That's a bingo! !!! is playing the Horseshoe June 10!

Cool. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

I really loved this doc, one of the best on hip-hop that I've ever seen. In the past few years I've really gotten into their first three albums, One part I didn't quite get is all the hyperbole around Phife's "Yo, microphone check one-two, what is this?" from Low End Theory. The part in the doc where heads are raving…

I always thought it went Uh-WITH-uh Teeth-uh (you missed the first "Uh") but yeah your comment made me laugh thanks.

Any good dirt in there? Did he have as much fun as it looked?

Thanks to a positive review on this site, I picked up The Fifty Year Sword, which was super-awesome. I ended up giving copies as gifts to my friends this past holiday gift-type season. It's brisk and kind of slight, but it really recaptures that HoL blend of menace and playfulness.

Thanks guys. I was going to give it away but maybe I'll take another run at it.

It gets blisteringly readable about 1/2-way in, and the pages fly by because there's (as you may have noticed if you skimmed at all) fewer walls of text to deal with. Awesome book.

Yeah, from my experience I'd advise you not to worry too much about the final 75-100 pages or so. Plot-wise it's off the rails. Some of the imagery really stays with ya, but it's obscure and complicated for sure.

Yeah, from my experience I'd advise you not to worry too much about the final 75-100 pages or so. Plot-wise it's off the rails. Some of the imagery really stays with ya, but it's obscure and complicated for sure.

I tried to read the Cryptonomicon last year and totally tuckered out partway in. That is really unlike me. I usually love reading big heady tomes but NS did not grab me. What did I do wrong?

That may be. Sometimes live hip hop shows can be grim. I saw Raekwon with Ghostface last summer and it was amazing, but a previous show with Rae was, as you described, a lethargic mega-mix. Sadly, the GZA was similarly underwhelming when I saw him.

That's not true, but the Ke$ha track was, much to my surprise, the best. I was kinda fonda the Neon Indian and Jim James collabs as well. Generally the first half was better than the last half, though Yoko's "Do It" was amusing.

Really? I read both and thought his was superior and surprisingly breezy. I'm usually a slow reader but finished his book in like one day. But yeah, Mary Forsberg's book was pretty harrowing and cast a lot of his bullshit in a clearer light.

Over there in the corner, boring the shit out of me (sorry but it's true).

Any list with Tracy Chapman on it is a fine list, but this list is missing The La's "Doledrum," which I've always thought was a pretty clever turn of phrase.

Wait! I got it! Pour 2 into the 3 gallon, then fill the 5 gallon and pour 1 gallon's worth into the remaining space in the 3 gallon!

Both ways?

You're not the only one. It was only on a recent viewing of the movie with my lady (my umpteenth, her first), after pausing for a 5-10 minute discussion, that I finally got how they get to four gallons.

Sweet substitute for maximum Rickenbacker action!