Kanye finally comes correct with his new style. Although I dig this, I hope he's just going through a phase and will get back to making good music again.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
2nu-Ponderous
Wow, this was a song that I dumped from my memory banks for years until I saw the word "ponderous" today. YouTube, how I love thee.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
KMD Who Me?
Check the guy in the glasses. You might know him today as MF DOOM, but I used to call him Zev Love X back in the day. Which was a Wednesday, by the way.
A Tribe Called Quest SCENARIO LIVE on Arsenio Hall
This is the performance that made Busta Rhymes career
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Conan O'Brien - ''Pilobolus''
Not sure if it's supposed to have a point to it, but it's pretty cool nonetheless.
Lloyd Ft. Lil Wayne -Girls All Around The World
Yeah, Lil' Wayne recycles most of the lyrics from paid in full, but I haven't seen anybody bring '88 back quite so well in recent memory
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Steely Dan - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Kind of a recently discovered tune for me. Classic mellow Steely Dan stuff.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Third Eye Blind - Deep Inside Of You
Like the song and for some reason dig the homemade video. Kind of picks up at the end.
Colbie Caillat - Realize
I kind of wanted to not like this, but how can you be mad at a classic ballad like this?
Jefferson Airplane-Miracles
Nice song, rediscovered it watching Crank when he's falling out of the plane at the end. Got to get mellow to this one.
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex (What Would We do)
weird, sexy, catchy. caught this video a couple times overseas and I like it
d'angelo - how does it feel
You know they can't wait 'til you're out of your deal/look how they did d'angelo ask him how do it feel?
Kind of uncomfortable video for a straight guy to watch, but gotta like the song.
The Roots Feat Erykah Badu - You Got Me
One of the best bands with one of the best singers...classic
Around My Way - Talib Kweli
I was thinking about putting Every Little Thing by the Police, but I kind of dig this a little bit more. They are both great songs
norah jones - seven years
This lesser known song from Norah Jones sounds really different on wax than the mp3 that I got several years ago. Her song Don't Know Why is pretty good, too. The live version is impressively good.
Billy Joel - She's always a woman
I heard this performed live the other day, not really the first Billy Joel song I think of but it's not bad.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Prayer
This is hands down the best track on Ghostface's new album and Ghost isn't even on it. Just a little over a minute of pure soulful bliss.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Boot Camp Click - And So
BCC...hell yeah.
"I'm hip hop like the backspin/
and you can never change the fact that I did it back then"
Digital Underground - Return of the Crazy One
lesser known hit from Digital Underground
Keep your eyes peeled, you may see Tupac in this video
System Of A Down-Atwa
I remember reading about this song to think Queen on steroids. I can't think of a better description for this song.
Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
This video is a sentimental fave because I would see it on MTV all the time right before I moved to Vegas
Non Phixion - The C.I.A is trying to kill me
sometimes you just want a little bit of conspiracy theory with your hip hop. This song kills it.
Sarah Mclachlan - Adia
Kind of beatle-esque on the studio track but I kind of dig the live version. There, I said it.
There's no one left to finger...(cue immature laughing)
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Really?
I couldn't really watch this all the way through, but it's unbelievable. This couple goes all the way through the kama sutra and I think he just got that girl pregnant by dry humping everything from her ears to her elbows.
Warren G feat Nate Dogg - I need a light
I could do with an unedited version without the commercial at the front, but you get what you tube gives you.
Estelle featuring Kanye West - American Boy
will.i.am reuses a beat and it turns out better than the first time. This was a pretty big hit in the UK this year.
Lily Allen - Smile
This song has been out for a while, but it didn't really grow on me until I heard it a couple times overseas.
I think I dismissed Lily Allen as Amy Winehouse-lite, but they are most certainly very different artists.
Corinne Bailey Rae - I'd Like to
I heard a rendition of this song by an Air Force band called Live Round when I was overseas. It's actually better than the original, but this isn't too bad.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Heading out
Since these are the last few days I'll have in the US, I have been doing a couple things that will be out of the question in the months to come, like drinking beer and eating sushi. The last hurrah for my deployment partner,Ed, was to have some authentic mexican food.
The place we went to was really authentic, like no English on the menu and I had never heard of half of the stuff. It was alright though. Next stop is Nebraska and then off to the sandbox.
This is most likely the last cell phone post for a while, so if you have been reading this and I don't have much internet access I'll see you in a few months. Oh yeah, and hummer sex.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
I Got a Name - Jim Croce
I heard this on the radio yesterday and was really reminded how I like this song. "Like a fool I am and I'll always be, I got a dream..."
Friday, February 8, 2008
Jay Z-Dead Presidents II
This is version II over the version I video. Part II is better in my opinion so I can put up with the choppiness. It's all about the music anyway. "I'm still spendin' money from '88!"
Blind Melon-Three is a magic number
As perfect a cover as you can get for the classic School House Rock! song
Erykah Badu-I want you (cube version)
A really incredible video to go with a really abbreviated version of the song. The album version clocks in at over ten minutes. This is really good, but almost seems to be over too quickly. One of my favorite soul singers that I would like to see live someday.
Talib Kweli - Around my way
Great song, with a little nod to the police (every little thing she does is magic) and featuring the great John Legend on the keys.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Faith Evans ft. P. Diddy - All Night Long
this is a good nod to lovely day done about ten years ago...
3 dog night-Shambala
The video was made by a person who was coked up and bored. But I like the song.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
TERIYAKI BOYZ - I still love H.E.R. feat. KANYE WEST
These guys have some skills, it's not that often that you see English rap blend seamlessly with Japanese. Solid song.
Ken-Eld Och Djupa Vatten (Swedish Rap)
You can take this one of two ways, you either appreciate it as art or you laugh at it. Either way, this song can't be denied as something.
I first heard it in '99 when I was overseas in Sweden. I saw the video playing and kind of freaked out. I liked the beat, but the moped wasn't very hood and of course the lyrics were in Swedish. I still like to hear it from time to time even if I have no clue what it's about other than the title.
Eld och djupa vatten means "fire and deep water." I hope that clears things up for you.
Like 99 Luftballoons, you just kind of have to kick back and enjoy the texture of the song if not the lyrics.
Where I'm From (remix) video
The digable planets were one of those weird and wonderful by products of what could arguably called the golden age of hip hop (93-94). It's a group that I don't think would manage any air play in this day and age and that's a shame.
This is one of those remixes that puts the album version to shame. I remember buying the album after seeing this video and being pissed that the album version just didn't hold a candle. Good music for the time, though. And cool like dat is a good one, too.
Gang Starr- Above The Clouds
Gang Starr is one of those supergroups that just never seemed to get G-Unit big, but was always well respected and critically acclaimed.
Guru+Premier=genius
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
American Terrorist - Lupe Fiasco
Great politically charged song from his last album. I kind of slept on it at first, but it has probably stood up the best over time.
Monday, January 28, 2008
You better slow your mustang down
It's an advertisement for the world famous mustang ranch which is located somewhere in this area of Nevada.
What I find to be borderline disturbing about this is that there is actually a museum dedicated to this establishment.
Based on my experience visiting the sex museum in Copenhagen, I'm not sure if sex and museums go together for the same reason the latest issue of Juggs isn't carried at your local library. The museums and libraries are educational more than they are masturbational. If there is some redeeming educational value to whores and legal brothels, then I suppose I'm just not liberal enough in my views.
When I go to learn about such a subject, my past research was to watch Cathouse on HBO. As far as hookers go, don't you think a bunny ranch sounds more pleasant than a Mustang ranch?
Oh well, if there's a museum for Spam, then why not one for the ho's?
Sunday, January 27, 2008
The biggest little city in the world
I decided to reenist for 3 years and the first thing I got was a free trip to the middle east to fight the good fight.
Not that I'm all that concerned with going to a hot desert for 6 months, I did that for the last 2 years living in vegas.
I have discussed my thoughts on Reno before, But let's recap. I come up here just often enough to know I don't want to live here. Reno is like Vegas would be if they never built anything or tore anything down. Then you would dial down the energy and turn up the cold. And then make it snow every day.
Yeah, that's pretty much the paradise that I am subject to at this time.
But the best news is when I heard that I'm going to have to wear a 30lb flack jacket to go take a piss. At any rate, it will be a learning experience.
I don't know how often I'll be online and blogging, but rest assured there will be more to come.
I'm in Reno, and I'm gonna be f**kin' bored.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Shaq misses another free throw
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, and this one is worth about 17,000 words because that's how long it would take to describe the foul motherfucker that painted this work of art. I mean, wow. This was taken at the Jack in the Box bathroom just north of Lake Meade on Rancho. I wasn't even stopping to eat, just specifically to use the bathroom and I'm convinced that just over the 1-15 lives a different breed of human than the ones I live around here in Vegas.
How do you do this? I mean, shitting is a slam dunk. I have now seen that some people in their effort not to touch their ass to the toilet seat will manage to shit on everything but the specific shitting area that is designed into a toilet. And check the crumpled up wads of tissue in the wastebasket. That's right. They got some chocolate in their peanut butter. They didnt' even bother to toss their dirty shit tissue in the toilet, just straight into the wastebasket.
I read somewhere that the managers at Jack in the Box make about 40,000 a year to start. That's almost as much a police officer. Somehow, I'm starting to think they are underpaid.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
THE GAME FEAT. KANYE WEST - WOULDN'T GET FAR
Five star song from the Game. I especially like the nod to pop up video on this.
Kanye West Medley By David Sides
This guy is to the piano what Miri Ben-Ari is to the violin! Songs featured: Good Morning
Champion
Can't Tell Me Nothing
Flashing Lights
Everything I Am
Good Life
Stronger
T-Pain ft. Young Joc - Buy You A Drank..
This was one of those great songs a few months ago. I still like it.
Jeru the Damaja - Come Clean
I got a freaky, freaky, freaky, freaky, flow, control the mic like Fidel Castro. This is some classic Chinese Water Torture shit for you courtesy of Jeru and Primo!
All apologies to Dairy Queen employees...
The fake stars are out at the Brenden Theaters at the Palms Casino.
Something that I tend to enjoy on weekends is the extra sleep. With extra sleep comes extra dreaming. As it usually happens, after a night of drinking, my dreams were espcially vivid and weird. I can't really go into all of the storylines, but there is one particular part of my dreaming episode that I just have to put out there.
It consists of me breaking up with a girlfriend that I never met, but that's what she was in the context of this dream. She hands me a receipt and it says that I owe her $900 for past due rent, so I'm holding the receipt and reading it and it happens to be one of those tickets from Dairy Queen that they write the orders on. At the bottom of the ticket is my handwriting that says something to the effect of, "If DQ pays me such and such I'll settle and if not, I'll quit."
I remember getting mad because I don't work at DQ and I was getting angry like I was having one of those comic book parallel universe experiences of what could have happened with my
life if I had taken a wrong turn somewhere. It had a nightmarish quality to it. I said I don't work at DQ and everyone insisted I did. I was incredulous.
There was even a point of lucidity in the dream where I said out loud to the other people that this is like one of those glimpses into a parallel universe. I don't work at DQ, nor would I ever think of doing such a thing. I went to college, and did several years in the military. I have a lot of experience that would make working at DQ totally unnecessary for me. Not that my speech did anything to persuade the audience.
I don't remember how the dream ended or anything, just how mad I was at the thought that I was 30 years old and working at Dairy Queen. My apologies to Dairy Queen employees.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Colbert Report after the strike
This kind of falls under the category of being funnier than it really should be. Kind of so-bad-it's-kinda-good. Give it a couple seconds until he talks about he strike.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Have you ever seen the back of a $20 bill.....on weed?
Classic scene from one of my favorite movies.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Showbiz Pizza
I remember having my 5th birthday party at Showbiz in Wichita. The bear in the opening shot in this video (known as Billy Bob Bear, I believe) came up and wanted to give me a birthday hug. Although I realize now that it was a person in a costume, I thought that it was a robot at the time.
My dad finally convinced me to give him a hug and he put the death squeeze on me. Then my dad ordered pineapple pizza and I hated it. I hate pineapple pizza to this day. And I think that these characters are motherfuckin' creepy. Especially the bear.
Oh well, they eventually went the way of the dinosaur and became Chuck E. Cheese restaurants. Much less creepy. Of course, I know that some kids would naturally be scared if a big six foot tall rat came up and tried to give them a hug, too.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Vindication!
I just found out today that the search inquiry that is driving the most traffic to this blog is hummer sex.
And what is second place, you might ask?
sex hummer.
I guess this is better than last month. It was Sarah Michelle Gellar.
It's good to be king.
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