This is one of the most disturbing and distressing movies that we have ever seen. We would probably rather not ever watch it again. However it does prove, almost as much as Brick did, that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a great actor.
A lot of critics are giving Bloc Party shit for this cd because they think that it isn’t as good as the first Bloc Party cd. We think those critics sound like the review of Owen Wilson’s book in The Royal Tenenbaums and Bloc Party should be sitting there reading it like “Why would they make the point of saying that we are not a genius? Do they think we are especially not a genius?” Scratch that, it’s a great cd. They’ve done it again.
The haunting melodies and weird synthetic sounds are back again, as well as the fist pumping “yeah, this rocks!” tempos and the London hipster vibe that makes them so marketable. A lot of critics say that it sounds the same as the first cd, to which we say “yeah, it fucking better.” When your first cd is perfect, why mess with the formula? That’d be as foolhardy as buying your brakes at anywhere other than Meineke. They could make cd that was 11 remixes of “The Bluest Light” and we would still listen to it.
Also, any cd that has a song that makes numerous references to Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis is cool to us.
Brake Fast Records is one of our favorite up and coming Baltimore hip hop crews. They always put on a good stage show and they have been getting to open for some great national rap acts in the Baltimore clubs. The only criticism that we have about them is, while they all obviously like and respect each other, they should not all be on the same stage at the same time. They each have their own energy and direction, and when they perform together there is a visible tension between them. Fortunately, they have been getting enough attention together that they have started performing separately.
We aren’t huge fans of Jordans and we are sure that all of their R&D for the last few years has been dedicated to making the 23s sicker, but the commercial for the 22s is amazing. It will seriously give you goosebumps.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Uncle Steve posted an open letter on the Apple website Tuesday. It addresses the current state of digital rights management and digital music in general. The letter explains how Apple licenses its music from the big record companies and why you can’t play iTunes on a Zune. It is an interesting read and it outlines what Apple would (allegedly) like to do for the consumers, if only the big music companies would let them.
There’s a boatload of professional analysis of this letter on the various Mac fansites, so we’ll just say this about it: In typical Apple fashion, they took something extremely complicated, explained it so anyone could understand it, and made themselves look smart and classy in the process.
Anna Nicole Smith will be missed. Love her or hate her, you have to admit that she came from the trailers and willed her way to being famous. She was Paris Hilton, without daddy’s money, before Paris Hilton. You kind of have to respect that.
Details about her death are cloudy right now, but it looks like an overdose.
This College Humor Post by Patrick Cassels is so damn funny. Especially the choice of songs at the end that he has to dance to. That’s the song that we always have to dance to as well.
I need you to listen to me very closely. There’s isn’t much time. My name isn’t important, but I’m a federal agent, and I was invited here by Kevin’s roommate. You can check with him for clearance later—he’s in the kitchen—but for now you’re just going to have to trust me.
Back in the days when we were just starting to seriously consider starting a clothing brand for real, we co-hosted a party with College Life Magazine. And when we say co-hosted, what we really mean is that DJ LS from 360 Nightlife called us up and was like “hey, bring some t-shirts to this party at Eyebar and start promoting yourself, I’ll send out a MySpace message about it.”
It’s funny to think about the old days before blogs were popular. You know, a few years ago. Blogs were just for pretentious and precocious high school students for a while, with their LJs and their message boards and what not. Then they became big business and bloggers were getting invited to everything from sporting events to political conventions. Old people couldn’t believe the influence that bloggers had, they were all “Just because the guy from Ain’t It Cool News said my movie sucked, nobody came to see it? WTF.” Then there was a huge backlash where all the hipsters (such as ourselves, yeah I said it) were like “I detest the term ‘blog’” but we still kept writing down everything we did that day for the whole internet to see, because we needed to. At this point blog is just a regular word that our generation would be lost without, like website or douchebag.
Here are some of the blogs that we check every day hour chance we get. Not in any order.
This Film is Not Yet Rated is a documentary which discusses and investigates the MPAA and the film rating process. It’s actually kind of terrifying how similar this movie is to Why We Fight. They both are very cynical about media in America and they both cover the way huge corporations regulate the news and information that we as a people have access to. But fuck all that serious stuff, here’s why you should see the movie:
