in case you weren’t sure what the trend is for the upcoming spring/summer season, here’s a few photos of what’s leading the pack.

so, go get your silkscreens & inks and join in. you’ve still got time to press out a few. all the cool kids are doing it.

“pander bear” © fire.

pics courtesy of wonkette, and the tubes that power the internets.

since youth, all of us of a darker persuasion have believed destro was black.  whether because of the voice actor, them thick ass lips on the mask or because of his fantastic pimp hat and cane.

now i’m not sure of the ethnicity of the destro in the following video, but i do know he honors the mask and doesn’t appear to have the same traits of bitchassness that the other guy does.

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recently, the googles provided me a couple of examples of some really idiotic uses of swarovski crystals. i, like most of you, probably had no idea what swarovski “crystals” were until the great cellphone craze of ’06. like you, i too was happy of having a quick and easily identifiable way to dump the “idiotech” stamp on a chick from 35 paces and keep it moving through the local mall.

since i’ve found out that these things are expensive as all fuck, and that you can find swarovski stores in some of your higher end malls i’ve been struggling with trying to understand how this came to be.  can anybody explain to me why people would spend hard earned money to have something emblazoned w/swarovski crystals? what, outside of idiotic stuntage, is the appeal of name brand rhinestones? is there another opportunity to sell something cheap & gaudy at an inflated cost w/an appealing foreign name that hasn’t been used yet?

if so, i’m all in.
seriously.  i’m there.

these photos of the diddlez and cassie hit the net earlier in the week, causing all sorts of discussions about puff’s wrongness, cassie’s talent and whether or not those discussing it had the right to offer an opinion on the subject. around the same time, el-p’s we’reallgonnaburninhellmegamixx 2 hit the net, causing me to pop my copy of fantastic damage in and give it another listen. which brings me, you and them to this…

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you think i’m a genius, i know i’m a whore…

that song, right there, encapsulates almost every thing i could say about the photos and the act.

and to tie a nice, neat bow around all this, let’s reference, bdp via the roots, kellz finally going to court, and Bill Murray, just because i get to post a picture of Scarlett Johansson.

clae, creative rec, supra and newcomers 100styles [via], so on and so forth.
why do these “high end” companies insist on putting white midsoles on these not-really kinda sorta sneakers?

i’ve wanted to get a few more pairs of these wears ever since my new gig allowed me to show up to work in whatever i damn well pleased on my feets. my boss wears overly techie shoes like he has to climb a mountain in our parking lot to make it to his car.

i hit up MajorDC w/the intent to pick up a pair of creative rec’s specifically because they didn’t have the shitty white midsole. unfortunately, these bitches were way too fuckin’ thin for my powerful manly tootsies.

maybe there’s something i don’t understand. i’m sure there is, so, why do so many of them choose to go with a white midsole? especially when it’s not complementary to the model? is it a cost thing? somebody help me…

META.

i’ve got an idea. you’ve got a post.
neither one of us is satisfied.

seeing him, sometimes 3 to 4 times a day has given me a lot of thought about the type of person that would create-or-purchase and then choose to display such an interesting cube artifact. although i can’t say much about her, i can say that i couldn’t imagine being that much of a fan of an individual that i would have a calendar to remind me of them each day. especially in an office environment where most of us use outlook & some other form of personal calendar like googleCalendar, iCal or our cellphone. the physical calendar, w/out any visible notations serves absolutely no date-based purpose.

it’s only the second of the month, but, she’s still got her calendar set to september. this leaves us with a very interesting question about whether the entire calendar is GL, GL headshots, a collection of fallen heroes of R&B or maybe some other inexplainable portrait.squares on rectangles compilation.

i thought i might have been too harsh in my thoughts towards this nameless lady, and that outside of it’s date functions, this calendar, featuring a square borderless headshot and completely lacking w/any awareness raising colored ribbons still might be to help inform people of whatever ailment took the L in LSG away at such an early age. so, yesterday, after my fifth or six trip past her desk, i decided to take a look on our dear friend, the intarweb, to find out a bit more about Mr. Too Damn Good. unfortunately, according to wikipedia, it was a combination of prescription drugs coupled w/pneumonia (read: Thursday at Winehouse’s) that was responsible for Gerald’s premature passing. not your typical sell-a-commemorative keepsake cause, but, still she could have the calendar posted to inform us of the need for better healthcare & an overall healthier lifestyle. which, of course, got me to wondering what Barry’s position is on the subject.

unfortunately, after yet another trip to “the drop zone,” i’ve realized that she must be on vacation, so it’ll take a week or so to get some answers to such pressing questions as what will October bring as the calendar turns…

the king is dead.

long live the king?

down with the king.

i thought the whole let’s-try-to-make-a-song-like-da-shop-boyz shit had reached it’s apex w/”do the rockman” by some-no-name-group that get’s played-way-too-much on the radio down here. apparently, i forgot that Mr. Piss-on-You liked making music that was appealing to children, so he enlisted luda cris to help him out w/a shitty ass, “rockstar, baby” song. i’m kinda disgusted that justin blazintini had anything to do with this song, but won’t be picking up a copy of “double up” to check the production credits to make sure.

truthfully, outside of whether or not he tinkled on a toddler, i don’t think i could get past the album cover pic. just look at robert in his fully bedazzled glory. i can just envision Arruh asking Tana to get her nieces to help the stylist pick out the clothing for the video shoot at hot topic. the only thing that kellz wack ass song is missing is a travis barker name drop.

enough of the garbation…

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run dmc – king of rock
there was a time when people used guitars because they were hard as fuck, not because it was a trendy marketing ploy to attract kids between 9-14. at least i like to think that’s why they were being used.

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nas – thief’s theme, samples “in a gadda da vida.”
i first heard in a gadda while watching nightmare on elm street. the shit was intoxicating. as a young bol’, all i could think was, “this shit sounds like drugs.” when my dad told me that the song was like a half an hour w/a “ten minute drum solo” and that you had to flip the album over to hear the whole thing i knew los drogas were involved. nas was so high listening to the original he thought it was a good idea to sample it on concurrent albums.

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thyrday – rock music, samples “whole lotta love.”
maybe i just like the sample on this track. outside of that, it’s got pretty much everything else that’s wrong with the current trend of derivative music.

• the word “rock” in the song title.
• lyrical references to rock bands or famous rock song titles.
• pointless crowd cheering.

maybe this is the exception that proves the rule.

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killer mike – hard nard
like i told you before, killer mike is that dude. this “bonus” cut is one of my favorite tracks. a true headbanger in the epmd sense, or the rachtman sense.

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cypress hill (w/sonic youth) – i love you mary jane
i don’t think you can classify the above song as urgent or aggressive. i also don’t recall the judgement night soundtrack getting particularly good reviews, but i prefer it’s “authentic” mash up of rock artists rocking out while rap artists do that rap stuff to the limp bizkit’s (white boys doin’ shitty blackface “hiphop”) & the current urban trend (black kids doin’ shitty whiteface “rock”) that have dominated airwaves since denis leary & cuba gooding were flippin’ on pissy mattresses (read: since ’93, when the movie was released).

postcript: why is everybody or thing or whatever a rock STAR? fuckin’ morrisson was a rockstar. Jimi was a rockstar. cobain was a rockstar. these new dudes are about as much ROCKSTAR as the random “starlet” gettin’ teabagged for wednesday coke money with 2 movie credits under her garter is a porn star. just stop it already.

post-postscript: fuck ed hardy.
just because.