best surprises

HUSTLE AND FLOW

reguardless of how pumped up i was to see this movie (soley due to that crazy dance terrence howard is doing while the "whoop that trick" track is playing in the trailer) i was a million more times overwhelmed with how good the film is. By the way, after this and crash...im terrence howard 4 life. But anyways...
It made me giddier than i have been in a movie in a long time - i dont even know why!
I know why i get giddy at batman....i know why i get giddy at kevin smith films...i know why i get giddy for new 311 tracks....im not sure why i get giddy for really great character films. I just love them okay.
I haven't felt this type of joy for a film like this one...since Blow, i guess, you would have to say. And you know what.......i don't mind crunk music....despite its lack of durability due to the repeition...it's pretty cool. I like the concept....much like Andrew WK wants FUN...as do the "crunk musicians"....
But in Hustle and Flow we get something that despite being opposite of non-fiction feels ever so much more real than a 50 cent singing about how he was shot 8 times. It feels true....it feels like art. and it's fun-art.
And that really strikes a chord for some reason....turning something so filthy into art.....or atleast showing me it is in fact art. Not that i dont love me some hip hop....but i feel enlightened.
It's great when you get to see a director's probable pinnacle as a director....which is not actually John Singleton (paul) its some other newer person. But its great nonetheless....
I love that this movie came during the summer and its not going to do great....until i and everyone i tell how great it is buys it on dvd. I'm even ruiting for Mtv movies now, after this and Napoleon Dynamite...they are starting to get good at finding those films.
God, why couldn't I be a destitute black pimp with flow? I could have had it all.

On a slightly seperate note, i was thinking about how rap music completely dominates the music industry and i wonder how long until white people rip it off and take it over (was that already attempted?)....or will that whole white people stealing rock n' roll thing that happened 50 years ago...are we going to just say that history does not repeat itself? i just hope tejano/hiphop doesn't catch on all the way.....i can only stand that "gasolina" song so many times...



Maybe it's all the hip hop countdowns Mtv and VH1 just happen to be putting out right at its release...or maybe it's the fact that "whoop that trick" is the funnest song ive heard all summer....but i dig this movie so much....ill watch it again....instead of the island??? wow.


music video this weekend...should be crazy....if you want to be in it....contact me....ill get you a good spot.....


oh ya...and wedding crashers is really really fucking funny....saw that twice already....

its 5 o'clock in the morning...or maybe it's six

i hate urban living....cause i cant scream as loud as i can at 7am.
i hate rural living......cause i cant find anything to scream about at 7am.

meh...fuck it.

Charlie and the Chocolate factory....very good in a entirely new way different from the original...very edward scissor hands Burton here i think. Johnny Depp as per usual explores completely the character and kept me smiling the entire film. This film, ironicly enough, is more about Willy Wonka than the original (despite its name change). You miss the fizzy lifting drinks scene not just because fizzy lifting drinks are a great idea, but because it allows you to catch up with the "main" character who just disappears in the 2nd act. The visuals are stunning. Lots more quirky humor and visual jokes. A little less heart than I had hoped, but Its there and I hate to say something like this....but it feels more real in a way, in the end. What I am speaking about specifically is Wonka's arc taking a couple of more scenes than you would think it would....i kinda liked that.....more true to the human condition would be more appropriate perhaps than "real". The oompa loompas are given a lot more background and i thought they were hilarious, as opposed to just oddity-eye-candy........although i did miss the songs....the new songs were pretty fucking cool/ out of this world. The scale is so grand, and sitting in the front again left me in an amazed overload. Crazy set design like ive never seen before....even though a lot is CG, it fits right in.
I love Wonka's world in this one...its not as thin....there are so many more layers to it and him. Like his prediliction for 50s/60s pop culture, vengeance for his enemies, lack of any ability to act with the adults (or anyone really) socially (so much so that he often has index card notes), vanity, etc.....

I need to see it again, to really get a grasp on everything...but i was really blown away nonetheless....
although i do miss the one-line-life-summations heard from gene wilder.....but here i get all this cooky dialect from depp, which may not be as fulfilling on an emtional level....it feels good still.....and i still got to feel like a child.

All the demises from the other children are much more terrifying due to some dramatic editing/directing......and, in the end, we get to see the aftermath of each.........i always liked the original cause you never knew if the kids might have actually died....but we dont get that mystery here....instead we get these devious looks from Wonka during and right after each kid finds there way out of the plot.

seriously....the smile didn't leave my face until the last 3 or 4 scenes...and still returned before the end.


and now im awake past sunrise....i need to watch the sequel to Before Sunrise still....i need to know how that relationship ends up...or begins again.....

"i need a vacation" - arnold

cant believe..

Iron and Wine made an M&M commercial.

movies and shit

a few words for all the movies ive seen thus far this summer

Batman Begins - rules a lot. I love the tim burton encantations but this is just ridiculous. Movie making has advanced and I love how its aided Nolan into creating the perfectly balanced batman movie i wanted. I saw it four times.

Bewitched - Nicole Kidman is very appealing to me in this movie...more so than Will Ferrell, which suprised me. I think it has something to do with what the original show was sort of playing on - men losing their status over women, and that fear itself. I learned to laugh a long time ago at silly things...and this is a silly movie.....not very good, but fun.

Mr and Mrs. Smith - I dont really think Angelina Jolie is all that "incredible" hott. I dont think Brad Pitt is as funny as he usually is. It was fun for the most part....but i will never watch that again.

Kicking and Screaming - I hope Will Ferrell doesn't accidentally destroy his career some more.

Crash - I'm not usually one with a penchant for drama...however i really loved this film in a similar way that i liked collateral. Except because of that scene with the daughter getting shot....i think this is the best overly dramatic movie ive ever loved.

War of the Worlds - i dont care...i like Steven Speilberg when he does this type of movie....and i dont think anyone can do it any better....Maybe the story is weak...but its like 100 years old. Tom Cruise with another hilarious performance. I really liked this movie....especially the introduction of the tripods....and that scene with the people wanting to borrow their car. And how the Aliens got aids.

Land of the Dead - Post-college, i really do love zombie movies....and this is a really good addition for the guy who made zombies eat flesh. im just happy he is still alive to make another one. the movies all have a certain social commentary about them which is interesting because of how zany the material is in contrast.....here we are introduced to the first zombie sympathizers.....liberals....pfft.

Star Wars 3- Im not a huge fan of these movies....they are cool i guess.....i like empire strikes back a lot....but i wasn't expecting much....and what i got was a bit more than what i expected. This and empire are the only ones i would ever want to own. When Ewan screams "you were the chosen one" my heart sinks...

Fantastic Four - this is basically a really bad movie.....but i still liked it, cause comic book movies are fun......plus the jessica alba on screen for 90 minutes is great.....especially with the two naked-invisible-woman jokes. Michael Chiklis as the the thing was good i thought.....that johnny storm guy and him had a little funniness there, that could have been great. The exteme sports stuff sucked....as well as dr. doom totally sucking hard. bad movie....but i can like bad movies. It sucks because i read a headline on Fox News saying that THIS movie has revived audiences this summer......how did they realize "everyone will go watch this even though we made it shitty."


AND FINALLY....i will see Charlie and Chocolate Factory on thursday....thus completing the time period that i alotted for myself to live, like a year ago when i first heard about it.

I need to see Rize, Herbie fully loaded (yeah...), shark boy and lava girl.....i think thats it.

After that what next.....Wedding Crashers, Dukes of Hazzard, The Island, Hustle and Flow, bad news bears....i would say Elizabethtown, but thats moving into the fall season really.

MUSIC VIDEO AID 05

alright...so you think you are my friend, huh?
PROVE IT.

I'm shooting a music video (a $2500 one) for Holliday, a rapper in houston/Katy at the end of July.
I do in fact need mass amounts of people to commit to being part of the fun (aka an extra) for 3 shoots taking place on July 31st. Come to have fun...or atleast act liking your having a total blast.
We will feed you, and love you.

If interested please email HollidayVideo@yahoo.com and let us know you are interested...We need all walks of life....and any costumes you want to wear are perfectly acceptable, prolly.
Good info will be your name, phone number, email, brief physical description, and any type of character you would like to play (doctor, nurse, stripper, ninja, yourself, etc.) that you might have a costume for.

Check Out Holliday's website here
or check out the single "Plan to Bang" at his myspace here


c'mon...just do it.....