So I’m slowly making my way through all the films in the major 2012 awards circuits, because I didn’t have enough time to do so in 2012. And I was lucky enough to come across SXSW gem Funeral Kings on iTunes today — such an awesome watch, so unabashedly confident in itself. The film was [...]
Wow. What else did you expect me to say? Am I biased? Yes. Am I rooting for greatness? Of course. But you know what this is. You’ve been here too. I mean, you remember that album, right? You know which one I’m talking about. The one you had circled on your calendar when it was [...]
One of the perks of being me is that I get to shamelessly plug the two or three artists I would never abandon, even if they spoiled the end of Breaking Bad for me. Little Rock-based Bear Colony is one such band. My love for Bear Colony runs deep, and is rooted somewhere back in my freshman [...]
It’s no secret that I love Fang Island. I don’t drop the l-bomb for many artists. I’m just in a hangin’ n’ bangin’ relationship with most of them. But not Fang Island. That’s full-blown, pretending to care about their day at the office stuff. And good news for people who share my same affinity, and [...]
I’m actually not dead, and I do apparently remember my admin password here. Just wanted to pass along this seven-man piano rendition of Kanye West’s “N***as in Paris”, because one of my co-workers is in it, and it’s pretty cool. And you should check it out. If you like this, check out cdza‘s Bandcamp. If [...]
So a few years ago, I penned an award list for my top movies of the year, named The Junkies, and then in typical Collin fashion, completely dropped off the radar for a year or so. But I told Marc I would try to drop my best in TV and movies before 2012 got here, [...]
First single off the upcoming album Reign of Terror. Anyone who’s read this blog for a while knows I’m a pretty big Sleigh Bells fan. I suppose half of everyone who’s ever watched a Honda commercial now is, but in the spirit of hipsterism, I had a download of “Infinity Guitars” up way the fuck before [...]
Perspective changes everything. That sounds like a lead to a really clever introductory paragraph that might have some profound revelations, but no, it isn’t. Not today. Today is for perverted elderly con-men, sensible sous chefs and strangers on a park bench. Seriously, that’s what I’ve got for you today. You lucky son-of-a-bitch you. No profound [...]
When I look at this year’s film of Emmy nominees, I can’t help but scratch my balls through my patriotic boxers and mutter my own pissed-off preamble: fuck you, America. In what is supposed to be the cultural epicenter of celluloid creativity, we’re reduced to the same recycled network scraps year in and year out. [...]
All it took to successfully assassinate radio rap was a white Australian comedian in blackface. Um, what? Chris Lilley, comedic genius, master of genre and writer/creator of Australian mockumentary series We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, did more with 12 episodes of Angry Boys than any blogger or critic has done with an entire of [...]
At some point back in the days of moon shoes and Gak, I was in a bedroom band by the name of The Spitting Camels. Don’t ask me how that band name was clever, funny or relevant to the 1990s. It was a shitty idea from a collective of Airwalk-wearing kids with shitty ideas. We [...]
Richie Cunning – Pure Imagination Pretty dope track by Richie Cunning here that samples Willy Wonka, if you couldn’t tell by the title. Also, the beginning is an excerpt from A Bronx Tale, which was one of my favorite movies during my seventh grade mafia flick stage. Lyricism is on point with this one.
