No Film School

A year ago I wrote, “in an effort to post more regularly, without having to increase my output of original material, I’m going to start embedding interesting short films or other video content from the far corners of the interweb, most of which (I hope) you will not have seen before.”
I went back to check […]

I couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t help myself. And neither could the mainstream media.
I still haven’t written up the story of how I finally got a job and moved to New York, which is kind of the point of this site. Regardless, the project that I’m doing graphic design for, MTV’s […]

I came up with these in a flurry while listening to The Strokes’ “Ize of the World,” a song off their newest album, First Impressions of Earth. It’s a sort-of clever play on words on the “eyes of the world,” obviously. I didn’t need to say that. Anyway, the choruses are comprised […]

Black Eyed Peas - “Bringing it Back” (2000, Bridging the Gaps)
I know I’m not the only one that’s filling the void
Creatively hip-hop is being destroyed
A lot of rappers really need to be unemployed
Because the topics that they talk about has got me annoyed
You see I heard it all before, there’s no need to repeat it
The […]

The best satire is able to parody something BEFORE it actually happens out in the real world. Beck’s hilarious pastiche Midnight Vultures, released in 1999, fit this bill perfectly. It was one of the few albums I owned at the time that was actually acceptable to crank up in your vehicle, if you […]

David Banner’s new album Certified was released today. It contains the single “Play,” which would qualify as a Dechievement, except for the fact that it is essentially the same song as The Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (the Whisper Song),” which I included in my original definition of the Dechievement.
Certainly the uncensored lyrics (caution, […]