Use the safe word

For some reason I love this scene. I say Spumoni probably 10 random times per month.

Trailer - Blacksmith movie

Talib Kweli - Blacksmith TV TRAILER - The best bloopers are a click away
and.... Link to the actual page

sonic---BOOM

This is really interesting music and quite impressive skill

Time Difference - Hiromi;s SonicBoom Live

lyrics

Laugh in the face of death under masthead.
Hold your breath through late breaking disasters,
Next to news of the trite.
And the codes
And the feelings that meant to be noble
Like coke in the nose of the nobles
Keeps it alight.

And the wrath
And the riots
And the races on fire
And the music for tanks with no red lights in sight.

Got you

Cryin'
Cryin'
Oh whyin'
Oh my my my

Gold is another word for culture.
Leads to fattening
Of the vultures
Till this bird can barely fly.

And Mary and David smoke dung in the trenches
While Zion's behaviour never gets mentioned.
The writings
On your wall

And the blood on the cradle
And the ashes you wade through
Got you callin' God's name in vain
Leaved the damned to damn it all!

It's got you

Cryin'
Cryin'
Oh whyin'
Oh my my my

Broken nose, coloured glasses
Can't see for the thorns
And you just can't stand no more!
What a clumsy kind of low
Time to take the wheel and the road
From the masters
Take this car, drive it straight into the wall
Build it back up from the floor.

And stop our

Cryin'
Cryin'
Oh whyin'
Oh my my my

Our cryin'
Our cryin'
Our cryin'

Still you try, try, try

kagasshole

Fallon stuff - brief roots mention

Washington Post Neologism Contest‏

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:


1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question in an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.


The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:


1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
9. Karmageddon (n): it's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
10. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
15. Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid & an ass hole.

Very Necessary!

Handguns................................for the elderly,like duh, obviously!

Very Necessary!

You gotta do the cooking by the book

Luckily this is only 1:20 long. I like the genre mix. It's revolutionary imo

101

They do a hip hop 101 part in nearly every concert but this one seems extra x-tra special....izza gooda one!

Footage from Chicago

....and you are all in tune to the sounds....of the legendary

B|e$s Y0u

Been a while. Went on vacation. Didn't want to do things that reminded me of working. You know, like posting on a blog and all that arduousness ness.

So upon this triumphant return from my travels I bring you.....

Animal Collective Unveil Trippy Merriweather Cover

The new cover for Animal Collective's new upcoming album - Merriweather Post Pavilion.
I like this illusion.



Here is the actual link to the original article.

READ MORE HERE

6 famous people who pissed away a fortune

Whether you read this for sympathy or for joy you will no doubt find it interesting.

6 people who donked away a shitload of cash

"this goin somewhere????"

I love every part of this. The acting, the thick North Eastern accents, the punchline, the setting. The hats! and that coat, c'mon. What's not to appreciate here?

Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

America - Fuck ya!

Just way way way too many "simple" people all over their gigantic country to ever actually expect an real change. Let's face it, the majority of people do not vote based on the policies of candidate x vs. candidate y. They vote for who they feel is more like them in terms of A) race B) religion C) anything else that offers a tangible interpersonal difference.

"I'm gon' vote for Sarah Palin, she don be filled with the holy spirit. hyuck hyuck"

Unbelievable.

How come I never had a teacher like this??

Something about hats and crickets. I dunno. I just enjoyed the video and didn't really listen

Golden Age + 2(Dancing Choose) = Delicious

Two new TV on the Radio songs performed live. Here are 3 different videos. 2 are from Jools Holland show and one is from Letterman.

Golden Age - Jools Holland


Dancing Choose - Jools Holland


Dancing Choose - Letterman

Cheap food, cheap drinks, chimp labour!

I fuckin love this. I'm sure there is a negative and angry vantage point to this from animal activists who see cruelty in everything that somehow involves a human and an animal and the animal does something that exhibits their abilities - the shame!!
Whether there are ethical issues here or not, this still kicks ass. My favourite part is at 29 seconds when he takes the hot towels out of the red Hot-Towel fridge and hastily shields his head from the heat and makes it also seem like he's far superior to such an inanimate inferior object.

A veritable banana feast no doubt will ensure after all the tips are collected at the end of the shift.!

Arigato. Hi-Domo'nkey!

Trick Plays

Here are a collection of football trick plays which sadly don't get used enough. Most of these are executed by collegiate/high school and jr teams teams.

The Fumblerooski


"Coach, wrong ball! x 2...cheap move"





Fake Kick

Unbreakable-esque

This story reminds me of the end of the movie unbreakable with Bruce Willis.

Read...

She's Palin comparison to any of her opponents

That goofy evolution museum....

Arguably the best catch ever. It's pretty damn good

This could be one of the best catches you'll ever see. It has pretty much everything you could ask for from a football grab. The athleticism is upper echelon. Enjoy.

more Blaine self-torture

Watch the Video

This guy is more of a Sustain'ist than a magician now. Granted he does have some incredible basic magic that is as mind boggling as any other magic but his big "stunts" are more about endurance and masochism than actual illusion. This one just seems stupid to me. Still impressive I suppose.

The Great Escape - not magic

In my opinion this is perhaps the most heroic and inspiring act of courage in the last decade. What you are about to witness is what you would find under the definition of "Emancipation" in the dictionary.

Witness - Observe - Marvel - Absorb - Enjoy

The true essence of the rap battle. Few people know that rap battles were actually invented by Microsoft just over 3 decades ago. This is the pinnacle of what it means to battle.

Google v. MSN




Google v. Yahoo




MSN v. Yahoo

New Common feat........

Enjoyable video. Enjoyable song. Not a fan of Pharell usually but he's not overbearingly annoying in this as is normally the case.

But football in the groin...

...had a football in the groin!

Is this not the greatest TD celebration ever?
I can't stop watching this. How have I not seen this before?


Arena Football Touchdown Celebration Mistake - Watch more free videos

Friend and Jazz Band in Bolivia

My buddy Sam has just moved to Bolivia to work for about half a year and has been there for close to two weeks now. He has some wicked stories on his Blog. Within it he references a jazz band he saw there in his first week. It's pretty fuckin' tight and hopefully they will travel more so that those of us who aren't traveling in South America have a chance to watch this shit live too.

Katt Williams

Lol, "there is a chemical in weed called 'fuckit'."
Is it just me or could this be Damon Wayans doppelganger.

Gettin' Up

Good new Q-tip video.

Ridin on the psycho train

This is what happens on the subway. Apperantly it's normal to keep a spare hammer in your backpack. mmmmmbackpack

A good interview with Tunde from TV on the Radio

Making fun of terrible Fergie music means you're A-ok in my books. Pretty much a conversation more than an interview. It's cool how he's got a regular view on shit rather than the typical "rockstar" biases

Quick BT freestyle

need a little time to..... SHOVE

I enjoyed this for various reasons

Mr. Albert Keyda

Hhaha, ya! I love silly people. But I feel bad for this guy.

Meet Albert Keyda

We're done for....but we got 7 days to live it up!!

Here is the original article - http://www.reason.com/news/show/128492.html

A 1-in-1,000 Chance of Götterdämmerung
Will European physicists destroy the world?
Ronald Bailey | September 2, 2008

Will the world come to an end on September 10? That fear is motivating two lawsuits—one American, another European—that aim to stop the physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) from switching on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on that day. The LHC is a $10 billion 17-mile long particle accelerator lying in a circular tunnel beneath the border of France and Switzerland. Its massive superconducting magnets cooled with liquid helium accelerate two beams of protons and lead nuclei to nearly the speed of light. These particle beams will eventually be crashed into each other to produce temperatures and particles not seen since microseconds after the Big Bang ago.

One of the chief goals of the LHC experiments is to find the elusive Higgs Boson, the only fundamental particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics that has not been directly observed. The Higgs boson plays a key role in explaining the origins of mass in other elementary particles. Exciting, if esoteric research, to be sure, but why oppose it?

Walter Wagner, a former nuclear safety officer, and Spanish science writer Luis Sancho, have filed a civil suit in federal district court in Hawaii asking for a temporary restraining order to stop the researchers at CERN from switching on the LHC until further safety analyses are completed. In Europe, Professor Otto Rössler, a chemist at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany filed a similar suit with the European Court of Human Rights.

These LHC opponents fear that the Earth could be destroyed by vacuum bubbles, magnetic monopoles, microscopic black holes, or strangelets produced by the high-energy proton-proton collisions planned by CERN physicists. Vacuum bubbles have been described as a kind of "cosmic cancer." If it turns out that there is a lower energy state into which the universe could settle, then the LHC might produce "bubbles" of such a state which would then expand, ripping apart the Earth and eventually the entire universe. If magnetic monopoles were produced they might induce protons to decay and thus destroy normal matter. Microscopic black holes might grow by gobbling up the Earth. And strangelets are combinations of quarks that theoretically interact with normal matter and transform it into strange matter.

At the Global Catastrophic Risks conference at Oxford University this past July, CERN's Michelangelo Mangano described the findings of a report released in June by the LHC Safety Assessment Group (LSAG). The bottom line: "There is no basis for any conceivable threat from the LHC."

While the LHC safety report goes through a number of scenarios, its chief point is that the energies produced in the LHC are "far below those of the highest-energy cosmic-ray collisions that are observed regularly on Earth." In fact, cosmic rays produced by phenomena in the universe "conduct" more than 10 million LHC-like experiments per second. If such energies actually produced vacuum bubbles, microscopic black holes, magnetic monopoles, or strangelets that could destroy planets and stars, physicists wouldn't be here to perform experiments in the LHC now.

At the Global Catastrophic Risk conference, Future of Humanity Institute research associate Toby Ord asked an interesting question: How certain should we be about safety when there could be a risk to the survival of the human species? As Ord argued, "When an expert provides a calculation of the probability of an outcome, they are really providing the probability of the outcome occurring, given that their argument is watertight. However, their argument may fail for a number of reasons such as a flaw in the underlying theory, a flaw in their modeling of the problem, or a mistake in their calculations."

In other words, for the argument that the LHC poses no existential risk to humanity to be sound, the theory underlying it must be adequate. But physical theories have been upended in the past. Ord pointed out that Lord Kelvin had calculated the age of the sun. Using the best physics of his time, Lord Kelvin concluded that the sun was 100 million years old. It was not until the discovery of radioactivity that the current estimate of 4.6 billion years could be calculated. So Ord argued that it's not unreasonable to think that there is a 1-in-1,000 chance that the theories underlying the LHC are flawed in some important details.

In addition, the model of the problem itself could be flawed. As an example of how flawed models can impact the real world, Ord cited the Castle Bravo 15-megaton thermonuclear bomb test in 1954, the explosive yield of which was two and half times what had been calculated by the bomb's designers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Those experts had missed the fact that the lithium-7 isotope, when bombarded by high energy neutrons, decomposes into tritium and boosts neutron production. As a more recent example, Ord claimed that Lloyds of London's insurance models for New Orleans had failed to consider the risk that the city's levees might fail.

And finally, it's possible that errors in calculation could slip into errors of analysis. Ord cited the frequency of miscalculations in medication dosages as an example of such errors. To get an estimate of argument failure, Ord cited survey evidence which found that 1-in-1,000 to 1-in-100 articles are retracted from high-impact scientific journals. For an article to be retracted something must be found to be seriously wrong with it. "If the probability estimate given by an argument is dwarfed by the chance that the argument itself is flawed, then the estimate is suspect," argued Ord. He suggested that multiplying the probabilities that the theory, model, and/or calculations on which the operation of the LHC rests are wrong dramatically increases the probability estimates that switching it on will destroy the world. Thus Ord concluded that the LHC should not be switched on.

Mangano from CERN objected furiously to Ord's presentation, arguing, "I can apply that estimate of a 1-in-1,000 chance to everything." Ord responded that his analysis should only apply to experiments that pose an existential risk to humanity, not to experiments whose outcomes can be ameliorated later. I asked Ord if he could think of another experiment or situation to which he would apply his analysis. He looked surprised for a moment and then reluctantly said, "No." Over canapés after Ord's talk, several of his colleagues expressed glee at the prospect that a philosopher's arguments might derail a $10 billion physics experiment. Personally, I estimate the probability of that happening at less than 1-in-1,000.

As intriguing as Ord's argument is, I am ultimately unpersuaded by it. Why? Largely because the empirical evidence is that the universe has been running trillions of these high-energy physics "experiments" for billions of years without disastrous results. In fact, Ord's colleagues Nick Bostrom and Max Tegmark from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculate that the empirical evidence suggests a conservative estimate of the annual risk that LHC-like experiments would destroy the earth is 1-in-a-trillion. At the end of his talk, Mangano reminded the Oxford conferees, "Jeopardizing the future of scientific research would be a global catastrophe." Any theory, model, or calculation that suggests otherwise is clearly flawed.

PSA Mcglovin style

Mcglovin has a problem. This was well done in my opiniononey

Technology Students Mess with Dormitory Lights

Once it starts it's pretty self explanatory. This is at Wroclaw University - where ever the fuck that it is?!?!


Technology Students Mess with Dormitory Lights - The most popular videos are here

More Shad

This guy makes good music. A great lyricist with solid content that swings from funny to serious with ease. This video is one on the lighter side with him and some dude named Braze just being goofy. It's a tight race to the finish line.

Skate footage

I don't know much about skateboarding and I know even less about how to actually do it. What I do know is that this video, shot at 120fps (frames per second), is really cool. I never really understood the dynamics and physics of what made the board elevate and spin in the air the way it does until I saw this. It makes more sense now and it is infinitely more impressive to me that humans can actually do this stuff let alone attempt it. Crazy.


skate - shot on red - 120 fps from opus magnum prod. on Vimeo.

Phantom of the office - and the yoga gym

Yo...............ga. Get it?

Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubeman

This is old but I never get tired of it.
I like "thanks to a shipping error, I am currently overstocked..."
I wonder how many times that guy had to try that voice over before he finally nailed it. It's hard enough trying to type that title let alone trying to say it 12 thousand times in 40 seconds like he does. Colour me impressed.

Jump serve

This is pretty cool. Wacky tennis serve could be the future of tennis much like beach volleyball

http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/deuce/august2008/battistones.asp

New Album: Tv on the Radio - Dear Science

The new TV on the Radio album can be heard at their website (streaming).
I look forward to the show on Sunday Sept. 7.
http://www.tvontheradio.com/

Who's insane? This guy

This makes me glad I am not insane. That is the only conclusion I can draw from this.

Interview discussing Rising Down

Interview with AllHipHop

Lightning BOLT!!!!

The guy with the lightning bolts is pretty intense...and clearly very impressive. I wonder how one can get involved with such an event. I bet it's pretty exclusive and private. Oh well. Maybe some day.

I also wonder how people wind up down this sort of path in life. It's a marvel of human nature. Some people are just dorks but some people, like these guys, are just really really naturally cool.

Ovechkin Date Contest!!!! Da Da Da!!!!

Pretty hilarious Ovechkin video.
Here is the link

Tim Nolan

These are pretty amazing feats. I wish they would tell you how many attempts he makes for each shot. There is one crazy one shot at 1:36 where he genuinely shows some emotion. You can tell he tried that one about 3 and a half billion times and finally got it. The rebounding lady at the bottom was just relieved that she is finally relieved of her rebounding duties. How sweet is that gym for shit like that. It's like it was meant for wacky bounces.

Memorial Day @ UCLA

Footage of the 215 performing UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival


OkayplayerTV - The Roots @ UCLA from Okayplayer on Vimeo.


OkayplayerTV: The Roots "Rising Up" at UCLA from Okayplayer on Vimeo.


OkayplayerTV: The Roots "Long Time" at UCLA from Okayplayer on Vimeo.

Tommy Emmanuel

Beatles Medley

Paying my respects to my favourite WR in the game

JT83

....but not a snitch

Probably my favourite movie monologue. Seen it dozens of times and enjoy it each and every time

...WATCH OUT FOR THE CHORD!!!!

or try a chordless mic dummy

The Elegant Universe - Einstein's Relativity

Mentos - the fresh maker

RC Cooler commercial

Bring me a beer!


Lady friend.

Fire Water

J-live: Fire Water [from the album The Hear After]



(from the first verse 0:40 in)

...your pain we can numb that
you're brain feel trapped
we can help you escape from that
so...
tap the bottle and twist the cap
pour some out for all your fallen
and throw this back
turn it up for all your peoples and rewind this track
til your all sure of the metaphor
in fact
take shots,sips, and guzzle
but please dont water it down and try to chase it with a weakass sound
you can throw it on the rocks but it still burns
go 'head and throw it on your wounds it'll kill germs
you can throw it on the skillet it'll wake up the flavour
throw it on loud late and wake up y'neighbor

Archetype - from the album Unfolding

Keep it Coming


I'll be Honoured


Unfolding



MORE VIDS/SONGS

She's hearing Map voices.

These are two songs i like. The reason I am posting them together is because the beginning of the songs are nearly identical.

She's hearing voices - Bloc Party @ Bristol Academy 7/2/07


Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

It does not get any better than this

It's just like, it's just like a mini MALL

Awww YA

______________

closing in on 3 million hits..........FOR A REASON!!

...because I love her

Kweli Documentary trailer

Here is the original link from Okayplayer.com where I found this clip/article
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Posted by Shamz on Jul 24, 2008

This one came out of nowhere and definitely caught our attention quick! It's a four minute trailer for a documentary on Talib Kweli. In those four minutes there are a number of cameos from artists speaking on Kweli and his influence. Some of the faces we see in the trailer are ?uestlove, Kanye West, Mos Def, Dave Chappelle, De La Soul, Common, Jean Grae, Pharrell, Dame Dash and many more. The project is ongoing and was started in 1999. I have been told the editing is near complete. We'll be sure to let you know as soon as we get more details on this. Shout out Video Rahim, the films director and editor, for sending this one over.

The Art Of Story Telling Part 4

The only reason I'm posting this is for the first verse - Andre 3000's to be specific. In my opinion, certain mc's have the ability to take a beat to a higher level with their lyrical flow and style and 3000 is one of them. Others with similar attributes who are normally performing with a crew include Pep Love with Hieroglyphics, Posdnous in De La, Chali 2na in J5, Pfife Dog from TCQ
And this is a remix that's also nice

She goooood

Good grunts too!!

This is the essence of watching motor memory being built, before your very eyes, by the second.

"Muscle memory is a common term for neuromuscular facilitation, which is the process of the neuromuscular system memorizing motor skills. "

"......When an active person repeatedly trains movement, often of the same activity, in an effort to stimulate the mind’s adaptation process, the outcome is to induce physiological changes which attain increased levels of accuracy through repetition. Even though the process is really brain-muscle memory or motor memory, the colloquial expression "muscle memory" is commonly used. "

Drop

Oldies..."you aint amphibian so grab a hold of yourself"

FEAST!!!!!!! [snickers]

This cracks me up. The concept is not entirely original but I enjoy the acting and some of the guys have great comedic timing.

The life of a cab dispatcher

http://blanktop.blogspot.com/
This is a good blog. The guy is a dispatcher for a cab company and some of his stories are hilarious.
Here is an example of one I found particularly enjoyable.
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ME: Blank Top, your phone number please?
GUY: No I don't need a cab, I left a green backpack in one of your cabs Saturday night, and they said to call today and ask for lost and found.
ME: Sure, hold on a sec.

I transfer him. A few minutes later. . .

ME: Blank Top, your phone number please?
GUY: I'm the guy who left the bag in one of your taxis last Friday, but don't transfer me to lost and found again, nobody is picking up the phone there, so I want to talk to you, okay?
ME: Okay.
GUY: Now is there any way to find out if anybody turned in a bag?
ME: I wouldn't know, you'd need to talk to lost and found.
GUY: Why is nobody answering the phone there?
ME: Seeing as how it's after five they've probably gone home. Just leave a message and they'll get back to you, or call tomorrow during regular business hours.
GUY: Shit . . . Let me ask you something: if a driver finds a bag, will they open it and look in it? Or will your lost and found people open it?
ME: I guess, maybe. Maybe to see if there's anything in it that they can use to figure out who the bag belongs to, like a business card or something.
GUY: So they always do that?
ME: I don't know.
GUY: Okay, I need to leave STRICT instructions that if anybody turns in a green backpack with black trim, under no circumstances should it be opened, okay?
ME: . . . I wouldn't even know how or where to place a request like that.
GUY: I'm serious, if anybody opens this bag I will take it as an invasion of privacy and I'll sue.
ME: Look, I have no idea how I would even pass that along, alright? You can leave a message at lost and found if you want but . . .
GUY: (interrupting) I am letting YOU know RIGHT NOW that ANY SEARCH of that bag will be ILLEGAL, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
ME: . . . Face it buddy, they're gone.
GUY: WHAT'S GONE?!
ME: Your drugs. Let them go man. They're gone.
GUY: WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT DRUGS?!
ME: Well I'm GUESSING drugs based on your wild paranoia about anybody opening the bag, and your talk of "illegal searches", not to mention your irrational anger, but I guess it could be lots of things; drugs, guns, pictures of naked twelve year olds. . . to be honest I can't WAIT to find out what it is!
GUY: YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHT TO GO LOOKING THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE'S PRIVATE PROPERTY!!!
ME: Hey, we're just trying to reunite bag with owner. You're the one who left a bag full drugs, guns, and pictures of naked twelve year olds in his taxi. Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
GUY: . . . . . . . . . .
ME: I don't suppose you'd give me your name and address to make the cop's job easier would you?
GUY: (hangs up)

As usual, if this does get turned in and it's anything interesting I'll update.

Gnarles Barkley done by ?uestlove

?uest makes a video for the song Who's Gonna Save My Soul? which is off of the Odd Couple album - Gnarles Barkley

My current Top 3 Pearl Jam slow/pensive jams

Low Light - Washington 2006

Immortality - Sacremento 1998

Parting Ways - Lubbock Texas 2000

The Roots - Whistler BC July 19, 2008.

So this weekend the 215 played in Whistler BC on top of Blackcomb mountain. One week prior I had gone to Vegas to catch them performing at the Hard Rock. Due to some unfortunate extreme donky'ness I wound up missing the first 45 minutes of the show. It is something I will never forgive myself for. Anyway, 7 days later I had the opportunity to redeem myself and made sure to be ready for the start of this show. I always enjoy the creative ways that they start and this one was perhaps one of the best I've seen so far.

So without further adieu. The Deuce Stick and Dynamite!!
Thanks for the video (Nico&Eme)

Common - Gladiator

Here is a good underground Common clip. I'm not sure the details on this show (City, Venue, etc) but I do know I dig the song and it's called Gladiator. It looks like he's just standing in the middle of a bar with a microphone. They don't even have a stage in there....

The power of music without words

More good tunes to give an ear to

This will be a tasty treat

I like the way he says "He'll NEVER know you're gone." You can tell that he changed the inflection in his voice to mimick that of an angry child. It's perfect. It sounds like he says "newwer" instead of never

Smack my pitch up

And this Minesweeper spoof cracks me up

2 Talib Kweli songs - unreleased

Two really good Kweli tracks - unreleased. They were made for the album Eardrum but did not make the album...or something like that

LISTEN HERE

Interviewww

Me-I

They are such weirdos...and that's why they make good tunes. They are TV on the Radio and they are coming to Vancouver sooooon. :D


wolf like me


Just got back from Vegas where I had the privilege of seeing the legendary Roots crew for the 12th time in my history. Although I donked it and missed 45 minutes of the show (I don't wanna talk about it) it was everything I had hoped for and more. Great sound, great venue, good crowd. Luckily, since they will be in Whistler this Saturday, i will have a chance to redeem myself and see those coveted first 45 minutes. They generally have fantastic openings so I will be careful to catch it this time around.

TANKO@WORK / BLACK THOUGHT FROM THE ROOTS

This shit is tight. Same beat as Thought@Work, same chorus, different lyrics

The Powers that Be

.....You about a quarter inch away from fist in face
Your distant gaze makes me think your brain drifts away
To a land of wonder, only to awaken by the sound of cannon thunder

Boom Goes The Dynamite!

Boom Goes the Dynamite

Hello everyone.

Well the Ball state softball team continued to play this weekend.... and, they were hoping to continue off of their straight 3 out of 4 losses…. and so we will take a look and see how that happened… they started off good but then eventually but the ball state women’s b' women’s team was shot down [yikes. That sounds bad] and ended up doing poorly...oh no.

and t' d'. ok. we're gonna continue on now. The ladies cardinals will play an Iowa tournament starting this Friday. Before the ball state baseball team kicks off its conference season this we'r, this weekend. The cards will battle in' instate rival indiana tomorrow. tomorrow’s game will be the ........meeting between the two....beating both....(quietly) first.....*sigh* [followed be 11 second pause]. Hoosiers are on the four on. on the year. and they have won 6 of it's last 7 games tomorrow…. will be the game....3… at 3pm.

which..switching to ballstate mens tennis, it seems last....*short sigh*.....wee, player on, it seems every week they have a player [pause, looks to someone behind the camera and mouths the words "I'm so sad" or "I'm so sorry".....*sigh*...pause…..if you are not sympathetic yet you are probably a robot. And if you are not laughing yet you are also probably a robot]

Matt Lawrence is the latest Cardinal’s tennis player to win the award. Lamar won all this...all the singles and doubles matches last week [note* his name is now Lamar and he WON THE DOUBLES!!!!!. Good job Lamar/Matt]. So far the cardinals have had a player honored on the on the weekly awards…. 7 out of the 9….ah 7 out of the 9 weeks…. the cards will play at Boise state invite this weekend.

The Indya, Indiana pacers are looking for a... measure ah, d'revenge tonight…. against the New Jer-Zee Nets…. and to strengthen their playoff hopes…. the nets won the last Sunday’s match up 94-85 which left the pacers one game behind the Chicago in the 7 series spot.

lets check out the highlights....[pause]....Steven Jackson st'david...........long pause...........sigh.........Reggie Miller’s looking good [not Reggie Miller on screen].....he shoots the 3, and it's good!!!...........later he gets the rebound…. passes it to the man...........shoots it... and...BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE…. The final scores ended up with the Pacers 63 to the Nets 61.

The assoshia-nated press of the all American first team in college b'b' baseball was announced today at utahs 7foot sophomore center andrew bo-got was the leading vote getting receiving 60 first place votes. Bo-got who is an Ostorian native received very little attention in the presentation in the pr'preseason but averaged 20 points and 12 rebounds a game for Utah. The 4 other players joining Bo-got on the AP team are senior forward Wayne Summers and Kansas, of Kansas, and Hakim Warrick of syrcause. junior guard JJ reddick of duke and sophomore ..and sophomore guard chris paul of wake forrest rebounded out ….the list.

lets check out some of the scores tonight.

OTHER GUY - “Ok great, thanks a lot for that look into sports Brian.”

[The priceless space-cadet look on the poor guy’s face sums up the 3:54 of hilarious torture better than any words could]
Ya

New Heat For The Streets via The Roots!

This is just smooth and nice. I gotta get this.

Offensive and creative like handicap porn

excuse me can i try it maam,
you're pushing it together like a titty venn diagram

...oh that 5th set!

Here is a great edited version of the complete 5th set of the epic Wimbledon final last Sunday. It's nicely cut down to 22 minutes.

A couple articles + vid

Chess Boxing

Bruno a.k.a. Borat a.k.a. Ali G

Romance in Duranog (1975 Dylan)

George W - gonna miss ya buddy!

Bushisms

Jigga-wall

lol. Douchebags

Check out this audio recording

http://www.holytaco.com/2008/06/27/the-douchiest-phone-message-in-history/

Broke Pros

How stupid do you have to be to earn X million dollars/year only to be broke after you retire.

It's a true marvel.

How to go broke in 10 steps by Rick Reilly!

Shad - When this is over

Download...this album because it has good music inside of it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?kcgsmeg1z3e

One for the old schoolers

Recommended classic!

A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels [1990]
http://www.mediafire.com/?c4azwmlxys9

Rainydayz Remixes

"After a cease & desist put the breaks on Amplive's Radiohead In Rainbows remix project, the online music community reasonably wondered if the tracks would ever see the light of day. Well, here they are.

While the Oakland producer/DJ acknowledges that he probably should have contacted Radiohead (who were not involved in the project) to seek approval prior to making his interpretations publically available, an agreement has been reached between all involved parties and Amplive has been granted permission to release Rainydayz Remixes for free to the general public. Effective immediately, the eight-track record is available here.

Rainydayz Remixes is composed exclusively of source material pulled from In Rainbows, re-envisioned by Amplive and complimented by vocal work from Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, Codany Holiday, and Del The Funky Homosapien"

Tracklist
01 Rainydayz
02 Video Tapez (ft. Del The Funky Homosapien)
03 Nudez (ft. Too $hort & MC Zumbi
of Zion I)
04 Weird Fishez
05 All I Need
06 15 Stepz (ft. Codany Holiday)
07 Reckonerz (ft. Chali2na)
08 Faustz

Download Link

7954. Almost ready for release

Here is a link to a painting i've been working on. It's nearly complete. It's called 7,9,5,4. Probably gonna try to introduce to the non internet artworld soon. Still in preparation tho.

http://www.abstractschwartz.com/7954spin.html

Seems like everybody trippin

Zion I is coming to town (again). I like these shows. I plan to attend. It's tomorrow night and it's 14$ for anyone who is interested - Lamplighter.

Here is a great song with a funny video.
Trippin - Zion I

I Shall.........

....as I regained consciousness this morning a song echoed in my head. This often happens to me. Usually it's not the whole song. More so it's just one or two lyrics that repeat themselves endlessly until I finally wake up and play a real song on my computer or whatever. I'm sure this happens to a lot of people but I've never asked so I won't assume anything. But I digress. As I woke up I was pleasantly pleased to find that todays morning tune was Proceed from the Do You Want More?!!!??! album. Not a real shocker that a Roots track would play in my head but what did surprise me was the timing of this particular event.

The specific lyrics in question were the following:

"I wake up early in the morning, I mean early afternoon
Break a lyrical hymn of the stem like boom
I'm flyer when I'm higher put my shit up on a tomb
I represented on the 28th of June
I'm representing philly on the 28th of June"

I wasn't fully on my "calendar game" but I did have an inkling that today was in fact June 28. Strange shit indeed if you ask me. Even my subconscious internal calendar is in tune with the 215th. I was equally amused as I was pleased.

As usual, here is the accompanying vid - the line starts at 2:26


Also, here is something else from the Legendary that I feel like adding for no other reason than your listening pleasure. They played this song at the last show I saw and, since I don't listen to D'Angelo, I didn't recognize it but I fucking knew I liked it when my brain started sizzling. I finally found it online (hello youtubes) after searching for months.
The Roots Live @ The Gibson Theatre: Brown Sugar

Good video here from Wale


Here are a couple links to two new Lupe Fiasco songs

Recommended Podcast

Stop Podcasting Yourself

My friends have a funny podcast. They've done 17 so far.
...and this is Abby's dog Grampa getting ready to see Kanye perform

Jiz'm Gramma

A little background is in order. In this episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry and some of his colleagues become co-owners of a new restaurant. This is the opening night. Everything goes smoothly, that is, until the head chef's turrets kicks in. A crafty Larry comes up with a pretty crafty solution to an otherwise disastrous situation.

TV TV TV that's what you like to do...READ A FUCKIN BOOK

A cure for people with 2 left feet!

I was worried that after the first 4 were all right feet that things were mathematically too skewed to be legit but the emergence of this 5th foot, a left foot, has restored my faith and trust in statistical variance.

I'm going to pee and poo in my pants you see

I have no real comment for this other than it's awesome Rudy. Jello Pooooding!!

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Momma don't want me to play any skiffle anymore.
This is incredible footage of a young Jimmy Page before he kicked the locks and before he let the led out. Pretty crazy to see him this way.

From that....to this [note* One thing I always like to quiz people on when the Rain Song is playing is to ask them to identify all of the seasonal references that Plant sings about in this song. The first one is easy.... "It is the springtime of my loving, the second season I am to know"]


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A couple TVotR vids for your viewing pleasure. "You're fired!"


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The treble was level - I like it like that

PokerPosters

Made this recently. Probably gonna make a few more. Any ideas are welcome. I am brainstorming ideas for things that i can hide/embed in the images so that people have to search closely to find them all.

Talent don't matter

This is direct from the Roots myspace page. These videos express a lot of their views/concerns/ideas about the music industry in general and how they have and will continue to meander through it. Pretty interesting.

?uestlove and Black Thought sit down with the Heavy Hitter DJ Enuff for this 10 minute interview. They get right into the ever present question of why The Roots never get the respect they deserve, the climate of today's music industry, and the international Hip-Hop scene. Part 2 of this interview coming soon.

Part 2 of ?uesto and Black Thought's interview with Heavy Hitter DJ Enuff. Here they (BT especially) discuss: working with Peedi, the creation of the Money Making Jam Boys, what music they check for, how they prepare to go on stage before a show, and more.

...and for that - I won't Apologize

Some backstage Roots videos. I always enjoy these. Not so much for the video/partying content but just to see the band jamming and practicing



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Rising Up (on Letterman)
This song is growing on me. Originally it wasn't on my top 5 off the album but it has been climbing the ladder recently.



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Rising Down ft. Styles P [DJ Green Lantern] Live on Sirius

This, on the other hand, is permanently holding the fort down at the #1 spot for me off this album - especially live. I am hooked in by the grimy and dark production sound.

"it aint hard to tell that the conditions is drastic
just turn on the telly check for the news flashin
how you want it bagged paper or plastic
lost in translation or just lost in traffic
yo I dont wanna floss I done lost my passion
and I ant trying to climb yo i lost my traction
they makin me break my contents under pressure
do not shake I'm workin while the boss relaxin
here come Mr. tax man he leavin a fraction give me back some
matter fact next pay check it's like that son
I'll f**k around and have to hurt a few men
They probably chalk it up as a disturbing new trend
hellohellohellohello"


Ronald Jenkees remix needed - "Hello Hello Hello Hello Youtubes"



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The Roots - Rising Up (Live on Sohh.com's Run That Back)



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The roots - get busy ft dice raw & peedi crakk (akuma remix).mp3