This is not a joke

From People Magazine!

"David Duchovny in rehab for sex addiction. Duchovny's lawyer confirmed to People on Thursday evening that the Californication star has checked into rehab to undergo treatment for sex addiction."

Our prayers are with Duchovny and we hope he gets better so he can kick ass on television again.

Oh NO!!!

Bad news amigos...

My inconsistent blogging has kicked me down on the GOOGLE - WILL GONG scale. You now have to go to the second page to find the blog... and this is behind like THREE LINKS for the new Comedy Central "Gong Show." (I'm not even going to start on that.) So I guess I need to write more.... 

Ok. I'll get on it.

The Art of Bojangling

Do any of you have those words that you use that don't make sense to anybody else, and when people give you strange looks, you're like "What? you don't know what blah blah blah means?" and then they are like, "Hell no." And you are like "Where did that come from?"

Well, I only bring this up because I have many of these words and one of them is Bojangling. Perhaps it is related to some other words or nicknames, but to me, Bojangling is something that you do when you definitely should be doing something else. Like, oh man, I really need to get to this job interview, but I'm  just going to stare at my computer or play a video game, so I'm bojangling. Typically, this is a slightly negative term, like when someone is like, "What is Dante doing? I need him to wash my car" and then someone responds, "Yo, Dante is totally bojangling on the corner." and then the guy is like "Mother %#$*&^"

This came to my mind, because I have to do my homework now, but I really don't want to do it, I'd rather be doing something else, but I'll actually just write up a blog. So I'm totally bojangling.

At least this makes sense, not like "Yo Dude, he's totally KIRKING out!"

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Oh Dios Mio!

... comedy central is reviving "The Gong Show"...arg...

A Fine Art Lost

Like for real. How hard is it to make a cappuccino? It's half milk and half foam. If I wanted a latte, I would order one. I don't know about ya'll but when I go to Starbucks, which has the best expresso, and I order a cappuccino, I'm constantly in fear of the hand off, that moment when they are finished making the drink and they put it on the bar or in my hand. My eyes grow large, or as large as they can grow, and I reach out and ughhh.... it's too heavy. They made me a fucking latte and they're telling me it's a cappuccino.

I remember when I was  a barista at Starbucks and had to make expresso drinks. I used to pack the expresso into the machine and pray that when I put the milk in it would be right, maybe it's because I'm a perfectionist, I don't know. But what I really think happened is that ever since the introduction of the expresso machine, that allows Baristas to just hit a button to make the expresso, way back in 2001, a fine art was lost, and all the baristas of the Starbucks world, they have it easy now, they're more automaton then artist (ones programmed to make bad cappuccinos), and honestly I don't think we're ever going to see that come back.

So in other words, arg...

Unplugged

I'm at work this morning. I got here at 8:45. All because my computer busted and I had nothing else to do.

It's bizarre being uplugged from the Matrix. When I woke up, I was like oh I should check the weather. Couldn't do that. Oh what time do the Wizards play tonight? Couldn't check that. Oh I wonder if there is any news on this this and this? Nope.

And when you start to think about how much time you spend online, it kind of freaks you out. I would probably have arrived here at 10:00. I would have putzed around. I personally kind of like not having the computer around, but my life is tapped into it that I could never get rid of it; it would be easier to get rid of my cell phone. My life and work are so caught up with technology I had to start doing yoga to feel human, and help my lower back from sitting at the desk! As a community, it brings us closer, but it pushes us further away. There will come a time when we will all get together in the same room, but instead of talking we'll be iChatting and surfing the net. I sometimes think my computer might be my best friend. It's kind of why I don't want an iPhone. Are we that far away from the "Demolition Man" and making love through the headsets, or have no idea how to even touch intimately, like Neo and Trinity in the "Matrix Reloaded"; I don't know.

It's slightly disturbing, but I guess that's where we're heading, anyway I have some more websites to look up while my editing projects imports some graphics.

Yo this $#&! is WHACK #001

OH MY GOD! This is so whack! I have to send ya'll to it.

It's called "My Medicine" off of Snoop Dogg's new CD Ego Trippin'.

I'm not even sure what the most absurd thing about it is, but you know the more dedicated, the more medicated.

Please check this out... and pay attention to the words.

Thrillertime

Since the time I've been on Planet Earth, there are really 2 Michael's that will never be replaced, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson. 

They were at the top of their game and ridiculous. People were always like "This kid is the next Michael Jordan." and they're really happy and then in the late 90's people were like "This kid is the next Michael Jackson." and they were like uh no... no thanks. And then Justin Timberlake and Usher came along and were like "Yeah, that's cool, we'd like to be like Mike, with the exception of all that other stuff." So Michael got himself an asterisk.

This month marks THRILLER's 25th anniversary.

And it is not a time to criticize and mock and laugh and maybe feel sad for Michael Jackson. No, It is a day to celebrate the iconic lines from Wanna be Startin' Somethin' - "You're a vegetable." "YOU'RE A VEGETABLE!" and all of the other great things about THRILLER and a time to take a stroll down memory lane.

When I was 4 years old, we lived in an apartment complex called PEPPERTREE in Aspen Hill, Maryland. This was around the time my brother was scared of the dark. Anyway, I remember going upstairs to my neighbors apartment, it was a teenage girl, and I think she was our Babysitter and I remember she had the THRILLER record and we would listen to it and I would cover my ears at the end of the Thriller because the video had scared the bejesus out of me. I loved that album. If you go into our family photo albums,  there are many pictures where Joe and I are wearing Michael Jackson jackets and vests. It's pretty funny. 

In celebration of this album I downloaded it and have been listening to the Album for the past week. I quote Kanye West "Right when magazines wrote Kanye West off, I dropped my new shit sound like the best of." Well, this CD sounds like a a Greatest Hits album. It's not cohesive at all. It starts off right, with "Wanna be Startin' Somethin'" and then it just goes off in different directions. And it's short. There are only 9 songs. Of the 9, the only one that I really cringe listen to is "The Girl Is Mine" with Paul McCartney and symbolized a lot of what I think we hated about 80's music. BUT DAMN, listen to "Human Nature", that songs lays the blue print for what would become the dominant sound of R&B. All you gotta do is speed it up and add a rap verse to the middle 8 or bridge and you'd have most of the slow R&B songs today. Dude, there is NE-YO without Human Nature.  THIS WHOLE ALBUM is a blueprint. Sorry Jay-Z. I realized most of the Janet Jackson CDs completely ripped off the formula. It's frightening. And it's original.

Some reviewers have said that BAD was a better record and maybe it was, but Thriller was the last time Michael sounded right, lyrically and vocally.  On this album, his singing sounds so good, it's sick. He's like a rubber band. He does all the background vocals and their perfect. By the time BAD happened he was pretty white and his trademarks started taking over for his old naturalism. He's all HE-HE's and soft to hard soft singing, although some of those songs are really really good. But Thriller was the culmination album. I ask you all to listen to the album with earphones on or in a room with really good speakers. You will really understand the triumph of this album and the work of Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones. The horn section, the synthesizers, the way that Michael's voice washes over from left to right and all those fantastic sounds that ping pong across the sound field. It's magnificent.

BAD would begin Michael's internal fight with himself, his sound, his fame, and his fans. I mean, he closed BAD with the song "Leave Me Alone", really? Oh it was a fast slope. Not like Britney's 90mph waterslide ride, but it was more bizarre. Whatever. This isn't about that.

Oh great, I just got made fun of for listening to this. Okay, switching over to George Clinton. At the same time THRILLER came out, George released "Atomic Dog" which well influenced that other great art form, RAP.

Good times!

Abba

So I'm working on onlining the Mamma Mia! film soundbites and I decided, well I'll just go and youtube some Abba, watch the music video and haha! there it is of course.



But what's so funny is how this video reminds me of growing up in the 80s and how my parents and other people's parents dance like this. Its really funny. Man it's all about the sway. And really like how old were they when they sang this. Maybe this was their idea of the dance party, while I think my idea of the dance party is more like this...



especially with the slow motion of the girls taking their clothes off. And it's not that the girls always take their clothes off, but you know they're thinking about it.

Of course now, both generations can always get down and agree to dance to



And if you go to the 2:40 mark and you will see what I'm practicing right now.

Peace!