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Monday, January 30, 2006
Stuff that's been going through my head lately
Like most of the world I enjoy the music of Outkast. When they announced they're making a HBO TV movie I had to be a bit skeptical. Wasn't that taking the success of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below a little too far?
Now that the movie has been upgraded to a theatrical release (the same thing happened to American Splendor) and I've seen the trailer for the film I'm a lot more positive on how this project's going to work out for Big Boi and Andre 3000. It looks like a well done period musical. The choice of "Bowtie" as the song for the first half of the trailer leads me to think they want the music to sound like hip-hop with a real jazz influence, to go along with the setting of the film. One of the big strengths of Outkast is how they make their music interesting by doing hip-hop that's not afraid to reference older music. Not just jazz, Andre seems to have a real Jimi Hendrix jones. It'll be interesting to see how this film turns out.
I'm also hoping that Ben Vereen and Big Boi get into a real battle over who has the best rhyme skills.
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Alternative comedy! When regular comedy is just not nerdy enough for you.
But it's not just indie rock fans and comic book nerds who dig those Comedians of Comedy. The bear community loves them, too! Hell, they really like Zach Galifinakis who describes himself in his Comedy Central Presents as looking like "Fat Jesus, not Phat Jesus."
What does one Patton Oswalt think about this? He's remembering his fame in another lifestyle subculture: "I'm a semi-celeb on the 'Shaved Baby Bridge Troll' fetish sites."
All the above links come from A Special Thing.
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You thought those three asterisks meant the subject was going to change didn't you? Sorry, I'm not done blogging on Patton and his good buddy Brain Posehn. Found via the NYC Mech board is the 2000 pilot the comedians did entitled Super Nerds.
Brain and Patton are funny, right? Comic book geeks are funny, if not on purpose, right? Then this show would be funny, right? Nope. This is an uncomfortable 21 minutes of Brain and Patton playing two comic book store employees so broadly that they're just monstrous, not really funny. John Ennis's character is funny and has all the good lines. Sarah Silverman's also in it, but not given much to do. The Eltingville Club one-shot that was on Adult Swim was way better.
There's a good show to be made about life in a comic book store, as Mike's blog tells us. Make the characters interesting and three-dimensional instead of just crazy nerds and you've got something (I think this is what they accomplished in Steve Carell's character in The 40 Year Old Virgin).
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M.R.E.A.M.
Memes Rule Everything Around Me
Of all the "Always Remember..." posts that Dorian started I would have to say that Pickytarian created my favorites. It put me in the mood for some Wu and Gravediggaz demos, which were also found through the NYC Mech board.
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1988:
Public Enemy rails against television (with a slightly misogynist vibe) in "She Watch Channel Zero!?" Flava Flav denounces the "garbage, nothing but garbage" that makes up television programming.
2006:
Flava Flav is on his third reality TV show for VH1, Flava of Love.
The one thing all these reality shows with Flav are missing is that Chuck D needs to be in the background the whole time, face in his hands and sobbing over what has become of his friend. Occasionally he'll be interviewed so we can see him rationalize over how this works in relation to PE's radical take on politics and hip-hop.
While putting politically-heavy music stars in reality shows may disillusion many the young rock 'n' roll fan, whose to say there isn't more entertainment in store for us? In fifteen years we might be seeing Survivor: System of a Down Edition and Zach De La Rocha as The Bachelor. Maybe Billy Bragg will balloon up and we can put him on Celebrity Fit Club 24.
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