2007 November » Passion of the Weiss

Nov
23

What’s that you say? ODB? He’s been been dead for five years? A minor technicality. Rest assured, I will be at ODB’s birthday/tribute tonight. Apparently, RZA, Gza and roughly half the Wu will be in attendance. Also, there will be a birthday cake. I like birthday cake. Only fascists, pinkos and low-level insurance salesmen do… Continue reading »

Nov
21

The Beat Generation: Been Caught Stealing

Zilla Rocca was caught stealing once when he was five. He enjoys stealing. It’s as simple as that. Before I was an international bloggin’ sensation, I put in three years working for the worst corporate retailer not named Wal-Mart. You know this, I talked about this earlier in my post on the top 5 most… Continue reading »

Nov
20

Your Favorite Rapper Has the Softest Hands in the Industry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfY0tWZpjlo I know I know. The Passion of the Weiss is fast turning into Def Jam’s How Can We Promote the Big Dough Rehab So That It Doesn’t Brick With 40,000 copies sold in its first week (a feeble strategy if there ever was). Sorry. Truth is I couldn’t resist posting this, especially considering I… Continue reading »

Nov
19

Great Scott: In My Own Words

Scott Towler is striking because even Jesus got residuals from the Bible. Nobody outside of entertainment really cares about the writer’s strike in Hollywood. But they should. What happens here in Tinseltown directly affects the social fabric of our society today. Oh sure, you can try and deny it, but it’s 100% true. Much of… Continue reading »

Nov
18

Free At Last: Mediocre At Best

I only received a few hundred words in the Times to review Free at Last, mainly because I couldn’t tell my editor in good faith that the record deserved more. I get why people have been buzzing on it. The first two leaked singles (“It’s Over”) and the Jay-Z collabo were nice. And sure, the… Continue reading »

Nov
16

Beards, Blazers & Glasses: Sunset Rubdown

I wrote this for the LA Weekly last month. Unfortunately, it didn’t run due to space constraints. I know it isn’t timely and I know most of you don’t like Sunset Rubdown. Deal with it. It’s barely halfway through Sunset Rubdown’s hour-long set and Spencer Krug is already drenched, sweat flinging from his finger-tips as… Continue reading »

Nov
15

White Williams-Smoke

I immediately dismissed White Williams after noticing he was tabbed as the opening act on the Girl Talk/Dan Deacon Hipster Headache 07! tour (sponsored by Dewars.) Then I saw his album art, begging to be filed into the “why can’t irony finally die?” category. But upon closer examination, wading into this American Apparel infested territory… Continue reading »

Nov
14

Apparently, We’re Voting For Obama, Oprah and Eric B.

Forget the fact that “The Barrell Bros.” sounds like the title of an 8-bit NES game or maybe a Providence-based gross-out comedy made by the Farrelly’s, because the latest single leaked from The Big Dough Rehab is great. Why they released the underwhelming “Celebrate” first is beyond me. “The Barrell Bros” is just a snarling… Continue reading »

Nov
14

East Coast Swing: Like New Jack Swing But With 25 Percent Less Crack

I’m sure I could ramble on for a few thousand words about my trip to New York but something seems inherently retarded in that. Of course, there’s something inherently retarded about blogging, so you’ll just going to have to settle for a few half-baked observations about my trip through the Eastern Seaboard. Like that all-knowing… Continue reading »

Nov
13

Strangely Enough, The Number of Indian Chlamydia Cases Has Skyrocketed

The AP has already retracted this, so I imagine it was all a hoax. But whatever genius planted this definitely deserves some sort of medal. Though I will say that I always suspected that if Hilton was going to dedicate her life to helping elephants, I’d have guessed that it would have something to do… Continue reading »