Monday, July 20, 2009

In-N-Out Burger!!!!!


Despite only being on the West Coast for a month and a half, I must say, I'm hooked. I think I went to In-N-Out at least 9 times during my LA stay, and was filled with good food and joy without fail every single time.

Just look at how crack that looks. Wow it's hurting right now because I know I'm not going to eat one for at least a year (until I invest in the company and start bringing that shit out East). The beauty about In-N-Out, among many things, is that the menu is so simple. Double cheeseburger w/ fries, cheeseburger w/ fries, or hamburger w/ fries. Who gets hamburgers, really? They also have milkshakes, made with 100% real ice cream, not that Wendy's frosty bullshit. But you can also add your own twist to the menu. It's almost like a secret code that In-N-Out regulars just know. You can get a protein burger, wrapped in fresco lettuce with no bun, you can get the burger "animal style", with grilled onions and crack sauce, which you can do the same to your fries, + cheese. Mmmmmmmm.

There are also other things you can do which I'm just not up on yet. Also, the people who work there are really friendly, must be due to that $10 an hour starting wage. All the burgers are cooked fresh, not frozen, not injected w/ preservatives and chemicals. The fries are peeled and sliced daily from potatoes, and the buns are baked fresh. This is the beauty that is In-N-Out burger. Buy tickets to the West Coast (they only have locations in CA, NV, AZ, UT) just to try it. Hop on the bandwagon, you won't hop off.

Lord T & Eloise @ The Viper Room



I honestly could just post that picture and not even have to write anything, in an "enough said" kinda way. But after you take in the visual presented above, probably either laugh or say to yourself "what the fuck", imagine these two "aristocratic", funkadelic, pimpalicious looking dudes going on stage and tearing that shit apart. Because that is exactly what they did. It was my last night in LA, so obviously I wanted to do some wild shit. So through friends of a friend, I went to the Viper Room to see this group I had absolutely no idea about, genre, name etc, called Lord T and Eloise. I got there a little late with my boy Nick, and did a double take when I saw the guys on stage performing. Like in the picture above, one was wearing and 18th century aristocratic outfit with high tights and some kind of cat-eared wig on. The other was painted completely gold and had curlers in his hair... with all this considered, the two were spitting hard body lyrics. Think Beastie Boys/Ice Cube/Snoop Dogg/some Crunk South shit. They are a self-proclaimed "Aristocrunk" rap group from Tennessee, consisted of Lord Treadwell and Maurice Eloise XIII. Aristocrunk is supposed to represent a music genre and a lifestyle, according to aristocrats. I was so surprised to see what I was seeing, and even more surprised that I almost immediately started grooving with the other 50 or so people who were there. The performance was as hype as it was baffling. But got less and less baffling as they continued to play, where it got to the point that you expected any live rapper to prepare their own ridiculous attire to even compete with the Lord and Eloise. They were pouring champagne into peoples mouths and throwing dollar bills at the crowd, one of which I caught and pocketed in a quick and fluid motion. It was one of the illest performances I've ever seen, because of the originality but also because of the talent that they had. It was truly really good music. There was a DJ on the tables, and another performer who was called they "Theodore Roosevelt", wearing a toupée while break dancing/crip walking/crunking... Yeah, it was wild. After the performance, I realized that I had been rockin out next to Seth Green the whole time. So that's why this little ass dude (who I thought was a child, no offense to Seth as I was behind him) was surrounded by like 4 hot girls. So anyway, google these dudes. The live aspect of the act is definitely their strong point, but like I said the music was dope as well, and getting a chance to see them live will bring you fun, happiness and crunk.

Nicky, Maurice Eloise XIII, Benny Blancs, after sipping on some crunk juice.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Daily Quotable(s)


"I never got shook up by talks of Illuminati/ I'm from where niggas talk that talk and walk around the streets all day carryin heat like the human body"

&

"Now, either you wit me or you wit me, cuz even if you against me runnin' wit my enemies they ain't nothin' but mini-me's that I created long, long ago and they only wanna cut off my lineage like the Kennedy's"

-Jay Electronica

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Retr0


Wow, they really are going to end up retroing everything. Whatever though, its a quickstrike release so not everyones gonna be skipping down the street with these on. I'll be in Spain, so I am hoping I can fenagle my way into a hidden sneaker store that just so happens to drop these unsuspectingly. Bueno


Jordan Space Jam XI's

50 Greatest Trailers



according to IFC...

I love watching movie trailers, often in theaters I'll be more hyped for the trailer I'm seeing than for the movie I just paid $12.50 to see. But either way, this is an awesome article that lists the top 50 movie trailers of all time according to the good people down at IFC. And yes, they do include links for the listed trailers.
LINK

Friday, July 10, 2009

college boi



MusicPlaylist
MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com



J COLE LIVIN BUMMY HA HA HA THAT SHIT IS FUNNY (definitely paying homage to "Down Bottom")

Oh and Asher Roth.... go dig a hole






Got a 2 for 1 special today!! Yeah, J. Cole is that nice...


"While they relax I stay in tip top shape, and I stay up on my toes like some gym socks, flip flops, tell them haters to rehab: kick rocks"

"I got a show for you to watch, heres an episode/ pro-fessional, set to blow any minute now, many women smile, look the lights and the action and the cameras be callin/ u niggas gotta loggin, bitch u Fantasy Ballin'"



off The Warm UP

Weedz/Meyer Hawthorne


I've been marathoning on Showtimes original series "Weeds" (shout out to a person who shall not be named for putting me on) for the past couple days, and have gotten through two seasons in record time. The show is hilarious; watch that. Anyway, a lot of people have probably heard of the show's title song "Little Boxes", written and originally recorded by uber-Hippie Malvina Reynolds. The song is ill if you haven't heard it before. Throughout each episode, a new artist covers the opening theme; a cool little way of getting us who have it previously recorded not to skip that shit. I saw an article the other day about this dude Meyer Hawthorne, new dude from Michigan, white dude at that, with a soul/retro vibe, on some Curtis Mayfield shit. That's crazy. He also has the falsetto voice down-pact, which I appreciate because I work on mine every morning in the shower. I'm pretty much biting the whole post from where I heard about dude, but fuck it. Download his cover of "Little Boxes" after the jump, the music video for "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out", Mr. Meyer goes in.






"Little Boxes"

Thursday, July 9, 2009

CROOKED



One quarter of the Slaughter, reppin the West Side, Crooked kills us all on this Twista beat...... AYEEEEE

"Daily Quotables"


So I wanted to implement a section of my blog that would involve me adding pretty consistent stuff, hence the "Daily" part of the title, which I hope to be committed too. Since you all know how much I fucks with hip-hop, and the music I'm listening to on the daily, I thought I'd share the daily punchlines and dope quotables that stay blastin from my speakers. So without further ado, the initiation of this little section will be credited to J. Cole, with another dope, yet subtle punchline--shouts to 3sidez blog, dropping daily knowledge, CLICK HERE to see 3sidez piece about J. Cole--that you need to run back to understand, and once you do, you're like "UHHHHHH" (not in a questioning sense, but rather the noise that you make when someone says something hard):


"Long term plans for the fam, we'll be golfin, never catch a nigga double-crossin, unless I'm flossin'" -- from "I'm the Man" off The Come Up mixtape

tough right? yeah

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

SUperNova



I know I'm late on the vid, but its dope, as is the song.

San Diego/Del Mar/4th of July Madness



This is gonna be a pretty long ass, but hopefully enjoyable post, as I am going to try to just scratch the surface on the madness and escapades that I enjoyed on the 4th of July weekend and the days leading up to it. This is no way has anything to do with Universal Records and the aforementioned group is in no way involved or responsible for my actions.

So after discovering that I had the thursday and friday of the week before the 4th off, and going nuts with joy, I decided to meet up with my boy Nicholas Kaye aka Nicky Nick aka Nicholai Spielberg to partake in some good ole drink-time that was bound to escalate into shenanigans. We went out with the intention of getting allowed into a pretty high class, yet dope ass bar called "The Edison" but we were swiftly denied after discovering that I was violating the dress code in every way humanly possible. No baseball caps, t-shirts, shorts or tennis shoes allowed. Guess what I was rocking? Only if I had the Flavor Flav chain could I have violated it any more, and that's a stretch, they might have let me in just for having the audacity to do so. Nicky Spielberg only violated it in one way. But nonetheless, we were not getting in there that night. We then proceeded to go into this Mexican bar, with a bartender who spoke no English. I conversed with her as best I could, and Nick and I enjoyed two big ass shots of horrible Tequila. Got us feeling nice though, and we went down to this other bar, I forget what it was called, and successfully got in (Shout out to Maine). Before, we asked the bouncer at the Edison something along the lines of "is there anywhere that two assholes dressed like us can get into at this time of night", to which he graciously led us to our eventual destination. We got in and purchased a couple big ass cans of Tecate, and damn, those things do the trick. The rest of the night I will leave out, for my own pride. Nick knows what I'm talking about, but it has something to do with Karaoke, Billie Jean, and Benny Blancs.

The next day, we saw Transformers 2, which was dope. Fuck the haters. And yes, Megan Fox... giiiggity gigigtiy goo Ooooooohhh yeahhhh. That night, we met up with Nick's boy Nicolas Salvador Allende Don't Remember His Last Name. Cool dude though, and seasoned with knowledge on how young chaps are supposed to arrive at a Posh ass place like The Edison, we rolled up with confidence oozing out of our appropriately fashioned attire. Or was that just my hair gel? Chill I don't gel my hair my shit is naturally fly. Like I was feeling great; though that could be due to the multiple shots of Cuervo we took prior to leaving. After waiting on line for about 10 minutes, and taking a piss in a cigar shop, we got to the front of the line. Though our night almost came to an abrupt halt. 20 minutes before that, we hit a parking lot up, and unknowingly insulted one of the bouncers to the exact club we were going to! FUCK. I believe Nick's and his exchange was:

Nick: "Hey can we park here?"
Guy: "Do I look like a fuckin' parking lot attendant?"
Nick: "...Uhh Yeah..."
Guy: "Pshh"

So when we were at the front of the line, Guy informed the other bouncer of what occurred before, and they tried to deny Nick entry. But with some smooth talking, and his dashingly good looks, we were all allowed in, even with my balling ass Maine ID. The place was mad nice, which happened to be LA's first power plant, and had a bunch of ancient power generators for aesthetic purposes, and old reel films displayed on the walls. We were chillin' and after I bought a shot of absinthe, I was OD chilling. The place was cake though, so we left after a while, and hit up another bar, which was bumping Tribe. Shit was great. We met these people at the end of the night... This girl Alma, Claudia, and Luis. Claudia was beautiful, and I will find her, and throw wedding sack over her. But she was the DD that night, so I can now see why she wasn't impressed by my sloppy-ass come ons. Luis was that dude though. Like this dude was 40+ years old chilling with some beautiful Mexican girls rocking a Mustache similar to Giambi's when he was on a busting ass last year.... or Dr. Phil's



I was almost like damn girl I don't even need your number to call you, I just want to chill wit Luis. Anyway, I bought us all shots, which I now regret. Fuck. We then bounced, hit up Micky D's, and got like 4 McDouble's each. And 2 McChicken's each. I regret that too. The next day, Nicky Spielberg and I got up and began our drive to San Diego, or more accurately to Del Mar, where Nick's friend Vanessa Black aka V Dubs the dopest host ever has a beach house.



We got stuck in crazy traffic, but finally arrived at Kendrick aka Chris/Chris aka Kendrick lived. And let me tell you, this house was balling. It had a mini-library, with one of those ladders that slides across it. Nuff said. We met Igor Vanessa's man and his two boys from BK, Steve aka Bouzy and TJ aka Cockadoodledoo. And it was a wrap from there on. Dudes were all chillin. That night, we polished off a bottle of Jameson, and chilled on the beach. We later got back to the beach house, and Mr. Black came through and dropped the quote of the trip: "I never seen so many god damned Snaggle-Toothed Bitches in my life". One of the most hilarious things I've ever heard. Stevie and TJ told us stories about the legendary Mishy, who has pulled off shit you've only seen in your dreams. I passed out, and these guys drew dicks on my face. Fuckin assholes. I got the couch though. Woke up saturday morning feeling like shit of course, but we started to hit the keg and that solved all my problems. It was the fourth of July, and we hit the beach and it was popping. Mad ladies, but I mean I was fucked up all day, and I think I'd be stretching the Truth if I attempted to expand on it. Basically we were just chilling on and off of the beach, in one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to, with cool ass people. I proceeded to pass out mid-day while we were watching Michael Jackson videos, and missed the fireworks. Damnit, I always miss the fireworks! But woke up so appropriately after Kendrick and his boy Blake came thru with a Big ass bottle of Patron they found on the beach, and his other boy Eddie returned after pulling a fast one........... We then were chillin downstairs, and this girl Selene broke out into her own melodious version of "Titanic". Shit was hilarious, and great. Who the else knows what happened. I'm probably missing some stuff, but all in all, it was a great weekend. Nick and I were planning to go to the San Diego Zoo on Sunday, but I was way too hungover for that; and for that matter, too hungover for anything. Like I was too hungover to live. We said our goodbyes, and bounced and I slept the whole way back. And I am just getting over my hangover from Saturday, today... Tuesday. Happy belated 4th to everyone who knows they didn't have as good of a time as us, and unhappy 4th to those who think they even came close; and if it's cool with the Black's, its definitely going down again next year. Benny Blancs

An Article that Makes my Muscles Tingle


This article is great, hilarious, and also very, very true. It lists the 5 most badass, gangsta, cojones of steel, *insert synonyms here* dudes that you probably have never heard of, but will soon bow down to. My personal favorite is Audie Murphy, because not only was he like 5'5, he was denied by the almost all factions of the military, personally took out half of the Wehrmacht, and had a movie made about him based on it all..... THAT HE STARRED IN! LOL. And they actually cut out some of the scenes that were true of lil' old Audie doin' work on the Germans because Audie and the Producers thought it wouldn't be believable, even for hollywood. Crazy.


Ben Hopkins (right) in his past life serving in WWII

The site Cracked.com is hilarious, and they have many articles that list shit like this. Check it ouT.

Play


Are these shirts tough, or am I just a hypebeast? I'm gonna go with the latter... and the former. ITSYABOY! Shout out to Kamila Pagowski and her pops, the latter of whose brand "Play. by Comme Des Garcons" is, and the former, the daughter of the father. Does doing this "latter & former" shit make me sound like a complete asshole or just mad intelligent? I'm gonna go with the latter.

Blog Slackin'


Yeah, I know I've been blog slackin like crazy, but anyone else who is as lazy as I am understands completely. But with that said, I'm ready to get back on my grizzly like a bear skinned rug (Lupe the Fiasco)... after the commercial break.. when I figure out what to talk about...

Holla!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009




Check these on the Jump


CLean