Apr
15
I imagine most of the people reading this have read Ian Cohen’s rarely updated Sexy Results blog at one time or another. And if you’re like me, you probably miss those halcyon days when Ian wasn’t taking over Hollywood and instead was focused on the infinitely less lucrative, but infinitely more valuable task of providing… Continue reading »
Today is my last day at Sea Level. Sylvia and Todd finally fired me for a series of illicit acts including thievery, illegal sale of narcotics and pummeling of yuppies. They used the word “pumelling” not me. I thought of it as more of a minor fracas, or perhaps a small brouhaha.Anyhow, I’m lying of… Continue reading »
What the fuck is the Internet? The ramifications of the Internet and illegal downloading have yet to fully shake themselves out, but not even a full decade after the rise of Napster, it’s safe to say that technology has simultaneously created a flat but two-tiered playing field in the world of hip-hop. The major labels… Continue reading »
Because Fyodor was way down with that Subterranean Boom-Bap The other day, idling in the parking lot known as rush hour Los Angeles, I was struck suddenly with the realization that for the first time in years, I actually liked hip-hop again. Sure, I’ve enjoyed hip-hop songs and albums over the past half dozen years,… Continue reading »
It’s baseball season so its high time that talk turned to souvenirs. After all, as the title of this post declares everyone likes souvenirs. Do you remember being 8-years old going to a game for the first time and wanting a souvenir? I certainly do. And if you hate Souvenir, you’re basically saying that you… Continue reading »
What are the odds of this being Halfway Decent? 13 to One. After seeing a preview of upcoming crime caper, Oceans 13 before the 7:30 showing of Blades of Glory, Tampa, Fla. resident Beth Flournoy remains convinced that Oceans 13 will easily be the finest film of the Oceans trilogy. A conclusion that in recent… Continue reading »
Jerry Garcia is halfway through his second set on a cold midnight in December, San Francisco, 1977. Or at least a very high-quality simulacrum (no Sr. Spielbergo) is singing “Scarlet Begonias” to a swarming El Rey crowd in Los Angeles, thirty years later. I’m in the middle, surrounded on both sides by withered drunken ex-hippies… Continue reading »
Oh and just when you thought I’d run out of random cultural artifacts with the word “time” in it, I’m bringing in the big guns. Morris Day and the fucking Time. Only the greatest band in the world. Which reminds me that I may need to watch Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back tonight, for… Continue reading »
Jason Molina is the most underrated singer/songwriter in music. Sure, he’s somewhat of a critical favorite, but nowhere near the level of Iron & Wine, Bright Eyes, or Sufjan Stevens. He’s never been called the new Elliot Smith, or the new Bob Dylan or the new “magical angel fairy wings pixie dust snowglobe” (or whatever… Continue reading »
Apr
04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRSgjDEQy0 Off the strength of his powerhouse performance at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner, MC Rove has been signed to a multi-album deal at “gangsta rap’s” most renowned label, Interscope. With hip-hop sales flagging of late, Jimmy Iovine and Co. claim that MC Rove is exactly the sort of new talent that the… Continue reading »
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