Scene Guy

BTW, I've moved shop over to Five Deadly Everythings.

Same old, but more so.

http://fivedeadlyeverythings.wordpress.com

See you there, kids.

Dealing with sickness, jetlag and a job search. But I'll be back up and running soon, possibly with a new URL and definitely with some actual for real writing. But for now, the link dump continues.

Quest Crew, BLOAW. (p.s. That Hok interview is still my main source of traffic. The kid's a star).






If that did nothing for you, you suffer from depression.

I like Asher Roth more when he's rhyming over beats way harder than he'll ever be -- for me, that's his appeal, the dissonance, the way he conflates hip-hop extremes into something unique and individual and not entirely reliant on irony (the bottom line is still he's cool because he can spit, not because he's skinny and white and on a DJ Cannon tape).

But I get this song, why it'll probably work as a single, the Weezer reference and the uncanny spot-on nostalgic vibe. . .I like this, but if this is all there was to Asher, I wouldn't.

I know I'm over thinking shit, but that's what I do here anyways and shit it's 7:30 a.m. and I'm still on Paris time via Malawi time and my brain is mush. But that's kinda why Asher works too, the brain mush effect -- it's feels like something smarter but he's also just dumb fun. But he's also not.

Don't have anything to say except that I likes this:




Yeah?

PBS.org has the full Tavis Smiley interview with M.I.A. pre-Grammy performance. Click the wonderful photo below for linkage.

Linkage to interview
It's cool to see a serious-ass interview with her that doesn't go the easy multi-culti bio route (says M.I.A. with a smirk, she's lived a lot of places because "that's what you do when you're a refugee").

Her glowing pregnancy, the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, the Grammy nods and the Swagga Like Us hype is certainly pushing her further into the mainstream circles that she's flirted with before, but is she compatible with that whole circle? People are starting to get that she's not just a hot hipster chick, which is great, but it comes with an inevitable backlash -- people painting her as a Tamil Tigers apologist.

I'm glad Tavis explored the nuances.

NY Times on M.I.A.

I like "808s & Heartbreak" more as an album than I do for its individual songs, so the videos Ye's released so far haven't really hit with me. That said, I like this one:


KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

It won't be an actual single though, according to Ye's blog, because the video's visuals aren't as brand new as he wants them to be...

With this album/song/video Kanye officially becomes a personal favourite of mine, because all of my personal favourite artists are able to depress the shit out of me. Congrats, 'Ye!

This comes from Vimeo poster Joe Nicolosi -- the plot of the original Star Wars trilogy as recounted by his friend who's never even seen the flicks.


Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
Part of why I like this is because this is exactly how WE sound to people who have never seen/don't care about Star Wars.

Also, it's cute.