Okay, the last thing I want to do is turn this blog into an online video hub. But, I’d be a complete fool if I didn’t post this:
Archive for January, 2008
Yacht Rock #11
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Ringo Starr Movie Possible Inspiration For De La Soul?
Friday, January 25th, 2008While perusing the great WFMU blog, “Beware of the Blog” I came across this video on YouTube:
It’s a clip from the movie Caveman starring Ringo Starr, Shelley Long and Dennis Quaid. In this scene, a group of cave people are sitting around eating dinner (or breakfast - I don’t know how they did it in caveman times - maybe up is down) and one of them accidentally discovers music by breathing into his “cave juice” bottle. Eventually, as he keeps doing it, the rest of the group join in with various “cave instruments” such as bones and “cave tongues.” Here’s the video again and listen right around the 1:09 mark:
Now, listen to this track by De La Soul called En Focus (from my favorite De La album “Buhloone Mindstate”) right around the 1:52 mark:
Similar? I think so.
Now, the only reason why I would make this comparison is because De La is known for its inside jokes and esoteric references. I could totally see them pulling this from the movie.*
*Of course, this could already be known and I’m just late to the party. If this is the case, please forgive me, traffic was awful, and plus, I brought donuts.
This is Our City
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Documentary “Spin” on YouTube
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008This is a really cool movie looking at the way the media can spin things by editing satellite feeds to suit their objectives. It’s a pretty balanced look at both sides of the political spectrum but if you’re counting minute by minute, it’s got more against the right. The person that made it was able to watch the satellite feeds by using his normal, everyday giant 80s satellite dish. Apparently, you could pick up both the broadcast and its feed in those days (I’m not sure if you still can with current satellite TV - probably not, since it’s basically a more expensive cable anymore).
My favorite stuff in the movie is Larry King telling each candidate (in the ‘92 election) how great they are doing in the election and then telling Clinton how fair and unbaised he [King] is.
Oh yeah, and disregard all of the Ron Paul crap in the “About This Video” section. Those Ron Paul guys are attaching his name to every video they upload, making it seem as if Ron Paul is a part of the video. In this case, it looks as if Ron Paul is distributing the video. In another case, they make it look like Keith Olbermann was supporting Ron Paul.
Gig Report: 1.17.2008 - Andyman’s Treehouse
Friday, January 18th, 2008
I went up with a couple of new jokes (one that Nick Fancher conceptually came up with, while I wrote the joke structure) and it went okay. I didn’t knock ‘em dead like I usually do (I once killed a man in Lakewood, OH) but I got some laughs here and there. I’d really like to work on my delivery. For some reason or another, I’ve chosen this low self-esteem character for my persona. It probably came about from me actually having low self-esteem and it working in my favor. There’s something charming about someone who’s scared to be up on stage. I think that’s what I’ve always worked on. Trying to get pity from the audience so that when my jokes work, I’ve surprised them and when they don’t work, I can give that tiny nervous laugh and people respond to that as well.
Of course, my strategy has failed miserably and now instead of just having low self-esteem, I’m also bombing. I love it!
I’m having fun though. As much as I don’t want to do stand up for a living, I do have fun being on stage and trying to commit to words the stuff I think about. I think my biggest disadvantage is that I’m not the greatest actor. If I can work on my acting skills then I’ll be able to properly replay those moments I have with my friends on stage. I’m trying to get some sketches on tape so I can practice a bit more.
Okay. Enough with the actual blogging. No one cares.
ONE LAST THING: I just read that David Krumholtz wrote a script for Judd Apatow called “Attorneys at Raw,” a comedy about two lawyers who embark on a rap career. I just wanted to say that my friends and I were also working on a rapping lawyer project (not a movie script) and now we will have to scrap it because of this. So, you can blame Krummers for this amazing project not being unleashed on the world. Thanks a lot!
Impediment Revisionism: WZA - See the Joy
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
WZA - “See the Joy” from Birth of a Pwince
My mind fwashed back to the earwy moon
When I was just a sperm cell in the fawopian tube
In the mist of a state of twipew dawkness
Going thwough a stwuggew so I cood exist
Avoiding evewything that came within my path
As I watch other sperm cells get wipped in half
One out of a million compwetes the job
And for the other sperm cells the womb is a gwaveyawd
Though my twavews I had to pass thwough
A wot of battews and viowent hassews
Cause inside the womb I was a foweign object
I’m wike a new nigga walking thwough the pwojects
Twoubew, evewywhere I turn
Damn it’s a stwuggew just being a sperm
cell, so I attempt to pwevail
I guess the womb is the first stage of hell
Now here I am in the danga zone
My head and my tail, my twenty-thwee chwomosomes
But then again yo it can’t be that bad cause my dad
He could have used a body bag
And if so then my tomb would have been the twash can inside my mom’s bedwoom
But they was f*cking, they was twue to this
And here I go on a mission to the utewus
A million motherf*ckers twied to wace ahead
But I was the one that fertiwized the egg
Then I thought then I was safe
Because I weached home base
But oh no my job wasn’t done
In fact my twoubews had onwy begun wife as a stwuggew
Wife is the stwuggew
Wife is the stwuggew
Dres’ “Lestons” of Life: Ho is Short for Honey
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
From Black Sheep’s A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing:
“Listen, listen, listen. Honey, ho is merely short for honey. Dig? Ho is short for honey. We just got lazy and dropped the -ney. Like when you drop to yo’ knees.
Mashups: Garfeld (Seinfeld/Garfield Mashup)
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Dres’ “Lestons” of Life: Showbiz and AG are All-a-Dat
Friday, January 11th, 2008
From Showbiz & AG’s Runaway Slave:
“Listen. This is Dres, and, uh, I’m letting ya’ know, that S-H-O-W-B-I-Z and A-G are all-a-dat. So, just sit back and relack. If you got a big bozak, grab that, like Mr. Long, my brother from another mother. Yo check it out!”
Dres’ (of Black Sheep) “Lestons” of Life: You Gotta Lick it Correctly
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
From Rhymefest’s Man in the Mirror:
“Listen. This is Dres and I’m trying to let you know, seriously. You got get Flavor of the Month? You gotta lick it correctly. I myself? I done licked all kind of flavors. I mean, otherwise it’s just gon’ run down your fingers and, uh, you know what that’s called? A mess.”