Gabe just never got over Taylor writing "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" about him. Sometimes you've got to just look forward to hopefully greener pastures, man.
I met Chris Gethard at Mr. Coconuts post-callout and he was too CHICKEN to take me on. Or maybe I was just a normal person and thanked him kindly for the book. TOTAL PUSSY, BETA AF, 0/10.
There's another video that's worth mentioning that came from The Chronic, and probably a Top 3 song for me off the album for "Lil Ghetto Boy". It wasn't on MTV or BET, I feel like I remembered seeing it on The Box back in the day at my cousins house in New Orleans. Anyway, Ego Trip did a great write up on it and it kind of flooded back to me. Also, it really captures the urgency, importance, and danger of the time with the clips from a documentary on the riots (the clips are also used on "The Day The Niggaz Took Over" the name of the doc escapes me, but I know it's online, I watched it earlier this year with the 20th anniversary of the riots in April). It is a forgotten gem among what people most remember the thumping, knocking G-Funk and unfortunate misogyny. I mean, the album is classic, I fuck with it still, though I think Doggystyle is better, but it's still sucks that vid and song got buried when it's so good.
#OForOxford... oh who the hell I am kidding, no one from those days is around here anymore. We should make a GIF in their memory. They'd want it that way. They were pro-GIFs right? That's how I remember it!
I love Bad, personally it's my favorite era of Michael Jackson. It's not his best record (though it does contain my favorite single in "Smooth Criminal"), but I feel like it's the most representative of his true feelings. Under pressure to replicate Thriller, he sort of waved off Quincy Jones a bit to really take the helm on it. It IS very personal, it is almost petulant, it's enormous, and it's pop gold. And he really wouldn't make another record like it again. Since it didn't perform to Thriller's standard (which is humanly impossible), he felt pressured to give the reigns back on Dangerous (then to Teddy Riley) and so on and so on. I sort of respect HIStory in that regard as well, but it was unfocused. He was purely angry, spaced out, and maybe on painkillers. But he did have a joint with Biggie, so fuck it.
Oh ever the teacher's pet, FLW. Or, substitute teacher's pet anyway. I did enjoy today, Caroline, so you'd be the best Substitute teacher, under Dustin Hoffman on The Simpsons, and above Peggy Hill 3-time Substitute Teacher of the Year.
But the Alamo Drafthouse also has Hecklevision which you actually text in the theatre and your texts appear on screen. So we can't pretend like they've got a totally hardline stance. But yes, i absolutely agree. The Drafthouse is the best theatre I've patronized and I'm very happy they're coming to NYC.
No need to apologize about "Kokomo". I have a great misunderstanding for the general dismissal of the song, yet acceptance of other Beach Boys early hits, some of which were recorded with such little care but regarded rather well. "I Get Around" comes to mind (Brian Wilson was creatively breaking away at the time). I think it fits well into their canon, if filed under their earlier work.
And plus, most things with Muppets are intrinsically better.
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I'd posit that Regular Show is equally funny. But to answer Gabe's question, there are things that exist with this same kind of vigor, zest, and optimism, but most of pop culture is so singular today that it simply won't resonate on the level of a Muppet Show. Much of what was touched on Retromania or what Touré has also kind of championed, the thinking that there are no longer water cooler moments. It's very rare that we are all watching the same thing, let alone the same positive or hopeful thing.
Why is the latter point true? That's maybe a symptom of the jaded world that we live in now. Sure. But I think it's similar to my byline whenever people try to tell me that music is no good anymore. If you really look for something great, you'll find it.
If ever there were any doubt. The comments are forever my favorite.
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I'm very delighted for this corner. Glad it's getting some love here*
*along with how many million watch the show, but I want to feel validated on the internet.
My favorite song from the album, and possibly an all-time Prince fave for me, is "If I Was Your Girlfriend". I mean, it's true to what you were speaking to earlier: the bridge between his synth-pop and softened drum kicks of yore and dipping his toe into his more dirty funkier period. The lyrical flip is great too.
Also, I would definitely encourage the throwing of local parties. I met many friends I commented with everyday, and people I didn't even know commented that way. V cool. Go for it dudes!
FINALLY. As a Chicago Monster now located in NYC, I'm very sad to not be with my midwest friends, but I'm happy to hang at the REAL PARTY LOSERS.
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ATTN: If you are a Texas dwelling monster or are heading that way for SXSW, let us know on the Videogum FB page. We are thinking about doing a meetup. So make yourself heard!
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I'm not absolving Chris Brown of anything. I'm hardly a #TeamBreezy teenager. I just think that Seth Rogen's, and ostensibly many of those who ascribe to this view that they are really taking a stand for anything by making a Chris Brown joke, are wrong. They aren't. They still look the other way. And I still think Seth Rogen is gross for that "explanation". Sorry. And just to clarify, Rihanna didn't perform with Chris Brown at the Grammys. They later worked together on some songs, but the Grammys had nothing to do with that.
I know this is late in the day, so it probably won't be as read, but Seth Rogen's speech was kind of bullshit. And people that herald him any sort of protector of women's anything is misguided. He's the same person who thinks that date rape is not rape, and is also very funny. Also, The Academy Awards has brought back time and again spousal abusers/horrible people: Sean Penn, Mark Wahlberg, Roman Polanski (nom'd/not there obvs), Michael Fassbender, Josh Brolin.
So don't try to tell me that the film industry isn't the same morally bankrupt masturbatory money mill that all of the other major Hollywood institutions are.
Can we talk about Up All Night. Very enjoyable. Though, I thought Reagan was particularly put out of the way to be selfish this episode, I thought it was better than 30 Rock, which is spinning its wheels.
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