My People, My People!
First, let me say, I unequivocally LOVE Ms. Badu. As an artist, as a poet, as a woman, I have mad respect and admiration for Ms. Erikah Badu also known as LowDown Loretta Brown also known as Sara Bellum also known as Maria Mexico also known as Medulla Oblongata also known as Analog Girl in a Digital World. I, do. AND I think she made an artistic mistake with the controversial Window Seat video. Like so many of us artist with leanings towards the social-justice, greater consciousness, independent thinking side of things, we get great ideas. We're able to connect to a bigger picture, ...
Lunacy Watch 2010: GOP Affected!
Quick! Someone call the CDC because the GOP is suffering from the biggest pandemic outbreak the world has ever seen! Worse than the swine flu, worse than the bubonic plague. They have caught a case of the highly contagious and self destructive disease, Turrets Douchebaggerius Bandwagonitus for which there is only one cure. The GOP are insane. Let me get this straight, you want to use Taxpayer money IN THIS ECONOMY, to bring a frivolous lawsuit against the both the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury and Labor to stop the healthcare bill from going through? This is further ...
Precious Blackness 2010
This is about getting more than my (our, your) two cents in. Film-biz-wise. I'm not claiming to know it all. Don't wanna. Just wanna share, discuss, ignore, react, analyze... you know the whole range. That being said: where's the post-racial love? Where, oh where, is our Obama-jama?! One year later in our Prez's history-making (-dealing, -breaking, et al.) administration -- and also in terms of what women brought to cinema, both popcorn and indie -- and this is the best awards-season cover that Vanity Fair could do? Hello, can it be the thinnest, whitest decade? Well, yippee for Gabby Sidibe then, who keeps it ...
Where money & art make love
Dagnabit! I like a brain with my widescreen, thank you! Guess with all the studios hyped up on reboots (geez), remakes (ugh), and sequels (blah) , the cineastes inside of us that yearn for regularly-scheduled, intelligent filmmaking (a la Scorcese, Demme, Mann, Fincher, Haynes) that's rooted in this country will have to look no further... HBO will soon provide the means. Kate Winslet, anyone? And, before she glides into spring with an historic Oscar - IMHO, the stealthy, lithe, svelte Ms. Bigelow also got skin in the game. (Feeling all the "the" ends of these words, yowza?!) Time to shell out the $$ for ...
Oh No! Oh My! Oy Vey!
Sequels Galore! WTH? Reboots galore! Remakes galore! Can we please get SOME originality in Hollywood? PLEASE? Is that just too much to add? Too much of a departure from the norm? Too much to hope for? Egads! http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/its-a-deal-tom-cruise-in-mi4-for-paramount/ http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/02/can-you-reboot-one-film-franchise-mr.html http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/01/pierre-morel-to-direct-dune.html http://www.cinematical.com/2010/02/11/the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas-hits-the-remake-pile/ http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-line-moves-ahead-with-escape-from.html http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-darren-aronofksy-still-on-board.html
Douchebag Gumbo: Sexism, Racism w/a hint of Homophobia
Uhmm, uhm, that boy can eat! Ok, so I’m not a John Mayer fan as such (I just know the two or three songs) and I’m not NOT a John Mayer fan but I have a few water cooler thoughts on his recent “situation” and I’m just gonna hit this quick and dirty. John Mayer IS a douche – Let’s just get that out in the open. Anybody who hasn’t managed to learn the ability to harbor, at the very least, an infinitesimal amount of filtering, at his age, is a Douche. Not EVERYTHING we think needs to be said. This has ...
Nerd-docious news: Akira?!
Oh boy... will this combo really get the money and trust needed to make this thing work? The tech, the hype, the gore, the surreality of the epic? Who's writing this "bad boy?" (hello, over here!) Will two parts be enough? Casting wise, will Leo keep his mug behind the camera? Or would you trust Rain to do what he tried to do in Ninja Assassin? Oh wait, it's gonna be a rebuilt New Manhattan? I mean, it's my city but doggone it, if they ain't gonna really shoot it here -- especially if they go the Avatar "emotion capture" route -- why ...
Ooh ooh oooooh!
(Raising my right hand wildly while fist-pumping with my left) Can I be in this man's FIRST EVER family film? Puh-leeeeze? In fact... can I get this dude's career? Geez. Between the choices that Mr. Scorcese, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Pitt and Mr. Depp got in development, there should be no "dryness" in the creative pipeline. Except all the men in that statement... white men (yeah so Johnny got some "Injun" in him). Oh well.
Oscar Noms: Nothing to see here folks. Move along
Yeah, Julianne Moore, one of our consummate American actress (& I love me a redhead), got snubbed. So did the writers of 500 Days of Summer: boohoo. Are we really crying about Star Trek? I mean we "got" Avatar... and District 9! AMPAS could only have so many blockbusters in the reinstated 10-slots. But truly the only surprise, for me, from this year nominations was this: I still haven't seen a nominated foreign film entry? WTH?! And British films don't count right? Geez, and the Academy got this category right this year. Wait... I'm in NYC, where is The Prophet playing?
THEATRE – David Mament’s RACE on Broadway
Click Link Above For Official Site ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE 243 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036DATES: Opens: 6th December 2009 Closes: Open-Ended Audience: Race may be inappropriate for 12 and under. Children under the age of 4 are not permitted in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Run Time: TBA
Health Care: Don’t Let Loud-Mouth Ignorance Screw Us!
I mean, WHAT is the issue people? This is WIN-WIN. Ok. Well, I guess it's not a win for the thieving sons of bitches insurance companies, hell bent on milking this cash cow, who've made a lucrative practice out of thriving off of hundreds of our (well, not mine because I can't afford insurance) hard-earned dollars every month in HUGE premiums, for years on end, towards a product that "one day" you "may" need, then turn right around and find some reason to deny you, the day you actually need it. Listen, if you have no problem with THAT, can you please ...
I’m Skip Gates, Bitch!
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a professor at Harvard University, which was recently voted by US News and World Report as one of the best universities in the country, and lives in the surrounding Cambridge, MA-area. When I was composing a look at living African-Americans for Black Heritage month I thought about including Mr. Gates for his popular and influential PBS series African-American Lives which traced the ancestry of famous African-Americans as far back as there is written record for, usually starting when their ancestors first arrived in America most commonly as slaves. Gates has traced his own heritage to ...
Liking Ryan Reynolds now?
I dunno. He's entering Lov-Hatn status. It's not enough that Mr. Reynolds may have the potential hat-trick in ruining nerd-docious dreams everywhere... Being the smug-mouthed assassin in Blade: Trinity who just stares, lustfully (is this a word? IDK but it fits), Jessica Biel. What a horrible "end" to a brotha-led franchise. Marrying Scarlett Johannsen when he already had Alanis Morisette. The latter may have been too fierce for his ass, even though they're both Canadian... Taking on BOTH Deadpool and The Green Lantern?! 2 comic-book properties, albeit lesser-known? Starring in 2 potential franchises, from competing comic book entertainment publishers?! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Harrison Ford did ...
Gone Baby Gone?
Is this it for Sarah Palin? One can only hope but given Palin is an intellectual nightmare and foe to complete sentences everywhere, she may not be smart enough to realize it. Is Palin so jad (Hindi slang for dense/stupid) that she cannot grasp the inevitable: SHE WILL NEVER WIN. Sarah, unscramble your brain long enough to see the two looming obstacles you can never hurdle. 1.) People don't like it when someone burst on to the scene, swinging and talking mad shit, and then turn out to be stupid and 2.) The first woman president will be Hillary Clinton, Hillary supporters will ...
Nerd-docious news: from DC!
DC Comics that is... Oh what joy for brainiac nerd-docious revelers of the world! Superman may finally, finally -- FINALLY! -- get the 21st-century zeitgeist kind of treatment he "deserves." And, yes, DC should lean toward the comics, maybe with less aliens. If to match a little bit to Nolan's alternate reality. Yes, there should be a different writer (hello, I've been waiting), director (J.J. Abrams had a good draft & now he's too busy) and star -- Brandon Routh was BOOORIING. And, yes, get a va-voom woman up in there... Couldn't you afford Christina Hendricks (not on VF's cover BTW)? Or a down-to-earth ...
Charting The Pirahna-Infested Waters of Dating
It is perilous out here on the dating scene. Gone are the days when you could assume that if a person is hard-core pursuing you, he is single. What's up with all the attached men jumping in the pool. Hello, haven't you heard, YOU ALREADY HAVE SOMEONE, can you please back up off my terrain? I'm going to preface by saying, I am not nor have I ever been the type to mess around with men who with married, have girlfriends, significant others, live-ins, whatever. I don't have the inclination, I don't have the time, and I don't need the drama. Having said ...
What’s ROVE Got To Do With It?
Yesterday and the day before and the day before and the day before Karl Rove has come out (big surprise) against Obama/Democrats/Stimulus Package/etc... He doesn't (another surprise) "approve". Who gives a shit? I mean, who is still listening to this buffoon? Why would anyone give a fuck what the man, who was a huge part of a gang of greedy bastards politicians who ran this country into the ground, has to say? This, among a multitude of other reasons, is why this whole group of cronies should be charged for TREASON & MURDER. Its not enough that they fucked this country up ...
Do White Folks Read Black?
Today, I was riding the #4 Train uptown when I noticed a White Woman reading a thick book with a chess piece on the cover, I suddenly became curious, is she reading what I think she's reading? I found myself craning my neck, in a very casual manner, I might add, so as to not seem like a nut but the curiosity was killing me and I had to get a look at this title! I thought back on the book fondly, that was a good read. I looked at the woman, blonde & blue, and I began to wonder, as ...
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Lunacy Watch 2010: GOP Affected!
Quick! Someone call the CDC because the GOP is suffering from the biggest pandemic...
Health Care: Don’t Let Loud-Mouth Ignorance Screw Us!
I mean, WHAT is the issue people? This is WIN-WIN. Ok. Well, I guess it’s not...
I’m Skip Gates, Bitch!
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a professor at Harvard University, which was recently voted...
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My People, My People!
First, let me say, I unequivocally LOVE Ms. Badu. As an artist, as a poet, as a woman,...
Douchebag Gumbo: Sexism, Racism w/a hint of Homophobia
Uhmm, uhm, that boy can eat! Ok, so I’m not a John Mayer fan as such (I just know...
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Oh No! Oh My! Oy Vey!
Sequels Galore! WTH? Reboots galore! Remakes galore! Can we please get SOME originality in Hollywood? PLEASE? Is that just too much to add? Too much of a departure from the norm? Too much to hope for? Egads! http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/its-a-deal-tom-cruise-in-mi4-for-paramount/ http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/02/can-you-reboot-one-film-franchise-mr.html http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/01/pierre-morel-to-direct-dune.html http://www.cinematical.com/2010/02/11/the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas-hits-the-remake-pile/ http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-line-moves-ahead-with-escape-from.html http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-darren-aronofksy-still-on-board.html Read More →
Where money & art make love
Dagnabit! I like a brain with my widescreen, thank you! Guess with all the studios hyped up on reboots (geez), remakes (ugh), and sequels (blah) , the cineastes inside of us that yearn for regularly-scheduled, intelligent filmmaking (a la Scorcese, Demme, Mann, Fincher, Haynes) that’s rooted in this country will have to look no further… HBO... [Read more of this review]
Precious Blackness 2010
This is about getting more than my (our, your) two cents in. Film-biz-wise. I’m not claiming to know it all. Don’t wanna. Just wanna share, discuss, ignore, react, analyze… you know the whole range. That being said: where’s the post-racial love? Where, oh where, is our Obama-jama?! One year later in our Prez’s history-making... [Read more of this review]
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