This blog is dead
I will no longer be posting to this blog.
Instead, I have launched a blog con sesos. Here lies the shit.
Blaxploitation’s B(l)ack + White!
So I rented SHOOTER the other night thinking it’d kind of suck but interested since it’s got Mark Wahlberg in it — who’s so far proven he’s the De Niro of his generation (no f*’in joke — if you want proof just watch THREE KINGS, BOOGIE NIGHTS, and I HEART HUCKABEES) — and Antoine (TRAINING DAY) Fuqua at the helm. The movie’s watchable enough with your standard doses of gunplay + explosions + paranoid military mumbo jumbo. But what really hit me about SHOOTER was how Anti-The Man it was.
The Man in this instance was pork-bellied Ned Beatty playing a corrupt senator, and Danny Glover — who I know is black but still represented “The Man”. It was the return of the MACK, SHAFT, et al., only now the racial stuff was flipped — as it was in TRAINING DAY — where the baddies are black men and the goodies are white boys gleaming with idealism and teen idol haircuts.
Anyway, don’t know if it’ll convince you to watch the movie, but it’s good to know that there are directors out there pissed off enough about shit that they make big-budget movies about how the government sucks, and that it’s hard to keep a brother down. Even if said “brother” once Al Jolson-ed his way into the pop charts by imploring us to “feel the vibration.”
Musical meandering on YouTube
“Heartbeats”, The Knife
“The Knife”, Grizzly Bear (a cappella)
“The Knife”, Clipse/Grizzly Bear (Girl Talk remix)
Why the recidivism rate in the Phillipines is so low
Because prisoners there are all taught how to sing + dance! This video is probably the most surreal and brilliant thing I’ve seen all week on YouTube.
The alt version of Kanye track
Kanye ups his indie cred by releasing this video for “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” starring Will Oldham and Zach Galifianakis.
Are we not douchebags if we laff at ourselves?
The answer is no. We are douchebags. Check out these comic strips for they are sad + true.
More than meets the eye
The coolness of the costumes I think is inversely proportional to how often these guys get laid. That sentence itself proves what a dork I am.
Marclay wants unwanted sounds
And Apple wanted his short, _Telephones_, for their iPhone spot. So they took it.
Thank you, come again!
To promote the new Simpsons movie, marketers have re-skinned select 7-11s throughout the country into Kwik-E-Marts. The one in Seattle is on Denny near Aurora.
What’s crazy is the employees need to wear badges that say “Apu.” In the Seattle mart, the African-American employee wore the badge, and the Indian employee didn’t. Funny that.
Justice meets Threadless
The new video for Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” capitalizes on the crazy designer T’s trend. Features some sick typography and After Effects work.
Release of con sesos vol. 2 mixtape
I decided to compile my second online mixtape using imeem and I was well-surprised by how many full-length tracks were available on the site. Anyway, you can listen to the mixtape here — a little bit of the old stuff (Billy Idol! The Church!) and some newer stuff the kids are listening to (Klaxons, Rapture, PBJ).
mii and you and everyone wii know
… will be turned into mii’s eventually. or that’s the objective behind ‘wii are the world’. so get with it. go here and make a mii, take a screenshot and submit it to this flickr group. or email it to me.
pizzatime’s doing it down in LA.
As is K Chan…
keempoo the OG is reppin’ Amsterdam.
Wii are the World
We begin this project by wiifying the fine folks at Publicis Seattle.
Someone made a mii configurator in Flash here. Don’t like it as much as the proper wii version, but it’ll do for when I make mii’s away from home.
Reminds you of something you’ve never seen before
From Newstoday, a preview of a documentary on Syd Mead, visual futurist, who worked on _Aliens_, _TRON_ and _Blade Runner_.
