Song of the Day – ‘Mo Better Blues’
A beautiful Terrance Blanchard composition. And within this clip, Denzel, Wesley, Giancarlo, John Turturro, CHARLIE MURPHY!!! And Spike…man. (smiling) Enjoy!
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A Man Provides
Been rewatching Breaking Bad. Still an all-timer, but I’m a little less enthralled this time around (away from the hype I guess.) But still more Hall of Fame scenes and sequences than most shows will ever get. Speaking of… A lot of us remember Giancarlo cutting his teeth in Spike’s early films, so it was a […]
Song of the Day – ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Alone Tonight’
One of my annual traditions (which I try to do in February) is go back and watch Spike’s 1st 6 films. It always inspires me to watch the evolution and build up to his epic. Anyway, ‘School Daze’, his second film still kind of stands alone as ‘the NPHC film’, ‘the HBCU film’, and the […]
‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’
So…this one’s not for everybody. The newest official Spike Lee Joint, ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ is actually a remake of ‘Ganja and Hess’, a cult classic blaxploitation flick by Bill Gunn (who gets a writing credit here). Much like the original, this film takes the ‘vampire’ character and uses it as a parable […]
‘Selma’
She did it. That’s the simple but accurate description of what Ava DuVernay has accomplished with ‘Selma’. The (still criminally) short list of Hollywood backed films about black history, where black characters are actually the centerpiece of the story, has another worthy entry. From the opening sequence which contrasts King’s Nobel Peace Prize winning […]
‘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 – ‘I Don’t Want to Be Alone Tonight’
One of the things I do every year, for entertainment, for inspiration, for nostalgia, is watch Spike’s 1st 6 movies again, in order. I got to School Daze over the weekend which was kind of a hybrid musical. I know Spike takes pride in how many black artists, in front of and behind the camera, he […]
Madiba
I won’t try to use any single quote or group of quotes to describe the man’s legacy. I would encourage you to do your own research, learn about the man’s life, read his works and speeches to understand why today we lost one of the true ‘world leaders’ of our lifetimes. I can’t help […]
500!
The stats machine is telling me today’s post is post number 500. So much going on in ‘real life’, we’re right on time for some introspection… By the personal and professional standard I hold myself to, I’ve had back to back ‘house money’ years. I’ve been in the Game long enough to know this […]
Song of the Day – ‘Human Nature’
Thanks to everyone who tuned into my Nickelodeon debut last night; it was a fun experience. Time to reboot… Certainly not the first or last time I’ll post my single favorite song ever. I love this particular performance for a lot of reasons though. A microphone, a spotlight, and a stadium under his complete […]
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