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FRANK MILLER’s RONIN WILL KICK YOUR AZZ…

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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Editor’s note: All this ‘Kick Ass’ talk made me search the DP.com archives yesterday and I uncovered this ancient drop about one of my favorite writer’s graphic novels.

Fanboy Saturdays @ DP Dot Com just went up to 100 on the Fresh To Def-a-tron. With the news that FRANK MILLER’s ‘Ronin’ mini-series is about to be produced for the big screen we here at the site are preparing for the day that some Warner Brothers exec has the balls to greenlight the Dark Knight Returns for a similar cinematic debut.

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FRANK MILLER’s ‘Ronin’ is epic piece of comic art and storytelling. Feudal Japan meets a future apocalypse in New York City. A masterless samurai finds himself transported one thousand years into the future to avenge the death of his master and save the world. Just like all the great dystopian futures we find that biological engineering can’t help itself but to find it’s evil potential. Corporations now control your body and your mind in this brave new world.

The landscape of ‘BladeRunner’ comes to mind when I look at some of the beautifully rendered splash pages that MILLER inserted into this graphic novel. The question of what defines humanity is the essence of the story and because FRANK MILLER is telling the story means that there will be plenty blood and guts throughout.

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If you lived in New York City I would tell you to visit the Forbidden Planet store on Broadway @ 13th Street. All their fanzines and graphic novels are available for perusal and review. As long as I go in there without any money on me I’m fine.

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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

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Internets! I need y’all to keep your eyes out for the kid on this one (shouts to DJ Franchise). I’m going back to my favorite Delancey Street shoppe to have SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE! embroidered on two(2) dozen New Era caps.

I wish I had a few San Francisco Giants caps in the lot because the SF would be the most appropriate representation of how we get down for our kicks. There used to be a New Era joint for Bill Russell’s alma mater, the University of San Francisco, which had the SFU initials on the crown, but they have since contracted their initials to SF also…

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I need y’all to keep your eyes peeled for the kid in your local A.J. Wright installations for SF hats. Right now A.J.Wright is selling these caps for $7.99-$9.99 apiece. I’d like to rebuy any SF caps you come up on as well as reimburse you for the postage and your time to look for them.

How does this work?

When you leave your e-mail address in the proper field I will e-mail you my phone number. You then call me so I can give you more details.

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KICKS ASS!

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

I know you can accuse me of excessive fanboy hyperbole for a number of things that appear on this page from sneakers to Raekwon, but when I tell you that ‘Kick Ass’ is the movie that the medium was created for I really mean it. I’m already making my plans for going back to see the film several times. It is a moviehouse delight to have an ‘OH SHIT!’ moment with several hundred other people.

Aaron Johnson is the young actor in the lead role who goes from a nerdy high school nobody into a crime fighting vigilante that gets beat up himself even more than he beats up criminals. Nicolas Cage(who I enjoyed in this role as much as his part in ‘Raising Arizona’) plays a revenge minded ex-cop. The movie’s biggest star is ultimately the smallest performer. Chloe Moretz is Cage’s potty mouthed pint sized partner and she is an assassin on the level of Elektra, for those of you familiar with the Frank Miller reference.

‘Kick Ass’ was developed from a comicbook title of the same name. It was written with all the self-referential comic nerd snark that made The Dark Knight Returns one of my favorite comic series of all time. ‘Kick Ass’ knows it’s insane and yet it still feels real because everyone is giving their acting performance in real time.

Fux any review that tells you this film is too violent. It isn’t. No one gets beheaded, impaled, dismembered or microwaved who doesn’t somehow deserve that treatment. And I promise that you will cheer as loudly as I did when some badguy gets offed. You may even laugh louder than I did. I’m gonna be checking this flick again on Tuesday in the proper mindset (shouts to 4/20).

The film that I closely relate ‘Kick Ass’ to is Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’ which I watched for the first time last week, true story. The idea of honorable revenge at any cost has been a theme of all my favorite kung-fu flicks. ‘Kick Ass’ takes those films and mixes in the action and dialogue of the Adam West Batman series to deliver some totally unlikely and completely lovable heroes.

But see ‘Kick Ass’ for the utter enjoyment of Hit Girl’s sailor mouth and broad sword mayhem.

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AIR MAXED OUT!

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

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It was one of those wonderful ‘Oh Shit!’ moments for me when I was walking down West 34th Street across from Macy*s and peeped what was inside FootLocker’s display window. Wham! (no George Michael) It hit me like an ice cold breeze. Nike had finally gotten the message that the Air Max was life sustaining air. At least for us sneaker fiends it is…

Perched on top of multi=colored oxygen tanks were the latest Air Max offerings. Some of the classic styles mixed with the latest Air Max+ 2009 and a brand new hybrid called the Air Max 24-7 (I wasn’t enthralled with the name, but the shoe is fire flames james). It was a serendipitous moment for me since I never, if ever look into FootLocker to see what they are offering.

I walked inside and proceeded to have my mind blown. The Air Max programme is at the center of this sneaker fiends’ dreams. The concept of putting air inside of a shoe where there once was rubber and foam is a glorious step towards the future dystopia. There was once something and Nike has replaced it with nothing and charges me more for the less it gives me. I keep buying it too.

These will be the shoes that I wear when I ride on the pale white horse…

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Air Max ’95
Ain’t nothing changed with the classic style. The uppers’ premium materials and the kelly green midsole are what we haven’t seen together before. Suede and patined leather? I wasn’t ready.

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Air Max 24-7
The Air Max 24-7 is a hybrid of the AM95 and Air Max 97 uppers placed on top of an Air Max 2009 platform. After holding this shoe in my hands I needed this joint in my life. The perforated leather upper is soft and smooth and it helped to buffer the $160 pricepoint.

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Air Max+ 2009
This was the moment that the clouds opened up and I heard these angelic voices going “Aaaaahhhhhhhhh”. These shoes are crazy. They are beautiful and ridiculous all in one fell swoop. I think they are all red because Nike is giving the proceeds from these shoes to fighting AIDS in Africa via the project (RED).

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Okay, I just made that up to justify my purchase. Nike isn’t giving shit away. They’ll be using the profits from these shoes to buy up all of the oxygen on the Earth so that come tomorrow we will all be breathing Nike Air.

Ha.

That’s what I would do.

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FRANK MILLER’s RONIN WILL KICK YOUR AZZ…

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

KICKS ASS!

AIR MAXED OUT!

Kick-Ass >>> Watchmen