You learn something everyday

It has been said that you learn something new everyday, and I would have to agree with that. Unfortunately, some lessons cost more than others.

If someone asks me how I can do chip tricks at the poker table I tell them that it probably cost me $200 dollars to do the chip riffle and it cost me $1000 to do the chip flips that I can do. I can't even pretend that those are fake numbers because you have to log a lot of hours at a poker table to learn a lot of the tricks you see on TV. It's not that I set out to learn these tricks, but fuck it, it's boring sitting around a poker table and you're not in the hand. On the flip side, it intimidates a lot of tourists if I'm ever playing on the strip.

One thing I learned today is that even though you bet on the winning team you can lose if they don't cover the spread. What kind of shit is that? So in other words even if a team wins that you expected to win you still lose your money. Not just a percentage, you lose every cent.

So the moral of the story is that you lose money when you gamble. It's no fun to lose, but it made the game a hundred times more interesting to watch.

Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says

Get the f@ck up! Represent Godzilla!

Aries Spears Rap Impressions

Pure genious...

Mad Skillz with DAT 07 Rap Up

Remember the year that was....

Clipse- Nightmares

My favorite track off of Hell Hath No Fury. Note the nod to "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" toward the end.

Raekwon Verbal Intercourse (featuring Nas and Ghostface)

"But what if he...all my lovin'"
I kind of slept on this song when I first bought the purple tape back in 95 but it really grew on my after a couple years. Ice Cream used to be my favorite off of Cuban Links, but this one is my fave now. HOTNESS!

MF Doom - One Beer

I like this beer

Rap Up 2006

A yearly tradition, gotta love skillz. '07 coming soon!

Smif-N-Wesson

WAX SPITS VERSE FOR VIBE CONTEST....

Del The Funky Homosapien - Mistadobalina

Swizz Beatz - It's Me Bitches

Yes!

Roc Boys in the building

I wish I could find a good version of this live. It's seldom that a live version trumps the album/video version, but the VH1 storytellers performance is the best for this.

"Mazel Tov, it's a celebration bitches *clink* La Hiam! I wish for you 100 years of success, but it's my time!"

Budha hittin Tailor Made

Here is a nice made for TV moment when "Buddha" from the show "I Love New York 2" hits "Tailor Made".

I heard on the radio yesterday morning from a person who attended the reunion show that Tailor made won the season finale. He also said that it was revealed on the show that New York was pregnant and the father is Buddha. Upon hearing this, Tailor Made stormed out of the show.

Granted, this is all rumor at this time, but Tailor Made did win the show when I watched last night, so the rest might be true as well. Who knows...?

Human Jump rope

What you can do when there's no jump rope around.

Kanye West- School Spirit

This isn't really a video, but gotta love the song. I'm-a get on this T.V., momma....

Wu Tang Clan - Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'

I remember I was bumping 36 chambers on cassette in my ratty Honda Civic back in '94. This was the second WuTang video I ever saw, and it still rings as a classic. ODB and Ghostface are f***kin' bananas on this one!

Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya

Who else do you know could wake up drunk, breath stinking like a cheap 40 oz. and still blow you away with his one of a kind skills? This is the man who really took the crazy drunken style to a whole new level.

Camp Lo - Lucini

Ahhhh...classic.

Kanye's Beat-Making Skills

I don't care what you say, Kanye has skills. Please observe how his impromptu beat making session begins to take hold of the oldest and whitest white guy that 60 minutes could find. You can see that the old man is almost getting into it.

The Roots - Distortion To Static

The Roots are the best. I dare you to hate! I just dare you!

POT POT POT!!

I had this song running through my head today for some weird reason. I used to watch Godzilla vs. Megalon when I was in like 2nd or 3rd grade and got our first VCR. We had the big thick one that ejected vertically with a scary amount of force. We used to launch stuff off the top of the VCR. Just eject stuff and watch it fly away.

Of course the subtitles aren't accurate, but it's still fun. I remember this song at the end of the movie. I thought it was stupid, funny, and catchy. I remember the climactic part where the singer says, what sounded like "POT POT POT!"

According to wikipedia, the lyrics are "Gojira Jetto Jaga: de Panchi Panchi Panchi!" or Gozilla and Jet Jaguar: punch punch punch! How lame. It hadn't inhabited my mind for a good twenty years.

Ahh, the classics.

Alice in chains - Heaven beside you

I'm sure that this video is going to get pulled down eventually, but while I'm in a "grunge" mood I can't forget this classic with the cute but borderline evil kid.

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song

Another STP favorite. I remember a band playing this at my high school talent show. Classic!

Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl

I was kind of surprised that this video featured Sarah Michelle Gellar as the love interest. I guess I never really paid as much attention to the video as I did the song. Still one of my favorites from STP

KLF is gonna rock you!

Man, this song is great! I bought the tape on the strength of this single and was disappointed to find out that it was a steaming pile of dung.

But the song 3AM Eternal was the shit, and it still is in my opinion. I hadn't heard it for years before I looked it up today. He's yelling into a CB radio while cruising through town in a police car with two sleeping women in the backseat.

I seem to remember the video had him dialing up on one of those old brick style mobile phones (during the synthesizer part that sounds like a toy phone is being dialed) and he's gonna use up his minutes yelling, "KLF is gonna rock you!" I guess this never really happened in the video and it's just my fuzzy memories. 1991 was a long ass time ago, you know.

Oh yeah, they are saying "ancients of mu mu" after "KLF is gonna rock you". Apparently they used to be called the JAMS (Justified Ancients of MUMU)before they renamed themselves KLF. Good move, guys!

No easy answers

Friday aftrernoon, Red Rock, at the movie theater. A lot of people would consider movies a passive form of entertainment but I would have to disagree in this case. The movie is called No Country for Old Men and on the whole it is a thoroughly engrossing, thoroughly enjoyable movie-except for perhaps the ending. The ending could evoke a couple reactions, either you were disappointed or maybe you were angry. One person in the theater said he wanted his money back. I, on the other hand, was disappointed. Perhaps the ending was the redeeming quality of the movie because it demands you to think in order to enjoy the overall experience, perhaps to spark a debate and paint your own ending. At any rate, the movie feels unfinished, like there is no big finale, no ultimate release. In some ways, the movie is engaging on the level of the film Crash. There is nothing spoon fed to you, though. If
you are to resolve your experience you have to solve your own questions-and there are no easy answers.