No Film School

These past few days I’ve been working on a grant application, which is often tedious work (e.g., trying to come up with cohesive answers to questions like “what are your career goals?” in 50 words or less). So what does one do when engaged in something tedious? Find a diversion! Here it [...]

“Out of the Closet” has been up for three weeks now. So far I’ve failed in my ultimate ambition of getting sued by R. Kelly, but I have succeeded in getting 35,000 visitors to come to my nascent web site. Which is wonderful, although it’s kind of sad to think that the one [...]

The concept of the dechievement is simple: in the struggle to “make it” as an artist, rising above the competition is not the only way of garnering attention. Essentially, if you are trying to stretch the boundaries of what’s been done before, it’s possible to undercut what already exists, rather than trying to hold yourself [...]

An unreleased version of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet has been found, in which R. tells the tale of an entirely different sexcapade! Here, in his own words, is the “shocking truth!”
Mr. Kelly, why don’t you tell us what really happened?

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Damn. With the all-capitals formatting of the title you can’t tell that “Advanced” is capitalized. It’s supposed to look like this:
Is R. Kelly Advanced?
This clarification is necessary because the uppercase version of Advanced means something different than the lowercase version. Well, what is this difference? What does “Advanced” mean? I’m glad I [...]

Critic: With the release of Monkey Business, The Black Eyed Peas have finished what they began with Elephunk: transforming into a completely substance-free, modern-day hip-hop version of the Village People, donning completely unreasonable outfits and designing every track for heavy rotation on ClearChannel. The criticism that everyone will levy at them, validly, is that they’ve [...]