REVIEW!!! The Help

Always better to read the book AFTER seeing the movie

Well, good people, I saw The Help this week. While I sat there watching the story unfold, I had a nagging, confused feeling. Reading this review by an American journalist, Valerie Boyd, (after the jump) cleared up my nagging feeling and made me realize something very striking!! It's 2011, y'all. We're in a new century, a new millennium. Notice how we haven't had a major studio movie like Mississippi Burning or A Time to Kill (Sam Jackson's paternalistic fury in that movie was golden) in movie theaters until this one?? The Help falls significantly short of the disgusting, hard-to-watch, heinously evil and yet historically accurate depictions of inequality in the South in feature films.

Then again, this movie focuses on the lives of Southern WOMEN, not men. Notice that??

The rest of my thoughts, along with the link to Valerie Boyd's review and Official Featurette of The Help (Video) after the jump...

REVIEW!! Kanye West - All of the Lights (Official Music Video)

OK, I have to say that I'm a little enraged right now. Kanye West seems to think that by packaging a Hype Williams video in bright flashing neon lights, using a cute little girl walking through "the projects" in the opening frames, along with Rih Rih's TAH-DAH's so prominently featured, I will automatically praise this as being the most awe-inspiring set of visuals to ever compliment his most masterful sonic creation TO DATE!! Nope... I am ANGRY!!! Seriously, WDMC (WTF for y'all north americans lol)!?!?


The Video and the rest of my review (it's a DOOZY), after the jump.....

Fall in review: My favorite tunes so far...

The end of the year 2010 is fast approaching and soon there will be a multitude of countdowns and top 10 lists and reviews of celebs who behaved like idiots. I doubt i'll remember much of the past year in enough detail to review it or reminisce, but i will try to recap the last few months' worth of my favorite music in a small post.

My top tunes for Summer and Fall 2010 in no particular order:

1) Go Dung and Big Hail - Di Hypa Dawg, Lil Rick (love the Go Dung Rain Mix especially)





2) Khago - Nah Sell Out pt 2. (It haaaaaard! Big hail to all my REAL friends.)



3) Roman's Revenge - Roman Zolanski f. Marshall Mathers (Eminem spaaaazzzed out. I'm not the biggest hip hop fan by any means but "quit hollering 'why god!' He aint got nothing to do with it...." Hm. Swizzy's beat was complimented nicely by these alter egos - what an odd pair.)




4) Everybody - Rupee (Just makes me feel nice... seriously.)

5) Any G.O.O.D. Music and G.O.O.D Friday release so far. Power (have you heard the remix where Yeezy had a bout of Tourettes at the end and said whatever came to his brain???) Monster, Runaway, So Appalled, Take One For the Team, Chain Heavy... I've loved Ye from way back, but this sh*t Right HEEEERE?? lol (Kat Williams reference... i miss that man's original material... Sigh.) 

6) Is This Love - Corinne Bailey Rae (I don't usually approve of Bob Marley covers, but i like this one.)




7) Paaaalaaaaaance! - JW and Blaze (No comments necessary. Dun know.)


8) Clarks - Vybz Kartel f. Popcaan and Gaza Slim (This is where the now-crazed greeting "Wha gwaaaan, PopCaaaaaaaaaaaan!" came from. Oh! If you haven't seen this viral vid by now, check it out. This is Orville Hall aka Jamaican Rude Boy performing a "Clarks Walk" demonstration...)




9) Miguel f. J. Cole - All I Want is You (Smooth. Really smooth.)

10) Rick Ross - B.M.F. f. Styles P. (As a friend once described this album, so shall i describe it here: Hip Hop served in a brandy glass and presented on a coaster.)


ENJOY!!