Here's to you, Kanye West. Even considering the venetian blinds style sunglasses and your world famous hissy fits, you have really outdone yourself in ridiculousness this time. Kanye has claimed, in a recent interview with Details Magazine, that he coded a sexually oriented Super Mario level. He then preceeded to tell the interviewer about something to do with gigantic penises and ghostly vaginas. I'm not sure what's more shocking to me, the fact that Kanye, is (and this is an actual quote) "the fucking end-all, be-all of music” or the fact that he's also a master ROM hacker.(How do you see through those? I don't understand it, are you trying to figure out what it feels like to have 30% of your vision?)
Yes, it's nice to see that Kanye made sure he paid special homage to the video game industry of yesteryear. I'm really glad he took time away from stroking his musical ego to remind us all that we are far inferior to him in every way. Just because we think programming is cool doesn't mean that it's been spared from the umbrella of Kanye's awesomeness.
Personally, I'm waiting for the day when he says he made a perpetual motion device back in the 9th grade.
The Bronx have to be one of my favorite bands of the modern age. I say this not only because of their electrifying music and live shows, but because of their business model. This is a band that after a handful of local shows had labels begging for a record deal. Not wanting to become slaves to the industry, the band declined and instead built up a fanbase by way of self-financed and operated touring and eventually put out their first album The Bronx (2003) on their own label, White Drugs. After signing with Island/Def Jam, the band put out their second album also titled The Bronx in 2006 in an agreement that required little inference from the label. Disliking major label support even more than they thought they would, The Bronx departed from Island/Def Jam and produced their third self titled which came out last year, soon to be followed by a mariachi (that's right, mariachi) album this year.
Now normally I don't do biographies for bands, but The Bronx deserve it because they stand it out in an industry built on deals with the devil and trend-based music. The band's unique blend of punk rock dares its listeners to pigeonhole them, only to be defied by the next release. After all, how many bands are bold enough to do a friggin mariachi album? The Bronx (who by the way are from Los Angeles) are band without fear or limitation and continuously impress me with their music.
The song featured is "White Guilt" from their second self-titled album. I use this song because it really stands admist the rest of their music and because i just think the video is really, really, really cool. I encourage you to check out the rest of their catalouge though. With clever lyrics, solid riffs, and enough collective energy to power a small city, THIS SHIT FUCKING ROCKS.
"I wanna be original, I wanna be surrounded by art / but everything is digital, the formulas are falling apart" - The Bronx, "Knifeman"
It's lines like that that make me love this band. I wanted to use that song for this post, but oddly enough there's no music video for it. Go look it up anyway n00bz!
I thought Pineapple Express was a decent movie. I laughed a lot, but it seemed like a bit of a trainwreck towards the end. One of the funniest scenes was the opening credits in which Seth Rogen cheerfully fulfills his job of delivering court orders to people. After handing them the order he slyly claims "you've been served". A clever joke...if it had come out 2 years ago before this Cyanide and Happiness comic dated February of 2006.
And so Brien slammed his forehead onto his desk like a defeated boxer after the final blow, his eyes panning over to the open Quantitative Reasoning Book laying open on his lap. His gaze fell upon the words "...'how heavy the traffic load is'...".
So there's rumors flyin 'round that New Hampshire is threatening to secede from the United States of America. New legislation was passed recently condemning the federal government for its recent actions and claiming the right to basically leave when they please.
I'd assume this thing has been in the works for a while and it is only coincidence that it comes out shortly after a new, mulatto president is elected.
I for one think it's unfortunately, a load of hot air; a bluff meant to inspire the Americans to realize just how grave our current situation is and to take the power back from Washington. It's a scare tactic meant to do...I'm not exactly sure...but I'd have to agree with one digg commenter: "I'm actually naive enough to believe civil war would be kind of fun". This of course not meaning something similar to the moral struggle that consumed the entire nation and took the greatest number of American causalties of any war it's participated in. I see a new "civil war" as a reform of the Federal Government and the dawn of a new America. As good a wet dream as it may be, it would be a TERRIBLE IDEA. I can picture other countries coming into the fray and taking control as we ourselves are so fond of doing. What goes around comes around I suppose.
In the unlikely (and by that I mean impossible) event that New Hampshire were to secede, I would gladly leave my comfy dormroom at Keene State College and head to wherever the action is. I've been praying for something like this for a while. I've hoped that an event would swallow me whole and throw me into the belly of some kind of Ragnarok. From the looks of things though, I'm gonna have to wait it out til 2012 (sigh).
Anyway, here's a couple links about what's going on. Enjoy!
Organization bent on secesion and the formation of a new America that operates closer to the forefather's wishes from what I understand: http://www.republicofnh.org/
The picture pretty much sums it up. None of us were interested enough in the Grammy to really write about it. Just like that particular picture of shit looks as you'd expect shit to look, and probably smells like you'd expect shit to smell, the Grammys met their expectations with full fail.
Here are some of the highlights, or lowlights depending on your perspective:
-Blink 182 made the possibly the most awkward reunion announcement in music history.
-Jonas Brothers reached a new level of fail thought unreachable my failotologists
-Katy Perry was stripped everything that made her unique in the endlessly ambiguous realm of pop music.
-A well-deserved homage to Dean Martin was followed by the "Rap Pack" performing the astronomical shitstorm known as "Swagga Like Us" in which a very pregnant MIA lip-synced random bits of her hit single "Paper Planes" in a see-through dress while four of the industry's biggest rappers fought for stage presence by seeing who could yell incoherent Ebonics the loudest.
So thank you, Grammys, for failing to meet your already increasingly low expectations.
And that's already far beyond what i had the will to write about this garbage. Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen.
-Brien
BTW!11!1 this is part of a new section I'm dubbing "RAWFUL" (us and our clever puns, you know you like it) reserved for stuff that makes us go "EEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!"
(How do you see through those? I don't understand it, are you trying to figure out what it feels like to have 30% of your vision?)
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