Mass Appeal & DJ Premier On Mass Appeal

For a while this was my favorite magazine. I would stay in Barnes & Noble to see if it had dropped. I'm glad they're back. I hope they can stick around in some capacity.  Oh by the way, just the greatest producer of all time talking about one of the greatest songs of all time that inspired said magazine.

Random Geekery: Vinyl Fantasy 7

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01 Kool Keith & Tom Waits - Spacious Thoughts (The Prelude)
02 Jay-Z - Lucifer (Mako Reactor)
03 M.O.P. - Ante Up (Battle!)
04 MF DOOM - Air (Barrett's Theme)
05 Outkast - Royal Flush (Sailing from Junon) (Featuring Raekwon)
06 Skyzoo - Lyrically Inclined (Jenova) (Featuring Wale)
07 Gucci Mane - Stoopid (Costa Del Sol)
08 Clipse - Fast Life (Sephiroth's Reunion)
09 Dorrough - Ice Cream Paintjob (Gold Saucer)
10 Murs - Me And This Jawn (Mideel)
11 Slum Village - Get Dis Money (One-Winged Angel)
12 Ghostface Killah - Save Me Dear (City of the Ancients)

Today's A Good Day For Some Nike SBs

Here's the xtended version of the Nike SB commercial "It Was A Good Day" featuring Paul Rodriguez Jr. with cameos by Kobe Bryant & Ice Cube. They definitely put Cube's It Was A Good Day to great use.

New Cleveland Show Trailer

How cool are these?

Sadly, they are just about all sold out. You can try to cop one at Designboom.com.

Just A Dope Short Film

The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3

Random Geekery: The Ocarina Of Rhyme

The boys of Team Teamwork put some very familiar songs to the instrumentals of The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.

Random Geekery: Everyone Plays In The Shower

This NES controller is cocoa butter scented!!! How dope is that? You can cop this for yourself . . . or me, here.



You can purchase this Playstation controller, here.

If I ever came across a woman that has an NES soap (I looooove cocoa butter) in her bathroom & she owns these . . . I would be dropping down on bended knee ASAP!

Random Geekery: Can You Name That Beat?

As you may know, I'm very fond of video games & hip-hop. So, when the two come together in a funny/quirky way like this, it's certain to make it's way here.

This time it's Mad Decent that is at it. Last time they gave us an interesting take on The Family Guy's, Quagmire. This time they have given some popular songs the 8-bit treatment. Can you guess the songs?



If you like the mix, you can download it, here.

An Animated Look At The War

Soldier Finds His Voice Blogging From Iraq

By Brandon Griggs

(CNN) -- Bullets were pinging off our armor, all over our vehicle, and you could hear multiple RPGs being fired, soaring through the air every which way and impacting all around us. All sorts of crazy insane Hollywood explosions were going off. I've never felt fear like this. I was like, this is it, I'm going to die.

When U.S. Army machine gunner Colby Buzzell began blogging about his combat experiences from a military base in Mosul, Iraq, he wasn't looking for attention or trouble. Buzzell just wanted a way to chronicle what he saw and did and felt during the Iraq war.

But his visceral, first-hand accounts were a bracing antidote to dry news reports and bloodless Pentagon news releases. In the first major war of the Internet age, Buzzell and other soldier bloggers in Iraq offered readers around the world unfiltered, real-time glimpses of an ongoing conflict.

"Here's a soldier in a combat zone ... writing about it and posting it on the Internet. I don't think that's ever been done in previous wars," Buzzell said.

"It just provides another perspective that no embedded journalist can ever do," said the veteran, now a freelance writer in San Francisco, California, and the author of "My War: Killing Time in Iraq." "An embedded journalist is just there observing. But a soldier writing about it -- you can't get more embedded than that."

Continue reading profile of Mr. Buzzell, here.

For more of Colby Buzzell's writings you can cop his memoir of his time in Iraq, My War: Killing Time in Iraq.

Street Fighter IV Launch Party

The Car That Will Save The Planet . . . Maybe!

BYD Auto is a car manufacturer out of China that is claiming to have built an electric car that will get 250 miles off of just one charge! According to Jalopnik.com the car can possibly be charged to 50% power within 10 minutes. The car is currently a concept car, but do you think we might actually see something like this on the streets and somewhat affordable in our lifetimes?



The businessman of all businessmen, Warren Buffet, is enough of a believer to buy a 10% stake in BYD Auto.

What do you think?

Random Geekery III: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test

Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test...

Modern, Cool Nerd

52 % Nerd, 65% Geek, 48% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.


You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

Congratulations!

Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Professional Wrestling

Love & Sexuality

America/Politics

Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

Take The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at HelloQuizzy

Murs vs. Rick Ross vs. 50 Cent

Ok, not really. But it's Murs doing what Murs does . . . make dope music. If you have the chance to see him live, do it!



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Jaylib Live 2004: J Dilla, Madlib & Common In LA

According to Stones Throw Records this is from a performance at the Henry Fonda Theater in LA on April 4, 2004. This show was the kick off of the Madvillain/Jaylib tour for Madvillainy. Madlib & J. Rocc had performed Champion Sound songs in the past, but this time Mr. Yancey joined the party.

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Quasimoto Meets Kid Robot

Everybody's favorite . . . uh . . . whatever he is, Quasimoto, has been immortalized in vinyl (the other kind) by Kidrobot. Previously Kidrobot &
Stones Throw Records teamed up for a Madvillain figure a couple years ago.



The Quasimoto figure will be available in limited supply in both blue & yellow for $49.95 starting February 19, 2009.

Crate Diggin' With ?uestlove

Quagmire Goes Club

Thanks, Mad Decent!

Free Show For Those In Chi And A Few Other Spots

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Scion will also be putting on free Beatnuts' shows in Columbus, St. Louis & Minneapolis.