i don't know whether to apologize to my white friends and allow them each one black joke, or to email this video to all of them in appreciation for their friendship . . .
Odub of Soul Sides said: Entertaining as this was, all I could think was how Cam'ron would have killed this.
and as much cam'ron as my younger brother james has made me listen to, i think i'd have to agree.
if you want to download it click here.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
tall enough
grainy, dialogue heavy, featuring people of color, centered on love and romance. barry jenkins just knows how to make a film that appeals to me.
he wrote and directed "medicine for melancholy" which i blogged about here. and now he's back with this six minute short made for bloomingdale's film themed fall campaign about two brooklynites meeting in china and falling in love.
i know right. its so freaking good.
vote for it here: http://social.bloomingdales.com/bflix/#/bflix/326030
the film with the most votes goes to the independent spirit awards.
p.s. if you click the "here" link you'll see kaahl's unrelated comment on crack investment.
he wrote and directed "medicine for melancholy" which i blogged about here. and now he's back with this six minute short made for bloomingdale's film themed fall campaign about two brooklynites meeting in china and falling in love.
i know right. its so freaking good.
vote for it here: http://social.bloomingdales.com/bflix/#/bflix/326030
the film with the most votes goes to the independent spirit awards.
p.s. if you click the "here" link you'll see kaahl's unrelated comment on crack investment.
Monday, October 05, 2009
i'm not jamaican but i WILL pretend for fame
i've blogged about him before but today i join him in his endeavor of genius. my DJ friend Country had me do my best jamaican accent on his remix of Major Lazer's "Hold The Line".
make sure you vote for it here!
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
mayer hawthorne
there's just something so damn sexy about a man that sings in falsetto.
i know what you're thinking. "but look at him, renee. he's a dork." its true. but after just one song i guarantee you'll be throwing your panties on stage too. or mailing him a pair like i did.
Mayer Hawthorne's "A Strange Arrangement" is available today. so on top of being beatles day 09.09.09 is also the day you and i were blessed with "Just Aint Gonna Work Out", "Maybe so Maybe No" and "I Wish That it Would Rain". those are my top 3 favorites in no particular order.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
just a power ranger in this crazy mixed up world
what kinda world do we live in where the black ranger is getting arrested for a DUI? i hang my head in shame. i'm ashamed of the 6th grade renee who rushed home from school so that she could watch Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and VR Troopers in secret, pretending her little brother was making her watch it whenever she got caught. poor renee, who will she look up to now?
The Black Ranger just pled not guilty to DUI.
Lawyers for Walter Jones -- the dude who donned black spandex to fight Rita Repulsa as "Zack Taylor" back in the day -- were in an Alabama court yesterday to enter the plea.
Jones was arrested back in July when cops said he was driving while hammered around 4 AM.
A trial has been set for mid-November.
The Black Ranger just pled not guilty to DUI.Lawyers for Walter Jones -- the dude who donned black spandex to fight Rita Repulsa as "Zack Taylor" back in the day -- were in an Alabama court yesterday to enter the plea.
Jones was arrested back in July when cops said he was driving while hammered around 4 AM.
A trial has been set for mid-November.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
look mom, i'm a music snob too
i read a number of music blogs all of whom love to show how adept they are at knowing what's good by telling me what WAS good and how that has been translated into what i'm currently hearing on the radio or what i'm not but should be hearing on the radio if it weren't for the evil money grubbing record companies.
well minus my full opinion on record companies; which i'm afraid to say is fairly positive, with a respectful head nod in the direction of those that i know with talent that are currently being passed over by record companies and those that are/were screwed by their record companies (my condolences); i've become incredibly annoyed with the self aggrandizing, self appointed musical gurus of the blogosphere.
just so you know, it's not hard to be you, in fact i can do exactly what you can do, but better. i have a college diploma, i grew up hood adjacent, i was a rap head when i was coming up (i know the lingo), i know people in the struggle, i've won a freestlye contest, i can sit silently through a song and then name the samples and who the artist drew inspiration from.
i can even lament the flash in the pan artists that deserved so much more celebrity and respect, but had to settle for being critically acclaimed and the occasional shout out from artists with half their talent and twice their celebrity. like Black Moon. their "I Got Cha Opin" Remix is usually stuck in my head on a 6 month cycle. like clock work, every six months, there it is stuck in my head for two weeks, bringing a smile to my face as i remember all the good things about junior high school. none of it involving actual school.
well minus my full opinion on record companies; which i'm afraid to say is fairly positive, with a respectful head nod in the direction of those that i know with talent that are currently being passed over by record companies and those that are/were screwed by their record companies (my condolences); i've become incredibly annoyed with the self aggrandizing, self appointed musical gurus of the blogosphere.
just so you know, it's not hard to be you, in fact i can do exactly what you can do, but better. i have a college diploma, i grew up hood adjacent, i was a rap head when i was coming up (i know the lingo), i know people in the struggle, i've won a freestlye contest, i can sit silently through a song and then name the samples and who the artist drew inspiration from.
i can even lament the flash in the pan artists that deserved so much more celebrity and respect, but had to settle for being critically acclaimed and the occasional shout out from artists with half their talent and twice their celebrity. like Black Moon. their "I Got Cha Opin" Remix is usually stuck in my head on a 6 month cycle. like clock work, every six months, there it is stuck in my head for two weeks, bringing a smile to my face as i remember all the good things about junior high school. none of it involving actual school.
Monday, August 31, 2009
a reading travesty
i haven't always been a bush supporter but i certainly have never been a bush hater . . . until friday.on friday PBS decided to cancel Reading Rainbow after 26 years of teaching kids to broaden their perspectives through reading, because the "Department of Education under the Bush administration, wanted to see a much heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — like phonics and spelling." now the majority of the gov't funding that used to benefit shows like reading rainbow are being diverted to create more shows that will teach kids how to read as opposed to why they should love reading.
"Reading Rainbow [came] to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers."
"The show, which started in 1983, was hosted by actor LeVar Burton," who i recently learned is hotter than your bitch-ass.if this means that PBS is now going to be dominated by shows like dora the explorer i will retroactively take back all of my silent support of my country even though i disagreed the decisions of its president.
unless maybe they get it right and bring back school house rock. then ima keep my big mouth shut and rock out to conjunction junction instead.
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