Lucha Vavoom

The video isn't really a good seller, but check out the website. Lucha Vavoom is oging on tonight in in Anahiem.

A perfect event for a first date: Mexican Wrestlers and Mexican Strippers... too bad we've got plans for Ali's officially becoming an American celebration tonight.

Rosenburg Radio x Flight of the Conchords

Even tho it's really short, it was awesome seeing this on NahRight today. I just love it when two of my favorite things get together. :)

Twitter

I've become quite addicted to this... I don't even know what to call it. An online social networking application?

It's similar to Facebook's "USERNAME is:________" function at the top of your home page, but more to the point... 140 characters max to update on how you're doing or just to write whatever you feel like telling your 'followers'. Basically sending all your friends a small rss feed of what you happen to be doing.

Especially now with the iPhone, it's easier than ever to make updates.

The name is HonorRoller, if you want to be one my 'followers'

You can also read my updates on my blog (to the right of the browser, near the top).

Korean Taco Truck

Apparently there's a buzz on these Korean taco trucks...

I missed it when it was in Rosemead last night but I hope to catch it when it comes around again next week. Check them out on Twitter for more accurate and up-to-date info.

When the hell did I become a foodie? I suppose the older you get, the more exciting it becomes to try new foods.

new iphone

So after the last lecture in my Scion Next class I realized that I am incredibly poorly informed when it comes to new technology.

So to change all that, I decided to step in to the $399.00 + other fee Delorian and boldy go into the future by purchasing an iPhone.

Pretty cool so far... it's basically like an extention of my Macbook Pro, except I find that I'm mostly spending all my time playing Sudoku on it.

I'm surprisingly pretty good at Sudoku. Challenge me, I dare you.

Anyone have any suggestions on apps for this bad boy?
(preferably free ones)

Y B Box

I love it when I see folks from the motherland embracing hip-hop culture.

No matter how wack or how cool - this in my opinion, is on the cooler side of things.

I am making a promise to myself today that I will really try to make a post every day. Especially one on something graphic design/art related. I notice for someone who is a design student I usually am the last to know about anything design related... I'm desperately trying to become a designer groupie basically so I can swallow the visual juices of the great and excreet my own dose of funky goodness.

Found this on the DVD included in the latest issue of IDN (a dope magazine based out of Hong Kong).

Flight of the Conchords Season 2

It's back! Sunday nights at 10pm on HBO :)

or more like Monday mornings off mininova.org

Check it out, there's a new episode streaming here.

New Zion-I Album "The Takeover"

Man... I've been waiting for a new one. Amp Live and Zumbi abck at work reppin' for the Bay.

RockNRolla

I really wanted to see this film when it first came out, but due to the movie not being widely released, school and the lack of free time, I just never got the chance. Thank god for dollar theaters in the ghetto parts of Southern California.

For $3 and skipping out on a bit of the intro, my boy Doug and I saw this film a few weeks back.

I can't say it really sucked, 'cause it was barable, but I think Guy Ritchie's formula is getting a little too predictable.

1. Dudes with British accents
2. Dudes with other Euro accents
3. A series of misunderstandings and longing for prized objects
4. Violence mixed with various forms of abnormal torture

My main complaint with the movie is that for a film called RockNRolla, there wasn't actually too much rocking in the film.

Sad when the directors you like flop twice in a row.

Atleast it was only $3.00.

Air Jordan 2009

Seriously, how could you even call these Jordans?

Lil Wayne x Gatorade

seriously?

Top Albums of 2008

So everyone makes these lists... I enjoy reading them, but as I get older and older I realize that I don't recognize 80% of the albums on these lists as well as having less and less time to scour the interweb and flip thru music magazines for new music.

Also, about 95% of my friends all do the 9-5 so I don't really have anyone to talk music with.

With that said, here we are:
(keep in mind, some of these albums might've been released in 2007, but it's my list so shut the fuck up)

Hip-Hop Albums:
(this is rated by consistancy and how many times I was excited to hear the entire record over again)

1. Lil' Wayne - "Tha Carter III"
2. Kanye West - "808's and Heartbreak"
3. EMC - "The Show"
4. GZA/Genius - "Pro Tools"
5. Ludacris - "Theater of the Mind"

EP's:
(it's unfair to put these with the albums)
1. Oddisee & V/A - "Pete Rosenburg Presents: A Rosenburg Oddisee"
2. Alchemist - "The Alchemist's Cookbook"

Not Hip-Hop Albums:
1. Burial - "Untrue"
2. Black Kids - "Partie Traumatic"
3. Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago"
4. Vampire Weekend - "Vampire Weekend"
5. Santogold - "Santogold"
6. M83 - "Saturdays = Youth"
7. The Radio Dept - "Lesser Matters"

R&B Albums:
1. The Dream - "Love Hate"
2. Al Green - "Lay It Down"

Most Disappointing Albums:
(this is rated by how excited I was to hear the record vs how bad the record really was. some records I knew would suck, but I still kept some faith that the artist would make a comeback. So in short, if I knew the album would suck and it did suck, it didn't make the list, ie: Fat Joe - "Elephant in the Room")

1. Wu Tang Clan - "8 Diagrams"
2. Nas - "Untitled (aka: Nigger)"
3. Murs - "Murs for President"
4. Yak Ballz - "Scifentology 2"
5. RZA - "Bobby Digital: Digi Snacks"
6. Atmosphere - "When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint That Shit Gold"
7. Tricky - "Knowle West Boy"
8. Portishead - "Third"
9. Q-Tip - "The Renaissance"
10. The Game - "L.A.X."
11. Nine Inch Nails - "The Slip"

Soundtrack of the Year:

1. The Wackness
(the soundtrack is actually 80% of the reason I bothered to go see this movie)

Albums that Surprised Me:
(this is rated by how crappy I thought the album would be, but actually turned out pretty enjoyable)
1. Common - "Universal Mind Control"
2. Ill Bill* - "The Hour of Reprisal"

*I'm generally not a big fan of anyone from this click, but the list of guests on this album MADE me HAVE to check it out: Raekwon, DJ Premier, Max Calvera (of Sepultura/Soulfly - wtf!!!), HR & Darryl Jennifer (of Bad Brains - wtf!!!), DJ Muggs, B-Real, Vinnie Paz, Immortal Technique & more

Musical Trends I Still Don't Understand: 1. Electro
2. Ed Banger Records
3. Noise
4. Gabber

Albums I'm Looking Forward to in 2009:
1. Cage - "Depart From Me"
2. Raekwon - "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. 2"
3. Dr. Dre - "Detox"
4. Eminem - not sure what it's called
5. Lil Wayne - "Tha Carter III" (same title but all new tracks)
6. 50 Cent - "Before I Self Destruct"
7. T-Wayne - "He Rap, He Sing"
8. OutKast - all 3 albums...

Albums I Discovered in 2008:
(but NOT released in 2008, in no particular order)
The Lox - Money Power Respect (1998)
MC Solaar - Prose Combat (1994)
Oscar Peterson - Fly Me To The Moon (retrospective - 2006)
Bad Brains - Quickness (1989)
Masta Ace - Sittin' On Chrome (1995)
Stars - Nightsongs (2001)
Bitty McLean - On Bond Street (2005)

CHOEGAL... and how i missed it

So David Choe dropped this wooden toy on the 23rd at the LA Giant Robot store.

Pretty awesome right?

But I flew out to Beijing that morning. Bummer.

It's going for about $50 on ebay right now... what do you think? I've also got an appartment full of useless/cool collectables I've accumulated over the past 8 years. I even have a Barbie in a wheelchair - Becky the School Photographer.



I did however get one of these in the mail. it's not the actual screenprint, but rather just one of the 18x24 Choebama posters David's brother Jimmy went around the country posting up pre-election.



Not bad, it was only $25. Unfortunately it won't be worth much in the future... but that isn't why I got it. I don't really even care about politics or Obama, but I think it's an awesome illustration that kicks the shit out of Shepard Fairey's design.

On a side note:
I personally think it's retarded they sell those shirts for $38.00 at places like Urban Outfitters... to me it makes the election seem like a joke, and who gives a fuck who you vote for? Maybe I'm getting old and judgemental but why do I care if a bunch of 18 year old kids decked out in overpriced 'streetwear' are wearing a presidential candidate's face on their chest?!?!

it's no different than wearing this shirt (also sold at Urban Outfitters), equally ridiculous.

...and what are you going to do with those shirts after the election? you'll have to wait another 15-20 years till they'll have a 'vintage' cool factor to them. In the words of the great Erik Brunetti (founder/designer for Fuct), "it's (streetwear) all just so disposable."

and if you're offended, well fuck you 'cause I didn't vote either.

I'm also Canadian.

update on my life

pretty fucking crazy can i say??!?!?!


well i'm currently laying in my parent's fold out couch/bed in their guest bedroom all the way in beijing, china.

school ended a week ago, bridgette and i threw a crazy end of term party (8 kegs, 5 gatorade things of jungle juice and about 300 peeps in a warehouse), my roommate moved out - i finally cleaned the entire apartment, bought a vaccume, saw rocknrolla, A$ came down to visit, saw lil wayne on the i am music tour, went 18+ clubbing, saw a fight break out (highschool nostalgicism), finally saw the new wu-tang dvd, nabbed a david choe print, got some more scholarship money, missed the dean's list by less than 0.1 and flew out to beijing...

and i just got back from the great wall about to have dinner with a friend

will post on everything above while i am here... along with doing something physical (like working out) every single day i am here.

talk to you soon.

Craziest Skateboard Trick Ever

Pure insanity!

Thanks to my boy Chris for showing me this.

Art School - Update

Soo.. it's finals time and shit is getting hectic.

4 books to do, and a few posters for final projects... fuck fuck fuck

Alteast I finished my Com Design final for next Monday.

I was very shocked my teacher liked it. His name is Sean Adams and is currently the President of the AIGA (a professional graphic designer association/cult thing), so he's kind of a big deal.

The assignment was to make a poster for the 2009 conference in Memphis based around either offensive imagery or eye candy, and I made my choice. I've gotten some requests for prints of this... I just did my initial sketches as a joke - or mainly to see how far I could push Sean over the edge with my concepts and according to his surprisingly and supportive positive feedback on my comps here is the final (above).

It was pretty hilarious because I got this printed at school. Just seeing the looks on the faces of people at the lab, I think I nailed it. Not to mention the looks of all the females in my class.

Sometimes, you just gotta lube up and go in. Enjoy.

Brooklyn Superhero Supply

Sounds like an awesome store with an equally awesome type treatment!

My guess would be Din or Helvetica Neuve

Ffffound.

Ludacris - "MVP" (produced by DJ Premier)

Another two of my favorite things.



Favorite Radio Rapper + Producer of All Time = Amazing Download.

video: The Alchemist - Lose Your Life (Feat. Snoop Dogg, Pusha T & Jadakiss)

I thought this was dope. I think it's the same ppl who did the intro to the Aqua Teen Movie Intro.

(Unfortunately, I couldn't find the link to it)

"Change Gone Come" - Charles Hamilton, Asher Roth, B.o.B

I had to post this... I'm pretty in love with this track! It's been pumping on my deck like 10 times a day. The beat is off the hook, the sample so sweet, and the verses are pretty tight, featuring 3 of the iller 'new school' artists: Charles Hamilton, Asher Roth and B.o.B.

I love the part where Asher sings the hook at the end of the verse.

Download it here.

Props to Nah Right.