Video of the Day – ‘If My Homie Calls’
Pac emerging as a solo artist, and if I’m not mistaken, John’s first music video (if not, certainly very early in his directing career.) Enjoy!
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Song of the Day – ‘Remember the Time’
Happy MLK weekend everyone! Some of the Black Panther conversations I’ve had this week turned into ‘What other pop culture things felt like everyone had to see it right away (before we had social media)?’ Michael Jackson video premieres definitely were on the list, thus today’s choice (particularly with the cast, setting and director […]
Song of the Day – ‘If My Homie Calls’
So… I had an idea in mind…if the numbers look like this by the time I think the judges see it, I think I’ll be in good shape. And I asked you guys for help… And you guys blew past what I wanted in less than 24 hours. I apologize for underestimating you. Anyway, go […]
‘Dear White People’
First, the macro level: For my generation, we all looked up to Spike (with John and Reggie not far behind). and in those days, it’s fair to say we all had some form of a ‘hero complex.’ Without getting into a much bigger conversation about black leadership in America, what we grew up on […]
Song of the Day – ‘If My Homie Calls’
On the list of great 2Pac singles, this one (kind of understandably) is way down the list. I only think I hear this once every couple years. So I was still hyped when it came on the radio and I still knew all the words. And is that a young John Singleton in the […]
The Wheelhouse
How about something fun for my last post of 2011? So 99 times out of 100 when I’m sent sides (an audition script), I can look at the product as a whole, look at where the character fits into the story, and build something from the ground up. But there was one screen test […]
Mooz-lum
Out now on video (and Netflix, where I got a hold of it) is one of the first films to give a perspective on being an (African-American) Muslim in the post 9/11 age. Mooz-lum stars Evan Ross as a young man going into his freshmen year of college, trying to find the right balance […]
Most Important Black Films – #4 Boyz N The Hood
Boyz N The Hood was the debut film by writer/director John Singleton. The semi-autobiographical tale revolves around three young black men, Tre, Ricky, and Doughboy, and their daily lives growing up in South Central Los Angeles. On to the tale of the tape… Relevance: While the phrase ‘black film’ can take on many different meanings […]
Limitless XVI – Trojan
(Let me open this chapter by saying I almost certainly do more name dropping in the next few paragraphs than you will ever hear me do in a five minute conversation in real life. Nature of the beast…) Like any film geek worth his salt, I knew the names of the filmmakers who either graduated […]
Limitless – IV. Movies
My earliest memories of the movies were from the summers in Salina. The local theatre would play these Sinbad serials as matinees, and we’d all ride our bikes home afterward and play out in the street. Pirates, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, what have you. E.T. was the first ‘Hollywood’ movie I remember seeing at the […]
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