2012-08-31
Big Boi feat. Theophilus London - She Said, OK
Big Boi gör fortfarande allt rätt. 13:e November. Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors.
Nas - Bye Baby
Favoritlåten från Life is good.
Snubben som har samplats är med i låten och han gör minst sagt en riddarinsats med sitt kroppsspråk.
Sample. 40 har gjort de sjukt bra.
Snubben som har samplats är med i låten och han gör minst sagt en riddarinsats med sitt kroppsspråk.
Sample. 40 har gjort de sjukt bra.
2012-08-23
Movies With Political Agendas You Didn't Notice
The Dark Night går på tv just nu och jag kom därför att tänka på en intressant artikel jag läst på www.cracked.com.
Artikeln handlar om att de skulle finnas en dold politisk agenda i The Dark Knight (scenen där Batman drar till Hong Kong) och ett par andra filmer.
Saxar den. http://www.cracked.com/article_19923_6-movies-with-political-agendas-you-didnt-notice.html
The Dark Knight - Batman Kidnaps Foreign Citizens (Just Like the CIA)
Saxar den. http://www.cracked.com/article_19923_6-movies-with-political-agendas-you-didnt-notice.html
The Dark Knight - Batman Kidnaps Foreign Citizens (Just Like the CIA)
The Scene:
It's a subplot that largely gets forgotten in a movie that winds up being all about the Joker. At the beginning, a guy named Lau, the accountant of all the mobsters in Gotham City, flies to Hong Kong to hide their money. Lt. Gordon really needs to interrogate Lau, but obviously Asia is a little outside his jurisdiction. No problem: His pal the Batman simply flies over to China, grabs the accountant from his highly protected office and escapes back to Gotham by reverse-parachuting up into an airplane. It's kind of awesome.
It's a subplot that largely gets forgotten in a movie that winds up being all about the Joker. At the beginning, a guy named Lau, the accountant of all the mobsters in Gotham City, flies to Hong Kong to hide their money. Lt. Gordon really needs to interrogate Lau, but obviously Asia is a little outside his jurisdiction. No problem: His pal the Batman simply flies over to China, grabs the accountant from his highly protected office and escapes back to Gotham by reverse-parachuting up into an airplane. It's kind of awesome.
The Intended Point:
We've mentioned before that The Dark Knight is an allegory for everything about the War on Terror, and this sequence is undoubtedly the most transparent attempt by Christopher Nolan to draw a parallel between Batman and George Bush (OK, maybe it's second after the "We have to tap every citizen's phone for their own safety" thing). Swooping into Hong Kong and dragging Lau back to Gotham to be interrogated is supposed to mimic the CIA's controversial policy of forcibly extraditing citizens from foreign countries and dropping them at Guantanamo, while dressed like bats.
How It Messes Up the Plot:
Some of you are already thinking, "What? Where the hell are you getting this Bush stuff from? Why can't it just be a cool scene?" But stop and think about how the whole sequence sticks out like a sore thumb. First, how often do you even see Batman leaving Gotham, in any film incarnation? This is Batman, not Mission: Impossible. Spectacular globetrotting raid missions isn't what Batman does.
We've mentioned before that The Dark Knight is an allegory for everything about the War on Terror, and this sequence is undoubtedly the most transparent attempt by Christopher Nolan to draw a parallel between Batman and George Bush (OK, maybe it's second after the "We have to tap every citizen's phone for their own safety" thing). Swooping into Hong Kong and dragging Lau back to Gotham to be interrogated is supposed to mimic the CIA's controversial policy of forcibly extraditing citizens from foreign countries and dropping them at Guantanamo, while dressed like bats.
How It Messes Up the Plot:
Some of you are already thinking, "What? Where the hell are you getting this Bush stuff from? Why can't it just be a cool scene?" But stop and think about how the whole sequence sticks out like a sore thumb. First, how often do you even see Batman leaving Gotham, in any film incarnation? This is Batman, not Mission: Impossible. Spectacular globetrotting raid missions isn't what Batman does.
But more importantly, taking Batman out of the country creates a bunch of
weird inconsistencies. For example, to set up the whole thing, there's a scene
where Gordon and Harvey Dent talk about how Batman could retrieve Lau from Hong
Kong since he's "under no one's jurisdiction" (and the Joker says pretty much
the same thing to the mobsters). But why would they even assume that Batman has
the resources to pull that off? They don't know he's a billionaire.
Think about the strings that would have to get pulled, not just to perform that elaborate kidnapping under the noses of all of this guy's armed guards (in his own building, in his home country), but to then get out of the country after. We're talking about escaping who knows how many police waiting on the ground at every nearby airport and/or all of the jet fighters that Hong Kong would use to intercept the slow-flying plane that just took one of their citizens hostage. It's the kind of operation that very few governments could pull off, yet Dent and Gordon are saying, "Yeah, our local costumed vigilante could do it for us."
This also means that you have to think of a very convincing alibi for Bruce Wayne -- by the way, "He absconded with the entire Russian ballet" isn't one, because there's an entire Russian ballet that knows it isn't true.
Think about the strings that would have to get pulled, not just to perform that elaborate kidnapping under the noses of all of this guy's armed guards (in his own building, in his home country), but to then get out of the country after. We're talking about escaping who knows how many police waiting on the ground at every nearby airport and/or all of the jet fighters that Hong Kong would use to intercept the slow-flying plane that just took one of their citizens hostage. It's the kind of operation that very few governments could pull off, yet Dent and Gordon are saying, "Yeah, our local costumed vigilante could do it for us."
This also means that you have to think of a very convincing alibi for Bruce Wayne -- by the way, "He absconded with the entire Russian ballet" isn't one, because there's an entire Russian ballet that knows it isn't true.
And it wouldn't have been hard for somebody to figure it out after the fact.
Lau disappeared right after meeting with a Wayne Enterprises employee (Morgan
Freeman), who traveled across the world for basically no reason. Did no one
think that was weird?
The point to all of this is, why does the movie introduce all of those complications? If you just wanted that cool skyscraper/plane scene, couldn't the accountant have escaped to Denver or Metropolis or something? No, they wanted to insert that whole bit about how justice trumps those petty rules about "jurisdiction" and "the sovereignty of other countries." Besides, cutting it would mean that Nolan would have been left with just the other 19 allusions to the War on Terror in the movie, and we can't have that.
The point to all of this is, why does the movie introduce all of those complications? If you just wanted that cool skyscraper/plane scene, couldn't the accountant have escaped to Denver or Metropolis or something? No, they wanted to insert that whole bit about how justice trumps those petty rules about "jurisdiction" and "the sovereignty of other countries." Besides, cutting it would mean that Nolan would have been left with just the other 19 allusions to the War on Terror in the movie, and we can't have that.
2012-08-19
2012-08-16
2012-08-15
Alexander Gustafsson vs Mauricio "Shogun" HOOUUUWAAAH"!
Let's do this! 5:e december. Seger sen Jones.
http://www.kimura.se/ufc-on-fox-5-alexander-the-mauler-gustafsson-vs-mauricio-shogun-rua
http://www.kimura.se/ufc-on-fox-5-alexander-the-mauler-gustafsson-vs-mauricio-shogun-rua
2012-08-13
Media - Bonniers
Lite intressant om Bonniers makt och inflytande.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article8112248.ab
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Historikern Herman Lindqvist får inte ge ut en bok om han inte gör ändringar. En bok som enligt Bonniers innehåller faktafel om att en person skulle ha nazistanknytningar.
http://www.dn.se/dnbok/dnbok-hem/bonniers-stoppar-omstridd-lindqvist-bok
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article8112248.ab
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Historikern Herman Lindqvist får inte ge ut en bok om han inte gör ändringar. En bok som enligt Bonniers innehåller faktafel om att en person skulle ha nazistanknytningar.
http://www.dn.se/dnbok/dnbok-hem/bonniers-stoppar-omstridd-lindqvist-bok
2012-08-10
DJ Khaled ft. Nas, Scarface & DJ Premier - Hip Hop
Tyngden.
En liten "Behind the Scenes" på det:
paz
2012-08-08
2012-08-07
Årets misstag?
MMG rapparen Gunplay tatuerar in ett hakkors i nacken och förklarar det så här.
It’s just my symbol of genocide to the bullshit. Mass murdering the bullshit," he explained. "Too much bullshit out here. I came to Nazi that shit. I came to Hitler that motherfucker. Put all the fake motherfuckers in the gas chamber and gas your fuck ass. That’s what I’m here to do. So niggas better walk light around a nigga. I’ma show niggas. I can talk but I’ma show niggas. All that fake shit, I’ma call that shit out and I’ma stomp that shit out. I got a mission. Just playing the game for the meantime.
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.20555/title.gunplay-explains-meaning-behind-swastika-tattoo
It’s just my symbol of genocide to the bullshit. Mass murdering the bullshit," he explained. "Too much bullshit out here. I came to Nazi that shit. I came to Hitler that motherfucker. Put all the fake motherfuckers in the gas chamber and gas your fuck ass. That’s what I’m here to do. So niggas better walk light around a nigga. I’ma show niggas. I can talk but I’ma show niggas. All that fake shit, I’ma call that shit out and I’ma stomp that shit out. I got a mission. Just playing the game for the meantime.
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.20555/title.gunplay-explains-meaning-behind-swastika-tattoo
More Sweet Stakes
Peezy la upp en fet låt med De La Soul och DJ Honda. Apropå den låten hittade jag ett litet compilation mixtape med musik av De La Soul som heter More Sweet Takes som innehåller massa remixer och äldre material som inte släppts på något av deras studioalbum. Riktigt bra grejer som t.ex den här som jag lyssnat på överdrivet mycket. EXAKT så här jag vill att all musik ska låta.
01. "Stakes is High" [Jay Dee Remix]
01. "Stakes is High" [Jay Dee Remix]
02. "Trouble in the Water"
[prod. by DJ Honda]
03. "The Hustle" [prod. by Da Beatminerz]
04. "I Can't Call It"
05. "Chanel No. Fever"
06. "Gettin' Down @ the Amphitheater" (w. Common)
07. "Itszoweezeee (Hot)" [De La Remix]
08. "Sweet Dreams"
09. "How You Want It, We Got It" (w. Jungle Brothers & Q-Tip)
10. "The Love Song Remix" (w. Da Bush Babees & Mos Def)
11. "Stay Away" (w. Pete Rock & Rob-O)
12. "360* (Oh Yeah)" [prod. by Propellerheads]
13. "More Than U Know" [prod. by Prince Paul]
14. "Stakes is High" [DJ Spinna Remix]
03. "The Hustle" [prod. by Da Beatminerz]
04. "I Can't Call It"
05. "Chanel No. Fever"
06. "Gettin' Down @ the Amphitheater" (w. Common)
07. "Itszoweezeee (Hot)" [De La Remix]
08. "Sweet Dreams"
09. "How You Want It, We Got It" (w. Jungle Brothers & Q-Tip)
10. "The Love Song Remix" (w. Da Bush Babees & Mos Def)
11. "Stay Away" (w. Pete Rock & Rob-O)
12. "360* (Oh Yeah)" [prod. by Propellerheads]
13. "More Than U Know" [prod. by Prince Paul]
14. "Stakes is High" [DJ Spinna Remix]
Go get it.
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Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools
Är sen. Men nu är den här. Albumet Good Kid, Mad City lär ju bli årets album. Oktober 2.
2012-08-02
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