Urban Honking

Here’s the deal: “You Got Served” is, in fact, both the best and worst of the new school of urban dance films. It is a film divided in two, a dichotomous adventure into breathtaking dance scenes choreographed (and music-directed) by a conceptual genius. And yet, it was cobbled together by a writer and editor who […]

Due to the fascinating enthusiasm/PASSION? over “You Got Served,” and because I have cherished, purchased, bootlegged, home-recorded and daydreamed about more urban dance films than anyone I know and probably more than this dude (pointed out by Jay Smooth), I vow to review it this weekend, after I check it out at the matinee, FOR […]

if you are in the vicinity of Rutgers University this June, perhaps you might want to check out the first annual National Hip-Hop Political Convention. From the Cowboyz ‘n’ Poodles inbox officiale: “Ballin’ Entertainment is proud to be working with the first annual National Hip-Hop Political Convention. The founder’s aim is to bring together hip-hop […]

The NYT magazine’s cover story this week, on the sex-slave trade in the United States, is provoking a lot of blogiverse discussion, starting with brilliant-all-the-time-and-also-when-infuriated Sasha’s. To which I sent him an email, which he posted, and Jessica, Douglas, and Hua wrote about the article, too. Jessica and Sasha put it exactly, and I would […]

Tonight, the choice between an advance screening of You Got Served (wherein B2K dance head-to-head with the drummer from Blink 182) and Stephen Petronio Dance Company broke me out in pins and needles. On 95.5*, DJ Juggernaut reported that You Got Served “has a plot, but you don’t even notice it, because there’s so much […]

Rejoice! Joseph Patel’s debutante entry into the blogiverse prompted still more obsessive listening to Kelis & Dre’s “Millionaire”, which is partially about communism, and totally about reparations. P.S. What is up with the Abstract Dynamics monopoly on some of my favorite website writers? This Blaze dude must be hot shit. (Actually, he is–check his beautifully […]

I’m out for a spell, recording the grammy award winning cover album, “MUY ROMANTICO: FREAK STORM,” dancing on Chic-a-go-go, and swimming laps at the Chicago metro YMCA with my bootylicious homies, who are some of the most brilliant people I know, including my bestest lady Jessica Hopper, who is linked at left and required reading. […]

The Date: Last December, my place of employment, the Portland Mercury, purveyor of entertainment, gambling, and back-alley moonshinery, held an auction for charity (the Portland Relief Nursery, a safehouse for neglected/abused children). One of the auctioned-off items was a date with the lady employees of the Mercury, all seven of us–where the promised activities included […]

I doubt there has ever been a more intimate, astonishing documentary about a coup d’etat than The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The Irish film crew who made it was there during the April 12, 2002 takeover of the Venezuelan Presidency by an opposition largely led by private oil company interests, corporate media. They were […]

Later I will write about my weekend thus far: * the Dog Show, and the Tails of Whoa sheltie crew * the date my 7 lady co-workers and I went on, with a dead ringer for Nick Carter from backstreet boyx * Wikkid, a Meltdown-like ensemble of post-punk witchery * Ying Yang Twins, a cheer […]