Better off Calling your mother
There’s a new clip from Better Call Saul online in which he has a scrap with Mike Ehrmantraut. Yeah, cool right?
The only problem is, you can’t watch it in the UK. Try searching for “Better Call Saul parking lot” and this is what you get. Which is an interesting reflection of the limitless frontiers of weirdness on YouTube.
The first thing is just 30 seconds random text perhaps stripped from AMC’s own YT feed. The second is just a repeat of a 5 second sting for the show, looped over half a minute. The third is, well, just some Scandinavian dudes in uniform not talking in any way about Better Call Saul. The fourth is a ‘news’ item about how everyone’s talking about the trailer. And that is 2014 for you.
PS If you want to see if in the UK, the Daily Mail has ripped it.
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Kanye fan makes own TWO HOUR Yeezus concert film
There’s no doubting the effort and endeavour this guy has put in. Apparently there’s footage from every date of Kanye’s US tour. But ask yourself, would you rather watch all of this, or wait for the official, Hype Williams-directed concert film where, you know, the lighting and sound levels are somewhere near enjoyable?
There’s no doubting the effort and endeavour this guy has put in. Apparently there’s footage from every date of Kanye’s US tour. But ask yourself, would you rather watch all of this, or wait for the official, Hype Williams-directed concert film where, you know, the lighting and sound levels are somewhere near enjoyable?
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Let’s see what music has turned up on the internet today shall we?
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (Harmonimix version)
Harmonimix is James Blake by another, bassier, name and here he is popping up with a twisted little version of Gorillaz’s sunshine pop classic. It’s one of those remixes that really only makes proper sense if you have a memory of the original but seeing as many will, the little tricks (turning rappers De La Soul’s laughter from boastful to something a bit more sinister for example) work well. There’s also a little trademark noodly keyboard figure and bass wobble for all Blake’s many fans (for further proof of his extensive influence read Sam Richards’s piece on the Sad Banger phenomenon).
DJ Slugo - Ghetto
This is a moving, melancholic piece of Chicago inspired house. A series of slow, sweet chord progressions and 808 snares, i9t’s produced by Nicolas Jaar (trying to summon the ghost of Frankie Knuckles). The vocals meanwhile offer a homily on the state of contemporary life in the poor neighbourhoods of black America. It was recorded in the aftermath of the Ferguson verdicts and has an extra poignancy as a result.
Novelist and Mumdance - Shook
Back to earth with a piece of straightforward boast and diss from BBC Sound of 2015 nominee Novelist, alongside gritty, vv bassy production from Mumdance (whose musical inspirations you can check out here!). Production better than vocals imo but, either way, it grabs you.
The one weird trick to having a completely unrecognisable body
Everyone’s asking the question, how did Jake Gylenhaal go from this...
...to this?
And how many eggs did he have to eat to do it?
Those two pics come from Jake’s last role - as a ghoulish ambulance chaser in Nightcrawler - and his next one - as a boxing champ in Southpaw.
Southpaw is directed by Antoine Fuqua who claims that Gyllenhaal bulked up by taking on two boxing training sessions a day, every day of the week. “I had him training twice a day in the boxing ring, he did two-a-days seven days a week”. Two-a-days yeah, like you use that phrase all the time.
Chris Rock wants to do a Ferugson race special, with only white people
That’s one of the many thoughtful and thought-provoking responses the comedian gives in a lengthy interview with top NYC journo Frank Rich in the latest New York magazine. Rock is out and about cos he has this film Top Five coming,
It’s had some half-decent early reviews.
Here’s the interview in full, and a few choice quotes pulled out for your enjoyment:
On Obama: “To say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years.”
On American racism: “The thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it’s immune to and what breaks it down.”
On his Ferguson TV special idea: “I’d do a special on race, but I’d have no black people... I would get you to interview somebody, and I would put something in your ear, and I’d ask the questions through you... And I would ask them questions that you would never come up with, and we’d have the most amazing interviews ever.
On class: “I’ll say this. Poor people laugh harder than rich people. Especially black people, they laugh with their feet, too.”
First post: today's annotated charts
There’s been a whole seven days of people either streaming or just ripping off YouTube buying music. So who comes out on top? Let’s have a look!
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