Blow

It's unfortunate how much time and money were probably wasted because of a misunderstanding. I know airport security has to be extra careful and thorough during inspections. Can you imagine how awful it would have been if that bike was a pipe bomb and it went off because it was thought to be just a rock band's sticker? As the saying goes, "better to be safe than sorry". The funny thing about this story, if there is anything funny about it at all, is that I assume someone who makes pipe bombs probably wouldn't label them as such, especially if that person was trying to get one of them on an airplane.

When Our Bodies Finally Go

Yes, I will probably see this movie.

The Lonely Stoner

This video is super fresh. It was put together by the same guy who worked on the "Good Life" video with Kanye. I still like this version of "Day N Nite" much better than the remix. The lumbering beat seems to fit the mood of the song nicely, while the synths and beat changes in the remix are just generically techno. I don't know why that one got more attention but it took off in Europe so I'm guessing the synths were big in the clubs.

Take A Good Hard Look

Like I mentioned a few posts ago, I'm probably going to be catching up to "old" stuff over the next couple weeks (or at least posting things a few days late) so here, watch this video again (for the fourth or fifth time, possibly).

"I'm On A Boat" has been riding the Internet waves for the past week or so. I thought about skipping over it but I feel the need to touch on one key point that all the blog posts and Incredibad reviews have overlooked. Yes, similar to other Lonely Island songs, it's kind of really great. What sets this apart though, is that it's almost a real rap song. Replace a couple of the cutesy, silly lines and a few scenes in the video with something slightly less ridiculous and what do you get? I think you get a song that wouldn't be out of place in the current hip hop world. With Lonely Island songs like "Dick In The Box" and "Jizzed In My Pants", the lyrics are so goofy and out of bounds that it's easy to see that they are jokes. The lyrics in "I'm On A Boat", while still goofy, are actually not too different from the over-the-top bragging in several recently popular rap songs. Rapping about boats has been done time and time again. If this was a song by T-Pain (who is a cartoon character anyway) and say, E-40 or Luda or Three 6 Mafia (obvious stylistic similarities to Three 6, no?), it might only be funny because the rappers were actually being serious. As it is, "I'm On A Boat" is definitely outlandish but then again, so are a lot of rap songs that top the charts.

Martian

Like I mentioned last week, I'm behind with these posts. Here is more Little Wayne, this time his interview with Katie Couric from a couple weeks ago. While watching this, I laughed out loud at least three times (when they quick-cut to a straight faced JT saying, "I love Lil Wayne" and nothing more, when Katie Couric and Wayne were holding hands at the bowling alley, and when Weezy said, "If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born"), I wondered why Miss Katie didn't ask harder-hitting questions (she touched on Wayne's sizzurp and weed usage, and his kids, upbringing and father but she didn't attack him as I thought could have happened), and I was mildly uncomfortable throughout the whole piece. It's nothing special but interesting enough.

Take It On Down The Line

It's album release day and I'm at work waiting for some CDs to arrive from Amazon (N.A.S.A.!)... In the meantime, here are two of my favorite songs right now courtesy of Paste Magazine's sampler.

Kyle Andrews - Sushi


Heartless Bastards - The Mountain

I Be On That Kryptonite

Who cares if he used his left hand, he still can jump really, really, really, really high.