bill simmons have been on this most of this year, me and my geek film snob friends have been (foolishly and prematurely) arguing about this since, like 2006, but two british publications (the times london and telegraph) recently released their best films of the decade list...and both lists manage to leave out the dark knight, eternal sunshine, no country for old men or wall-e in the top ten...but put stuff like borat, casino royale and slumdog in the top ten.
the telegraph was especially ridiculous, putting Saw (yes the crappy torture porn ...Read more
So people been asking me "what's with this recent Beatles kick?"
I'm like "what? since when do you need a reason to listen to the greatest band of all time, one that has put out more iconic tunes than any other musician alive?"
Okay so I'm being a music snob. The truth is, I am on a Beatles kick because of a combination of things. I already mentioned some of them on here--I cleaned my ears with this Japanese earwax remover, regained my superhuman/God of Gambler-level hearing, fixed the speaker...Read more
NBA stuff..
1: Brandon Jennings just dropped 55 today. First rookie to drop 50 plus since the 60s (you know, when the era was weak and the parity was so bad that everyone who's above average had ridiculous stats) And he did this in his 7th NBA game. Oh my...
2: Lebron announced he will be switching jersey numbers from 23 to 6 next year, out of respect for Jordan. Lebron said he's...Read more
what a sad fucking day, even america has to cater to the big six communists
money talks in the end, i guess.
fucking eh im tired. im annoyed. im running on empty (like the river phoenix movie). if the weather doesnt suck ass itd be a perfect night for a walk to kennedy town.
instead, i read this while listening to beatles "revolution"
youtube is probably the greatest form of entertainment for most of us these days. especially during work.
here are some clips that ive been watching alot lately.
the first is a clip off the blaxploitation film Black Belt Jones. Blaxploitation flicks is a subgenre of exploitation flicks, but with black people. It's awesome. Think Shaft. Think Pam Grier in the 70s.
Black Belt Jones is played by Jim Kelly. Most of you guys will remember him as Bruce Lee's ally who gets killed in Enter the Dragon. Some of you ma...Read more
One of the common complaints I always hear about HK is that the music industry is weak, cantopop sucks, people like crap music, and the live scene pales in comparison to other cities.
I'm currently working on a feature for SCMP right now on this issue, and I must say, after talking to a lot of good folks, I realized that things aren't too bad.
We have venues like Sense 99, which is essentially a free venue for artists to do their shit. Not just musicians, mind you, but poets or painters or stage performers. T...Read more
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Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--38607R6G4 heres a guy playing the transition from mean mr mustard to polythene pam to she came in through the bathroom window from abbey road on bass and guitar.
A few weeks ago I wrote about how a few weeks before that I pitched this story idea to several editors and was soundly rejected.
The story idea was that I wanted to write about the tremendous popularity of basketball in Asia (and worldwide...bball's got more appeal over the world than any other sport. North America* will NEVER, EVER give a flying shit about soccer or rugby and no one in Asia* will ever care about US Football or baseball). That's the main angle--how bball is blowing up here, how the average HK youth will ca...Read more