Sometimes I forget that I’m a contributor to one of Hip-Hop’s most official journalistic movements. My editor-in-chief reminded me by asking me what the deal was with all my action figure videos?
I breaks it down here…
Toy Stories: 15 Hip-Hop Videos Using Action Figures by Dallas Penny
We are only two weeks away from the premiere of Black Dynamite in the AdultSwim programme.
You’ve been missing that Boondocks type of racial irreverence and your patience shall soon be rewarded. Video link via Deftronic
I feel like I’ve been waiting for this film for forever and after watching it I was like, “What the FUX?!?” This is some BULLSHIT!
The Alien franchise has been one of the most intriguing and dramatic series put to film. It’s started to lose its way and become a B-movie camp series before the promise of this Prometheus prequel. And then a few weeks before Prometheus was set to release the creators tightened up. They started saying that Prometheus wasn’t directly tied to Alien, but these events occurred in the same universe.
That is what I call ‘Sucka Shit’. How the hell they gonna get the world hyped to see what birthed the greatest horror sci-fi flicks and then retract the whole setup? Those are the type shenanigans people play when they know their end product isn’t up to snuff. Ridley Scott and his team overshot the target for this film and in the process may have ruined the whole point of the prequel.
My biggest complaint tho’ was the simple idea which humankind was spawned from a humanoid type species. The human dominates Earth not because of their bodies but because of their minds. If an anthropod were three feet tall and could talk they might would be Earth’s dominant species. I have to believe that whatever put humans on this planet can put something here way better and badder than we are. I consider humans to be a ‘dry run’.
The alien from the OG flick rears its ugly head at the end of the film and then I ask myself how is this movie NOT related to the first film? There is the alien from Alien. Well sort of. Prometheus didn’t really know what it wanted to be. I blame that shit on 3-D and CGI technology.
When the original Alien dropped in 1979 nobody had all this visual tech to ruin your story. You had to make a good movie back then. Now all you have to do is make that shit 3-D and people will forget they are in the theater to have a story told to them. That’s why I go to the movies. Or sometimes I go to beat the summer heat and enjoy some air conditioning.
That’s the only thing you might get out of watching Prometheus… Two and a half hours of good air conditioning.
The Miami Heat’s NBA Finals victory now cements LeBron James into the league’s franchise seat which was forcibly vacated by Kobe Bryant. I’m not mad at how LeBron achieved this title because even tho’ he didn’t display the killer DNA myself and so many other fans wanted to see from him Lebron showed a true grit and an ability to be an all-around basketball player.
The triple-double James recorded in the deciding game is an underrated feat. It describes the sacrifice to grab rebounds and the unselfish nature which is needed to help other players get baskets. For crissakes, Mike Miller, who is one quarter of the role player he once was looked like Bill Lainbeer, hitting threes and taking charges. That was LeBron James motivation which enabled Miller to be great.
LeBron will still be someone who I think cries to the refs too often but so did Jordan and Kobe in their own respective ways. At least now LeBron James has a ring so those tears will be champion tears instead of alligator tears.
Okay, so maybe Lupe Fiasco and Russell Westbrook aren’t the second coming of Steve Urkel, but it doesn’t hurt to imagine…