I hope everyone enjoyed their Nic Cage weekend. In case you missed it, TBS aired Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds and The Rock in consecutive days this weekend. For a few of my readers, this is fantasy come true, a TV movie nirvana where only Nic Cage movies are shown. What an omen considering Friday was they day I unveiled my Nic Cage system for rating movies.
As expected the thoughts and opinions on this blog have drawn some criticism and skeptics. Not everyone agrees with the thoughts our of contributors, and this was the case on Friday. I received a comment blasting the Fab 5 and music reviews. Let me say this....it's the burden we must bare, the cross that we must carry. We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day! Ok so I got a little carried away. But July 4th is not far away, and I thought some insight from Bill Pullman can only help our cause.
Now you might be wondering, "what should I expect from Monday's blog?" If I had to give you a general direction of this post I will give you an actual comment made by one of contributors. We were talking about a trivia website when we were blessed with this statement....
Dicky: the other day they had a game where you had to name all the women in the Mambo # 5 song in less than 2 minutes. I did it with 1:18 left to spare.
So now that we have Lou Bega on our minds, let get right into the action. I am going to preview 2 more movies Public Enemies and Year One. Its a big sports week so we will dedicate a new section to cover all the action. We have part 2 of Steamin Beamen's music review. And a fresh round of picks from MP4.
Year One- (June 19)Jack Black and Michael Cera star as buddies in the Year One. It's being marketed as the first road trip. My beef with this is all the cross promotions that the NBA is doing with this film. And despite what you may have heard about Cera off screen (that he is a whiny, complainy bitch) he is very funny. Jack Black movies have been hit or miss, but he's coming off a very good performance in Tropic Thunder and I think he will be good in this as well. It's not my most anticipated comedy of the summer, but I do think its worth a view. 2 and a half Cages out of 5.
Public Enemies-(July 1) Johnny Depp can carry a movie by himself. So team him with director Michael Mann and Christian Bale and you've got the ingredients for a potentially great movie. This is based on the real life bank robber John Dillinger (Depp) as he avoids the cops (Bale). Here's the trailer. It's worth checking out if you haven't seen it yet. 4. and a half Cages out of 5.
"Steamin Willie Beamen"
Due to the length of Friday's blog I had to cut Steamin's music review into two parts. The good part of that is he is being charged half billing, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
Old and Cold
Jamie Foxx – Intuition
Blame it on the club cluuuu cluuuu clubbbbbbbb. I love Jamie Foxx and this album is in no way new but seeing as he is one of my favorite artists and I wanted to give a quick shoot out to my man Andy “F.A.Tandy” Lehatto would have wanted to see this in my playlist. If clubs did not exist you never would have heard so much of this album. It is the latest attempt by who I consider the most versatile comedian ever. I loved his stand up. I liked his movies. I hate his music. I mean Foxx can bring it on the screen and he sure can bring it on the stage but in the booth it is a bad R&B album with a bunch of good cameos. Buy the singles and be done with this album. I love you Tandy Man.
Best Songs
Blame It
Plug, Plug, Plug,
Monsoon – The Bridge Mix Tape
Wednesday night I attended the CD release party for my cousin. I am going to try and get some more info on the availability of the music but if you run into it check it out. He has good flow and some nice beats. It is a work in progress but something that finds its way onto my recently played at least one time a week. I also had the opportunity to use this event to reconnect with an old warrior from the PTL, Nik Caner-Medley. Nik made an appearance at The Garage at 52 Curtis. Also known as Hurricane Alley. Nik shared some old war stories of battling in the ACC and what it was like oversees. Many of you may remember him slicing up the ACC others may have already got tickets to watch him play with Blake Griffin this summer. Either way he is doing well and is ready to take the states by storm now that he is back in town.
The CD You NEED to Buy but Have NEVER Heard Of
The Easy Star All-Stars – Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band
You may or may not have heard me talking about these guys before. They are a band that does reggae remixes of famous albums. They have put out three albums; Dub Side of the Moon (Dark Side of the Moon), Radiodread (OK Computer), and now Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band). This is not the best one yet, but it is the only one that many of you may have actually listened to. I know everyone claims to have listened to Dark Side while they were burned up after finals watching the Wizard of Oz and some people like Radiohead, but everyone knows the Beatles. I also had the pleasure of seeing these guys this year on my birthday in Portland. They had an 8 piece band with a trombone, sax, piano, percussion, and four different vocalists. It was great. I got drunk. I spent the rest of the night at my house running around all billed up with a George W. Bush mask on. It was a good show. Reggae music shall set you free. You can buy this on itunes and I would say that “in an economy like this one” it is worth the money.
"Picks of the Unknown Gambler"
Question, what has lots of money, no worries and a celebratory cigar to validate his performance? If you guessed an MP4 hot streak then you must be taking his advice. And you might also be a stalker, but we can let that slide. Let me tell you, he is hot. He is like that Hansel, so hot right now. Winner of his last 4 picks, MP4 has an air of confidence and it is contagious. He is back with some picks to pad your bank account. "in an economy like this one" I'd say this is a pretty good bet...
MondayP4
Snakes (Garland) @ Fathers (Peavy) - Under 8. Two reliable hurlers both coming off bad performances will look to turn it around against bad offenses in the pitchers park of all pitchers park; Yanity Field West.
"The Nate McClouth Game" - Bucs (Z. Duke) +130 @ Braves (Kawakami) - An underdog with great value. The Duke is hot. Hot 'Lanta wont help to cool him down.
Yes I said I'm not betting the finals...so I lied. This number is to enticing for me. Game 3 - LA @ Orlando - Under 201
Career Juice: 10-6-1
"You Play To Win the Game"
This is a new section that I have named in honor of the one and only Herm Edwards. Over the past 7 years we've been blessed to have Herm in our lives and guess what? Christmas come early, Herm is now on TV. Every Sunday we will get even more Herm comments, and we will get them all week long during football season. The man is a walking sound byte and I can't wait to watch. So this is our sports section. With all our useless commentary and analysis on life we've been skimping on the sports. But its a big week, so here we go.
It seems like the NBA Finals are all but over now after the Lakers took a 2-0 lead. We could have had a series on our hands if only Courtney Lee could make a last second layup. With the game tied up with .6 seconds left on the clock, the Magic executed a flawless inbounds play, an alley-oop to Lee. A perfect inbounds pass put the ball right next to the rim and Lee just missed the shot, plain and simple. It did have some degree of difficulty but that's a shot that has to be made. So instead the Lakers were given a second chance and Kobe took advantage. So now the series shifts back to Orlando and it does not look promising. Game 2 was at least a close game, maybe as Herm would say, "something to build on". Game 3 is tomorrow night, for more on that see MP4.
On the baseball front there are some huge division rivalries this week that need to be covered. The Yankees invade Fenway for 3 games against the Sox and the Phillies arrive at Citi Field for 3 against the Mets. As we all know the Yankees haven't beaten the Sox yet this season, and playing at Fenway the Sox need to capitalize. The pitching matchups are Burnett v Beckett on Tuesday, Wang v Wakefield on Wednesday and Sabathia v Penny on Thursday. Beckett Burnett should be the best pitching matchup of the series, with the Sox having the edge over Wang and the Yanks with the edge with C.C. on the bump. But being in Boston the slight edge for the series is with the Sox. The Yanks are a half game up in the division, but given that the Sox have an automatic out as DH right now shows how good the rest of the team is.
As for the Mets, they should be thankful that their savior is pitching against their arch rivals. They are not healthy right now dealing with some injuries and are going to need David Wright and Carlos Beltran to come up in a big way if they want to take this series. The matchups are Happ v Santana on Tuesday, Hamels v Pelfrey on Wednesday and Moyer v Redding on Thursday. The Santana game is almost a lock and the Mets will try to steal one from Hamels or Moyer. The need it too because the Phils are starting to pull away with a 4 game lead in the division.
"What to Expect When You're Expecting"
Two new chapters of the "The Tale of the Pauper: A Cross Country Trip of Enlightenment". The Golden Coast is within earshot of the Pauper, and I've got plenty to cover. I'll give you part 3 of my summer movie preview and will provide a movie review of one of the movies I've previewed to see if it lives up to the Cage stars I've given it. That's all I have to say about that. So, until next time.....Stay Sweet
Monday, June 8, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
What Are You Going to Do For an Encore, Walk on Water?
After a successful first Mailbag (working title) several readers are wondering what are we going to do for an encore? A 3 song set ending with Freebird is what I had in mind. But that could be hard to deliver on. So instead we're going to with a full slate of topics. It's the first Friday in June, so I have decided to profile a few of the new movies that are going to hit theaters. This will be a multi-part analysis of the 10 summer movies I'm most looking forward to. Steamin Willie Beamen checks in with his first music review, we've got a Fab 5 from Pasquale and we've got the weekend picks from MP4. Does that sound like something you might be interested in?
There are 10 movies, 5 comedies and 5 action, that I am going to profile over the next few weeks. I will put on my critic hat, but also tell you how excited I am to see them. Instead of using the standard "star" system to rate the movie, I have decided to use a fresh and unique system. A few of our readers will only watch Nic Cage movies, so instead of stars I'm going to use Nic Cages as my barometer. As I preview them, I will rate them on how excited I am to see it. Then upon seeing it, I will rate it with the same Cage system. Over the course of the next week I will cover The Hangover, Land of the Lost, Funny People, Year One, Bruno, Taking of Pelham 123, Transformers 2, Public Enemies, Harry Potter 6, and G.I. Joe. So here's the first 3 flicks that are releasing in theater's today.
The Hangover-I can't wait to see this. It stars "Sack" from Wedding Crashers (Bradley Cooper) and Andy Bernard from the Office (Ed Helms) and its directed by Todd Phillips, who did Old School. About a group of guys who go to Vegas for bachelor party but don't remember a thing and then "tarantino" what happened. And there's a cameo from Iron Mike Tyson. 4 Cages out of 5.
Land of the Lost-When I first saw the preview I thought it was going to be bad. It has terrible special effects(this might be on purpose) and a paper thin plot. But it has Will Ferrell and Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) who could be a lethal comedy team. I'm wary to see it in theaters, but probably will anyway. I don't think Kenny Powers and Ron Burgundy will disappoint enough to make it a stinker. 2 Cages out of 5
Taking of Pelham 123-Denzel Washington is on my short list of actors that I would see any movie they make. This has the potential to be either a very good flick along the lines of Inside Man, or a candidate for a Good Bad Movie like Under Siege 2. Travolta as a bad guy is always a good thing and I'm expecting a Face-Off like performance. 3 Cages out of 5.
"Fab 5"
Pasquale is back and has some people that he would like to have a few words with. If you like reality TV, beautiful people or award shows you may want to skip to the next section.
5 to hate
John and Kate Plus 8 - Let me clarify that actually, it’s not the 8 kids I hate, it’s their parents. Who would have thought that pimping out your children on a reality show would have had a negative impact on their lives? I mean everyone else who had a reality show had a happy ending right? Wrong, reality shows generally speaking ruin the lives of the people on them. If John and Kate really cared about each other and their children they would grow a pair and tell TLC they were done with the show. But since we worship the dollar in this country there’s no chance of that happening. John and Kate, do everyone a favor and just go away. Focus on raising your kids instead of exploiting them.
Katherine Heigel – Just stop for a second and think about this…….You realize now that despite her good looks you hate her too. She’s just straight up annoying and plays that same irritating person in every role. Many people like her because of her performances on the unwatchable grey’s anatomy. I’m taking a page from Mike Francessa and not explaining and just calling the show unwatchable. The unfortunate thing about Heigel is that she will always have movie roles. There will always be annoying stuck up people for her to play regardless of her age. She seems like a nightmare on all of her shows/movies, imagine what she must be like to deal with in real life.
Eminem/Sasha Baron Cohen – I really like the work that both of these guys do, but I have one word for the little thing they staged at whatever MTV awards show that was – WEAK
Ashton Kutcher – Did fine work on punk’d but all he really does when he act is yell and run around like an idiot. And is anyone going to buy a camera because he is in the commercials? If you would buy a camera purely because he is in the commercials you are a truly sick individual. He really isn’t all that relevant in pop culture anymore, couldn’t Nikon find someone a little better than Ashton Kutcher?
Spencer and Heidi - "I'm too rich and I'm too famous to be sitting with these people and cleaning up their s*** in the jungle, my man. And this cast is devaluing our fame right now" This clown is definitely sorely mistaken. He might be rich, but I have never even heard of these people before this week. You want to know part of the reason why American's are hated all over the world? Its people like this talentless loser with a half a brain. Another reason why I don't like this guy is because his name is Spencer. Follow the transitive property of math with these equations, Spencer = Soft Name, Soft Name = Soft person, therefore Spencer = Soft.
"Steamin' Willie Beamen"
Relapse and the Curious Case of the Comeback
So I wanted to take a few minutes to try something new. I am not a music critic and in no way am I a musician. I have no formal training in music and am sure that those of you who do will be disappointed in my lack of understanding the true nature of what the artist meant by the coupling of the words with the blah blah blah. I am doing this section to show two things. First, rap is back. I have now heard the entire albums of Eminem, Jadakiss, Method Man and Redman, Camron, Jamie Foxx, and Monsoon. Second, the comeback is possible no matter how bleak the outlook. (Just wait to see how I tie this into the miracle comeback of one MLB slugger) I am not saying all these albums are great but they are more then just blasts from the past. So without further ado I present to you Billy Beamen’s Musical Experience…
New and Hot
Eminem – Relapse
It is about time. I had to deal with The Re-Up and Encore, which if put out by any other person would have been three week listeners before being pushed to the back of my mind the second they left my recently added playlist. It took from the 2004 release of The Eminem Show till the 2009 release of Relapse for me to realize why I spent most of my teenage years listening to the disturbed messages and masterful lyrics of one Eminem. This album gets back to the basics of what made Eminem so great in his first three albums. First, the album has plenty of insane concepts and lyrics. No one out can cause the neck to turn and the mind to wonder, “Did he just say that???”. The album also has great balance. I always thought that Eminem was overly criticized for having a “pop song” on every album. To me every great Eminem album had not just a “pop” song but also a song where he kills someone or something, a song where he tells us why he is so F***ed Up, a song about his love for his daughter, a few funny skits, and so many other things. Lastly the album has Dr. Dre. Not that the Dr. was not on the other albums but instead of trying to bulldoze us with D12 cameos we get the DR. Dre was the single most impressive part of rap in the 90’s and early 2000’s. He creates the beats, finds the talent, and raps on the albums. He does it all and it was great to hear him back. The Relapse was a beautiful vacation back to the days of The Slim Shady LP. It was not as good or as influential as Slim Shady, but it was what we all needed heading into the Summer of Bill.
Best Songs:
Old Time’s Sake
Stay Wide Awake
3 A.M.
Déjà vu
Must Be the Ganja
Jadakiss – The Last Kiss
I bought this album having listened to only one song and it was worth the money. Someone had played “What If” for me and I was instantly interested. I bought the album and it was a great move. From start to finish it is vintage Jadakiss and even if you have never been a fan before he brings in so many different people and sounds that each song is its own single. From Lil’ Wayne, to Nas, to Ghostface, all are spoken for and all come with their unique sound and style as a perfect compliment to Jada. As a side note, “in an economy like this” it is nice to get 19 songs for 9.99. The days of overpriced cd’s are over and you should start your Summer with The Last Kiss.
Best Songs:
What If
Death Wish
Who’s Real
Respect My Conglomerate
By My Side
Method Man and Redman – Blackout! 2
Good album but better duo, maybe even one of the best rap (not acting) duos of all time. They seem to have good chemistry and they both have had good solo careers. Not to mention that both can trace their roots back to the days when rap was run by Wu Tang, Tupac, and the Notorious one. It is not an album that is going to win any awards but is definitely something you would not be disappointed in having most of the songs. Just like The Last Kiss this album brings in some great artists that include, Ghostface, Raekwon, and Keith Murray. Definitely go buy “A Yo” and if you like the bud blazing crazy boys the entire album will not let you down.
Best Songs
A Yo
Four Minutes to Lock Down
Hey Zulu
City Lights
Mrs. International
*So I want to state at this point that the single fact that Eminem, Red and Meth, and the non reviewed Cameron CD are proof that this is not only the summer of Bill but the summer of the comeback…Now Batting, Number 34…Big PAPIIIIIIIIII
"Picks of the Unknown Gambler"
MP4 is working the kinks out, and we are starting to pad our bank roll here @ Etc, Etc, Etc. Top three reasons I am NOT betting the NBA Finals
1) All season long both teams have impressive numbers vs. the spread after 2 days off (which happens three times during the NBA finals), who will break that trend?
2) Magic live or die by the three in a completely unpredictable pattern
3) Kobe Bryant.
New York Metropolitans (Redding) +115 @ Nats (Martis) - The lowly Nationals are 3-8 as the Money-Line favorite. And the Mets will wake up from the haze that was Pitt, tonight.
Brew Crew (Gallardo) @ The Paula Dean's (Jurrjens) - UNDER 8.5 - A little slow home cookin tonight. Pitch around the Hebrew Hammer and ya'll will be alright.
Stanley Cup - Penguins +1.5 @ Hockey Town USA - Because it can't go down the same exact way as '08. Put your razors away, I have a feelin' this is going 7.
Career Juice: 8-5-1
"Theme Song of the Weekend"
check out this little diddy
"What to Expect When You're Expecting"
We will have the next installments of "The Tale of the Pauper: A Cross Country Journey of Enlightenment". We will give you the next parts of the Summer movie preview and Steamin Willie Beamen's Music review. And we might even have a gripe from Dicky. We don't have him on a deadline because the hatred could come at any moment and we don't want to cheat the readers with forced hatred. And we will give an extensive recap of the sports world including the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup and some big baseball matchups that are coming up. Check out Sexton's blog as well, it's one of his finest pieces to date, oursamedifference.com. So until next time....Stay Sweet
There are 10 movies, 5 comedies and 5 action, that I am going to profile over the next few weeks. I will put on my critic hat, but also tell you how excited I am to see them. Instead of using the standard "star" system to rate the movie, I have decided to use a fresh and unique system. A few of our readers will only watch Nic Cage movies, so instead of stars I'm going to use Nic Cages as my barometer. As I preview them, I will rate them on how excited I am to see it. Then upon seeing it, I will rate it with the same Cage system. Over the course of the next week I will cover The Hangover, Land of the Lost, Funny People, Year One, Bruno, Taking of Pelham 123, Transformers 2, Public Enemies, Harry Potter 6, and G.I. Joe. So here's the first 3 flicks that are releasing in theater's today.
The Hangover-I can't wait to see this. It stars "Sack" from Wedding Crashers (Bradley Cooper) and Andy Bernard from the Office (Ed Helms) and its directed by Todd Phillips, who did Old School. About a group of guys who go to Vegas for bachelor party but don't remember a thing and then "tarantino" what happened. And there's a cameo from Iron Mike Tyson. 4 Cages out of 5.
Land of the Lost-When I first saw the preview I thought it was going to be bad. It has terrible special effects(this might be on purpose) and a paper thin plot. But it has Will Ferrell and Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) who could be a lethal comedy team. I'm wary to see it in theaters, but probably will anyway. I don't think Kenny Powers and Ron Burgundy will disappoint enough to make it a stinker. 2 Cages out of 5
Taking of Pelham 123-Denzel Washington is on my short list of actors that I would see any movie they make. This has the potential to be either a very good flick along the lines of Inside Man, or a candidate for a Good Bad Movie like Under Siege 2. Travolta as a bad guy is always a good thing and I'm expecting a Face-Off like performance. 3 Cages out of 5.
"Fab 5"
Pasquale is back and has some people that he would like to have a few words with. If you like reality TV, beautiful people or award shows you may want to skip to the next section.
5 to hate
John and Kate Plus 8 - Let me clarify that actually, it’s not the 8 kids I hate, it’s their parents. Who would have thought that pimping out your children on a reality show would have had a negative impact on their lives? I mean everyone else who had a reality show had a happy ending right? Wrong, reality shows generally speaking ruin the lives of the people on them. If John and Kate really cared about each other and their children they would grow a pair and tell TLC they were done with the show. But since we worship the dollar in this country there’s no chance of that happening. John and Kate, do everyone a favor and just go away. Focus on raising your kids instead of exploiting them.
Katherine Heigel – Just stop for a second and think about this…….You realize now that despite her good looks you hate her too. She’s just straight up annoying and plays that same irritating person in every role. Many people like her because of her performances on the unwatchable grey’s anatomy. I’m taking a page from Mike Francessa and not explaining and just calling the show unwatchable. The unfortunate thing about Heigel is that she will always have movie roles. There will always be annoying stuck up people for her to play regardless of her age. She seems like a nightmare on all of her shows/movies, imagine what she must be like to deal with in real life.
Eminem/Sasha Baron Cohen – I really like the work that both of these guys do, but I have one word for the little thing they staged at whatever MTV awards show that was – WEAK
Ashton Kutcher – Did fine work on punk’d but all he really does when he act is yell and run around like an idiot. And is anyone going to buy a camera because he is in the commercials? If you would buy a camera purely because he is in the commercials you are a truly sick individual. He really isn’t all that relevant in pop culture anymore, couldn’t Nikon find someone a little better than Ashton Kutcher?
Spencer and Heidi - "I'm too rich and I'm too famous to be sitting with these people and cleaning up their s*** in the jungle, my man. And this cast is devaluing our fame right now" This clown is definitely sorely mistaken. He might be rich, but I have never even heard of these people before this week. You want to know part of the reason why American's are hated all over the world? Its people like this talentless loser with a half a brain. Another reason why I don't like this guy is because his name is Spencer. Follow the transitive property of math with these equations, Spencer = Soft Name, Soft Name = Soft person, therefore Spencer = Soft.
"Steamin' Willie Beamen"
Relapse and the Curious Case of the Comeback
So I wanted to take a few minutes to try something new. I am not a music critic and in no way am I a musician. I have no formal training in music and am sure that those of you who do will be disappointed in my lack of understanding the true nature of what the artist meant by the coupling of the words with the blah blah blah. I am doing this section to show two things. First, rap is back. I have now heard the entire albums of Eminem, Jadakiss, Method Man and Redman, Camron, Jamie Foxx, and Monsoon. Second, the comeback is possible no matter how bleak the outlook. (Just wait to see how I tie this into the miracle comeback of one MLB slugger) I am not saying all these albums are great but they are more then just blasts from the past. So without further ado I present to you Billy Beamen’s Musical Experience…
New and Hot
Eminem – Relapse
It is about time. I had to deal with The Re-Up and Encore, which if put out by any other person would have been three week listeners before being pushed to the back of my mind the second they left my recently added playlist. It took from the 2004 release of The Eminem Show till the 2009 release of Relapse for me to realize why I spent most of my teenage years listening to the disturbed messages and masterful lyrics of one Eminem. This album gets back to the basics of what made Eminem so great in his first three albums. First, the album has plenty of insane concepts and lyrics. No one out can cause the neck to turn and the mind to wonder, “Did he just say that???”. The album also has great balance. I always thought that Eminem was overly criticized for having a “pop song” on every album. To me every great Eminem album had not just a “pop” song but also a song where he kills someone or something, a song where he tells us why he is so F***ed Up, a song about his love for his daughter, a few funny skits, and so many other things. Lastly the album has Dr. Dre. Not that the Dr. was not on the other albums but instead of trying to bulldoze us with D12 cameos we get the DR. Dre was the single most impressive part of rap in the 90’s and early 2000’s. He creates the beats, finds the talent, and raps on the albums. He does it all and it was great to hear him back. The Relapse was a beautiful vacation back to the days of The Slim Shady LP. It was not as good or as influential as Slim Shady, but it was what we all needed heading into the Summer of Bill.
Best Songs:
Old Time’s Sake
Stay Wide Awake
3 A.M.
Déjà vu
Must Be the Ganja
Jadakiss – The Last Kiss
I bought this album having listened to only one song and it was worth the money. Someone had played “What If” for me and I was instantly interested. I bought the album and it was a great move. From start to finish it is vintage Jadakiss and even if you have never been a fan before he brings in so many different people and sounds that each song is its own single. From Lil’ Wayne, to Nas, to Ghostface, all are spoken for and all come with their unique sound and style as a perfect compliment to Jada. As a side note, “in an economy like this” it is nice to get 19 songs for 9.99. The days of overpriced cd’s are over and you should start your Summer with The Last Kiss.
Best Songs:
What If
Death Wish
Who’s Real
Respect My Conglomerate
By My Side
Method Man and Redman – Blackout! 2
Good album but better duo, maybe even one of the best rap (not acting) duos of all time. They seem to have good chemistry and they both have had good solo careers. Not to mention that both can trace their roots back to the days when rap was run by Wu Tang, Tupac, and the Notorious one. It is not an album that is going to win any awards but is definitely something you would not be disappointed in having most of the songs. Just like The Last Kiss this album brings in some great artists that include, Ghostface, Raekwon, and Keith Murray. Definitely go buy “A Yo” and if you like the bud blazing crazy boys the entire album will not let you down.
Best Songs
A Yo
Four Minutes to Lock Down
Hey Zulu
City Lights
Mrs. International
*So I want to state at this point that the single fact that Eminem, Red and Meth, and the non reviewed Cameron CD are proof that this is not only the summer of Bill but the summer of the comeback…Now Batting, Number 34…Big PAPIIIIIIIIII
"Picks of the Unknown Gambler"
MP4 is working the kinks out, and we are starting to pad our bank roll here @ Etc, Etc, Etc. Top three reasons I am NOT betting the NBA Finals
1) All season long both teams have impressive numbers vs. the spread after 2 days off (which happens three times during the NBA finals), who will break that trend?
2) Magic live or die by the three in a completely unpredictable pattern
3) Kobe Bryant.
New York Metropolitans (Redding) +115 @ Nats (Martis) - The lowly Nationals are 3-8 as the Money-Line favorite. And the Mets will wake up from the haze that was Pitt, tonight.
Brew Crew (Gallardo) @ The Paula Dean's (Jurrjens) - UNDER 8.5 - A little slow home cookin tonight. Pitch around the Hebrew Hammer and ya'll will be alright.
Stanley Cup - Penguins +1.5 @ Hockey Town USA - Because it can't go down the same exact way as '08. Put your razors away, I have a feelin' this is going 7.
Career Juice: 8-5-1
"Theme Song of the Weekend"
check out this little diddy
"What to Expect When You're Expecting"
We will have the next installments of "The Tale of the Pauper: A Cross Country Journey of Enlightenment". We will give you the next parts of the Summer movie preview and Steamin Willie Beamen's Music review. And we might even have a gripe from Dicky. We don't have him on a deadline because the hatred could come at any moment and we don't want to cheat the readers with forced hatred. And we will give an extensive recap of the sports world including the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup and some big baseball matchups that are coming up. Check out Sexton's blog as well, it's one of his finest pieces to date, oursamedifference.com. So until next time....Stay Sweet
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