Witness: Diner Coffee

For those of you that weren't already aware, I like to listen to rap and hip-hop. To be honest, I have a hard time differentiating the two when talking to your average man, but the common consensus seems to be that hip-hop is more serious and lyrical. Confusing as I've also been told that rap means Rhyme And Poetry.

Whatever the case, Witness was my very first foray into what is commonly termed "underground" or "conscious" rap. Up until that point my only knowledge of rap was what you heard on the radio. Now granted, as I was born in the late 80's, this meant that my first few tastes of rap were legitimate artists. Tupac and Biggie, et al. Ludacris. Xzibit. Eminem. And so on and so forth.

But Witness introduced me to a new kind of rap. He's an amazing lyricist with a smooth voice that delivers his punchlines, or sets up intricate metaphors as you'll see in this song, and provides one with plenty of food for thought.

Give it a listen.

Science can answer moral questions

"Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life."

Do I agree with the video across all points? No, not at all. There are some indiscretions here and there, moreover with the use of "science" in the title of his work as most people understand "science" to be the modern scientific view and not "science" as a process, which is in a state of constant change. This can lead to confusion.

But that aside I myself live by a doctrine of "virtue is logic", and that many of the "gray areas" or "sticky situations" in terms of morals or ethics, I find can be reasoned through or put through a rigorous filter of simple logic and an answer be arrived at. Not only morally feasible, but optimal in all regards.

Harris is eloquent, decisive, and keen in his word use and analogies. It's a brilliant dissertation.

The American Dream

I posted this on the forum, but I wanted to reiterate it on the blog so that it gets maximum exposure. I find this video to be very well thought out. It's fun, very amusing and entertaining, but undoubtedly informative. It's the kind of video that I feel everyone should one, both the ones that are completely uneducated in the subject and the ones that have already heard the information a hundred times. It's that good.

Yogi Bear -- 0.5 / 10 - (What?! I'm being Generous!)

Disclaimer: Inappropriate Language and a Brutal fuckin' owning.

You know that feeling? When you're a little kid, and you're so insanely excited to get a puppy for the first time. And when you do, it's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen, and you name it, sleep with it, pet it, wash it, play with it, get muddy with it. And you've lived the best week with your new puppy! And it's so great, that you're excited for the next years to come!

And then it gets hit by a car. Blood everywhere. Guts hanging from it's poor little pot-belly. An eyeball is missing.

That's Yogi Bear ... Minus the fucking hype and excitement that started. Puppy killing. Like clubbing a defenseless human in a cushy seat, about to watch a movie. A movie about puppies dying. ... Raze. You OWE me.

Ahem -- where was I?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302067/

 

To Warner Bros: Way to fucking assassinate your careers.

To all people who stared in this: Way to fucking assassinate your careers.

To the two voice overs: Die in a fire.

 

This movie was the epitome of retardation. An autistic child or a child with Downs would not have found this movie funny or entertaining, but demanding as I did for the last eighty-eight minutes of my life back, for torture. This movie is unconstitutional. I would rather be water-boarded than to watch this again. Ever.

/sigh ... Review, right.

Title: Yogi Bear

Year: 2010

Rating: WTF [G] -- I personally feel it should be rated R, for child torture.

Synopsis: Lemme see if I can pull something that resembles a storyline to the forefront. Some fuckstick mayor, and no -- he's probably a serious douche bag in real life too, but in the movie, he's even more of a pencil dick -- wants to level Jellystone Park and get rich off of a logging plan. Sounds like a great fucking movie to me, so far.

However, the dumbass Ranger, who's not even worth mentioning as an actor because he's been in ... this and Gulliver's Travels? Lol. I digress, tries to sabotage the 100 year anniversary of the park, yadda yadda - Yogi and Ranger Smith save the day. Fucking ... stupid.

Best Phrase(s): 

1. "Booboo cam."

2. "Rachael, you and the park have one thing in common -- you could both use a better man than me." LOL

3. "Without you, I'm like a Genus without a Filum." 

 

Favorite Actor: Gerard Butler...ohwait, he's not IN this film ... then no one.

 

Music Quality: Poor. 

Language: Poor scripting.

Pros: When the movie ended.

... LOL. Did you expect me to fucking write something here? Fuck you.

Cons: Seeing this movie, was a definite Con. I wouldn't even call this a child's movie, as not even the humor was funny enough for a child to get. I was in the theater and there were little girls behind me talking throughout the film -- we're talking like six. Why? Because it was so fuckin' bad, it couldn't capture the attention of a six year old.

Fucking - six. You give them a doll, and they'll play with the damn thing for a year.

The only exciting actions I saw from them was dancing in the credits. LOLOL. No. I'm serious. They were dancing.

I think I should sue Warner Brothers for fucking wasting a part of my life that could have been better spent doing something constructive. Like slicing off all of my fingers and then lighting myself on FIRE. After cauterizing my wounds with ACID and LEMON JUICE, YOU FUCKING BASTARDS! GIVE ME MY LIFE BACK!

... ahem. Where were we?

Rating: 0.5 / 10 -- because I laughed, honestly, when the Ranger headbutt the bitch in the forehead with the brim of his hat. Sorry. I just spoiled the 0.5 of the movie. Don't bother seeing it now.

 

Rewatch Value: I have a better idea. Go masturbate with a Chain Saw. 

Gulliver's Travels -- 8 / 10

You're looking at the title wide eyed, right? Lol. Yeah -- yeah. Me to. That's right folks, Zenith hit the movies today as per request of Hummingbird and I've got a really ... counter-thought review for you. I can't even begin to get around my original mindset until about ten minutes into the film, you're shaking your head and trying to pull Gulliver (Jack Black) away from his idiotic misfortunes and realize that you're still in the theater. Lol.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320261/

Let's start from the top. I have never seen or read the original Gulliver's Travels, while I do know the book and the story, I have never actually delved into the cheesy fantasy until I was asked to "take one for the team" by my reviewer boss, Raze.

Gulliver is a dead-beat nobody working in the mail room for a writer's corporation, kinda like a massive magazine or newspaper corp, and he's an old dweeb. Lol. He's madly in love with this woman he can't talk to, because he's that much of a goon and ends up being a total idiot to her and gets himself into a lying bind, where he's said he travels a lot and he plagiarizes a lot of materials from a magazine and book -- oyie.

So he's off on his adventure and then finds himself in a bad way, yadda yadda, he's on an island, surrounded by tiny people who eventually crown him their ruler, or whatever. Yadda yadda. The movie is about self-enlightenment though. About realizing who he is and what he's capable of doing, even though he's a super douche.

You'll have to watch the movie, to get the rest -- as that's where the story begins!

Pros: There are a LOT of really funny parts. Imagine being in a world, where no one knows ANYTHING about the world you came from. All the movies you've seen and the books you've read, the music you've heard -- it's chalked FULL of Lols.

My favorites would have to be when he had these wee-people reenact the scene between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker (which was a part of Gulliver's life, supposedly, back in his other life - lolol), so the micro-portrayal is of Darth Vader and his son ... Gulliver. Lol. And they're going through the routine about him not being his father. XD ... LOOOOL. It's a riot.

Also very funny is Gulliver singing 'WAR' to stop the two nations from battling each other, lmao.

Cons: You know -- I have a hard time fighting anything totally bad about the film. Jack Black is such a doofus, that it's really just amusing the entire time. A lot of really good scenes and well-thought out wee-people inventions. The biggest Con I felt for the entire film, was some of the "mature" or adult content that was added in -- thus making this more of a PG-13 film, whereas it should have been for that younger-audience, as it was such a fun film.

Bonus: Vice President Yoda. Real-time/Real-player Guitar Hero. Lolololol - featuring, micro-KISS.

Rating: It's a strong 8 out of 10 and I would definitely recommend seeing it at the cheap-seats or eventually owning it, as it would be a funny family-flick, as there's a lot of very funny things in it.

Newsletter: January 1st, 2011

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