Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Gimme de Morning Ride
King Yellow
More bullets...
- Darko may soon be free. The Pistons are shopping the big kid, and my first thought (like yours I'm sure, dear reader) was ATL baby! Surrusly tho, the Hawks are young, rebuilding, exciting, and they need a big man. How much fun would it be to tune and see how Darko was doing?
- Lang at Slam had the same thought.
- NYC people, the legendary Yellowman is playing tonight at SOB's. Unless you lost your love 'pon de queen's highway, there's really no excuse not to be there.
- I drove my pop's old car up from the Dirty South and now have wheels. Spent the wknd in Rhode Island (the Ocean State, shit is real) at the beach, gave the old girl a rest yesterday, and today took the dog down to Prospect Park and then did some major grocery shopping. I'm all about mass transit and Mother Earth and all that, but shit is convenient. Hey, at least I get that good milage.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Back...
My return to blogging shall be a tentative, bulleted, one.
- Dave at Sleepnotwork has been a really shitty blogger ever since he went to grad-school in Nebraska or whatever, but he's been FUCKING KILLING IT RAT-A-TAT BOOM MOTHERFUCKER ever since he got to Tokyo. Hear what the man is saying.
- The Reign Man is getting in shape and says he will return. I hope so, dude was one of the all-time nastiest, and it always pisses me off the way the sports-media treats dudes with drug-problems like their own fat typewriter asses aren't drinking 12-packs and popping Viagra nightly so they can screw their fat Adderol and Valium-ed out wives. (The part about him talking real fast and animated-like did make me a little nervous though).
- This video which I think is by Chris Cunningham is really, really, scary.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Questions
This album could have been a classic.
Anybody out there remember ATL
Their album (above, the only picture I could find) was a little meh, mostly because the dipshit producers mixed Enrique's drums into nothing. Rumors say they actually got some studio-hack to over-dub the beats. Guess they couldn't handle the fire.
Then Chrysalis went belly-up, and FFN were done. David Harris is still around, touring with John Mayer (no comment). What happened to everybody else? I used to see Billy up at the Patty Hut, and I think one of the dudes worked at Fellini's for awhile. I'm calling it; reunion time.
Query 'Scrips:
- Terrapin in trouble? Gary Williams pulls a Larry Eustachy.
- Gerald Green making the Celtics look smart. When's the last time you saw something like this in the Garden?
- Icelandic people believe in Elves. So do these losers. I kinda believe the Icelandic folks. Remember the Sugarcubes?
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Rim Wrecker
Tat on the rise.
So the 'Horns have secured a verbal commitment from this kid with the coolest name ever, Solomon Tat. Kid is built like a brick shithouse and has never lifted a weight in his life. How's that? He grew up building brick shithouses for his old man's brick company in Nigeria.
Watch him wreck these rims and listen to the camera-man holler. Woah-o-ahh-aaaahhhhh-aahh!
With the new CBA, we don't have to worry about this kid going straight to the League like CJ Miles just did, but the Times says there might be a whole new set of non-college options available to him and OJ Mayo (2nd coolest name ever) and the rest of their highly-ranked kind.
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Never Mind
The sun is shining. Weather is Sweet. Go outside NYC.
Rainy Wknd 'Scrips
Could be worse, huh NYC? Real-time Dennis imagery.
-FLA peeps watch out. Cuba and Haiti already got there's.
-Speaking of Florida. Diplo at a school dance is priceless. The big aureolas and GI Joe "More You Know" dancehall remix are just bonuses.
-The only place where New York is still New York; abandoned parks in NYC.
-This dude is so gay, gay-dudes makes fun of him for being gay. Gay.
-Remember that sour-looking chick with all the sweaters? She's got a music-video.
-Subtle Lesbianism in Female Sports, a photo-essay.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Something Wicked This Way Comes
They came in the night. Trucks rumbling, breaks screaming, gates and plywood crashing. Carnies. Tribe after tribe of them. They've taken over my entire block.
Their death-trap rides and rip-off amusements slumber idly in the street.
They are cultish, erecting strange idols to their Saints.
They built a fucking clam-bar mere feet from my front steps.
Tonight it begins and will continue for two weeks.
Two weeks.
At some point great burly goombahs will sweat and grunt and carry this crazy tower up and down the street.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Oh my God ... a Rubber!
If, like me, you kinda slept-on this whole R Kelly "Trapped in the Closet" saga, don't stress. You can now watch the entire R&Bidiculous 5-part drama-drenched mini-movie. (MTV video ish doesn't work in Firefox, so dust off that IE.) Epic.
Woodgrain I'm Grippin.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Here Comes the Hotstepper
Intelligent discourse going down. Not here. Elsewhere. Two interesting debates going on right now about political consciousness (for lack of a better term) in music.
1. Emil has some issues with Nick Catchdubs' Saul Williams"Real Niggery" mixtape and its use of "commercial/gangsta" beats, when Saul has often been vocally critical of all that gunsdrugsthugsbottlesofbub stuff. Nick (and others) respond* here and here Who knows, maybe Saul will drop by the Hollerboard too?
2. Meanwhile, over at Wayne and Wax, W&W and one of his students are delving into all kinds of issues surrounding Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley's "Welcome to Jamrock" and the fact that not only are Damian and his Reggae royal brothers (even more so than other "brown boys") living very comfortably as a part of the elite they're criticizing, but the ghetto they celebrate, in what might be considered a "noble savage" sort of way, often isn't feeling them and their kind at all. Got it?
There is no debate, by the way, that Jamrock is the hottest track** of the summer.
*Saul Williams as T.I.P. fan makes me happy.
**Since every review of "Jamrock" makes cryptic mention of the Ini Kamoze track it samples, I figured I'd be a dude and link it up for you. Enjoy.
There is no debate, by the way, that Jamrock is the hottest track** of the summer.
*Saul Williams as T.I.P. fan makes me happy.
**Since every review of "Jamrock" makes cryptic mention of the Ini Kamoze track it samples, I figured I'd be a dude and link it up for you. Enjoy.
Monday, July 04, 2005
America
Friday, July 01, 2005
Dark Days
The Nine will soon ride again...
-O'Conner out, Rehnquist can't be far behind. With two new fascists on the court, things could get really nasty 'round hurr.
-Was there a Dipset imposter at S.O.B.'s? This reminds me of the time my homie in Scotland figured out that "DJ Assault" was playing two different spots at the same time.
-Still no answers for CJ Miles or Louis Williams, but it's starting to look like their desire to play in the League NOW, before they're ready, is gonna absolutely screw their futures. The D-League is a black hole. Go to school, dudes! College is fun. You won't have to study. You will get mad pussy. Don't screw this up!
