Gorillaz - New Video - Dirty Harry feat. Bootie Brown

The new Gorillaz video for "Dirty Harry" has become available on Rollingstone.com. I'm a big fan of the new Gorillaz album Demon Days despite the fact that Dan The Automator was not involved in the production. Instead the DJ responsible for the controversial "smash-up" The Grey Album, Danger Mouse, handled the production an took the group to a sadder and more politically conscience level, the best track being "Dirty Harry." The video however was somewhat disappointing. You can't argue with the animation genius of Jamie Hewlett, but the concept of this video is a strange cross between Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and M*A*S*H. It had an interesting blend of live action and animation and the appearance of Bootie Brown of Pharcyde fame was a blast from the past, but the video was missing the bright colors and jaw dropping visuals of their previous efforts. I would still recommend checking out the video and definitely buy the album if you haven't already. Also, if their live act comes to your town get tickets immediately and prepare yourself for one of the best live show you'll ever see.

Charlie D and Albie E didn't like to answer mail either...

I've got to stop commenting on the Yahoo! News wire. For one thing, far too many people post blogs about their thoughts on these stories and because it doesn't really make for an interesting post but I saw this article( http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/10/27/Einstein-Darwin051027.html?ref=rss) ) about how people (such as Einstein and Darwin) answered their mail in similar ways that we answer our emails. That is to say (for those that didn't read the article) we answer some immediately, we put some off, and we ignore the rest. I happen to be a horrible offender of the second category, putting it off, and have probably lost or definitely weakened some friendships because of it. Now these guys had excuses not to answer so much mail. It takes a long time to write and people wrote differently back then with nice penmanship with well formed sentences and a poetic flair. They also were probably busy with their world changing science.

Just by reading this post you can obviously see how far we have fallen witht he written word and I would never even write this much in an email. Most of my email consists of this:

"Yo Person X, What's up? Things are good here. Saw so and so last week they're pretty good. Hope you're doing well. I'll see you at the wedding. Later, Rick"

Not exactly Shakespeare and probably not Darwin either. So, I don’t really have a good excuse for not answering my email.

Disclaimer: I have never read a letter written by Darwin or Albert E so I'm assuming they had nice penmanship and a poetic flair to their words. There is a good chance that I'm full of shit.

A few things on a Thursday night

Sitting in tonight watching some TV and surfing the web. Crazy story on the Yahoo! news wire right now http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051027/ap_on_re_us/brf_woman_hanged. Extremely sad and somewhat embarrassing for the whole town, or at least those who saw the woman and did nothing. It also speaks to the higher standard we all hold people who decorate for Halloween, but shouldn't we all agree from now on to just check to make sure it's fake before walking down the block to grab your venti latte? Thanks that's better.

It seems more and more everyday that we're becoming increasing disconnected with each other. I mean hell I'm writing my opinions on cyber space for you all to read, but I also don't really want to meet you and have you show up at my doorstep someday. No offense but that would be kind of creepy. Let's just take this relationship slow and keep it between the written word and the servers. That's not to say we can't do more to help each other out either by holding a door for a woman pushing a stroller or contacting a police officer when a drunken homeless man is passed IN THE STREET out in front of Penn Station while pedestrian after pedestrian walks by (true story).

I Also Have An Opinion - Part 1

So first let me welcome you to the very first posting of my very first blog. Congratulations, I can't believe you've found it. But it's not enough that you found the blog, that was the easy part, the hard part is keeping you here. With a vast world of cynical postings, snarky celebrity bashing, and incredible amounts of porn at your finger tips you have chosen me. For this I promise not only to be the MOST cynical, the MOST snarky, and the MOST pornographic, but to also be your friend.

Why a blog and why today, Thursday 10/27/05, to start one? Here’s why, on the subway today a smelly homeless man said to me "a man is not a man unless a man has a blog" and I am a man damn it! The other side of that coin is “a blog is not a blog unless a blog has you, the informed reader.” In all seriousness I started my blog today because I have an opinion too and I’m not happy sharing it with only my friends and family. I’m an important man with big ideas that need to reach the masses. I’m a college graduate with a 3.0 GPA and I should be using this knowledge to affect the world. But since I’m not on the “A-list” just because I “have no money” or “fame” my opinions just annoy those around me and not the country as a whole. That is until now.

So to quickly summarize this blog's christening 1) Cynicism lives in this space, snarkiness pays the mortgage, they're building equity together. 2) Blogs make you a man I am now a man. 3) This doesn’t happen without you, so give yourself a pat on the back and please come back for more.


RT

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