Stop it.
You're all falling for it.
The lazy cop out ending to the Sopranos last night was designed to do exactly what it has done, open the floodgates of controversy and generate discussion in a way that a legitimately creative ending to the series never could have done.
David Chase tricked you. Accept it and move on.
I can appreciate the efforts of those too smart for their own good all over the internets that are currently trying to justify the ending as something more than it was. Lazy. Most people who enjoyed the ending are up in arms screaming "Well you just wanted a typical Scarface Mob Movie ending with blood and violence! Thats not the sopranos! AHEHAHEH~!!!!!" No. Thats not really anyone's gripe here.
Most are trying to justify no ending by claiming it to be a stellar left field act of artistry. Let me see if I can apply it to
Monday, June 11, 2007
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Monique Is Fat Vol. 1
Recently I made a mix CD for myself which probably very odd to those not familiar with my musical tastes. Really...its all over the place. Due to boredom and a the theme of the day being utter disdain for my dayjob, you get to read all about it. I promise it'll be more entertaining than whatever you're doing at YOUR dayjob (unless you have a real cool job like lion tamer or Allen Iverson's weed carrier).
First, the title - Monique Is Fat Vol.1. When I finished burning the CD, I needed a title and looked up at the TV to find that my girlfriend was watching Flavor Of Love's charm school. It was humorous being that we just finished watching Celebrity Fit Club (I find vh1's reality TV programming to be incredibly fascinating for a host of reasons, thats a whole nother blog, yea i know nother isn't a word), which has really been struggling to locate an abundance actual FAT celebrities the last few seasons (actually, a more accurate description may be, actual fat celebrities that are washed up enough to need the paycheck and want the embarassment). The irony that Monique is hosting a show directly after the show thats supposed to help people lose weight is impossible to escape. After this rolled around my brain like a tuna can on a pirate ship floor (woa) for a minute, our compilation had a title.
Now in an act of extreme cliche'd Hip Hop bloggnyess, I will type out the tracklisting (basically random songs I thought I'd like to listen to in the car a lot for the next few months). I will comment on them where I deem necessary.
1.Louis Logic - Who The Fuck Are You?
2.RZA and Last Emporer - He Lives! (produced by Prince Paul) - this is a great song that was left off Lyricist Lounge vol. 2 I believe, which is a shame. I have to assume it was for sample reasons. Very very fresh stuff about RZA being a mad scientist who just pieced together and brought Last Emp alive to...well save hip hop or something.
3.Non Phixion - Refuse To Loose
4.Non Phixion - I Shot Reagen - not sure why this turned into a Non Phixion fest for a minute. These are both great tracks with Necro bodying the production on both songs. There's even a very tolerable verse from him on the latter track. A lot of people have been whining about Ill Bill's change in style lately, which is really just attributed to him screaming now. I've trying to convince people that his new style is just as good as the old, and really not all that different if you take away the screaming aspect, but listening to these, I think even I miss the old Bill.
5.Public Enemy - Air Hoodlum - This is a great slept on PE track about a basketball player who blows his knee out in college and turns to a life of crime due to his lack of a real education. Good stuff. Peep how many times the loop just completely changes to a completely unrelated sample to the last loop but still manages to flow seamlessly. Bomb Squad are top 5 production team ALL TIME. Buh'leedat.
6.Crustified Dibbs - Every Record Label Sucks Dick - Awesome song. Wish a better quality version than the rip I have existed.
7.Redman - R.E.D. - I'm not even 100% sure this is the title of this song. I think its off DJ Clue's "The Professional" volume 2. I didn't like that compilation too much besides this or I'd probably remember exactly what it was.
8.Drag-On and Twista - Twisted Heat - Why I love this song is beyond my own scope of reasoning. The one beef I have with it is when the beat speeds up for the last verses, Twista actually SLOWS DOWN his cadence to ride it. Which is acceptable, but when the whole point of the song seems to be "hey lets rap all fast" I would have liked to hear Twista double up the cadence to fit the switch rather than just slow it down to compensate. PS. Bitching about technical aspects of rapping is the killed hip hop is dead.
9.RZA, Cappadonna, Method Man - Wu Wear - Only RZA could make a doorbell sound fit into a musical piece seamlessly.
10.Boot Camp - Headz Are Ready - I'm not sure how this made it on my mix, I don't even really like this song much.
11.Brad Luck - verse over "ONE" by ghostface - This is insanely old and I'm probably the only one that would listen to this. Brad himself wouldn't even like this. Its funny to hear him spit battle lyrics fused with shouts out to his homies in the pokey. Not sure why, but it is.
12.Cage - Too Much (J Zone remix)
13.C Rayz Walz - Whodafuckareyou? - Not sure how 2 songs with almost the same title ended up on here. "I'll take a shit in your house.....and blame it on your moms!" Hip Hop doesn't get any better than that. I could write 8 pages about how great this song is.
14.Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Live At Union Square - Exhibit A in the case that Jazzy Jeff was a good 10 years ahead of every other DJ on earth at the time. Every aspiring MC OR DJ should be forced to have the words and cuts memorized to this song or be shot from a catapult. Its also fun to hear Will Smith when his voice had barely finished changing.
15.El P and Aesop Rock and Ill Bill - Delorian/Simian Drugs mix - John Culpry made this and hit me off with it years ago. Basically in the middle of Delorian when abilities is cutting up Simian Drugs, he drops in Simian Drugs in its entirety, then goes back into the end of Delorian. Very enjoyable indeed. Freeze Dried Poltergeist. Just add water.
16.Jaz O - Its Ova! - When this first came out I remember some people (read: idiots) who thought Primo produced this. How anyone could draw that conclusion is beyond me.
17.KRS One - I Got Next / Neva Hadda Gun - Great song(s). Why it wasn't just 2 different songs on the CD makes as much sense as anything I guess.
18.Last Emporer - Secret Wars (Prince Paul Remix) - This might as well be the official version of this song, cuz who listens to the original mix anyway? No one thats who.
thats it......over 70 minutes of random shit I enjoy listening to. Great. In an act of not-so-cliche'd bloggyness, there will be no link to an .rar file containing this mix for the readership. I can't be bothered.
First, the title - Monique Is Fat Vol.1. When I finished burning the CD, I needed a title and looked up at the TV to find that my girlfriend was watching Flavor Of Love's charm school. It was humorous being that we just finished watching Celebrity Fit Club (I find vh1's reality TV programming to be incredibly fascinating for a host of reasons, thats a whole nother blog, yea i know nother isn't a word), which has really been struggling to locate an abundance actual FAT celebrities the last few seasons (actually, a more accurate description may be, actual fat celebrities that are washed up enough to need the paycheck and want the embarassment). The irony that Monique is hosting a show directly after the show thats supposed to help people lose weight is impossible to escape. After this rolled around my brain like a tuna can on a pirate ship floor (woa) for a minute, our compilation had a title.
Now in an act of extreme cliche'd Hip Hop bloggnyess, I will type out the tracklisting (basically random songs I thought I'd like to listen to in the car a lot for the next few months). I will comment on them where I deem necessary.
1.Louis Logic - Who The Fuck Are You?
2.RZA and Last Emporer - He Lives! (produced by Prince Paul) - this is a great song that was left off Lyricist Lounge vol. 2 I believe, which is a shame. I have to assume it was for sample reasons. Very very fresh stuff about RZA being a mad scientist who just pieced together and brought Last Emp alive to...well save hip hop or something.
3.Non Phixion - Refuse To Loose
4.Non Phixion - I Shot Reagen - not sure why this turned into a Non Phixion fest for a minute. These are both great tracks with Necro bodying the production on both songs. There's even a very tolerable verse from him on the latter track. A lot of people have been whining about Ill Bill's change in style lately, which is really just attributed to him screaming now. I've trying to convince people that his new style is just as good as the old, and really not all that different if you take away the screaming aspect, but listening to these, I think even I miss the old Bill.
5.Public Enemy - Air Hoodlum - This is a great slept on PE track about a basketball player who blows his knee out in college and turns to a life of crime due to his lack of a real education. Good stuff. Peep how many times the loop just completely changes to a completely unrelated sample to the last loop but still manages to flow seamlessly. Bomb Squad are top 5 production team ALL TIME. Buh'leedat.
6.Crustified Dibbs - Every Record Label Sucks Dick - Awesome song. Wish a better quality version than the rip I have existed.
7.Redman - R.E.D. - I'm not even 100% sure this is the title of this song. I think its off DJ Clue's "The Professional" volume 2. I didn't like that compilation too much besides this or I'd probably remember exactly what it was.
8.Drag-On and Twista - Twisted Heat - Why I love this song is beyond my own scope of reasoning. The one beef I have with it is when the beat speeds up for the last verses, Twista actually SLOWS DOWN his cadence to ride it. Which is acceptable, but when the whole point of the song seems to be "hey lets rap all fast" I would have liked to hear Twista double up the cadence to fit the switch rather than just slow it down to compensate. PS. Bitching about technical aspects of rapping is the killed hip hop is dead.
9.RZA, Cappadonna, Method Man - Wu Wear - Only RZA could make a doorbell sound fit into a musical piece seamlessly.
10.Boot Camp - Headz Are Ready - I'm not sure how this made it on my mix, I don't even really like this song much.
11.Brad Luck - verse over "ONE" by ghostface - This is insanely old and I'm probably the only one that would listen to this. Brad himself wouldn't even like this. Its funny to hear him spit battle lyrics fused with shouts out to his homies in the pokey. Not sure why, but it is.
12.Cage - Too Much (J Zone remix)
13.C Rayz Walz - Whodafuckareyou? - Not sure how 2 songs with almost the same title ended up on here. "I'll take a shit in your house.....and blame it on your moms!" Hip Hop doesn't get any better than that. I could write 8 pages about how great this song is.
14.Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Live At Union Square - Exhibit A in the case that Jazzy Jeff was a good 10 years ahead of every other DJ on earth at the time. Every aspiring MC OR DJ should be forced to have the words and cuts memorized to this song or be shot from a catapult. Its also fun to hear Will Smith when his voice had barely finished changing.
15.El P and Aesop Rock and Ill Bill - Delorian/Simian Drugs mix - John Culpry made this and hit me off with it years ago. Basically in the middle of Delorian when abilities is cutting up Simian Drugs, he drops in Simian Drugs in its entirety, then goes back into the end of Delorian. Very enjoyable indeed. Freeze Dried Poltergeist. Just add water.
16.Jaz O - Its Ova! - When this first came out I remember some people (read: idiots) who thought Primo produced this. How anyone could draw that conclusion is beyond me.
17.KRS One - I Got Next / Neva Hadda Gun - Great song(s). Why it wasn't just 2 different songs on the CD makes as much sense as anything I guess.
18.Last Emporer - Secret Wars (Prince Paul Remix) - This might as well be the official version of this song, cuz who listens to the original mix anyway? No one thats who.
thats it......over 70 minutes of random shit I enjoy listening to. Great. In an act of not-so-cliche'd bloggyness, there will be no link to an .rar file containing this mix for the readership. I can't be bothered.
Time 4 (Basket) Ballsyness
The NBA finals are here!!! During recent years this would be no reason to get excited, but now that we've narrowly escaped the dreaded ratings killing, sleep educing, NBA popularity executing, defensive pitchers duel that would have been Detroit Vs San Antonio part 2, we already owe Lebron James one thank you.
I'm going to venture out of my normal play it safe NBA prediction realm, and make a real ballsy prediction. The Cavs will win the NBA championship!
Why am I so confident? Truth be told, I'm not. Not at all. The Spurs are an unbeatable, unenjoyable monster. My girlfriend has recently developed a rather hostile dislike for the Spurs, partially due to me suckering her into watching Suns playoff basketball this year. She is no basketball expert, or even fan really, but has still managed to develop a bitter distaste for San Antonio. They're simply not a likable team. It starts with Tim Duncan, who despite being incredible on the basketball court, is just not exciting or pleasing to the eye. They call him "the big fundamental" for a reason, and fundamentals don't put asses in the seats or ratings in the Neilson boxes (or ratings in the seats and asses on the Neilson boxes, which the Neilson people do not advocate).
Then it goes on to Bruce "The Things I Pull in the NBA Would Get Me Massive Beat Downs if I Ever Tried To Pull Them In A Pickup Game" Bowen. If slyly attempting to injure exciting star athletes and then acting like you have no idea what they're talking about when they get pissed was exciting basketball, we'd all be rocking Air-Bowen's and trying to step on our co-workers ankles, which most of us aren't (Starbury's are way cooler than whatever Bowen's rocking, sheeit). Then there's the flop-a-thon between Oberto and Ginobli (who by the way are also a huge turn off to the female population of casual finals watchers aka forced to watch by their boyfriends, you can almost hear a collective groan of frustration from the female viewing population when one of them step in front of Tony Parker for 3 seconds, he's cute so I hear, plus he's french which means he smokes cigarettes, so thats always good).
In all reality I give the Cavs a 0-3% chance of having a shot at winning this series. But here's the kicker. I also gave them about the same odds to beat Detroit. I also thought Golden State had 0 chance at getting past Dallas, nor did I think there was a chance of Chicago sweeping Miami. All basketball logic is out the window at this point (OK , maybe not "all", but at least half). So my balls out in the open prediction is that Lebron James will have no fewer than 2 incredible games and will lead his team to victory over the Spurs, marking his rise to the top of the NBA and thus ressurecting its fanbase (on a side note, Harry, the friendly Indian sandwhich maker at my local Quick Stop who also loves to discuss NBA basketball everytime I stop in for a Redbull, has this thing where due his not so experienced grip on the English language, he calls the Spurs the "Supers". The guy is a huge Nets fan to the point of unrealistic expectations. I get the impression he came to America and was just so blown away by American sports that he became a super duper fan the moment he found out the NBA existed. Our basketball discussions have ranged from me trying to convince him the Nets probably weren't going to win it all this year, to him earlier in the year proclaiming that Jason Kidd could "go to hell" when the Nets were in the midst of a losing streak. Great guy that Harry.)
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