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....