PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

trailer for Pineapple Express, produced by Judd Apatow

new, new Judd Apatow movie starring ya boy Seth Rogen and James Franco, very stoked on this trailer, great to see a stoner comedy play with big action pieces like car chases and shootouts and not look like crap. Apatow and his crew have been on that Patriots undefeated ish (fuck the giants and retarded ass Eli Manning) with a string of great movies and tv shows. track record includes Freaks And Geeks, Undeclared, Forty Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Knocked Up and the just released Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I just caught Sarah Marshall this past weekend and es muy bueno, it runs a little long but still definitely worth the 10 bucks or whatever for admission. Britsh rocker dude gets the McLovin award and easily steals the picture.

If you havent seen Freaks And Geeks but fucks with any of the other movies do yourself a favor and Netflix the series, its only one season but posisble one of the most stellar comedy/drama runs ive come across. All the characters are fully realized & three dimensional with great arcs, which is amazing alone. but Freaks also manages to hit the mark of channeling shared memories of anyone who enjoyed a not-on-the-football-team/prom-queen high school career while fully avoiding cliched melodrama.

check this clip of THE DUDE bill getting home from school:




this scene is a lil heavier on the dramatic side rather than the comedic side but the balance between the two was what really made the show. while watching Bill laugh like a nut is fairly funny, the weight of it comes from dudes solitary amusement, really all my former latch key kids can definitely feel this scene, from the small details like the Entenmann's¹ and the TV tray table to the specifics of the time period that may change depending on your age/locale but still hit home (ie. the Gary Shandling show clip²).

great show, and i cant wait to see Pineapple Express knowing its coming from the same crew. Also great use of M.I.A's Paper Planes, i was NOT feeling that song prior to this trailer but now im 100% on board.

¹SHOUT OUT TO Entenmann!!! they make the best soft baked chocolate chip cookie jumpoffs. back in the day my house STAYED supplied in their products. a lil five minute drive away from my house was the local Entenmann's warehouse which would sell their products at a crazy reduced price because they were near expiration. So we would always some fresh soft baked cholocate chip cookies, or danish rings, or homestyle apple pies. dudes have the baked goods game on lock.

²i could never fuck with Gary Shandling, never really "got it" per se. but in my latch key days it was all about the after school power hour of Charles In Charge/Saved By The Bell at five on good ole WPIX channel 11. WPIX was a great syndicated run local station because seemingly all they bought the rights too was Star Trek: The Next Generation, Saved By The Bell, Charles In Charge and The Last Dragon. I have no problem with any of those shows. Picard for the win!

LET'S GET SERIOUS

Telex - Eurovision

i dont really have much to say about this song other than its completely and unabashedly awesome. the year is 1980, the location france, the beard neatly trimmed & restrained, but nonethelss powerful. the song amazing. it sounds like the theme song for a cartoon about a super cute lil alien/dog thing that gets into hilarious mishaps while dodging the evil INS agents. also there should be a lil boy in the cartoon named Jacque.
its warm outside and this is what you need to be listening to. REAL TALK!

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS (on monday)

Sepultura - Troops of Doom Live from Barcelona '91


back in high school i had this video tape of Sepultura live from Barcelona, and i used to rock that ish after school and try and learn the guitar parts, because there was no overdubbing so it was easier to figure out. all i ever picked up from that video was that Sepultura was awesome and that you should always either play really fast or super slow and evil sounding. Troops Of Doom was great because it had both of those key ingredients in one song. the opening riff is just mean as fuck, and after that first 30 seconds or so its just fast fast fast.

this video is really from the silver age of Sepultura, Beneath the Remains and Arise were out, both would become classics in their catalog and they still had to look forward to Chaos A.D (their most complete work) and Roots. Oddly enough this song is a kinda lost gem from their first album Morbid Visions, which sucks alot but had an amazing title. They also had an album called Bestial Devastation which was also god awful but had a great title. Bestial Devastation, how awesome is that? so many ways that can play out, all of em metal as hell.

Now, Sepultura is a shit band playing shit music with like one original member left. I do not acknowledge this band nor their music, in my telling of events after recording Roots Sepultura embarked on a mission into space to aid the Shi'ar empire in their fight against metal hating aliens. Sadly, they were never seen or heard from again

ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MAN'S NAME

Nike Commercial featuring Lebron James & music by Cliff Martinez


did someone over at the NBA film/marketing department recently discover the magic of instrumental post-rock and or soundtracks? about a month or two ago i saw the above commercial for Nike with Lebron James. excuse me, LEBRON JAMES. anyways, im watching the commercial and cant help but notice that the music is from none other than Steven Sodenbergh's 2002 Solaris. you know the remake of the 1972 Russian Sci-fi epic about a sentient hallucination inducing planet, starring ya boy George "worst batman, but still a good actor" Clooney. yeah, that Solaris that no one saw. so im like LEBRON is feeling the cerebral Sci-fi? who knew? but then this morning im watching sportscenter as i usually do in the a.m and i notice the below commercial featuring music by the ridiculously not talked about enough Rachel's. you know them the lil indie band from Louisville who make sprawling, sublime chamber music type jams featuring field recordings and no vocals. yeah that Rachel's. So im thinking the NBA marketing department must have recently gotten into Pelican and Sigur Ros as well. but then i stopped and realized the key factor in both of these jawns is ya boy LEBRON JAMES, basketball player extraordinare and connoisseur of fine music. i salute you LEBRON keep up the good work.




NBA Commercial Featuring music by Rachel's

IM SO LONELY

Mister Lonely Trailer

this is the new film by Harmony Korine, director of ultimate indie WTFOMGBBQ! weird as shit flicks Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy. I'm glad to see that the dude is A. still making movies and B. not making another flick about a kid that eats spaghetti in dirty bath water. this jam looks pretty ill, I've always wondered what would happen if Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe impersonators got together. really who hasn't. i especially dig the scene where they introduce the other impersonators, somehow it feels like some kinda mental hospital production of League Of Extraordinary Gentleman, but obviously with mroe crazy involved.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY PT.1

Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star - Definition

throwback joint to 1998 before Mos Def was an actor and Talib was irrelevant, great video shot out of/inside of the Flatbush Avenue staple, the dollar van. all the visuals of Flatbush Avenue with none of the maddening traffic/congestion and foul smells. i remember my homegirl sent me the mpfrees of Black Star and Mos Def's Ms. Fat Booty back in like '99 when it took like an hour to send three songs. Ms. Fat Booty was on some other other ish, being a must include for any mixtape given to a chica with even the slightest bubble. but back to the joint at hand, Definition was a straight banger with the pseudo dancehall beat and all the "i-took-courses-in-black-studies-at-college" musings of Mos Def and Talib. It was a nice respite from the jiggy era and the cash money millionaires post industrial rap complex. never quite understood why this genre was regulated strictly to college campuses and coffee shops. for a second we thought mos def was gonna smash the world but thats not how it went down. Kanye is as close as the genre got and only half of his output has this feel to it, so cheers to you conscious rap, you were fun while ya lasted.

SAY WHATS UP TO YA BOY YOUNG BOBBY DRAKE

The days are getting longer and the skirts are getting shorter, so obviously its getting to be spring round these parts. Along with rising temperatures and hemlines comes the yearly tradition of re-upping on fresh gear, my first acquisition of the season are these metallic blue Nike Dunk Zoom Highs which I've surreptitiously redubbed the Bobby Drake Specials. I imagine they will keep the entire block chilled like that Jamaican dude who used to run the Good Humor truck back in the day.

ABOUT FRACKIN TIME!

This Friday, April 9th TV's best show about religious fanatical, genocidal humanoid robots returns to the air after a year long hiatus. and no im not referring to Desperate Housewives, but instead im talking about Battlestar F. Galactica. For the uninitiated Battlestar Galactica is a show set in a futuristic world where a sneak attack by robot forces leaves all but ~50,000 humans and one warship still functioning. On the surface this sounds like a standard enough plot for any number of rather shitty Sci-Fi Channel originals. But the thing about Battlestar is, while the show is outwardly about a war between humans and robots in space it is more concerned with questions of faith, gender roles, morality, religious fanaticism, genocide, government, existentialism and the nature of humanity itself. all of that plus lasers, dogfights, giant spaceships, robot/human/robot 3 ways and torture. if they added in cyborgraptors it might just be the best television show ever. as it stands its an impressively adult and serious take on sci-fi which is something we don't usually see paraded around openly in mainstream pop culture.
if this sounds liek somehting you could dig on, then id say with the utmost of urging to check out the Battlestar Galactica miniseries available at Netflix or at Blockbuster or wherever you rent your DVDs from, just dont watch the new episode on SciFi Channel on friday as it'll spoil 3 seasons worth of developments and prolly wont make much sense.

HALF ROBOT. HALF ALLIGATOR. HALF MAN.

photos from Genghis Tron last night at the knitting factory.
pure techno rave brutality. live their mixture of electronics and grind really ceoms through quite powerfully, although they had a tendancy to stop between songs like a hardcore band would instead of stringing the music together into a larger experience as a dj/eelctronic artist might. but ill let that slide since they brought the killer RAVE LIGHTS. Daft punk may have better lights but do they have blast beats? exactly. genghis tron 1, daft punk 0.

live they really do come across as a more composed and streamlined version of dillinger escape plan. or rather a streamlined version of dillinger escape plan in 2001. really, what dillinger escape plan would sound like now if they still gave a shit about music and weren't so concerned with shitting on my hope in musicianship and artistry in extreme music.


previous thoughts on GT here
and here.

youtube of a GT performance below sans RAVE LIGHTS.