Blog-fu: This Much Is True 4.0
Posted in 104, awesomeness, bad ideas, blog fu, blogging, celebrities, cheap publicity, culture, hip hop, humor, music, randomness, ranting, whimsy on January 16th, 2011 by Hannibal Tabu
Previously …
- 1.0 (Devil’s Due vs. Diamond, a real-life Spider-Man, chatting with action figures and Prince’s Batman soundtrack)
- 2.0 (banjo solos, booze, Nicki Minaj, Google)
- 3.0 (He-Man, Justin Bieber, smartphones, sugar-free muffins)
- Did you know that Michel’le has two kids … one by Dr. Dre and the other by Suge Knight? Seriously. How much would you pay to be there for the awkward days when pick ups and drop offs are happening? That has to be awesome. By “awesome” I mean “more awkward than an average day with Michael Scott.” Moreover, how exactly did that play out? Did she dump Dre and take up with Suge when Aftermath was looking kind of skimpy with King Tee, or did Suge essentially browbeat her into going with him? How did the break up go? The whole concept of that fascinates me.
- Speaking of weird musical combinations (not my smoothest segue, but whatever), many years ago, I started doing a column for Comic Book Resources called The Comic Reel. I essentially aggregated links about comic book properties slated for adaptation on stage and screen, be it small or silver. I never understood the value of it, but it was well received and people seemed to like what I did, despite the fact that I suspected at least half of it was guerrilla marketing propaganda planted by the studios. Anyway, I noticed that the aggregate format was popular, so last year I started doing something similar on my mobile blog (powered by Tumblr). I called it “#musicmonday” and started doing it just to keep my hand in, to get the rhythm of regular periodical production. I’ve got a few tweaks planned, and I recently started a kind of rating system based on whether or not I’ve listened to stuff (mostly not), but if you like downloading free music every single week (it’s largely “urban” music, but I’ve posted alternative rock, country and even Latin stuff in there), it’s available for you, all in one place.
This week? I’m dropping the bomb, in preparation for my return to social networking. Look for a #musicmonday to blow your doors off, exclusively on the mobile blog.
- While aging is indeed better than the alternative, one annoyance is having white/gray hairs grow in my nasal cilia. Now people (including me, it’s maddening) might think I haven’t been wiping my nose with the same ruthless efficiency of my younger days, and that’s just not true. Light colored nose hair does not equal snot, people. An aphorism for our times.
- A good poop can be rewarding for literally hours afterwards. The older I get, the more I am coming to appreciate this. You have no idea how many blogs/tweets and what have you I have not done two hours after a good one, feeling refreshed and more human all around. I hope this is the only time I ever mention this. Many of you do as well.
- DJ Premier, with very few exceptions, has weird taste in emcees. I was bumping his new cut “Lifetime Membership” with Saigon, Tef and Papoose … and I’m like, “wait, what?” You’re considered by many to be, if not the best, one of the best producers in hip hop (my personal rankings go: Pete Rock, DJ Premier and then Dr. Dre, whereas Pete doesn’t get rated in the top 2 by many) and you’re working with the emcee most famous for being Turtle’s would-be prodigy on Entourage? For every “Golden Terra of Rap” with Canibus there’s twelve cuts with Group Home — okay emcees, but not top tier by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t think it’s bad that I want the best to work with the best. Premier and Black Thought and Eminem and Cee-Lo. KRS-One and J. Cole and De La Soul with Pete Rock. Chali 2na alongside Dr. Dre with Nate Dogg on the hook (who I heard something new from, so I hope he’s okay). I don’t think it’s unfair to ask for that sort of thing.
Playing (Music): “Just The Way You Are” by Bruno Mars
