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Posted on 10/16/07 @ 1:20 pm
Two of the much talked about Jena 6 holding up the number of their remaining minutes of "fame"? Check. The same two stunting on the red carpet and showing the thousands of people who fought for their cause, wore black, and marched in their town for their sake that, so far, it’s amounted to presenting at the BET Awards? Check. Horrible intersection of social justice and pop culture entertainment which serves little use for either notion? Check. Further evidence of BET’s ignorance in and about the Black community? Check. Yeah…y’all can have this.
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Posted on 10/14/07 @ 7:15 pm
Been a little out of pocket as far as updates are concerned, but I’ve got something coming up you should enjoy. Until then, groove on out to this live performance by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings from their new album “100 Days 100 Nights”: Filed under: Entertainment Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 09/25/07 @ 12:41 am
What comes to mind when you think of the artist Chaka Khan? A powerful voice? A dynamic, multi-genre singer? “I Feel For You”? Well Chaka is all that and more, and today she’s releasing her seventeenth album! The upcoming set, titled Funk This, is produced by the legendary Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the producing powerhouse behind several other artists such as…well…you know how to use Wikipedia. In an industry of hot pocket crooners and pop tart starlets, Chaka Khan has stood the test of time. But don’t worry, her new album is more than just classic Chaka. Funk This is a dynamic mix of new and old cuts, including vocals by Michael McDonald and Mary J. Blige. While other artists of her tenure are busy digging through the American Songbook to dredge up old standards, Chaka grabs the bull by the horns and rides her vocal talents forward into the future with fervor, full body and of course, the funk. Standout tracks include “Disrespectful”, “One For All Times” and one of her hits with Rufus “Pack’d My Bags”. Check out a few audiovisual appetizers from Chaka’s new album Funk This (including a special message from Chaka herself), then run out and pick up your copy! Filed under: Entertainment Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 09/19/07 @ 5:48 pm
Sherri, Sherri, Sherri. It’s bad enough to think you wanted $2 million to be on The View, just like Whoopi (who has far more street and Hollywood cred) — not a good look for someone whose most notable roles were as a hairdresser with pink pigtails and a loud, angry rabblerouser — but this clip? Before that, you went on the show during your first guest spot saying you were going through a divorce with your husband who had a child with his mistress, spouting murderous threats against him, then came back for a later guest spot saying you took him back? Yeah girl, you’se a skronnng Black woman. I don’t really understand how Shepherd’s simple-minded, Bible-backed yet cracked-out whacked opinions even fit in with The View’s coterie. Among Whoopi, Behar, Hasselbeck and Walters, Shepherd comes off like a kid sitting at the grown folks table. I can almost imagine her in the coming weeks even slipping into slave talk for jest (I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout no circumnavigation!)…you know, because she’s a comedienne. Then again, so are Goldberg and Behar, except they’re funny. She just comes off as an ignorant dolt who uses the welfare of her son as an excuse to not know something we all learned back in grade school. I’m sure this will only be the first of more ignorant shit she’ll say in the weeks and months to come. UPDATE: Well it wasn’t quite slave talk, but Shepherd explained herself on today’s View, chalking it up with ghetto girl naivete and, as she puts it, a “senior brain-poopy moment.” Maybe her and Miss Teen South Carolina should take a Geography 101 class together! Maps and flat worlds…imagine that! Filed under: Entertainment Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 07/25/07 @ 11:31 pm
10:30 – Intro by Charlie Murphy still calling the show “Hot Ghetto Mess”. Show’s setting is this Masterpiece Theatre-esque type study. 10:30 – the “Why Must I Cry” video – just a snippet. It’s terrible, naturally. 10:31 – Some guy singing his interpretation of the Star Spangled Banner. Is this in a church? At a conference? I can’t really tell. 10:32 – A Ms Peachez video called “From ‘Da Country” 10:33 – A video of “America’s Vote” with Armstrong Williams cracking up like a damn fool. The singing is pretty bad, though. 10:33 – Some guy jacking up the Star Spangled Banner. Do-rag, missing teeth, and big gold earring. Not sure if this guy is supposed to be a homeless person or not since he says “I’m broke” at the end. Nice. 10:34 – A man on the street type segment called “Street Walkin’”. Question 1: “Who’s richer, Jay-Z or Bill Gates?” 10:35 – Question 2: “Who is Barack Obama?” Surprise BET…most people know him! 10:36 – Random white lady on the street: “Barack Obama is HOTTTTTT.” 10:36 – Question 3: “What came first, Blacks joining the military or Blacks being able to vote?” *** COMMERCIAL BREAK BEGINS *** 10:37 – Promo for BET’s “Baldwin Hills”. 10:37 – Extremely long ass promo for for The Wire, Season Three. I guess they needed something to fill the gap after other sponsors pulled their ads. 10:39 – Movie trailer #1 for Tracey Edmonds’ Our Stories/Dimension Films “Who’s Your Caddy” film. *** COMMERCIAL BREAK ENDS *** 10:40 – “Stupid Is As Stupid Does” segment – first up, white guy putting a condom on his head and inflating it; he calls himself “The Condom Kid”. 10:41 – Black dude on a BMX bike tries to jump 2 bikes stacked on themselves…and wipes out. Lies motionless on the concrete for an uncomfortable seven seconds…and that’s it. 10:41 – The “Redneck Games”. One redneck says “you don’t care what offends anybody because it’s not responsible for what offends you”. Irony much? 10:42 – People doing donuts in a hatchback; guy on the passenger side falls out. Hm. 10:42 – Crazy white dudes talking about voting and smoking purple haze. What is this, Girls Gone Wild? 10:43 – More “Street Walkin’”; Question 4: “How many African-Americans are on the Supreme Court?” Most people say one…Thurgood Marshall. The correct answer…none! Take that, Clarence! 10:44 – Question 5: “What is the unemployment rate of African-Americans in the US?” Seriously, who knows that offhand? Correct answer: 8.2%. Black folks be working, y’all! *** COMMERCIAL BREAK BEGINS *** 10:45 – “Want to make Oprah mad? Tell her what to do with her money.” Promo for BET’s “Meet the Faith”. 10:46 – Promo for BET’s “Hell Date”. 10:47 – Promo for BET’s “Baldwin Hills”. Staci loves “chocolate”. And by chocolate, she means men. 10:48 – Movie trailer #2 for Tracey Edmonds’ Our Stories/Dimension Films “Who’s Your Caddy” film. Honestly, I’m a little surprised after her interview on Black Enterprise’s “Our World” and then producing a movie like this during a show like this. UPDATE: On the other hand, I’m not surprised. Our Stories Films is a Bob Johnson company, and ol’ Bob owns BET. Surprise surprise! 10:49 – Promo for BET’s “In My Hood With Remy Ma”. 10:49 – Commercial for Chrysler. The last sponsor standing! 10:50 – Local commercial here in ATL for Heritage Atlanta. *** COMMERCIAL BREAK ENDS *** 10:50 – Lofty montage of Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm and Nelson Mandela. Message! 10:51 – “And Now…A Word From Our Sponsers“. Yes, it was spelled that way. 10:51 – Auto commercial where a White guy falls from a tractor trailer, bounces off a stack of mattresses, then hits the pavement. Why does this feel like I’m watching SpikeTV? 10:51 – Poorly done cell phone commercial. Yawn. 10:51 – Another poorly done local cell phone commercial. G-Mobile. UPDATE: Youtube link. 10:52 – Dumb jewelry commercial with generic rap beat. Not funny at all. 10:52 – Final “Street Walkin’” segment; Question 6: “What does NAACP stand for?” Most people don’t know. The correct answer is: press conferences! These segments seem to be the most mocking of the entire show. 10:53 – Question 7: “When did slavery end?” People are giving ranges from 1864-1971. The correct answer: 1865. 10:55 – Animated segment called “Bid ‘Em In”, based on Oscar Brown Jr.’s poem. It documents the middle passage and slavery in the US. *** COMMERCIAL BREAK BEGINS *** 10:56 – Promo for BET’s “Baldwin Hills”. 10:57 – Promo for BET’s “Hell Date”. 10:57 – Movie trailer #3 for Tracey Edmonds’ Our Stories/Dimension Films “Who’s Your Caddy” film. These are all different trailers. Does Big Boi have dentures? Real talk: he could do an Efferdent commercial with those chompers. *** COMMERCIAL BREAK ENDS *** 10:58 – “That’s about all the mess we have for today”. Listening to Charlie Murphy trying to pontificate on how Black folks need to uplift themselves. All in all, the show still needs to be taken off the air…because it really, really, really, really sucks. *** END *** See also: Liveblogging “The Down Low Exposed” Filed under: Entertainment and News Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 07/03/07 @ 5:50 pm
Oh Isaiah…why you continue to give these folks life is beyond me. I think I said it best over on studpoet’s blog:
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Posted on 06/19/07 @ 10:28 pm
Apparently, according to Perry, the critics don’t like his show “House of Payne” on TBS because of the weight of two actors on the show, couple Cassi and LaVan Davis. An easy target, really. After all, the poor “comedic” timing, the lack of credible plot progression and the constant jokes based on stereotypes…those are things people just look over. I mean, they’re Black. And on TV. Acting. Surely that’s cause enough for us to hop up and do the chicken noodle soup between commercials, right? But you know what…I’ll entertain Perry for a minute here. I believe the main reason that Perry’s show is such a bomb is because he hasn’t broken out of writing for the stage. A large majority of his material actually goes over quite well in a theater because Ma’dea — Tyler Perry’s drag alter-ego — and the other characters can easily break the fourth wall. They can feed off the energy of the audience and stretch and milk jokes for all they’re worth. It’s a more intimate experience. Or rather, you don’t have to try as hard because the audience will meet you halfway. “House of Payne” would actually do well as a play; it falls within the realm of Perry’s regular antics. TV, on the other hand, is a whole ‘nother ball game. There’s so many other things to take into account with just a direct transfer from on medium to the next. Fuck the heavy actors. Bring on some heavy writing. But, if we are talking about the girth of the Davis’ as being the reason the critics don’t like the show, then couldn’t Perry actually get some furniture that the two can sit in and not look horribly uncomfortable? I mean, if they’re not standing or moving around, they both just kinda lean into the chairs and couches…not sit in them. And stop putting Cassi in those flowing blouses. Her arms are already short; when she goes flailin’ them around, it’s like watching a raptor from Jurassic Park. I’m just saying…. Filed under: Entertainment Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 06/07/07 @ 10:04 am
When you think of Tyler Perry, no doubt his loud-talking, gun-toting feminine alter ego Madea Simmons comes to mind. Perry has based his career off of the church drag performance and the many Madea-themed plays which have ran the chitling circuit for the past ten years. Perry has also managed to take this nominal success and translate it into a New York Times Bestseller and a few movies on the silver screen. So naturally a TV show is next, right? Riiiiiight. Last June, Perry debuted “House of Payne” to ten U.S. markets for a ten-episode run. The show, starring Allen Payne (Jason’s Lyric) two actors from Perry’s stage plays (married couple LaVan and Cassi Davis), and child actors China McClain and Larramie “Doc” Shaw. J. Brotherlove’s review of the show is spot-on; Perry’s premiere foray into television comes off as roughly cobbled together with a minimal budget and little attention to a plausible plot or likable characters. After the season ended, one would think Perry and Co. would look at ways to improve the show before taking it to a national level. Sadly, it’s gotten even worse. Filed under: Entertainment Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 02/24/07 @ 5:22 pm
I am seriously considering getting Showtime just for this show. [tags]this american life, TAL, showtime[/tags] Filed under: Entertainment Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 02/21/07 @ 6:38 pm
See what happens when you mess with the gays, Hardaway? We get audiovisual on that ass! [tags]george takei, tim hardaway[/tags] Filed under: Entertainment Comments: Comments Off |
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