Count your blessings. We live in a country that has fishing channels and poker, bowling etc. are televised events. We fart in the general direction of what is only the most popular sport on earth.

Finally
A Nas album not dragged down by bullshit beats. It's exciting to see how well they work together. And don't forget the stellar turn by K'naan either.
Comparing them to Jay-Z - R Kelly is a joke. When Nas and Marley are on, they can run circles around those fools.

Fortunately, there's a smart head ticking in there.
"…as a black woman in today's music industry, it's important that people understand that we're not all monolithic. It's time that we just break past this notion that if you're an African American female you have to stick to one genre. One boring genre, at that."
It's…

A special talent
Flashes of young Michael Jackson here. Hope she doesn't blow up like him or implode like post-Hardline Terence Trent D'Arby.

Leave "The Road" the fuck out of it. It was very clearly about what happens after the world goes to hell — a continuation of one of McCarthy's major themes. Among other things, it showed a man who promised his son that "They will never be like those people." They tried to to live by a code when others were roasting…

In other news
The fabulously talented Janelle Monae has released a great album.

Never comment on firstie, but have some respect. This is not even a Harrison original.

Read all about it in Kenzaburo Oe's "The Changeling." They were great friends and Oe married Itami's sister.

The fuck kind of world do we live in
Where they make shit blowing up look so tedious. And waste Thandie Newton.

Jacob the liar
Or a monumental fuck-up would be an ending I would be down with. His character had a touch of religious zealot.

I got the late Eartha Kitt's Isma from The Emperor's New Groove.

Richard's death
Unfortunately looked a lot like Will Smith getting biastioced in MIB birth scene.

Got introduced to them through Blakroc, which I think is a solid B+. I like this one enough to go back and check their albums that I have lying around, but never bothered to check. So count me in on this love fest.

I'm not a huge LCD fan, but don't get the hate either. He's got some good songs and a way w/ words. As for what is or isn't dance music — in the words of a wise old funkster, "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow."
Ellen Allien's "Dust" will be out this week, btw. The couple tracks I heard were surprisingly…

Yankee Deer,
One word: Protection.
http://www.youtube.com/watc…
Turn the bass all the way up.

Watership Down
I know people love that movie, but it really does not do any justice to the book.

Another thing about Dio was that he could be just as killer when singing simple low key stuff like Rainbow Eyes.

In honor of departed
An AV feature on the man would be nice. I know Sabbath etc. have got good coverage here, but still…

I would add LLR'nR to the Rainbow ass-kicking list. Sad day. Much respect to the elfin one.
"The devil is me / And I'm holding the key / To the gates of sweet hell / Babylon"

Hinted at in "Blood Sister: One Tough Nun," or so I like to believe.