I Miss You Man: Kittie

The other day I was going through my rolodex of cd's and I came across an unmarked burned disk. I put the disk into iTunes and it turned out to be Kittie's second album Oracle. Needless to say I had a very nostalgic moment. Kittie was a teenage all girl metal outlet (from canada!) with its peak prominence taking place in the early 00's. Kittie was basically living my rock and roll dreams. When I first started playing guitar at 16 my BFF Shelaine and I would sit in my basement (her playing the bass) and try to play Kittie songs (and also Sum41, don't ask). Kittie was a bad azz group of girls who could roll with the big boys (they toured with Sevendust,and Slipknot among many others). Unfortunately I never got a chance to see them live, I'm kind of glad though because I would just been so jealous of them. Like I said before they were living my dream. Now through countless changing band members (with sisters Morgan and Mercedes Lander being the only constant members) Kittie is still recording, touring and kicking your face in. I salute you Kittie, I salute you.



*Fallon was my idol, for real*

I Miss You Man: Staind

Some folks these days like to poop on the whole "Nu-Metal" movement of the late 90's early 00's. Even the bands themselves who were grouped into this sub genre like to mock it. Point of it being is this time in (rock)music was the musical highlight of my life as a teenager. The other day while having my iPod on shuffle a Staind song came on and I started thinking back to how dope Staind was. Yes to me, Staind was dope. Come on man have you heard Break The Cycle? Have you heard the FIRST SONG on Break The Cycle? If that wasn't a sonic slap in the face and a roaring opening to an album than I don't know what is. Yeah sure after a while Aaron Lewis got real whiny and stuff but for a moment Staind, to me at least, was THAT band.

I Miss You Man: Hoodmetal

*oddly enough im wearing that sweatshirt right now*
All this talk about National Metal Day has me thinking about and missing my old college radio show "HoodMetal". It was this concoction I came up with when I finally earned my "Extensions" spot on WVRU. On the HoodMetal Show I just played all the things that I loved ranging from Hip Hop and R&B all the way to Metal and any and everything between. That show paved the way for the Urban Metal Music Festival and now I'm here, working at a corporate radio station bored, miserable, wasting my time and talent. But let's not talk about that. Let's talk about the days of innocence, when I really thought I could actually have a future in this business they call show. Here is the HoodMetal Soundclick page which is still alive, active, and full of awkwardness. If you ever get bored you should listen to it and laugh at me.

I Miss You Man: Hot Channing

It's 7am monday morning, I just got in from work. There is nothing on television, I'm currently watching "Step Up 3" and I really don't know why. Here's my short summary on ALL the Step Up movies...horrible acting, atrocious story line, sick dance sequences, the end. But if there has to be a "best" movie in the series it would be the first one, and why is that? Two words. Channing. Tatum. This was Channing at the peak of his ridiculous hotness. His first blaze of hotness? "Coach Carter".

Seriously "Coach Carter" is like girl porn there was just so much hotness going on in that movie. There hasn't been that much hotness in a basketball movie since "Sunset Park"! (haaa what you know about sunset park!?)
Channing next portrayal of uber hotness "She's The Man"

Then in what I feel was his super hot swan song "Step Up"


Then after that I don't know what happened, I mean don't get me wrong, the man is still fine, but let's just marvel in the era of yesteryear, the era of Super, dumb, uber, ridiculously hot Channing Tatum. I miss you.

I Miss You Man: Justin Timberlake

So Justin Timberlake has caught the acting bug. Who in the entertainment industry who's not an actor doesn't at least want to be in one movie? I blame Joey Fatone. Anyways JT has shown that he has pretty good comedic timing thanks to his several times hosting SNL and most of the movies he has been in so far were romantic comedies (except for Alpha Dog). The other day I seen a preview of Justin in a new movie with Amanda SiegfriedandRoy where he plays an action hero. Okay Justin it was cute at first, but now you've gone too far. An action hero? Just because you faced rabid dogs in the "Bye Bye Bye" video does not mean you should be an action star, but I digress. This post is after all about Justin's music. We all know Justin from N*Sync and I'm not gonna lie I was a little bit of a fan. But when he went solo and reached out to Virginia's superb beatmakers The Neptunes and Timbaland he went on to go and make his classic (in my opinion) debut album Justified. Every song (except for the one obligatory ballad, written by Brian McKnight no less) was an absolute banger. I played the CD so much I scratched it to its demise. After Justified he came out with that other album about sex and disco or something and that did exceptionally well also, but for ME anything after Justified was well, unjustifiable. Ha. Maybe one day he'll get back to music but it won't be the same and that's fine. For now let's all remember the good ol days.

**I remember when this video came out 7-11 started selling these shirts. Yes I bought one, yes I still have it, but now its a very snug pajama shirt, actually it was snug when I bought back in high school, but I didnt care, I had to have that shirt, ok that's it**


**Great song, but I got sick of it, its all good though**


**Gentlemen, good night, ladies, good morning!{snicker}**


**This was my FAVORITE song on the album, this song totally reminds me of driving my parents Kia Rio speeding out the student parking lot after school on a nice spring day, ah memories**

I Miss You Man: Missy Elliot

In recent weeks it has been revealed that Missy Misdemeanor Elliot has been suffering with Graves Disease since 2008. Its an incurable autoimmune disease that effects the thyroid. This is unfortunate news and got me to thinking about all the amazing things Missy has done since her breakout in the mid 90s, and the profound effect she had on me as 'tween'. I remember not too along after my family moved to Hampton in the summer of 1997 Missy's Supa Dupa Fly was released. I remember going to Sam Goody and picking up the cassette (r.i.p.to Sam Goody's and cassettes ha) and listening to it incessantly. That album alone inspired me to want to become a producer cause I thought it was so cool that a woman was doing that and if Missy can do it, I can do it too! She was a chubby chick from Virginia who was a bit strange and I related to that fully. Ever since then Missy has always been ahead of the curve, so ahead that I don't think people has really caught up yet. Her "Behind The Music" episode comes on this week and I am really looking forward to it. There's also word that she is in the studio working on new music. Although I am positive that whatever Missy drop is going to be bonkers, I will always remember that feeling I got when listening to Supa Dupa Fly.