Perfect, a hip hop track by Cherry DeMA featuring Nik Furious. This is an unreleased song dug straight out of Furious vaults for your enjoyment.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
9. Fantomex’s E.V.A.
8. Captain America’s Motorcycle
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Turtle Van
6. Avengers’ Quinjet
5. X-Men’s Blackbird
4. Batman’s Batmobile
3. Fantastic Four’s Fantasticar
2. Wonder Woman’s Invisible Plane
1. Silver Surfer’s Board
Next: The Top 9 Comic Book Superpowers!
Why the Top 9? Because 10 is too many and 9 is better. 3 X 3 = Awesome. Now that’s what I call math.
Here’s my actual comic book haul from Wednesday.
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #16 $2.99
BLACK PANTHER #40 $2.99
MVL ADV AVENGERS #27 $2.99
MVL ADV SUPER HEROES #2 $2.99
X-MEN LEGACY #215 $2.99
*** Pull List *** $11.96
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #569 $2.99
WOLVERINE #68 $2.99
MVL ADV FANTASTIC 4 #39 $2.99
SHE-HULK 2 #32 $2.99
NEW AVENGERS #44 $2.99
FC SUPERMAN BEYOND #1 $4.50
FREEDOM FORMULA #1 FREE
HERCULES #1 FREE
MARVEL YOUR UNIVERSE FREE
ZOT! BOOK 1 LOAN
*** Extras *** $8.97
*** Estimated $$$ *** $23.92
*** Actual $$$ *** $20.93
Looking at my pull list, Marvel Adventures Avengers #27 was either listed incorrectly by Diamond or they shorted my store’s order. As for the extras, I was almost 100% sure that I was going to buy Amazing Spider-Man #569 based off the strength of last issue. I expected to purchase Wolverine #68 because I’ve enjoyed Old Man Logan, but something about this issue just didn’t draw me in.
I was surprised to find that Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #39 was a “silent issue” where all the word balloons are filled with images instead. This clever storytelling device by Chris Eliopoulos hooked me. I love the art of GG Studio, so I assumed I would pick up She-Hulk 2 #32. After a flip thru, New Avengers #44 and Superman Beyond #1 didn’t do it for me so I passed.
Overall, this was a good day at the comic shop for me because most of my favorite titles came out. To top it off, I ended up leaving with far more content than I expected — three free comics and one loaned trade paperback. The employees tossed me free copies of Freedom Formula and Hercules, while Marvel had one of their free “saga” books (the Secret Invasion Saga was excellent so I look forward to this one). I’m also borrowing the collected edition of Zot! issues #1-10 from a friend.
My estimated total was $23.92, which accounted for my entire pull list plus three more books. Since Marvel Adventures Avengers never made it to the store, I only bought $20.93 worth of comics. I enjoyed taking a look at my expected purchases versus my actual purchases, so I’ll do this exercise again next week.
Now that the GMAT is over, I finally have time to rant about analyze music videos again. It takes a lot of time to properly put a video in its place, believe me. Today I’ll discuss Cassie’s new joint Official Girl, featuring Lil Wayne, which premiered last week on FNMTV. As you may know, Cassie is a model who got a record deal with Bad Boy after catching the eye of producer Ryan Leslie, or something like that. I’m a bit fuzzy on the details. Anyway, after a year or so hiatus she’s back on the block. I’ll address both the track and the video.
The Track: The beat is courtesy of Danja and smacks of his mentor Timbaland - that is definitely a good thing. The song is basically Cassie saying ‘i don’t want to be a jumpoff, I want to be your girl for reals,’ but it’s insincere and pushy. If she’s so tired, why doesn’t she just leave? Even Keri Hilson (who belongs to the production team that wrote the song) knows the energy isn’t worth it.
It is by ‘label magic’ alone that the super busy Lil Wayne found time to record a verse. It’s not like he even needs the cash right now. (This has seriously been the year of Weezy F Baby) Sadly, if there was any chance of this song being salvageable, the vocoder towards the end crushes it like a boulder.
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The Video: After about 20 seconds you will inevitably make the Aaliyah connection. I mean come on,The bikini top with the hair and the jacket and the black pants, who are you trying to fool Cassie? This isn’t an homage - it’s cheap imitation. The director, Chris Robinson has actually worked with Aaliyah before, so I’m a little surprised. Additionally, Cassie says in an interview “I’ve never seen myself dance like this before.” What I infer from this is that you really stepped up your dancing game.
But I call bullshit. I’ve seen your other videos, so I have a good baseline. Dancing wise, the video doesn’t bring anything new to the table. It’s the same old moves from the same old Aaliyah videos of yore. If this is a ‘new level’ for you, I’m surprised Diddy didn’t bounce your ass like he did half the girls from Making The Band 3! Lastly, the white bikini. Totally gratuitous! It comes out of nowhere and has no relevance to the rest of the video. You aren’t near a pool, the beach, or even outside.
The Bottomline: Hear me out Cassie. You are a beautiful girl - but if you want to stay in the game, you need to learn to sing, act, or at least dance. They call you a ‘triple threat’ in Step Up 2 - but where is the supporting evidence?
Here’s a little experiment I want to try. Every week I go to my local comic shop, and beforehand I prepare a list of what I plan to get. This list is, of course, never what I end up going home with. I want to try and track how accurate my list is in relation to my actual purchases.
I’ve gone through Diamond’s direct market shipping list for this week and made my choices. The top section reflects my actual pull list at my comic shop. The second section represents books that I might like to pick up, but I haven’t put them on hold and therefore I will check them out once I get to the store to make my decision.
The top line of the bottom section represents the grand total if I purchased all of the items in the first two sections (which never happens). The bottom line represents the estimated total I think I will spend based upon an educated guess of my actual tastes (this line is new to my list and I’m not sure how accurate it will be).
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #16 $2.99
BLACK PANTHER #40 $2.99
MVL ADV AVENGERS #27 $2.99
MVL ADV SUPER HEROES #2 $2.99
X-MEN LEGACY #215 $2.99
*** Pull List *** $14.95
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #569 $2.99
WOLVERINE #68 $2.99
MVL ADV FANTASTIC 4 #39 $2.99
SHE-HULK 2 #32 $2.99
NEW AVENGERS #44 $2.99
FC SUPERMAN BEYOND #1 $4.50
*** Extras *** $19.45
*** Everything *** $34.40
*** Estimated $$$ *** $23.92
Tomorrow or Friday I will post what I actually purchased.
The week’s slang is real talk. No, its not new. Fabolous did an album called Real Talk, with that awesome track Breathe, 4 years ago. And I know the term has been around longer than that. (btw Fab, the streets is hurting for another single) The point is, it’s underutilized and maybe a perfect fit for your next staff meeting.
re·al talk [ree-uh
l tawk, reel tawk] -noun, -adverb
-noun
1. the honest truth, often used for emphasis: Nick needs a new haircut - and that’s real talk!
-adverb
2. seriously, in a serious manner: Yo, real talk, your breath is stank.
[Origin: unknown; see Truth, On The Real]
formatting shamelessly stolen from dictionary.com
Jennifer Aniston is a victim of overexposure. I’m force-fed her image from the Internet, magazines, ads, television, movies, and other media constantly. I wouldn’t really care about her either way, but I’m constantly being told by popular opinion that she’s sexy and that’s just not the truth.
The whole “I’m attractive but I still get nervous and flustered” routine just doesn’t do it for me. I get it, Aniston. As an actress, you’re like the perennial girl next door. No interest. Sorry.
It certainly doesn’t help that I’m not much of a fan either. Friends? No. The Good Girl? No. Along Came Polly? A funny title, but still no. I did like the movie Rumor Has It… because Aniston’s character travels to meet the man she thinks is her father only to sleep with him and wake up in his bed the next morning. That’s hilariously twisted.
Really all this comes down to is ridiculous celebrity bashing. I mean, isn’t that what I’m doing? I don’t know Aniston and I’m sure she’s actually a pleasant and attractive woman in person. But I’m tired of being sold on her nonexistent silver screen sex appeal, and for that reason I don’t want to stick it to her.
Station’s Creation, an instrumental jam by Nik Furious. This track was unearthed in a recent ProTools recovery, but chopped up real nasty by Nik on this very day and transformed into what you hear now.
Sorry if I throw a million posts your way this week. I feel like I have to blog my ass off now since I’ll be on the road starting Thursday. I caught today’s ep of FNMTV during the afternoon and well, I think it speaks for itself. No wait, I take that back. I’ll speak for it:
Ne-Yo - Closer (Live)
Whenever I see Ne-Yo I can’t help but think he looks like a less popular version of Chris Brown mixed with Djimon Hounsou. He does use a real band though and that’s kind of cool. Dancers’ outfits suck though.
Pink - So What
Homegirl is really in her element here. Pretty impressive that Hart agreed to do the video. I generally don’t dig Pink - and probably will continue not too - but this video is alright. Great song to get drunk too. In fact, I think I might just go do that right now.
Cassie - Official Girl
Wow. So much to say, check out this week’s full fledged review.
John Legend - Green Light ft. Andre 3000
The beat is wack, the hook sucks, and Andre 3000 employs stream of consciousness rather than structured verse - but god damn would I like to be at that party. It looks like a lot of fun. Especially if it’s not your house.
Ne-Yo - Miss Independent (Live)
Ne-Yo’s gimmick for this album is wearing suits. He also plays off the emerging trend of ‘independent women’ in hiphop. Apparently ballers no longer want to get with guap gulping groupies. Besides the obvious advantages of her picking up the check once in a while, a girl that gets her own cash might support you if your abum flops.
The Bottom Line: Pink obviously takes the gold this week - but I think I’ll give John Legend the silver for a decent party scene.
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