i went to the Roots concert last Wednesday! video of them with Bun B!!!

So I saw The Legendary Roots Crew last week for the third time, and it was the shiznazzle. What set this shit off was that they brought out Bun B and he did his verse from "Int'l Players Anthem."
RIP Pimp C. Here's my video:



Professor Grif from Public Enemy was there also. I know, random, but apparently he brought his son for his birthday. Whatever the fuck he was doing in Houston is still a mystery.

So yea, Roots Crew fam.

Rolling Stone gives "The Dark Knight" an EXTREMELY positively glowing review!!!

So the first reviews of The Dark Knight are coming in, and I'm happy to say my nut has been busted.

Over at Rolling Stone, the usually harsh critic Peter Tarvish gave it a strong 3.5/4 stars (4's are reserved for Oscar fodder, although he does support a posthumous nod for Ledger). Don't read it if you want to avoid spoilers, however, here's the first paragraph:

Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan's absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a comic-book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle? Check. Devilish fun? Check. But Nolan is just warming up. There's something raw and elemental at work in this artfully imagined universe. Striking out from his Batman origin story, Nolan cuts through to a deeper dimension. Huh? Wha? How can a conflicted guy in a bat suit and a villain with a cracked, painted-on clown smile speak to the essentials of the human condition? Just hang on for a shock to the system. The Dark Knight creates a place where good and evil — expected to do battle — decide instead to get it on and dance. "I don't want to kill you," Heath Ledger's psycho Joker tells Christian Bale's stalwart Batman. "You complete me." Don't buy the tease. He means it.

Wowzies. And over at Ain't It Cool, some random lucky bastard go to see it, and again it does give some things away, but all you gotsta know is that it kicks fucking ass. Shwaeet.

wtf is wrong with Kanye West

Ok, Ye, wtf. I've been this dude's biggest fan and supporter forever, I remember seeing him being interviewed on MTV2's rap battle thing, rockin the Bill Gates Godfather tee, going to Best Buy in the rain with my mom to buy College Dropout the day it came out, and he inspired me to start making beats. And I've stuck with him through thick and thin, even looked past the Wayne dick-riding, and hyphy remix guest spots, but dude has lost his mind.

He recently posted on his blog defending Soulja Boy, AKA the dude who killed hip hop, and, amognst other things, calls him "real hip hop" and compares him to Nas. Now, after remembering how Ye used to furously rant about how complex his own shit was, and how "Jesus Walks" had hundreds of tracks of strings or whatever, to see him praise this lame bullshit has led me to two conclusions: either he is pulling the biggest prank ever, or rolling way too much X. MDMA.

Dude, come the fuck on. You go off the deep end, I ain't followin. Peace.

Shaggy vs. Sean Paul, pt. 1

Ok, let's settle this once and for all...



vs.

there's an old joke, uh...

Quote of the day.

"When I watch football, I'm not looking for belly laughs. I'm looking for the guys who used to call me fag in high school to get crippled."

- Michael Ian Black

the "softening of Michelle Obama"

Seriously, what's with all this talk of "softening" Michelle Obama's image? She's not Ernest Fucking Hemmingway.

Reality check: she's an intelligent, successful, and accomplished black woman, and a lot of people fear, and probably even loathe, that fact. But the truth is that women like that have become an archetype, and that particular caricature has been demonized time and again on reality shows. It's trash. So she went to an Ivy League school, became a lawyer, and is probably going to be the first lady. Oh yeah, and as George Carlin would put it, she "happens to be black." If all that's a reason to hate her, then guess what? She doesn't seem to be the one with the problem after all.

Maybe she is hard. That means she's tough, and in order to get the shit done like she has, you gotta be tough. So fuck 'em.

BREAKING NEWS: George Carlin dead at 71

It's like 1 in the morning, and apparently, according to the LA Times, legendary comedian George Carlin has died at the age of 71.

Dude was a counter-culture icon, pioneer, and his material broke ground for every generation of comedians after him.

I actually just saw his last stand up special recently, and although hilarious, there was something strange about seeing him, at his age and state, talk the way he did. It was very dark stuff. But knowing him, he'll probably be buried giving the bird.

He said "fuck you" til the end; too bad the world is now 1 badass less.

there's hope for the human race after all - "Get Smart" #1, "Love Guru" #4

Variety article here.

I guess people aren't as stupid as I thought.

Get Smart is projected to earn the top spot with an estimated $39 million, while the awfully juvenile and dismally reviewed Love Guru is set to finish 4th with only $14 mil.

In addition to this bomb, Entertainment Weekly wrote an article about Mike Myers that made him out to be this huge a-hole, but at the same time talked about how he's reached some sort of spiritual awakening. And yet he makes shit like this.

how racist is this? Republican, that's how.

This pin will be sold at the Republican State Convention in Texas. Here's the article.

Disgusting.

dinosaurs are coming back to life!!! a real "Jurassic Park"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1026340/Jurassic-Park-comes-true-scientists-brink-bringing-dinosaurs-life-thanks-discovery-DNA-relics-humble-chicken.html

So yeah, according to the article, research is developing that will soon allow scientists to bring dinosaurs back to life. What they are doing is turning dormant genes in birds on/off, like making them grow teeth, tales, and scales again. Sweet.

Gotham City News Episode 1

This is a "news" episode from Comcast on Demand, of course as a part of the new Batman film The Dark Knight. Holy shirts and pants.

here's the website

new Batman clip!!! holy shit!!!

http://whysoserious.com/myhero/

just click the fucking link alread!!!!

new details about "The Office" spinoff emerge

A new Variety article has revealed our first details of The Office spinoff.

First, they've made their first hire, Aziz Ansari, from MTV's sketch comedy show Human Giant. Dude is hilarious, and I can picture him fitting in perfectly in The Office's style of comedy. He's also guest starred in an episode of Flight of the Conchords. Cool beans.

Also, it appears that it won't be a spinoff in the traditional sense. It's unlikely that any of the characters on the current show will be on the spinoff. It might be a "planted spinoff," where the new characters on introduced on The Office in maybe an episode. It also might not be a spinoff at all, just a show in the "similar vein" of the current show.

They've also hired writers from Conan, South Park, and Everybody Loves Raymond.

The new show premiers in winter, and will air right after The Office.

Sweet.

and the verdict is...NOT GUILTY!!!

On all counts.

CARLTON!!!

I wasn't born a dancer either.

the hippest picture ever

I wanna vomit. And if you don't know who these two are, you suck and still probably listen to Blink-182 and Eminem, huh?

badass of the day - Subcomandante Marcos

Leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), who are based in the Chiapas. Here's a BBC profile on him:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1214676.stm

somebody threw some shit at kanye at one of his concerts lol.

And hilarity ensued. I'm a fan and all, but nothing in this world is funnier than picking on a crybaby. Stay strong Ye.

weird Japanese artwork.

go here to see the rest. kewl.

I won't be watching the game tonite.

This series means everything to me.

I know this might sound strange, but whenever I watch my teams play, all the bad things in my life, everything that's going wrong, is embodied in the other team. So when I root for my team, I'm not just rooting for them, but for me and for my life to get better. I get very personally wrapped up in this stuff. Sue me.

So whenever my team's down, and I see someone like Kobe on the TV, it's kind of life seeing Superman getting his ass beat. And if he can't stop Doomsday, then who can?

And now a revelation comes out today (ESPN) that 2 refs allegedly conspired to fix playoff series. No shock. Helpless is how you feel. This series has been officiated awfully. God awfully. In all honesty I am extremely turned off by the NBA, but it's not like I've got a lot of other choices. At the end of the day, the Black Sox are rolling in their graves.

In an attempt to save my TV and not break more shit, I won't watch tonight, or probably game 4 either.

don't be a pussy. vote Kimbo.

Douch Bag Du Jour, pt. 1

I once had a girl ask "What's a douchebag?" I was flabbergasted (for a few reasons, actually). Much like a nerd circa 1979 being asked "What's a Wookie?" I was blown about 10 ails back. Vivid flashes of late night clubbing and repeats of Growing Up Gotti danced in my head, there was oh so much that needed to be said. How could one sum up the essence of a "douchebag" using only the limited amount of language (very limited if you represent that public school system) and verbal communication skills available to us mere mortals on this wee planet?

One thing was clear: douchebag isn't an abstract term. There are definitely certain tell tell signs and signifiers that would mark one as a douchebag. If you're jamming your Nickelback/Creed mix in your Hummer on the way the Carlos Mencia show, and are thinking about going back home real quick because you don't think the Affliction t-shirt you have on right now is as cool as the Ed Hardy one you left at home, right next to your undersized Cornhuskers baseball hat, but decide not too because it fuck it it matches your Deisels, guess what?

However, merely possessing a handful of these attributes still would not definitively and wholly make one a douche. In order to truly place oneself among the ranks of Cash Warren and Dane Cook, one must have that "essence rare," that unexplainable and undeniably wretched spirit of the douche.

Therefore, much like Steve Erwin or Jane Goodall, I will commit my life's work (or a few posts on my blog) weathering the elements to figure out exactly what is a douchebag, why are they so awful, and how they can be eradicated.

To know the cure one must know the virus. Until then, keep hope alive.

N*E*R*D Seeing Sounds is out today!!!

Go buy that shit!!! I will. I listened to all the songs on YouTube and shit is next level. In Search Of... is definitely one of my top 2 albums ever, and every song is classic. I remember back when it first came out, riding around with my friend listening to that CD on repeat for months, it never left the CD player. So hopefully this one has got the same mojo.

shaving does NOT cause your hair to grow back fuller and thicker.

I told you motherfuckers.

Click this link to be proven wrong.

I've been saying that the whole thing about shaving causes hair to grow back thicker faster is duck tales, but noone wanted to hear me.

I remember seeing this on an old MTV show about urban legends, and then an episode of Seinfeld.

Thank you, Snopes.

The Roots will be in Houston next Wednesday.

This'll be the third time I've seen them, and they're the shit. I know some people who have seen them 70+ times, so you should at least see them once. Tickets are available here. Not expensive at all.

Quote of the day.

"Men lie, women lie, numbers don't."

- Jay-Z

Puffy changed his name back to, uh Puffy!!!

And thank God, cuz I've just been calling him Puffy since forever. Fuck Diddy, it's all about Puff!!!

PS bring back the shiny suits!!!

"The Column" pt. 1 - Limitations

Limitations.

It's one of those funny things that's sort of hard to recognize until it's too late, and someone is completely, wholly, and unabashedly ignoring it. Like Michael Jordan playing baseball or Scarlett Johansen singing (or acting, for that matter), some people shoot for the stars, say fuck the clouds, and decide to settle on a whole 'nother planet.

Now, the other night I was at a "party," and seeing as how it was a real beehive of activity, Bateman, I had plenty of time to observe, think, and, after a 6 of Modelo, came up with the following theory.

If a guy is, say, a 4 or a 5, then when he goes out on the prowl, he's more than likely only to go after 4 or 5's, and maybe, MAYBE, a 6. But at the end of the day, he'll recognize his limitations. Michael Olowokandi knows he ain't Olojowan. The day he bags a 7/8, however, or even 9/10, by either the grace of God, or just some good 'ol stepping his fucking game up, he has then, as somebody I know once eloquently put it, gone to the "next level." And everyone knows that once you're there, then there's no turning back.

At the end of the day, if a guy's a 4 and gets rejected by an 8, then fuck it, he knows she was out of his league and he was playing with house money anyway. Just remember next time to be like Abreau and don't swing at every fucking pitch. Next.

Women, however, are a completely different story. There's plenty of 3's, 4's, and 5's out there who know good and goddamn well that the only "dimes" they're fucking with are their change from Burger King. But like Tiger on the 18th, they are completely unfazed, and in their mind's they're the shit, despite looking like something that crawled off the set of Maury and possessing an attitude that would humble mostly anyone form My Super Sweet 16.

There's plenty of these minor leaguers that are barking up the wrong tree, bear clawed and all. Many of these B-leaguers who are, say 4's, are offended at the mere thought of even being approached by a guy who's anything less than a 9. Don't even bother to try and convince anyone from the JV team that they're not cut out to play in the big leagues, they just don't give a fuck. Scrub.

In conclusion, I really hope noone's offended by this. What I'm really trying to say is, don't let your ego keep you from being happy. The male race has had it's spirits beaten enough to know who can get what. And if you don't, then your an idiot. So ladies, ladies, ladies, be the shit. Just don't be shitty. There's a difference between settling down and just plain settling.

sorry i've been lazy

I know I've been off my game lately, but it's just been sort of a "transition period." I promise, though, to start writing way more frequently, and up the quality.

I also plan to start writing on a more nightly basis, sort of a column/editorial type thing. I'll try it out and see how it goes.

Just say NO!!!

RIP Bo Diddley

Elephant paints pictures of other elephants.

Step your game up, Aron. Lazy ass.