We recorded this hours after learning the world lost Prince, one of it's most important figures of (at the very least) the last century. Travis and I talk at length about Prince's impact on our culture, our families and ourselves. After I shed a tear or two, we get into our weeks, and Travis continues to enjoy his new reads. I'll tell you about the Gilani/Seemion wedding, and my first acting audition in years! Then... oh boy. Travis and I take turns yelling at the television as Team Flash comes up with a plan (kinda) to stop Zoom (maybe?) once and for all (we hoped kinda maybe). Wally decides the rent is too damn high, Cisco decides the dark side is way too close, and Zoom's pops decides the chicken was too damn dry! Some great juxtaposing, more and more insight as to why the supporting cast matters so much, and a room full of killers who can't bring themselves to kill this time. Damn. All this and more on this week's Fan X Fan Show!
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Thursday, November 12, 2015
Fan X Fan Show - CW's "The Flash" (Season 2, Episode 6)
So... let's talk about this ass whoopin'! In this weeks episode "Enter Zoom", Barry is humbled, word to the Iron Sheik! We get more Barry/ Patty Romance, a closer look at the work that is Earth 2, and some intentionally horrible acting. Also, we talk about some of the very best beatdown ever caught on film. And... another excuse to talk pro wrestling! You'll hear our excitement from the jump. And remember - tell a friend to tell a friend!
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Fan X Fan Show - CW's "The Flash" (Season 2, Episode 4)
This week, the formula changes up a bit! We have a new hero, a team- aided villain, and trendy high school football uniforms! Barry and Iris explore brand new territory, we see what happens when normal people get around the STAR Labs nerds, and a damn Street Shark shows up! Also - MAYBE WALLY WEST?!?!?!?!?!? That and more on this week's episode!
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Fan X Fan Show - CW's "The Flash" (Season 2, Episode 3)
This episode was recorded on "Back to the Future" Day! This week, we talk Biff's Sports Almanac, Star Wars, new ITunes reviews, and "good ol' boy" comic fans, before we get into the good stuff! The Snarts have a family crisis, and Flash team are on the case! Time paradoxes, exploding heads, old relationships, new relationships, new heroes? All this, and the return of a former villain, all this week!
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Drake is Tony Montana, Future is also Tony Montana - "Me and My Friends" talk "WATTBA" (Part 1)
Author's note - everyone does "week of" reviews - decided to let this one marinate, then discuss it with like minded folk.
Once I find a movie I like, I can watch it time and time again. A few examples - "Step Brothers is one of the start to finish funniest things I've ever seen. I feel like I find something new each time I watch. "Friday After Next” certainly isn't as GOOD as "Friday", but the shift in storytelling, and the supporting cast just work for me. "Blade", the first great Marvel movie, is a basic cable staple, and when it's on, I watch start to finish every time, commercials included.
One movie I watch, but never finish, is "Scarface". Hood classic, late bloomer, Spike TV's favorite go to, the story about Cuban criminal turned American criminal turned coked out corpse, is a movie I both love, and find hard to enjoy in it's entirety. Whenever Scarface is on, I stop the movie right after you see the tiger in the garden. He made it. Tony Montana rose to the top, got the girl, and the ridiculous pet. Fin.
So my relationship with the super popular film parallels the relationship I have with Drake's music. I'll preface this by saying, its all pretty good. There really hasn't been anything he's released I didn't "like" upon hearing. The issue is timing. "So Far Gone", Drake's first mainstream mixtape, is maybe the most important collection of music to me personally. To set the stage:
I had just recently graduated college, and had a well paying job. I'd been seeing a girl for about four years, and we'd just moved in together. Over the course of about four months, it just fell apart. There was nothing specific, it was just the change from living with/ around friends, and going to just the two of us, didn't work at the time. So the next few months were, in a word, intense. I was out every night. I was drinking more days than not. I had never really dated, so I was getting used to the whole dinner/movie drinks aspect of early 20's adulthood. But I figure this was how everyone else was living, so I should embrace my newfound freedom.
I didn't really talk to anyone about the situation for a time. It's hard to talk about things in your head going bad, when you have more control over your life than before, especially at a young age. But the fun, wasn't always fun. You become accustomed to sharing your space, your thoughts, meals with that other person. So, to cope, there's the alcohol. There are the parties, the bars. There's poor dieting and a lack of exercise. You want to exist in a space where you don't worry about what isn't happening anymore, but you want to control as much of every other aspect as you can.
So word of mouth starts talking about "So Far Gone", and how this kid from Canada can really rap/ harmonize. I give it a run. I'm immediately floored. The bars are strong. The cadences are crisp. The "ballads" as they were, REALLY work. But the best thing about it - it's just so unapologetic in it's selfishness. It's "808's and Heartbreak" if Kanye could naturally produce an alto. The entire crux of it is "how am I supposed to handle all these good things happening to me?" and I could understand, start to finish. It was about being the pressures of being desirable, asking people to fix things you ruined, and most importantly, nothing is really my fault.
So it's difficult for me to dive into the deep end of any other Drake project. The music has progressed, and for all intents and purposes, he's BETTER today at singing and rapping. But "So Far Gone" was my crutch, my doctor, my friend. I don't need that tarnished, because it meant so much at the time.
On the opposite end of that is Future. I want to hear every Future record made ever. I want the stuff he tossed in the garbage, the stuff that didn't make a mixtape cut. Whereas Drake's first big project is the very best of "Scarface", Future is the extended cut. It's all so painful. It's sex, drugs, and rock & roll, but if Roger Troutman smoked Newports and had his jaw wired shut. I love it. It's dark, even when it's being lighthearted. I understand being around people that don't have your best interest at heart, self-medicating, and well, crazy dealings with women. Everything he has to say, even if I can't internalize it, I want to know about it.
"DS2" is phenomenal. It's blood and guts, the whole way through. "Is Rap music destructive?" Is always a hard conversation for me, because like most things, it's how you internalize it. I'm pretty sure at least 15 people died over the course of 18 songs. MAD BIRDS got flipped. So many pints of lean were consumed! But it's the way you present the subject matter. People forget Nelly's first single was about a damn drive by, because of the sing-songy nature of the hook. HE CAME OUT THE GATE KILLING PEOPLE! So when Future has the confidence to title a song "The Percocet & Stripper Joint", neither of which I'm really fond of, and I can't stop listening, I know whatever the subject matter, he's going to present it in a way I just want to hear more. It's real artistry - no matter the specifics, it's crafted in a way that even if you don't live it, you can SEE it.
Perhaps the biggest hook to Future's music is how it deals with women. It's certainly not embracing any type of one on one relationship, but the why out weight the "WTF?" for me. It's common knowledge Kayne's "808's" and "MBDTF" were inspired by ex girlfriends (to varying results), and a common idea is that "Yeezus" was hyper sexual because it was created while his wife was pregnant. So when Future opens with "you'll fuck a bitch nigga for the fame, won't you?/ you'll give that pussy up to a lame, won't you?" you have a pretty good read on who's being referenced. So even it the relationships aren't the one's your parents would approve of, you see real world events inspire language and code, making the music more authentic. In 2015, this is the only artist who's every word I'm hanging on. In the same way that I replay the hotel chainsaw scene in "Scarface" 5 or 6 times every time I watch. Up until the Tiger. Because there's really no movie after that. I'm convinced.
The "What a Time to be Alive" group conversation is in part 2.
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Once I find a movie I like, I can watch it time and time again. A few examples - "Step Brothers is one of the start to finish funniest things I've ever seen. I feel like I find something new each time I watch. "Friday After Next” certainly isn't as GOOD as "Friday", but the shift in storytelling, and the supporting cast just work for me. "Blade", the first great Marvel movie, is a basic cable staple, and when it's on, I watch start to finish every time, commercials included.
One movie I watch, but never finish, is "Scarface". Hood classic, late bloomer, Spike TV's favorite go to, the story about Cuban criminal turned American criminal turned coked out corpse, is a movie I both love, and find hard to enjoy in it's entirety. Whenever Scarface is on, I stop the movie right after you see the tiger in the garden. He made it. Tony Montana rose to the top, got the girl, and the ridiculous pet. Fin.
So my relationship with the super popular film parallels the relationship I have with Drake's music. I'll preface this by saying, its all pretty good. There really hasn't been anything he's released I didn't "like" upon hearing. The issue is timing. "So Far Gone", Drake's first mainstream mixtape, is maybe the most important collection of music to me personally. To set the stage:
I had just recently graduated college, and had a well paying job. I'd been seeing a girl for about four years, and we'd just moved in together. Over the course of about four months, it just fell apart. There was nothing specific, it was just the change from living with/ around friends, and going to just the two of us, didn't work at the time. So the next few months were, in a word, intense. I was out every night. I was drinking more days than not. I had never really dated, so I was getting used to the whole dinner/movie drinks aspect of early 20's adulthood. But I figure this was how everyone else was living, so I should embrace my newfound freedom.
I didn't really talk to anyone about the situation for a time. It's hard to talk about things in your head going bad, when you have more control over your life than before, especially at a young age. But the fun, wasn't always fun. You become accustomed to sharing your space, your thoughts, meals with that other person. So, to cope, there's the alcohol. There are the parties, the bars. There's poor dieting and a lack of exercise. You want to exist in a space where you don't worry about what isn't happening anymore, but you want to control as much of every other aspect as you can.
So word of mouth starts talking about "So Far Gone", and how this kid from Canada can really rap/ harmonize. I give it a run. I'm immediately floored. The bars are strong. The cadences are crisp. The "ballads" as they were, REALLY work. But the best thing about it - it's just so unapologetic in it's selfishness. It's "808's and Heartbreak" if Kanye could naturally produce an alto. The entire crux of it is "how am I supposed to handle all these good things happening to me?" and I could understand, start to finish. It was about being the pressures of being desirable, asking people to fix things you ruined, and most importantly, nothing is really my fault.
So it's difficult for me to dive into the deep end of any other Drake project. The music has progressed, and for all intents and purposes, he's BETTER today at singing and rapping. But "So Far Gone" was my crutch, my doctor, my friend. I don't need that tarnished, because it meant so much at the time.
On the opposite end of that is Future. I want to hear every Future record made ever. I want the stuff he tossed in the garbage, the stuff that didn't make a mixtape cut. Whereas Drake's first big project is the very best of "Scarface", Future is the extended cut. It's all so painful. It's sex, drugs, and rock & roll, but if Roger Troutman smoked Newports and had his jaw wired shut. I love it. It's dark, even when it's being lighthearted. I understand being around people that don't have your best interest at heart, self-medicating, and well, crazy dealings with women. Everything he has to say, even if I can't internalize it, I want to know about it.
"DS2" is phenomenal. It's blood and guts, the whole way through. "Is Rap music destructive?" Is always a hard conversation for me, because like most things, it's how you internalize it. I'm pretty sure at least 15 people died over the course of 18 songs. MAD BIRDS got flipped. So many pints of lean were consumed! But it's the way you present the subject matter. People forget Nelly's first single was about a damn drive by, because of the sing-songy nature of the hook. HE CAME OUT THE GATE KILLING PEOPLE! So when Future has the confidence to title a song "The Percocet & Stripper Joint", neither of which I'm really fond of, and I can't stop listening, I know whatever the subject matter, he's going to present it in a way I just want to hear more. It's real artistry - no matter the specifics, it's crafted in a way that even if you don't live it, you can SEE it.
Perhaps the biggest hook to Future's music is how it deals with women. It's certainly not embracing any type of one on one relationship, but the why out weight the "WTF?" for me. It's common knowledge Kayne's "808's" and "MBDTF" were inspired by ex girlfriends (to varying results), and a common idea is that "Yeezus" was hyper sexual because it was created while his wife was pregnant. So when Future opens with "you'll fuck a bitch nigga for the fame, won't you?/ you'll give that pussy up to a lame, won't you?" you have a pretty good read on who's being referenced. So even it the relationships aren't the one's your parents would approve of, you see real world events inspire language and code, making the music more authentic. In 2015, this is the only artist who's every word I'm hanging on. In the same way that I replay the hotel chainsaw scene in "Scarface" 5 or 6 times every time I watch. Up until the Tiger. Because there's really no movie after that. I'm convinced.
The "What a Time to be Alive" group conversation is in part 2.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Mimi's Adult Film, or That Time Y'all Pretended to Care about Other People's Kids.
(With my luck, this will be the one time my mother decides to read my blog.)
Mimi Faust, one of the major figures on VH1's "Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta", recently released a preview to her Adult Film "Mimi & Nikko - Scandal in Atlanta (The Secret Sex Tape)".
1) If your "sex tape" has a computer generated title screen, it's not a sex tape.
2) If your "sex tape" has a preview build, it's not a sex tape.
3) If your "sex tape" has a "Vivid" logo in the bottom right (southeast for the nerds) corner, IT'S NOT A SEX TAPE.
Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about the internet's most prevalent reaction to the 45 second clip of Mimi and her costar Nikko (on screen love interest and alleged producer) going at it. People are legit outraged that she would make an adult film, because "what kind of example would that set for her daughter?" That's a load of crap if I've ever heard it, and here's why - the same people that are upset over her making a porno are the same people that watch her damn reality show!
If you haven't seen "Love and Hip-Hop", here's a very quick analysis. Mimi has a child with Stevie J, former bad boy producer and public womanizer. He has a relationship with his grossly untalented protege Joseline, and parades her around very publicly in front of Mimi, who he still pursues. They've been on again, off again for over a decade because of his cheating ways, but she refuses to make a break, even going so far as to agree to a living situation with the both of them. For the.. ahem... sake of her daughter. The crux of the show is her yelling, and at times battering Stevie, while also placing misplaced anger toward Joseline, who owes her nothing.
So people take issue with her having sex on camera for profit, but don't have the same issue with her being abusive and violent towards her daughter's father, and other women as well? Hypothetical question - what would you rather explain to your child: Why there's a video of you having sex on camera, or why for the entirety of your child's life you let her father take advantage of you physically and emotionally? If you judge her actions on the standards of recurring problems against a single incident, it's really no contest! But well, we also live in a society where a penis in a movie is considered more detrimental than a sword, gun, rocket launcher, lightsaber, and giant lizard monster, but I'm just talking here.
I'm not saying that performing in Adult Films is an ideal life choice for a mother, but it's certainly not the worst life decision she's made. Probably not top 5. So everyone that stepped in yesterday and played Auntie or Uncle, have fun watching her set an even worse example next season - but with her clothes on so you can qualify it.
P.S. - To each and every woman that saw that clip and said "she's not even doing anything special" you are either a liar, or making some young man very, very happy. And asking if "Yeezy taught you."
Mimi Faust, one of the major figures on VH1's "Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta", recently released a preview to her Adult Film "Mimi & Nikko - Scandal in Atlanta (The Secret Sex Tape)".
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| Keep it 100 - This is the healthiest relationship he's ever had. |
2) If your "sex tape" has a preview build, it's not a sex tape.
3) If your "sex tape" has a "Vivid" logo in the bottom right (southeast for the nerds) corner, IT'S NOT A SEX TAPE.
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| If only all the blac... nvm. |
If you haven't seen "Love and Hip-Hop", here's a very quick analysis. Mimi has a child with Stevie J, former bad boy producer and public womanizer. He has a relationship with his grossly untalented protege Joseline, and parades her around very publicly in front of Mimi, who he still pursues. They've been on again, off again for over a decade because of his cheating ways, but she refuses to make a break, even going so far as to agree to a living situation with the both of them. For the.. ahem... sake of her daughter. The crux of the show is her yelling, and at times battering Stevie, while also placing misplaced anger toward Joseline, who owes her nothing.
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| Yup - this relationship was a GREAT example for the youth. |
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| I know some of you ladies' history - if your daughters still love y'all, Mimi's gonna be good. |
P.S. - To each and every woman that saw that clip and said "she's not even doing anything special" you are either a liar, or making some young man very, very happy. And asking if "Yeezy taught you."
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