LIFE LESSONS FROM CONAN

one of the first knowledge jewels dropped in the Conan movie.
some might interpert conan's fathers speech as pessimistic.
others might say he's giving his son a lesson that will lead him to be a distrustful loner.
i say it is a lesson in self reliance.
a lesson we all learn and apply lest we be overrun by the hordes of Set.


here Conan drops that knowledge on what is best in life after hes been studying up on his philosophy after getting shaq diesel on the wheel of pain. remember perfect balance kids*, we need fortitude of the mind and body. really i need not explain the importance or gravitas of his words, because this isnt conjecture on whats best in life. this simply is whats best in life.
you already know.

* "Me but I’ve been the champion happy as I ever been
Lampin' in the hamptons like what the fuck is a hammock
The chef up in the kitchen like what the fuck is a sammich
I'm like we gotta find middle ground we need balance " - Lil Wayne

IF I WERE CREATING THE WORLD I WOULDNT MESS ABOUT WITH BUTTERFLIES AND DAFOODILS I WOULD HAVE STARTED WITH LASERS. EIGHT O'CLOCK DAY ONE! pt.1

Being a indoor type 80's baby that suckled at the tit of Japanese made/inspired Saturday morning cartoons, my imagination has always been drawn to the future. when you spend most of your childhood entranced with transforming sentient robots, gestalt giant robot fighting vehicles, human/feline medieval mythological warrior people and genetically mutated amphibious adolescents, i dont know how you could grow up to NOT be fascinated with the future and science fiction. and from the days of 50's futurism to this moment nothing says "the future" quite like a beam of photons aka LASERS.

as far as i know while there has been tons of futuristic sounding music made, no one has quite harness the sound of a laser and turned it into a music. the closest approximation we have is the almighty synthesizer. from Rolands to Moogs synths signal to our ears that the time for flying cars is NOW!

lately ive been on that future music shit, anything with laser sounds and a feeling of propulsion has been on rotation hard. check the below selections for some bangers to blast outta your battlestar with the top down.


Bogdan Irkuk - The Distant Message
Awhile ago i read an interesting story alleging that the Wachowski Brothers, the creators of the Matrix trilogy had stolen the plot to those movies from an unknown black woman who had submitted her script to them back when the brothers were creating a comicbook series. interestingly enough this woman was also suing james cameron for stealing her ideas from the same script and crafting the terminator mythos from it. and heres the real bugged out thing, in her script the machines of the terminator series finally win the war and totally enslave mankind resulting in the events of the matrix. ...and Neo is the reincarnated John Connor [cue explosion]. in that story once the robots have totally enslaved humankind, id imagine the Terminators would be elated (or as close as possible to elated as automatons can get), and theyd throw a sick worldwide dance party. during the come down part of this party like 5:30 or so when the robot E has really taken effect and neural nets turn to thoughts of how much each robot loves his robot brothers and how futile the war with humans really was (they just wnated to protect us, why didnt we listen?!?) this jam would drop. and as the song hit the laser part around 2:30 in and the sun began to rise and the dawn illuminated the battlefield and broken weak bodies of their combatants a single tear would flow from the eye of a terminator.
"Even though it is something i can never do, i know now why you cry..." Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2


Kavinsky - Testarosa Nightdrive
It's 1987 and Chico Avaraldo, the biggest gun runner in Miami has double crossed you for the last time. He sent his goons after you to rub you out and kidnap your girlfriend to sell into white slavery*, they shot you in the back and torched your modest albeit palatial estate. left you for dead. they shoulda finished the job, first mistake. You jump in your Lamborghini and speed down the high way, doing 120 miles an hour on a moonlit twisting road you approach Avaraldo's mansion. The lamborghini hits a conveniently placed jump to fly over the gate. midair you open up the gullwing doors and jump out with BOTH of your Uzis blazing. Avaraldo's ninja army wasnt prepared for such a brash move, last mistake. You enter the mansion and find Avaraldo holding your girl at gunpoint. it ends now. NO MORE MISTAKES.

*"she not white, she Cuban" - the great man Mannie Fresh


Gino Soccio - Remember
whenever i watch a dystopian futuristic movie like say Bladerunner or A clockwork Orange where the life of the populace is incredibly drab and gray and dangerous, i wonder what kind of music does this society produce? is it equally as depressing and gloomy? a reflection of their insufferable conditions and bleak outlook? or is it the exact opposite, beyond happy and upbeat. an escapist fantasy that will allow them to leave their surrounding behind for a minute. if its the later, we will all be jamming the above song when aliens descend from the sky one fateful day and wage war on us on with weapons of science and/or magic. as we all sit chained in internment camps wondering if our new alien overlords will kill us for sport of food, well all be humming this beautiful space jam.

I DONT USE BAD GRAMMAR SO PLEASE EXCUSE THIS, BUT IM JUST TRYING TO TELL YOU WHO I IS....

The Cool Kids are the truth.
While initially I really didnt want to have anything to do with hipster rap from a group called the cool kids, i drastically changed my mind once i heard their music. far from being merely some fashion rappers who saw a couple of videos on VH1 soul school, these dudes are actually pretty nice on the mic. their style is really an amazing amalgm, one the one hand aesthetically they are styled on a retro tip. circa '93 or so. starter jackets, jordans, cross colors, bright ass colorways. beatwise they take alot of influence from both the minimalist bass heavy produciton of early Rick rubin and from the slowed down vocals of southern rap. at times they also throw in some laser sounds and weirdness which reminds me of the weirder Neptunes moments (grindin, drop it like its hot, click clack). Lyrically they stay mainly on bragadocio and occasionally chicks, but all within their own spectrum. no songs about the ice on their wrists instead songs baout how ill their bmx bikes rims are.
if there was any sorta justice these dudes would get some sort of national attention. they could easily be played next to Souldja Boy or young Joc or Lil Mama.

BELIEVE!!

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INTERPRETATIVE DANCERS, WE GOTTA DO BETTER

and just when we thought rap was dead thanks to the board bangers, it goes and takes interpretative dance down with it during its death knell.

7 DEGREES OF CONNECTION: CHAKA KHAN X ANAL BLAST

Let's see how famed RnB singer Chaka Khan is connected with black metal band Anal Blast.

1. Chaka Khan did some vocals on Rick Wakeman of Yes' solo album "1984"
2. Rick Wakeman played key for Black Sabbath on "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
3. Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath now uses Mike "Puffy" Bordin of Faith No More as his touring drummer
4. Mike Patton of Faith No More did guest vocals on Sepultura's "Lookaway"
5. Max Cavalera of Sepultura and also of Soulfly did a song with Corey Taylor of Slipknot which i refuse to find the name of because i adamantly refuse to believe Soulfly exists.
6. Joey Jordison of Slipknot at one time was in Anal Blast.

and there we have it 80's rnb connected to 90's black metal.
only here at heavilyfocused

THOUGHTS ON THE VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS OR HOW I LEARNED MTV DOESNT CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE*

- its kinda weird to watch as britney spears career just had its final death rattle. like you wanna help outta altruism but its way too late. does she look a lil drunk? does she also look a lil soft? how does this all fit into federline's master plan?

- sarah silverman bombed bad, real bad.

- this show looks about as rehearsed and well executed as a dance routine performed in front of your projects' building by 14 yr old girls. actually those girls probably rehearsed more, it's the end of summer they didnt have shit to do for the last 3 months.

- they are really playing the hell outta the justice record.

- shia lebouf's child molester 'stache, stellar.

- t pain always looks like he just crawled out of the garbage.

- conversely alicia keys looks like magic

- seeing mastodon for ~30 seconds almost made the shitstorm that was this show worth it.

- all of timbaland's recent production sounds like french rave music. whats the deal with that?


*or white people or asians, or latinos or pacific islanders or middle easterners for that matter.

TAKE EVERYTHING, AND LEAVE NOHTING!!!

Amazing commercial for nike football directed by michael mann (Heat, Miami Vice).
the thing that gets me about this is how it uses the visual style of 300 with the ramping up and slowing down of the film to get that hyperkinetic feel to it. but this ad is far from a cheap ripoff of that outstanding movie, but instead just incorporates that element and mixes it with the the things that mann does well already. namely his great camera angles and use of color lighting to create mood. the moment that really makes it for me is at 37 seconds in, after the trip tackle the slowness with which merriman gets up and the push in to closeup their really sells the idea of exertion and perseverance in the face of exhaustion. the last shot of shawn jackson pushing the pile to the outstretched touchdown is fucking brilliant as well.

extra goody is the braveheart esque triumphant celtic music

11 THOUGHTS ON KANYE WEST GRADUATION

11. Kanye was mad cause he thought Justice stole his MTV europe award for best video, so he stole their synths. Advantage Kanye.
10. I hate T-Pain. It's like someone gave RoBearBirble a record contract. the streets were not asking for that.
9. But I love the "Buy You A Drank" remix with Kanye on the Cant Tell Me Nothing mixtape. the synth harmonies are a lil higher in the mix and i swear if you looped those synths over themselves you could see God.
8. "Good Life" with T-Pain is like the most perfect happy time song. driving home, top down, after crushing your crush music. this is mostly fueled by the power of the sample from Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T". 10th level awesome incantation cast by Kanye.
7. Its apparently OK to write love letters to other dudes in rap now, see "Big Brother". not that anything wrongs with that. please say the baby.
6. I was unaware I was a champion in your eyes. thanks for the vote of encouragement.
5. Even when Wayne is bad hes still pretty good, see "Barry Bonds". The beat for "Barry Bonds" is so drunk on its own power and laid back, perfect for MR. West.
4. I was cool with Robin Thicke being accepted into hip hop, cause hes actually pretty good at what he does and he's Alan Thicke's son. werd to Boner Stabone. but when did coldplay become the go to dudes for hip hop? i dont like the smell of this.
3. "..in two years Dwayne Wayne became Dwayne Wade"
2. Kanye really likes synths, and apparently OLDBOY and 2001 and Akira. we should totally hang out. no tony romo.
1. "when you meet me in person, what do you feel like? i know i know, I look better in real life"