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I Am Bruce Lee

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:42:56 PST

I Am Bruce Lee tells the amazing story of one of the most iconic human beings ever to enter the public consciousness. Voted as one of the most important people of the 20th century in Time Magazine’s Time 100, as well as one of the Greatest Pop Culture Icons by People Magazine, Bruce Lee continues to be honoured and remembered for his enduring legacy.
Bruce Lee’s often revolutionary and sometimes controversial thinking on a multitude of planes has become a source of inspiration and debate for a generation of philosophers, actors, filmmakers and athletes. The film is a compelling and visually stunning uncovering of Bruce’s life, his enormous impact, and his ever-expanding legacy in the world of martial arts, entertainment, and beyond—despite his tragic and sudden death at the age of 32.

I Am Bruce Lee features interviews with people who knew Bruce intimately, along with a broad array of international icons from the entertainment and athletic fields – people whose lives, careers and belief systems have been forever altered by the legend who UFC President Dana White calls the “Father of Mixed Martial Arts.” Interviews include basketball superstar Kobe Bryant, acclaimed actors Mickey Rourke and Ed O’Neill, world boxing champions Manny Pacquiao and Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini, UFC’s Dana White and world champion Jon Jones, MMA fighters Cung Le and Stephan Bonnar, as well as actress and MMA fighter Gina Carano. Other interviews featured in the film include celebrated writer/director Reginald Hudlin, pop music superstar Taboo, pro skateboarder Paul Rodriguez, Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee and his wife Linda Lee Cadwell, as well as a host of Bruce’s friends and associates including legendary martial artists Dan Inosanto, Bob Wall and Gene LeBell, in combination with rarely seen archival footage, classic photos, and cutting edge visuals and graphics. The film goes more deeply into the story of this legendary master than ever before.

In select theaters Feb. 9th & 15th ONLY

Will Sessions – Mix Takes: Take One & Two (Videos)

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:32:09 PST

Will Sessions:

Bryan Arnold: Drums
Sam Beaubien: Keyboards
Ryan Gimpert: Guitar
Eric Kacir: Percussion, MPC1000
Tim Shellabarger: Bass, Synth Bass

impressed with the meticulous craftsmanship of their studio re-workings of the classic tracks on “The Elmatic Instrumentals.” With their new two-part video “Mix Takes,” the five-piece band is taking a similar approach in recreating some of their favorite songs--only this time it was all recorded and filmed live in real time. Whether referencing music by jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Bob James or reinterpreting beats by J Dilla, Madlib, and Black Milk, it’s all presented with seamless transitions in the style of a mixtape, and “Mix Takes” both showcases the band’s individual talents and reflects the airtight performances that have made them one of the hottest live bands in Detroit.

The "Mix Takes" LP is available as a limited edition vinyl pressing.

#wishlisted

How the Internet blackout affected congressional support for PIPA/SOPA

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:01:28 PST

SOPA Opera Update: Opposition Surges

Via: BoingBoing

3-Eyed Mickey Mouse

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:58:03 PST

HS:

CLOT will launch a 1000% size 3-eyed Mickey Mouse Bearbrick toy on January 27, 2012.

Etta James, Powerful Voice Behind ‘At Last,’ Dies at 73

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:21:08 PST

NYT :

Ms. James was not easy to pigeonhole. She is most often referred to as a rhythm and blues singer, and that is how she made her name in the 1950s.
She was also comfortable, and convincing, singing pop standards.
She is in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame.

More after the jump…

Self-Actualization

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:12:57 PDT

The curative force in psychotherapy - man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities...to express and activate all the capacities of the organism. ~Carl Rogers

#JustSaying

Darcus Howe & David Lammy #Londonriots

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:00:50 PDT

Darcus Howe is a writer and broadcaster.

Howe organized the 20,000 strong Black People's March in 1981 claiming official neglect and inefficient policing of the investigation of the New Cross fire in which 13 black teenagers died.

More after the jump…

0hbliv - "RawOasis" Beat Tape

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:20:01 PDT

0hbliv released the refreshing instrumental "RawOasis" on Jul. 22, 2011; yet, it wasn't until yesterday that I was fortunate enough to enjoy the euphony of this project.

According to 0hbliv RO is:

A few previously released Soundcloud favorites plus one.

0hbliv's songs are unassuming. Each is long enough to inspire another listen both now and later.

RO will steal your soundwaves, unperceived.

VIDEO: Afro Sheen Ad 6

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:50:46 PDT

MATHEMATICS

Use Afro Sheen wherein "The Hawk" = inclement weather

*2wo weeks ago, I noticed retailers are already stocking fall and winter clothes

100 Akres - "The Blankety Blank Beat Tape"

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:18:25 PDT

Do the knowledge, decode these euphonious algorithms.

^PIK + 100 Akres

Amenta | "LIVE4EVER" Daisuke Tanabe Remix

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:17:37 PST

^@yasboogie

+04500 - Flako

Sesame Street: Listen My Brother - "Counting Song"

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:00:09 PDT

Listen My Brother is the name of a musical ensemble that performed several times on Sesame Street during its early seasons.

The ensemble was made up of 16 youngsters from New York City, as a means of bringing talented young people from Harlem together and seeking out scholarships to send them on to college.

The group was put together by Peter Long of the Apollo Theater. His wife, Loretta Long, plays Susan on the series.

One of the members of the group was Luther Vandross, who sang lead vocals on "You Gotta Learn".

^Muppet Wikia

Sesame Street x Martin Scorsese

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:04:53 PST

Martin Scorsese’s Sesame Streets f. Robert De Niro as Big Bird

*"In a world so familiar, some secrets just can’t stay hidden."

^@laughingsquid

Alphabet Soup - Girl You Got a Grip | Sample Breakdown

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:34:30 PST

My A to the former Q:

There are two loops at the end of GYGAG they are:

Archie Bell + the Drells – Tighten Up (percussive drums) +
Pleasure – Sassafras Girl.

There are at least thirteen other samples in GYGAG.

I doubt if I'll disclose more relative the samples in this song yet this question has arisen before - so here it is...

Steele | Knives Are Out for Palin

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:09:02 PST

Did Michael Steele and Bill Maher just agree on something? Indeed: The former RNC chairman and comedian found common ground discussing Sarah Palin's confounding response to the State of the Union address.

*Video + words ^@thedailybeast.

Jaylib | Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:28:29 PST

Jaylib - Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)

From the Madlib Medicine Show #11: Low Budget High Fi Music here is a track from Madlib & J Dilla from their never-realized second album.

Jaylib was formed in 2002 as Madlib + Dilla recorded separately in Los Angeles + Detroit. Their one album, Champion Sound, was released in 2003. When J Dilla moved to Los Angeles, he, Madlib + J Rocc began doing shows together as Jaylib, performing together for the first time at the Madvillain record release party in April 2004.

Madlib + Dilla collaborated primarily through the exchange of beat tapes, occasionally reworking each others material, or chopping the same beat in a kind of recorded call-and-response.

+SoundCloud

*Words plagiarized from ST.

Remembering Run Run Shaw

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:21:05 PST

I just tumblr'd a short on Run Run Shaw; consequently, I visited RRS's YouTube page + watched many of my childhood favorites.

Below are a few:

More after the jump…

J Period + Black Thought Present "The Live Mixtape" (Illadelph Edition)

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 16:52:06 PST

Description

+J.Period + Black Thought “Live Mixtape (Illadelph Edition)” EP

100 Akres | The Janet Jackson Beat Tape [Update]

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:45:57 PST

Finally, giving this mix a spin (listen).

Review forthcoming.

UPDATE

The percussion on "Wait B*tch" will encourage rain dancing in hurricane season.

The Clyde Stubblefield - "Funky Drummer" drums in "Pleasure 4 Janet" caught me by surprise - producers haven't touched these staple drums is ages. The drums are hard and push this R&B nugget to its extreme.

"Control Me" is what I come to know as signature 100 Akres - Hip-Hop overtones with Caribbean Caribana festive touched drums and ambient electro-funk that waft like kites in beach wind.

"ThinkofWHO" is the "digital confetti" that expositions, whether or not this Beat Tape keeps you on your feet throughout your listen or not, that 100 Akres is "dumb-nice".

In total, the short length of this Beat Tape along with the four weaker songs I didn't comment on left me wanting more of 100 Akres' interpolations of JJ.

Be it as it may, on balance, life is short and all else follows and throughout 100 Akres instrumentals will continue to blare from my speakers.

Raphael Saadiq | Radio (Video)

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:46:34 PST

Here is the first set of visuals from Stone Rollin'.

"Radio," the first single from Raphael Saadiq's fifth album SR', finds the singer-songwriter emulating the early R+B roots of rock + roll.

The song owes a lot to early, gritty, up-tempo tunes like Barrett Strong's "Money," but as with all Saadiq productions, the sound is slick and utterly modern.

*Fr1st spotted at 2DB.

Medeski Martin + Wood | New Planet (Live)

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:53:30 PST

I discovered these cats by happenstance.

Karma intermittenly rewards.

This interpretation of Medeski Martin + Wood's - New Planet off of their Medeski Martin + Wood End of the World Party (Just In Case) (Blue Note, 2004) release was performed at the Festival de Jazz de San Sebastian.

MMW - EOTWP (JIC) features producer John King of the Dust Brothers, best known for producing classics like the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique + Beck's Odelay.

+MMW - Hey Joe.

Mndsgn + Devonwho | Episodes

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:29:24 PST

Klipmode's "Episodes" by Mndsgn + Devonwho is a collection of instrumental shorts prod. btw. 2007 + 2010.

This post comes late, as I've been knowledgeable of this release for weeks, yet it comprises the only music I've played while driving this entire past weekend.

Autopilot...

Valhalla Rising | Movie Review

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:07:23 PST

My accelerated movie review of Vahalla Rising:

Brutality = 10
Storyline = 5.5
Plot = 4.5
Speed (flow) = 4
Dialogue + 4.5.

"One Eye" is a great character.

The movie was too slow but intriguing enough for me to watch it in its entirety.

The slow pace of VR does at times work well in building intensity.

Overall VR had great potential but the story was mismanaged - defectively directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

However, I did like the tense contrast of Christianity (erection of crosses) vs. the elusive "primitives" and their marksmen stone-headed arrow archery (the stone-headed arrows rocked! (pun unintended))

More after the jump…

Fulsome x Tumblr = F21ck Th1t

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:34:06 PST

Fulsome's is

The content of F21ck Th1t are distinctively divergent than what is presented here.

Your stopovers are always treasured.

Outside Man: Spike Lee’s Unending Struggle [Excerpts]

mildlydeprecatory@gmail.com (Holden Caulfield) — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:43:49 PST

Excerpts from September 14, 2008 - Press Release

In “Outside Man: Spike Lee’s Unending Struggle” (p. 52), John Colapinto profiles Spike Lee, Hollywood’s most prominent black director, whose latest movie, “Miracle at St. Anna,” about an all-black unit of the U.S. Army that battled the Nazis during the Italian campaign in the Second World War, will be released later this month. Three of Lee’s prior films, “Do the Right Thing,” “Jungle Fever,” and “Malcolm X,” “have earned him a reputation as a filmmaker obsessed with race,” Colapinto writes. While his first movie, “She’s Gotta Have It,” led some to call Lee “the black Woody Allen” (“How can you say anybody is the black anybody after one film?” Lee asks Colapinto), his third film, “Do the Right Thing,” about a race riot in Brooklyn, “changed the public perception of Lee,” Colapinto writes. “He became a kind of Malcolm X of American cinema… . His subsequent films were controversial even when he did not intend them to be.” “People think I’m this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage,” Lee tells Colapinto.

Lee speaks with Colapinto about notions of blackness, especially as they concern Barack Obama, who has had to address concerns about whether he is “black enough.” “It’s ignorance,” Lee says. “Here’s the thing. I’m not one of these people who’re going to be defined by the ghetto mentality, that you have to have been shot, have numerous babies from many women, be ignorant, getting high all the time, walking around with pants hanging from your ass—and that’s a black man? I’m not buying that.”

Lee’s critics note that he is quick to accuse others of racist attitudes in their judgments of his films. “The fact that Spike Lee is a talented guy is inarguable,” Stanley Crouch, the African-American cultural critic who has long been one of Lee’s fiercest detractors, says. “But if you make movies as consistently inferior to the movies of a man like Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese and cry ‘racism’ or imply racism, when your movies are not as successful as theirs are—what is that?” Scorsese, for his part, tells Colapinto that he admires Lee. “I always responded to his work as a fresh, original American voice in cinema—mainstream cinema… . When you look at the list of the work that he’s done—films, commercials, documentaries—the nature of the voice that he is in the entertainment industry in America is quite unique.”

Lee says that from the outset he knew that “I had to market myself and market the brand of Spike Lee.” He has a strong sense of whom he considers to be his peers in the film world, as illustrated by his insistence regarding the placement of a poster at a Sony music studio: “Don’t put us next to Judd Apapoe, whatever that guy is,” Lee says, referring to Judd Apatow. “We gotta be next to Spielberg and Williams!”

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