really need it (though the Harry Knowles crowd will be masturbating to it), and it will only bore those who were not there for the opening scroll.
Still, when the opening fanfare hits and the scroll begins, one may feel that rush of excitement felt way back in '77. Is it better than Eps 1 and 2? Definitely. Is the magic back? Well . . . I just wonder now was it ever really there. |
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