Yeah, he's dead.

So this is pretty fucking awesome (click to enlarge):

And J.Period has already assembled a mix for the occasion, "The Man or the Music". This dude was responsible for the incredible Q-Tip mixtape that came out a few months back. J.Period often puts a spin on the standard retrospective. It's worth a listen.

The best movie-video game ever?

Pete Rock on In Control, circa 1989

While I was five years old and experiencing my first earthquake, over in New York nineteen-year-old DJ Pete Rock was spinning records for WBLS's now-legendary mix show In Control With Marley Marl.

The show cemented Pete Rock as one of the greatest DJs out there, and with the help of his cousin Heavy D, he eventually caught the producing bug while hanging out with Hev's peers in the studio.

Here are two parts of In Control from 1989 to go with this beautiful weather (zShare):

PART ONE

PART TWO

I got into this after reading Wax Poetics Anthology, Vol. 2. Definitely worth a read.

Credit to Newark88 here.

Aaron rules:

TrailerTime: "Cold Souls"

The first feature by Sophie Barthes, Cold Souls is the story of Paul Giamatti (played, um, by Paul Giamatti) who is having a sort of existential crisis. He finds a facility that extracts and deep-freezes souls and figures this is the solution. Of course it isn't, and he goes on a quest to get his soul back.



While I love Paul Giamatti, and I love this cast --David Strathairn, Emily Watson, Lauren Ambrose-- and I love the themes that this movie is touching on, it feels like Charlie Kaufman-lite. This trailer presents the film like Eternal Sunshine for souls instead of memory (Lauren Ambrose even looks like she's been placed exactly in Kirsten Dunst's role in Eternal Sunshine). Also, the fact that Emily Watson was also in Synedoche brings up comparisons. Hopefully this movie ties together differently at the end.

The movie does look interesting, but I hope this spells the end of films about upper-middle class twits going through "what does it all mean" phases.

Two things

1. There is someone who is Tweeting about their Sims. (ie. My Sim got married. My Sim went to work today.) Are you kidding me? Like my life isn't boring enough that I'm reading fucking Tweets about new flavors of ice cream and the upcoming issue of Dark Avengers, and now I gotta read this? And are you telling me that your life is so boring that the most exciting thing going on is what your SIM is doing??

And now here I am blogging about it. I need to process this horrible circle of awfulness my life has become.

2. If you go to Las Vegas, or are planning on going to Las Vegas, you are not allowed to say "Vegas, baby!" Seriously. That's it, no more, it's done. Swingers?? Are you fucking serious?? That shit is played out! It wasn't even that good of a movie! Quote anything else relating to Vegas. Quote Vegas Vacation for all I care. Just no more Vegas Baby. The End.

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This Needs to be on television.

"Between Two Ferns" with Jon Hamm:



And Bradley Cooper. I thought this one wouldn't be as good because it's a shameless plug for The Hangover. It's probably the best one yet: