“We remember the decade a little differently—not with poptimist lenses or with whatever beer goggles make you think Kid A isn’t boring, but with cold, hard, honest eyes that see the last 10 years as an irredeemable shitpile that makes disco’s final cokefarts look like Woodstock.”
Well, if you’re going to be like that … go right ahead!
It does seem a little reductive to look at it that way, but certainly not irrefutably so. Maybe with time and distance this decade will seem different…the 80s kinda sucked too, but now they’re looked at much more favorably, as the 80s influence on this decade was huge…oh but wait, maybe that explains it somewhat. anyway, the Bush & Bullshit Era!
They do get points for mentioning dubstep in the first paragraph; I dunno if I’d call it an “inescapable culturlol trend” though, pfft.
Jesus. Christ.
Oh, well at the least the supporting cast is…oh goddamnit.
Gawd. I was hoping this was some sorta photoshop thing, but: nope.
What, did Jackie owe somebody in Albuquerque a lot of money or something?
“The Fab Four did not set the video game world on fire with the launch of The Beatles Rock Band. The game was one of the most overhyped in game history, with a buildup that was similar to last year’s Spore, which sold millions of units but was still a disappointment.”— - Venture Beat. Unsurprising. They were the Hanson of the 60’s and only a handful of songs were good, but even those aren’t going to appeal to a wide audience today. Unlike, say, Pink Floyd which utterly and absolutely rocks. (Except for their took too many drugs and then were unfortunately allowed into a studio to reef on random bits of equipment tracks.) Uh oh! INTERNET ARGUMENT /never liked ‘em /not sorry
Roger Waters isn’t fit to lick John Lennon’s boots!
The problem with Spore was well documented: Will Wright wanted to make a sort of videogame version of Powers of Ten (his early presentations of the game were enthralling!), but EA basically wanted him to make a less complicated Sims-like game for which they could sell $30 expansion packs twice a year, and the company won out—the released game bore little resemblance to the earliest demos (which were like every science fiction movie ever made put together). Plus they used the universally disliked SecuRom rootkit, a no go with gamers.
Beatles Rock Band was pricey, incompatible with any other Rock Band music besides the Beatles (this week’s pay-for-additional-content: the Abbey Road album!), and seemingly unsure of its demographic. It shows how greedy these guys have gotten that they still sold over half a million of these things, outselling the competition (Guitar Hero 5), and yet that’s “disappointing.”
(The industry is doing its best to kill off PC gaming in the meantime. Modern Warfare 2 won’t support mods or dedicated servers, wtf? So the PC community won’t buy it, so the pointy heads can say “See? Nobody games on computers anymore” and they can squash the PC market while continuing to nickel-and-dime everybody on the consoles…)
This reminds me of Mario Kart 64 the Frappe Snowland track ^_^This is the handiwork of either Ritalin or untreated OCD
Makes me think of the Forbidden Gardens of Texas
If Classic Videogames Had Achievements
This is great. It’s sorta amazing how quickly the whole “achievement” thing became an integral part of videogame culture…
This was a lot of fun. I always do this whenever I’m in places where movies were shot. It would have been great to have this guide last time I was in New York.Today marks the first installment of “New York, You’ve Changed,” a new Scouting NY series in which the New York featured in movies is compared with the city of today. This is not meant to be the usual list of shooting locations and addresses to visit next time you tour the city. Instead, this is a full shot-by-shot dissection to see what New York once was and what it has become, for better or worse. I’ve tried to recreate the angles and framing as best as possible, and have presented the shots (more or less) in the order they appear in the film. Enjoy!
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Two dudes tour the Dallas locations where Robocop was filmed:
Doesn’t get any better than this:Grado SR325i with Gold Cans
I love my Grados! They’re not as expensive as this particular model, but still pretty life-changing.
(via llohan)
Charo “Don’t Stop the Music”
Here’s Charo covering Rhianna, from this year’s Jerry Lewis Telethon (yes, 2009). It’s like she’s been frozen in time (esp. compared to something like, say, Madonna’s SNL appearance), still a force of nature.
I’m amazed anybody else was watching this, as it was well into the middle of the night (when the telethon is normally at its most entertaining, but still). Be sure to stay until the end for Jerry’s hilarious comment which really tops things off (He kept on in this vein for quite a while afterward, noting at one point the performance still had him “carrying a pack of Lorna Doones in here”).
9/30’s 3 hour dubstep extravaganza on SubFM, the Funky Fella Release Party!
celebrating our new album, out now at http://funkyfellacrew.digital-tunes.net
-intro-
dallas state of mind - play n skillz
mj rock - doctor j *
corn in ya gob - bet middler
swagga - excision & datsik
swagga - excision & datsik (sleek bootleg rmx)
duck jam - jfb
ganja dub - sukh knight
body bump - richie august
mess around with me - marchmellow
tranquil - dayn
malt liquor - chae hawk
pump up the volume rmx - dread foxx
rolling - lewill *
jumper - d ranged
cold rocker - george lenton
next hype rmx - tate s
when i look at u - emalkay (sduk rmx)
white lies - mr hudson (rusko rmx)
black & blue - miike snow (caspa rmx)
horiz kru - don froth *
the redemption - doctor j *
knumb - bet middler feat jess c *
complicated - knobby stylish *
steelface - whistla
change the game - l vis 1990
ordinary shit - m j loki
yo yo get funky - crissy criss
gangstas - rico tubbs (tes la rok rmx)
the midnight goul - mr creepz & clone a side
shake it - trolley snatcha
out in the streets - steve audacity
the boss - high deaf
the sound - murk dweller
trigga finga - dj distinct
dready or not - dread foxx & bmc
west coast rocks - matty g (caspa rmx)
dominator rmx - matty g
stargate defender - doctor j
nihilist - rumblejunkie
standman - doctor j
cable expert - intention & rare dynamic
duppy skank - horizons of darkness
in luv - mala
ganja smuggling - brown & gammon
herbalist rmx - numa crew
chief my herb - dread foxx
joka smoka - white label
polizia dreadlock - tryptomatik
my story - emalkay
jungle whomp - george lenton
the deep south - doctor j
rambo style - the antiserum
stonehead - rdubz
percolator rmx - jaybird
flash light - west norwood cassette library
flash light - parliament
(* - tracks from the new LP, “Funky Fella Presents: Show and Prove”)
Blues Brothers “Sink the Bismarck”
This tune was cut out of the theater version. It’s a Johnny Horton cover from the scene where they play Bob’s Country Bunker…
Last week’s radio show is up now:
9/16/2009
S02E08 “Free Kanye” imma let you finish but…
-intro-
heavenly dream - kay gees
keep the receipt - kanye & odb
shake - richie august
lopside - stagga
street knowledge - matty g
the midnight goul - mr creepz & clone a side
rolling - lewill *
nihilist - rumblejunkie
custard pie - 2nd ii none
duck jam - jfb
boom and pow - akira kiteshi (raffertie rmx)
blood curdler - high roller
gayfish - ganja white knight
beyonce do it - funky fella dub
knumb - bet middler feat jess c *
white lies - mr hudson (rusko rmx)
something or nothing - turboweekend (2000f & j kamata rmx)
horiz kru - don froth *
get busy - martello rotativo
wishing on - depone
in the middle - the streets (nero rmx)
pump action - chimpo
do my thang - doctor j *
technophobe - n type & the others
swiss dub - raadz
shamen - jazzsteppa & borgore
leaving babylon - searchl1te & mc zulu
wunderlick - robbing hood
more - uncle w
can’t tell me nothing - francis & the lights
i’ll erase away your pain - the whatnauts
late - kanye west
family business - kanye
everything i am - kanye
wouldn’t get far - game feat kanye
impossible - kanye feat twista
alright - twista feat kanye
sub.fm Wed nites (hey wait that’s tonight!) at 8 Central…
(* upcoming on Funky Fella, tentative release date Oct 1 yay)
Everytime a production photo leaks from Tim Burton’s aborted Superman movie, a kitten dies.
Here’s what Nic Cage would have looked like as The Big Blue Boyscout.
“this here cape represents a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom”
Kanye West broke the internet.
haha, it sure appears that way.
Admittedly, as she was going up to accept the award I was saying the same thing he said, but I wasn’t gonna go and snatch the mic away from her to let the world know or anything.
Also, Lady Gaga was doing her “occultish” performance bit and for a second I thought she might actually do Jagger’s (or GG Allin’s for reals, until foiled by offstage overdose) “suicide right on the stage” but, no. Would have been a hard act to follow!
(heh, Twitter has Kanye AND “Kayne” West as trending topics right now)
