The Harder They Come

The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff....You can watch (almost) the entire movie on Google Video. Amazing! When I first heard of this movie I thought it was a documentary, and then I started watching and figured it was something semi-autobiographical like Purple Rain or 8-Mile. It's actually way more like Scarface mixed with Hustle And Flow mixed with a Bruce Lee movie mixed with Young Guns (1 and 2) mixed with City Of God mixed with The Wire mixed with Juice, in descending order of potency added to the mix.


Or if you aren't into watching something like that give a little of your time to the soundtrack, which is classic and great in all kinds of ways.

keep consuming music videos on the web and everything will work out fine

i love the French Kicks and i love this video.

French Kicks "Abandon" from THE FEAR on Vimeo.

also good. spookier.
Bat For Lashes - Daniel

People from the Midwest make the best New Yorkers anyway...

White Rabbits - Percussion Gun.

rad vid, rad song (with rad song title) from Bushwick via Columbia, Missouri folk White Rabbits.

compare that video with this cheapness
and you understand that White Rabbits have made The Jump! on their second album which not so coincidentally was produced by Spoon's Britt Daniel.

And this.

Asher Roth

"What's with Asher Roth blowing up so huge?" you ask. Why do white rappers like Eminem and Asher Roth appeal to such a big crossover audience while so many talented black rappers toil in relatively less slobbery popularity?

My thesis: While there are a number of accomplished white rappers in the land, it is definitely harder for a white guy to be taken seriously as a rapper than it is for a black guy. It's hard to argue against that truth. Additionally, no matter how good a white rapper is, he's usually going no further than the indie/backpack rap and hip hop head crowds. So it stands to argue that for a white rapper to go MAINstream at all, he's got to be pretty good. He's got to demonstrate something akin to white exceptionalism in hip hop. It's like a black guy being elected president of the USA. He's got to be one sharp dude. So, maybe Asher Roth is just that good. Maybe Asher Roth is the best rapper alive!!!
I'm kinda liking this shit here.

Asher Roth |MTV Music

But a new point worth making is that Asher Roth doesn't have to be all thuggish and from the Pennsylvania version of 8-Mile to make it work. Nowadays the most popular (read: crossover) rappers dress like Kanye, borrowing from whiteys.

Relationship Comedy

Relationship Comedy from Sam Winter on Vimeo.

Jessie Cantrell and Mike O'Gorman are hilarious improv comedians. One time we all had an idea, then got together to have a couple beers and shoot this vignette. It was fun and funny.

They are also a musical duo, called Searider Falcon

Wear what you dig.