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Short week, so let’s get these jams in quickly… One of the first videos and songs I have a fairly vivid memory of seeing. How vivid? I’m fairly certain I saw used to see this frequently on Video Soul with Donnie Simpson. (Ask your parents kids.) Enjoy!
Fifteen years ago today, ‘the Black Album’! I think a lot of us knew in our hearts Hov was way too young (and had too much money left to be made) for this to really be his ‘retirement’ album. But good Lord, this is still such a complete work. ’99 Problems’. ‘What More Can I […]
A New Jack Swing kind of Tuesday. Teddy Riley was one of, if not THE hitmaker of my generation. This right here was just the beginning. And bonus points for this video reminding me of one of my first ‘go to’ dance moves: the ‘all shoulders, no waist shimmy’ that Aaron Hall pulls off at […]
Like Jason Reitman, I’m old enough to remember hearing the names ‘Gary Hart’ and ‘Donna Rice’ on the news, but way too young to have any context for it at the time. ‘The Front Runner’ makes its case as one of those ‘pop culture turning points’ where our obsessions with the personal lives of […]
While Chalamet is still on my radar, today is the perfect day to post this. ‘Call Me By Your Name’ on the whole left me kind of cold, but THIS monologue (which I’m told they pulled directly from the book without changing it)… Performed by one of our best character actors Michael Stuhlbarg, this […]
The weekend is here, and I’ve been blown away. The Gram, THE GRAM! of all places put this cover on my radar. 3000 is one of my all time favorite lyricists, and I’ve always loved this song. As a singer though, I say with no arrogance we’re in the same league: ‘actor singers’. People […]
The Shuffle put me into a romantic place on the way in this morning, so here we go: I can’t say I’ve ever been the biggest Maxwell fan, but this song, in lyrics and vibe, just speak to me, and always puts a smile on my face. Enjoy.
It occurred to me today that this will (probably) be the first year in at least a decade that I don’t hit up Vegas. Two things: At this point, I’ve done ‘Vegas Birthday’, ‘UFC Fight Weekend in Vegas,’ ‘Hangover in Vegas’, ‘New Year’s in Vegas’… there’s not really any all new variations I haven’t […]
Taking you into this weekend with one of my favorite scene stealing performances in recent memory… I rewatched ‘No Country for Old Men’ last night and forgot Margaret Bowman played a motel clerk in that one. Not a hugely memorable role, but it made me go back and look up her one scene in […]
And, another weekend… Anyone who was a young man in the mid 90s who tells you they didn’t try to harmonize to this is a damn lie. A DAMN LIE. Have a good one gang.
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