Party because you know, that’s what I call these things. Bullshit because I’ve been slacking on actual content lately.
-“Little Brothers Talks Sex Jams” by Grayson Currin for The Raleigh Independent
Little Brother opened for Boyz II Men at NC State on Friday and this article from Raleigh’s Alternative Weekly ‘The Independent’ thought of a really fun way to promote the show: Have Phonte from LB talk about a bunch of sexy, slow jams! Complete with video of his reactions and all. The best part is how Phonte’s real about which one of these he liked, still likes, and still listens to.
-“Producer Series Mix #10: The TrackBoyz” by Al Shipley from Narrowcast
“In this space, I tend to spotlight hip hop producers from the past 10 years that could be considered both overrated and underrated: guys that maybe had a couple hits, but are far from household names, or even considered cool in an underground way. The St. Louis duo the TrackBoyz really epitomize that kind of uncomfortable middle ground, and I’d really planned to do one of my first posts in this series about them, back a couple years ago when I first started it, when they still had a little bit of buzz. Now that I’m finally getting around to it, though, it’s been years since their last major label placement and it feels like the TrackBoyz’ moment of relevance is ancient history already, which, in a way, is a more interesting vantage point from which to go back and look at what I liked so much about their beats to begin with.”
-Soulja Boy’s “Rich Nigga Shit” YouTube Series
Okay…so these videos are actually hilarious but they’re more hilarious because one can imagine ten years from now when a crack-eyed, skinny ass, dirt-poor Soulja Boy is interviewed and clips from this video are intercut. Dude’s gonna be broke by like Wednesday if he buys another Segway or Ric Flair-esque robe with his dumbassed name on the back. I usually don’t concern myself with ignorance in rap but this…
-Wax Poetics Issue 30: The Rock Issue Is Out Right Now!!!”
If I had more money–or really, didn’t spend too much of my money on comics, records, and Arby’s sandwiches–I’d buy ‘Wax Poetics’ every month, but this month’s is too good not to pick up. Based around rock music, it’s got a great profile of Bad Brains, an article on Elvis, a really fascinating discussion of Prince & The Rebels, something about Ernie Isley and lots more.
-“My Year Of Flops, #116 Case Files And A Mule Edition: Bamboozled” by Nathan Rabin from The Onion AV Club
It’s great to read a positive review/reconsideration of what’s really, the best Spike Lee movie. However, I disagree with Rabin’s thesis a great deal. It didn’t take the past couple seasons of ‘Flavor of Love’ for the movie to have its impact. What makes ‘Bamboozled’ work is that it begins with a covering-its-ass definition of satire and invokes like, the Neoclassic Satire of Swift and stuff, so when everything’s just insanely over-the-top and outrageous, it has context and intellectual tradition. See, the reality is every Spike Lee movie is as melodramatic and goofy as ‘Bamboozled’–pretty much every Lee movie since ‘Do the Right Thing’ has at least five too-many sub plots–but here, it works because the movie’s entire context is of this out-there, angry, spitting it all back-up attack on media. It’s also full of really good or interesting performances, especially from Damon Wayans, Mos Def, and Paul Mooney and I absolutely love the muddied, worse-than-shitty digital cinematography.
-“I Overheard This Last Night In Wawa” by Zilla Rocca from Clap Cowards
Just click on the link. Actual LOL there…
-aquarius records new arrivals list #299
Aquarius Records does these crazy-huge updates of new music on their website every other week and there’s always a few things I never heard of, some stuff I didn’t know was coming-out or being re-released, or just really interesting, out-there music. The staff–who seem to be wonderfully discerning but incredibly open-minded too–compiles the lists and then writes about a pretty significant amount of the releases. Fifteen years ago, this would’ve qualified as like, a classic ‘zine.
-“Superman’s Hidden History: The “Other” First Artist” from Newsarama.com
“It’s relatively common knowledge that in 1934 Jerry Siegel approached other artists besides Joe Shuster to be his collaborator on Superman. One of these artists was Russell Keaton, who had been ghosting the Buck Rogers Sunday pages. Siegel and Keaton maintained a brief correspondence over the character, with Keaton eventually deciding “not to gamble on such a young and inexperienced writer.” Instead, a few years later Keaton launched his own newspaper strip, Flyin’ Jenny.”
Album For The Week: Music From ‘Marble Madness’ for NES
I’ve been playing the shit out of this game the past few days and it’s just as frustrating as it was when I was fucking five years old, but the music’s really incredible. Just listen:
Movie For The Week: “Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures” directed by Hasko Baumann (2007)
A pretty cool documentary about the totally legendary French comics artist.
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