The Craft...The Musical?

So this morning I saw that they are planning to start a musical for The Craft on Broadway. At first I thought this could be kind of cool if it is done right. I mean The Craft is of course a cult classic and it kind of represented those girls in high school you know, that were like Wiccans, wore all black and stuff ( I know I hung out with them). I would think if they were to approach this from like a Queen of the Damned angle it might be pretty cool. So I found a Youtube channel with some clips of songs from the upcoming play. All I could think of when I saw this was like....Sister Act. The Craft is no Sister Act. So this is no longer something I think is going to be cool. I dunno, you be the judge. P.S We love you Skeet Ulrich. Skeet.Skeet.

Vlog #4: Brian McFright and Other Musings

Here is my new vlog, the first part of it is about Brian McKnight's new song that he is or at least was working on. I highly suggest you watch that video first then watch the vlog so you can see what I am talking about. And I also talk about a couple of other pop culture tidbits. Enjoy.

YMCMWTF?

So news broke not too long ago that the band Limp Bizkit, pioneers of "rap rock", hated by many, loved by others, has just signed to Cash Money Records. Cash Money has become a clusterf*&k of artists over the past few years with a few head scratching people to their roster of artists. Now let's just be clear that I was a huge fan of Limp Bizkit. The album Significant Other was the first album that I walked to the mall and purchased myself, so they have a special place in my heart. But...come on man. The whole Cash Money/Young Money enterprise is just doing the most right now. They literally have 500 people signed to the label and only like 4 or 5 people have released albums under that umbrella. I am personally annoyed when labels just sign and sign and sign people but the execution rate is just horrible. If your not Wayne, Birdman, Drake or Nicki Minaj, don't expect to have your jank released. If you actually DO make an album and have it come out, don't expect it to be promoted. In the end have to give it YMCMB because it's just so random and zany and I of all people appreciate random and zany. So in honor of LB getting signed to the greatest show on earth, here are some other people I hope get's signed to Cash Money. (as originally conceptualized on my twitter feed.)

Domino-At the height of the "G-Funk" in the early 90s Domino hit us with what is a minor hit, but definitely a ghetto classic. His brand up of Gangster azz R&B would be refreshing on the scene today.


Skee Lo-Mr. Lo had a pretty decent hit on his hands with "I Wish". This song relates to everyone cause don't we all wish we were a little bit something? I like to think that he is the pre cursor to "emo rap" because of his brutal honesty about his self image and his feelings. If there was no Skee Lo, there would be no Drake so it would be fitting to put the self aware emo rap pioneer on the YMCMB line up.


Adina Howard (on twitter I called her Anita Howard, oops)-this feisty lady laid it all out on the table and let her male conterpart know exactly how it is with her hit "Freak like Me". Since Nicki Minaj got all pop-py and is not nasty as she used to be let Adina be the freak nasty lady with a nice harmony behind it.


Semisonic-we all know the great song "Closing Time", it's timeless, it's for some reason getting more play in movie trailers now that it did when it came out in the 90s. Why should Cash Money sign them? Why not? They've signed damn near everybody else.



Lou Bega-I think Lou has a few Mambo's left in him.

Rammstein-because it would be funny. I bet Wayne is a Rammstein fan on the low.

Realization

I just had a realization that this blog is subnamed "The Mid 20s Crisis" and that next year I'm going to have to rename it "The Late 20s Crisis". I hope I don't have to then rerename it "I'm In My 30s, I Still Live With My Mom, Get Me Outta Here!" now that would be just sad. -fin-

Watch Yo Ass Fairfax!

When I called my bestie LEY last week the first thing I asked her was "How's your ass!?" For the record her ass is okay. But in Fairfax there's a butt slasher going around. Since feburary this slASSher has been attacking women in mall's and chain shopping stores. "Experts" say that he may suffer from some condition where he is sexually gratified by these attacks, well duh. Fortunately none of these young women had suffered serious injuries but I'm quite its something they'll never forget. This whole thing is quite bizarre. He's climbing out his Honda Accord, he's slashing your ass up, hide your heiny, hide your wife, he's slashin everybody out here.

RANT!

Ok so tonight on MTV there are presenting "Lil Wayne Unplugged". Now when I first heard that Lil Wayne was doing an "Unplugged" performance I was thinking that it would be interesting to see his songs interpreted in a acoustic fashion, I mean that is what "Unplugged" means right? So when the promos started rolling for this show I was surprised and annoyed to see that Wayne was using a full backup band with electric guitars and all. Wait what happened to the "Unplugged" aspect of the "Unplugged" series? Grant that I am currently at work and not at home watching the performance, so maybe there is an acoustic set in there. Even if there was one it defeats the whole purpose of naming this special "Lil Wayne Unplugged". If anything they should name it "Lil Wayne Unhinged" or something. What really irks me is what makes Lil Wayne so special that he does not follow the vein of this pretty iconic 20 yr old series. What makes him better than LL Cool J, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys and Jay-Z (just to name a few) that he couldn't continue with tradition. What gives him the right to against tradition? I think its rather WHO at MTV gave him that right? I've never been a Lil Wayne fan, sure I find some of his material entertaining but I just don't get what is so great about him. Lyrically, Little Lil Wayne was sooo much better than this thing he is now. But hey he's rich people love him and I'm the broke blogger bitchin about it. So who's winning?
Here are some memorable "Unplugged" moments from Hip Hop greats, this is how its REALLY done Wayne!

ABDC Season 6 Episode 7

We are down to 4 crews now and this week was the Nicki Minaj challenge. So Nicki Minaj, her butt and the voices in her head came down to the ABDC set to deliver dumb challenges to the crews. First off before we get to breaking down the crews, that opening number? Sick.
I aM mE: although this was not my favorite performance of theirs this crew delivers everytime and we all know they're going to win so let's just hand them the little weird poorly made bboy trophy now please!

Iconic Boyz: I actually really liked this performance, I am increasingly impressed by how clean and precise these boy(z) are. In about 10 years holla at me T-Money (no pedo)

Phunk Phenomenon: They were in the bottom this week. I've said this before and I'm saying it again, there are some hot azz dudes in this crew, but I just.dont.like.them. I just don't. But the dudes are hot. The routine was okay, I think they had way too many things going on at once.

Street Kingdom: SK was in the bottom this week as well which im not surprised about. I totally agree with the judges critique of the routine took too long to start, but when it did, it was fantastic. Every time they step on the stage they bring such power and intensity and they give their all every single week. Its absolutely inspiring.

So Street Kingdom got sent home this week. I do NOT agree with this decision, Phunk Phenomenon should have went home, I don't get the judges fascination with this crew I just don't. Next week...eh who cares about next week, just give I aM mE their trophy and let's wrap this biotch up. Here's the full episode.

Tags:
America's Best Dance Crew (Season 6), MTV Shows

Subtraction

The other day while I was paying bills I was budgeting the chicken scraps that my job calls a "paycheck". It came me subtracting 508-395, and I completely froze. I totally forgot how to manually subtract. I was bewildered, I was bothered, I was impatient and used the calculator on my phone. Even afterwards I was thinking about it, how could I forget how to subtract? You learn that in what 2nd grade? Then it dawned on me, you make the 0 a 10 and subtract 1 from the column to the left. Phew, for 5 minutes I forgot how to subtract, it was kind of funny. End of story.

:Gasp!:

Now you know I am not a Lady Gaga fan whatsoever. She has fed into her own hype and thinks that everything that she does is just THE most epic thing that has ever happened. When in actuality her music is just getting worse and worse. I am the type of person that even if I dont like the artist I'll give credit where credit is due if the song is good. "Born this Way" and "Judas" are just.not.good. Gaga girl you are doing the most right now. But finally in my eyes she has done something right. She has Rick Gonzalez starring as Jesus in her new "Judas" video and uh bonus she has what looks like Norman Reedus aka Murphy MacManus from Boondock Saints! So yeah girl i'll give you that much.

(RE)Born This Way

First off I want to apologize for the lack of postage. The Laptop I bring to work has once again thanks to my brother been infected and I've been working like crazy person since the beginning of the year, on with the post.
So today Lady Gaga released her hotly anticipated new song "Born this Way". Now I am not a fan of Lady Gaga but you know she is like the biggest artist right now yada yada, so you gotta respect home girls grizzy. So after reading how it automatically shot to number 1 in 20 some odd countries, mother's are sacrificing their children in the Lakes of Minatonca people stopping their cars in the middle of rush hour traffic and dancing, I decided to see what all the hoopla is about. Start the song, basic breathy talking in the beginning typical pop song beginning...the vocal line sounds kind of familiar like I heard it before. Then the chorus kicks in. B!tch this aint nothin but a Madonna "Express Yourself" remix!. Believe me I get the message that she is sending especially to the LGBT community. That's beautiful and a message that needs to be heard and something that I support tenfold. But all the everything leading up to the songs release, the producers and songwriters and label heads saying this song is the most mindblowing thing ever...needs a time out. I guess at the end of the day I'm not in the demo. I wasn't born in the 90s so I've seen all this before, so if you like it I love it, enjoy it.

Happy Confederate History Month! Wailt...WTF!?

So the current governor of Va Republican Bob McDonnell has decided to re-establish the celebration of Confederate History Month this April. Much to the shagrin of the hundreds of thousands of african americans whom live in Virginia. As a black person I should be downright appalled right? Yes it is quite disturbing to commission the celebration of a group of people who supported the enslaving of black folk. However it does not surprise me. No matter how integrated Virginia has become this is still the south and the confederacy is a part of its history. So I somewhat understand what McDeezy is trying to do, although it may have some behind the scenes workings such as certain groups will be happy about this and this will keep him in their good graces thus keeping him in office for a while. I believe if Mickey D's would have did this differently with a bit more sensitivity towards the african american community and the images that the word 'Confederate' bring up it would have went over...aw hell Negroes will still be mad! Read more about hurr

Oo Im Dangerous.

So I am on my morning commute which I already dred,and today its raining AGAIN. So I get to Hampton get off at the Hampton U exit and make my way to Burger Kang, I make a left at the stop sign then BOOM blue lights. Great. So I have one headlight out which I already knew and apparently and didnt make a total complete definite stop at the sign. Oooh Im such a criminal. To top it off it was 3 of them 3 cops and for what reason? One cop doing the whole process, another cop on the passenger side of the car shining a flash light into it, and another standing behind him. I mean is there someone killing someone somewhere? I guess not at 6:30 in the morning. I now have a summons to show up in court sometime in November for "failure to obey a traffic sign", whatever im paying that ish off so I wont have to go to court. In closing thank you Hampton City cops so glad that you are following the motto To Serve and Protect meaning to Serve me papers and Protect your quota rep, good job.

I Do. Not. Approve.

Let me give you a little back story. A number of years ago my mother worked in the library. One day she brought home the movie West Side Story my brother and I laughed at first, but I now deem that the movie that wanted me to become a music major. So imagine my disgust when MTV chose this motif for the promos for the upcoming VMA's, I am not happy, Its lame, Its corny, Its blasphemous!!! Check out this crapfest for yourself.

PSA

Come on, you would hit this right?
I would like to take a moment to reach out to my brothers and sisters in Africa. STOP HAVING SEX WITH PRIMATES! Scientists have found a new strain of HIV this time not coming from monkey's but their bigger sexier (i guess) cousins gorrilaz. A 62 year old woman from Cameroooooon was the one who carried this new strain. I guess it gets lonely in Africa and the primates are as close to humans as you can get so i happens sometimes. :sigh: get it together people at least wrap it up when your riding the 'rila.

iSuicide

25 yr old chinese worker Sun Dayong jumped to his death after an iPhone prototype that he was responsible for went missing. After he reported it missing the company he works for searches his apartment, three days later he jumped to his death. Hmmm, I dont know about you but this sounds shady to me. I mean I understand there maybe a lot of pressure associated with handling these prototypes but killin yo self!? I dont know. Im thinking that the suits layed some crazy ish on him like if he didnt find it they were going to cut his thumbs off. Now you know the thumbs are the texting fingas! So that begs the question, would you rather kill yourself or live without your texting fingas?

Pic of the day

This is a picture of the most crowded swimming pool in ze werld! I just shudder at the sight of this, all dem people, all the dirt oozing off their bodies you know 1 out 4 people took a whiz while swimming ugghh :shudders: Good thing the kids in Philly didnt have to resort to this.

iPot.

So there is an iPhone application by the name of CANNIBUS which directs you in the way of finding LEGAL marijuania. That's kind of lame, let me explain. When I first saw this headline I thought the app was to find the wacky tabacy anywhere. Like Paco or Terrell or Saul or whomever. But its for legal stuff like coffee shops and cafes, what a cop out. Im going to create an app called KUSH, the hood version of CANNIBUS, jk...kinda HA!

Today in 'Umm' News

Contact Lenses for Animals. Ummm I really dont have any comments on this story.Animals get cataracts so some firm in some foreign country decided to make contacts for animals. I would suggest the animals take the 'snoop dogg approach' for their cataracts...wait that's for glaucoma, whatever.All joking aside it seems like a pretty neat idea. I wonder if animal contacts will be just as irritating as human contact lenses. Paging Ben Stein.

Today in 'Aw Hail Naw' News

It's a really a friggin shame that this is 2009 and stories like this pops up.African American children of a Philadelphia summer camp were told to leave a pool in a private club after they ponied up over $1000 to have the kids swim there. In a statement of the club president said

"There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club,"

What!? AW HAIL NAW. Attitudes like this in these days and times are absolutely inexcusable. Now if they did not want the children to part of the club because of their economic status, fine but still not cool at all. This place can to go to hell in a hand basket, unbelievable. For the story go here.

Ugh Jealous!

That's it I want to move back to New York City. All the cool stuff happens there, nothing like this would happen here, if Va has a free concert its always like Hootie and Blowfish, or the B-52's or Jimmy's Chicken Shack, come on man BUMP THAT! Anyways here is a flyer about a free show that's going down featuring CHESTER FRENCH AND KID CUDI, uggggh so jealous
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