JHERRI CURLS FOR DAYS..........

why? because Ready For The World are them dudes. thats why
i wish i could find a video of klymaxx doing video kid to go along with this as a point counterpoint type of deal, but youtube yields no such video.

METAL ALBUM OF 08 RIGHT HERE

in the studio footage of genghis tron recording board up the house.

ive been working LATE on some top secret projects for the upcoming year and the 3 songs that've been released from board up the house have kept me up, intrigued and inspired (no female minotaur-o). i spoke on GT awhile ago, but hearing the leaked tracks has only strengthened my resolve in their new album. its both grind-y and proggy which is hard enoguh but also melodic in a enchanting IDM kinda way. if pig destroyer and aphex twin had a couple babies the runt of the litter would be genghis tron. and as im a stan for anyhting that has to do with creative process ive loved this behind the scenes studio footage. get stoked for this record, coming out on feb 19th.

genghis tron's myspace

NEUROSIS, KID SISTER, MASTODON, THE COOL KIDS AND KANYE. PLUS COSMIC COLLISIONS!! SAY WORD

last thursday mastodon and neurosis were at the masonic temple in brooklyn giving a vice sponsored show. mastodon was good albeit a bit too focused on playing underwater sounding jams from leviathan and space mountain sounding noodlings from blood mountain, when all i wanted to hear was caveman stampeding joints from remission. but it was still a good set. neurosis on the other hand sounded like the wheel of pain. they also appropriately looked like they had been pushing the wheel of pain for the last 20 years. their set was intense, kinda creepy and dynamic in a way that put mastodon to shame. but ive already spoken on the painful awesomeness of neurosis, here.

the next night on a totally different note, at the planetarium; the cool kids, a-trak, kid sister and kanye rocked a pretty dope ass party. ive expressed my love for kid sis and the cool kids before and kanye is my man 50 grand, so instead of talking about the rappity rap and such id rather talk about SPACE!

the planetarium was also debuting the cosmic collisions show at the same time as the party and honestly i spent more time watching near extinction level event causing collsions between asteroids and earth (shoutout to my boy ben affleck. i see you bruce wilis.) than watching the rapping. i also spent alot of time taking pictures like this on my phone.

making it rain is straight 2007. changing global weather patterns is on that '09 'ish. ask about ya boy young farmers almanac

50 PENCE! 50 PENCE! 50 PENCE! YEAH!!!! IT'S JUNIOR SPESH!!

i cant get this song out of my head, its been on blast in the studio for the last week or so motivating me to new levels of power and/or confidence on a daily basis. you have to accept the fact that this video of four 16 yr old lookin dudes rapping looks like it cost about $15 to make. excuse me, more like 7 pounds and 50 pence. 50 pence. 50 pence. and yeah they're rapping about how much they love ordering kids meals. but thats not the point. the point is that "junior spesh" will be my ringtone in 5 minutes and it should be yours too.

mayonnaise is 20 pence... more.

OF WHAT IMPORT ARE BRIEF, NAMELESS LIVES ... TO GALACTUS??

The premise was great; Godzilla movie shot entirely from the point of view of Joe Everyman. Best BUy handycam style and all. No hero military dude flying an airplane into the monster. No scientist who has an idea thats just so crazy it might just work. No Will Smith winking at the camera quips. Just you the viewer experiencing pure pandamonium. It's to my knowledge never been done before. Excellent, a revolution in this specific form of genre fiction. Color me excited that the dude [JJ Abrams] who revitalized serialized thriller/sci-fi on television [with LOST] is bringing us this. However, come 1.18.08 a revolutionary piece of genre fiction was not delivered. Instead we got the Harold "Baby Jordan" Miner¹ of supposedly intellectual blockbuster films.

The problem with this movie is twofold, the first most glaring problem is the unremarkable characters. We spend 20 minutes with these characters before the monster shows up, and while those 20 minutes would play well as the first 20 minutes of an experimental rom com of some sort, they do nothing to establish any sort of bond between characters who will be put in life or death circumstances in minutes. We're told Rob is best friends with Hud. Rob is leaving to become vice president of some company in japan and is already apparently wildy financially successful. Hud at times seems functionally retarded. We've been told, that these two are best friends, "main dudes" as it were, but we're never shown that theyre friends or why. I'd imagine they're on some Of Mice And Men jumpoff but thats purely conjecture. We're told that the chick Rob irrationally risks his life for [along with the lives of his friends] is amazing, but were never shown it. In fact she seems kind of like a dick, bringing another dude to homeboys going away party.

The unsympathetic characters directly lead to the second problem, which is an issue of tone. If Abrams and company made the directorial decision to shoot this all "first person", one imagines it's to get us to connect with the characters more and give us a sense of realism [see the opening text of the film for support of this argument]. Yet in direct opposition to realism, we have characters making strictly Independence Day level decisions.

"Oh theres a 30 story monster attacking midtown Manhattan? this girl i once spent a lustful weekend with, that i then dissed is in midtown Manhattan. well shit yeah im going to midtown Manhattan!"

"my main dude is clearly out of his mind and caught the vapors. hes gonna go and try to scale a building thats fallen into another building to go save some myspace crush of his. im gonna go too. and bring my camera. say word."

I understand that as a filmmaker you have certain set pieces in mind and in a movie like this you simply need a plot that facilitates connecting those dots, but if you must do so please give me more plausible reactions and responses from your main characters. Make this chick his wife and ill believe he'll go into the fire for her [sorta], make it his sister and i might maybe believe it. but please dont make it some chick he banged once. because itll really take me out of the movie.

in retrospect sticking with one set of characters was probably the fatal flaw. You don't have a ton of time to setup a back story for your characters, and for the most part they'll be running around screaming and crying and looking confused. you're setting yourself up for failure. so why not ditch the idea of a hero all together. you want to play up the found footage and realism aspect? make Cloverfield an anthology of vignettes from around the city as the monster attacks. with some careful direction and careful dosages you can take these same characters sketches and make me care about them. the set piece of the party being broken up to the monster attack was great, it felt immediate it felt real. it brought back memories of all those shared consciousness events (JFK assasination, Challenger explosion, Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11 et al.) it played through great to the Statue Of Liberty Head landing on the street and people taking pictures of it. the confusion and lack of information all rang true. perfect time to say goodbye.
show me a new group of people confronting this event in a new set piece. if you start the subway sequence off with people being trapped in a subway car and finally deciding to make a break for it, i dont scoff "why are you walking through the subway!!!??, don't you know theres monsters in there?" and loose all sense of realism. instead i say "damn...i wouldn't want to be them". you need to relay important expositional plot points? dont give me "army dude, the plot device", who has no point other than giving me plot points. instead show me people watching the events live from way up town or in any of the outer boroughs. close enough to be in danger but not immediately.

really we end up with an interesting mvoie, worth the $10 in spectacle alone, but it could've been a great movie. it should have been a champion and not just a dude who won the dunk competition twice.

¹ for those of you not up on your mid nineties NBA game, Harold Miner was a promising guard coming out of college who had the dubious distinction of being labeled "Baby Jordan" for his dunking ability. but as chance would have it other than winning the slam dunk contest twice, [once against future Jeopardy answer J.R Rider] dude's career was as about as memorable as a Jeff Hanneman solo.