10 min. mind breaker

If you're anything like me, you live in a constant state of confusion; not knowing what is real and what is unreal. Digital media is the ultimate medium of the simulacrum - it can can be edited, replayed and re-edited ad-infinitum until you are so turned around that you cannot for sure identify truth from falsehood. The 9/11 videos tipify this birth and re-birth of the image and the inherent dishonesty in that image. Prepare to be fucked, if you dare.

happy new year.

listen to moms

only a fool messes with moms.

The Beast's 50 most loathsome people of 2007

Brilliantly snarky and dead on in capturing 50 of the truly loathsome that inflict our world. Some examples:



Joe Francis: The "brain" behind Girls Gone Wild, a series of videos documenting the decline of American civilization, Francis is the Ray Kroc of tit shots. A whinging, muppet-faced, juvenile smut-peddler who obtusely compares his artless, homogenized flesh surfeit to "European television," he proves daily that alcohol is the original date rape drug, and still the best. Has sapped flashing of its spontaneity, transforming it into merely another sad, numbing cultural reflex.



Chris Matthews: the unmodulated speech and unfocused antagonism of an aggrieved middle-management drunk.



Michael Vick: Makes millions for throwing ball, decides to invest in gambling on dog fights. How much dumber do people get than this?



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Global Thermal Nuclear War x 2?

In case you never saw it, just think of 1983 + Colicovision addiction + Matthew Broderick + Ally Sheedy + Dabney Coleman + Barry Corbin + WWIII = pure awesomeness.



Also, the good folks at MGM apparently came out with the sequel this past November: Wargames: The Dead Code. Which is not to be confused with the Da Vinci Code.

Playstation Meets Trash Talk

When you're on the court, trash talking can give you a nice edge over your opponent. This is guy learned everything he knows from my dad:

sexy time

Mini doc on the hiphop scene in BJ. Look for your boy at around 8:50.

Shout to Jamel in bubble land.

Culinary curiosity

Like a lot of people, I love food. I read magazine articles and cookbooks to find new recipes and ways to improve my culinary skills. Coming across this video reminded me that we all have different tastes and the "squirrel melt" does not appeal to mine.

wait...really?

They really made a sequel. It's totally happening.

"I'm gonna rock out with my cock out and you're gonna jam out with your clam out."
!!!!

chipped-up

In case you haven't heard, there is a hidden and not so hidden movement towards world government aka the NWO that doesn't involve wrestling. There are some positive and negative effects to switching over to the NWO.

First the positive:
1. better variety in restaurants,
2. no passports,
3. better cell phone reception and
4. less wars

The negatives:
1. getting chipped-up,
2. never ending war against terror,
3. homogenization through hegemony and
4. more strollers

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saudi americo

While watching The Kingdom's history lesson intro, I thought of this movie. Mixing history and fiction is maybe as po-mo as the D.A.N.C.E. Kimmel performance.

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When boots just won't do

Sometimes you need to cross the dessert with a little bit of style. The Prada store in Marfa, Texas (Population 2,121) is there for you. A nice alternative to the great state of sprawl and strip malls.

Links:

http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/68785

http://www.kultureflash.net/

do that dance

Paris is going crazy right now. This was on J-Kim last night and I almost pooped on my pants.

This song is so crazy that go-go hip-hopper Wale (the nike fanatic) put a crazy verse on the instrumental. Wale is giving away his mixtape with said track here.

light gravity

Author of brave new world lays the hammer down.

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Kung fu Krismas

Enjoy "Avenging Eagle" from the Shaw Bros. vault; staring Lung Ti. Features some good triple nunchucku action.

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"how many men have you killed?"
"I don't know. I've never counted, it's boring!"

debt

Debt is not as awesome as I thought it was... If you like your educational videos to star animated dinosaurs, this is the right video for you.
Enjoy, you little debtors.

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N.B.P.

A modern classic. This changed my whole perception of reality.

Thanks Hicks.

scratching is fun.

Q-Bert tells you what to do. From his helpful DIY series. If you don't have a mixer and table, please skip this lesson!

Baby


Reverse


Tips


March


Transformer


Leaks

Donnie Yen = B-Boy

Most people know him for his leading role in Iron Monkey. Others know him as a Hong Kong B-Boy who is really from Boston.

Mismatched Couples (1985). I recommend watching this on VCD.

Jamie Kennedy bit this bit for Kicking It Old School.

Drunken Tai Chi(?) (1984)


Please Donnie, don't hurt 'em.

moto porno

'87

'89

'92

Thanks Honda for all the best paint jobs and 80's/90's designs.

just a manute

"Fryin' MCs like the Sudan."

Somebody is watching you

Paranoia is nothing new. Rockwell had a bad case of it, but it was probably because he was living at Michael Jackson's house with a bunch of animals and reading Chinese newspapers.

drexler drive diss

Rasheed might have smoked more blunts, but he doesn't have a street named after him in Portland and he never took the Blazers to the Championship. Clyde the Glide could easily burn him with a swivel dunk from the free throw line over Manute Bol while Rasheed is on the sidelines trying to bum a hit from Robert Parish's joint.

Actual Facts

The posse cut from Lord Finesse. Too many cameos in this video - most notably Fat Joe on the acoustic bass, Diamond D banging the drums and KRS stroking the ivory(!). Big L stans pay attention to Lord Finesse's flow.
This is D.I.T.C.

"I'm an MC not an MD."

Puba & Mary

This is the ill remix by the stimulated dummies (Dante is a scrub!).

"oooh, bay bay kids!"

You mad...

because I'm stylin' on you. They mad because of the freedom. Aaron Russo makes a movie that does not feature Eddie Murphy.

Enjoy, tax lovers.

Get In The Flow

Here is a little something something that I put together with the Chinese Connection aka Lil' Spida aka 小蜘蛛. We were holding beat battles over at what was once shiftcn.com aka yintsang.com aka hiphop4china.com which is now ubreath.com. This was my contribution. I am not sure if they still are hosting the battles...


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Sheed

Basically the best basketball player since "Big Smooth" Sam Perkins. Seriously, if you don't know about the prowess of the Wallace, as Clinton Sparks' little baby would say: "get familiar."

Sheed, Wilt and the high-top fade.

Sheed on the receiving end of some ill Sabonis passes.

The SS

Melvin Bliss is the musical Marshall McLuhan.



Ladies listen up: you are in danger of being replaced by a love machine.

Cheffy!

If you don't know by now. Crazy Chef is funny. He has funny hair and funny rhymes. In the following video he says "转" (Zhuan = Spin) about a hundred times.

Cheffy is part of the group Dragon Tongue Squad (龙门阵) with his life partner Sketch Krime aka Kirby Lee.

Here is another Dragon Tongue video featuring some old British geezer.

Surprise! he asks them about censorship in China. I guess he knows quite a bit about what real hip hop is all about since he is a fifty-something from jolly-old jollytown.

First Of All...

Here is a video that I enjoyed: The Power of Nightmares Part 1. BBC documentary on the use of fear in politics. Features a good look at the philosophies of Sayyid Qutb and Leo Strauss.


Sayyid posits that things like excessive lawn care, talk of car prices and popular haircuts are indicative of a selfish and materialistic life. Basically, a Holden Caufield-esque look at the world that many people, first experience in high school and college.

Strauss went on to teach Wolfowitz, Pearl and Rumsfeld how to scare people into falling in line.

Fans of mustaches enjoy.

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